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YES YES YES YES. YOU. YOU GET IT.

It doesn't outright go "you need to be scared of this because monsters and murder and torture wooo" it emphasizes that horror in the circus is DIFFERENT FROM THE REAL WORLD.

Nobody's worried about the classics like dying or getting hurt because they only exist mentally - their digital forms aren't actually physical, so the horrors aren't physical either

Instead the horror parts of the plot focus on a NEW concept of suffering, a NEW way to scare the audience, and they do it in a way that just makes the circus itself seem so much more real

We're used to horror media. We're used to the blood and the gore and the murder and the violence and all that classic stuff. Sure, it makes some of us squeamish or scared, but we're USED to that kind of being scared, and that makes it a little boring to watch, no matter how well-written the rest of the plot is

But the digital circus just says "nah fuck that" and proceeds to show you their NEW FORMS being seriously harmed in a NEW WAY that unsettled us because we're desensitized to the common tropes in horror and aren't expecting such a new and interesting concept

THAT'S what makes the digital circus so special. It looks at the creepy monsters and the spooky jumpscares and the bloody deaths, then immediately turns around to make their characters experience something completely different (and arguably worse, considering they can't actually die and are stuck trying to cope with the digital version if suffering and horror since THEY USED TO BE IN THE REAL WORLD TOO)

I just realized the reason I love the Amazing Digital Circus is because it's basically doing what I was hoping the internet would do with the backrooms. And no I'm not talking about the Stanley Parable inspired bit.

Like the backrooms started with a focus on liminal spaces, and then combined it with simulation theory and boundary breaking/test environments in video games.

So immediately I was like "oh well if it's about breaking the simulation, then the horror will come from glitches and bugs and file corruptions affecting people who fall into the backrooms right?"

And then the internet is like. "What if we put scp monsters in there." Like. No.

I mean I guess it'd be fine if the stories/concepts were good? But it was stuff like "here's a jpeg of a creepy smile with spider legs who hunts humans". That's just disappointing tbh.

So yeah the concept of the abstractions? Fucking love it. Especially them glitching everything out rather than it being like "the monster murdered her with ✨️HYPERREALISTIC BLOOD✨️ splattering everywhere." It's a step up in quality the internet needed. Thank you for blessing us all, ye mighty Gooseworx.