In The Amazing Digital Circus, NOTHING Is Real! | The Amazing Digital Circus Episode 2

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hey guys and welcome to GT not live

we're 6 months later and it's time for

probably one of the most hyped uploads

of 2024 has it been 6 months I think so

it's been oh my gosh I think it's been

six months I I believe don't here don't

I mean it's may now here I'm I'm pulling

it up right now we're going to we're

going to show it to you yeah six months

six months ago amazing digital circus

wow 314 million views good for them oh

yeah awesome incredible six mon it has

been half a year that's pretty wild

Justin timberl told me it was going to

be May and it is indeed may now it is

indeed May and what Happ like sometimes

this uh this this Twitter post pops up

on on various social media that's like

the the progress bar of the year and it

is so weird seeing it go by so fast

every year right we're like like oh gosh

45% of the way through this year what

happened yeah this year has flown by it

is nuts so

six months ago glitch glitch Productions

did something incredible they rocked the

world already wellknown for murder

drones they Rock the world with amazing

digital circus which just caught fire

like really tapped into whatever nent

need that we all had for like early 3D

animation kind of like simple polygonal

you know shapes and textures and this

and that and just like leaned into this

my L this fun characterization yeah the

writing was so sharp and like this is

something I really respect about them

and their animators and their artists

and and everything like they understand

the internet in a way that is super

powerful they had Gable moments I like

ash you and I just use like pomy gifs

back and forth because they're funny we

really do yeah the the one where like

it's the anime angle and her eyes are

crazy I'm was going to say the Crazy

Eyes one I feel like like that's the

that's the one I've seen circulated the

most to be honest is the crazy eyes yeah

oh yeah it's an emote in our company

Discord yeah it is that's amazing yeah

if if you were if you are if your

personality is represented by an amazing

digital circus character who are

you no pressure Ash do you have an

answer I don't want to say pomy but

you're pretty pomy I was going to say I

feel like that was accurate that that is

accurate you are the pomy in my life

yeah I oh thank you it's an honor I'm

kinger yeah I can see that this is I

feel like these are all accurate these

are both spoton 100% yeah just like kind

of sitting in the corner not really know

knowing what's like going on like I'm

happy to be here wait who are you happy

to participate like I exist as well

that's which does which plays into the

whole film Theory as a forgotten middle

child you're like I'm here too guys and

I guess you're CMO now cuz you've

retired I the clown who disappeared

I as portrayed by Jack Black yeah I was

going to say at least played by J me and

Minecraft Steve played by J same yeah

the same it's amazing yeah I'm the clown

who disappeared and then went rogue and

then just decided to like eat the world

right that's kind Happ to kmo it's kind

of crazy in episode one I feel like you

are primarily kmo and your secondary is

like bits and pieces of cane yeah cuz

you still that theatricality in you

right I I feel I feel like that's a good

mix yeah cuz Kane is the one that jumps

out to me but I'm little less chaotic I

feel like but I do have that ring leader

kind of

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like Ryder gives me Kane oh Ryder is

