Conspiracy theory: the reason the tone of Andrew Hussie’s communications following the Viz buyout have been so drastically different is that he didn’t just sell the rights to Homestuck: he also sold the rights to the identity of Andrew Hussie. The “Andrew Hussie” we’ve been hearing from since October of 2017 is a character played by a paid actor, while the original Andrew Hussie – deprived of his legal name – is bussing tables in Atlantic City under the assumed identity of a French-Canadian expatriate who suffered total retrograde amnesia following a catastrophic head injury in early 2009.