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As much as I love this verse and its inclusion on the wiki, I question Rock Hard Gladiators' place in the wiki. This verse is simply too vague, inconsistent, and fan-fiction like to be here.
First off, in case you don't know, this verse is about RHG and Hyun's Dojo Community, where (usually) if your animation (primarily about stickfigures) is good enough they may feature it on their channel. Optionally, you may also make your animation taking place within the Hyun's Dojo universe with its own lore and such where your characters battle out other stickfigures from other animators. Pointing out the obvious flaw, its collaborative, so I'll go over why this is bad.
Inconsistency Problem
Since anyone can be accepted into this universe as long as their animation looks good enough, consistency between many animators breaks. For example, in arguably one of the most popular character's storyline who I will be bringing up a lot, Gildedguy, all the RHG fighters are confirmed to be dead via Story 7, but in the collab where they build the new dojo two of the implied dead RHG fighters are seen alive and well. Current storyline Gildedguy also appears in this collab as well, breaking inconsistency. You might think this collab can just be ratified as non-canon, but you'd be mistaken. The Dojo within the universe is considered the most popular location appearing throughout many animations within the universe, even being mentioned in Gildedguy's lore website, so you can't really line up anything. Sometimes animations are marked as uncanon, then become more canon as more people accept it and feature that as a lore piece in their animations, which happened to fighter FLLFFL who got killed off by a character called Umbrella despite that fight not even being made by the creator of FLLFFL in the first place (Notable reference of this also Gildedguy's Story 7).
Not only does lore crumble, power consistency breaks too because in recent tradition any animator can use any other animator's character in a fight. It doesn't help that the said animator can dictate who wins also making their character curbstomp them much like fan-fiction since many animators don't contact the original creator for permission. Let's use Bog as an example. In this fight, Bog is fast and all destroying. In this fight, Bog is a huge amalgamation of constantly shape-shifting slime. For reference, this is what Bog is actually suppose to be like created by acb (The creator). Since there was so many variation with Bog, acb stated that every Bog from every animator was just a different clone of Bog. As this is a fine solution yes, it raises the question of unsolved power inconsistency since this does happen with many other characters.
The universe is just a piece of mess to deal with really when trying to study the cosmology since everyone gives a different interpretation.
Vagueness and practically fan-fiction
On the topic of anyone can insert their character into the universe and make them do anything, it is safe to say this universe is literally fan-fiction. It is also very vague on who is in this universe or not.
You might remember how the Animation vs Animator universe got kicked off the wiki. In the latest of AvA, this video was made, featuring the Hyun's Dojo characters directly interacting with the universe's characters, many animated by the creators of those duelists themselves. The AvA protagonists also show up here in a Dojo collab along with several duelists. In this one animation based off the AvA interpretation of the internet, a character invades The Dojo and gets chased by many popular characters and animators. AvA is also shown within that animation and Alan Becker himself can be seen chasing him in the final sequence. Not only that, KJ (A popular stickfig) also appears within that animation. The creator of KJ hasn't really affiliated his stickfigure animations with The Dojo universe despite having the animation on the channel so that also raises the question on if KJ is in this universe as well.
The further you dive into "Who actually exists in this universe" the more it becomes a headache. Combined with the inconsistency problem its worse. Going back to the Dojo Collab we can see many figures. JzBoy, a stickfigure known fan-fiction, most known for fighting Terraria bosses is here. raxdflipnote also appeared here, with his figure being their own persona of his YouTube channel. Structurally, this is bad if he exists within The Dojo universe, his channel is nothing short of making animations with no real restriction. You start scratching your head since these are just their own character inserts into the universe. You can also start questioning people such as the "Doors Guy", who is a character from collabs that goes through many rooms made by separate animators. Animators have made their part based off of games, movies, and other copyrighted media. Now due to his popularity, this Doors Guy is referenced in many places, such as references in Gildedguy's Story 7, or appearing in some collabs as a nod. If Doors Guy does fan-fiction, is Gildedguy fan-fiction too since it references it as real?
Sorry for the very unpolished thought dump, but this verse is bloated with SCP-ish "You can go do anything, I don't care, as long as its good" and really can't be scaled due to its nature of artist's freedom. I recommend for it to be moved to Alt Battles or smth.
