POMNI IS PLAYING THE GAME WRONG?! The Amazing Digital Circus Theory!

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If it ends like I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream…. Well… Don’t think it’s gonna go too well

With Gooseworx admitting this series’ inspiration was the short story, “I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream”, alongside how Pomni claimed to put on a headset before entering the circus in the pilot, I’m guessing we could be looking at a U.S.S. Callister situation. For those that don’t know, it’s an episode of Netflix’s Black Mirror where a spiteful game developer creates his own private server of an immensely successful MMORPG space game, think World of Warcraft meets No Man’s Sky. Anyway, the guy makes his own server more like a Star Trek show where he’s in complete control. Only thing is that he uses a device that can create A.I. copies of real people with just DNA samples like hair or saliva. He makes life-like conscious copies of those around his real world workspace to do with whatever he pleases in the Digital Star Trek world, whether to torment or to have pleasure himself. He demands them to play their part while he wields god-like power over them. While I doubt there’s a similar DNA sampler machine in Digital Circus, that fact that everyone had put on a headset to get in(direct access to the BRAIN)is concerning. That would be enough. Maybe Pomni really is the key to saving everyone, but it’ll either end the way of U.S.S Callister or it’ll be more like No Mouth. It’s still up in the air how things will go down but I don’t think Caine is the final boss. Rather instead it may be whoever PROGRAMMED Caine.

I like how he's just aggressively positive, like when he's still deep in his theory he just makes a message to you how you're worth smth. You don't see that much anymore

The biggest difference between One One and Caine is that One One is a masterful architect and engineer, creating each car with a specific purpose and solution. Caine is a game designer, and a bad one at that. He has unfinished locations, objects clipping and falling out of bounds, and not being able to tell the difference between player characters and NPCs. The game is broken because Caine isn’t doing his job right.

I'm not sure about this one. The circus has to have existed for a long time, enough for multiple people to go insane (which isn't a quick process). In all of that time, I doubt Pomni is the first person to engage with the adventures, even Ragatha takes the adventure seriously despite not being new. To me it's more likely that the players used to do the adventures properly, but after years of repetition with no hope to escape they just stopped caring.

Nope. It's not Infinity Train. It's much much darker for our characters. The Digital Circus is an Isekai crossed with "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream". These humans have been unwittingly copied, uploaded by whatever headset they put on, and without most of their memories. There's no getting out. And that's the realization Pomni has when she's running through the offices, even if she consciously doesn't know why. And it's why that same desk and vr headset is shown at the end of the first episode, not with a person stuck unconscious in it, the user left, and Pomni and the others, are copies in their new digital world.

Be neat if a later reward in the season is actually for lack of a better term a wish from Caine, be neat to see what each of the cast would wish for(obviously they can't wish for anything, but anything within Caine's power) like for example Pomni asking for Gummigoo back. Or Ragatha getting Jax permanently banned from her room.

I have a thought. I think that Jax ended up there because he hacked in and ended up stuck. His "key finding" ability can't be ignored. His body/avatar itself could technically be of an NPC that became conscious due to his own hubris. He regularly shows his disdain for other "people". He also ends up playing the pivotal role everytime (So far. As of only two episodes.) that separates Pomni and the rest. Why bother caring for fakes after all. I also have a thought that Pomni is one of two humans there. In every program/game there exists a developer zone. So couldn't Caine just go to that zone to find out who is an NPC? Pomni arrived the very day that someone else "abstracted." That sounds like testing grounds that the company uses one person at a time. When one fails another is brought in. The cycle repeats. Caine's watch only sounded an alarm when Pomni was in The Void.

ive got a feeling that jax is gonna be the first of our main cast whos going to abstract, hes fundamentally different from the rest and hes just gonna get sick of doing the same missions over and over

Bubble is probably the debug menu. Bubble is the one that cleans things up. They're always with Caine (who is running the show). They can show up in weird places whenever they want.

I'm kinda getting some soma vibes from this show. "No way out" written on the wall, the lack of memories, and the unoccupied desk with the hmd give me the impression that they are just copies of their respective original players. Also given how fucked up the show likes to be with the existential horror. It seems like a plausible direction. Kinda makes abstraction all the more terrifying too. It's not the realization that they're stuck in a simulation that brakes them. It's the realization that they literally can't exist outside of the simulation because thay are just copies of their respective players. That's the impression I get anyway.

I have a theory that the circus members weren't humans trapped in digital bodies, but they're digital clones of the humans with their minds and personalities being copied and put into various digital characters.

Interesting, though, going back to Gummigoo, I think the reason Caine destroyed him was because he accidentally destroyed a Player. The AI, afterward, put a new rule in place (nothing from the "games" may come into the circus). But, yes, I can see the similarities between all three shows.

Dude, didn’t Gooseworx say abstracting is permanent

I think Amazing Digital Circus seems more like that style of game where it’s just a framing device for mini games. So the game cannot be beaten; it truly just exists to pass time. But that does not mean that it isn’t possible to escape necessarily (thought that would be interesting to explore).

I really want a new character to come in and be introduced as this big addition to the cast only to have them immediately abstract. I think that would be such a cool twist and show that our crew are a bit mentally stronger than they think

I can see the similarities between Digital Curcis and infinity train Now thanks for Opening up my eyes.

You’re the best theory channel in my opinion because you don’t upload unless you KNOW you got something right, making your theories more likely to be true and less nonsense to get views

10:00 what if POMNI is the final boss? Like a crabs in a bucket sort of situation to test everyone else empathy