Trivia / The Amazing Digital Circus

• Acting for Two:
  • Gooseworx provides the voice for not only Bubble but the Moon as well.
  • In the Russian dub, both Caine and Jax are voiced by Max Mann.
  • In the Filipino dub, Pomni, Ragatha, and Bubble are all voiced by Janeane Santos-Roco.
  • In the Japanese dub, Kinger, Bubble, and the Gloink Queen are all voiced by Ryota Kuga. In addition, Soichi Sugawara voices both Caine and Jax, and Wang Lianxin is the voice of both Gangle and Zooble.
  • In the French dub, Mayrig Truchot voices both Ragatha and the Moon, and Morgane Brehamel voices both Zooble and the Gloink Queen.
• All-Star Cast: There are professional voice actors like Lizzie Freeman, Amanda Hufford, Marissa Lenti, and Sean Chiplock, ones known on the internet like Michael Kovach, Elsie Lovelock, and Alex Rochon, and clean-up artist Ashley Nichols.
• Approval of God: In spades. Gooseworx, Glitch Productions, and the voice actors all enthusiastically support the fan-produced media that TADC fanbase generates. (In fact, Gooseworx has practically begged for good-faith fanworks, to balance out the constant flow of low-quality content farm sludge.) Occasionally they will get in on the fun as well, as with this video.
• Colbert Bump:
  • Following the release of the pilot, interest in the Raggedy Ann series spiked because of Ragatha, who is based on the series' title character.
  • Gooseworx's fame spiked to international levels over this pilot alone.
  • In just four months since the pilot's debut, the Glitch Productions channel had gained 5 million subscribers, over twice the original total sub count thanks to the show's success.
• Creator Couple: Ashley Nichols, the voice actress for Zooble, is dating Michael Kovach, the voice actor for Jax.
• Creator's Favorite: Gooseworx publicly proclaimed Jax as her favorite as soon as he was revealed on Glitch Productions' Twitter, and has drawn several comics describing him as the show's potentially funniest character.
• Cross-Dressing Voices:
  • Gooseworx (a woman) voices Bubble (a male character).
  • Ragatha and Gangle (female characters) are voiced by non-binary voice actors Amanda Hufford and Marissa Lenti, respectively (though the latter is genderfluid and uses she/her pronouns).
• Cross-Regional Voice Acting: The Spanish dub has actors who worked remotely from Argentina, Chile, Guatemala, Mexico City, and Cuernavaca, Mexico.
• Cut Song: "Gone Mad" is listed as "unused" on the pilot soundtrack, which was confirmed by co-composer Evan Alderete to have been replaced by "Kaufmo the Clown".
• Descended Creator: Gooseworx, the show's creator, writer and director, voices Bubble and the Moon.
• Fandom Nod: The minimum wage labour bit in the "POMNI WAKE UP TIME TO GO ON AN ADVENTURE" video appears to be a reference to "La Asombrosa CHAMBA Digital"^note roughly meaning "The Amazing Digital LABOR" in Spanish, "chamba" being a Central American slang for "work", a Colombian parody made by Leunam which represents the hardships of working in third-worldist places like Latin America, with Jax being a Burger Fool at McDonald's, precisely like in that official bit, where he's put to work at a McDonald's Expy. Leunam eventually noticed this.
  Leunam: (translated from Spanish) IT SUDDENLY BECAME CANON
• Fan-Work Ban: Since the pilot started picking up steam, Gooseworx has expressed on multiple occasions a distaste for Digital Circus content-farm videos churned out by YouTube Kids Channels to rack up views and profit off of the show's popularity. In one instance, fans had begun making fanart of Jax's evil twin sister, a character made by one of these content farm kids' channels, and Gooseworx came out and told fans (in a now-deleted tweet) to not give any more attention to that channel or that character, as the channel was profiting off her work and making fanart of the character was essentially giving the content farmers the attention they want.
• Inspiration for the Work:
  • Harlan Ellison's "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream", I Spy, and Kid Pix have been cited as some of the biggest inspirations for the show as a whole.
  • Gooseworx has stated that Jax was inspired by Popee from Popee the Performer, while Gangle was inspired by Kedamono from the same series.
  • Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure was an inspiration, particularly for Ragatha's design, and Jax's distinctive cadence was inspired by that of Raggedy Andy.
• Meaningful Release Date: The pilot was released on Friday the 13th.
• Meme Role Reprise: Alex Rochon released a video of himself reading various tweets and memes while in-character as Caine.