absolutely Kane as well well Ryder

voiced Kane for us didn't he he did yes

uh so well that people thought it was AI

generated wait really yeah people

thought we we somehow voice modeled Kane

but no that was just writer being an

amazing voice actor yeah uh for those

you don't know Ryder former editor for

theorist as well as a successful

YouTuber own right foot of a feret

he uh frequent uh collaborator on the

couch but uh he's kind of our go-to for

all voice acting stuff in a lot of cases

he's our Mickey Mouse he's our anytime

we need something that's uh like a

Patrick warber Burton

adjacent wton adjacent yes that's he's

Arcane he was kind of Patrick warber I

was going to say that's pretty close

actually yeah but um but yeah so I'm

glad to hear

that the internet just looking for it

was like no seriously we we go the extra

mile but yeah like they've done episode

2 now yeah so that yeah so bring it all

the way back around 6 months and 28

minutes later after this after this

witty Panter it is finally time for the

amazing digital circus episode 2 to come

out and you know it is a very theorize

show right I we don't react to every

online digital piece of media that gets

uploaded but for the special ones and

the ones that get a lot of views and the

ones that have a lot of theorizing

potential to be honest like are the ones

that that we we react to right and as we

saw in episode one this is not only like

a fun memeable internet friendly world

that's you know obviously talking to a

lot of us and and really enjoyable to

watch but beyond that there's there's a

lore that's being crafted here that

needs to be solved right there are very

clear moments that have been dropped in

that are seeding out a wider Universe

the secret identities of these

characters that there is more under the

surface which means it is time for Life

Theory crafting and so that's why Lee's

on the couch with me so excited for this

to do some uh to do some group think do

some collective theorizing put our

brains together yeah with our brains

combined we equal one brain so we will

be that's that's very generous it's 78

of a brain GT live at 99% power is just

ash that I mean hold on now hold on now

fake it till you make it you know if you

say words long enough maybe some of them

will make sense exactly right all right

so without any further Ado I think let's

hop into amazing digital circus episode

2 this is candy carrier chaos also doing

doing pretty well for themselves 41

million views in two days that's pretty

good really incredible pretty Sol that's

pretty incredible pretty solid there

good job guys uh before let's see the

gang are back for a wack candy field

Adventure they also discovered that

their lives literally have no meaning

woohoo so wacky also they just dropped

the entire main digital circus oh

plushies o not that plushy game collect

plushies quick question yes have we

talked to them about doing a merch line

with

them maybe okay because if not I feel

like there's some cool synergies to be

had here I think we can make some cool

stuff for them there is absolutely some

cool synergies I think everyone's on the

same page there I would love to see a a

lumen product line that would be great

that would be based on them right yes

cuz cuz I know right now nice jacket oh

thank you it's it's Lumin official uh

same with the shirt it's Lum official

wow um yeah I know it's amazing um

available right now below this video uh

but it is one of those things where like

right now we're working on the poppy

playtime stuff and I think that's coming

together really really well or at least

like the initial Concepts have come

together we'll see how sample like this

so long in the process um but we have

some really good ones coming out later

this year but knowing how long it takes

to put these things together I'm like oh

hey I think that they're like I already

have in my mind some of the things that

like like cool jackets and hats and

things you can do designs really lend

themselves to to just great apparel and

like yeah rightfully so so without any

further Ado amazing digital circus

episode 2 25 minutes 25 minutes this is

a 15 parter I was about to say 15 let's

get into it okay so hold on right here

we're just going to pause you see here

the letters are spelling out the word

glitch which could be indicative of the

world that they're living in it is a

video game it is a video game or

alternatively it's the name of the

Production Studio too early to tell hard

hard to say guys hard to say wait can we

go frame by yeah let's let's go back

okay so here you'll see that it's

C

could see the the music here is

described as Peppe electronic music that

is the fourth best Star Fox

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character it is the fourth best Star Fox

