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* FearInducedIdiocy: Whenever the troublemaker of the day is about to attack their victim, their victim will just freeze on the spot and [[RapidFireNo repeat a multitude of no's]]. Their inaction allows the troublemaker to beat them up.
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* EldritchLocation: The "Audience." [[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext We assume,]] considering that being sent there is considered the grand finale of several [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment "punishment days."]]
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* GrubTub: In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jo9URgJT8U Caillou's 2nd Punishment Day]], one of Caillou's punishments is being forced to swim in a pool full of mashed potatoes.
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* FakingTheDead: Whenever a troublemaker wants to see whether or not their parental figures really do care for them, they invoke this trope. In some videos, the troublemaker will merely do this as a prank that they will stop after their parental figures' initial reactions, while in some videos, they will (somehow) keep this up until right before their coffin is buried at their funeral. Either way, the parental figures always feel guilty for the way they treated their "dead" children, and become very angry once they reveal that they were just faking their death.
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* ForcedTransformation: Sometimes the grounded kids will be turned into infants as punishment, though sometimes the reason they get grounded in the first place was because they inflicted this trope on someone else.
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** The parent characters will often see their kid's misbehavior coming and attempt to prevent a tantrum or mental breakdown or repeatedly say no to a kid demanding something. Nine times out of ten, though, the parent characters cave into their kids demands when they won't shut up or are unsuccessful in preventing their kid from throwing a fit.
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* FalseFlagOperation: When a bad user false flags an innocent user's video on Website/YouTube andgiving gives them a community guideline strike, they get arrested and goes go to jail.
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** Same for another troll named [=Memy9909=] for allegedly trolling another user named Baxter - though what Memy did to Baxter can be justified as Baxter was a example of SmallNameBigEgo as some users ''considered him a king''.
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** For characterizations in the Grounded videos themselves, early on in the history of the Grounded videos, most of the parent characters simply gave the extra long grounded times and called it a wrap. Very rarely were they actually violent when punishing the kids, and sometimes they actually did seem to not like having to punish the kids or just acted extremely disappointed rather than angry. Many later videos, however, saw all of these aspects get inflated to ridiculous proportions: Now you really have to search for recent videos that ''don't'' have the trouble-makers violently attacked by their parents for their wrong-doings, that ''don't'' have the parents act borderline sociopathic, absurdly strict, and/or AxCrazy, that ''don't'' have the parent characters fly off the handle at the slightest offense or actually act glad to punish the kids if they don't just outright hate them. For this, we can probably thank users like Isaac Anderson (who invented the concept of "[[HumiliationConga Punishment Day]]" in the Grounded videos) and certain other users whose BlackComedy takes on the Grounded genre were adopted by many other Grounded video makers.
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* FountainOfYouth: A now-deleted [=CalebComedian=] video had Ako turned back into a child by the troublemaker.
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** Zigzagged in "(Character) Brings an NC-17 Rated Film to School" videos. Sometimes the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin character who brings an NC-17 rated movie to school]] has a VagueAge or is an adult who's still in school, but they're often a child. In those same videos, another classmate will bring an R-rated or PG-13 rated film for Movie Day, resulting in them getting a warning or being sent to detention (or worse).
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness:
** Those who watched many grounded videos who end up watching older videos made with [=GoAnimate=] will wonder why ''WesternAnimation/{{Underdog}}'' and B-movie monsters are featured alongside the standard Comedy World-created characters, and may also ask what ''Super Rica and Rashy'' even is.
** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3y9QZ7T-eaQ first ever grounded video]] has a much fairer punishment for the troublemaker (he's merely banned from TV for two weeks and from attending a friend's birthday party). The reason it happens is also more understandable, namely that he back talked to his teacher, and he's readmitted and unpunished after he apologizes to the principal.
* EasilyForgiven: Averted, at some points. Apologizing doesn't mean that the troublemaker helps them escape their problems, as their parents find it useless and unacceptable enough.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: The "[Character] Gets Sent Away" videos sometimes act as series finales for various 'grounding series'. The character gets, well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin sent away]] to an unpleasant place for acting out, but rather than go through with their punishment they start a new life somewhere else with their friends.
* EldritchLocation: The "Audience." [[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext We assume,]] considering that being sent there is considered the grand finale of several [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment "punishment days."]]
