worldbuilding really isn't the writer forte.
Worldbuilding isn't the forte of any 2020s Indie cartoon creator. Just look at Vivziepop and Liam Vickers.
and some sex-scene exists in that episode or some future one.
Oh yes, Gooseworx is gonna pull a Friday Night Funkin' and add a canonical sex-scene to the colorful, cartoonish adult work with a huge child fanbase to remind everyone that it was always for adults.
That said, the creators know kids make up the vast majority of viewers, and they 100% market their merchandise to them.
Just like SML. SML is not for kids, as it reaches levels of vulgar humor similar to those of Family Guy, and yet most of its merchandise is aimed at kids because they know that they are the ones who mainly watch the series.
I said gun violence, but some networks have loosened on it on recent years. Just say it's paint guns or whatever.
Does anyone remember that period in the early 2010s when some kids show had gun violence?
Besides Regular Show, I remember that MAD and The Looney Tunes Show had guns. But as the decade went by, the all dissapeared, and with the massive politically correctness of the early 2020s, they were virtually impossible to do anymore.
Though it seems that this only applies to TV shows, because kids movies can still show guns. The 2020 Looney Tunes Cartoons show was forbidden to have guns, but Space Jam 2, released a year later, did had guns and was marketed as a kids movie.
I don't get why it's so popular
it hit all the right demographics of people who consume cartoons today, tumblrinas who fawn over any LGBTQ representation in cartoons, little kids who got hooked by the G-Rated artstyle and oversaturated color palette, and enough quirky millennial internet humor to last
It's funny that Gooseworx hates the fact that Digital Circus is very popular with kids, even going as far as saying that it they had a chance of making another cartoon after Digital Circus, it would be a lot more adult from the very beginning.
Do you think Gooseworx knows that, if it weren't for the kids, Digital Circus, and by extension Glitch Productions, wouldn't be where they are now?
This is a video that analyzes how quickly the internet butchered Digital Circus
Watch these specific clips from the video;
Even during the pilot episode era, people knew that kids were the main reason for Digital Circus' enormous success. Can you imagine how different things would have been if the pilot wasn't colorful, bouncy and easy to follow? Digital Circus probably would had, have its fans, but it would never become the worldwide phenomenon it is today. Its popularity would have been the same as that of Meta Runner, Sunset Paradise and pre-TADC Murder Drones, a small web series with a decent-sized fanbase, known only in its corner of the internet, Glitch would never earned its reputation as the savior of Western Animation, and who knows, maybe this whole "Indie Renaissance" thing would never have happened, or it would have been started by a completely different show. If Gooseworx makes another show and keeps their promise that it will be less colorful and more adult, I doubt it will be as successful as Digital Circus, even they market it as "from the creator of The Amazing Digital Circus". It would be what TV Tropes calls a Tough Act to Follow: A creator makes such a loved work that it overshadows everything they do afterwards.
A really important factor that contributed to Digital Circus' success is that it's a show that was at the right place at the right time. As the video says, most of YouTube top viewed videos are kids content. Kids content is meant to be watch and rewatched. Digital Circus' colorful artstyle and fluid animation is eye candy for children, and even if it's just an artistic choice, since it's meant to be another "kiddy stuff that's actually dark and scary", it's still appealing to them because "kiddy stuff that's actually dark and scary" is also very popular with kids, hence the whole mascot horror genre. Digital Circus has just the right amount of kid appeal, especially when compared to other web cartoons: The Hellaverse doesn't have kid appeal, Murder Drones doesn't have kid appeal, Lackadaisy doesn't have kid appeal, and on top of that, Digital Circus is an easy to follow show, as its simplicity allows anyone to understand it easily. It's not as convoluted as Helluva Boss or Murder Drones. As I said in the Glitch thread, Digital Circus raised an entire generation.
Regarding the animation community, keep in mind the time period in which Digital Circus was released. It's 2023 and the animation industry isn't in great shape: the three main children's networks, Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon and Disney Channel, have lost popularity to YouTube, and their respective owners are focusing all their efforts on streaming, which only complicates things further for cartoon creators, such as the unfair cancellation of new animated projects by Netflix or the infamous HBO Max Purge. Both Disney and Warner Bros. had their respective 100th anniversaries that year, and both were shit, with Disney being the worst here, making bad decision after bad decision, like with the movie Wish or the live-action adaptations. And then, out of nowhere, this bright and colorful pilot emerges, taking the entire world by surprise. "Ooh! How far the animation industry has fallen when some small, humble and innocent Australian D-list animation studio made a cartoon with great animation, great story, great humor, great characters, great voice acting, great music by themselves! These guys have saved and revolutionized the animation medium as we know it! The Amazing Digital Circus is the best animation of 2023!" Ok, this is an exaggeration, but people really did say things like this in 2023, and they still do to some extent. Even back in the pilot episode era, I remember seeing many comments saying "Glitch Productions defeated Disney," years before Knights of Guinevere even existed. Digital Circus is a milestone in the history of animation, its impact was so big, that the pilot was nominated for the Annie Awards for Outstanding Achievement for Character Animation in an Animated Television/Broadcast Production.
No, seriously, that really happened
Here's the link if you watch to check it out:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie...n_an_Animated_Television/Broadcast_Production
Keep in mind that it's usually stuff from corpos that recieve nominations, so seeing this web cartoon nominated alongside giants, is surreal, and even if it didn't win, the mere fact of having been nominated is impressive. As of this writing, this is the only time Glitch Productions has been nominated for an award.
While Hazbin Hotel demonstrated that indie web animation can reach the same level of quality as mainstream productions and that the internet is the ideal place to pitch a cartoon since there are no restrictions, establishing the format of releasing pilot episodes on YouTube (although it wasn't the first of these, there were already pilots of animated series on YouTube before Hazbin such as Liam Vickers' Cliffside), it was Digital Circus that proved that indie web animation can be very successful and have a great impact worldwide, officially starting the "Indie Renaissance". Each month, many indie pilots come and go, most trying to capitalize on the success of Digital Circus. not understanding what made it so popular. You could even say the same about Glitch themselves, since despite the good critical reception of The Gaslight District and Knights of Guinevere, neither of them managed to reach the level of fame and popularity of Digital Circus. (And that really infuriates some Glitch fans, but I'll talk about that in the Glitch thread).
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