• The Other Darrin: Gooseworx has stated that Pomni's Cluster Bleep-Bomb is actually a pitched-up test recording by her sister rather than Lizzie Freeman, because the line wasn't written out in the script, leading Gooseworx to forget to record the scene with Lizzie at the time.
• Production Posse:
  • Sees the return of many Glitch Productions collaborators, including VAs Lizzie Freeman (the original voice of Meggy Spletzer), Michael Kovach (Niles, SMG0 and N), Sean Chiplock (Thad and One-Shot Wren), and Elsie Lovelock (The current Meggy, Karen, Bo, Evelyn Claythorne, and Uzi). Also involved is Murder Drones lead animator Kevin Temmer.
  • The soundtrack is a collaboration between Gooseworx and Evan Alderete, who have worked together on various soundtracks and other projects in the past.
  • The international voice actors for Murder Drones also return to voice the Digital Circus cast. Ex: Soichiro Sugawara and Arran, who voiced N and V in the Japanese dub of Murder Drones, voiced Jax and Pomni respectively in the Japanese dub of TADC.
• Promoted Fanboy: Zachary Preciado of ZAMination and MOB Entertainment helped create a fan-made music video of the series called "Wacky World". Sometime after the video's release, he was hired by Glitch and is now working on Digital Circus.
• Queer Character, Queer Actor: Pansexual actress Ashley Nichols voices Zooble, who is genderqueer and uses all pronouns.
• Real-Life Relative:
  • In the Spanish dub, Kinger and Gangle are voiced by real-life siblings Elliot and Denisse Leguizamo, respectively.
  • In the original English, the Moon and Sun are voiced by Gooseworx and her sister Payton, respectively.
• Referenced by...: In the "Helping Hand" update of Dave.EXE, a costume was added resembling Pomni's attire. Said costume is even named "XDDCC". In the next update, a face loosely based on her was added, with an added gambling motif.
• Rule 34 – Creator Reactions:
  • In some joke Valentine's Day cards made for the series, Pomni's is a direct Take That! towards the decently high amount of Rule 34 the show received even before its release, asking why people are drawing her feet in a realistic style.
  • Gooseworx, directly after stating on Twitter that Pomni's canon age is 25, said "This ain't my first rodeo! I been around long enough to know r34 is inevitable. I'm just getting ahead of the curve and letting people know it's not illegal."
• She Also Did: According to YouTubers Wendigoon and MeatCanyon in this episode of their Creepy Cast podcast, the woman who handled the English captioning (credited as Foulweather Studios) is also the author of the Search and Rescue Woods Creepypasta.
• Sleeper Hit: Despite keeping tabs on Glitch Productions and/or knowing about Gooseworx being the only way to know of the show's existence, the pilot obtained 18 million views in the span of a week after it came out, breaking the records set by Murder Drones, which is the biggest show Glitch had at the time. Not yet done, after 10 days of release, it dethroned the pilot of Murder Drones (sitting at 40.6 million views as of March 2024) in terms of being the channel's most viewed video. Before October 2023 was over, the pilot had clocked in at over 50 million views, and by the start of November 2023, it was able to surpass "Who Let The Chomp Out", the most viewed video on the SMG4 channel, as the most viewed piece of Glitch media. Exactly 30 days after its original release date, the pilot hit 100 million views - and it didn't stop there, hitting 150 million before the end of November, later reaching 300 million by the time the series' second episode was announced in early April 2024.
• Trolling Creator:
  • Before the show's release, Gooseworx jokingly threatened to make the show bad on purpose if the fandom turned out to be viciously annoying, and regularly reminded people to behave themselves once the pilot came out. Eventually, however, she came out and admitted the deliberate quality decline was just a joke after discovering the show had become a subject for YouTube Kids' Channels, which she doesn't like but isn't willing to blow a gasket over.
  • Before the show came out, Gooseworx joked that Gangle would die in episode 1. (She does not.)
  • During GlitchX 2023, Glitch co-founders Kevin and Luke Lerdwichagul discussed fans analyzing Gooseworx's joke posts for lore, and entertained the idea of there being merit to that; Gooseworx went along with it, saying, "You never know. I lie all the time, it's cool." Michael Kovach followed it up by saying that Gooseworx will sometimes tell him things about the story, like claiming that his character dies, and he'll have no idea how serious she's being.
    Michael Kovach: I'll be in a session with Goose and she'll tell me something like, just—just whatever is going on and I'll be like "Are you serious?" Like, maybe later down the line something happens and I'm like "Really?" and I won't know if she's lying or telling the truth. [Gooseworx laughs] I won't know if she means it or not. […] I'll be like, just—just doing my thing and she'll be like, "Jax dies." And I'll be like, "Does he really?" "You'll have to seee."
