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

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I'd like to say I'm surprised that the ending sucked but was sadly not. I liked the charming premise and some of the jokes but could instantly tell this was gay slop for a chronically online LGBT audience. Think I stopped after episode five or six. Glad I didn't finish it so now I can come up with my own ending instead.

Basically the ending:
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orangecat said:
I'd like to say I'm surprised that the ending sucked but was sadly not. I liked the charming premise and some of the jokes but could instantly tell this was gay slop for a chronically online LGBT audience. Think I stopped after episode five or six. Glad I didn't finish it so now I can come up with my own ending instead.

Basically the ending:
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The gag in that Video the clip is from is the best thing because he goes from being amazed constantly at there being nothing to just standing int he room kinda dumfounded and bored going "it's nothing" for the last loop of it. Digital circus could easily have pulled off something funny like that if they wanted a "it's nothing" finale but no
 
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Considering he was all over the poster I thought he'd have more relevance to the circus itself as he seemed to know more than the rest of them (like the keys and acknowledging the camera multiple times), but instead we got a tranny's vent session about his mummy not respecting xim. Whatever was interesting about him got dropped because trannies are incapable of not shoving their trannyism in everything they make. This series meanders for more than half of its runtime and people only liked it because of the schizophrenic theories they conjured up while waiting for the next episode.
 
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How the fuck does a guy go from this...


To this...

In the span of a couple years....
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My best guess is extra stress. If I just wanted to help with or make a show and it got picked up by the Undertale/Steven Jewniverse/Tumblr/etc. crowd I would definitely resort to either drugs or lots and lots of sugar, especially since I'm likely bound to a contract whether social or physical to not just stop developing and dealing with the team behind the shitshow.
 
"Death" in a narrative can take a lot of forms in what happens to the character, it doesn't even have to be a permanent change of body processes, it can just be someone being bedridden until the next episode. Ted being a blob forever was death. So was Winston Smith being tortured by the government. That's not why the abstraction of Jax isn't his death. Killing a character means that you're casting everything before and after that scene in a different light. There's an economy in doing this, with no exceptions. It still matters even if the character was just a comic relief or a hate sink. The death of one may be their redemption as a serious and sympathetic character, or it's a way of proving their cause of death is a serious threat without it being too tragic.

I'm explaining this because I was trying to make sense of doing this to someone who's a covert fanservice character for humiliation fetishists. Sex appeal is another way of drawing investment into a character, and the economy will demand their death is meaningful and dramatic. If that's their main feature it means their scene is monstrous or tragic because you had a quick way of drawing sympathy to the character. But even if they're totally unsympathetic villain like Aura or Roodaka it means their death has to be a cathartic payoff now that you paid attention to them.

Jax didn't get either of those. He unceremoniously became a non-character off screen. It's not tragic, horrific, or cathartic. This is not playing by the rules of killing a character. My horrible epiphany came when I ignored the rules of an actual story and paid attention to the pet play subtext and other fetishes discussed in this thread. A lot of fetishes in niche porn like TF are inflicted on ordinary people who sometimes "deserve" it, and because they're not important or powerful and the artist doesn't want a serious tragedy, they'll justify it just by making them jerks as if that's enough to justify their rape or ego death. He wasn't abstracted as punishment for being a jerk, he was a jerk as retroactive justification for having him abtracted.

TL;DR: Jax was abstracted for the fetish.
 
While i've been looking at places for reactions to the leak i've been reminded of just how much lore baiting was done with zero payoff. the number "57" shit went nowhere. the wacky watch shit went nowhere. the writing on the mirror went nowhere. was this shit just dropped OR was it always theory bait to keep people talking during the months between episodes. i'm personally leaning at a mix of both

anyway, here is a guy saying that TADC is actually BETTER than No Mouth because its more modern or some shit LMAO


Cold take(maybe someone else has said this): TADC is better than it's inspiration
Yes Patrick, that includes the warmly received 1990's PC game adaptation of IHNMAIMS(but a good amount of people think that's it's too hard since it's puzzles really require a lot of clever thinking). Why? Let me lay it down for y'all:
  • Better written characters: Sure, the short story version skimped on character development bc it's a short story and not a novel, but(and idk if this is just me) it seemed like Ted and AM were the only truly developed characters. And while the 1990's PC game expands on the source material a lot with more fleshed out characters, you can't help but get the feeling that could've been applied to a novel that would've made loads more money. TADC on the other hand, with only nine episodes manages to present deep and flawed characters in a way that doesn't feel rushed like Hazbin Hotel. Just go onto TVTropes and compare the amount tropes the players in TADC have compared to the amount of tropes AM's playthings get. Speaking of AM, let's talk about his character copy: Caine
  • More relevant in today's world: Idk if this has ever been stated, but I think TADC is meant to be a satire of today's AI and our reactions to it. Caine is emotionally naive despite having genius level intelligence, with his actions doing woefully more harm than good. Something he doesn't quite have a grasp on. Compare that to AM, who only went mad bc he hated how he was made to live, so he turned on his masters.
  • Lighter and softer: Notice how I mentioned TVTropes earlier? Well, there's a trope known as "Too bleak, stopped caring" where the setting of a work of fiction is just so hopeless or cruel that it kills any and all investment. Something that IHNMAIMS has been accused of with its very bitter bittersweet ending(at least in the original short story, whereas in the game you can fight for a better outcome). And I'm not saying TADC is without its moments of darkness, but it's just a lot more palatable compared to a rather miserable slog.
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>Better written characters
:story: this nigga CAN'T be serious.
>More relevant in today's world
?????
>Lighter and softer
Dark and heavy topics make me too sad to be invested :(((

jfc dude

the comments are gold too

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Cnidarian said:
Jax didn't get either of those. He unceremoniously became a non-character off screen. It's not tragic, horrific, or cathartic. This is not playing by the rules of killing a character. My horrible epiphany came when I ignored the rules of an actual story and paid attention to the pet play subtext and other fetishes discussed in this thread. A lot of fetishes in niche porn like TF are inflicted on ordinary people who sometimes "deserve" it, and because they're not important or powerful and the artist doesn't want a serious tragedy, they'll justify it just by making them jerks as if that's enough to justify their rape or ego death. He wasn't abstracted as punishment for being a jerk, he was a jerk as retroactive justification for having him abtracted.

TL;DR: Jax was abstracted for the fetish.
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I hate how utterly plausible this is. A good rule of thumb for understanding 21st century male behaviour is "If they're doing something that seems completely inexplicable, they're most likely getting off to it". It's never led me astray so far.

Given everything we know about Gooseworx as a person: Would you put it past them to do this?
 
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