Fanart was allowed by the creator, but there was a stint of time where his psycho GF or someshit was just false reporting shit forcopyright left and right online from what I remember. it started getting really merch heavy in terms of t shirts towards the end but then died downtill it reared back up as an eternal milk machine with forfansbyfans to the pointof even having a fucking "extended zodiac quiz" that's sole function was to sell t shirts that were 10 dollars more than the regular t shirts for some reason. Then it sputtered out once that site died.
I remember they had an actual web store for a bit during homestucks peak in popularity aroung 2011-2012-ish for t shirts and they initially just had little letters they'd put on the wrapper going like "why the fuck did you buy this?" in some character's typing gimmick and color font. There's some images of it online if you dig around enough but I'm too lazy to go digging right now. You can see the severe tonal shift in the comic occur around the time after they stopped including those letters. Wish I saved mine since I DID get a zipper hoodie with that cool looking doom logo they rarely ever used on it once from there when it opened way back.
The Doom logo for those that never saw it.
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