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6* AlasPoorScrappy: Even those who dislike characters like WesternAnimation/{{Caillou}} and [[WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer Dora]] can feel bad for them due to the insane and lethal punishments they often receive.
7* AnimationAgeGhetto: An unusual case in that it's mostly kids (rather than adults) believing any show on a network made ostensibly for younger children is a "baby show" and thus deserving of their wrath in the grounded videos. Even shows with [[PeripheryDemographic large followings]] such as ''WesternAnimation/{{Cyberchase}}'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Bluey}}'', ''WesternAnimation/LuAndTheBallyBunch'', and ''WesternAnimation/SofiaTheFirst'' are often hated by the fandom, simply by proxy of sharing network space with legitimately disliked shows such as ''WesternAnimation/{{Caillou}}''. This is probably due to the fact many users of the site are actually tween kids who intentionally (and irrationally) hate on shows intended for small children just to look "cool".
8* BadassDecay: A very strange variation of this trope is in play with these videos - a troublemaker can perform any act, commit any crime, assault or even kill any person, all without any hesitation or remorse. But the moment an authority figure confronts the troublemaker and demands an explanation, they immediately surrender and reveal the truth and sit there and take any and all punishments given to them. Very rarely will they strike back against the person and usually doing so will only cause the other to get ''angrier''.
9** Similarly, videos where a character throws a temper tantrum that results in massive damage to either a building or even an entire city. The troublemakers may have grown into giants and have uncontrollable anger. But the moment their parents yell at them, they immediately crumble like paper and shrink back down into their normal selves so they can be punished.
10** This also applies to non-troublemakers; whenever they encounter a troublemaker, they are annoyed and indifferent. However, the moment the troublemaker threatens to do something to them, they lose all composure and say "No" repeatedly, allowing the troublemaker to do what they want to them. This mostly applies to people like [=GoAnimate=] users and OCs, but this can also sometimes happen to the parents as well.
11* BizarroEpisode: Most Uolliac videos, particularly if the user who made it otherwise makes typical grounded videos.
12* CatharsisFactor: Some viewers have taken satisfaction in watching the either the [[AbusiveParents parent]] or [[SadistTeacher teacher]] characters get either grounded, arrested, executed or killed.
13* CreatorsPet: It's fairly easy to tell when a certain character is particularly favored by the user, usually by being the most frequent grounder or punishment-giver to a trouble-maker, treated as TheAce by all the other characters, being the "yes" character in a "[=(Something)Yes(Something Else)No=]" username or always having great things happen to them even if they are a KarmaHoudini, exhibit huge amounts of ProtagonistCenteredMorality, and/or get hate directed at them by users in the comments. Boris, Rosie, Gina, users' [[AuthorAvatar Author Avatars]], and many of [[ButtMonkey Macusoper's]] peers (particularly his dad Diesel Busters) tend to be the most frequent characters to fall under this.
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15* CrossesTheLineTwice:
16** Children being executed and condemned to Hell for petty slights is horrifying. However, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4ZYVcbdhRM this video of Caillou and Dora]] being ''lowered into lava'', ''[[SpecialEffectFailure being burned into skeletons]]'' ''[[DullSurprise while still going "wawawawawawawawawa"]]'', going to Hell, ''[[DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu mocking and grounding the devil]]'' ([[GratuitousNinja who's a ninja for some reason]]), overpowering him by saying holy words and forcing him to read the Bible, and '''[[EscapedFromHell casually escaping Hell without any sign of obstacles]]''' manages to be hilarious.
17** The epilogue to "[[https://youtu.be/tumZiX6-jdM Shinji Gets Grounded]]" is defined by this trope, involving Shinji's family and friends tricking him into committing suicide and then laughing at a recording of his death.
18** '''Anything''' from more mature creators, such Issac Anderson, samster5677, and [=PaperLuigi99=], is guaranteed to be as [[BlackComedy messed up as it is utterly hilarious.]]
19** Most "[[HumiliationConga Punishment Day]]" sequences or videos are ''loaded'' with this. While it can be messed up and just plain sadistic, the sheer absurdity that goes into some of the punishments can carry it.
20* DesignatedHero: Now has its [[DesignatedHero/GoAnimate own page]].
