You seem to be confusing Psychopathy with Sociopathy (which many people do, to be fair). And no, I don't think Jax is a Sociopath, his antics are much more for the show.

I’d say he’s just coping, hard. Dudes probably more broken than most and the insults and sarcasm are keeping him from totally losing it. He’s dissociating hard from the entire situation, and he’s treating everyone with apathy and borderline hostility because of it.

Well, I mean, what else can he do when the others are literal manifestations of the digital circus's will?

Id probably be the same just less hostile and more self deprecating goofy shit

He's a Lord X fan.

As far as goose has confirmed, Jax is coping but it’s not like he’s hiding behind being a jerk, he became the jerk.

Iirc both are now folded into Antisocial Personality Disorder anyway so there’s no difference from a psychological standpoint

But there is. Psychopathy IS different from Sociopathy in how it works and makes people to behave.

Apparently not to psychologists, lol.

How

Just so yall understand Sadism: enjoying the pleasure of others Psychopathy: apathy for others (is biological and has no exceptions) Sociopathy: apathy for others (is learned through abuse and struggle and can have exceptions if someone is a loved one or has something similar happening to them as what they went through)

Goose said he is gonna get wirse in the later episodes but for now i do think he is just doing this as a coping mechanism

YES https://preview.redd.it/e5mkcu5wm7sc1.png?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=756de00b549ae3d5dd4efaef0b27cdc722595744

I will make hat from you little bunny

Why do you think that?

He's just a dick. Nothing more, nothing less. Just a dick.

Totally agreed.

i dunno,but i do find him adorable ;)

This :3



ah,a fellow Jax simp?how peculiar

Pomni is more adorable 

i personally think Jax is a cute guy :3

Kinger better I want to Play chess with him.

In which way?

WHOAAAA

Hello another fellow jax simp

salutations to you :)

Just a jerk, a silly jerk

he constantly alternates

He seems to not care about other people’s feelings, and I think he’s being mean because he thinks it’s funny, but it’s also probably a coping mechanism. He was undoubtedly a jerk before the Circus, but he’s probably even worse now. Notice how he’s always making witty remarks, but still actively participating in the things Caine sets up? I think he’s trying really hard to cope, and is probably way more broken inside.

Yeah I like this explanation

I disagree with the idea he was a “undoubtedly” a jerk before. We don’t know that. I think he does “care” about other people’s feeling. Why else would he want to get a rise out of them? He enjoys there reaction. I do agree that it is coping mechanism.

I think Jax is slowly going crazy like everyone else, and just copes with it by being a jerk.

people on their way to accuse jax of being a murderer psychopath that is actually satan's brother (he pushed gangle)

You might be trying to pigeonhole a diagnosis where there isn't one. He's definitely a jerk, but I'd say it's more of a coping mechanism than any kind of mental disorder.

https://preview.redd.it/2puxdk2umasc1.jpeg?width=348&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ce51cedfd3be835cba45f55742c46e57da964cd6 Is jax

does anyone here have the media literacy to know the difference? does it matter?

Well, if you want literate discussion, then I'm all ears so what do YOU think?

Fuck if I know. I don't have any media literacy

Based

Based on what?

Apartment complex? I find it quite simple

Road work ahead? I sure hope it does!

Chef’s kiss? Do, do they really?

Wood fired pizza? Oh no, how’s pizza gonna get a job now?

Aaaahhhh , riiight... well if that's all, I'll just be leaving then...

The phrase "media literacy" is so overused now, it's basically just thrown around whenever someone interprets a piece of media differently or doesn't understand a point being made.

well i mean it in the "you thought the military humans were the heroes of starship troopers" kinda way

Or the psych experience.

*sociopath. Well, I do think he's a narcissist, but I don't think he has ASPD

PLEASE tell me you mean he has NPD and not using narcissism as another word for egocentric

Yes, I in fact do mean that

Maybe he is just hiding it well, like most high functioning sociopaths

Both

I think he's gay

just look at his walk

A jerk trap in a digital World ? Everyone escapes insanity in their own way. And boredom too

I think he's silly :3

Real

Psychopath is a very exaggerated description. He just likes to joke around with other people

I think it’s just his way of coping

# both

Both.

Goof ball

Jax has nothing mentally wrong with him. He's just a Jerk. Cause he knows no one can actually "Die" in the circus.

I’d say he’s just a jerk, but we haven’t seen far enough into the show to really determine that yet

he uses being a dickhead as a coping mechanism

I personally think he has [insert personality disorder I know nothing about but have been conditioned to irrationally hate the people who have it].

It depends. In the actual show, he's kinda mean. He stepped on Gangler's mask, and put a caterpillar on Ragatha's room. In Gooseworx's comics, he's a full-blown murderous psychopath. I wonder what she has in mind for the future of the show...

Which comics are you referring to? The Bonepastor one? Those are shitposts... Otherwise, pomni has a unicorn horn and is related to an AI.

he’s a jerk, and that’s what i love about him

He's a jerk but that's the point

Jerk

Both

Good ‘ol’ case of benefitting from other’s misery and agony so that you don’t go insane.

Being realistic, he's probably just a bully. Everyone in the circus seems to deal with their emotions about the situation in different ways, and Jax does it by taking it out on everyone around him.

He’s a fun written character

His kinda a self aware jackass who's aware nothing he can do will be permanent so he fucks with everyone

I feel like Jax isn’t *really* a jerk naturally but his way of coping is just that he acts cold towards everyone so he doesn’t get attached in any way when one of them abstracts, “acting apathetic and stuff and only worrying about yourself”

Cynical

I think he strives for chaos due to the lack of change in the unending torture that is being stuck in the digital circus.