* EncyclopaedicKnowledge: For someone who doesn't seem to be a film buff by any means, Warren Cook's father Alan '''always''' seems to know the exact release year and releasing studio of every film to stymie Warren's attempts at false VHS openings, even for the most unheard-of films.
* EnfantTerrible: At the end of the day, nearly all of the troublesome kids are intended to be evil, albeit with varying levels of success. There are a few kids who are genuinely villainous or at least just immense [[{{Jerkass}} Jerkasses]], however.
* EntertainmentAboveTheirAge:
** In various videos, the troublemaker-of-the-day (who is normally an EnfantTerrible) wants to see a movie for adults, so they'll sneak into a theater to watch it, only to get busted by their parents.
** Sometimes, a troublemaker watches some adult show (i.e. ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'') and their parent comes in, shuts off the TV, and promptly grounds them for it.
** Zigzagged in "(Character) Brings an NC-17 Rated Film to School" videos. Sometimes the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin character who brings an NC-17 rated movie to school]] has a VagueAge or is an adult who's still in school, but they're often a child. In those same videos, another classmate will bring an R-rated or PG-13 rated film for Movie Day, resulting in them getting a warning or being sent to detention (or worse).
* EverythingExplodesEnding: It's not unheard of for a grounded video to end this way, usually thanks to the actions of a troublemaker. In particular, most "(Character) Misbehaves at (Restaurant/Store/Great Wolf Lodge)" videos end with the building "exploding" after the troublemaker throws their tantrum.
* EvilCounterpart:
** Boris the Teeth Guy (when portrayed as a separate character to Boris), a rude and psychopathic red-skinned duplicate of Boris with a ''huge'' mouth and eyes who somehow manages to be worse than Boris himself.
** Not to be outdone, there are many "evil" versions of baby show characters who are either there because the creator either hates the "good" version of the character so that they can have a good character for the troublemaker to mess with or if they like the "good" character, they just use it because they're running out of characters to ground. The most popular ones are Evil Pingu and Evil Strawberry Shortcake. Surprisingly, the more popular grounding victims rarely get "evil versions", mainly because people tend to make videos of the popular characters for entertainment, while more minor ones like Pingu and Strawberry Shortcake [[BecauseISaidSo for spite against the show]].
* EvilLaugh: Even if the target character is doing something nice, they'll always do a laugh.
* EvilKnockoff: The original Dora the Explorer design for [=GoAnimate=] videos is referred to as this, calling her "Fake Dora".
* EvilTeacher:
** Seen in spades with every teacher, including the principal, seen in regular grounding videos. Most (if not, all) are seen as being a [[HairTriggerTemper Hair-Trigger Tempered]] {{Jerkass}} who hates the troublemaker's guts, and hand out over-the-top punishments for even the most simplest matters.
** Miss Martin gets the worst of this, however. She's simply a gender-swapped version of Boris with all the amount of disgust and hatred as him. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gP9CX4iwlDw This video]] has her expell Caillou for no apparent reason, only for LaserGuidedKarma to [[TakeThatScrappy hit her hard]] when Clementine's mother [[FiredTeacher fires her]].
* EvilVersusEvil: Although many of the grounding victims [[AssholeVictim tend to have it coming]], the fact that in some of the more sadistic videos, their parents may go to some rather extreme measures in punishing them (sometimes they'll even ''kill'' the troublemaker) and, in some cases, [[AbusiveParents even enjoy punishing the kids or celebrate their groundings]], can make it difficult to take sides with anyone.
* ExcrementStatement: Very frequent in both grounded video plots and individual characters.
** Grounded video plots include:
*** The basis of "(Character) Poops On The Teacher" videos have the troublemaker defecating on their teacher when the latter won't let them go to the bathroom.
*** "Character Pees On The Teacher" videos are the same thing as above, except it involves urination instead.
*** "Character Poops On Character" videos. Enough said.
** Characters include:
*** Bobbyispoopy loves to poop on everyone he comes across.
*** Uolliac enjoys pooping on everybody.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Almost every grounded video is titled in this format: "X Does Y (And Gets Grounded or /Grounded)."
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* FailureIsTheOnlyOption:
** Outside of the rare occasion where they get [[ThrowTheDogABone thrown a bone]] for it, Caillou, Dora, or others of their ilk will always be grounded for some contrived reason no matter how good they are.
** The parent characters will often see their kid's misbehavior coming and attempt to prevent a tantrum or mental breakdown or repeatedly say no to a kid demanding something. Nine times out of ten, though, the parent characters cave into their kids demands when they won't shut up or are unsuccessful in preventing their kid from throwing a fit.