21* DesignatedMonkey: It's not hard to find yourself feeling more sorry for Caillou, Dora, and the other kids who get grounded for trivial reasons than their [[BigScrewedUpFamily Big, Screwed-Up Families]] and [[WithFriendsLikeThese so-called "friends"]]:
22** Sometimes characters have little to no involvement in ruining someone's day and get grounded for it anyway. For example, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByLJpWid6Gw in this video]], Caillou's family is trying to go see movie that Rosie wants to watch for her birthday (a movie which is established will never be publicly released afterwards). Despite Caillou's various efforts to waste time on the drive there, they arrive at the theater 15 minutes before it starts... only to find out from a woman that the screening had just finished. When Rosie points out that the schedule states a much later time, [[{{Jerkass}} she rudely blows her off and even calls her an idiot]]. [[TheScapegoat Boris and Doris then angrily blame Caillou for making them miss their movie]] and ruining Rosie's birthday, even though (despite trying everything he could to make them miss the movie) he clearly isn't to blame for the change in schedule and not telling them.
23** Then we have the times when characters, usually "baby show" characters, actually ''help'' people or right their wrong-doings...[[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished and still get grounded anyway]], because...[[ForTheEvulz well, just because]]. When the grounded party is Caillou or Dora, one could simply chalk it up to them being baby show characters.
24*** An example of this is seen in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhKxo5NWupY Boris Fails To Rob The Bank]]. Caillou overhears his dad planning to rob the bank and decides to stop him by calling the police. Once Boris is arrested and comes out in handcuffs, Caillou mocks him on the way to the police car. The police then decide to arrest ''him'' for no reason other than being a baby show character. In fact, not only does he get a far heavier sentence than Boris, but they are forced to share a cell where only Boris has access to the amenities (including a TV!) and he is free to beat his son as much as he likes.
25** Macusoper, particularly in videos by the user [=D-Future2K17=] as mentioned above, where Macusoper's groundings come by way of bad luck more often than from his own wrong-doings, despite everyone and everything including the titles and descriptions of some videos [[note]] such as [[https://youtu.be/4waRyuE8I64 this one]] which suggests that Macusoper is trying to pin the blame on another student for losing his homework when the other student actually ''stole'' Macusoper's homework and [[AuthorAvatar the teacher]] doesn't bother to investigate [[CassandraTruth Macusoper's claims]] and immediately pins him as a liar trying to pass the blame on his star student and sends him to the principal[[/note]] suggesting otherwise. Many times, Macusoper just comes off as a big time Woobie who is having his life being made an utter hell by willfully blind adults and his {{Jerkass}} friends and father.
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29* EndingFatigue:
30** Behavior Card Day[=/=]Dead Meat videos are the most common victims of this, because of the potentially huge cast to be judged one at a time. This is not helped when the teacher always explains each card and what happens when someone gets it which, if paired with a large cast, means these can go on for quite some time. Worse, the teacher will often repeat the same dialogue for every student who gets a card, making it all the more boring to sit through. Sometimes, it can take over 30 minutes to get to the student(s) who got in dead meat.
31** Some Punishment Day videos can become this depending on the amount of punishments. After the troublemaker's initial misdemeanor, up to five or more minutes of the remainder of the video can be dedicated to the parade of punishments they receive in a Punishment Day.
32** In a similar vein, videos that end with a number of characters coming over to the troublemaker's house to introduce themselves and express their disgust with the troublemaker over whatever they did. One at a time. Depending on the amount of characters, scenes like this can take up two-thirds of the video's ending. It's worse when combined with the aforementioned Behavior Card Days and Punishment Days.
33** "[[https://youtu.be/Vi4D4yzWGYA Dora Gets Gina Expelled/Grounded BIG TIME]]", after Dora is grounded with heavy amounts of SensoryAbuse to go along with it, ends with a segment between Gina and her mom that seemingly only exists to hammer in the fact that Gina is flawless and better than Dora.
34** [[https://youtu.be/eDnsEsZPlUc This]] [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Shinji]] Gets Grounded video seems to want to list as many artists or songs that the author could think of, as the ending is nothing more than 5 minutes of Yui Ikari[[note]]Among a few other employees of NERV Headquarters[[/note]] listing off which songs/artists Shinji is no longer allowed to listen to after his Walkman gets taken away. Though given the nature of the Shinji Gets Grounded series, this was likely intentional.
35* EnsembleDarkhorse:
36** WesternAnimation/{{Caillou}} and WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer are far and away the most popular subjects of mockery.
