Maybe a flashback but my guess is he’s that awkward guy that thinks he’s funny and does that little sad laugh to himself
When no one else laughs at his jokes.
>Digital Circus "fanbase" has devolved into OC homosexualry
predictable given how blatantly autist-bait the show is but it's a shame it's turned into Sonic-level mental illness so soon
>literally every single board
no, only the autistic ones
unless you want to show the the Cinemaphile and Cinemaphile OCs that they've been hiding somewhere
OCs are a thing for anything with a notable fanbase ever you dweeb
OCs are generally a couple teenage cringelords putting their awful MS paint drawings on some forgotten corner of DeviantArt, it's only the most autistic "fandoms" like this shit, sonic, and horse show that push them to the forefront
Not that anon, but not every fan base goes here ends up making OCs like this. Or at least not the ones I've checked out. And even if they do it feels like very few end up making them to this extent. I'm someone who's really been enjoying these OCs. A lot of creative ideas and cool characters have come from it. I just find it interesting that OCs were made in such a short time. I imagine that's because of the nature of the show. What with how it seems like new cast members can drop in without notice and how abstracting can write off characters pretty easily as well along with a hallway full of previous lost characters making it pretty easy to make up anything and justify it easily. That and since we only have one episode to work with and we want to post about the series, OCs can fill that void well. It's all in good fun so I don't really see the issue anyway.
>Anon, literally every single board
That's not true
mlp fandom has tons of OC? sure, but /mlp/ barely has OCs, anonfilly is the most popular one because is anon transformed, the board even has one of the most popular OCs banned.
there is that nazi pony /mlp/ created to try convince /misc/ to like them, they have a few OCs but they are mostly memes and jokes
>barely
Off the top of my head we have
-Tracy
-Milky
-Anonfilly
-A yellow filly I forget but had an exclamation mark as its cutie mark
-Aryanne
And possibly others after Gen4 officially ended. In fairness, most of the OCs can be found in 4CC.
I usually do like OCs, as long as they can fit into the canonical story neatly. There is no place in Digital Circus for OCs because all the past folk are lore relevant and Pomni is probably the last person that will join the circus helping everyone escape. So yeah DC OC fags can fag off.
>these guys and having fun and i hate fun, i gotta make a post........ let's see...... "oc's le bad because... because of sonic or something"... what am i missing here? oh right, my avatar, can never forget that.
>I don't need your own homosexual versions shitting up the image count
He said as he posted something off topic that shit up the image count
OC will be the only thing keeping these threads alive in like a month
Sure goose will probably give us updates so we can have a quick short-lived thread now and then but OC will be great to keep threads alive and drawfags in top condition for when its time to lewd the characters again
>OC will be the only thing keeping these threads alive in like a month
disgusting if true
OCs are such cringe monsters, glad I won't be around you disgusting homosexuals
threads SHOULDN'T stay alive if there's nothing to discuss, retard
just let things sit, you don't need to be autistically obsessing over it 24/7
if there's new content there can be a thread, but you don't need a constant general for everything dumbass
I disagree this has been great for killing stupid threads about shit like some old ass foreign cartoon from the 70s with people circle jerking about it because OLD IS GOOD NEW IS BAD
Obviously threads won't stay alive forever but when we do have threads about news we might as well make it fun while we speculate on it
>but it's a shame it's turned into Sonic-level mental illness so soon
we still don't have undertale AU wankery yet
>Sonic-level mental illness
Stop acting like we are anywhere NEAR that point
2 months ago
Anonymous
>killing stupid threads about shit like some old ass foreign cartoon from the 70s
ask how I know you're a 14 year old kid who found Cinemaphile from a twitter post this week
2 months ago
Anonymous
Just because I'm not older than 50 doesn't mean I'm new here
>I disagree this has been great for killing stupid threads about shit like some old ass foreign cartoon from the 70s with people circle jerking about it because OLD IS GOOD NEW IS BAD
You sound like /toy/'s resident autist who suffers from the same retardation as Barneyfag
No you! or whatever
2 months ago
Anonymous
>not older than 50
you're not even older than 15
2 months ago
Anonymous
Keep this up and I might have to make another OC
Maybe an old boomer type character blobfish who is stuck at the Amusement Park area operating all the rides and concession stands talking about how the old rides and circus performers were better than the ones now
2 months ago
Anonymous
>I disagree this has been great for killing stupid threads about shit like some old ass foreign cartoon from the 70s with people circle jerking about it because OLD IS GOOD NEW IS BAD
You sound like /toy/'s resident autist who suffers from the same retardation as Barneyfag
2 months ago
Anonymous
In this AU they're... Toy Story and... Caine is Andy
Ronko's been a fun way to stretch my art muscles as of late. I've been diverting time a bit more towards writing and painting minis, and it's nice to put pen to tablet again.
Huion's what I use, although be careful with the cord on really any of them. They get a bit not-worky after some time. Might just be my experience, though.
Well, I'm a big fan of Drrk, and although I'm a bit biased since he was made to be a friend for Ronko, I like the concept of a character who could act as a rival to Caine in terms of personality. Who knows, maybe there could a be a storyline where he legitimately tries to usurp him.
Private Pax, the itch-a-skitch, and pencil lady are also standouts to me personally.
Feels like people just saw a bunch of wacky characters and thought "haha wow I can make ANYTHING a circus character!!" without realizing the show does actually have a coherent art style. The etch-a-sketch kinda works but the rest of it doesn't fit with the show's style or with the original style the show is attempting to emulate.
Will say the blue glasses dude works as a character design on his own though.
Honestly I'm suprised more people didn't take inspiration from our first Thread OC we came together to create, Penny, he's the blue penguin next to Pomni. He's a salt shaker, since we where going for an I Spy novelty nick-nack kind of vibe that the show somewhat has as evident by Zooble
>we where going for an I Spy novelty nick-nack kind of vibe
yeah this is what I was getting at, all the characters are toys or knick knacks. >Caine is novelty wind-up teeth >Ragatha is a Raggedy Ann doll >Zooble is a wacky 90s buildable action figure >Kinger is a chess piece >Gangle is a comedy/tragedy mask
and so on.
all of them would look at home in an old I-Spy book or game
I see where you're coming from. If you get a ton of ideas and people together, they're bound to conflict with one another, and as nice as that collage pic is, it's a pretty big piece of evidence for your point.
Still, I think it's more about the novelty of having a leg in the proverbial race and having fun than staying absolutely true to Goose's style. This stuff's never going to be official or anything, and I'd argue there's some peace to be found in that.
Thanks for the Ronkpliment, though. I hope to have his character design used for something of mine in the future, maybe as just an art persona honestly.
I don't see the point, I don't think Goose will keep any of them a mystery in the long run, after the series end I totally see her just saying all their names on twitter or reddit thread
this isn't all of them, someone made a reddit post trying to line up the rooms although some portraits are still blurred to shit during the chase sequence (right row 6 & 8)
I feel like none of these characters are going to come up and they're just there to demonstrate that there's been a bunch of people who have already abstracted.
yeah that's pretty clear imo, they all look like filler characters. Kaufmo already demonstrated how abstraction works, don't think there's any reason to go back and show more former characters. at most they'll be silent in the background of some flashback scene.
2 months ago
Anonymous
It's possible to show up in the flashback of characters who have been there for a while. I don't think they should do that though. I don't like the use of flashbacks. I think they're a little lazy. I think the story could very easily be told in the present without needing to do a flashback. At the very least they should be able to make the exposition diegetic
2 months ago
Anonymous
It's possible to show up in the flashback of characters who have been there for a while. I don't think they should do that though. I don't like the use of flashbacks. I think they're a little lazy. I think the story could very easily be told in the present without needing to do a flashback. At the very least they should be able to make the exposition diegetic
the only abstracted character who really has a reason to show up in a flashback is likely Queenie due to her resemblance to Kinger (and how much fanart she's showing up in)
As I understand it, one of the mannequins (the one taking a bath) is a player as well. My theory is that he (or she) attempted to skip the avatar selection as a cheeky way to sneak in the game with the hopes his memories would remain intact, but because they never chose an avatar they defaulted to the mannequins who have no mouth
depends on if the avatars are actually influenced by the player (if it can actually read brain data in any form) or if it's just from a randomized pool of what's available
I saw some replies in the earlier threads on how he reacts everytime he see's Pomni and pretty much drew it, might draw some more ideas with him soon how knows
Yeah. I also thought the plotline “Pomni thinks she’s found an exit door, but in the end Caine reveals he made it himself and it doesn’t actually lead anywhere” seemed kind of ambitious for a first episode and could have been saved for sometime after Pomni’s first day.
I actually think it’s a great pilot/episode. But it works so well as a standalone short that I actually feel at a loss for what they could do from here that wouldn’t get very stale very quick.
I just hope that the doesn't show devolve into them adding more and more characters and instead they just work with the current cast that they have set in place.
>Hats >Hair transplants >Wigs
Quite literally not a problem
Also my dick would be so deep and often inside her asshole and I'd be too distracted making her every moment better to notice
>I've been clown-ified, by Caine's wild ride >I guess now Pomni's my name >And I'm put through 20 adventures each day >And every day it's the same >Look at those gloinks there, they're wrigglin' their rears >Just like they've done for the last [ERROR] years >Now I'm laughing at my own jokes but I'm crying inside >Cause there's no end to Caine's wild ride
MD has more black in its color scheme so all the retards here think its 4 adults but ADC has more bright colors and that puts them into sensory overload
I guess Digital Circus threads still have a lot of people who are not really fans but want to find out what this new show that is making all those trillions of views is about, Murder Drones is 2 years old now, only the actual most passionate fans are left so OC and fanart is just natural.
>no one gives a shit about murder drones in the first place
Y'know, except for the 10+ million people that do? And the many anons onnCinemaphile that also do? Silly tribefag, you can cope as much as you want but all you're doing is showing people how insecure you are about liking internet cartoons. Does lying to yourself make you feel better?
>better threads
Golly gee, you're right Anon we should fill our entire threads with porn and endlessly talk about how much we want to fuck the other characters
That's the case for every thread for an actove show on this board you fucking retard, ESPECIALLY these threads. Why are you isolating MD threads when they are some of the best threads on this board for content with shitposting, drawfagging and actual show discussion? Are you a dense retard on purpose when you're literally sat in a TADC thread saying this shit? I'm saying this as someone that likes both shows, kill yourself.
They haven't, it looks like we're getting filled with tourist and new-fags. Since literally no one until now has actually said anything negative about the OC shit
Digital Circus posters *are* the newfags, not a single fan of this shit is over the age of 16. You're just now seeing actual Cinemaphile posters leak into your threads now that your spamming has died down.
Hyphenating "new-fag" makes it pretty clear you first heard of "four chan" earlier this week.
Yeah and I'm Bill Gates Kinda cool how you can just make shit up on the internet, right?
Your real mistake is thinking being 36 and watching this shit would be anything other than incredibly sad
When you're 36 years old I think the only thing that is incredibly sad is worrying what other people think of you. If you're living your life trying to impress others by your maturity then I think that you're missing out. I'm old enough now that I get to decide what being an adult means and there's no reason that the responsibilities that I've taken on as an adult conflict with the things that I enjoy.
2 months ago
Anonymous
>I'm old enough now that I get to decide what being an adult means
you can decide whatever you want, doesn't make you any less of an autistic loser >b-but if you judge people you're the *real* los-
that cope hasn't worked for decades
Ok, I will bite, this is a board with daily Amphibia and Owl House threads and I never see you bitching there, Digital Circus is actually more "adult" than 80% to 90% of this board content.
>Digital Circus is actually more "adult" than 80% to 90% of this board content
this is just untrue, shit like Owl House is meant for 30 year old Tumblr users, Digital Circus is meant for 14 year old skibidi mascot horror zoomers
You've vastly underestimated how many young adults are into trendy cartoons and animations to an autistic degree. If years on Cinemaphile and tumblr taught me anything, it's that these shows rely on young people who are old enough to have disposable income for merch but young enough to help keep show relevance afloat.
