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

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Surprised no one mentioned this before, but today I got recommended this fan short called "Kaufmo" which is basically a prequel to the pilot before Pomni shows up. It's a bit too "intense" compared to the show, but it's extremely high quality for a fan project. (Do reminder that this got released before ep 3)


This short also actually made me watch the pilot again, and after rewatching, it made me reflect just how toned down the "horror" aspect has gotten these past episodes. I mentioned this already, but again, why hasn't anyone talked about the exit door again since then? They really don't do a lot with the horror theme anyways, do they?

Ep5 specially is guilty of this, I don't think there were any "terror" scenes at all, unless you count the intermission time or that one rogue mannequin as horror. Like, since it's a lighting round, I'm baffled that they didn't make one of the NPCs or adventures glitch out because of things moving too fast, they could even show the Void again if they wanted to.

Hopefully ep6 will bring the tone back to what it started.
 
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Metallic Blood said:
This short also actually made me watch the pilot again, and after rewatching, it made me reflect just how toned down the "horror" aspect has gotten these past episodes. I mentioned this already, but again, why hasn't anyone talked about the exit door again since then? They really don't do a lot with the horror theme anyways, do they?
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To be fair Goosework did say the main focus was on the characters not horror. If you only watch the show it does come ass odd, but given the creator was honest from the start I will give the benefit of doubt.
Metallic Blood said:
Hopefully ep6 will bring the tone back to what it started.
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They said this was the calm before the storm so they likely will. That being said if this continues, specially next episode, then yeah I will buy they are toning it down for the kid appeal. Kids must be buying those toys like crazy.
 
Mystery Spy said:
To be fair Goosework did say the main focus was on the characters not horror. If you only watch the show it does come ass odd, but given the creator was honest from the start I will give the benefit of doubt.
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Yeah... being honest with ya, the only thing I know about Goose is that they created this show and some other animated youtube shorts. I wasn't exactly expecting "Don't Hug Me I'm Scared", but the pilot did make me think that absurdism and horror would be brought a little more often. Like, again, the fact that the exit door has been only brought up on episode 1 just feels wrong.

Mystery Spy said:
They said this was the calm before the storm so they likely will. That being said if this continues, specially next episode, then yeah I will buy they are toning it down for the kid appeal. Kids must be buying those toys like crazy.
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I hope so, maybe it's just because ep4 was half a year ago, and 5 somehow bringing less horror than 4 (a literal "work as a wagie" episode) just makes me feel a tad bit disappointed.
 
I haven't seen this posted here but goose revealed the frog guy's design on X and he looks like a fag
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I'm disappointed since I assume he was gonna be small and fat like a frog
It would have worked well with Jax
Tall lanky guy and small fat guy duo is like character design 101 and it works for a reason
 
I posted this on Twitter and idk if I should say this in the Glitch Productions thread or not but I'm fairly certain this show and all of Glitch's other stuff solely exists to sell merchandise.

The fact that they approached Gooseworx originally to make them a show on top of them rubbing elbows with guys like MrBeast and maxmoefor, and half of their vids being stuff to shill plushies, just makes me think they make their shows for the same reason Hasbro made Transformers and GI Joe.
 
electrician's apprentice said:
I haven't seen this posted here but goose revealed the frog guy's design on X and he looks like a fag
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I'm disappointed since I assume he was gonna be small and fat like a frog
It would have worked well with Jax
Tall lanky guy and small fat guy duo is like character design 101 and it works for a reason
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We wouldn't get twink on twink action between Jax and the frognigger though.
 
untitled is an okay episode. I like they developed Jax and Ragatha but the pacing of this episode is all over the place.
Rembrandt said:
This episode felt closest to an actual attempt to groom its fanbase into degenerate shit. Egg hatching (troon slang for trans kids) being casually namedropped in the first minute of the video, a blowjob joke, random mention of sex appeal and the maid outfit. What the fuck was even going on?

And even outside of that, fundamentally the video felt like a mess. The punchline of random quip followed up by "What?" was reused an nauseam for some reason. The few jokes that landed had zero room to breathe. Previous episodes had an okay semblance of pacing, but this I can't honestly believe being intentional. Organized chaos is a thing and this wasn't it.
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I think woke shit has completely ruined your experience of the show. I can see where you’re coming from but calling this ep a grooming attempt is retarded. The egg thing was clearly a nonsense joke and the show doesn’t treat the maid thing as anything other than something humiliating for Jax.

I don’t really watch or engage with anything related to troongoose, merch or fandom shit so I can take the episode for what it is.

Zooble continues to suck and I wish she died. Her “I’m over this” attitude is somehow more obnoxious than Kinger or Jax combined. At least they entertain me with crazy shit, all she does is get dismantled like a dead hooker on a bad night but maybe that’s one of her backstories I don’t fucking know
 
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samuraicrack said:
I posted this on Twitter and idk if I should say this in the Glitch Productions thread or not but I'm fairly certain this show and all of Glitch's other stuff solely exists to sell merchandise.

