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Cascade (Homestuck)
| Event | |
|---|---|
| Event: | [S] Cascade |
| Participants: | Andrew Hussie, Homestuck fans |
| Date(s): | 25 October 2011 |
| Type: | Update |
| Fandom: | Homestuck |
| URL: | (S) Cascade on Homestuck |
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[S] Cascade, or simply Cascade, is a Flash animation update of Homestuck. Posted on 25 October 2011 after a hiatus of over a month, Cascade serves as the finale of Act 5 segment of Homestuck.[1] Cascade is notable in the comic and fandom due to serving as a cinematic climax to the comic's events at the time of posting. In addition, Cascade also became notable for the multiple site crashes (slashdotting) it caused as people attempted to watch the update.
Crashes
Newgrounds
Reaction and aftermath
Retrospectives
- a comic, Archived version about the experience by Vivi
- The first anniversary of Cascade, right?, Archived version on the tumblr On This Date In Homestuck
The gigapause finally ended on October 15, 2014, and Hussie made his grand return with... a one-page update. Yet that was enough to crash the site (for some perspective, the monumental October 25, 2011 update “Cascade” had crashed the digital creator’s platform Newgrounds, a wholly separate, well-established site from MS Paint Adventures, in under two minutes), and soon Hussie revealed that he’d never intended to finish the series in one go at all.– A Story That Could Only Be Told Online, Archived version by Llilian Min FEB 24, 2015
Gather ‘round, children, and listen to an old Homestuck tell the story of The Day Andrew Hussie Broke the Internet. is a meta about the event.
In March 2016, in response to cursmudgeon[2] referencing "the one time a homestuck flash update ended up DDoSing newgrounds by accident"[3], cancerously said:
The Homestuck flash in question that killed Newgrounds was Cascade. Hussie recorded that at that time he received over 1.2 million unique pageviews trying to access it at once, world-wide. It also crashed the main Homestuck site and forums, then megaupload, and (for a VERY short time), Twitter and Livestream, because people started streaming it and tweeting the links. Someone made a comic, Archived version about how that experience felt and as someone who was there screaming at Newgrounds to let me in, I can promise it’s accurate.[4]
- Holy shit Cascade., Archived version discussion on Reddit, 2018
Further Reading
- About the End of Act 5, “Cascade.” on Acts & Pages of Homestuck, a Homestuck guide