Corruption

Corruption, also referred to as shittiness, is a force that drives the plot of cool and new web comic. It took over the world of Homestuck completely and utterly at the beginning of the comic, turning nearly everyone and everything into horribly drawn and insane "shit" counterparts of themselves. The shit characters have no knowledge of their time before the corruption, and act as if the corrupted world is perfectly normal. Some characters - Rose Lalonde, Jack Noir, Kanaya Maryam and the Felt - are completely unaffected by the corruption, seeing it as something that took over the environment inexplicably and suddenly.