First off, in case you don't know, this verse is about RHG and Hyun's Dojo Community, where (usually) if your animation (primarily about stickfigures) is good enough they may feature it on their channel. Optionally, you may also make your animation taking place within the Hyun's Dojo universe with its own lore and such where your characters battle out other stickfigures from other animators. Pointing out the obvious flaw, its collaborative, so I'll go over why this is bad.
Inconsistency Problem
Since anyone can be accepted into this universe as long as their animation looks good enough, consistency between many animators breaks. For example, in arguably one of the most popular character's storyline who I will be bringing up a lot, Gildedguy, all the RHG fighters are confirmed to be dead via Story 7, but in the collab where they build the new dojo two of the implied dead RHG fighters are seen alive and well. Current storyline Gildedguy also appears in this collab as well, breaking inconsistency. You might think this collab can just be ratified as non-canon, but you'd be mistaken. The Dojo within the universe is considered the most popular location appearing throughout many animations within the universe, even being mentioned in Gildedguy's lore website, so you can't really line up anything. Sometimes animations are marked as uncanon, then become more canon as more people accept it and feature that as a lore piece in their animations, which happened to fighter FLLFFL who got killed off by a character called Umbrella despite that fight not even being made by the creator of FLLFFL in the first place (Notable reference of this also Gildedguy's Story 7).
Not only does lore crumble, power consistency breaks too because in recent tradition any animator can use any other animator's character in a fight. It doesn't help that the said animator can dictate who wins also making their character curbstomp them much like fan-fiction since many animators don't contact the original creator for permission. Let's use Bog as an example. In this fight, Bog is fast and all destroying. In this fight, Bog is a huge amalgamation of constantly shape-shifting slime. For reference, this is what Bog is actually suppose to be like created by acb (The creator). Since there was so many variation with Bog, acb stated that every Bog from every animator was just a different clone of Bog. As this is a fine solution yes, it raises the question of unsolved power inconsistency since this does happen with many other characters.
The universe is just a piece of mess to deal with really when trying to study the cosmology since everyone gives a different interpretation.
Vagueness and practically fan-fiction
On the topic of anyone can insert their character into the universe and make them do anything, it is safe to say this universe is literally fan-fiction. It is also very vague on who is in this universe or not.
You might remember how the Animation vs Animator universe got kicked off the wiki. In the latest of AvA, this video was made, featuring the Hyun's Dojo characters directly interacting with the universe's characters, many animated by the creators of those duelists themselves. The AvA protagonists also show up here in a Dojo collab along with several duelists. In this one animation based off the AvA interpretation of the internet, a character invades The Dojo and gets chased by many popular characters and animators. AvA is also shown within that animation and Alan Becker himself can be seen chasing him in the final sequence. Not only that, KJ (A popular stickfig) also appears within that animation. The creator of KJ hasn't really affiliated his stickfigure animations with The Dojo universe despite having the animation on the channel so that also raises the question on if KJ is in this universe as well.
The further you dive into "Who actually exists in this universe" the more it becomes a headache. Combined with the inconsistency problem its worse. Going back to the Dojo Collab we can see many figures. JzBoy, a stickfigure known fan-fiction, most known for fighting Terraria bosses is here. raxdflipnote also appeared here, with his figure being their own persona of his YouTube channel. Structurally, this is bad if he exists within The Dojo universe, his channel is nothing short of making animations with no real restriction. You start scratching your head since these are just their own character inserts into the universe. You can also start questioning people such as the "Doors Guy", who is a character from collabs that goes through many rooms made by separate animators. Animators have made their part based off of games, movies, and other copyrighted media. Now due to his popularity, this Doors Guy is referenced in many places, such as references in Gildedguy's Story 7, or appearing in some collabs as a nod. If Doors Guy does fan-fiction, is Gildedguy fan-fiction too since it references it as real?
Sorry for the very unpolished thought dump, but this verse is bloated with SCP-ish "You can go do anything, I don't care, as long as its good" and really can't be scaled due to its nature of artist's freedom. I recommend for it to be moved to Alt Battles or smth.