37** Eric, a red-haired and bespectacled Comedy World character who is often seen with [[VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire Latios]] accompanying him also sees frequent usage across many users' videos. (Usually as either a bystander or as a [[MonsterOfTheWeek Troublemaker-of-the-Day]].)
38** Latios himself is arguably an example of this trope as well, as he frequently appears with or without Eric in other videos.
39** Warren Cook is actually a rather popular character among those who don't hate him. Many videos where he isn't being grounded see him [[ThrowTheDogABone getting the last laugh]] or simply being a RecurringExtra gag character defined by his love for making fake VHS openings.
40** Ms. Christina, an African-American teacher most commonly seen wearing a strapless red dress with "Mrs. Claus"-like fluff at the hem and gray boots, is commonly seen as the main teacher in several Comedy World-oriented grounded videos (but most frequently videos featuring Dora as the troublemaker).
41* EsotericHappyEnding: Numerous videos often wind up being this way, especially when the video ends with the trouble-maker severely injured or dead. For example, the "Gets Executed" videos end with a bratty baby show character or a "bad user" getting executed and ending with everyone celebrating their death. This is supposed to be seen as a good ending considering how much audiences are supposed to hate them, but consider the facts: The characters just ''brutally murdered a child'' and are dancing on their grave (which often reads "BIH (Burn in Hell)". Rather than being a happy ending for the "good guys", it comes off as [[NightmareFuel immensely unsettling]].
42* FandomRivalry:
43** It's common for [=GoAnimate=] fans to rival against the haters who much prefer UsefulNotes/AdobeFlash for being "real animation".
44** Also with fans of Harry Partridge due to the latter ripping on the software in a [[https://youtube.com/watch?v=k3Pjgs9I9Ns 2011 video]]. [[TakeThatScrappy Many have gone as far as to create Grounded videos out of Harry in retaliation.]]
45* FanNickname: Dora's parents were never given official names in the show, so [=GoAnimate=] creators made up their own: Elena and Veena are sometimes used as Mami's two nicknames. Miguel is the name typically given to Papi, though Cole is sometimes used as well.
46* {{Fanon}}: "Anderson" being the family name of Caillou's family (presumably after Isaac Anderson).
47** Mami and Papi Marquez's first names being Elena or Veena and Miguel or Cole, respectively. Interestingly, the movie Film/DoraAndTheLostCityOfGold confirms that Dora's parents are indeed named Elena and Cole.
48** Mr. Hinkle's first name being "Cockfucker". [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext Your guess is as good as ours]], since it was already established in the ''Caillou'' canon that his first name is Paul.
49* FanonDiscontinuity: Strangely, some former [=GoAnimate=] users reportedly became upset over the discovery of [=GoAnimate=] For Schools (where Comedy World and other favorite themes lived on until they were removed from there) and took to harassing people using that version of the software, apparently refusing to believe that the beloved themes were back after making such as big deal over them being discontinued in the standard software. Now that the themes have been removed from there, it seems that they got the last laugh.
50* FetishRetardant:
51** "Fetish videos", a series of vore and inflation videos ''highly'' looked down in the [=GoAnimate=] community, especially for their abuse of circle props.
52** Any and all sex scenes tend to wind up as this, as it's impossible to have the characters actually be naked (only have NudeColoredClothes) and most attempts to get around that tend to come off as [[SpecialEffectFailure laughable]].
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56* HarsherInHindsight:
57** Infamous "prank" channel [=DaddyOFive=] is basically a real-life version of the families in "X Gets Grounded" videos, and ''[[http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/daddyofive-prank-controversy not in a good way.]]''
58** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G1WOVBu6NA This video where Caillou asks for beer and gets grounded]] by African Vulture can be a bit harder to watch in light of the Caillou Christmas Carol episode where it's revealed that Boris (in African Vulture's canon) acts the way he does because his friend and his cousin died in a drunk driving accident.
59* HilariousInHindsight:
60** In the 2014 video "Eric's Dad Discovers The Truth", after the titular character claims that the voices inside of his head keep telling him to do bad things for others, his wife claims that he got the idea from a cheesy movie plot. A year after that video was made, [[WesternAnimation/InsideOut a movie with the exact premise got released to theaters.]]
61** [[https://youtu.be/FUd_7kazdvo This video]] involves WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}} getting in trouble for sounding like the New York Yankees home run siren. In response, David Read grounds him until the Chicago Cubs (who notably never won a World Series for over 100 years when the video was made) win the World Series. A cruel punishment then, now hilarious as the Cubs finally won the World Series the year after the video was uploaded.
