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The Amazing Digital Circus is an independent animated web series created and directed by Gooseworx and produced by Glitch Productions. The series follows a group of humans who attempt to maintain their sanity after becoming trapped inside a circus-themed virtual reality game.
The series premiered on Glitch Productions' KZbin channel on October 13, 2023. It received critical acclaim for its animation, dark humor, and characters, and amassed over 100 million views in a month, surpassing Hazbin Hotel's pilot as the most viewed independent animation pilot on the platform. The short also received an Annie Award nomination.
After donning a virtual reality headset, a woman becomes trapped in a circus-themed computer game inhabited by the artificial intelligence ringmaster Caine, his assistant Bubble, and six other trapped humans: Jax, Ragatha, Gangle, Kinger, Zooble, and Kaufmo. The woman-renamed "Pomni" after forgetting her original name-repeatedly notices an exit door that Caine dismisses as a hallucination. While Caine sends the group on an adventure to stop an infestation of creatures called Gloinks, Ragatha and Jax take Pomni to meet Kaufmo, whom they discover has succumbed to despair and "abstracted" into a mindless beast. Pomni seeks Caine's help after Kaufmo causes Ragatha to glitch, but deserts Ragatha upon finding and entering the exit, which leads her through a labyrinth of office spaces to the Void, an out-of-bounds area. Caine rescues Pomni as the others return from their successful adventure. After imprisoning Kaufmo in a cellar with other abstracted humans and repairing Ragatha, Caine admits he created the "exit" to fulfill the group's desire for one, but left it unfinished after being unable to decide what to put behind the door. For completing the adventure, Caine rewards the group with a feast of digital food, which Pomni attends in silence.