character it actually might be lower

honestly I feel like I'd let rank

Andross and Leon and pigma above

sorry

just wait what we were joking about oh

it's indicative of the world oh no

they're actually in the they're in

they're in the logo

glitch I appreciate the Restraint of not

doing uh every one of their properties

like like the DreamWorks and things

nowadays where it's like here's every IP

that we own like I could see them having

like cane pop up and then you know n or

something yeah from from uh murder

drones welcome to the amazing digital

circus oh here we

go I'm very excited about

this P pomy py so pomy is an important

character I get

now hello oh weird why are we getting

interlacing that that is a pretty

popular uh like visual effect on like

that I've seen on like Tik Tok and reals

and stuff so I do think what like let's

let it play out for like purposely

interlaced yeah because it it adds like

a weird kind of like

emotion I'll TR to play that for a

second and see if it's actually a

problem cuz episode one they didn't

interlace I know I I think it was a

purpose full effect kind of like adding

a I bet this is a dream I mean a very

dreamlike effect yeah no I would I would

I would agree with like it is

interesting though so okay so you as

movie expert right so I I remember the

early days of Game Theory whenever I

would try to do like live action footage

if you go back to like I think it was

the uh how to tell if someone's lying to

you episode based on LA Noir super deep

cut um or the episode about Zelda's

power potions and and that was like one

of the first live action ones too that

we did where it was like me and the

kitchen um but I had to teach myself

what interlacing was which is something

that I don't think a lot of people know

now and and so that's why it immediately

strikes me as as something that's yeah

worth calling out it's interesting that

it's a interlacing used to be this thing

that they do in broadcast television

back back before it you got everything

through a cordin wall or Wi-Fi they

literally broadcast like a TV signal

that you'd have to pick up on an antenna

and to make that data like less

cumbersome they what they would do is

they would cut up each frame like so

like there'd be a line of pixels and

then a line of nothing and then a line

of pixels and a line of nothing then the

next frame would have line of a line of

pixels yeah the reverse yeah basically

yeah it it it it's it cut the amount of

frames that you needed basically in half

right it count cut the amount of data

that you need in half cuz you would have

like half of the picture on one frame

half of the picture on the other frame

basically and that's why you get this

it's not seamless right so you see it on

screen SC right now where it's not

seamless because they you're missing

kind of a piece in the middle right and

so you're getting 50% of the data here

50% of the data there and it's being

interlaced together literally woven

together to create one image but it

gives you this sort of effect right and

if you're not if your settings aren't

right if you're dealing with liveaction

footage and this is what I learned when

I was working live action footage into

the animations of of Game Theory if the

if the settings aren't right you get

this kind of like weird interlacing

effect which creates like a lower

quality final product have you ever seen

like

1080i and versus 1080p I is interlaced p

is Progressive yes Progressive being you

get all of the data all at once in one

frame exactly so at this point I don't

think anything really does this could be

I I don't know but like I don't see why

anything would necessarily interlace

anymore it feels like everything has

gone Progressive it has become it has

become an intentional effect you add

kind of similar to like VHS effect

is

achf that Isam and weird and Whimsical

and

nostalgic and and and specifically of an

era and I think like that I think I

think your comparison to analog horror

is interesting right because for a long

time we've been in this like 1980s early

1990s VHS aesthetic right now we're kind

of moving into the late 90s early 2000s

yes and and one of the things that we

and so with the old VHS aesthetic right

you get the scan lines and you get the

the tracking

the the all those kind of like glitches

and artifacting that you see on VHS

tapes those are like tracking lines

right and the old I don't know if you're

old enough to remember this but like on

the on the remote controls with the VCRs

there was literally a button that you

would use to shift where the Magnetic

Tape was playing in the cassette to get

rid of those SC those lines right that

was the tracking lines and it just meant

that the tape was like out of whack that

was just a little bit before me yeah so

uh it was I mean it was the tail end of

me too to be honest but we had an old

VHS and we had to do that right and so

now and and I think one of the things

that really hit about maing digital

circus and I think that they're

continuing to lean into here is we've

seen this we've we've done it but we're

into we're in a generation now who have

grown up in the early like late '90s

early 2000s where now you're talking

about interlacing and you're getting

digital effects like this which is very

different but also you know is kind of

the next generation of that analog

horror aesthetic which is cool like it

again it's it's incredibly smart

storytelling it immediately sets you in

a tone and it's different it's the same

idea that we've been playing with with

analog horror for years but it's updated

for a new decade through

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this but yeah no I agree with you I feel

