Creator / ShanePlays

ShanePlays is a YouTuber who specializes in "sad" Roblox movies: Machinimas with wild (usually) reality-based premises, such as Rags to Riches, Spoiled Brats, and the like, and plenty of Jerkasses. Think of those storytime animations, such as My Story Animated, on YouTube but in Roblox.

He started out as a normal Let's Play channel, soon dipped into machinima with his "roleplay stories" (Let's Play videos with him and his friends roleplaying a story), then expanded to narrative machinima full-time.

Compare to ObviousHD, another notable Roblox animator of The Last Guest fame

ShanePlays also runs a The Sims channel, WapZow, and a Minecraft channel with PrestonPlayz, Noob1234.

He also has a channel specialized in "Roblox movies", which are... just compilations of other videos in the same setting to make feature length.

His works provide examples of:

• Abomination Accusation Attack: Beth in "His CRAZY Wife Got Him Arrested!" has the police arrest her husband Phillip several times for blatantly non-existent crimes such as disturbing the public^note when he really forgot his credit card to pay their date, robbing the clothing store^note after Beth accuses him of "flirting" with the store owner when they were just talking, and an arson of their house which was actual yet committed by Beth. Beth turns out to have been a serial liar who marries men and ruins their lives with this gimmick.
• Abusive Parents: Basically what some parents are in some stories, they either favorite one child, treat their child badly for no reason other than they hate them, they're neglectful of their son/daughter's feelings, and unfairly punish them to extreme measures for the smallest mistake.
• Anachronism Stew: In He Was Adopted by Royalty, the setting appears to be in early medieval times since peasants, knights, and royalty are shown, but modern stuff is shown such as sunglasses, airpods, printed paper money, along with the doctor being dressed in a 1900's looking suit.
• Arbitrary Skepticism: In "The Ghost Girlfriend", Danny keeps thinking Alice is a normal kid although she is translucent and can interfere with electromagnetism.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Some Jerkasses just hide it. In "Poor To Rich: The Truth", Gary appears to be a nice Bloxburg fellow who offers Eddie his basement to live in. Then he turns out to be con artist, and calls the cops on Eddie for "breaking and entering" when Eddie leaves him.
• Black Widow: Monica in "This Online Dater Had A Creepy *SECRET*" bonds with men through online dating, lures them into her house in the woods, traps them in cages, and kills them for Human Sacrifice to remain immortal.
• Calling the Old Man Out: Some protagonists do this to their parents when they keep taking the antagonist's side or continue to treat them badly with unfair rules or reasons, unfortunately it doesn't stick with them until they finally figure it out too late when they get everything taken away.
• Cassandra Truth: Some protagonists find out about a bad truth and try to tell everyone, but nobody listens to them because they believe the antagonist over the more honest protagonist because of their false claims and Crocodile Tears.
• Cliché Storm: Families who never support their child's dreams? Check. Jerkass siblings who try to ruin other people's lives to get what they want? Check. Protagonists getting blamed for things they didn't commit? Check.
• Crapsack World: The entire city is filled to the brim with Jerkass citizens, corrupt officials, exaggeratedly strict families, negligent parents who favorite over one sibling and hate another for no reason, spoiled rotten people, selfish rich people who only care about their public image, Gold Diggers, loads of homeless people because of the sheer apathy of everyone around them, creepy neighbors, extremely greedy businessmen who would use their own employees for their own personal gain, abusive orphanages who don't take in abandoned children for no reason, and unsympathetic doctors who refuse to treat people because they don't have money, despite how serious their sickness or injuries have gotten, to the point that you could compare this awful place to Hell itself. What makes this worse is that despite some protagonists' efforts to make the world a better place, it's eventually reduced back to its crappy, hunk of junk state like it didn't happen.
• Cute Ghost Girl: Alice in "The Ghost Girlfriend" is a "slightly transparent" Girl Next Door who has the ability to interfere with electromagnetism. Subverted when she turns out to be a Yandere Bitch in Sheep's Clothing.
• Decoy Protagonist: In some videos, a person who does something bad is speculated to be the protagonist but it instead shifts on over to the other person who is against the so-called protagonist, revealing their true roles.
• Dirty Cop: Officer Finkleberry in "The Sad Truth About The Meanest Cop In Roblox", after all the childhood bullying endured, became a cop so no one could pick on him and that he could arrest anyone he found the most annoying. He went on to commit crimes underground to gain more wealth, then ended up in prison.
