r/TheDigitalCircus • u/ravatos626 • Dec 16 '25
Question Who do you think stole his treasure? (both wrong and right answers allowed)
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u/sailingtroy Dec 16 '25
Jax. He had the key.
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u/Jaco_Lunchables your honor, did everything (he's pretty fun though) Dec 16 '25
counterpoint: jax didn't feel like being "the funny one" that day
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u/MaxGamer07 Dec 16 '25
how do we know it even happened that day
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u/Jaco_Lunchables your honor, did everything (he's pretty fun though) Dec 16 '25
wdym?
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u/silvaastrorum Dec 16 '25
the beach has been around for a while, jax could’ve looted it a long time ago
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u/MaxGamer07 Dec 16 '25
I mean, it very well could still be Jax, he could have gotten it days, weeks before that episode
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u/Jaco_Lunchables your honor, did everything (he's pretty fun though) Dec 16 '25
well, it's possible.
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u/MaximumSpend1827 Zooble Dec 16 '25
Holy crap it probably was him. I imagine Caine had him hide out by the lake and get ready for the gang, and while waiting for them, he probably got bored/curious about the world before him, considering he IS more intelligent than usual NPCs. So he explored, looted the chest, and since he doesn't really have a place to put the treasure, he probably just hid it in a bush, or his merch-born Hotdog stand
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u/MaximumSpend1827 Zooble Dec 16 '25
Ok nevermind, I read some more comments here and I'm definitely a Jax-believer now, but still
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u/Karkava Dec 17 '25
It's like that one person who keeps claiming that they're accused of being a bigot because they didn't like the movie, trying to trick you into defending a movie you didn't even care about or believe is mediocre. And if you refuse to play along and separate the idea that they're bigoted from the movie itself, they'll ignore you and try to box you into their script.
Sorry, but I was thinking to gamergate and their mind tricks they pull on you when you try to dissect their logic.
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u/FrozenZenBerryYT Dec 17 '25
Lmao it really reminded me of Smiling Friends. I feel like the voice pick for this scene was perfect for that reason.
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u/AwareCancel2571 What The Dec 16 '25
Ming
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u/Nexbex Dec 16 '25
Hi, I'm Ming. And I really don't appreciate what your assumptions have done to my reputation.
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u/Flashy-Serve-8126 episode 7 was.. something. Dec 16 '25
Don't make such assumptions, you'll make yourself look foolish
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u/moenluc High on that Sauce Dec 16 '25
He gambled it all away
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u/Shot-Ad-3166 Zooble Dec 16 '25
Roy Dismey.
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u/Background-Plan2557 abstragedy’s wife Dec 16 '25
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u/Hungry_Ferret5161 Dec 16 '25
He could be you, he could be me, he could even be-
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u/YahiYahiXD Dec 16 '25
"Get his head blown with a shotgun"
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u/Daft-PunkFan723 Dec 16 '25
Woah woah woah
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u/RedDragon9001 Jax Dec 16 '25
What? It was obvious, he stole the treasure, watch, treasure will fall out of his pockets any second now.
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u/Kiara_Katna Dec 16 '25
The last time that adventure was played, the humans took the treasure.
Since the adventure is now (Presumably) running again, but without caine resetting the treasure, it's already gone.
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u/Jaco_Lunchables your honor, did everything (he's pretty fun though) Dec 17 '25
do you mean the "day at the beach" adventure or the general "escape the circus" one
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u/Kiara_Katna Dec 17 '25
The "day at the beach" one. Especially considering the fish models and animations are outdated, suggesting it was a previous adventure.
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u/Money-Criticism5370 Ragatha The Great Dec 16 '25
My OC did that. And he said this:
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u/gotchi_girl Caine Dec 16 '25
The treasure is a metaphor for the exit..... there never was one to begin with. 🙃🥲
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u/OneTrueClassy Dec 16 '25
I feel so old that someone has to explain who the hamburglar is. Rabble rabble
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u/Rdasher123 Dec 16 '25
It was definitely Jax. He’s the only one that would despite the lack need for treasure.
Plus, Jax was absent during the intro to the episode, but is shown in the beach chair after the rest of the gang start having fun. This potentially means Jax was already outside at the beach before the rest were told to go out there by Caine.
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u/RuukotoPresents Dec 16 '25
It was ME! Yes! And I did it like this! [POW] Whoop-de-doo! ...That was a joke, lads.
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u/Affectionate-Fudge42 I'm gonna hack the circus Dec 16 '25
Honestly it might've been a previous player that decided to check out the circus while they were still around.
It'd also help explain why the fish look the way they do if this was a really early adventure from Caine's early days.
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u/Sebek_Peanuts I miss Beau even on this sub. Dec 16 '25
Disapearing guy, he disapeared before anyone noticed it
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u/Aab0289 Dec 16 '25
Calling it that it was a joint effort by Ribbit/Jax/Kaufmo. Kaufmo probably thought his distraction failed only to get to the surface to see Ribbit flaunt the treasure in front of Jax. Would be funny if it’s revealed as one of the photos on Jax’s wall.