There are definitely newfags and literal middleschoolers posting in these threads, but you are kidding yourself if you think the average Cinemaphile anon is too cool for making an OC.
Combo of glitch/md fans and goose fans was enough to expose ADC to a much wider audience than wouldve seen it if it was just relying on one pool of people
Combination of animation being far higher quality than the vast majority of the competition on youtube and the setting being a complete sandbox where every single character design is possible.
Undertale and Homestuck fans desperately wanted something like that so Goose and Glitch delivered.
Luck. Good visual character design. Appealing to internet hivemind.
Combination of animation being far higher quality than the vast majority of the competition on youtube and the setting being a complete sandbox where every single character design is possible.
Undertale and Homestuck fans desperately wanted something like that so Goose and Glitch delivered.
Also what this anon said. I’m a homestuckfag and can confirm it,
Also they seem to avoiding what makes MD so mediocre, so hopefully they keep on the course (not holding out hope though)
In Russian language word "пoмни" (literally "pomni") can be translated to English as "Remeber/Do not forget".
Nice touch, ngl.
But overall show sucks, will be forgotten before winter.
This is a dumb theory, but there is always the chance the abstraction was not him, no one saw it happen, they just assumed because they saw the abstraction in his room, so he may have set the whole thing up so he could search for the exit without Caine knowing.
A stuntman in a flame decaled costume, with a motorcycle helmet for a head that's always bouncing or rolling away from whatever just occurred. Never move on my own power, somehow end up flying through the air anyway.
I'm going to posit my theory that Kaufmo and Pomni are the same person, but with a memory wipe. When Kaufmo abstracted is when Pomni appeared. Think of it as a savefile corrupting and the battery just resetting the game.
>2016
You're making me feel fucking ancient, stop that. That's not old.
I have been here ever since the Poney and Big Guy times and I remember how old fag used to mean like 4 years on Cinemaphile, then the meaning changed to someone who was there ever since 2009 or something, no one can be an old fag anymore.
I envy you, I wish I have been there just a little bit earlier so I would be able to enjoy lurking at /b/ a bit longer before it was spammed with porn to oblivion by bots.
2 months ago
Anonymous
I miss remember its 2006, a few or two before the exploding van thing... I jumped from /b/ to Cinemaphile to /vg/ to /k/ to Cinemaphile.
So many memes lost to the dust that never been documented for the better.. Pinwheel raid, RFG which was just shitty ripoff of EFG, famas cheese.
Either way it dont matter, none of this matter. What matters is what you do with your shit. Thanks to a specific fandom subculture on Cinemaphile, found so many artist and made lots of friends in several circles, made my waifu notice me (on vg), and got in to art enough to craft my own world/comic. Time wasted is not wasted if you have a good time.
TL;DR
alot of things happen and all i know isI fucking love this clown.
LARP or for real? Can you name an example of a thread you saw back in 2004?
2 months ago
Anonymous
Yeah, I'm always suspicious of people claiming to be originalfags, those posters were extremely few even at the time, there are probably a couple hundred of those left at most.
2 months ago
Anonymous
people who have been on Cinemaphile for more than 5 years know that nobody actually cares how long you've been here. so if someone is trying to brag about being here since 2009 or whatever, they're either lying or they're retarded.
2 months ago
Anonymous
>5 years
No, that threshold should always be pre-2016, at least 7 years currently. No one here pre-election likes anyone that arrived post-election
2 months ago
Anonymous
Yeah, I'm always suspicious of people claiming to be originalfags, those posters were extremely few even at the time, there are probably a couple hundred of those left at most.
had to been 2006, i was 15 when i start lurking.
dont think Project scientology wasn't a thing, earliest memory i have was /b/ being raided with a picture of a woman from 80's each thread just spin the picture? I remember submitting threads of for being EPIC to be archived, and checking it to see if i missed any "lulzy" threads that won teh internetz but mostly for japanese porn cuz i thought Cinemaphile was virus free or some bullshit.
>2013 >just old enough to see the decline and eventual raping that was 2016 >yet new enough that I never got to experience the true glory days
it hurts bros
2018 cancerfag. Cinemaphile has been thoroughly raped by then so I can't relate to your dismay.
2 months ago
Anonymous
2013 was far from a golden age as well, that's when horseshow spam flooded Cinemaphile, tdk rises flooded Cinemaphile, porn flooded /b/ and /tg/ went full cyinism and stopped producing content, that's also when Pepe and Wojak took over the site replacing all the other memes
Dont focus on the vainglorys of the past, look to create a new era of triumph in the now
2 months ago
Anonymous
>new era of triumph in the now
I used to think it was genuinely possible to make our own glory days, but every day I waste on this site turns me more cynical. It's still a haven compared to the normie spheres of influence but this place is never gonna get any better. The only winning move is to not play at all.
Tripfagging used to be much more widespread, and Lanced Jack was a massive prolific troll and tripfag on /a/ and Cinemaphile. He was eventually banned by Moot himself
oldfag is just the opposite of newfag. if a newfag is someone who doesn't know anything about the site and needs to lurk more, an oldfag is someone who has been around long enough to understand the culture and injokes.
it got turned into an "i've been here longer than you" dick-measuring contest because of bitter assholes who hate anyone younger than them.
quick and dirty pic because i can't get the idea of these two together out of my head
the original sketch is a bit nicer and i might give it a proper scan and colors at some point
I hope Ragatha doesn't turn out to be a twist villain. Is it too much to ask for a character who is genuine and sweet, despite everything that surrounds her?
Making a villain out of Ragatha would work better if the twist were she becomes the villain.
Yes, she's sweet, but she's also the kind to force positivity as a coping mechanism and push all her problems aside. So even if she outwardly shrugs off Pomni breaking her promise and deserting her a second time by the next episode, the feelings of betrayal would probably fester until a critical moment.
>she's sweet, but she's also the kind to force positivity as a coping mechanism and push all her problems aside
why are zoomers all armchair psychoanalysts who feel the need to assign every character some sort of personality disorder?
sometimes people are just nice, no need to be postmodern about it
Her shtick is that she's crazy because she believes she's an actual princess. She's a stickler for the rules and she wants to entertain her invisible audience. Nobody really likes her.
Secretly she thinks deep down that if she does a good job adapting to her role that she'll be rewarded but it'll never happen
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Feels like people just saw a bunch of wacky characters and thought "haha wow I can make ANYTHING a circus character!!" without realizing the show does actually have a coherent art style. The etch-a-sketch kinda works but the rest of it doesn't fit with the show's style or with the original style the show is attempting to emulate.
Will say the blue glasses dude works as a character design on his own though.
That's fair. Wanted to make an excuse to make a neurotic oc.
Love spring neck Pomni. The bashful balloon flower is also really cute and clowny. The tape holding beach Pomni's sunglasses up is a fun detail. Nice work there anon.
The title sequence gag would have landed better if the first ep had been split into 3 10-12 minute shorts and they got around to opening his room in ep 3.
Actually every gag would have landed better if they just let them fucking breathe this shit is paced like Xavier: Renegade Angel but with none of the wordplay or sophistry that made XRA work.
I dont understand, they didn't rapidfire jokes or gags, it was pretty well paced.
I couldn't stand watching amphibia, it just gag after gaga within gags. got annoying quickly
no, the jokes were lame and pretty sparse, the issue was that they rapidfired plot and exposition. you don't need to reveal 90% of the information about your cast and world in the first episode.
I thought it was pretty sparse, explaining the rules and limitations of the world. And think there is still a lot of room to explore within those fence. Its better than hazbin which was justhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ffLIJrYEJ8
I don't think so, 10 minute episodes show nearly nothing and always end in a cliffhanger unless they are episodic, I would rather have every episode having a solid conclusion.
>see Kovach and Nichols dating irl >now I can't unsee Jax and Zooble as a couple
Is there a name when a ship is pretty much on your mind even though you don't like it?
Kaufmo tried to be a standup-comedian/clown because of the body he was given, but wasn’t actually funny at all. This combined with memory loss caused his mental breakdown and subsequent abstraction.
Jax likes to make others think he has hobbies, but his only true hobby is fucking with everyone else. Without someone to bother or talk to he ends up very bored very quickly. Maybe he likes bowling or liked it in his previous life.
Zooble probably likes fishing. Seems quiet enough but out there enough to be something they do to keep themselves active without having to interact with the others.
Gangle is actually funny. When they have their comedy mask they are probably the actually most pleasant person to be around. Also acrobatics just makes sense, or knitting, kek.
Kinger can be found doing four things and four things only. Building ‘castles’ and ‘ruling’ over certain areas, collecting things(bugs) in some far off room, crying about his dead wife, or disappearing for long periods of time.
Ragatha likes to draw, she’s pretty creative even though she’s deviantart levels of bad at it. The others keep gaslighting and lying to her that they really like her drawings.
Caine bubble and pomni do not apply for now.
>Just watched this after putting it off for so long >Return to Cinemaphile after four years to find one general and two or more waifu threads >the general's the least horniest
Glad some things never change. Don't suppose this one's gonna end up becoming /frz/ #2 given that it can take a while before ep 2 comes up if they don't release some shorts every now and then?
You reminded me to check out something else that still fucking exists to this day
What are the hobbies of the cast?
The sane ones tend to explore and maybe delve into a bit of humorous bantering with one another. The insane ones tend to disassociate until the next adventure comes to them
As they say, the ride never ends. And also, I was genuinely surprised that this one episode ended up with over 20 million views in ten days which, compared to other indie animations, is a huge surprise. I imagine part of its viewership are tablet toddlers who accidentally got recommended this by the algorithm because of its aesthetic. I am almost TEMPTED by consoomerism to buy a plush and the poster.
The viewership still adds to it. Youtube's algorithm is a mystery but it won't hesitate to recommend colorful viral cartoonn stuff to the baby shark audience.
nah this shit is absolutely being recommended to the youtube kids audience. bright flashy thumbnail with wacky characters and an all-caps title? it's practically begging for it
the princess wars?
i don't know what you referring.
ever since THAT SHOW ended i havent been in any fandom or fixated in anything. I've been making my own world sort of speak since.
To be fair, Cinemaphile had a lot of unspeakable fandoms in history. Lesbian snow sisters, pastel equines, talking rocks with murder cocks, Disney's Beastars, and so on. But I get ya, nothing's ever had me fixated on anything as much as the pre-2016 Cinemaphile shows have. Well, maybe Arcane but god forbid S2's taking forfuckingever.
nope, autistic magnetism toward circus shit
deltarune isn't as novel as it used to be but toby's probably been replaced with a flesh double by now aside from shitposting under company name(s)
Gooseworx made Deltarune and Undertale covers.
Gooseworx got the guy that did the most well known Spamton fandub to voice Caine.
Digital worlds, freedom, meta elements and the idea of something cheery turning dark turn up in both.
It's not exactly suprising there's overlap.
Also both have an antagonising wait for future content.
This won't be nearly on the level of Homestuck or Undertale though. Those were influential media, this is influenced media. It's following existing trends.
The real pioneers of the genre were DHMIS and FNAF
"Nostalgic thing from your childhood that comforts you but becomes corrupted and scary" has been around for as long as horror, but FNAF is what really kicked it into high gear as a genre on its own, especially within the context of video games.
2 months ago
Anonymous
>becomes corrupted and scary
But like, the thing itself isn't even actually scary. It's an existential horror. Yeah there was the abstracted character but it's like, the characters treat it with more of a focus on the character himself giving up, not "oh no scary edgy blender-faced monster!"
2 months ago
Anonymous
The weird thing is it's actually fresh now that the market's oversaturated with "cute and colorful thing has a jumpscare. In Digital Circus, you have like one minor scream and the rest is just existentialism with meta humor that isn't too obnoxious. Jax fucking carried this shit.
2 months ago
Anonymous
Jax did nothing except walk around as a generic cartoon rabbit in the Gloinks C Plot
2 months ago
Anonymous
He broke into everyone's rooms and made the plot move.