* FalseFlagOperation: When a bad user false flags an innocent user's video on Website/YouTube and giving them a community guideline strike, they get arrested and goes to jail.
* FantasticRacism: Some of the more sadistic videos have folks considered to be "baby show" characters be hated by their peers so much it could almost be called this.
* FantasticSlur: Being called a "bad user" or an "opinion disrespector" is probably the most heinous insult in the [=GoAnimate=]/Vyond community. "Baby show lover" comes up frequently as well.
* FatComicRelief:
** There are many videos where a troublemaker [[ArtisticLicenceBiology will eat an overwhelmingly large amount of food in one sitting]] and [[TemporaryBulkChange suddenly get morbidly obese]] as a result, then the parent will then find out and ground them, and maybe everyone else in the video will make fun of them for being fat.
** The character may also be fat from the start, where [[ArtisticLicensePhysics somehow]] their weight will cause disaster like in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqRlVQ0bsdw this video.]]
* FateWorseThanDeath: Being grounded or getting a Punishment Day is often treated as a worse punishment than getting arrested or executed, and a standard insult hurled by trouble-making peers on the news is "I hope (character) gets grounded by their parents./(Character's Parents)? could you please ground them?" regardless of how terrible the character's actions were. By all accounts it kind of makes sense, considering the long grounding times and the ludicrous level of removed privileges.
* FelonyMisdemeanor:
** The [=GoAnimate=] community wanted to ''kill'' a {{troll}} called Warren Cook for ''[[DisproportionateRetribution making fake VHS openings.]]''
** Same for another troll named [=Memy9909=] for allegedly trolling another user named Baxter - though what Memy did to Baxter can be justified as Baxter was a example of SmallNameBigEgo as some users ''considered him a king''.
** Not only that, but in a lot of the videos where someone gets arrested, they get sent to jail (often for long periods of time and without a fair trial) over crimes like littering a single hamburger (or even walking up to a littered hamburger).
** No matter how minor the mistake or trouble a person causes, they will always be grounded for a ludicrously long time, even if someone just accidentally pushed someone else over or broke something.
** This is particularly evident in "[[HeldBackInSchool (Character) Gets Held Back]]" videos, where even the slightest things will result in [[HairTriggerTemper setting a teacher off]] and the student immediately being knocked back a grade at the first offense. This includes such trivial or petty things such as talking in class, having sodas with their lunches, or even getting a single math problem wrong.
** Parodied in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbDxRFoe-_0 this video]] by [=NotSmirks=] where Warren Cook's dad calls the police to arrest Warren when he finds out Warren made fanfiction out of himself and "[[RougeAnglesOfSatin babby]]".
---> "911? Me son made porno out of me! Am crying right now!"
** Founder Alvin Hung has gotten death threats from the site's users after [=GoPlus=] and many of the site's most popular themes were removed. Once the main site finally made the transition to a full-on business animation site, the site saw an increase in hatred towards Alvin before [=GoAnimate=] For Schools was finally upgraded to efficiently remove Flash-made themes. However, people still hold grudges against Alvin for this.
* {{Flanderization}}:
** A notable example in many videos is Boris himself. Take Isaac Anderson's depiction of him, for example - Solely over time, his violent AxCrazy tendencies started to dominate most of his character to an absurd degree, to the point that it has set the normal standard for Boris' depiction in many videos inspired by Anderson (especially in {{Deconstruction}} videos involving Caillou's nuclear family). Ironically averted by his "teeth guy" counterpart, who has always been like this.
** For characterizations in the Grounded videos themselves, early on in the history of the Grounded videos, most of the parent characters simply gave the extra long grounded times and called it a wrap. Very rarely were they actually violent when punishing the kids, and sometimes they actually did seem to not like having to punish the kids or just acted extremely disappointed rather than angry. Many later videos, however, saw all of these aspects get inflated to ridiculous proportions: Now you really have to search for recent videos that ''don't'' have the trouble-makers violently attacked by their parents for their wrong-doings, that ''don't'' have the parents act borderline sociopathic, absurdly strict, and/or AxCrazy, that ''don't'' have the parent characters fly off the handle at the slightest offense or actually act glad to punish the kids if they don't just outright hate them. For this, we can probably thank users like Isaac Anderson (who invented the concept of "[[HumiliationConga Punishment Day]]" in the Grounded videos) and certain other users whose BlackComedy takes on the Grounded genre were adopted by many other Grounded video makers.