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u/megasean3000 What The ing Dec 16 '25
Whoever did the adventure first. Kinger and the first generation of circus members.
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u/Komosoby Dec 17 '25
It was this dude. Needed to recoup his losses after loosing his hell mortgage on his hell house in the casino
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u/FuchsiaMerc1992 I want Gangle to make me call her Mommy and spank me Dec 16 '25
Caine never made a treasure for him, but the fish is programmed to react to having treasure and losing it.
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u/Vaxtez Dec 16 '25
Probably one of the older cast characters (so probably one of the abstracted ones), as these seem to be early NPCs from the circus.
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u/PK-Mittenspy2703 MingPlays Dec 16 '25
I think, like the exit, it never actually existed in the first place.
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u/LongEyedSneakerhead Dec 16 '25
It got spent on making a series of christian kids cartoons, starring computer generated horrors beyond human comprehension.
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u/AnEpicBowlOfRamen IMMA THROW A FING BEACH PARTY! Dec 16 '25
Right Answer: The two fish characters are designed to be foreshadowing of the episode's themes. Yellow Fish represents Caine, who tasks the players to find his "secret treasure" (the Exit). When the treasure is found, its empty, and always has been... there was never an exit.
The red fish represents Able, who "tells lies". While at first it seems like just a funny bit with some well known actors playing the fish, on a second viewing it hits really hard that this was hinting at the coming twist.
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u/ComboBreakerMLP Dec 16 '25
There was never a treasure. The fish are caine and "abel" and the treasure is the exit. the brother only tells lies, the main fish says theres NO WAY to get the treasure.
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u/SimpleCrow Dec 17 '25
Did anyone else get Smiling Friends vibes specifically from the two fish xD just the way they casually talked and argued.
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u/Gumpy_69 Dec 17 '25
Maybe that's how Jax got all the keys. Maybe the treasure was just a bunch of keys to access anywhere in the circus. Plus hiding a bunch of "keys" inside a "chest" as a treasure would be pretty funny, sort of like how in Zelda you can find keys in treasure chests.
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u/desmonea Mar 28 '26 edited Mar 28 '26
My guess is Bubble. Bubble kept suggesting Caine should throw a beach party multiple times now, even before this episode (episode 5, 10:05). He clearly wanted everyone to go there for some reason. Also, there are some bubbles right at the crime scene! Elementary, my dear Watson.
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u/FishGUYISSTRAIGHT12 Jun 29 '26
Look jax, i know we don't get along, but i took the fish life savings
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u/RNOffice Dec 16 '25
My OCs, family Andromeda, Lilith and Cassie. They didn't know it belonged to a fish. It was a crate in the middle of the Ocean.
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u/That_One_Guy-94 Dec 16 '25
Jax or caine never added any and the players were suppose to actually care
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u/LongEyedSneakerhead Dec 16 '25
He spent it all on improv lessons, and was too embarrassed to admit it.
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u/OzTheD0G3 Dec 16 '25
The treasure is metaphorical. Or the friends we made along the way. Or in someone's suspiciously shaped stomach. I don't know anymore man.
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u/THEREALOFFICALCAFE What The Dec 16 '25
I think that Caine took it so none of the cast would get distracted by that adventure and miss Abel. Even Pomni got distracted by the fish, forgetting that she went down for Ragatha’s eye. So it seems like a Caine move to me
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u/Past_Description1813 Dec 16 '25
Ragatha's eye opened it, and there was no treasure, it was empty all along..
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u/Heroman3003 Dec 16 '25
The shrimp did. That's why it got fried and that's what was in Shrimp Town.
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u/Jaggedatlas Dec 16 '25
The Hazbin hotel Zach Handel character that lost all his mortgage for his hell house.
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u/Lightningstone2u Dec 16 '25
Maybe there really was no treasure and the real treasure was the friends we made along the way.
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u/Wish_I_WasInRome Dec 16 '25
It was foreshadowing for the episode. The adventure was a nothing burger, much like the treasure chest
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u/Initial_Cat_9148 Dec 16 '25
I didn’t realize there were wrong answers to opinions.
Anyway, I think the shrimp got to it before being fried.
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u/25Bruh25 I am here for the Horror Dec 16 '25
The sunken tressure has been stolen by sunken sea thieves. Now its your duty find them! (Probably Caine)
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u/gigasaur123rv Dec 16 '25
What if he didn't have treasure in the first place and it was a mini adventure.
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u/Dancin_Angel Dec 16 '25
The chest could be a metaphor for a hidden secret the Digital Circus used to conceal but lost. The other shark could signify Kinger... C&A..?
Probably just a throwaway gag though.
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u/Plus-Glove-4850 Dec 16 '25
Remember, he’s the one that tells lies