2 months ago
Anonymous
>Jax fucking carried this shit.
that's an odd way to spell Kinger
2 months ago
Anonymous
Is "insect collection" an anagram for something? Or maybe a portmanteau? Cinemaphile must know.
2 months ago
Anonymous
>Insect = Bug >Kinger is implied to know more about digital worlds than the others
He was the ADC's original programmer. That's my theory and I'm sticking to it.
2 months ago
Anonymous
>Insect = Bug >Kinger is implied to know more about digital worlds than the others
He was the ADC's original programmer. That's my theory and I'm sticking to it.
some theories floating around going off this suggest if Kingers the oldest one there (with having weirdly specific knowledge) he may have been a bugtester for the game before he went schizo
2 months ago
Anonymous
The weird thing is it's actually fresh now that the market's oversaturated with "cute and colorful thing has a jumpscare. In Digital Circus, you have like one minor scream and the rest is just existentialism with meta humor that isn't too obnoxious. Jax fucking carried this shit.
you'd have to be 12 to think this shit is "existential horror" in any way but aping the most surface-level tropes. "oooOOOOooh they're trapped in le computer!!!" has been stale for decades
2 months ago
Anonymous
Anon, it's existential horror as a genre, not "it's the best existential horror, period." It has some bit of restraint to its world and humor compared to its peers. It could have even gone the Stanley's Parable way of being too smug for its own good, but it didn't.
2 months ago
Anonymous
>restraint to its... humor
one of the first jokes is the main character vomiting, another character licking it up, and a third character doing the "y r u liek dis >_<" bit >Stanley's Parable way of being too smug for its own good
ah so you just have shit taste in general
2 months ago
Anonymous
The office spaces in The Void looked like polygon-per-polygon recreations of the offices from The Stanley Parable, I think it may have been intentional.
On that note, fuck The Stanley Parable, I also hated it, its schtick got real old real fast and I spent nearly every minute of it rolling my eyes.
2 months ago
Anonymous
Give up man. The people ITT are underaged or very badly unmedicated autists
2 months ago
Anonymous
Well let's discuss that then, I'm curious what else you'd call it if you actually read into it past those surface level tropes. We don't have a lot of information to go off of yet but what we have doesn't bode well. If you consider the concept that people whose minds snap after being stuck in there a while turn into weird eye monsters and have to be dumped into a pit of monster soup, what does that say about the state of their brains? I'm still leaning toward the idea that they aren't even the original minds anymore but digital copies, and that alone would lean heavily into existentialism. What do you do if you believe yourself to be a real person but effectively aren't? Stuck in a world you know to be fake but with no way to get back to it.
It's a basic concept yeah but there's still ways to go about it in an interesting and hopefully funny way. That being said, it bears remembering the creator specifically cites I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream as an influence. We already have the basic setup of a group of people all but held hostage by an AI, contorted into forms that aren't their own. We also had a character with a name reminiscent of Kafka obsessed with the fact that there's No Exit, but it remains to be seen if these are anything more than cheeky references, if they even are.
When it first came out, it was a novel horror game which turned the idea of uncanny Chuck E. Cheese animatronics on its head. Cue skyrocketing popularity and many other attempts at "mascot horror" like Bendy, Poppy's Playtime and Garten of Banban.
FNAF popularized "mascot horror" - horror games with recognizable characters and a "thing for kids but it's actually le dark and spooky" theme. Shit like Baldi's Basics, Poppy's Playtime and Garten of BanBan took the idea and ran with it until it was purely bright marketable trash for the Youtube Kids audience. Digital Circus is heavily influenced by that trend.
Mascot horror which peaked around the Minecraft era with FNAF. The good thing about Digital Circus is that it doesn't try to be condescending with its surrealist meta humor, nor is it being a tryhard in the DEEPEST LORE like Hello Neighbor's attempts. For me, it kinda has this weird indie-horror vibe like Potato Farm.
Never played it. I was a fan of Homestuck back in the day but I don't think I ever got too autistic about it. Either way I learned my lesson of getting too deep and I'm just here to trawl for fanart to collect. Once the theorycrafting bullshit hits critical mass I'll peace out until the series actually starts properly.
Fun Fact: the easiest way to exit the circus is to just be so non family friendly, I.e.: making every other thing you say a swear, being overly sexual and graphic, and being such a vile nuisance, that Caine gives up and kicks you out, (because remember, he can’t control minds so he can’t correct your behavior no matter what).
>I have never seen the level of pure concentrated autism surrounding anything like this that has a single proof of concept before.
First day, huh? Cool, cool. Have fun on the internet, friend.
What's up with all this contrarianism from E-Celebs? Those guys were kissing Owl House ass a few months ago and now that they are judging an Indie Project that is in fact better than most modern Disney current cheap series they are trying to pretend they have high standards?.
I don't care to be honest but it's such a bizarre 180 out of nowhere. Why in the world would you handle a cheap project made by a trillionaire company with kids gloves but be harsh on an indie project made by a dozen non paid artists?
it's weird because i think this is the first time i've ever been ahead of the curve on something. i've been following this since the character reveals back in august, and i honestly thought it would be just as niche as murder drones. but now everyone's talking about it.
it's weird.
if u think thats weird imagine being in the same discord server with the creator of this show, vivziepop and zeurel and seeing where they all are now
it's weird because i think this is the first time i've ever been ahead of the curve on something. i've been following this since the character reveals back in august, and i honestly thought it would be just as niche as murder drones. but now everyone's talking about it.
it's weird.
Kinda fearful of the "faster it burns" effect. But I'm certain it'll die down after a few months if they don't release new shorts or content every few weeks or so.
Tbf, I’m not surprised about Pomni’s popularity at least
The “sad clown” archetype as being popular for literal centuries
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierrot
Well congratulations anon, you are now an "original fan" of the Digital Circus fandom, just like those bronies at Cinemaphile 11 years ago, just like the original fags on Cinemaphile 20 years ago or the people reading homestuck when it was still in the first act.
Here, you can switch status with me if you like, I wasn't hyped for it and just watched it because I happened across the premiere thread ten minutes before it aired.
I will say the first couple days of threads were the comfiest though.
Hate this shit when zoomers find music. Some shit I've liked for years starts trending on tiktok and now I look like the kind of retard who gets his music taste from social media
Shit you too? I remember randomly listening to the An Empty Bliss album on youtube a good while before any of that, I was bewildered to see it suddenly pop up on a wider scale and become cheapened by memes.
honestly it feels that once you get to a certain point you end up reprioritizing whats worth suffering over
do the shit you want, trends come and trends go and in due time nobody will even remember it was a thing because The New Thing(tm) has taken over
Well congratulations anon, you are now an "original fan" of the Digital Circus fandom, just like those bronies at Cinemaphile 11 years ago, just like the original fags on Cinemaphile 20 years ago or the people reading homestuck when it was still in the first act.
Now as an original fan you will have the honor of watching this funny little fandom grow to massive sizes reach a golden age and then go to shit and you will tell the story to the new fans like an old sage
I've only seen the pilot once, but I've listened to the themesong a bunch, I'm reluctant to play the episode too much when the next one could be a year away
Then you aren't paying attention, bdcause it's thoroughly planned out from the start and a lot of details are going over your head. Slow down and don't binge it all at once.
It's a mystery plot. You're supposed to pay attention to catch the information the show tells you about what's going on so you can put it together - there's hardly any exposition and everything is shown but not told. The entire focus is on the story.
Then you aren't paying attention, bdcause it's thoroughly planned out from the start and a lot of details are going over your head. Slow down and don't binge it all at once.
It's a mystery plot. You're supposed to pay attention to catch the information the show tells you about what's going on so you can put it together - there's hardly any exposition and everything is shown but not told. The entire focus is on the story.
sound kinda pretentious but they aren't wrong, stuff eventually starts fitting together and there are details early on hinting at later developments.
How was any of that pretentious? It's a very simple statement, and if someone very clearly isn't paying attention theres nothing pretentious about pointing it out. People might just not know theres a deeper plot or important details that are coming up they are failing to register - because some people are more used to just watching just to watch rather than put a mystery together. It's not for everyone but it's worthwhile to at least tell people what the show requires to understand, you can't really just breeze through it or you'll just get confused.
I didn't say it was I said it kinda sounded pretentious. Someone could read it as "you just don't get it man it's going over your head". That's why I wanted to stress that your points were valid in case the other anon took it the wrong way.
It carries a baseline level of cringe throughout, but it at least becomes more competent after the pilot. If you look at it as the robots trying poorly to imitate humanity it feels a little less annoying, but as some others said I'd suggest give it to episode 2 to see if you can even stand it and give it to episode 3 to see if you want to watch the rest of the way. The pilot is fucking rough to get through.
I want to hug Checker.
I want to kiss Checker.
I want to hold Checker.
I want to embrace Checker.
I want to make Checker feel loved.
I want to be with Checker.
I want to ensure Checker stays happy.
I want to love Checker.
I want to have loving consensual intercourse with Checker.
I want to start a family with Checker.
I want to grow old with Checker.
I want to cuddle Checker.
I want to marry Checker.
I want to hold Checker because I can't believe she's actually mine.
I want to hold hands with Checker.
I want to squeeze Turnip with a Checker.
I got the Pomni one because I wanted to support the show
Pomni's a given because she's the cutest but I wonder how many are buying Jax's plush just to have a character to pair the plush with. Hell, I'm shocked they didn't do Ragatha for the opening night collection
2 months ago
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Im buying Jax's plush to cum on him
2 months ago
Anonymous
I thought about it but I'm not blowing 60 dollars with shipping and everything just to have a matching pair >ragatha
I originally assumed they didn't because of copyright stuff but it looks like raggedy ann is in the public domain. Unless there's some disney fuckery when they made that animated movie in the 80s
2 months ago
Anonymous
healthy nutritious meal
2 months ago
Anonymous
Probably testing the waters with Pomni or maybe because her hair requires a bit of extra effort. Either way, the shipping will kill me financially this month.
2 months ago
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She should have some rabbit stew
2 months ago
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I just hope Goose found good suppliers because there's no way they thought they'd have this much demand
2 months ago
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Yeah, I really doubt they expected this one episode to steamroll basically every indie animation of the last ten years (with the exception of the original HH pilot)
2 months ago
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It didn't steamroll shit and will fade just as fast as teenage autists shit their pants over it
2 months ago
Anonymous
Feeling a bit insecure there buddy.
2 months ago
Anonymous
Funny enough, I only got recommended this on Youtube after I absentmindedly watched an indie animation short about the victorian ballet-prostitution industry. I HAVE heard about Digital Circus on other sites but I figured it was one of those old cartoons I never watched that was trending randomly like Word Girl.
2 months ago
Anonymous
>about the victorian ballet-prostitution industry
the fucking what
if you have it please post it, that sounds interesting
2 months ago
Anonymous
Context: Ballet used to pay its dancers poorly and that resulted in a culture of prostitution.
2 months ago
Anonymous
That was good, thanks for sharing.
2 months ago
Anonymous
No probs. The channel's got a lot of good shorts. Italians and French people are Cinemaphile lovers at heart.
2 months ago
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Gobelins never fails in making stellar work. They make calarts look amateurish. And as an animation student it makes me feel like I have a looot to learn.
It makes me so mad that France isn't the center of western animation instead of california.
2 months ago
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If I remember correctly, it's because a lot of its stuff don't receive english translations or international releases compared to anime. I'm just glad Cinemaphile sometimes does the translations of these european graphic novels.
2 months ago
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I'm sure it's slightly above expectations since GLITCH's previous videos always got over a million views. But yeah, 25m viewership is an unprecedented feat and the Opening Night collection might receive shipping delays to international buyers
Pomni's design keeps reminding me of something but i can't place my finger on it.
