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My collection of most notable frames!

Caine has another Blue Screen of Death like in episode 1, when he was giving Pomni a tour and telling about the daily activities. But that was midsentence and he froze in the pose he held. here it almost looks like he got surprised by it?

Quick observation: It looks like a different BSOD than in ep 1? The one in ep 1 was used in Windows XP, Vista and 7.

If anyone can find the source, I'll add it!

100% this is the same mannequin we have seen peeking around corners. I think this marks the third mannequin to have unique identifiers (Disappearing Guy is red with a cowboy hat, Ming is blue/grey with googley eyes and a baseball cap)

Also why does he kinda look like Dream?

More Jax blob, but no face

Jax' room door opening (door opens outwards)

Is that Bubble? or the angel?

Jax blob and face is back

This isn't regular fear, this is ''my perception of reality just got broken''-fear.

A door opening outward, so Jax' room maybe?

Between those door-frames shows an empty, dark room. Lighting is similar to that close-up on Jax' face early in the trailer (see part 1 of this post)

This is a different door. Not only is the room lit, but the door opens inwards.

Then the trailer ends with a black screen, and a mysterious voice saying ''I think I've found a way to leave.''

My friend Danny (@iamodynorth) and I already theorised Zach Hadel is guest starring as Ribbit (he made a full video about it), and this sounds like him. I think this voice is a memory from Jax.

🐝🐝🐝THE BEE THEORY 🐝🐝🐝

W.I.P theory - The Amazing Digital Circus

I started noticing bees popping up allover TADC - not just drawings of bees, but overall references but also the letter B. Here are the one's I've found from just skimming the episodes:

Episode 3 @ 5:16 - Caine drew a bee during Zooble's therapy session

Episode 4 @ 5:03 - Multple bee books on Caine's shelf and more bee drawings on the desk

Caine awarding all circus members - except Kinger, which might be relevant to Theory 2 - a B+

Various (yellow!) letter B blocks in the extra videos and episodes

📝Working theory 1:

It's related to the bumblebee quote in the the hate monologue in I HAVE NO MOUTH AND I MUST SCREAM. TLDR: in this monologue, AM (the AI in IHNMAIMS) describes the Hell of being sentient without a body, unable to do simple things like feel the sun or smell flowers, therefore hating humans for not only bestowing this fate to it, but also jealous for they can actually do those things.

AM: Look. [A bee buzzes by, he chuckles again] They say that bumblebees shouldn’t be able to fly, the scientists. Ted: But there it is! Collecting pollen. AM: How miraculous that it came to be.

While Caine doesn't hate humanity, the bees might be an indicator he might? But then there is also a lot of evidence of Caine being controlled (and filtered) by something/someone above him, who might be the one hating humans and using this circus to ''punish'' humans. With the fact that Gooseworx answered a question about ''deserving'' to be in the Circus too.

📝Working theory 2

So bees are bugs right? So you know how Kinger keeps referencing bugs and how his wife Queenie was an entomologist (someone who studies bugs)? What if his fragmented memory made him confuse insects and computer bugs? With Kinger saying he is a computer scientist and him being part of the Circus the longest out of everyone, it's not a stretch to think he worked at C&A and helped create the Circus (meaning him saying ''I made it up'' after making the healing butterfly could be quite literal). And considering he and Queenie likely joined at or around the same time, plus their matching avatars, it's likely they both worked at C&A, and Queenie was someone who worked on fixing bugs in the game. TBH the only connection to Bee Theory is honestly only that bees are bugs and in episode 4 Kinger is the only Circus member who didn't get a B+ (so the letter B and it being a coding language), but it's not the first time two only vaguely related smaller theories ended up being related.

📝Working theory 3

This last one is the vaguest honestly, and could be a part of anything. A common metaphorical association to bees is ''hivemind''. (Thank you @iamodynorth for this idea!)