like this is a dream sequ we'll see it

I'm

sure they're about to kill the character

so

like their main character I doubt it's

a not a dream right or they could be

just incredibly Brave first episode of

CSI killed off the main character spoil

looks like our new friends already

abstracted well I guess we're not all

cut out for it I don't even remember her

name

honestly that's a that is a great

reaction image another great reac next

emote for the Discord not ready for it

what is it for like well I guess we're

not all cut out for it like surviving in

this space is that what it is that's

what my my gut would say but

it feels very intentional based on our

previous theories yeah maybe it is hell

no maybe it is the um like the reality

of like having your brain kind of like

copied into this world yeah and like

integrating into it right it feels like

it is it the the use of the word it I

guess we're all we're not all cut out

for it feels like it's intentional to a

process it doesn't it's if it was like

cut out for this world or this G you

know the circus itself or like whatever

this space is that I you would it

wouldn't be it it feels like a process

or a specific Mission or moment or goal

right it's it's a

very specific

word and it's interesting that it's

these three who are the ones talk who

are apparently part of it you know and

at the end of the last episode right we

saw that there's a real life computer

screen and you know a VR head that has

been kind of abandoned and left behind

and so is this a world where one of our

theories has been hey did a developer of

this game somehow get absorbed into the

game or are they an AI recreation in

this game or something like that I think

it's interesting that it's also like

Kane who is the ring leader yes but also

ratha and Jax who are very much like the

angel and devil on the shoulder yeah

that's interesting I guess we're not all

cut out for it I don't even remember her

name honestly it's interesting too

because ratha has been very kind kind

and also kind like not naive

but this implies a level of of awareness

and control over the

situation that that has not been implied

in her other dialogue it implies

strength and yeah strength and control

which in episode one we did not see a

lot coming from her so to see her in

this kind of power position like you

said kind of as an antithesis to Jax

who's literally snapping people away in

episode one or whatever like that's

really

interesting this is so fun this great

already so much to talk about dream

okay wait was she was she clipping into

she was clipping into the the block I

love that it's very specific uh like

very similar to like the era of humor

it's very Source engine valve halflife

too yeah I love it I mean it really is

speak to me specifically it it is it's

it's that style of of joke and humor

that exists it's

great and it launches you away because

it has to like figure out what the

Collision detection actually

is oh yeah okay say anything I was going

to say anything with the XT e q q right

is that a Q looks like a nine for a it's

like a backwards key that's interesting

it is weird so this is a correct que

this is a revers Que yeah maybe it's a

nine the C's are also in different oh

yeah okay I wonder the C's are in

different or it's weird that some are in

correct orientations a a the B's the X's

the e m looks to be n's I guess are

different but yeah C and Q are different

that a z could be a z any hey pomy how'd

you sleep doors this hallway is always

important that was uh Kingler the female

Kingler Queeny Queenie that was it from

last time I think by the way uh a name

we guessed correctly yeah uh gooseworks

the Creator revealed the name on Tumblr

uh I think probably before our episode

went up but but so so when you say we

guess correctly but it was a name that I

wrote down being like kinger it's

probably Queenie yeah well there you go

thank you very much thank you very much

it is nailed very much it is what it is

take you take the winds when you can get

them are you dog I'll let you get back

not not the queen there's like a dog

character is in there oh is it okay I

think so cuz Like Queenie was like a

black be of the chest oh you're right it

was yeah no you're right it was a

different one that's right how' you

sleep good call are you still sleeping

I'll let you get back to it if you

are there she is hope you're doing all

right I know yesterday was a bit of a

doozy a doozy oh and don't worry about

the whole abandoning me for the exit

thing it's perfectly understandable what

you were going through at the time and

there's no hard feelings you're all good

there are definitely hard

feelings read

the

anytime anytime someone says no hard

feelings shorthand there is hard

feelings almost guaranteed if you have

to specify that's Pro tip life life Pro

tips happen to youday if there are

actually no hard feelings just don't say

anything there's nothing to said at all

you don't have to address

it

huh uh well let's forget about all that

Kane's got a new adventure today and

judging by what he's been teasing it

seems like it's going to be a fun

one today's adventure is candy carrier

chaos the

candy

thing's been robbed of their most

valuable resource maple syrup oh no to

bring the hold up what was sorry what

was that it said the the syrup say m MP

pep right MP pep I need new

glasses that's what I'm learning right

now yeah you can't you can't read it I

see the M

and P yeah it seems like that is that

what you're getting

Ash

bip is what I'm seeing you're saying

what

so okay that might be a specific like

grade of maple syrup or something

maybe or like uh it might be alluding to

a location or some deep lore I mean deep

lore you know you know me I'm always

going to lean into the the maple syrup

deep FL I mean hey santi's here we can

go get him and ask him specific maple

syrup gra cuz I know there are grades to

maple syrup right here well now you now

that you've prompted me grades of maple

Sy I know that there's there's one

that's like sounds it's like leather

where it's like it sounds good yeah but

it's not like genuine leather is just

like regular leather okay here you go

yeah yeah they they all like became the

same grade and like they're maple syrup

snobs being like Oh my gosh everything

everything's a Grade A maple syrup now

why can't I I just want to make this

large oh my gosh I just want to make the

image

large show me the image here we'll pull

up this one instead since the other ones

abandoned me multiple times just let me

down you're and you're oh open the image

in a new window open image in new tab

there we go there we go thank goodness

okay none of these have the letters none

of them are inep

noep all Grade A maple syrup must also

meet the following requirements meet

unfermented even in color sediment free

this is very important this is important

I'll look into this please later thank

you this is super important let's do a

whole episode on the amazing digital

circus just about the maple syrup and

what type of maple syrup they're they're

talking about here all right that's the

end of today's episode thank you guys so

much for watching and as always

remember doing great it's up to you to

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that wait I'm testing out a new AI in

this one ah there we go whoa whoa whoa

huge L drop right there testing out new

AI okay so Ash you seem excited you want

you want talk about that I am shocked

About That Shook I am shook to my core

all right so you know we'd have this

assumption based on the technology that

we' seen in the general aesthetic of the

amazing digital circus that this was

like a early 2000s late 90s sort of deal

sure AI That's a very modern thing it is

that's a lot of the discourse that we're

seeing today so I see that and I

immediately am thrown into some time

confusion sure well well oh me up his

glasses go for it go for it no

legitimately I wonder like I mean AI is

is the buzz word of today yes correct

yes but I mean like AI has been used in

video games like as the descriptor for

just like n PC Behavior for forever and

I wonder like it's an interesting thing

to use in the show that is coming out

today right because it has that buzz

word right around it like the meaning of

AI has changed that that is I think

that's a really good point to call out

right which is I think you see this in

the context of 2024 and you're like aha

AI generated artwork and AI generated

video and AI generated voices and this

and that what you're talking about now

is artificial intelligence trained on

data from a bunch of different sources

and going out and like recreating things

or mimicking things right it's the mimic

sorry obligatory FNAF

reference back in the day is like if

this then this it was code but exactly

to your point in if this if we're not

talking about

Technologies you know Technologies kind

of like being a little bit wibbly wobbly

with with their

timelines what this would could be

referencing is just like a bunch of if

then statements you know it is literally