After watching episodes 1-8 with Jersh and PPP, I genuinely don't get the popularity at all. "Babies First I Have No Mouth" is the absolute kindest interpertation I can give.
Your main antagonist is just an insecure retard AI that does fuck all up until the very end, to the point it genuinely feels like Caine going "evil" was never actually planned. He was never actually established as the "antagonist" because he did fucking NOTHING of matter in the plot, besides sending the cast on filler adventures. That's it. Then suddenly "reeeee they no likey me, ME GAWD NOW!"
None of the characters have developed or changed since the start, and the only character to have any "character" at all is fucking Kinger, but beyond his dead wife and psychosis, he's little more than a fucking plot device. The only character with any real depth, and hes ends up being more object than character because this tranny faggot can't write for shit. They sure talk about their feelings a lot, but none of them grow from it in the slightest and they're still the exact same fucking character they were in the last episode, even if the previous was "their" episode. Pomni is still a nothing character, Jax is still an insufferable prick, Gangle is still a whiney hyper-emotional faggot, Kinger is still broken, Ragattha is still the exact same as she was from the start, and Zoobul is still a god awful do-nothing worthless tranny stand-in that added absolutely NOTHING to the series WHATSOEVER.
Nothing actually happens in this series right up until the last 2 fucking episode, and that entire plot line should of been gone over since the first few episodes. Caine should of been a genuine threat to begin with and all the "happy go lucky feels" bullshit in what is supposed to be "existential horror" is so fucking tranny coded that its puke inducing. Where the fuck is the "horror" element? Where the fuck are questions like "if the circus is a simulation, what if the world outside it is too"? The actual unraveling of a mind put in this situation, not "oh man I just can't take it, boop, I'm an abstraction now, teehee" or another shot of Jax beathing heavy with skwiggle eyes and images flashing that mean fucking nothing to the audience? Anything beyond "muh feels, muh feels, MUH FUCKIN' FEELS!"?
I tried to go into this with an open mind. Now I just hate trannies and the normies who enable this fucking dogshit more.