I'm sure i've seen her somewhere else before but nothing comes up, it's driving me crazy
More like 8 months, at best. Murder Drones is going to take another 4-5 months for the last episodes of season 1 to wrap up. Glitch can't produce both at the same time, unless something happens and they expand their team.
>its horror is in concept not appearance. Every actual on-screen character is cute
This is true of FNAF too though? the "horror" bit is that you're trapped in a dark room surrounded by things that want to kill you, the animatronics themselves are mildly unsettling at best
CA was pretty good but the Kinger levels are a real slog, having to manually control his floating hands to catch Buggy every stage then having to slowly shuffle to the next area made me want to rip my hair out
2 months ago
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>controller has two joysticks >kinger has two hands >one joystick is dedicated to moving the camera, and you have to keep switching between the hand you want to move
what were they thinking
2 months ago
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>the camera doesn't even follow the hands properly >sometimes wiggling the stick to move the hand doesn't even work for some reason >to even know where Buggy is you have to hope the camera floats in the right direction to get an idea of his general location
2 months ago
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I never beat sonic adventure as a child because I didn't know how to fish
Never even knew there was a proper ending until I was a man
Fuck Big the cat
2 months ago
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Even if you know how the fishing minigame works it's still a pain in the ass. I've played through SA1 at least 8 or 9 times over the course of my life, and the Big sections are awful every time. These days I just cheat.
That just felt like that one episode of Courage the Cowardly dog. I laughed so fucking hard when goddamn king ghidorah was behind one. I'm amazed Toho let them get away with it.
In all honestly, I really like the vibe and theme of the overall presentation, I really like use of glitching, polygonal weirdness and bug looking movement. I really enjoy the influence of 90's computer graphics and everything that came out of it
The character design is nice and charming
in some way this is something akin to Don't Hug me I'm scared, the underlying horror theme is pretty fascinating, but I'm very early on predicting that the whole façade will be disolved in 5 words or less
but the dialogue is so bad, I hate it, I hate how the personalities of the characters are too snarkly, predictable, stereotypic, and frankly unappealing, the typical brand of adult animated shows, far too american to be tolerable, I unironically understand the humor they're pulling in here, but I'm simply not laughing
if anything the show is gonna glorify mental illness or something, lol
I kind of want to see another episode, but my hopes are not high if the writing is kept the same
Similar issues. I just chuckled once but I was more or less looking forward to Jax's devil-may-care attitude and Kingly/Mask, plus Ragatha and Pom's cuteness. It's not burst my gut funny but I stick around for the appeal and yes, because of the fandom
The good >Good OST >Good character design >Really Like the 90s early 3D art style
The Okay >Premise has potential but doubt it will deliver something new or interesting that hasn't been done before >Animation is solid enough but nothing too special
The bad >colors are way too harsh >pacing was bad, but I'm willing to give the benefit of the doubt since this was just the pilot >The dialogue is really terrible, way too much quirky "huh well that just happened" type of stuff and overall feels way too amateurish
Distressed White Rabbit from Plushie Dreadfuls shop. Got her from a first batch release that gave a discounted price. It's from the Alice: Madness franchise
Maybe a flashback but my guess is he’s that awkward guy that thinks he’s funny and does that little sad laugh to himself
When no one else laughs at his jokes.
Post new arts here!
OCs too!
Checker is cute!
>Digital Circus "fanbase" has devolved into OC homosexualry
predictable given how blatantly autist-bait the show is but it's a shame it's turned into Sonic-level mental illness so soon
Who shit in your cereal, Anon?
Some of the OC is pretty cool and creative
But yeah, it's quickly devolving into Deviantart-tier OC
Anon, literally every single board and fandom make OCs, it's inevitable.
>literally every single board
no, only the autistic ones
unless you want to show the the Cinemaphile and Cinemaphile OCs that they've been hiding somewhere
>no, only the autistic ones
So like he said, every single board
To be fair Cinemaphile is just the de facto politics board while /misc/ is the news and racism board and they don't really talk about fiction.
OCs are generally a couple teenage cringelords putting their awful MS paint drawings on some forgotten corner of DeviantArt, it's only the most autistic "fandoms" like this shit, sonic, and horse show that push them to the forefront
Katia is an Elder Scrolls OC
what's better: being stuck in the Circus or stuck on THAT FUCKING ROCK?
Not that anon, but not every fan base goes here ends up making OCs like this. Or at least not the ones I've checked out. And even if they do it feels like very few end up making them to this extent. I'm someone who's really been enjoying these OCs. A lot of creative ideas and cool characters have come from it. I just find it interesting that OCs were made in such a short time. I imagine that's because of the nature of the show. What with how it seems like new cast members can drop in without notice and how abstracting can write off characters pretty easily as well along with a hallway full of previous lost characters making it pretty easy to make up anything and justify it easily. That and since we only have one episode to work with and we want to post about the series, OCs can fill that void well. It's all in good fun so I don't really see the issue anyway.
>Anon, literally every single board
That's not true
mlp fandom has tons of OC? sure, but /mlp/ barely has OCs, anonfilly is the most popular one because is anon transformed, the board even has one of the most popular OCs banned.
there is that nazi pony /mlp/ created to try convince /misc/ to like them, they have a few OCs but they are mostly memes and jokes
>barely
Off the top of my head we have
-Tracy
-Milky
-Anonfilly
-A yellow filly I forget but had an exclamation mark as its cutie mark
-Aryanne
And possibly others after Gen4 officially ended. In fairness, most of the OCs can be found in 4CC.
Tourist
OCs are a thing for anything with a notable fanbase ever you dweeb
It's been like this since the first thread new-fag, now get the fuck out of my thread homosexual
This post pissed off the 13 year olds.
But you're right. It's amazing how autismbaitshow attracted autismbait. Who would have known?
I usually do like OCs, as long as they can fit into the canonical story neatly. There is no place in Digital Circus for OCs because all the past folk are lore relevant and Pomni is probably the last person that will join the circus helping everyone escape. So yeah DC OC fags can fag off.
>these guys and having fun and i hate fun, i gotta make a post........ let's see...... "oc's le bad because... because of sonic or something"... what am i missing here? oh right, my avatar, can never forget that.
based post
OCs are cringe, make you own IP or lewd Pomni, I don't need your own homosexual versions shittign up the image count
>image count: 120
any single one is one too many
fuck off to dA
>saying this on an image board
Well, look't what we got here gentleman!
This one ain't from 'round here!
>not a homosexual OC
yer ok, buddy
>I don't need your own homosexual versions shitting up the image count
He said as he posted something off topic that shit up the image count
OC will be the only thing keeping these threads alive in like a month
Sure goose will probably give us updates so we can have a quick short-lived thread now and then but OC will be great to keep threads alive and drawfags in top condition for when its time to lewd the characters again
>OC will be the only thing keeping these threads alive in like a month
disgusting if true
OCs are such cringe monsters, glad I won't be around you disgusting homosexuals
threads SHOULDN'T stay alive if there's nothing to discuss, retard
just let things sit, you don't need to be autistically obsessing over it 24/7
if there's new content there can be a thread, but you don't need a constant general for everything dumbass
I disagree this has been great for killing stupid threads about shit like some old ass foreign cartoon from the 70s with people circle jerking about it because OLD IS GOOD NEW IS BAD
Obviously threads won't stay alive forever but when we do have threads about news we might as well make it fun while we speculate on it
>Sonic-level mental illness
Stop acting like we are anywhere NEAR that point
>killing stupid threads about shit like some old ass foreign cartoon from the 70s
ask how I know you're a 14 year old kid who found Cinemaphile from a twitter post this week
Just because I'm not older than 50 doesn't mean I'm new here
No you! or whatever
>not older than 50
you're not even older than 15
Keep this up and I might have to make another OC
Maybe an old boomer type character blobfish who is stuck at the Amusement Park area operating all the rides and concession stands talking about how the old rides and circus performers were better than the ones now
>I disagree this has been great for killing stupid threads about shit like some old ass foreign cartoon from the 70s with people circle jerking about it because OLD IS GOOD NEW IS BAD
You sound like /toy/'s resident autist who suffers from the same retardation as Barneyfag
In this AU they're... Toy Story and... Caine is Andy
>but it's a shame it's turned into Sonic-level mental illness so soon
we still don't have undertale AU wankery yet
YET
it's only been a week
So in this AU they're actually in the real world
And they don't Abstract they just... Kill... Children
Ronko's been a fun way to stretch my art muscles as of late. I've been diverting time a bit more towards writing and painting minis, and it's nice to put pen to tablet again.
Any tips for buying a good one?
Huion's what I use, although be careful with the cord on really any of them. They get a bit not-worky after some time. Might just be my experience, though.
Who’s your favourite ocs? Or the ones that fits well with the art style?
Well, I'm a big fan of Drrk, and although I'm a bit biased since he was made to be a friend for Ronko, I like the concept of a character who could act as a rival to Caine in terms of personality. Who knows, maybe there could a be a storyline where he legitimately tries to usurp him.
Private Pax, the itch-a-skitch, and pencil lady are also standouts to me personally.
please point to drrk, i feel like i'm in a fever dream trying to match names to faces
Disco-dude with Microphone hair. I should've specified considering i think his creator only drew him once.
Thanks for answering
and you don't seem to understand
>circusona
Grim.
Feels like people just saw a bunch of wacky characters and thought "haha wow I can make ANYTHING a circus character!!" without realizing the show does actually have a coherent art style. The etch-a-sketch kinda works but the rest of it doesn't fit with the show's style or with the original style the show is attempting to emulate.
Will say the blue glasses dude works as a character design on his own though.
Who of the gang fits?
Honestly I'm suprised more people didn't take inspiration from our first Thread OC we came together to create, Penny, he's the blue penguin next to Pomni. He's a salt shaker, since we where going for an I Spy novelty nick-nack kind of vibe that the show somewhat has as evident by Zooble
>we where going for an I Spy novelty nick-nack kind of vibe
yeah this is what I was getting at, all the characters are toys or knick knacks.
>Caine is novelty wind-up teeth
>Ragatha is a Raggedy Ann doll
>Zooble is a wacky 90s buildable action figure
>Kinger is a chess piece
>Gangle is a comedy/tragedy mask
and so on.
all of them would look at home in an old I-Spy book or game
What IS the ADC style to you, anon?
I get what you're getting at. What motif or style should future OCs follow so they can more "fit" in the universe?
nta but for starters all characters are based on toys or objects
What toy for Jax?
He's probably a plastic bugs bunny toy
Jax comes off as one of those shitty dollar-store or Mcdonalds toys that always smell like oil
I see where you're coming from. If you get a ton of ideas and people together, they're bound to conflict with one another, and as nice as that collage pic is, it's a pretty big piece of evidence for your point.
Still, I think it's more about the novelty of having a leg in the proverbial race and having fun than staying absolutely true to Goose's style. This stuff's never going to be official or anything, and I'd argue there's some peace to be found in that.
Thanks for the Ronkpliment, though. I hope to have his character design used for something of mine in the future, maybe as just an art persona honestly.
How about fan names?
The only official names here are for Kaufmo and the queen piece.
I don't see the point, I don't think Goose will keep any of them a mystery in the long run, after the series end I totally see her just saying all their names on twitter or reddit thread
If they even have names. Most of their designs are clearly a case of "we need some faces to show to represent that people have died"
Yeah, pretty sure of the 8 lost humans only 2 or 3 are actual characters, the others are probably just random bystanders who got sucked into the game.
It's clear by their designs they are mean to be minor characters. They don't look nearly as charismatic as the main 6 (Queenie and Kaufmo aside).
Pretty sure there wasn't that many.
There were, you just had to zoom in real close.
this isn't all of them, someone made a reddit post trying to line up the rooms although some portraits are still blurred to shit during the chase sequence (right row 6 & 8)
Is Zooble's design a reference to something like a piece of art or painting?
apparently it's based on an old toy brand named "Zolo"
both makes sense
Memphis style furniture I guess
I feel like none of these characters are going to come up and they're just there to demonstrate that there's been a bunch of people who have already abstracted.
yeah that's pretty clear imo, they all look like filler characters. Kaufmo already demonstrated how abstraction works, don't think there's any reason to go back and show more former characters. at most they'll be silent in the background of some flashback scene.