* FlatJoy: Due to the voices not having much emotion, the characters will speak in a flat tone of voice even when they're excited or happy.
%%* FloatingLimbs: The site's mascots, the "Lil' Peepz" seem to have these.
* TheFoodPoisoningIncident: In the "X Fakes a School Lockdown" videos, the principal is usually sick from having eaten spoiled takeaways for breakfast, to explain why they're not in the office.
* FountainOfYouth: A now-deleted [=CalebComedian=] video had Ako turned back into a child by the troublemaker.
%%* FourFingeredHands: Everyone has these.
* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: A few videos have characters in the video attempt to ground or rant at the users for whatever reason.
* FreakOut: Most "(Character) Fakes a School Lockdown" videos often have one or more students go beyond panicking to just outright having complete nervous/mental breakdowns during the faked lockdown, to the point they either injure themselves, get PTSD, or just go completely crazy and have to go to the mental ward for the rest of their life. This usually happens just to rub the consequences of the trouble-maker's actions in their face even more than they already are.
* FreakyFridayFlip: Evidently, body swapping in the [=GoAnimate=]/Vyond universe is not allowed, as many videos can tell you. Most commonly, the swap is between a parent and a trouble-making kid, and you really have to search for ones that involve any other participants of a swap.
* FreudianExcuse:
** Some videos (whether they are a deconstruction or not) have the parent characters give an explanation as to why they're so harsh on their kids when they get in trouble. For example, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDaQ0ewcxaA here]], where, after calling out his parents and getting them sent to jail, Caillou asks Boris and Doris why they are always so harsh on him and ground him for the most trivial of reasons. Doris then explains how her own parents always grounded her for ridiculous reasons (such as when she innocently told her father about how she wanted her own TV show) when she was a kid herself. [[StartOfDarkness It was then that she swore to do the same thing to her kids when she grew up, apparently so they would know her pain]]. Caillou (appropriately) rejects her flimsy excuse, gives them both a short TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere and leaves them for good]].
** In somewhat of a meta-example, a common AlternateCharacterInterpretation of many of the kids (especially Caillou and Dora) are that the only reason they act out so much is because of the abuse of their family and friends, something that is often thrown back into the latter group's face in the {{Deconstruction}} videos.
* FunWithFlushing: Videos that involve people getting flushed down the toilet (whether it's someone getting flushed down the toilet by a trouble-maker, or the trouble-maker being flushed down the toilet as a punishment) are fairly common.
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* GenderBender: A common punishment given to the troublemakers is to have their sex changed via MagicPlasticSurgery in the "X gets his/her gender swapped" videos. It is also common to have troublemakers get grounded because they inflicted this trope onto someone else. (Whether by turning them into merely a gender-flipped version of themselves or turning them into a random person/fictional character that happens to be the opposite gender of the character being transformed.)
* GenreDeconstruction: Some videos serve as a deconstruction of the "Grounded" aspect. They tend to focus on Caillou's dad's OnlySaneMan and DisproportionateRetribution attitudes, essentially calling him out on his random punishments and reasonings as to why he does so.
* GetOutOfJailFreeCard: When any troublemaker is sentenced to prison, no matter how much time they spent there, they are guaranteed to be let out of the prison like nothing ever happened and without explanation in a succeeding video.
* GISSyndrome: It's not uncommon for users to insert familiar characters into the [=GoAnimate=]/Vyond setting via stock images of them from off the internet. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rk6tYqjj83g Here's one such example of this]].
* GivingSomeoneThePointerFinger: Thanks to there not being animations for the characters to punch, throw things, or whatnot, the characters' animation for pointing ahead is often used in place of those and many other actions (and often adds to the hilarity as a result).
* GoToYourRoom: After a troublemaker gets [[YouAreGrounded grounded grounded grounded]], their parents tell them to go to their room.
* GoneHorriblyWrong[=/=][[GoneHorriblyRight Right]]: Countless times have the schemes of the naughty kids blown up in their faces because of things they didn't anticipate.
* GoodIsNotNice: Anyone who isn't the person currently getting in trouble and grounded. This is more evident in the more sadistic grounding videos where the troublesome character is beaten up or murdered by their family and friends for their actions, or "Punishment Day" sequences with more severe (and less [[CrossesTheLineTwice humorous]]) punishments.
* GooGooGetup: Characters are often made to wear diapers as punishment.
