#is dealing with existential dread by writing a post-apocalyptic story a HEALTHY coping mechanism?

[itallbecameablr]

I think y'all are both right, but in different situations.

Or maybe just different points in time, depending on bad things get.

If we're talking historians 200 years from now, or just history teachers in the classroom, then I expect that <i>some</i> part of Homestuck will still be around.

Not all of it, but depending on how exactly it's archived on the internet and how the technology of tomorrow interfaces with the technology of today, then at the very least a good portion of the still images could be dug up.

That does mean that a lot of it will still be lost at some point, the gifs and music, a growing number of corrupted and unrecoverable pages...

But let's say something catastrophic happens and forces the human race to basically start over, or for some other sapient race to evolve.

Not "America Remembered", but "America Rediscovered".

At best it would be like the discovery and excavation of Ancient Rome. With enough time and neglect, even the tallest towers fall and get covered by the sands of time.

Someday our only identity will be what we've managed to leave behind.

Anything that's solely electronic will be the first to go. Servers require upkeep. So do the buildings they're kept in.

But I looked it up and Homestuck has been printed out before, and no doubt will be at least a few more times before totally leaving the public consciousness.

Apparently some types of paper will theoretically last for a few centuries.

That's probably pretty expensive paper, not something a normal comic would be printed on. But it might be something one or possibly more wealthy and eccentric fans would have their favorite comic reprinted on for that exact reason.

But again we're talking thousands of years, so even those copies would have likely mostly rotted away.

Unfortunately unless someone has etched several copies of Homestuck in granite, and maybe even then, it will eventually be fully lost.

Well... Almost everything will be if left alone too long.

It's kind of interesting to think about what we'll leave behind when there's no one left to tend to it.

I'm not totally sure how historians will explain that America ruined its own economy for no good reason by electing the "let me ruin the economy" man

I hope to live long enough to find out.