The Amazing Digital Circus - Western Isekai that probably will become Hazbin Hotel killer

[Lovely Baron]

They already revealed the self insert troon in the promo.

Spoiler: The Troon

It's the ghost! ACK!
View attachment 5759258

I wish it was just a joke but the ghost bitch actually resembles Gooseworx a bit... Quite creepy if you ask me

 

[Tablet County]

I wish it was just a joke but the ghost bitch actually resembles Gooseworx a bit... Quite creepy if you ask meView attachment 5789204

I can't tell who's skinwalking who anymore.

 

[poisonedapple]

I wish it was just a joke but the ghost bitch actually resembles Gooseworx a bit... Quite creepy if you ask meView attachment 5789204

That makes the ghost lady less appealing.

 

[skibidi biden]

I just discovered this was a thing last night

I don't hate The Great Digital Circus like I do Hazbin Hotel but it still feels like its carefully engineered for the youtube brainrot generation, but it is absolutely the other Hazbin Hotel and already has an unholy amount of gross fetish art devoted to it

The cartoon takes place in the low effort addendum levels of the backrooms that are made for iPad Babies and has a subtle liminal horror element to it that feels like the kind of content Indians will mass produce for tweens and children when not making five finger family videos

 

[Vecr]

I just discovered this was a thing last night

I don't hate The Great Digital Circus like I do Hazbin Hotel but it still feels like its carefully engineered for the youtube brainrot generation, but it is absolutely the other Hazbin Hotel and already has an unholy amount of gross fetish art devoted to it

The cartoon takes place in the low effort addendum levels of the backrooms that are made for iPad Babies and has a subtle liminal horror element to it that feels like the kind of content Indians will mass produce for tweens and children when not making five finger family videos

Any good fan theories so far? I posted some random nonsense earlier, and I wonder if anyone has come up with anything better, or if it's all basic ARG tier stuff/jokes.

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.

[0]: AMV - Phantom Of The Opera https://youtu.be/6wsR6fBudQE (kind of like this, but even less of a real world)
[1]: Multiverse-wide Cooperation via Correlated Decision Making https://archive.is/x2xHM
[2]: Against the Culture https://archive.is/gv0lG "The Minds run incredibly detailed simulations of terrible situations; there’s no attention to whether this is morally risky."

 

[Trollblade69]

I don't hate The Great Digital Circus like I do Hazbin Hotel but it still feels like its carefully engineered for the youtube brainrot generation, but it is absolutely the other Hazbin Hotel and already has an unholy amount of gross fetish art devoted to it

I'm just generally shocked at how much blood has been wrung from a stone that came off as pretty dry.

 

[Cherry Eyed Hamster]

I just discovered this was a thing last night

I don't hate The Great Digital Circus like I do Hazbin Hotel but it still feels like its carefully engineered for the youtube brainrot generation, but it is absolutely the other Hazbin Hotel and already has an unholy amount of gross fetish art devoted to it

The cartoon takes place in the low effort addendum levels of the backrooms that are made for iPad Babies and has a subtle liminal horror element to it that feels like the kind of content Indians will mass produce for tweens and children when not making five finger family videos

I really do not like the animation style of this show at all and you’ve properly conveyed why. I’m sure it took a lot of effort and I admire the passion of the creator but it looks genuinely awful. Very flat, very cheap looking animation that feels curated to a demographic of YouTube-addicted Gen Alph-ers. Not a fan of the plot and dialog either.

I’m no fan of Hazbin but it looks so much better than this.

 

[skibidi biden]

I really do not like the animation style of this show at all and you’ve properly conveyed why. I’m sure it took a lot of effort and I admire the passion of the creator but it looks genuinely awful. Very flat, very cheap looking animation that feels curated to a demographic of YouTube-addicted Gen Alph-ers. Not a fan of the plot and dialog either.

I’m no fan of Hazbin but it looks so much better than this.

my first impression of it was that it was inspired by "Backrooms Level Fun" and the poorly rendered 3D slide videos

some youtube focus group is funding this, I just know it

 

[Ghost of Furry Past]

my first impression of it was that it was inspired by "Backrooms Level Fun" and the poorly rendered 3D slide videos

funny u say that since the creator hates that shit and once went on a rant hating what the Backrooms turned into

 

[Beautiful Border]

New episode is out. Thoughts?

