Watching people on YouTube react to TADC is one of my favorite hobby's and its genuinely insane to see some people watching the show and understand some of the characters better than people who have been around since the pilot, if not longer.
I just recently watched NotYoyo binge the series and he was a massive Jax hater for the first 5 episodes. But when episode 6 came around, he had a turn-around. Bro immediately clocked Jax's character. He didn't even need to watch the full scene; as soon as Jax pushed Pomni off him, he had a realization and went, "He acts like this because he doesn't want to make friends again. Because he's scared of losing them" and saw his "evil" speech for the lie it was. The same goes for PinkCubed, who's media literacy is absolutely incredible.
Hell, even for people like Hoodydude, the #1 Jax hater of all time, you have him saying in "Untitled" things like "I know what this is, the jerk with a heart of gold who's scared of having friends because he lost them". But then you come online and see theories like Jax was a murderer before the circus or people saying Jax is equally terrible as Jimmy from Mouthwashing or comparing him to characters like Valentino or Big Jack Horner.
I didn't see anyone hate on Ragatha after watching "Untitled". People clocked her as a people pleaser as early as episode 4 from her comment to Jax and saw how she was being nice to everyone because of her past with her abusive mother too. There was never any "she's secretly terrible" or "I hate her for the crash-out at Jax".
Goose said it was the Tumblr fandom but I'd say the YouTube TADC community also understands the show pretty well.
I would like to think that YouTubers who watch/review series would have a better perspective of the series than a rando on social media, since analysis is part of the appeal of these channels.
But more importantly, I think that a lot of the people who go to social media to talk about any series tend to have strong opinions about it, and with that comes a certain level of fixedness in your perspective. Binging a series, NotYoyo has 2 hours of thinking Jax is an asshole. As opposed to the random teenager who's been posting about how evil Jax is for over a year now.
Both of the above are clearly only theories, not a comprehensive list of every person ever. But idk. Your observation makes logical sense to me.
I mean... TADC is also a pretty simple show.
Like, using your examples, I clocked Jax's deal the second he was introduced (because he's an overdone archetype) and understood that Ragatha was a people pleaser while she was high in the fast food episode (before that, I thought she was just toxic positivity, which is still kinda accurate but not her whole deal)
And I'm not some super genius or anything, I've just watched other ensemble comedies in the past, so I recognise the tropes when I see them
TADC isn't really as much of a complex show that some people tend to think it is; mainly because of how unsubtle it is. Plus it doesn't help that majority of the characters aren't that deep so it's mostly a "what you see is what you get" kind of deal
Not that it's bad, because it's not; it's actually pretty decent but I wouldn't call it anything amazing imo
Fym it’s literally called the amazing digital circus. Are you blind?
so true
Nah decent is too harsh. I think it’s one of the best indir show honestly, and i don’t really need every show to be an extremely deep profound study on the human being. Tadc heavily benefits from it’s smaller cast because each character, while being simple, has been extremely well developped or written. They aren’t "all timer" or "masterpieces" but it’s character are very solid. It's an 8/10 so far. At least in my opinion.
I actually like its general lack of subtlety. Communication is so central to the development of the characters and probably the solution to the entire conflict that having scenes where the characters are encouraged to communicate clearly with each other just makes sense. Forcing the characters to not communicate as clearly just for the sake of making it more subtle would harm the show substantially.
That's because they haven't been making up a whole other show in their heads between episodes.
The same thing happened between Season 2 and 3 of Squid Game
this makes perfect sense and succintly explains the divide between "canon" and "fanon" with media that hasn't had official releases in years
I think a lot of people on the internet get extremely attached to their theories and that makes it difficult for them to enjoy the series in an unbiased way. Surreal and creepy cartoons in particular seem to attract a lot of fans like this.
Jax is such an interesting character to me because him being antagonistic to the other circus members makes so much sense now.
where are you seeing comments of people taking Jax's speech at face value? It's a trope/scene we've seen a thousand times in a thousand shows
Yeah it was always so weird hearing so many people call Jax the ‘closest the show has to a villain’ despite the fact he clearly ISN’T. Like, his archetype of ‘jerk only because he is afraid of getting too close to people’ was pretty obvious from the start. Plus, even when I’d only watched the first episode, it was pretty clear that CAINE is really the character that people should be saying that about. Like… he objectively IS the antagonist of the show. He is the physical embodiment of the other characters’ obstacle in wanting to leave the circus. That doesn’t mean he is evil or there isn’t another bigger bad behind the scenes, but objectively the character that actually should be considered the ‘antagonist’ based on the information we have available currently is Caine.
This post is incredibly biased. Ragatha got a shitton of hate for saying one mean thing to jax because she was getting tired of his shit and people went crazy.
Just because you didn't see it doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
A straight up lie.
Crazy how the Ragatha part isn't even relevant to the post. And that the truth that people shat on Ragatha after her mean words to Jax would actually help your point about fans not understanding the show.
I'm pretty sure you misunderstood it. When OP says "I didn't see anyone hate on Ragatha", they are refering to the youtubers, and they are saying it in contrast to the fandom who very clearly did do that.
Oh shit I can see how it can be that too. Bruh now I feel embarrassed.