It's possible to show up in the flashback of characters who have been there for a while. I don't think they should do that though. I don't like the use of flashbacks. I think they're a little lazy. I think the story could very easily be told in the present without needing to do a flashback. At the very least they should be able to make the exposition diegetic
the only abstracted character who really has a reason to show up in a flashback is likely Queenie due to her resemblance to Kinger (and how much fanart she's showing up in)
As I understand it, one of the mannequins (the one taking a bath) is a player as well. My theory is that he (or she) attempted to skip the avatar selection as a cheeky way to sneak in the game with the hopes his memories would remain intact, but because they never chose an avatar they defaulted to the mannequins who have no mouth
depends on if the avatars are actually influenced by the player (if it can actually read brain data in any form) or if it's just from a randomized pool of what's available
I really like Private Pax the toy soldier, so I decided to use my marvelous art skills to make some OC of him
Cute stuff. Nice seeing Private Pax getting to finally meet Pomni. Even if he confuses her a bit.
I saw some replies in the earlier threads on how he reacts everytime he see's Pomni and pretty much drew it, might draw some more ideas with him soon how knows
Why is there two threads?
There never was a second thread.
Yeah, I would have liked to see more of him, but someone needed to be the first victim.
Who should voice him if he gets a flashback Zach or Tomar?
Tomar. Kaufmo's way to tall to be voiced by zach
He's also missing a nose though.
We got that big tobacco money bros, Season 1 is gonna be done in a month
I spent an embarrassingly long amount of time thinking "Big Tobacco" was the name of an actual specific company.
>the bible
reminder
Oh.
Cain and Abel.
Do christians really donate money to trannies?
Which tranny? Is there a tranny involved?
I cant believe that all of cigarettes, put their money behind this. makes me kinda want to smoke.
God I just want to bloody up Pomni's face then patch her up and shower her with love.
I love her so much bros...
The pilot should've shown a "normal" day of the digital circus before pomni arrives and kaufmo abstracts
Would've set the stage up better
Yeah. I also thought the plotline “Pomni thinks she’s found an exit door, but in the end Caine reveals he made it himself and it doesn’t actually lead anywhere” seemed kind of ambitious for a first episode and could have been saved for sometime after Pomni’s first day.
I actually think it’s a great pilot/episode. But it works so well as a standalone short that I actually feel at a loss for what they could do from here that wouldn’t get very stale very quick.
Always remember to gather the Gloinks.
I find Pomni trying and failing to commit suicide hilarious
What about Pomni abstracting
no, because abstracting is an escape of sorts
>1408 parody with caine saying the hotel lines
Wheres that number 1 Kaufmo fan crying image
ryona
I just hope that the doesn't show devolve into them adding more and more characters and instead they just work with the current cast that they have set in place.
What the fuck was their problem?
that's gooseworx
I just realized that TADC is about to surpass Learning with Pibby in a few days.
Pibby is great.
Pibby is shit.
Has Matpat made a video about the series yet?
>Has Matpat made a video about the series yet?
Thankfully not yet
Pomni is clearly insane already and Kinger is nuts too. But no abstraction yet. So what is the cause for it then?
I think it's like hallowing in dark souls. It doesn't happen unless you completely give up.
I think it's more related to completely falling into despair rather than just being a neurotic mess like Kinger/Pomni.
Would you still love Pomni even if you found out under the Jester hat she was super bald
Why would it matter if I don't want the hat to come off?
>Hats
>Hair transplants
>Wigs
Quite literally not a problem
Also my dick would be so deep and often inside her asshole and I'd be too distracted making her every moment better to notice
Based, anudda Pomni Butthole Enjoyer
How is that hot?
It is a clowns butthole
Sure, it's pretty accurate with 3D models to not have anything rendered inside wherever you're not supposed to look at
Is this where Klaymen ended up?
i have telethy
Reminded me of this cute concept I found
https://twitter.com/Nuggieroni/status/1715072961240043535
How would he even sound like?
Pomni would have laughed at his jokes :'(
>I've been clown-ified, by Caine's wild ride
>I guess now Pomni's my name
>And I'm put through 20 adventures each day
>And every day it's the same
>Look at those gloinks there, they're wrigglin' their rears
>Just like they've done for the last [ERROR] years
>Now I'm laughing at my own jokes but I'm crying inside
>Cause there's no end to Caine's wild ride
How comes MD Oc characters have never received the amount of hate ADC OC characters get for simply existing?
Are MD OCs anything other than drones in different outfits?
Most of the popular ones are humans actually like John or ITanon
MD has more black in its color scheme so all the retards here think its 4 adults but ADC has more bright colors and that puts them into sensory overload
I guess Digital Circus threads still have a lot of people who are not really fans but want to find out what this new show that is making all those trillions of views is about, Murder Drones is 2 years old now, only the actual most passionate fans are left so OC and fanart is just natural.
no one gives a shit about Murder Drones in the first place, it's like asking why no one hates on Snorks OCs
Fuck off tribefag
>meaningless schizo buzzwords
thanks, great post
>no one gives a shit about murder drones in the first place
Y'know, except for the 10+ million people that do? And the many anons onnCinemaphile that also do? Silly tribefag, you can cope as much as you want but all you're doing is showing people how insecure you are about liking internet cartoons. Does lying to yourself make you feel better?
>tribefag
see
Murder Drones has a far bigger fanbase and better threads than your gay circus show get the fuck out newfag
>better threads
Golly gee, you're right Anon we should fill our entire threads with porn and endlessly talk about how much we want to fuck the other characters
That's the case for every thread for an actove show on this board you fucking retard, ESPECIALLY these threads. Why are you isolating MD threads when they are some of the best threads on this board for content with shitposting, drawfagging and actual show discussion? Are you a dense retard on purpose when you're literally sat in a TADC thread saying this shit? I'm saying this as someone that likes both shows, kill yourself.
They haven't, it looks like we're getting filled with tourist and new-fags. Since literally no one until now has actually said anything negative about the OC shit
Digital Circus posters *are* the newfags, not a single fan of this shit is over the age of 16. You're just now seeing actual Cinemaphile posters leak into your threads now that your spamming has died down.
Hyphenating "new-fag" makes it pretty clear you first heard of "four chan" earlier this week.
I'm 36 dipshit
Yeah and I'm Bill Gates Kinda cool how you can just make shit up on the internet, right?
Your real mistake is thinking being 36 and watching this shit would be anything other than incredibly sad
>If you're young you're a newfag for liking this show
>If you're old you're pathetic for liking this show
There's no pleasing you folks is it
When you're 36 years old I think the only thing that is incredibly sad is worrying what other people think of you. If you're living your life trying to impress others by your maturity then I think that you're missing out. I'm old enough now that I get to decide what being an adult means and there's no reason that the responsibilities that I've taken on as an adult conflict with the things that I enjoy.
>I'm old enough now that I get to decide what being an adult means
you can decide whatever you want, doesn't make you any less of an autistic loser
>b-but if you judge people you're the *real* los-
that cope hasn't worked for decades
>Digital Circus posters *are* the newfags, not a single fan of this shit is over the age of 16
I'm 25 tomorrow
Happy early bday anon
ty!
Fuck you its called proper english you dipshit
Ok, I will bite, this is a board with daily Amphibia and Owl House threads and I never see you bitching there, Digital Circus is actually more "adult" than 80% to 90% of this board content.
>Digital Circus is actually more "adult" than 80% to 90% of this board content
this is just untrue, shit like Owl House is meant for 30 year old Tumblr users, Digital Circus is meant for 14 year old skibidi mascot horror zoomers
Well, that's true.
Early twenties, btw.
And I've been here since...... a while ago.....
You've vastly underestimated how many young adults are into trendy cartoons and animations to an autistic degree. If years on Cinemaphile and tumblr taught me anything, it's that these shows rely on young people who are old enough to have disposable income for merch but young enough to help keep show relevance afloat.
You never shot web
You never nedm
You never fired ya lazor
You never recognize that bulge
Or did it for the lulz
>tfw i recognize all of this despite only being here since 2018 because i spent my childhood browsing meme sites
nedm is the only thing I don't recognize. I feel so ashamed
ifunny?
cheezburger or whatever it was called
also watched shit like the lazer collection and cyanide and happiness on youtube
Everyone always forgets cock mongler.
Can I zuck ya dick guy lost to time.
Grinman likes to grin
Happy nigra is happy
I always preferred Teh Rei.
There are definitely newfags and literal middleschoolers posting in these threads, but you are kidding yourself if you think the average Cinemaphile anon is too cool for making an OC.
TADC in general gets hate for simply existing
People just hates OC's in general. Either you're autistic enough to enjoy it or you find it really fucking weird
Obnoxious shitposting and contrarianism aside,
how DID Digital Circus blow up so fucking huge?
Did Goose have this much of a fanbase before? The only thing I knew about them before the pilot was some Undertale remixes
Combo of glitch/md fans and goose fans was enough to expose ADC to a much wider audience than wouldve seen it if it was just relying on one pool of people
Combination of animation being far higher quality than the vast majority of the competition on youtube and the setting being a complete sandbox where every single character design is possible.
Undertale and Homestuck fans desperately wanted something like that so Goose and Glitch delivered.
Luck. Good visual character design. Appealing to internet hivemind.
Also what this anon said. I’m a homestuckfag and can confirm it,
Also they seem to avoiding what makes MD so mediocre, so hopefully they keep on the course (not holding out hope though)
Clown girl is cute and memeable.
In Russian language word "пoмни" (literally "pomni") can be translated to English as "Remeber/Do not forget".
Nice touch, ngl.
But overall show sucks, will be forgotten before winter.
This is a dumb theory, but there is always the chance the abstraction was not him, no one saw it happen, they just assumed because they saw the abstraction in his room, so he may have set the whole thing up so he could search for the exit without Caine knowing.
I want Pomni to take off one of her shoes and tell me to fuck it while she watches and laughs at me
Fuck... the shoe?
Welcome to the world of foot fetishers. Probably just jerk off into the shoe rather than literally fuck it, but still
You want to fuck the shoe, usually you fetishist want to fuck what goes in the shoe
thats a shoe fetishist. footfags want to fuck her and have her feet on face/in mouth or dangle expressively or blow then while having feet in view.
or at worst the footpussy
I get her laughing at you for fucking a shoe, that's a silly image.
i hope the next episode doesn't skip over the fallout from the events of the pilot, especially pomni's realisation that she really is trapped
They could just change the pilot to episode 1 and continue from there
In fact anything else would be pretty stupid marketing-wise
you missed my point
i feel like if i went into the digital circus i would look like the fucking default human fall flat model, how about you?
Fuck if I know, if I'm lucky I end up looking like something humanoid like a porcelain doll
Either Human Male 07 or Resistance Human Male 07.
Aka John Freeman who was Pomni's father’s brother’s nephew’s cousin’s former roommate.
A stuntman in a flame decaled costume, with a motorcycle helmet for a head that's always bouncing or rolling away from whatever just occurred. Never move on my own power, somehow end up flying through the air anyway.
Alternatively,
Jax is a gamer real
>censored feet
THEY KNOW. I do want to see pomni play doom 1
I'm going to posit my theory that Kaufmo and Pomni are the same person, but with a memory wipe. When Kaufmo abstracted is when Pomni appeared. Think of it as a savefile corrupting and the battery just resetting the game.
I have watched it 22 times now
calling anyone who disagrees with you a newfag is one of the biggest signs of being a newfag
no, being here 6 months ago does not make you an "oldfag"
Ive been here for years, since 2016, so yes, I'm an oldfag.
>2016
You're making me feel fucking ancient, stop that. That's not old.
I've been here since 2003 when the site launched so you two can stop dick measuring
ok but we can still play swords with them right?