* GoshDarnItToHeck: Profanity is often replaced with minced oaths. Justified, as much of the community is composed of children who share their computers with relatives. Not that this stops some people though. See ObligatorySwearing below.
* GreekChorus: Parodied; a handful of (mostly satirical) videos have the events of the video commented on by a {{Gonk}}ish character sitting at a computer (who seems to only be a head wearing a baseball cap) who takes some random issue with it. ([[ThisLoserIsYou And is likely a representation of the worst parts of the GoAnimate grounded fandom.]]) ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQVklVHShVY One video featuring this character]].)
* GroinAttack: A running gag on the now-terminated Isaac Anderson's videos is WesternAnimation/{{Caillou}} getting his penis cut off, such as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISMkZvDI1dg this one.]]. This also happens on a few other videos as well by other users besides Isaac. It's also a common punishment seen in "Punishment Day" videos.
* GrowlingGut: One of the sound effects with the arrival of HTML is a "stomach gurgle".
* GroundedForever: Parents in Grounded videos will often ground the child for a very long amount of time (ex: 112233445566778899 years) or forever.
* GrossOutShow: Seeing as how many of the users on the site are/were little kids, and there's an effect that makes people vomit, you can expect a lot of [=GoAnimate/Vyond=] videos to be this.
* GuiltByAssociationGag: Sometimes in the "Gets Held Back" videos, when there are multiple characters involved, a single character in the grounded party will be the only one to cause trouble in a grade (sometimes even with an unrelated character), while their peers stand by and not cause any trouble along with them. With few exceptions, all characters are still told to go back a grade regardless.
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness:
** Those who watched many grounded videos who end up watching older videos made with [=GoAnimate=] will wonder why ''WesternAnimation/{{Underdog}}'' and B-movie monsters are featured alongside the standard Comedy World-created characters, and may also ask what ''Super Rica and Rashy'' even is.
** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3y9QZ7T-eaQ first ever grounded video]] has a much fairer punishment for the troublemaker (he's merely banned from TV for two weeks and from attending a friend's birthday party). The reason it happens is also more understandable, namely that he back talked to his teacher, and he's readmitted and unpunished after he apologizes to the principal.
* EasilyForgiven: Averted, at some points. Apologizing doesn't mean that the troublemaker helps them escape their problems, as their parents find it useless and unacceptable enough.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: The "[Character] Gets Sent Away" videos sometimes act as series finales for various 'grounding series'. The character gets, well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin sent away]] to an unpleasant place for acting out, but rather than go through with their punishment they start a new life somewhere else with their friends.
* EldritchLocation: The "Audience." [[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext We assume,]] considering that being sent there is considered the grand finale of several [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment "punishment days."]]
* EncyclopaedicKnowledge: For someone who doesn't seem to be a film buff by any means, Warren Cook's father Alan '''always''' seems to know the exact release year and releasing studio of every film to stymie Warren's attempts at false VHS openings, even for the most unheard-of films.
* EnfantTerrible: At the end of the day, nearly all of the troublesome kids are intended to be evil, albeit with varying levels of success. There are a few kids who are genuinely villainous or at least just immense [[{{Jerkass}} Jerkasses]], however.
* EntertainmentAboveTheirAge:
** In various videos, the troublemaker-of-the-day (who is normally an EnfantTerrible) wants to see a movie for adults, so they'll sneak into a theater to watch it, only to get busted by their parents.
** Sometimes, a troublemaker watches some adult show (i.e. ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'') and their parent comes in, shuts off the TV, and promptly grounds them for it.
** Zigzagged in "(Character) Brings an NC-17 Rated Film to School" videos. Sometimes the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin character who brings an NC-17 rated movie to school]] has a VagueAge or is an adult who's still in school, but they're often a child. In those same videos, another classmate will bring an R-rated or PG-13 rated film for Movie Day, resulting in them getting a warning or being sent to detention (or worse).
* EverythingExplodesEnding: It's not unheard of for a grounded video to end this way, usually thanks to the actions of a troublemaker. In particular, most "(Character) Misbehaves at (Restaurant/Store/Great Wolf Lodge)" videos end with the building "exploding" after the troublemaker throws their tantrum.
* EvilCounterpart:
** Boris the Teeth Guy (when portrayed as a separate character to Boris), a rude and psychopathic red-skinned duplicate of Boris with a ''huge'' mouth and eyes who somehow manages to be worse than Boris himself.