In sci-fi settings ''hivemind'' could mean any number of things and even in the Circus there is so much it can be. Is Caine part of a hivemind with other AI's - potentially in ''other'' Circuses? If so, is he even aware of that and his subconscious is coming out? (Honestly there is a whole post I could write about Caine not being in full control of his actions and memory.) Does being in the Circus make you part of a hivemind? Does abstracting add you to the hivemind??? Honestly, considering people lose their identity and individuality after abstracting, it's not farfetched that abstracting links humans into a hivemind of sorts. But there is too little evidence right now to point in any direction.

Anyway, I just am super convinced these bees are a hint or part of a hint to what's coming, and I would love to hear your thoughts or more bees I have missed!

My collection of most notable frames!

Title screen. Same background as the exit door teaser and the drawing mini-game that released a few days ago.

(I wrote a post about why this could mean someone is abstracting)

There is just a FACE on the left hand side?? Also honeycomb pattern, so BEE THEORY????? 🐝🐝🐝 (Here is my post explaining it)

Note how the colourful blob on the left side (purple and orange) looks like jax? Purple face and ears, orange jumpsuit. This blob returns a few times.

Mannequin peeks from behind the corridor corner. This guy has shown up in the background in every episode since 3, I believe?

This hallway looks identical to the one with the Circus Members' rooms, but all doors are blank.

It looks like something is written here.

Polaroid of Ribbit, Jax and Kaufmo on the wall.

Jax having been close with the last two people who abstracted, and his reaction to Kaufmo abstracting, I don't think his mental state is great guys.

Also, what is he looking AT? If he was simply dissociating, he'd be staring in blank space. Is he looking at the camera (fourth wall break?) or at something behind it?

Caine's office door. There is a whole bunch of theories about the colour symbolism, specifically red and blue, so Caine's office door being both is interesting.

Return of the face and the Jax blob

There is a smidgen of something at the bottom. It looks like Pomni?

The mannequin again. He is always looking from behind corners.

Interestingly enough, the quality of the shot looks like it's zoomed in. There are multiple clues in the show that we aren't the only/main audience, that all the events are being filmed like a tv show. This almost looks like someone is reviewing footage and zoomed in on the mannequin after noticing it.

My friend Danny (@iamodynorth) made a more concise post titled ''We are NOT the audience of The Amazing Digital Circus''

Another glitch-y screen with what looks like Pomni

Caine behind the glitches

Zooble looks unconscious or in pain.

My theory is that Zooble's eyes are closed, because throughout the show their eyes have been most consistent in actually reflecting the surroundings, so if their eyes were open, we'd see who or what is casting that shadow.

Just like in the Zooble screenshot, the lighting is on the darker side. Which is weird, because usually everything is brightly and evenly lit in the main ''maps'' (the circus, the adventures etc) or more ''dramatically'' lit, like in the horror adventure of ep 3. This almost feels realistic in comparison? I feel like they're not supposed to be there.

Almost all glitch frames/glitch intermissions are unique, except a few that have this shape. It comes back a few times.

The title screen repeated itself enough for an exit door to appear.

For comparison, it's the same scenery.

Keys. Key's are inherently linked to Jax, who unexplicably has keys to everywhere? Kaufmo's room (seen on screen), Ragatha's room (mentioned by Jax), Gangle's room (implied in the anime scene in ep5 where Jax knows something about Gangle's room), and in ep 2 he magically swipes the key of the city from Ragatha.

THE FACE AND JAX BLOB AGAIN. Face is getting more towards the center.

WHat in the %$!# MC Esher is this

My money is that that big orb isn't an eye, but just a white orb. Blank white orbs keep popping up around the show, and I just KNOW they have meaning.

I feel like I've seen this hand or something in this style before? Also looks like Jax is holding it.

Pomni looks scared and surprised. What is Kinger pointing at? The buttons? AGAIN BLUE AND RED!

I might have watched too much anime, but the way he points almost feels like ''YOU!''

A snowglobe??

It feels like either: 1. there is a world in that orb, maybe another ''Circus''? 2. this is someone's way of ''watching'' the adventures.

Also, gooseworx tweeted about being stuck in an orb???

I feel like there is something there, but I can't quite make out what.