• Extreme Doormat: Some protagonists don't try to defend themselves when they're accused of something and are never given a chance to explain themselves because of the negligent, hateful, completely gullible and idiotic families. Though this thankfully gets a bit averted when they do call people out on some occasions.
• Fantastic Racism: Some videos have society hating on Super Saiyans, superheroes, etc. because of a Noodle Incident involving them and it's only because of the protagonist that society eventually begins accepting them again.
• Formerly Fat: In "He Lost 600 Pounds", Carter starts off as obese from sedentary lifestyle and a diet of cheeseburgers. He gradually becomes lean and muscular from eating healthy meals and working out at the gym. His doctor also used to be overweight.
• Freudian Excuse: "The Sad Truth" series does this for notable Jerkass antagonists. In "The Sad Truth About The Meanest Cop In Roblox", Dirty Cop Donald Finkleberry was bullied and made fun of by his classmates and teachers as a child for having a beard, mustache, and deep voice at a young age, learning disability, and Embarrassing Last Name. The only person who loved him, his mother, died when he was young also. This led him to take the pain on others.
• Gold Digger: Chelsea is the titular gold digger in "He Was Cheated On By His Gold Digger Girlfriend!" who "loves" Jason while she's demanding many expensive gifts from him. An egregious example would be her demanding an expensive car, then deliberately crashing the car when he buys her one with all his life savings, and demanding another car.
• Hate Sink: Every single antagonist falls into this trope, save for ones who actually realize their actions were wrong and try to fix them, since they go as far as to ruin a protagonist's job (which usually ends with getting them fired unfairly without any explanation), their reputation, their relationships with loved ones, and basically ruin their entire life. Eunice is probably the worst of all due to his reasons for treating people badly, which revolve around small things that aren't big of a deal, his annoying and gratifying voice which screams all his lines way too close to the microphone, and being a massive asshole to his employees because he feels like it.
• Honest John's Dealership: In "Poor To Rich: The Truth" Gary the salesman purposely sells The Alleged Cars to people with no warranty just to rip their money off. He gets it coming.
• Hypocrite: Gary in YOUTUBE Turned Him Into A Billionaire, as he keeps pressuring Shane to get a job, when he doesn't have one himself and calls the latter lazy when Gary is barely doing anything to pay for the bills.
• Idiot Ball: Pretty much every parent that believes the antagonist rather than the protagonist, despite there being actual evidence of the antagonist doing bad things that the protagonist is blamed for.
• I Resemble That Remark!: When a protagonist speaks to their parents and accuses them of loving their sibling more than them, the parent says they don't, only to immediately prove the protagonist's point by focusing on the sibling more.
• It's All About Me: Most antagonists tend to go into this trope when they believe they deserve all the good things in the protagonist's life, be more famous than anyone else, have all the money in the world, and so on and so forth.
• Jerkass: A lot of his characters in his videos are outright mean for the sake of it, so much that it would take a subpage to list them. Some of them are actually downright anger-inducing to how cruel they are and will just make you want to break their bones to teach them a lesson or out of rage because of the injustice of these assholes.
• Karma Houdini: Another painfully exaggerated trope as the antagonists who do something bad don't get punished and instead pin the blame on the protagonist for extremely petty reasons and for past traumas that are inexcusable to their behavior. Though they do get bit on the ass near the end of the story.
• Easily Forgiven: How protagonists act towards the antagonist when they give their "sad" backstory and why they did this, even though they have single-handedly ruined their entire lives, caused everyone around them to hate them for things they didn't do, made them get fired, lose their homes and possessions, and a lot of other horrible things that make you think that their backstory doesn't excuse their downright evil actions, yet they forgive them regardless because "they're family" or their so-called "friend".
• Loony Fan: In "MeganPlays Was Stalked By A Crazy Fan!", the notable YouTuber MeganPlays is depicted having a loony yet misguided fan named Thomas who stalks her, following her around in real life and nagging her on social media just to be her best friend.
• Love Makes You Dumb: Some deuteragonists fall into this trope when they marry either a Gold Digger, a mean woman who does bad stuff, a secret criminal, etc. while the protagonist tries to tell the truth about her the husband fails to believe him and just jumps to conclusions, calling him jealous. It's only until after they find out the truth that they realize the protagonist was right.