** Not to be outdone, there are many "evil" versions of baby show characters who are either there because the creator either hates the "good" version of the character so that they can have a good character for the troublemaker to mess with or if they like the "good" character, they just use it because they're running out of characters to ground. The most popular ones are Evil Pingu and Evil Strawberry Shortcake. Surprisingly, the more popular grounding victims rarely get "evil versions", mainly because people tend to make videos of the popular characters for entertainment, while more minor ones like Pingu and Strawberry Shortcake [[BecauseISaidSo for spite against the show]].
* EvilLaugh: Even if the target character is doing something nice, they'll always do a laugh.
* EvilKnockoff: The original Dora the Explorer design for [=GoAnimate=] videos is referred to as this, calling her "Fake Dora".
* EvilTeacher:
** Seen in spades with every teacher, including the principal, seen in regular grounding videos. Most (if not, all) are seen as being a [[HairTriggerTemper Hair-Trigger Tempered]] {{Jerkass}} who hates the troublemaker's guts, and hand out over-the-top punishments for even the most simplest matters.
** Miss Martin gets the worst of this, however. She's simply a gender-swapped version of Boris with all the amount of disgust and hatred as him. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gP9CX4iwlDw This video]] has her expell Caillou for no apparent reason, only for LaserGuidedKarma to [[TakeThatScrappy hit her hard]] when Clementine's mother [[FiredTeacher fires her]].
* EvilVersusEvil: Although many of the grounding victims [[AssholeVictim tend to have it coming]], the fact that in some of the more sadistic videos, their parents may go to some rather extreme measures in punishing them (sometimes they'll even ''kill'' the troublemaker) and, in some cases, [[AbusiveParents even enjoy punishing the kids or celebrate their groundings]], can make it difficult to take sides with anyone.
* ExcrementStatement: Very frequent in both grounded video plots and individual characters.
** Grounded video plots include:
*** The basis of "(Character) Poops On The Teacher" videos have the troublemaker defecating on their teacher when the latter won't let them go to the bathroom.
*** "Character Pees On The Teacher" videos are the same thing as above, except it involves urination instead.
*** "Character Poops On Character" videos. Enough said.
** Characters include:
*** Bobbyispoopy loves to poop on everyone he comes across.
*** Uolliac enjoys pooping on everybody.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Almost every grounded video is titled in this format: "X Does Y (And Gets Grounded or /Grounded)."
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* FailureIsTheOnlyOption:
** Outside of the rare occasion where they get [[ThrowTheDogABone thrown a bone]] for it, Caillou, Dora, or others of their ilk will always be grounded for some contrived reason no matter how good they are.
** The parent characters will often see their kid's misbehavior coming and attempt to prevent a tantrum or mental breakdown or repeatedly say no to a kid demanding something. Nine times out of ten, though, the parent characters cave into their kids demands when they won't shut up or are unsuccessful in preventing their kid from throwing a fit.
* FalseFlagOperation: When a bad user false flags an innocent user's video on Website/YouTube and giving them a community guideline strike, they get arrested and goes to jail.
* FantasticRacism: Some of the more sadistic videos have folks considered to be "baby show" characters be hated by their peers so much it could almost be called this.
* FantasticSlur: Being called a "bad user" or an "opinion disrespector" is probably the most heinous insult in the [=GoAnimate=]/Vyond community. "Baby show lover" comes up frequently as well.
* FatComicRelief:
** There are many videos where a troublemaker [[ArtisticLicenceBiology will eat an overwhelmingly large amount of food in one sitting]] and [[TemporaryBulkChange suddenly get morbidly obese]] as a result, then the parent will then find out and ground them, and maybe everyone else in the video will make fun of them for being fat.
** The character may also be fat from the start, where [[ArtisticLicensePhysics somehow]] their weight will cause disaster like in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqRlVQ0bsdw this video.]]
* FateWorseThanDeath: Being grounded or getting a Punishment Day is often treated as a worse punishment than getting arrested or executed, and a standard insult hurled by trouble-making peers on the news is "I hope (character) gets grounded by their parents./(Character's Parents)? could you please ground them?" regardless of how terrible the character's actions were. By all accounts it kind of makes sense, considering the long grounding times and the ludicrous level of removed privileges.
* FelonyMisdemeanor:
** The [=GoAnimate=] community wanted to ''kill'' a {{troll}} called Warren Cook for ''[[DisproportionateRetribution making fake VHS openings.]]''
