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A fact from The Amazing Digital Circus appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 19 June 2024 ( check views). The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that The Amazing Digital Circus is influenced by the short story " I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream"? A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2024/June. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/The Amazing Digital Circus.

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The result was: promoted by AirshipJungleman29  talk  15:16, 11 June 2024 (UTC) reply

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• ... that Gooseworx's original pitch for The Amazing Digital Circus was more chaotic and silly before becoming deeper and more nuanced?

• Source: Placido, Dani Di (2023-12-22). "The Amazing Digital Circus Team Talk The Making Of A Viral Hit". Forbes. Archived from the original on May 12, 2024. Retrieved 2024-05-12.

• ALT1: ... that some of the movements and glitches in The Amazing Digital Circus were inspired by Source Filmmaker and Garry's Mod machinimas? Source: Guerrero, Justin (December 4, 2023). "Interview: Kevin Temmer of The Amazing Digital Circus on the animation and Behind The Scenes". Comics Beat. Archived from the original on December 12, 2023. Retrieved 2023-12-09.
• ALT2: ... that Gooseworx designed the characters for The Amazing Digital Circus in under a week? Source: Placido, Dani Di (2023-12-22). "The Amazing Digital Circus Team Talk The Making Of A Viral Hit". Forbes. Archived from the original on May 12, 2024. Retrieved 2024-05-12.
• ALT3: ... that The Amazing Digital Circus is inspired by the 1990s and early 2000s 3D animation style? Source: Lang, Jamie (2023-10-26). "The Amazing Digital Circus Creator Gooseworx On Developing The Internet's Hottest Animated Pilot". Cartoon Brew. Archived from the original on 2023-11-01. Retrieved 2023-10-27.
• ALT4: ... that Gooseworx, the creator of The Amazing Digital Circus, had never worked with 3D animation before this project? Source: McKenzie, Theodore (7 November 2023). "Glitch on Character Animations in The Amazing Digital Circus". 80 Level. Archived from the original on 16 November 2023. Retrieved 16 November 2023.
• ALT5: ... that The Amazing Digital Circus is influenced by the short story " I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream"? Source: Stanford, Kaitlin (2023-11-02). "What is the web series The Amazing Digital Circus? Why are people obsessed with it?". In The Know. Archived from the original on 2023-11-08. Retrieved 2023-11-03 – via Yahoo! Finance., King, Jade (2023-11-16). "The Amazing Digital Circus Is The Biggest Indie Animation In Years". TheGamer. Archived from the original on 2023-11-16. Retrieved 2023-11-18.
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Improved to Good Article status by Skyshifter ( talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 12 past nominations.

Skyshifter talk 11:25, 18 May 2024 (UTC). reply

• Will be taking this review. 🌙Eclipse ^{( talk) ( contribs)} 11:29, 18 May 2024 (UTC) reply

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Good to go! Approving ALT4. 🌙Eclipse ^{( talk) ( contribs)} 11:56, 18 May 2024 (UTC) reply

@ LunaEclipse: sorry, I made a mistake. The source for ALT4 says that Goose "hadn't worked a lot with 3D", not that she never had worked with it. My mistake. I've fixed the article accordingly. Skyshifter talk 23:18, 18 May 2024 (UTC) reply

Approving ALT1 then. 🌙Eclipse ^{( talk) ( contribs)} 11:23, 19 May 2024 (UTC) reply

What about the other hooks LunaEclipse? ~~ AirshipJungleman29 ( talk) 13:26, 9 June 2024 (UTC) reply

Cartoon Brew is reliable per WP:TOON/R, the hooks cited to Forbes are fine per WP:ABOUTSELF, In The Know should be fine as it is owned by Yahoo (reliable per WP:RSP) and Comics Beat is also reliable (see this discussion). These hooks are also good to go. lunaeclipse ^{( talk) ( contribs)} 15:01, 11 June 2024 (UTC) reply

Seeing the discussion in the above section, I believe that "they are subject to Caine's whims" is a more suitable way of phrasing the plot in the header and the synopsis than "they must follow Caine's instructions", since it lines up with the official description on Glitch's website, which reads as follows:

"A woman gets trapped in a crazy virtual world along with five other humans and are now subject to the whims of a wacky AI and their own personal traumas."

Besides that, it helps describe Caine's impulsiveness, and better respects that the characters have a degree of freedom in not going along with him (e.g., Zooble opting to prepare the funeral instead of going on the adventure in episode 2).

If there are better ways of putting it, what would you suggest? User:SubZeroSilver ( talk) 03:13, 3 June 2024 (UTC) reply

The complete list of animators seems too long for the infobox, and I would like to remove it. According to H:IB, infoboxes should be concise and not contain long bodies of text. Meanwhile, lead animator Kevin Temmer is already mentioned in the main body, which may be sufficient. We should also keep in mind that both episodes so far have differences in their animation teams (Capricho and Hoyle only animate episode 1, while Todd, Garrard and Stevenson only animate episode 2), meaning it's likely the list would only grow more bloated down the line. User:SubZeroSilver ( talk) 17:04, 3 June 2024 (UTC) reply

I've seen several sources call it adult animated and Gooseworx herself admits that older teens and adults were the target audience.

Should we put that in the lead? Turtletennisfogwheat ( talk) 10:36, 10 July 2024 (UTC) reply

The series does contain several adult themes such as profanity, existential dread, etc, therefore I would say we should. SleepDeprivedGinger ( talk) 13:39, 10 July 2024 (UTC) reply

Well, the profanity is censored and existential dread is something found in something like Puss in Boots: The Last Wish and that's a kids film. So I wouldn't necessarily use those as reasons to call it " adult animated". Goose and GLITCH did clarify however that older audiences like teens and adults were the target demographic. So there's our proof. Turtletennisfogwheat ( talk) 02:19, 11 July 2024 (UTC) reply