The fact that they approached Gooseworx originally to make them a show on top of them rubbing elbows with guys like MrBeast and maxmoefor, and half of their vids being stuff to shill plushies, just makes me think they make their shows for the same reason Hasbro made Transformers and GI Joe.
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I’m willing to give the benefit of the doubt here too.

It’s an indie production, and I’m not sure if YouTube ad revenue alone is enough to recoup costs. The characters are well-animated, and every episode, from day one, has featured high-quality dubs in multiple languages, and quality writing, that often does surpass your average professional network show for kids.

I’ve seen other companies try to produce “TV show quality” content for YouTube before, only to end up paywalling everything. For example, Frederator’s show Bravest Warriors.

Also, compare that to, say, Rooster Teeth, which was backed by Warner Bros. and still delivered poorly animated episodes from their animated shows, and without any multilingual dubbing. Somehow, their work ended up looking worse than this show, despite its simplistic character designs and Rooster Teeth being even bigger sellouts than Glitch.

Merchandise is likely the only reason this show is even possible.
 
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samuraicrack said:
I posted this on Twitter and idk if I should say this in the Glitch Productions thread or not but I'm fairly certain this show and all of Glitch's other stuff solely exists to sell merchandise.

The fact that they approached Gooseworx originally to make them a show on top of them rubbing elbows with guys like MrBeast and maxmoefor, and half of their vids being stuff to shill plushies, just makes me think they make their shows for the same reason Hasbro made Transformers and GI Joe.
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It's possible, the last episode was clearly designed so everyone would get a bunch of new outfits at once (Jax got five if you count evil jax) for the sake of selling new merch, like this is a toy company now.

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I expect everyone to get at least 1-2 costumes and/or new npcs with very "merch friendly" designs every episode from now on. People will not care as long as the show stays high quality.
 
samuraicrack said:
I’m more so talking about the studio more than the show itself, though it’s also part of the problem. It’s sort of hard to see them and their shows as anything other than a glorified marketing campaign when they have Japanese pop-up stores show up even before episode 2 is out.

The whole thing just has a weird cynical angle to it, like it’s clearly a job people are doing really well but are also instead acting like it’s this passion project done for the love of the game.
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It is, but that’s every company like this ever. It’s only more noticeable because , again, it’s an indie studio so they have ads in their same YouTube channel. But it’s not that different from say Viacom selling out SpongeBob merch.

They are an indie company, but they aren’t a charity. I don’t find surprising they are trying to exploit a succesful I.P. and earn money. I do buy that merch makes this show possible in the first place with their consistent level of quality.
 
LucasSomething said:
It's possible, the last episode was clearly designed so everyone would get a bunch of new outfits at once (Jax got five if you count evil jax) for the sake of selling new merch, like this is a toy company now.

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I expect everyone to get at least 1-2 costumes and/or new npcs with very "merch friendly" designs every episode from now on. People will not care as long as the show stays high quality.
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The 6 year old Chinese factory workers when I tell them they have to make 60,000 more Maid Jinx plushies

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Mystery Spy said:
It is, but that’s every company like this ever. It’s only more noticeable because , again, it’s an indie studio so they have ads in their same YouTube channel. But it’s not that different from say Viacom selling out SpongeBob merch.

They are an indie company, but they aren’t a charity. I don’t find surprising they are trying to exploit a succesful I.P. and earn money. I do buy merch making this show possible with their consistent level of quality.
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I guess it comes down to quality, which is subjective anyways. I’ve seen people brutally tear down Vivziepop for selling out and only caring about merchandising. But putting a character your audience is super gay for into a cutesy outfit seems like it was done solely to sell shit, no matter how much Gooseworx wants to pretend to be an epic Reddit shitposter about it.
 
samuraicrack said:
But putting a character your audience is super gay for into a cutesy outfit seems like it was done solely to sell shit, no matter how much Gooseworx wants to pretend to be an epic Reddit shitposter about it.
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Oh it was, they are definitely pushing the marketing angle. That’s not out of the question.

But the adults running the show have to pay bills and make this profitable, so I don’t blame them. This show is expensive to make. Goosework is the creator, but is obviously not handling the business side. Probably just shows up to collect a paycheck once all it’s done.

Now if they were saying this was piece of art that wasn’t meant to earn money now that I would call pure BS. It’s an indie company trying to exploit a surprise hit. That’s what all entertainment companies do.
 
electrician's apprentice said:
I haven't seen this posted here but goose revealed the frog guy's design on X and he looks like a fag
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I'm disappointed since I assume he was gonna be small and fat like a frog
It would have worked well with Jax
Tall lanky guy and small fat guy duo is like character design 101 and it works for a reason
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Wogglebug's eye might stray
when you make frog
who looks that gay
 
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