** Same for another troll named [=Memy9909=] for allegedly trolling another user named Baxter - though what Memy did to Baxter can be justified as Baxter was a example of SmallNameBigEgo as some users ''considered him a king''.
** Not only that, but in a lot of the videos where someone gets arrested, they get sent to jail (often for long periods of time and without a fair trial) over crimes like littering a single hamburger (or even walking up to a littered hamburger).
** No matter how minor the mistake or trouble a person causes, they will always be grounded for a ludicrously long time, even if someone just accidentally pushed someone else over or broke something.
** This is particularly evident in "[[HeldBackInSchool (Character) Gets Held Back]]" videos, where even the slightest things will result in [[HairTriggerTemper setting a teacher off]] and the student immediately being knocked back a grade at the first offense. This includes such trivial or petty things such as talking in class, having sodas with their lunches, or even getting a single math problem wrong.
** Parodied in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbDxRFoe-_0 this video]] by [=NotSmirks=] where Warren Cook's dad calls the police to arrest Warren when he finds out Warren made fanfiction out of himself and "[[RougeAnglesOfSatin babby]]".
---> "911? Me son made porno out of me! Am crying right now!"
** Founder Alvin Hung has gotten death threats from the site's users after [=GoPlus=] and many of the site's most popular themes were removed. Once the main site finally made the transition to a full-on business animation site, the site saw an increase in hatred towards Alvin before [=GoAnimate=] For Schools was finally upgraded to efficiently remove Flash-made themes. However, people still hold grudges against Alvin for this.
* {{Flanderization}}:
** A notable example in many videos is Boris himself. Take Isaac Anderson's depiction of him, for example - Solely over time, his violent AxCrazy tendencies started to dominate most of his character to an absurd degree, to the point that it has set the normal standard for Boris' depiction in many videos inspired by Anderson (especially in {{Deconstruction}} videos involving Caillou's nuclear family). Ironically averted by his "teeth guy" counterpart, who has always been like this.
** For characterizations in the Grounded videos themselves, early on in the history of the Grounded videos, most of the parent characters simply gave the extra long grounded times and called it a wrap. Very rarely were they actually violent when punishing the kids, and sometimes they actually did seem to not like having to punish the kids or just acted extremely disappointed rather than angry. Many later videos, however, saw all of these aspects get inflated to ridiculous proportions: Now you really have to search for recent videos that ''don't'' have the trouble-makers violently attacked by their parents for their wrong-doings, that ''don't'' have the parents act borderline sociopathic, absurdly strict, and/or AxCrazy, that ''don't'' have the parent characters fly off the handle at the slightest offense or actually act glad to punish the kids if they don't just outright hate them. For this, we can probably thank users like Isaac Anderson (who invented the concept of "[[HumiliationConga Punishment Day]]" in the Grounded videos) and certain other users whose BlackComedy takes on the Grounded genre were adopted by many other Grounded video makers.
* FlatJoy: Due to the voices not having much emotion, the characters will speak in a flat tone of voice even when they're excited or happy.
%%* FloatingLimbs: The site's mascots, the "Lil' Peepz" seem to have these.
* TheFoodPoisoningIncident: In the "X Fakes a School Lockdown" videos, the principal is usually sick from having eaten spoiled takeaways for breakfast, to explain why they're not in the office.
* FountainOfYouth: A now-deleted [=CalebComedian=] video had Ako turned back into a child by the troublemaker.
%%* FourFingeredHands: Everyone has these.
* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: A few videos have characters in the video attempt to ground or rant at the users for whatever reason.
* FreakOut: Most "(Character) Fakes a School Lockdown" videos often have one or more students go beyond panicking to just outright having complete nervous/mental breakdowns during the faked lockdown, to the point they either injure themselves, get PTSD, or just go completely crazy and have to go to the mental ward for the rest of their life. This usually happens just to rub the consequences of the trouble-maker's actions in their face even more than they already are.
* FreakyFridayFlip: Evidently, body swapping in the [=GoAnimate=]/Vyond universe is not allowed, as many videos can tell you. Most commonly, the swap is between a parent and a trouble-making kid, and you really have to search for ones that involve any other participants of a swap.