    [laughter]
    Luke Lerdwichagul: She does that all the time.
    […]
    Gooseworx: I love keeping people on their toes.
  • Gooseworx once tweeted that she saw a piece of fanart that was very similar to something that happens in canon. Seeing as a lot of TADC fanart is very angst-filled, the fans were freaking out about one of the characters potentially abstracting in the series. As it turns out, Gooseworx was talking about a piece of fanart that had Jax in fast food attire.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Lead animator Kevin Temmer showed a couple of parts of the pilot that were changed, including a scene where Ragatha's movements were made less cartoony to better fit a scene's tone, and an alternative set of lyrics for the introductory song sung by Temmer himself that Gooseworks wanted to try out before they reverted to the original lyrics - this particular set of lyrics goes on longer than the one used in the actual pilot, only stopping when they're cut off by Pomni crashing into the other players. This is what the theme song would've been had they used the alternative lyrics:
    There's Gangle and Zooble and Kinger, too,
    Ragatha, and Jax, and then there's Kaufmo! (Woo-hoo!)
    Many wonders can be found, then you're spinnin' round and round until you die!
    To the Moon and then the Sun and we don't know why!
    [Pomni spawns in]
    La, lalalalala (O ho ho!)
    You won't believe you eyes!
    Prepare for a surprise—
    [Pomni reaches for the exit door]
    Don't touch that door, there's so much more!
    You don't what's in store!
    Watch out for the—[Pomni bumps into the performers, ending the song]
  • Gooseworx posted concept arts that show how some characters could have looked like. She toyed with the idea of a female Jax and male Pomni at one point, and making Pomni a frog-like creature.
  • An unused music track titled "Gone Mad" was revealed in the official soundtrack for the Pilot, which was supposed to play when Jax, Ragatha, and Pomni discover the Abstracted Kaufmo. According to Evan Alderete, the track was replaced in the final version with the more melodramatic "Kaufmo the Clown" to better suit the scene.
  • As revealed during GlitchX 2023, Ragatha's original name was Emmy.
  • Gooseworx revealed during GlitchX 2023 that Kaufmo was originally going to be part of the main cast. When she came up with Jax though, she concluded she had too many main characters and decided to make Kaufmo a Sacrificial Lamb.
  • Brendan Blaber auditioned for Kinger before the role went to Sean Chiplock.
• Word of God:
  • Before the pilot's release, Gooseworx mentioned on Twitter that nobody in the digital circus has genitals.
  • According to Gooseworx in this Twitter conversation, Pomni is 25 years old. In response to a pseudo-horrified tweet from Glitch, she knew Rule 34 art was going to happen and wanted to make it clear ahead of time that it wouldn't be "illegal". Gooseworx, however, refused to reveal Ragatha's age at first, claiming she'd "learned [her] lesson". Gooseworx would confirm the rest of the human cast's ages later: Ragatha is 30, Jax and Zooble are 22 (with Zooble being half a year older), Gangle is 26, and Kinger is 48.
  • Gooseworx revealed on Tumblr that the queen chess piece character seen on one of the doors is named Queenie.
  • According to Gooseworx's Twitter, the mannequin in the bath is named Dr. Football.
  • On her Tumblr, Gooseworx revealed some info about how abstraction works: it's permanent, and everyone's abstracted forms look the same — "The idea is that you get stripped of every bit of individuality you have, and become something completely unrecognizable."
  • According to Gooseworx's Tumblr, the first name drawn for Pomni, "XDDCC", is based on an in-joke, "ddcc", with an X added to make it even more unpronounceable.
  • The promo/teaser video "POMNI WAKE UP TIME TO GO ON AN ADVENTURE" includes Freeze Frame Bonuses of several new characters. On her Tumblr, Gooseworx implied names for two of the characters through tags on reblogs of fanart: Princess Loolilalu for a lollipop-headed character in a dress and Gummigoo for a yellow gummy crocodilian. On Youtube, Glitch Productions gave names for two more characters: Orbsman for a character made of orbs and Fudge Monster for a candy-based Blob Monster. Later, she revealed that the name of the 7th character shown in the teaser video (a female ghost lady wearing old-timey clothes) was Martha Mildenhall.
• Word of Saint Paul: Though he says it's not canon, lead animator Kevin Temmer has personally theorized that Pomni's human identity is the titular character from What's the Matter, Martha?, one of his earlier shorts.
• Why Fandom Can't Have Nice Things: The content farming has gotten so frequent and awful that Gooseworx had "gotten sick" from seeing all of them.

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