• Liar Revealed: Some stories tend to focus on this trope, when protagonists pretend to be either rich and famous to get popular or help their loved ones until they get found out.
• Mock Millionaire: In "He Pretended to Be Rich", Hunter, who lives in the slums and has a father struggling to pay the bills, pretends to be excessively wealthy (such as buying out a Supreme store) and steals his father's credit card to make up for his lies, so he can be friends with the Rich Jerks Taron and Butch.
  Taron: Dude, I thought you had your own jet. You can't even buy me a Switch?! What is wrong with you dude, you lying?
• Never My Fault: Some antagonists blame the protagonist for their lives going downhill, when they brought it on themselves for their lies, crimes, and horrible treatment.
• No Ending: How recent Shaneplays "movies" end. They mostly end right off the bat when they either reconcile with their parents, figure out a bad sibling's problem, become the richest person, succeed, and get a bad person their just desserts without any sort of resolution in mind, making it come off as somewhat rushed. What makes this worse is that later videos never go back to the stories that were left unfinished and are just left unresolved.
• No Indoor Voice: Some of the voice actors (mainly the males) yell out their lines a lot, to the point their mic glitches out a bit and has their character come off as hammy.
• Only Sane Man: The protagonists who are unfortunate enough to live in a Crapsack World of rich jerks, greedy businessmen, corrupt police, apathetic citizens, and spoiled offsprings.
• Plot Armor: Whenever a protagonist gets into a huge accident, gets hit by a car, or falls into a pool, they shrug it off or somehow survive injuries that shouldn't even be survivable in the first place.
• Rage Breaking Point: Some protagonists hit this when their conflicts and issues, mainly family drama, push them over the limit and it sometimes leads to them either breaking things out of anger or calling their family members/friends out for their horrible treatment.
• Space Whale Aesop: "This Online Dater Had A Creepy *SECRET*": Be careful about who you date online or your "date" will trap you in a cage and sacrifice you for immortality.
• Special Guest: Notable Roblox YouTuber, MeganPlays, stars as herself in "MeganPlays Was Stalked By A Crazy Fan!"
• Took a Level in Jerkass: In some stories, the protagonist says to the antagonist that they used to be more better than what they became now, because of a tragic loss, getting abandoned, abused, or just treated awfully.
• Trauma Conga Line: Painfully exaggerated with the protagonist's family either punishing them harshly for something they didn't do, usually being blamed for it by a jealous sibling or spoiled brat, losing their job without being given a chance for an explanation of their side of a story, losing their house by repossession, destroyed by selfish rich snobs, or kicked out for a stupid reason, getting robbed out of nowhere, getting arrested for a crime they didn't commit, and the entire list goes on and on and on...
• Ungrateful Bastard: Whether someone defends or helps an antagonist, they always manage to completely ruin the protagonist's trust once again by either lying to a family member or law officer about something COMPLETELY illogical or suspiciously specific. The same goes for poor families, who refuse money from their siblings or offsprings when they try to help, despite the problems being obvious. Naturally, it results in them either losing everything or not being able to afford the bills.
• Villain with Good Publicity: Basically every single Hated Family Member video has the antagonist completely make up stories to frame the protagonist and everyone somehow believes them despite the obvious red flags surrounding said antagonist. But the truth does come out anyway.
• With Friends Like These...: Some protagonists have friends in some stories, but turn out to be complete jerks who are only friends with the protagonist for their personal gain, becoming famous and wanting attention, and throwing the protagonists under the bus whether something goes wrong.
• World of Jerkass: Painfully exaggerated. For some reason, many pedestrians are undeniably rude to everyone around them and continuously call protagonists a "poor loser" and that they suck. They're also unsympathetic towards homeless people and keep denying them any sort of cash and act horrible towards everyone. Even the emergency services fall into this as they insult people and keep yelling at everyone, Finkleberry being the worst of the bunch.
• Yandere: In "The Ghost Girlfriend", Alice turns into an outright Bitch in Sheep's Clothing when Danny realizes she's a ghost and decides he cannot be with her forever. She threatens him by shaking his house, and her revenge is hinted when she notices Danny admitting his feelings for Mulaney.