 

[Trollblade69]

Why do we have three SMG4 threads? Or is there also a fourth for Murder Drones?

 

[Vecr]

New episode is out. Thoughts?

Cool per-line time delay effect at the start. Other than that it's not anything I haven't watched or read before. I think the first one was more original. Obviously Westworld references, but if you want more of that stuff you could read Simulacron 3 and all the things it inspired, The 13th Floor, World on a Wire, The Quantum Thief/The Fractal Prince, etc.

 

[Cherry Eyed Hamster]

New episode is out. Thoughts?

This only helped cement my opinion that it’s made for tech-addicted Alphers.

 

[Beautiful Border]

This only helped cement my opinion that it’s made for tech-addicted Alphers.

It's basically the opposite of Steven Universe. That was a show that was intended for kids that was more appealing to adults, while this is a show meant for adults that instead appeals more to kids.

 

[Tablet County]

New episode is out. Thoughts?

It's fine. I'm convinced the distate for it comes from a "it's popular so it sucks" viewpoint, because while it's not exactly groundbreaking revolutionary stuff, there's nothing egregiously wrong with it. It's not like Steven Universe where the art style, character designs and story suck and are gay, and it's not like Hazbin Hotel where the creator got distracted trying to tell a different story from the one they promised, so I see no reason to denigrate something which obviously isn't made for me other than pure contrarianism.

 

[Vecr]

The writers having Pomni hedge hard against being real for sure is kind of making it too obvious. Give the show time, it could still go way off the rails.

 

[Nicholas II of Russia]

Jax is kind of an asshole in this episode, he wasn't that bad in the pilot because the asshattery was balanced because he wanted to protect Kinger and Gangler. But here he's unlikeable all the way through for no good reason, he even let the monster out to destroy the kingdom that they supposedly needed to help.

I hope this attitude is a buildup to something because as of now, I kind of dislike him.

I like what they're doing with Ragatha though, wanting to help Pomni the best she can but Pomni having none of it.

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

Jax is kind of an asshole in this episode, he wasn't that bad in the pilot because the asshattery was balanced because he wanted to protect Kinger and Gangler. But here he's unlikeable all the way through for no good reason, he even let the monster out to destroy the kingdom that they supposedly needed to help.

There’s definitely a hint to that in the last scene when Ragatha is explaining how they do funerals for ones who get abstracted. He looks like he’s about to cry for a second before he catches himself and storms off.

 

[Beautiful Border]

Jax is kind of an asshole in this episode, he wasn't that bad in the pilot because the asshattery was balanced because he wanted to protect Kinger and Gangler. But here he's unlikeable all the way through for no good reason, he even let the monster out to destroy the kingdom that they supposedly needed to help.

I hope this attitude is a buildup to something because as of now, I kind of dislike him.

I disagree, I think his characterization has been pretty consistent so far. He's supposed to be a dick but only in a kind of "immature little brother" way, mischievous but not sociopathic. Even his bullying of Gangle is actually more like playful teasing, he still cares about the other people trapped in the circus. And destroying the kingdom isn't that egregious when you consider he's desensitized to his situation and to the idea the NPCs aren't "real", unlike Pomni (and therefore the audience by proxy).

 

[Vecr]

And destroying the kingdom isn't that egregious when you consider he's desensitized to his situation and to the idea the NPCs aren't "real", unlike Pomni (and therefore the audience by proxy).

Yeah, the quotes around the "real" are the problem. I don't know how deontologists are supposed to think about unclear situations, but unless you operate on some kind of epicycle based morality perfectly tuned to support what you wanted to do anyway I think it's highly dubious to act like he is. Guessing 50% that he's ultimately wrong, that's a hilariously predictable, preventable, and obvious failure. Obviously a utilitarian can just multiply 5000 (estimated number of NPCs in the kingdom) by 0.8 (80%, expected percentage of people in the kingdom the monster fudge will kill) by 0.5 (the estimated expected utility loss of a NPC given its death, assuming a basic curve fit). This gets you 5000 * 0.8 * 0.5 = 2000.00, 2000 morally equivalent lives to your own lost in expectation. Assuming he does a quick mental expected outcome matrix in his head, even something as simple as giving a warning to the other characters and NPCs would be a superior action.