Line #31 WebAnimation/StoryBooth


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4	''[[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWENB1OaGA9402PKzEVl0ow/featured Story Booth]]'' is a Platform/YouTube channel dedicated to animating and sharing short stories from various people's lives, usually those of young children and teenagers. Themes range from serious issues like bullying and mass shootings to more lighthearted and even humorous videos about embarrassing events, mistakes, or borderline ghost stories.
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6	Unlike many of the similar animated channels inspired by it, ''Story Booth'' gets all of its content from its own viewers through submissions, which ensures a higher quality of videos produced and less need to rely on clickbait titles and thumbnails. While ''Story Booth'' has a few outlandish stories, most of its videos are firmly grounded in reality and focus on real events. Updates occur roughly once a week.
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8	After coming back from a short hiatus in March 2022 the creators also unveiled a new spinoff channel called ''[[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCq945GW0dUVXJrFfzjrwt4g Story Booth College]]'' that focuses on various stories and misadventures submitted by college kids. This series contains a bit more mature (though still often humorous) subject matter and is aimed at the older teen and young adult demographic. Tropes for it should go in the appropriate section below.
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10	!!''Story Booth'' provides examples of:
11	* AbusiveParents: Plenty of stories involve parental figures who are uncaring at best and outright violent at worst. [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mXS0_YMT6Y8 Mean Mom]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Vtb64wZkzs 16 and Pregnant]], and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXpgu7Zaxl4 My 'Perfect' Dad Wasn't Who I Thought He Was]] are perfect examples of this.
12	* ACupAngst: Jessica from [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDrkdxpaGMs I Was Made Fun Of For Being A Late Bloomer]] suffers from this when everyone at her school [[BigBreastPride starts developing early and begins teasing her over her flat chest]]. By the end of the video, she learns to accept her body for what it is and is less self-conscious about being [[PetitePride small]].
13	* AdultsAreUseless: PlayedForDrama. Depending on the video, adults are either too clueless, busy, or apathetic to provide moral or emotional support.
14	* ArtStyleDissonance: Despite the cartoony art style, ''Story Booth'' has several very dark stories that deal with controversial real-world issues like bullying, mass shootings, body image problems, underage drug abuse, pedophilia, and much, much more. {{Justified\|Trope}} as each story comes from an actual person.
15	* ArtEvolution: The first few videos on the channel were very rough and somewhat more detailed while later videos gradually became more stylized and simplistic. Compare [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hjw0PPBkMvU the first video]] to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwxHDpyPdp4 a more recent one]].
16	* BullyingTheDisabled: A common theme in ''Story Booth'' is how people with intellectual or physical disabilities are bullied and ostracized by their peers.
17	* CelebrityEdition: Occasionally ''Story Booth'' will make a video focusing on a celebrity (mostly other famous [=YouTubers=]) such as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXTO0rTpfks Lilly Singh]] or [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmsmTQNPkSY Anthony Ramos]].
18	* CreepyChild: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT8PZvXZfyE My Scary Little Sister]] features a teenage girl with a little sister who behaves in a very creepy manner, such as claiming to see a strange man in her room or laughing in glee at a particularly dark part of a children's movie that had the other kids crying.
19	* DrivenToSuicide: {{Discussed\|Trope}} in both [[https://youtu.be/sG-WJueFR30?list=PLTv86vY0AuCuzwXs4WrQcb2kVXT_xA5Od My Friend Committed Suicide]] and [[https://youtu.be/n1iqxzn8zAw I Lost My Brother]], with the former narrated by [=YouTuber=] Katherout (Katherine Berry).
20	* FatBastard: In [[https://youtu.be/lbEr8srUnAU A Creepy Guy Followed Me]], Kayley was harassed by one in the church parking lot.