It's Cinemaphile of course you can
>2016
>admitting to being a actual election tourist
lmao
>2016
>oldfag
I have been here ever since the Poney and Big Guy times and I remember how old fag used to mean like 4 years on Cinemaphile, then the meaning changed to someone who was there ever since 2009 or something, no one can be an old fag anymore.
Oldfag hasn't meant "someone who's been here 4 years" for well over a decade. If you weren't around for the habbo raid, you're not an oldfag.
ive been here since 2004....
oh my god....OH GOD.
Respect to a real one
I envy you, I wish I have been there just a little bit earlier so I would be able to enjoy lurking at /b/ a bit longer before it was spammed with porn to oblivion by bots.
I miss remember its 2006, a few or two before the exploding van thing... I jumped from /b/ to Cinemaphile to /vg/ to /k/ to Cinemaphile.
So many memes lost to the dust that never been documented for the better.. Pinwheel raid, RFG which was just shitty ripoff of EFG, famas cheese.
Either way it dont matter, none of this matter. What matters is what you do with your shit. Thanks to a specific fandom subculture on Cinemaphile, found so many artist and made lots of friends in several circles, made my waifu notice me (on vg), and got in to art enough to craft my own world/comic. Time wasted is not wasted if you have a good time.
TL;DR
alot of things happen and all i know isI fucking love this clown.
Unrelated but source on that cute Pomni?
source is from these threads.
LARP or for real? Can you name an example of a thread you saw back in 2004?
Yeah, I'm always suspicious of people claiming to be originalfags, those posters were extremely few even at the time, there are probably a couple hundred of those left at most.
people who have been on Cinemaphile for more than 5 years know that nobody actually cares how long you've been here. so if someone is trying to brag about being here since 2009 or whatever, they're either lying or they're retarded.
>5 years
No, that threshold should always be pre-2016, at least 7 years currently. No one here pre-election likes anyone that arrived post-election
had to been 2006, i was 15 when i start lurking.
dont think Project scientology wasn't a thing, earliest memory i have was /b/ being raided with a picture of a woman from 80's each thread just spin the picture? I remember submitting threads of for being EPIC to be archived, and checking it to see if i missed any "lulzy" threads that won teh internetz but mostly for japanese porn cuz i thought Cinemaphile was virus free or some bullshit.
>2013
>just old enough to see the decline and eventual raping that was 2016
>yet new enough that I never got to experience the true glory days
it hurts bros
I'm with you there. Around 2013 for me too.
2018 cancerfag. Cinemaphile has been thoroughly raped by then so I can't relate to your dismay.
2013 was far from a golden age as well, that's when horseshow spam flooded Cinemaphile, tdk rises flooded Cinemaphile, porn flooded /b/ and /tg/ went full cyinism and stopped producing content, that's also when Pepe and Wojak took over the site replacing all the other memes
2011 to 2012 afair were the end
Dont focus on the vainglorys of the past, look to create a new era of triumph in the now
>new era of triumph in the now
I used to think it was genuinely possible to make our own glory days, but every day I waste on this site turns me more cynical. It's still a haven compared to the normie spheres of influence but this place is never gonna get any better. The only winning move is to not play at all.
2010-2011. At least the cancer era was fun.
>There are anons who call themselves "oldfags" that don't even know who Lanced Jack is
Where does the time go
Don’t you mean candle jack?
Bro are even trying? Why won’t you just
Whose Candle Jack sounds like a stu
Tell me the story, gramps
Tripfagging used to be much more widespread, and Lanced Jack was a massive prolific troll and tripfag on /a/ and Cinemaphile. He was eventually banned by Moot himself
oldfag is just the opposite of newfag. if a newfag is someone who doesn't know anything about the site and needs to lurk more, an oldfag is someone who has been around long enough to understand the culture and injokes.
it got turned into an "i've been here longer than you" dick-measuring contest because of bitter assholes who hate anyone younger than them.
people who have been here since 2016 are newer than people who have been here since 2017 or later. 2016 is the year of the eternal newfag.
I joined 2 years ago, am I an oldfag?
thats an old meme
10/10 bait
2003-2007 to be considered an oldfag, 2008-2014 is a newfag, 2015-2020 is an election tourist, and 2021+ you're a tranny. That how this works.
Anon you dumbass, you aren't supposed to actually tell people how long you've been here.
I can't be the only one who forgot the exact year I started lurking. It was in the early 2010s but I have no idea exactly when or how.
quick and dirty pic because i can't get the idea of these two together out of my head
the original sketch is a bit nicer and i might give it a proper scan and colors at some point
also i fucked up saving it and the background is black instead of transparent
If you had sex with Pomni or anyone in the digital circus, it would look like a JAV parody.
More like a jav parody made within the hot coffee mod but yeah
I want to pull her face close to mine and whisper sweet nothings to her ear.
i want to cum in her
That can come (huh huh) later. I'd want my relationship with her to be strictly loving and wholesome.
Lose yourself to the circus music!
I hope Ragatha doesn't turn out to be a twist villain. Is it too much to ask for a character who is genuine and sweet, despite everything that surrounds her?
she won’t be a twist villain in the disney sense
she’ll just do the wrong thing for what she thinks is the right reason
Making a villain out of Ragatha would work better if the twist were she becomes the villain.
Yes, she's sweet, but she's also the kind to force positivity as a coping mechanism and push all her problems aside. So even if she outwardly shrugs off Pomni breaking her promise and deserting her a second time by the next episode, the feelings of betrayal would probably fester until a critical moment.
>she's sweet, but she's also the kind to force positivity as a coping mechanism and push all her problems aside
why are zoomers all armchair psychoanalysts who feel the need to assign every character some sort of personality disorder?
sometimes people are just nice, no need to be postmodern about it
I just want her to be happy. Is the only thing I plead the writers.
I caved in and made an oc
She looks neat, whats she like?
Her shtick is that she's crazy because she believes she's an actual princess. She's a stickler for the rules and she wants to entertain her invisible audience. Nobody really likes her.
Secretly she thinks deep down that if she does a good job adapting to her role that she'll be rewarded but it'll never happen
That's fair. Wanted to make an excuse to make a neurotic oc.
i'd bang her.
She looks very bourgeois.
That smile reminds me of that girl in one piece, though the whole face reminds me of the horse girl of the same arc
I love cute goofy characters in horrible distress. It might be the funniest shit in the world to me.
doodled some poms
/r/ more beach pomni pls.
sunbathing or napping
Adorable.
>jack in the box neck
Oh no I love it.
Love spring neck Pomni. The bashful balloon flower is also really cute and clowny. The tape holding beach Pomni's sunglasses up is a fun detail. Nice work there anon.
God I want to hug her so much.
Clegg
cute feet thank you
nice, also BREED
POST FULL
POST FULL
POST FULL
seconding
I love the premise, but I don't see it leading to a satisfying finale.
I knew Pombi looked familiar!
Holy shit, is that Sneed??
>I have a small white penis
Who would have guessed Pomni was just girl Trickor?
this but it's gangle imagining it and running off to her room to write embarassing fanfic about it
Relatable.
The title sequence gag would have landed better if the first ep had been split into 3 10-12 minute shorts and they got around to opening his room in ep 3.
Actually every gag would have landed better if they just let them fucking breathe this shit is paced like Xavier: Renegade Angel but with none of the wordplay or sophistry that made XRA work.
no fuck that shit, bring back 22 min eps
agreed, shit went way too fast. maybe it's just because they wanted to dump all of the exposition right at the start
I dont understand, they didn't rapidfire jokes or gags, it was pretty well paced.
I couldn't stand watching amphibia, it just gag after gaga within gags. got annoying quickly
no, the jokes were lame and pretty sparse, the issue was that they rapidfired plot and exposition. you don't need to reveal 90% of the information about your cast and world in the first episode.
I thought it was pretty sparse, explaining the rules and limitations of the world. And think there is still a lot of room to explore within those fence. Its better than hazbin which was justhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ffLIJrYEJ8
I don't think so, 10 minute episodes show nearly nothing and always end in a cliffhanger unless they are episodic, I would rather have every episode having a solid conclusion.
Which fetishes do you consider TADC is missing?
You somehow managed to be worse than the footfags
pancakes anon?
do you really want them?
You say that, but the creator of the show is apparently into vore.
>see Kovach and Nichols dating irl
>now I can't unsee Jax and Zooble as a couple
Is there a name when a ship is pretty much on your mind even though you don't like it?
Im bored and wanna sketch but got no ideas, please throw some my way
Only no coom
Pomni doing a handstand.
Pomni happily petting a cute seal, if possible.
Not sure if you remembered circus seals were a thing when making this request, but I did
Next and last for the day
Now that's a cute Pomni and Zooble getting to join the show is fun.
kinger riding one of those tiny circus tricycles
>character with no legs riding a tricycle
It was weird to make to say the least
He looks wonderfully deranged, nice art!
worthy of the King, good job anon
Pomni giving a rusty trombone
God you give someone a fishing magnet for christmas and they just start bringing back all the stupidest shit.
You're just jealous you don't have a daughter giving you all sorts of stupid shit as a tokens of her love for you
Pomni getting spanked for some misbeheaving
Pomni getting bonked on the head by a Gloink
A happy Gangle frolicking in a room full of broken sad masks.
pomni with the super mega death sword of warham fantasy
Caine NEO
The Amazing Digital Cart Racer
Ragatha in a nazi uniform heiling hitler
This but with Pomni firing and Jax being on the receiving end. https://files.catbox.moe/6gbzou.png
[Also why can't I upload images anymore]
Ragatha getting her button eye sewed on by the beldamfrom Coraline
Why did they get rid of him?
What are the hobbies of the cast?
Kaufmo tried to be a standup-comedian/clown because of the body he was given, but wasn’t actually funny at all. This combined with memory loss caused his mental breakdown and subsequent abstraction.
Jax likes to make others think he has hobbies, but his only true hobby is fucking with everyone else. Without someone to bother or talk to he ends up very bored very quickly. Maybe he likes bowling or liked it in his previous life.
Zooble probably likes fishing. Seems quiet enough but out there enough to be something they do to keep themselves active without having to interact with the others.
Gangle is actually funny. When they have their comedy mask they are probably the actually most pleasant person to be around. Also acrobatics just makes sense, or knitting, kek.
Kinger can be found doing four things and four things only. Building ‘castles’ and ‘ruling’ over certain areas, collecting things(bugs) in some far off room, crying about his dead wife, or disappearing for long periods of time.
Ragatha likes to draw, she’s pretty creative even though she’s deviantart levels of bad at it. The others keep gaslighting and lying to her that they really like her drawings.
Caine bubble and pomni do not apply for now.
>Kaufmo is a Joker movie reference
That would be kinda neat.
Hope he gets cinematography lighting as his subtle running gag
>Just watched this after putting it off for so long
>Return to Cinemaphile after four years to find one general and two or more waifu threads
>the general's the least horniest
Glad some things never change. Don't suppose this one's gonna end up becoming /frz/ #2 given that it can take a while before ep 2 comes up if they don't release some shorts every now and then?
>/frz/
I hate you for reminding me that existed
You reminded me to check out something else that still fucking exists to this day
The sane ones tend to explore and maybe delve into a bit of humorous bantering with one another. The insane ones tend to disassociate until the next adventure comes to them
You fool, why would you return? Do you have any idea how hard it's to live this place?
As they say, the ride never ends. And also, I was genuinely surprised that this one episode ended up with over 20 million views in ten days which, compared to other indie animations, is a huge surprise. I imagine part of its viewership are tablet toddlers who accidentally got recommended this by the algorithm because of its aesthetic. I am almost TEMPTED by consoomerism to buy a plush and the poster.
I DON'T NEED IT. I DON'T NEED IT.
Tablet toddlers wouldn't get recommended Digital Circus stuff... yet.
