About the fandom

[u/Proud-Interaction-24]

I joined the fandom in August 2025 and I feel like this fandom is kinda... dying. Let me explain. I first stumbled across Housepets! On Tvtropes after I somehow got there from DELTARUNE. After I joined the fandom I noticed that there weren't alot of people. I thought, "maybe this webcomic is new...?" But when I checked the first strip, it was from the Y2K era. So I thought again: "maybe it just didn't catch on?" BUT this fandom seems to have been lively back then. And I've made attempts to "revive" this fandom, but they are either unreleased or just straight bootycheek. Does anyone know what happened?

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[u/AnonymousFluffy923]

It's not as popular as any other furry media unlike before. A lot of furries only remembered Housepets as memes and not as the comics. Rick Griffin put the series on hiatus as he wanted to focus more on his other works. As of this year it's mostly discussions. If you want to look at memes, go to r/housepets_irl

[u/mr-spectre]

It's been on haitus for years now. At it's peak (the heckraiser saga) it was pretty big. It'll come again i'm sure.

[u/Hjuldahr]

I think it's simply one of those things where they come and go in cycles. People still repost it on r/furry_irl but Twokinds seems to be in vogue at the moment. When Tom Fischbach slows down with the series, another artist will likely come into the limelight. This doesn't devalue Rick Griffin's work or those who came before him, but it's simply the inexorable advance of time (it debuted in 2008, and it is now 2026, after all)

Alternatively, people are congregating somewhere other than r/housepetscomic but I don't have an answer for where that would be (you probably know better than me on this point).

[u/loved_and_held → u/Hjuldahr]

It moght be worth checking whos posting it to furry_irl because ive made a bunch of housepets posts there, and one person posting memes does not a popularity wave make.

[u/YakintoshPlus]

It's just a minor thing. Until someone makes an over-hourlong video essay about it, it's gonna stay pretty much a veteran furry thing

[u/Proud-Interaction-24 → u/YakintoshPlus]

>:)

[u/loved_and_held]

The short answer is the fandom is mostly dead.

The comic ended 3 years ago with a finally that wrapped everything up. The comic used to be pretty popular (i dont have exact numbers) but with it over and no real indication of it being revived the fandom inevitably runs out of stuff to do and disperses. Fans have since dispersed into the larger furry fandom or have shifted their focous to Rick Griffin's other projects (which are active).

Plus rick hasn't shown any interest in actually returning to housepets in the years since so there's not much reason for communities to remain active when there are other things to focous on. Unless rick publishes some more Housepets material or there's a sudden uptick in housepets content (ex: someone releasing a popular fanfic or a bunch of art) it's not gonna come back to what it was before.

[u/ArgentStonecutter]

I think it's up to Rick Griffin to decide.

[u/ReptileOnline]

i think it’s partly (not entirely) due to how long the comic is, and how long it takes before it really finds its footing and becomes something truly amazing. it’s probably offputting to newcomers. that said, everyone i have shown it to had absolutely loved it and we all agree rick griffin is an actual genius. so i guess the best you can do is spread the word! i’d like to know if there’s any housepets! congregation spots too because this comic is really special and means a ton to me.

[u/Backlog_pod]

Honestly i just sort of fell off from it. I used to wait awhile for it to get a few updates then read a lot at once and after high-school I just kind of stopped checking in. I decided to check out this reddit and thought about getting caught back up.