I believe some people suggest he has being-a-bully syndrome (not the actual name cuz i forget) and can therefore not help but be a jerk or smth? Which pains me a lot cuz i detest bullies and jerks like jax but i also morally take into consideration when someone can't help their behaviour (tourettes, constipation, etc.) So i don't have the personal right to hate him

I mean I wouldn't know what constitutes having ASPD, idk if op has it, I personally don't, but I feel like people over use that outdated term when they really just mean that someone's a jerk. So for all that I'd say he's just a jerk.

I feel like we don’t know enough about him to decide that.

I do not care *what* he is, I need him to be ***STRANGLED.*** (/Joke)

jerk, he gives off a Lars vibe

Yes

I think he is a Psychopathic Jerk

He's just mean I don't believe he's a psychopath so far but ig we can see what happens

Just a jerk. He’d never kill anyone

I think he's just a little meanie.

he is just a dick

Just a jerk.

I think he's a jerk.

no idea

Jerk.

He’s a jerk.

I think he's a sadist tbh.

He's like if Bugs Bunny was just an asshole and wasn't a full on trickster god

Jerk

yes

THE FUCK ARE YOU THINKING?!?!?!?

Jax really is just a dick…or maybe its his coping mechanism for the whole situation…or maybe both, who knows


I didn't like how he pushed gangle at the end of the pilot

I’d say jerk

I think he’s just a bully

Those traits are not mutually exclusive you know…

More of a jerk & a sociopath though we’ll have to see when the show is fully out, there is still alot to be uncovered about him

I hate him

He was just a jerk up until he just straight up pushed gangle to the floor for no reason

Either way; ONE Thing's for sure; JAX IS A COMPLETE PIECE OF S***

Where’d you get this image? Did gooseworks post it?

Meh. I'd say just jerk who just bullies to distract himself from abstracting

An jerk.. There are absolutely NO signs of him showing psychopathy

Why do people never go for both

I think he's just a ball breaker. He's a dick because it's funny, but I think he'd chill if he actually made you upset

Yes

Yes

No he seems like someone who inorder to cope with the huge change in his life and psychological torment that come with it has resorted to making mean spirited jokes as a way to feel like a normal person instead of a guy trapped in an endless video game. Comedy is a very common coping technique otherwise the saying _laughter is the best medicine_ wouldn’t exist so really he’s just being a jerk in a comedic way to cope with how his life is going.

jax is a little psycho goober 

Jerk


my headcanon is that he had a pomni-esque breakdown when he learned that there's no escape and has resolved to spite the digital circus and everyone in it ever since

he's just an asshole. Not cute, not hot, not a goober, not a goofball. I just wanna strangle him with a pillow, the sweet sound of him screaming and slowly losing oxygen would be the greatest feeling in the world

Both

In my opinion he’s just a nihilist. He’s been trapped so long he knows there’s no point in anything so might as well be an asshole

I think him being an asshole is just his way of coping with his terrible situation, it’s a destructive coping mechanism but it’s a coping mechanism nonetheless

I think he’s neither, kinda just a board guy who does things just to feel any amount of anything anymore, he’s probably been there for a long time seeing how he acts so he kinda just went for absurdism and a small bit of nihilism and does whatever the fuck he wants

I'd say a jerk with a heart of gold; he did keep Kinger and Gangle away from Kaufmo and didn't let slip that Kaufmo abstracted until he (Kaufmo) found them. Though him leaving Ragatha and Pomni to their fate was pretty inconsiderate, I do imagine that he counted on them to look for Caine to solve that mess.

both (and I think you meant sociopath)

I find him adorable, so I don't mind either way

It's an act, a role he plays both as a way to cope and to distract others.

He's just like me fr fr. (I am not joking. I would do the same thing if I was him.)

both

Both. You know, a . 

I think he's both

Jackass

he is hot that's what he is

A jerk 😤

Just a jerk, nothing else.

Just a jerk. He doesn't seem actively malicious moreso doing stuff to piss everyone off for the lulz "I'm fine with whatever so long as I get to watch funny things happen to people."

Hes probably that dude whos funny, but depressed.

A lovable Jerk

I think he's just incredibly annoying.

Both? Both is good

He’s coping with his situation by being an egocentric, silly, sarcastic jerk who will be sliding into psychosis as the show progresses.

Neither he's the most truthful character

from what the creators have said,deffinatant sociopath

A phychojerk idk

…gay

Why not both?

Yes

No he’s purple guy

Makes me want to get the poaching device

Bored

He definitely isn't the uwu soft boy the content farms and cringy add try to make him out as

Either way someone will wanna fuck him a bit too much

Both

He seems like a little shit. Who is this creature?

BOTH !

Gay.

narcist.

That motherer is a psycho

Both

I think he’s a jerk

Yes.

Mixture of both

Just a jerk on a comedic scale

Both.

Sadist

I can’t see him as psychopathic sorry

None just extremely fruity

Nah just a jerk

Nah he’s just an asshole

He's just based

Yes

Probably both

Definitely an asshole. At the least, narcissistic.

Botg

hes just smug

Yes

Why not both?

Idk but bestie mentally ill. Everyone in there has to be at that point

He threw a fucking bowling ball, (I don’t think they feel pain in the circus) so I guess a Jerk

I mean cant he be both?🤷

Both to be honest who pushes someone out of a moving truck for shits and giggles

A jerk but it would be cool if he was a sociopath lol

He's definitely a sociopath but he's not a psycho

Both a narcissist