Holy moly a million views people really ARE imagining silly scenarios in their head with this soundtrack

Me realizing I have to work 40 hours a week for the rest of my life.

Me suddenly gaining conciseness at 4 years old:

6 year old me realizing that school wasn't only a single day:

Me realizing Velma is going to have season 3 while all the other good shows being cancelled

Me realizing I have to wait 6 more months until the second episode:

Me realizing that my favorite show was cancelled by Netflix.

When it hits you that you're an adult and the weight of reality hits you SO hard...

Me at the new year countdown while everyone else was celebrating:

What’s so great about this scene is that for the whole episode, Pomni has had barley any time to process her situation. She definitely understands the gravity of it, but her feelings have to be put to the side because she’s being forced to engage in a wacky adventure. All until the end, where the conflict has been resolved and she gets to rest. And thats when it finally hits her: *She’s never getting out of here.*

7 year old me when I realized that the sun is gonna explode in 5 billion years: It is what it is😔

The close up of Pomni's steadily shattering expression while the song plays is legitimately chilling.

Me at 2AM: ah finally a good night's sleep The entire weight of consciousness, existence, and mortality about to be streamed directly into my brain:

This is my favorite scene from the pilot, it's so disturbing, and the music really does fit the scene.

Your fate is sealed, your past is irrelevant, and accept your new wonderful wacky world of chaos and fun. Welcome to Digital Circus

This theme is gonna be so nostalgic after 10 years

I am impressed by just how well The Amazing Digital Circus is able to portray pure dread. "Pomni" has literally been locked in an endless purgatory, with no way out in sight. A fate that not only is naturally terrifying to the human mind, but also is a fate that nobody, no matter who they are, deserves to endure. I feel like this series would be a great way to describe mental illnesses such as depression or anxiety, because of way it displays feeling of dread and hopelessness. Nobody really knows where this series is going, but if I were to predict, I would assume that is has some elements of psychological horror and/or other types of horror.

i love how when the orchestra first kicks in it's like the song is struggling to keep itself in a major key, really fits the situation

Props to Kinger, He's been inside the circus the longest(among the currently non-abstracted) and his sanity is still on 30% while Pomni has just arrived and her sanity is already at 0.1% Also Jax probably won't be abstracted anytime soon, he seems to actually enjoy his time in the circus.

Me realizing that reading is technically just hallucinating while staring at a tree corpse:

oh yes "your new home" is probably short but one of the greatest musical pieces that I've heard

absolutley INSANE how unsettling this is. like it's just fucking wrong. the choir being slightly discordant, plus the bombastic and overwhelming feel of it all. makes my guts churn.

This whole scene made me feel itchy inside, the pure dread of Pomni's situation, and imagining yourself in a situation like that where you were trapped and could never leave, all the while the people around you act like nothing is wrong. It's all kinds of icky and it's SOOOO EFECTIVE. A+ writing, hands down Glitch have struck gold with this

Preschool me on the first day of school realizing that I’m going to be a slave for the next 12 years

Everyone when trying to type pomni in the search bar:

You can literally feel the dread and insanity in this song. Imagine being in her shoes. Your body has transformed into something unrecognizable, You can’t remember your name and you’re in some sort of wacky dystopia and the people around you are just acting like everything is okay while you try your best to leave and go back to your old life only to be told that there is no way out and that the only thing you can do is just accept that this is your new reality. That sounds absolutely terrifying

To be honest, if GLITCH literally ended the series on this ending, I wouldn't even be mad. It actually feels very sad but fitting. Pomni would be trapped in the circus for eternity, and would have to come to terms with it. You can just see this thought slowly set in as she starts to smile. "I'm going to be trapped here forever." It's so bittersweet.

When you’re in your Uber and you get a notification on your phone that says *”Your Uber has arrived”*

POV: it’s your 18th birthday , and you realize your gonna have to get a job, a house of your own, and make good financial decisions

This rendition really helps sell the idea of “Remember! You’re here forever!”

I like how it starts all wondrous like a regular kids show ending, but it gets louder and louder and even changes key to really cement Pomni’s decent into madness as she realizes that this carnival madhouse is her new home

Lil bro playing with me in the console 0:11 Looks at the controller that i gave him 0:15 Realizes that controller was disconnected 0:19 Looks at me with murderous anger 0:36

Me when gummigoo suddenly gets killed for no reason:

I love the feeling of dread this track gives. You really feel Pomni's despair as she's forced to accept this as her new life now. There's no turning back, only *wacky shenanigans* :)))))))

“Despite all my rage, I’m still a jester in a digital circus”

I would kill to see this played live by an actual orchestra

this track really hits you right in the feels

I love how this song just captures the feeling of how completely and underly helpless and terrifying Pomni's situation is. It's "I am completely fucked" in musical form.

