Hi Nicole,
This should work, but there's one little issue (see image below). The global event name needs to match exactly. Let us know if that doesn't fix it! For your use case, you might want to choose some less-similar names, for example:
Variable: "allow_animation"
Global Event: "animate_now"
The second image has a bit of an explanation around the terms, hopefully to clear up some of the confusion around when/where "global" is used. I never need to type the word "global" in the things I name.
Also, bear in mind that this is a public facing forum - I don't know if your context screenshot is proprietary or not, but you should be able to delete it if you need to.
- Nav