* FreudianExcuse:
** Some videos (whether they are a deconstruction or not) have the parent characters give an explanation as to why they're so harsh on their kids when they get in trouble. For example, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDaQ0ewcxaA here]], where, after calling out his parents and getting them sent to jail, Caillou asks Boris and Doris why they are always so harsh on him and ground him for the most trivial of reasons. Doris then explains how her own parents always grounded her for ridiculous reasons (such as when she innocently told her father about how she wanted her own TV show) when she was a kid herself. [[StartOfDarkness It was then that she swore to do the same thing to her kids when she grew up, apparently so they would know her pain]]. Caillou (appropriately) rejects her flimsy excuse, gives them both a short TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere and leaves them for good]].
** In somewhat of a meta-example, a common AlternateCharacterInterpretation of many of the kids (especially Caillou and Dora) are that the only reason they act out so much is because of the abuse of their family and friends, something that is often thrown back into the latter group's face in the {{Deconstruction}} videos.
* FunWithFlushing: Videos that involve people getting flushed down the toilet (whether it's someone getting flushed down the toilet by a trouble-maker, or the trouble-maker being flushed down the toilet as a punishment) are fairly common.
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* GenderBender: A common punishment given to the troublemakers is to have their sex changed via MagicPlasticSurgery in the "X gets his/her gender swapped" videos. It is also common to have troublemakers get grounded because they inflicted this trope onto someone else. (Whether by turning them into merely a gender-flipped version of themselves or turning them into a random person/fictional character that happens to be the opposite gender of the character being transformed.)
* GenreDeconstruction: Some videos serve as a deconstruction of the "Grounded" aspect. They tend to focus on Caillou's dad's OnlySaneMan and DisproportionateRetribution attitudes, essentially calling him out on his random punishments and reasonings as to why he does so.
* GetOutOfJailFreeCard: When any troublemaker is sentenced to prison, no matter how much time they spent there, they are guaranteed to be let out of the prison like nothing ever happened and without explanation in a succeeding video.
* GISSyndrome: It's not uncommon for users to insert familiar characters into the [=GoAnimate=]/Vyond setting via stock images of them from off the internet. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rk6tYqjj83g Here's one such example of this]].
* GivingSomeoneThePointerFinger: Thanks to there not being animations for the characters to punch, throw things, or whatnot, the characters' animation for pointing ahead is often used in place of those and many other actions (and often adds to the hilarity as a result).
* GoToYourRoom: After a troublemaker gets [[YouAreGrounded grounded grounded grounded]], their parents tell them to go to their room.
* GoneHorriblyWrong[=/=][[GoneHorriblyRight Right]]: Countless times have the schemes of the naughty kids blown up in their faces because of things they didn't anticipate.
* GoodIsNotNice: Anyone who isn't the person currently getting in trouble and grounded. This is more evident in the more sadistic grounding videos where the troublesome character is beaten up or murdered by their family and friends for their actions, or "Punishment Day" sequences with more severe (and less [[CrossesTheLineTwice humorous]]) punishments.
* GooGooGetup: Characters are often made to wear diapers as punishment.
* GoshDarnItToHeck: Profanity is often replaced with minced oaths. Justified, as much of the community is composed of children who share their computers with relatives. Not that this stops some people though. See ObligatorySwearing below.
* GreekChorus: Parodied; a handful of (mostly satirical) videos have the events of the video commented on by a {{Gonk}}ish character sitting at a computer (who seems to only be a head wearing a baseball cap) who takes some random issue with it. ([[ThisLoserIsYou And is likely a representation of the worst parts of the GoAnimate grounded fandom.]]) ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQVklVHShVY One video featuring this character]].)
* GroinAttack: A running gag on the now-terminated Isaac Anderson's videos is WesternAnimation/{{Caillou}} getting his penis cut off, such as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISMkZvDI1dg this one.]]. This also happens on a few other videos as well by other users besides Isaac. It's also a common punishment seen in "Punishment Day" videos.
* GrowlingGut: One of the sound effects with the arrival of HTML is a "stomach gurgle".
* GroundedForever: Parents in Grounded videos will often ground the child for a very long amount of time (ex: 112233445566778899 years) or forever.
* GrossOutShow: Seeing as how many of the users on the site are/were little kids, and there's an effect that makes people vomit, you can expect a lot of [=GoAnimate/Vyond=] videos to be this.
* GuiltByAssociationGag: Sometimes in the "Gets Held Back" videos, when there are multiple characters involved, a single character in the grounded party will be the only one to cause trouble in a grade (sometimes even with an unrelated character), while their peers stand by and not cause any trouble along with them. With few exceptions, all characters are still told to go back a grade regardless.
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