How long do you think it will take before pomni tries to kill caine Edit: NO MORE COMMENTING JESUS CHRIST

Definitely the highlight of the whole episode, really shows how insane of a predictament she's in.

realizing that The amazing digital circus became the next elsagate in less than a week

WE AREN'T MAKING IT OUT OF THE DIGITAL CIRCUS WITH THIS ONE 🔥🗣🔊

when you realize you'll never relive your childhood ever again:

Me when I realise that you work at school to find a work all to end as a vegetable and remember old memories

Me realizing I won't be a child but an adult with new responsibilities of taking care of myself, and my finances which I have no idea how to do while balancing my studies.

This whole plot is so sublime. It’s so endless and great and incomprehensible you just can’t tell if it’s heaven or hell.

me when I graduated from high school and realized I have to spend the rest of my life working to make money just to have my basic needs met

Me when the funni gummy cowboy crocodile fucking dies after I promised him that he’ll be a real boy:

When you realize the good old days of 2016 - 2019 are gone.

I have a feeling that this theme would be super nostalgic by next 10 years.

You know how good of a theme this is when it's the ending theme and is considered the main theme

Love how the volume gradually increases lol

God damn this track is so well composed, it’s timeless already

God, Pomni's reaction is so damn chilling. Not only is she forced to finally realize she's completely trapped, she has to SMILE through it to keep her sanity, because she also realizes that if she doesn't, she'll become abstracted and just dumped into that pit. Fucking hell this show is so dark.

goes hard

When your parents told you that you're adopted:

Me when a manga that i really liked gets cancelled or axed and realizing that i never will see the full potencial of that manga

Me when I put on some weird VR headset thing and got stuck on a digital circus with other people (oops silly me): Edit: thanks guys y'all are goofy

Jesus. This is probably one of the most terrifying and suffocating themes I have ever heard in any series. really conveys the fact that everything is over for Pomni, that this place is where she will be forever, until she eventually falls into madness and becomes a monster like Kaufmo... although perhaps that is a better fate than remaining conscious of your new eternity all the time. I also feel in a way that the song is basically a "I give up" from Pomni, like a last swan song before giving in to despair, you can literally FEEL the sentiment of "it's over". It's genius. Honestly, my applause to both Gooseworx and the music team. The way they manage to transmit so much with just music and without a single word is to be admired.

"Maths next mate." "maths next mate." "maths next mate" *MATHS NEXT MATE.*

Just moved into a new house. Listening to this helped a bit.

The track's official name is "Your New Home" for those wondering. GLITCH has released the full ost of the pilot on youtube and other streaming services.

This scene is grandiose. I've never seen a character have a reasonable reaction to being trapped in a foreign world up until this. As someone else in the comments said, this is the ONLY moment of the episode where Pomni was not talking to someone or doing something or running away. It's the first time she had the time to think a little bit and process what happens and, for once, we have an actual normal reaction. She's going absolutely nuts realizing she can NOT leave this place ever. If there's one thing this studio nailed with TADC, it's emotions. this is INSANE

When I heard it the first time it burned itself into my head, I can’t stop thinking about that show or soundtrack

I also smiled, feel almost exactly the same, slowly going insane.

The “thousand yard stare” that Pomni does before looking at the digital food hits different.

i gotta say, out of all the theme renditions i’ve heard, i like the one at the very beginning of the episode that’s bitcrushed the most. i hope we can get a full version

This is one of my favorite songs to blast my eardrums too 🎉🎉🎊🎊🎉🎉🎊🎊

Wow, that's absolutely astonishing!

I believe that each character in the show was given a role. Caine himself in the promotional video said “here’s Pomni and her signature smile!” despite only frowning aside from her grin at the end. Jax seems to recognize this and plays along to the role he was given as the trouble maker to not become abstracted. This may be significant to point out the true purpose of the digital circus. The circus’ purpose--in my opinion--is supposed to be a sanctuary for people’s wishes. Since Caine talks about Pomni’s smile so much, maybe in the real world her wish was to be happier. It could also be where they have regrets. Maybe Pomni regrets not being happier.

I like how from 0:21-0:43 it sounds vaguely like the kind of compressed synth orchestral music you'd hear on a SNES or PS1, emphasizing the fact that, as the Circus is apparently within an old computer system no-one has remembered to turn off, it's been stuck in the wacky wonders of the 90s Internet for a looooooong time, making the dread of Pomni's apparently eternal future stuck at this place all the more disturbing.