21	* HeWhoFightsMonsters: [[https://youtu.be/dwxHDpyPdp4 I Did The Wrong Thing After Getting Bullied]] revolves around Sarah getting harassed badly in middle school. When she entered high school, she thoughtlessly took her anger out on random people, coming off as no better than her past aggressors, which she admits to herself.
22	* HugeSchoolgirl: Jasmine from [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ter__me0FTQ I Hated To Go Through School as the Tall Girl]] is six feet tall and feels awkward and out of place because of it.
23	* HumansAreFlawed: Many of the videos make it clear that humans are capable of horrific acts, but many of those videos also end with some measure of hope and state that other people are capable of compassion and sympathy as well.
24	* InternetSafetyAesop: Several stories have touched upon teenage girls posting their privates online at others' insistence, resulting in them feeling shamed.
25	* KidsAreCruel: Quite a lot of stories revolve around childhood bullying. They sometimes reach BullyBrutality levels.
26	* MoodWhiplash: This can result from watching several videos in a row due to the wide range of subject matter covered on the channel. One minute the viewer could be watching a silly story about a supposedly possessed doll and the next minute be reeling in horror at a tale of extreme child abuse. All of the stories are submitted by real people recounting a past part of their lives after all, so this trope is pretty much unavoidable.
27	* NeverLearnedToTalk: Mandy from "My Life with CP (Cerebral Palsy)" [[TheUnintelligible only speaks in mumbles]] due to her cerebral palsy, so her mother has to translate her story for her.
28	* OlderThanTheyLook: Ashley from "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YrmQfvUNfg I Don't Look My Age But I'm In High School]]" is a high school junior, but due to being 4'11" with a "baby face" and hardly any curves, she looks like an eighth-grader at the oldest.
29	* PaedoHunt: Several videos show young girls getting sexually abused by strange men, such as a 16-year-old boy and a ''[[DirtyCop security guard]]''.
30	* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: There have been several of these throughout the series. In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPNQ2wxHjBY My Best Friend Ghosted Me]], Anna received one from a [[AlphaBitch girl named Leah]].
31	-->'''Anna:''' Do you even know what you're saying? Do you hear what is coming out of your mouth?\
32	'''Leah:''' I hear it loud and clear. [[PsychologicalProjection You are not supportive of me, you're a bad person, and I think you need to go away until you learn how to be a good friend.]]
33	* TeenPregnancy: Covered a few times in stories like [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Vtb64wZkzs this]] or [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AF4hTDXLlA this]].
34	* TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: Several videos have people learn the hard way that even seemingly average people can actually be cruel {{Jerkass}}es at best or depraved monsters at worst.
35	* TroubledSympatheticBigot: Karim from [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBUWzTESAKI I Didn't Like Gay People]] grew up in a setting filled with casual homophobia, causing him to accept without question that homosexuality is wrong. At one point, he beat up his friend for making advances toward him, though he is torn about whether that was right or wrong. Being socially ostracized in high school, then making LGBT friends in college, finally helps him overcome his homophobia.
36	* WeightWoe: Plenty of stories center on body image issues, often resulting in anorexia. The subjects within the stories do eventually learn to accept themselves for who they are, though.
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38	!!''Story Booth College'' provides examples of:
39	* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: It's a series based around stories summited by college students so this is pretty much a given. In just [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myJdK2gMAfA&ab_channel=storyboothcollege the second story]] posted on the channel, we have a girl and her friends who end up getting completely wasted while going to various parties which results in them being featured on an Instagram page focused on wild college kid shenanigans, much to their embarrassment.
40	* DarkerAndEdgier: Not by a whole lot but it's still there. While the overall tone and animation are similar to the main channel ''Story Booth College'' features a bit more adult content and situations and is mostly aimed at the late-teen demographic. If ''Story Booth'' is a PG movie with some occasionally questionable subject matter that can be enjoyed by the whole family ''Story Booth College'' is a PG-13 movie with more swearing and mature subjects that the parents wait to watch after all the young kids go to bed.

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