62** In ''Literature/TheBerenstainBears'' story "The Berenstain Bears' Report Card Trouble", Papa Bear shouts some oddly prescient dialogue after finding out about Brother Bear's bad report card:
63--->"That's right!" roared Papa. "[You are] Grounded! Grounded, grounded, grounded, grounded! There'll be no more TV, no more video games, no more movies, no more skateboarding, no more rollerblading, no more soccer, no more sports of any kind. And furthermore-"
64** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmTKi0mXxRc This video]], where Boris hires [[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy Peter Griffin]] to babysit Caillou, Rosie, and Cody, becomes a lot funnier when over two years after the video was uploaded, an [[Recap/FamilyGuyS19E1StewiesFirstWord episode]] of ''Family Guy'' would feature a cutaway where Peter is at the park, on the swings, eating unsalted saltine crackers with Boris.
65** Caillou has canonically gotten grounded now, thanks to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WruVqrIayMg this episode]] of the ''Caillou's New Adventures'' reboot.
66** Two names commonly given to [[WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer Dora Marquez's]] parents are Elena and Cole, respectively. The film ''Film/DoraAndTheLostCityOfGold'' actually makes these names canon.
67* InformedWrongness: The kids can do literally anything (even do something nice or behave) only for their parents to still ground them for no stated reason whatsoever even when the kids weren't misbehaving or otherwise weren't at fault. There's a perfectly good reason why the DesignatedVillain section on this page is as big as it is.
68** The "bad guy" in [[https://youtu.be/cxnZ4pFPP8Q this]] and other videos by the same user is made out by Caillou and all the other characters to be an unhinged {{Jerkass}} who is liable to "[[AxCrazy go crazy all of the time]]". However, the "bad guy" is usually shown to mostly be a somewhat ditzy MotorMouth who spends more time standing in one spot going on long-winded tangents about the bad things he supposedly does ([[ImmediateSelfContradiction or does not do]]) than he does actually doing these bad things everybody ([[UnreliableNarrator including the bad guy himself]]) claims he does. Caillou also counts in this video, as when the bad guy says he is stupid, Caillou calls him stupid, and he gets expelled and grounded by Boris for it.
69* InferredHolocaust: The end of the [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3Fr7PumLxOfzjiaktiopnsXafyJHmx9f Gina Gets Taken Away]] mini series may not seem as happy, given that a ChildMage had killed the corrupt social worker that took Gina away from her Dad and the police will likely believe that Gina's Dad may have killed her.
70* MemeticPsychopath:
71** While Canon![[WesternAnimation/{{Caillou}} Boris]] is for the most part a [[GoodParents good and friendly father,]] in [=GoAnimate=] he's portrayed as a psychotic child abuser who gives [[DisproportionateRetribution extreme punishments for minor things]], as you can see from the rest of the tropes on this page.
72** Caillou himself is no better. While in canon he's an occasionally bratty child, in [=GoAnimate=] he is willing to physically harm or even kill people just to get his way.
73** In most ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDoo'' installments, Fred is often portrayed as a stoic, good-natured if occasionally dimwitted leader; in [=GoAnimate=] he is a psychotic ControlFreak who punishes his [[WithFriendsLikeThese "friends"]] by or anyone who wronged him by giving them concussions.
74* MisaimedFandom:
75** Non-ironic [=GoAnimate=] users have been known to ''ask'' people to put their [=GoAnimate=] videos into [=GoAnimate=] cringe compilations. Whether it's to get their videos to a wider audience or they just don't realize that cringe compilations are [[PointAndLaughShow Point And Laugh Shows]] for all intents and purposes is anyone's guess.
76*** On the opposite end of the spectrum, sometimes videos that are [[StylisticSuck clearly satirical]] or [[{{Deconstruction}} deconstructive parodies]] sometimes get featured in cringe compilations as well despite the video maker and the cringe video maker often sharing the same opinion on the grounded videos. (In that case, however, it's possible that the latter may not have realized the video was a parody.)
77** The very reason some of the weirder Grounded video elements (such as Uolliac, 43 Chars, and the Jennifer voice setting) underwent MemeticMutation is because of this, as many of the memes were made by satirical video makers such as [=NotSmirks=] to ''poke fun'' at the Grounded fandom. [[PoesLaw Much of the fandom didn't realize the gags made in these satirical videos were mocking them]] [[SpringtimeForHitler and instead found them hilarious and incorporated them (especially Uolliac) into their normal non-ironic grounded videos]].