The viewership still adds to it. Youtube's algorithm is a mystery but it won't hesitate to recommend colorful viral cartoonn stuff to the baby shark audience.
nah this shit is absolutely being recommended to the youtube kids audience. bright flashy thumbnail with wacky characters and an all-caps title? it's practically begging for it
I wonder how many thousands of posters Goose has to sign
Thousands. And I'll add to it
you're all Deltarune refugees aren't you?
nope.
Worse.
All this is giving me Cinemaphile-themed war flashbacks I swear to god
the princess wars?
i don't know what you referring.
ever since THAT SHOW ended i havent been in any fandom or fixated in anything. I've been making my own world sort of speak since.
I like clown girls.
To be fair, Cinemaphile had a lot of unspeakable fandoms in history. Lesbian snow sisters, pastel equines, talking rocks with murder cocks, Disney's Beastars, and so on. But I get ya, nothing's ever had me fixated on anything as much as the pre-2016 Cinemaphile shows have. Well, maybe Arcane but god forbid S2's taking forfuckingever.
for me it was talking rock.
I love pearl so much i made an gemOC. These days its just an OC now
I lived for that show if only to ship that lesbian with greg. That and Peridot.
This show does have a lot in common with Jevil and Spamton, the schizobosses who have some meta awareness and a freedom motif
No, I haven't really posted regularly in Cinemaphile since FiM
>No, I haven't really posted regularly in Cinemaphile since FiM
Oh no.
I know for a fact that refugees went to /vt/ for a short while during 2020
>That animation
You fuckers really were the Beatlemania of the internet I swear to god, even after it ended you all keep showing up.
WHO TOLD HIM??
We await the next turning of the great wheel.
We will have liberation from his tyranny.
i cringe every time you post
I miss him honestly
nope, autistic magnetism toward circus shit
deltarune isn't as novel as it used to be but toby's probably been replaced with a flesh double by now aside from shitposting under company name(s)
Gooseworx made Deltarune and Undertale covers.
Gooseworx got the guy that did the most well known Spamton fandub to voice Caine.
Digital worlds, freedom, meta elements and the idea of something cheery turning dark turn up in both.
It's not exactly suprising there's overlap.
Also both have an antagonising wait for future content.
>Toby Fox worked for Hussie
>Gooseworx worked for Toby Fox
The next massive sucess will come from one of Goose team members
Socrates -> Plato -> Aristotle -> Alexander The Great
Hussie -> Toby Fox -> Gooseworx -> ????
Goose didn't work for Toby, the chain doesn't continue like that.
This won't be nearly on the level of Homestuck or Undertale though. Those were influential media, this is influenced media. It's following existing trends.
The real pioneers of the genre were DHMIS and FNAF
the fazbear always wins
>FNAF
Man people keep saying this but I really don't get it.
"Nostalgic thing from your childhood that comforts you but becomes corrupted and scary" has been around for as long as horror, but FNAF is what really kicked it into high gear as a genre on its own, especially within the context of video games.
>becomes corrupted and scary
But like, the thing itself isn't even actually scary. It's an existential horror. Yeah there was the abstracted character but it's like, the characters treat it with more of a focus on the character himself giving up, not "oh no scary edgy blender-faced monster!"
The weird thing is it's actually fresh now that the market's oversaturated with "cute and colorful thing has a jumpscare. In Digital Circus, you have like one minor scream and the rest is just existentialism with meta humor that isn't too obnoxious. Jax fucking carried this shit.
Jax did nothing except walk around as a generic cartoon rabbit in the Gloinks C Plot
He broke into everyone's rooms and made the plot move.
>Jax fucking carried this shit.
that's an odd way to spell Kinger
Is "insect collection" an anagram for something? Or maybe a portmanteau? Cinemaphile must know.
>Insect = Bug
>Kinger is implied to know more about digital worlds than the others
He was the ADC's original programmer. That's my theory and I'm sticking to it.
some theories floating around going off this suggest if Kingers the oldest one there (with having weirdly specific knowledge) he may have been a bugtester for the game before he went schizo
you'd have to be 12 to think this shit is "existential horror" in any way but aping the most surface-level tropes. "oooOOOOooh they're trapped in le computer!!!" has been stale for decades
Anon, it's existential horror as a genre, not "it's the best existential horror, period." It has some bit of restraint to its world and humor compared to its peers. It could have even gone the Stanley's Parable way of being too smug for its own good, but it didn't.
>restraint to its... humor
one of the first jokes is the main character vomiting, another character licking it up, and a third character doing the "y r u liek dis >_<" bit
>Stanley's Parable way of being too smug for its own good
ah so you just have shit taste in general
The office spaces in The Void looked like polygon-per-polygon recreations of the offices from The Stanley Parable, I think it may have been intentional.
On that note, fuck The Stanley Parable, I also hated it, its schtick got real old real fast and I spent nearly every minute of it rolling my eyes.
Give up man. The people ITT are underaged or very badly unmedicated autists
Well let's discuss that then, I'm curious what else you'd call it if you actually read into it past those surface level tropes. We don't have a lot of information to go off of yet but what we have doesn't bode well. If you consider the concept that people whose minds snap after being stuck in there a while turn into weird eye monsters and have to be dumped into a pit of monster soup, what does that say about the state of their brains? I'm still leaning toward the idea that they aren't even the original minds anymore but digital copies, and that alone would lean heavily into existentialism. What do you do if you believe yourself to be a real person but effectively aren't? Stuck in a world you know to be fake but with no way to get back to it.
It's a basic concept yeah but there's still ways to go about it in an interesting and hopefully funny way. That being said, it bears remembering the creator specifically cites I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream as an influence. We already have the basic setup of a group of people all but held hostage by an AI, contorted into forms that aren't their own. We also had a character with a name reminiscent of Kafka obsessed with the fact that there's No Exit, but it remains to be seen if these are anything more than cheeky references, if they even are.
When it first came out, it was a novel horror game which turned the idea of uncanny Chuck E. Cheese animatronics on its head. Cue skyrocketing popularity and many other attempts at "mascot horror" like Bendy, Poppy's Playtime and Garten of Banban.
FNAF popularized "mascot horror" - horror games with recognizable characters and a "thing for kids but it's actually le dark and spooky" theme. Shit like Baldi's Basics, Poppy's Playtime and Garten of BanBan took the idea and ran with it until it was purely bright marketable trash for the Youtube Kids audience. Digital Circus is heavily influenced by that trend.
Mascot horror which peaked around the Minecraft era with FNAF. The good thing about Digital Circus is that it doesn't try to be condescending with its surrealist meta humor, nor is it being a tryhard in the DEEPEST LORE like Hello Neighbor's attempts. For me, it kinda has this weird indie-horror vibe like Potato Farm.
i'm a homestuck refugee
Never played it. I was a fan of Homestuck back in the day but I don't think I ever got too autistic about it. Either way I learned my lesson of getting too deep and I'm just here to trawl for fanart to collect. Once the theorycrafting bullshit hits critical mass I'll peace out until the series actually starts properly.
Nah, I'm a /funkg/ refugee, wouldn't be surprised if people from /utg/ are here, or even worse /exeg/ and /sthg/
>friday night funkin fag
why does this show attract so many literal children?
Those people Jack off to the characters anon
look at the mirror and you'll see the answer, zoomer anon.
I like puyo puyo
What?
>Deltarune
It's the new game by Toby Fox of Undertale fame, it's video game version of Homestuck, at least the fanbase.
Abstraction reminds me of the Joy Mutants.
Especially with that single minded focus that Kaufmo had before transformation.
Fun Fact: the easiest way to exit the circus is to just be so non family friendly, I.e.: making every other thing you say a swear, being overly sexual and graphic, and being such a vile nuisance, that Caine gives up and kicks you out, (because remember, he can’t control minds so he can’t correct your behavior no matter what).
But you might die from the universe correcting your morally questionable acts
I have never seen the level of pure concentrated autism surrounding anything like this that has a single proof of concept before.
Porn, headcanons, OCs, thread after thread, fanfiction, etc
What the fuck is wrong with you all. Seek fucking help. Has anyone ever told you this level of obsession over nothing is insanely unhealthy
>I have never seen the level of pure concentrated autism surrounding anything like this that has a single proof of concept before.
First day, huh? Cool, cool. Have fun on the internet, friend.
Fucking actual reddit posters.
Hilarious from a poster who used actual reddit spacing in his post
cry about it
SEEK HELP
It's 5 OC tier zero personality """"characters""""" walking around aimlessly in a PS2 cutscene. Go watch an actual fucking cartoon
don't wanna
Lurk before you post.
Go back, you don't belong here and you never will
guacamole nigga penis
Dude I just got here two minutes ago.
you havent seen the murder drones general yet you pussy ass homosexual
Do any lorefans know what was written in Kaufmo's room?
What's up with all this contrarianism from E-Celebs? Those guys were kissing Owl House ass a few months ago and now that they are judging an Indie Project that is in fact better than most modern Disney current cheap series they are trying to pretend they have high standards?.
I don't care to be honest but it's such a bizarre 180 out of nowhere. Why in the world would you handle a cheap project made by a trillionaire company with kids gloves but be harsh on an indie project made by a dozen non paid artists?
any examples?
"what did the exit say to the clown?"
read
that homosexual? he has shit taste, idk why people listen to a tranny who groomed a 14 year old girl.
>grooming teenagers is... LE BAD!!
yeah, how about you head on back to twitter?
asking for 14 year olds to flash their pussy is not normal behavior anon,
why would i want to go there? homosexuals like that roam it.
>w-what? there's PEDOS on twitter? boy I'd better stay in my safe space on Cinemaphile's Cinemaphile
election tourists, everyone
nice imaginary words.
i dont think theyve been relevant in years
if u think thats weird imagine being in the same discord server with the creator of this show, vivziepop and zeurel and seeing where they all are now
>wtf why do people like different things???
check if its a hazbin hotel fag
Lmfao this garbage isn't better than anything. Seek fucking help for your aspergers
Sorry for offending you Owl House fag.
Lily Orchard
it's weird because i think this is the first time i've ever been ahead of the curve on something. i've been following this since the character reveals back in august, and i honestly thought it would be just as niche as murder drones. but now everyone's talking about it.
it's weird.
same. kinda wish it didn't explode this much but whatever as long as we get more
Kinda fearful of the "faster it burns" effect. But I'm certain it'll die down after a few months if they don't release new shorts or content every few weeks or so.
Tbf, I’m not surprised about Pomni’s popularity at least
The “sad clown” archetype as being popular for literal centuries
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierrot
I had no idea this was being made, i popped in my recommendation within 30 min of the debut.
>everyone
No one outside this fucking autistic infested corner
Well congratulations anon, you are now an "original fan" of the Digital Circus fandom, just like those bronies at Cinemaphile 11 years ago, just like the original fags on Cinemaphile 20 years ago or the people reading homestuck when it was still in the first act.
Do I count as an original fan if I heard of the show from one of the teasers but only got interested in the show after the pilot dropped?
If you saw as soon as it was dropped then yeah, you have been there the moment it started, enjoying something before the fandom itself.
I stalled like 2 days to watch it. I'm not an original fan, then.
eh, it will make no difference after a decade or so, you watch in the second day after the release, if this shit last forever you will be ahead of 99%
As a day one watcher, I'm fine with that.
Here, you can switch status with me if you like, I wasn't hyped for it and just watched it because I happened across the premiere thread ten minutes before it aired.
I will say the first couple days of threads were the comfiest though.
Hate this shit when zoomers find music. Some shit I've liked for years starts trending on tiktok and now I look like the kind of retard who gets his music taste from social media
I feel this way with The Caretaker sometimes. I'm sometimes "proud" of the fact that I knew of him before his music became a meme.
>I feel this way with The Caretaker sometimes.
don't, caretaker is shit
only 20 year old call themselves caretaker.
"fandom mom" is retarded.
