The Amazing Digital Circus

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Name: The Amazing Digital Circus
Abbreviation(s): TADC
Creator: Gooseworx
Date(s): October 13, 2023 – present
Medium: YouTube animation
Country of Origin: Australia, United States
External Links: official site, wikipedia, IMDB profile
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The Amazing Digital Circus is a comedy animated series produced by GLITCH Productions and released on YouTube. Owing to its cartoon-esque, overt vibrant appearance, down to its cast of characters, it quickly exploded in popularity online, alongside its own fanbase, moreso upon the first episode's release in October 2023, with fans creating their own works and participating both in discussion and fan stuff to this day.

Canon

The series follows the hijinks and adventures of a group of humans trapped within a cartoonish virtual world, the Amazing Digital Circus, as they go about and explore the bounds of the aforementioned circus' world and its inhabitants, ranging from the normal to the downright bizarre.

Characters

  • Pomni - the newest arrival in the circus and main viewpoint character, a woman whose digital body takes the form of a jester
  • Caine - the circus' AI ringmaster, an eccentric, denture-headed showman
  • Jax - a man in the form of a tall purple humanoid rabbit
  • Ragatha - a woman in the form of a ragdoll
  • Gangle - a woman in the form of a comedy/tragedy mask with a ribbon body
  • Kinger - a man in the form of a king chess piece
  • Zooble - a person in the form of a mix-and-match toy
  • Bubble - Caine's AI companion, a talking soap bubble
  • Gummigoo - an NPC with the appearance of a humanoid gummy gator

Fandom

The fandom surrounding the series itself, whilst active to this day, has been often described as skewing more towards teenagers than young adults, due to outside preconceptions towards animation itself, especially in terms of its sudden popularity, to the point that in some cases, mentioning or bringing up TADC towards non-fans evokes a sort of internal scorn. Regardless, inside and outside fans have hailed it as a new dawn in independent animation, despite its few shortcomings.

Shipping

  • Pomni/Ragatha
  • Jax/Ragatha
  • Jax/Pomni
  • Gangle/Zooble
  • Kinger/Queenie
  • Caine/Pomni
  • Gangle/Jax

Fanworks

Fanworks produced towards the series tend to skew more on the visual side than the written side, although there have been notable examples of fan audio that are well-produced by the fandom's standards.

On Archive of our Own, as of October 2024, there have been 2,737 fanfics posted on the side, with F/M being the topmost category at 879, gen coming close at second at 749; the topmost pairing is of Pomni/Ragatha, counting at 498.

Example Fanworks

Fanart

Fan Music

Fancomics

Zines

Meta

Other

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References

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