78* {{Misblamed}}:
79** Alvin Hung is often accused of having a grudge against the fandom and going through drastic measures to stop any access of the former non-business themes. In reality, Vyond's decisions to shift towards a to business demographic is due to the increased usage of drag-and-drop animation for businesses, the decline of Adobe Flash software in place of the new [=HTML5=] system, as well as the fading relevance of the non-business themes.
80** Some characters voices eventually became unavailable to use with the [=GoAnimate=] interface, (forcing users to find alternate ways to use them) including "David", the standard voice for Caillou beside "Ivy", and the infamous "Kidaroo" voice ([[RefrainFromAssuming aka the "WHYAYAYAYAYAYOLODAD" voice]] used when characters are angry). The non-ironic Grounded fanbase [[FelonyMisdemeanor took this as another attack against them]] via Alvin Hung, but the truth is that the licensing on the voices expired and the company simply chose not to renew them.
81* MoralEventHorizon:
82** Many of the parents' actions in the "Gets Grounded" videos. One specific example would be [[https://youtu.be/wjZoRMHKW0M this video]], where Boris impersonates his own son and gets him into all sorts of trouble just because "[[ForTheEvulz he (Caillou) sucks]]", during which he ''[[OffingTheOffspring puts his daughter Rosie in the microwave]]'' just to make Caillou look bad. [[KarmaHoudini He gets away with this, too]].
83** Many of the kids' actions in the videos are treated as this in-universe, no matter how minor of an offense it was.
84** The community itself seems to treat making fake VHS openings and watching "baby shows" as an unforgivable sin.
85** Watching films from a certain studio or of a certain type is treated the same way as if you associated with a person from another race or sexual orientation that everyone shows a prejudice against, or are committing blasphemy against Our Blessed Lady of The Cinema of The New Line. This is the case with most Warren Cook videos involving Disney.
86** Fred Jones is enough of a [[HairTriggerTemper short-tempered]] {{Jerkass}} in samster5677's videos, but [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnT2dxFYSUo The Scooby Gang Goes to Universal Studios!]] has him hijack a plane and '''crash it into the middle of Ride/UniversalStudios''' [[DisproportionateRetribution all because]] [[EvilIsPetty he hated the theme park and wanted to get back at the Scooby Gang for taking him on vacation]]. However, for once, Fred is actually acknowledged as having crossed a major line InUniverse and is promptly given an earful for committing terrorism and killing hundreds of innocent people just to get back at the gang. [[KarmaHoudini However, this punishment is mitigated by Fred turning into a Teeth Guy, breaking out, and attacking the gang purely out of spite]].
87* MultipleDemographicAppeal: Despite being an animation software with colorful characters and child-friendly settings, it isn't really intended for kids, as the site requires users to be 13+ in order to register. Despite this, it's not marketed as an adult/teen-only website, and there are plenty of younger kids who enter a fake birthday to sign up anyway, and they enjoy creating Grounded videos on the site just as much as they like viewing. In addition, it's not hated by adults and teens for being too kid-oriented either, as it caters to mature people as well since it is possible to [[LoopholeAbuse bypass filters]] to make the characters swear, and characters can drink wine or wear rather provocative clothing.
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91* NeverLiveItDown: Alvin Hung and the company can distance themselves from the Grounded fandom as much as they like, but that isn't going to keep people from thinking of grounded videos, which has quickly become what the site is best known for.
92* NightmareRetardant: [[NightmareFuel/GoAnimate With a few exceptions]], most attempts made to scare people in [=GoAnimate=] usually come off as ineffectual, and almost painfully so at that.
93* OlderThanTheyThink: Contrary to popular belief, the business-level subscription plans didn't replace the casual-level subscriptions in 2015, as they were around at least since 2012.
94* {{Padding}}:
95** Many "Behavior Card Day"/"[Character] Gets in Dead Meat" videos will have dozens of students receiving behavior cards, before the final one gets in trouble and is punished. There seems to be some kind of contest among the community to create the "longest behaviour card day."
96** [[https://youtu.be/WUyw3VJ7Gkw This video]] has a trouble-making [[WesternAnimation/TheBackyardigans Tyrone]] facing the "Guardians of the Land of [=Make-Believe=]" for setting off a nuclear bomb in Romania. About 7 minutes of the 12-and-a-half minute long video is taken up by the ''37'' characters introducing themselves, briefly expressing their disgust with Tyrone and his actions, and detailing one of his punishments.