Shit you too? I remember randomly listening to the An Empty Bliss album on youtube a good while before any of that, I was bewildered to see it suddenly pop up on a wider scale and become cheapened by memes.
honestly it feels that once you get to a certain point you end up reprioritizing whats worth suffering over
do the shit you want, trends come and trends go and in due time nobody will even remember it was a thing because The New Thing(tm) has taken over
Now as an original fan you will have the honor of watching this funny little fandom grow to massive sizes reach a golden age and then go to shit and you will tell the story to the new fans like an old sage
>the fandom was better back before the pilot came out. i wish it stayed in development hell.
Indeed, it's surprising how this blew up the internet.
28 MILL LETS GO
I only watched it once! I may watch it again
I feel its gonna platue after 30, which is pretty good run.
No way, it's still going way too fast, it will probably lose it's steam at 35 or even 40 million
I’ll hold onto this until that number is reached
I've only seen the pilot once, but I've listened to the themesong a bunch, I'm reluctant to play the episode too much when the next one could be a year away
is Murder Drones any good or is it crigne? it looks a bit cringe
I haven't watched it past the pilot, but that pilot was indeed awful. Apparently the later episodes get better though.
the pilot is crigne but it gets better
I feel like the story is very unfocused
Then you aren't paying attention, bdcause it's thoroughly planned out from the start and a lot of details are going over your head. Slow down and don't binge it all at once.
Maybe. I did enjoy it.
It's a mystery plot. You're supposed to pay attention to catch the information the show tells you about what's going on so you can put it together - there's hardly any exposition and everything is shown but not told. The entire focus is on the story.
These guys
sound kinda pretentious but they aren't wrong, stuff eventually starts fitting together and there are details early on hinting at later developments.
How was any of that pretentious? It's a very simple statement, and if someone very clearly isn't paying attention theres nothing pretentious about pointing it out. People might just not know theres a deeper plot or important details that are coming up they are failing to register - because some people are more used to just watching just to watch rather than put a mystery together. It's not for everyone but it's worthwhile to at least tell people what the show requires to understand, you can't really just breeze through it or you'll just get confused.
I didn't say it was I said it kinda sounded pretentious. Someone could read it as "you just don't get it man it's going over your head". That's why I wanted to stress that your points were valid in case the other anon took it the wrong way.
Seconding
It carries a baseline level of cringe throughout, but it at least becomes more competent after the pilot. If you look at it as the robots trying poorly to imitate humanity it feels a little less annoying, but as some others said I'd suggest give it to episode 2 to see if you can even stand it and give it to episode 3 to see if you want to watch the rest of the way. The pilot is fucking rough to get through.
i only watched the pilot but it sucked so bad i didnt bother to see the rest of the series
I want to hug Checker.
I want to kiss Checker.
I want to hold Checker.
I want to embrace Checker.
I want to make Checker feel loved.
I want to be with Checker.
I want to ensure Checker stays happy.
I want to love Checker.
I want to have loving consensual intercourse with Checker.
I want to start a family with Checker.
I want to grow old with Checker.
I want to cuddle Checker.
I want to marry Checker.
I want to hold Checker because I can't believe she's actually mine.
I want to hold hands with Checker.
I want to squeeze Turnip with a Checker.
fuck off
Why the rude attitude?
Anyone buying the plushies?
I ordered my Pomni a few days ago, will sit nicely with Marie and Spamton
Pomni's a given because she's the cutest but I wonder how many are buying Jax's plush just to have a character to pair the plush with. Hell, I'm shocked they didn't do Ragatha for the opening night collection
Im buying Jax's plush to cum on him
I thought about it but I'm not blowing 60 dollars with shipping and everything just to have a matching pair
>ragatha
I originally assumed they didn't because of copyright stuff but it looks like raggedy ann is in the public domain. Unless there's some disney fuckery when they made that animated movie in the 80s
healthy nutritious meal
Probably testing the waters with Pomni or maybe because her hair requires a bit of extra effort. Either way, the shipping will kill me financially this month.
She should have some rabbit stew
I just hope Goose found good suppliers because there's no way they thought they'd have this much demand
Yeah, I really doubt they expected this one episode to steamroll basically every indie animation of the last ten years (with the exception of the original HH pilot)
It didn't steamroll shit and will fade just as fast as teenage autists shit their pants over it
Feeling a bit insecure there buddy.
Funny enough, I only got recommended this on Youtube after I absentmindedly watched an indie animation short about the victorian ballet-prostitution industry. I HAVE heard about Digital Circus on other sites but I figured it was one of those old cartoons I never watched that was trending randomly like Word Girl.
>about the victorian ballet-prostitution industry
the fucking what
if you have it please post it, that sounds interesting
Context: Ballet used to pay its dancers poorly and that resulted in a culture of prostitution.
That was good, thanks for sharing.
No probs. The channel's got a lot of good shorts. Italians and French people are Cinemaphile lovers at heart.
Gobelins never fails in making stellar work. They make calarts look amateurish. And as an animation student it makes me feel like I have a looot to learn.
It makes me so mad that France isn't the center of western animation instead of california.
If I remember correctly, it's because a lot of its stuff don't receive english translations or international releases compared to anime. I'm just glad Cinemaphile sometimes does the translations of these european graphic novels.
I'm sure it's slightly above expectations since GLITCH's previous videos always got over a million views. But yeah, 25m viewership is an unprecedented feat and the Opening Night collection might receive shipping delays to international buyers
I got the Pomni one because I wanted to support the show
I've got Pomni. Might pick up Jax
I may depending on the 3rd episode.
Missed opportunity for Ragatha
pomni feet
Bubble would have a basedjak folder
i still call bubbles a she
d'aww that one anon knocked up ragatha! congrats!
Pomni's design keeps reminding me of something but i can't place my finger on it.
I'm sure i've seen her somewhere else before but nothing comes up, it's driving me crazy
Hat Girl?
pomni impregnating ragatha via data transfer
What would their children look like
Ragatha but with Pomni's jester outfit
I don't care about the existential aspect of it I just want to see cute characters do cute things
I think Kaufmo is too good of a name for a character that basically doesn't exist.
ETA on a new episode ?
once all the homosexual zoomers brought in by the YT algorithm leave
Judging by Murder Drones, somewhere between two-six months at best.
More like 8 months, at best. Murder Drones is going to take another 4-5 months for the last episodes of season 1 to wrap up. Glitch can't produce both at the same time, unless something happens and they expand their team.
Guess I'll enjoy the generals for now. This drought's gonna suck.
would clap the NPC butt
>"Insect collection."
TWKYK was great sadly they can never make a comeback.
It sucks that Trevor Moore got sucked into the digital world and they had to come up with that cover story...
Funny teeth man, pictured here being the mascot horror oh no its just like my fave nogut fredbers
mfw when Five Nights at the Amazing Digital Garten of Skibidi Neighbor Playtime and the Ink Machine
Caine doing the funny freddy scream but his big funny teeth head is flapping all over the place
So are we just going to say that anything that's colorful and childlike but vaguely unsettling is fnaf now
yes
Tits are too big. I said it and I meant it.
fag detected
its actually kinda surprising how well this fits together
THE FLASHBACKS TO THAT ERA
OH MY GOD
>The characters in the digital circus do get a bit quirky at night....
Circus is heavily influenced by the mascot horror trend
Fnaf started the mascot horror wave among zoomers
It's not even a horror
It's not actually "scary" but it's clearly intended as a horror comedy
It is for the most soibois like Saberspark as an example.
who? my god each year i recognize names less and less. Either way just cuz a guy wojaks to it doesnt make it horror.
Dont mix themes of dread and 'fish out of water' stories
for horror
theres nothing horror about it. its just bad situation.
My gym partner is a monkey is not a horror cartoon.
Yeah. Well, I'd go with FNAF than having to say it's Huggy Wuggycore
>implying you're allowed to enjoy anything ever
That's cringe bro. Don't you want to be part of the cool kids club?
TADC isn't even like fnaf, its horror is in concept not appearance. Every actual on-screen character is cute, even the abstract monster is goofy
>its horror is in concept not appearance. Every actual on-screen character is cute
This is true of FNAF too though? the "horror" bit is that you're trapped in a dark room surrounded by things that want to kill you, the animatronics themselves are mildly unsettling at best
>The horror isn't the things that want to kill you it's that things want to kill you
Oh shit, I loved Circus Adventure. Wish they made a second game though
CA was pretty good but the Kinger levels are a real slog, having to manually control his floating hands to catch Buggy every stage then having to slowly shuffle to the next area made me want to rip my hair out
>controller has two joysticks
>kinger has two hands
>one joystick is dedicated to moving the camera, and you have to keep switching between the hand you want to move
what were they thinking
>the camera doesn't even follow the hands properly
>sometimes wiggling the stick to move the hand doesn't even work for some reason
>to even know where Buggy is you have to hope the camera floats in the right direction to get an idea of his general location
I never beat sonic adventure as a child because I didn't know how to fish
Never even knew there was a proper ending until I was a man
Fuck Big the cat
Even if you know how the fishing minigame works it's still a pain in the ass. I've played through SA1 at least 8 or 9 times over the course of my life, and the Big sections are awful every time.
These days I just cheat.
that's true but they do have this pretty iconic thing where they jump out at the screen and scream at you
I'm glad this one just resorted to doing a bathtub gag about it
That just felt like that one episode of Courage the Cowardly dog. I laughed so fucking hard when goddamn king ghidorah was behind one. I'm amazed Toho let them get away with it.
I guess so even though Digital Circus isn't even horror. It's just a grim premise
Billy and Mandy would have been called a FNAF clone if it had premiered around a decade later.
Wait for page 10 retard
Doesn't matter, he's an attention whore that deserves to be forgotten.
In all honestly, I really like the vibe and theme of the overall presentation, I really like use of glitching, polygonal weirdness and bug looking movement. I really enjoy the influence of 90's computer graphics and everything that came out of it
The character design is nice and charming
in some way this is something akin to Don't Hug me I'm scared, the underlying horror theme is pretty fascinating, but I'm very early on predicting that the whole façade will be disolved in 5 words or less
but the dialogue is so bad, I hate it, I hate how the personalities of the characters are too snarkly, predictable, stereotypic, and frankly unappealing, the typical brand of adult animated shows, far too american to be tolerable, I unironically understand the humor they're pulling in here, but I'm simply not laughing
if anything the show is gonna glorify mental illness or something, lol
I kind of want to see another episode, but my hopes are not high if the writing is kept the same
Similar issues. I just chuckled once but I was more or less looking forward to Jax's devil-may-care attitude and Kingly/Mask, plus Ragatha and Pom's cuteness. It's not burst my gut funny but I stick around for the appeal and yes, because of the fandom
I was about to make a post like this
The good
>Good OST
>Good character design
>Really Like the 90s early 3D art style
The Okay
>Premise has potential but doubt it will deliver something new or interesting that hasn't been done before
>Animation is solid enough but nothing too special
The bad
>colors are way too harsh
>pacing was bad, but I'm willing to give the benefit of the doubt since this was just the pilot
>The dialogue is really terrible, way too much quirky "huh well that just happened" type of stuff and overall feels way too amateurish
aren't you worried that your family might beat you and rape you for having plushies from this show?
They're all dead
underage, pls
Nah, I already collect weirdo plushies. I love this one from a failed "kickstarter"
cute bird plushie but what's that grey and red thing on the right?
Distressed White Rabbit from Plushie Dreadfuls shop. Got her from a first batch release that gave a discounted price. It's from the Alice: Madness franchise
but can you fuck it??
It's only for motorboating anon.
Got an idea for a Gangle plush
i feel like zooble and gangle would be the most difficult ones to make plushes of, especially gangle in particular
I'm just sad they wasted such a great design.
it's just a generic clown, my aunt has a lladro figurine that looks like it
It was kinda creepy to see a clown without it's crazy hair
his lack of ears bothers me, i know none of them have ears except for Jax but idk something about it looks off to me
Is the long awaited CLOWN revival??
Will we get out from under "IT" and killer clown stereotype?
I hope so.
Oh I know. This AU is a Harlan Ellison story and Caine... It's evil and hates humans and won't let them die