I woke up and realized I hadn’t seen the person I loved most for five months.

Me after suffering for months trying to get an honor but only got an 89:

I never felt so fucking insane listening to this and it replicates the exact feeling of going down into insanity like THIS IS INSANE PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR MUSIC

It gives me chills it feels like a ending to a movie

When there is no more toilet paper :

This is so nostalgic can’t wait to come back to this in years

A bunch of people stuck in a place that's basically an unending nightmare, just massively coping so as not to lose their last pieces of humanity and get thrown into The Cellar. Disturbingly poetic when Pomni gets to the last stage of grief and forces a twitchy, crooked smile onto her face.

this scene GENUINELY sent shivers down my spine like holy shit????

Thats like a movie trailer/teaser!!! Loved it!!!

Me after realising I have to go to school for 20% of my life

My jaw dropped with how good it sounded. I keep that part on loop!

There is something seriously unsettling when thinking about Pomni’s situation. She has been ripped from the reality that she was born and lived her whole life in, and thrown into one that is artificial and digitized. Pushing aside the fears of existential annihilation (the fear that the simulation your within simply shuts down and ceases to exist, either destroying or trapping your soul in the process), what ends up being really tragic is that without any ability to leave her digital dimension, and when all of her senses can no longer sense the reality she grew up in, she loses the ability to sense herself. Her fabricated body is the only thing she can sense, and while she knows it isn’t really her body, there is no longer any physical proof from her perspective that it isn’t. The only thing that attaches her mind to actual reality is her memories, but without any ability to know how long you can live without a true physical body, then how do you know how long your memories can survive. She has no way of knowing whether her mind has been transplanted into the digital reality, or it is still in actual reality, and being tricked into thinking it’s in another reality. Without any ability to sense her true self, then how can she know she’s her true self? Especially if she can’t even remember her real name. She wants to believe that she had a real life outside of the simulation, and she wants to return to it desperately. But now from her perspective there is zero proof that reality ever existed. There is now only, from perspective, just as much chance of leaving the digital reality as there was of leaving the one she believes she inhabited. It is in these circumstances where she’ll question the very idea she even had a life outside the simulation to begin with. Her very idea of reality is being torn between memory and sense, and the tension caused by this internal conflict will destroy her mind. From this point on, she will never know which reality lied or is lying to her, causing the destruction of all that she thinks is her, and that which is truly her.

Digital Circus: That is (not) an exit

SO FIRE. I NEED MORE EPISODESS

The theme just sends chills down your spine, I feel like that its always in pomni's head, just that theme, If I was in here situation, I would go insane too. I see why kaufmo abstracted now.

"And you said you'd love to be in a world of fantasy and wonder, but noooo. The moment you're actually there it's all screams and terrors, no laughs and cheers."

Why is it so beautiful?

Me and my 14 year old cousin watched the whole Tadc series in her room and she said this was her favorite part❤ Love you Angel Bryant❤❤❤❤

Nothing says "welcome to your new life" like eating your first meal after your first failed escape attempt

What I love about the ending piece is how it starts off so gentle, then gradually becomes this huge orchestral piece. In a way it represents Pomni finally coming to terms with the new life she's been handed. She finally has time to process things and as she does, the music begins to become louder and much more apparent. Just like her understanding of the fact that *she can't leave*. Plus it's the same exact tune that started off the episode in such a cherry and upbeat tone! God, it gives me chills!!!

i swear i heard this before idk where tho, and i never watched this show it just popped in my recomendations

me trying to act like I like school when the principal walks in 😇:

For me this is the best scene in the pilot. I love how you can feel Pomni's desperation just by seeing her smile to keep her sanity, and the song really hits hard and you can feel a lot of emotions... Something very few songs can do...

I like how Pomni was not even part of the "intro" adventure that they gave her to get a feel for the world. She was so into her own shit and dread that only in the end it hits her in how deep of shit she is after witnessing the Void.

This is such a strong piece of music!

Me at the tender age of 17 realizing I'll be stuck with chronic pain for my entire life because it is, in fact, chronic:

I think the fact that the horror elements are treated more as an underlying thing acting in the background while the goofy stuff happens to draw your attention away from them absolutely pays off. The look that Pomni makes during this scene when she's trying to force herself to smile has unnerved me far more than anything in [insert your favorite analog horror series here] because it perfectly captures the cocktail of shitty feelings that come from forcing yourself to try to be positive in an objectively terrible situation. Especially one as existentially devastating as this.

THERES NO REASON FOR A SONG TO BE THIS GOOD, IT FEELS LIKE IM FLOATING

Me, a week before my school year ends (The cycle repeats again)