A post-ep6 Jax analysis (The Amazing Digital Circus)

But I don't think he will abstract fully or stay that way for long if he did. Maybe the cliffhanger is that it will SEEM like that, but it will be the show's way of exploring what happens right before on-camera, but also how to bring someone back from that brink.

But why would Jax even abstract at all?

After ep 6 Jax is clearly in a vulnerable state of mind. His fight with Pomni clearly dislodged feelings he couldn't put back, resulting in the panic attack in the bathroom of the Character Awards (current working theory is that the squiggly eyes are /just/ panic attacks, nothing more.) Even if he can put back on his mask, it will still be slippery, and from personal experience, a small thing can make it slip right back off.

And I think this small ''thing'' was shown in in the ep 7 preview. At 0:40, we see Gangle about to hit a watermelon, before Zooble stops her to draw Jax' face on the watermelon to smash instead, to make her feel better (which it did), with the camera revealing Jax had been within earshot all this time looking not all too happy.

Ep1-5 Jax absolutely would have been fine with this happening - if he cared about it at all - but I think post-ep6 Jax is emotionally wobbly enough for him to realised he really pushed everyone away. From personal experience, it's usually the small things that get to you.

Remember when he said ''[Gangle] likes it when I'm mean to her, though.'' in ep 5 @ 8:08 in the Stargazing scene? I think he meant that. I don't think he was saying it for the bit or as an excuse for his behaviour, I think he genuinly believed it to be true. You can see him uncross his arms, taking on a more vulnerable stance, when saying it, too. Despite being all defensive and sulky right before.

It reminded me of this scene of Pomni and Kinger in ep 3 @ 20:34, where Kinger tells Pomni that making someone feel unwanted or unloved is the worst thing to do in this world. And while that's absolutely true overall, I think he specificially meant *THIS* world aka the Digital Circus.

Even the most resilient minds become a little bit fragile when faced with having to contemplate the meaning of life, away from everything they've known, not even being able to remember their own name. So human connection is sincerely the biggest lifeline any of the Circus members have, and if that falls away, what is the point of living at all?

And while we still don't know what exactly triggers abstraction, I think Ragatha in ep 1 @ 9:56 probably sums it up perfectly, perhaps so perfectly that we as fans and theorists have been overthinking it waaay too much.

Pomni: ''I still don't understand about the adventures. Why even go on them at all? W-W-Why not try to find a way to leave?''

Ragatha: ''Well, we usually do -- when we first arrive. But after a while, you start to realize that you really can't leave and constantly chasing an unattainable goal will start driving you a bit crazy. And eventually, you get to asking what the point of anything is, and you completely lose sight of who you are and why you're even alive. And when you reach your breaking point, something really terrible can happen.''

But then, why do I think Jax isn't gonna fully abstract or atleast not stay that way?

From a storytelling perspective, you can't really keep this big life altering thing or ''monster'' secretive and vague for too long, otherwise it kinda loses it's impact and tension. Show, not tell.

The story and characters have been telling us about abstraction or what happens beforehand, albeit vague, quite a lot now, but aside from Kaufmo's abstracted form and the Queenie flashback, we have seen almost nothing of the process. Just the ''after''.

Then there is just a personal prediction based on patterns of shows and stories with similar tropes. Like if we boil down abstraction to ''very unknown condition that permanently alters a person's mind and body, and there is no cure'' premise, I start thinking of The Last Of Us where suddenly they find a possible zombie cure. Or The Vampire Diaries where they find a cure for vampirism, all things previously thought permanent and uncurable, all akin to ''dying'' too. Which just makes me feel when someone will abstract at some point, and they will either be pulled back from the brink before it fully occurs, OR they will be cured at some point. That way the show can also show the viewers what it's like from the POV of the person abstracting, maybe what really happens to the minds of those who do.

And with the pacing of the show, and the tension of the end of episode 6, I strongly believe episode 7 is gonna start showing all that. Maybe not right away, very likely as part of a cliffhanger, but showing nonetheless.

And ofcourse Gooseworx can throw us a curveball and have Ragatha abstract, or even Pomni, I do think Jax' as a character is being set-up for this role.

Caine did NOT mindcontrol Jax into pressing that button 🧠🤯