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This is kojima-levels of plot insanity.Well, yeah, but it's been done. What if everything that's happening occurs in a Boltzmann brain? What if the characters appeared ex nihilo due to some fluctuation in their current state, fully formed, never having lived on Earth? What if the show is not set in a computer after all, but the whole place, including the characters, was formed through overwhelmingly unlikely quantum fluctuations? What if that's the case, but the circus, the computer/CGI aesthetics, Earth, and the entire real universe are a shared hallucination, and the characters are in some other environment [0]? What if the computer/CGI/web show aesthetics/trappings are a distraction and it's actually set in a non-normative rationalist web fiction? What if it's in the imagination of a chronically ill child in a hospital? What if it's set in a prediction branch of a badly-programmed ASI system attempting to acausally bargain with non-existent entities[1], inadvertently creating and killing trillions of human-like entities [2]? It's probably not worth speculating about, I don't see much of an indication this is well thought through by the creators of the show.
This one is dumb enough that normies will understand it and be blown away by it, the same kind of people who think they are smart for understanding sherlock.I came up with an even more stupid idea. Recursion. The Amazing Digital Circus is set inside a future Ancestor Simulation (see Bostrom, Yudkowsy, etc.), created by a superintelligence, based on the hit 2020s web series The Amazing Digital Circus.
I knew it, thought about classic 90's harley quinn from batman TAS but that one is more realistic and less cartoony, unlike nights.Nights into Dreams as a kid. Zero surprise when I learned her design was inspired by it.
More of a ripoff when you look at the successor game

Oh fuck its gonna be another elsagate-type cringefest all over again...