97*** Even then, the video's main plot only takes up less than 10 minutes, as the final 2 minutes are dedicated to the creator of the video announcing that they're taking a break while they're on vacation as well as pitching an idea for a grounded video to another creator. And by pitch, we mean they ''explain their desired synopsis and every single detail that they want from the video''.
98** [[https://youtu.be/s09lZ-psl6c This 12-minute long video]], where Warren Cook goes to the movie theatres to see ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'', is an absolutely insane version of this trope. Despite the simple concept, it takes Warren around '''11 minutes''' to actually see the movie, since most of the ten minutes prior features [[AuthorAppeal different]] ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' [[AuthorAppeal characters and]] [[VanityPlate Vanity Plates]] lining up to receive their tickets. By the time Warren gets punished, there's barely more than a minute of it left.
99** Most of Roku Kun the Vyonder's videos have a lot of this, being full of redundant dialogue consisting of characters constantly repeating information and pointing out the obvious. Special mention, however, goes to the now-private "Dora burn down Eri Karan's band/Concussion Time By Eri Karan/Arrested", which is padded with said dialogue to where it's almost a butt-numbing '''''2 hours long''''' (compared to the usual length of between 20 to 40 minutes). To put it into perspective, it takes 20 minutes for Dora's family to make it to the concert, and the actual explosion occurs almost an hour in.
100** [[https://youtu.be/Uo-_-gjICGo Black Bear Goes To Night Detention]] is filled with this. Scenes often last for way too long, being filled with redundant dialogue that merely re-establishes information the audience already knows, as well as random pauses between dialogue, the longest of which lasting for 42 seconds. In addition, there is a scene where Black Bear does nothing but sleep for 4 minutes and 32 seconds, as well as a scene where the characters do nothing but stand around listening to music for 1 minute and 46 seconds. This adds up to over 7 minutes of filler, taking up over half of the video's 12 minutes and 43 seconds-long runtime.
101* PeripheryDemographic:
102** The website was originally intended for people to easily make animations, but it quickly became popular among children to make cartoons about people or characters they dislike getting grounded. Then said cartoons gained their own periphery demographic of older people who find them funny [[SoBadItsGood for all the wrong reasons]]. It's partially for this reason that the [=GoAnimate=] team reworked the site into a business-only animation tool.
103** Some of the ironic [=GoAnimate=] fans have made their own [=GoAnimate=] videos, and got subscribers and fans from the actual [=GoAnimate=] community, who [[MisaimedFandom didn't realize they're being made fun of]].
104** And then it comes back around again with users like [=NotSmirks=], who deconstruct typical [=GoAnimate=] videos by taking Grounded Video tropes and cranking the weirdness (and [[SensoryAbuse audio levels]]) up, yet gain followings from the users who make the videos.
105* PutOnABus: The removal of several commonly-used voices such as Alan, Julie, David, Veena, Grace, Kidaroo, Allison and Bridget (due to expired licensing) caused several characters to be removed from "(character) Gets Grounded" series. This is either through being KilledOffscreen, not appearing in the videos, or by simply remaining speechless in cameos. However, this has since been rectified with the discovery of [=Oddcast=] and [=VoiceForge=], the websites that provide the voices for these characters, and even without that solution, [[AvertedTrope some users forego even removing them at all]] and simply [[TheOtherDarrin use another voice for the character]].
106* ReplacementScrappy: Overtime, the business themes for the program have become this for Comedy World and other popular non-business themes. This is an interesting case as the business themes were already present in the program as early as 2012 (although weren't as regularly used at the time), along with the other themes in a lot of Grounded videos. However, following the removal of the non-business themes in 2016[[note]] (especially after they were removed from [=GoAnimate=] For Schools even though that version was made for kids)[[/note]]...well, suffice it to say that you can probably count the amount of Grounded video makers who don't have a grudge against the business themes on one hand.
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110* TheScrappy: Many of the parent characters for the ironic fanbase. Characters like Boris and Dora's parents are known to stretch the boundary of punishment into outright abuse. Even if the troublemaker did do something legitimately bad, it can still be easy to feel sorry for them when their parents put them through another punishment day. And that's ignoring the times they ground their kid for very minor things or sometimes literally ''nothing at all''.
111* SignatureScene: The living room background, where grounded videos usually end so that the parents will [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin ground]] their kids. Caillou is perhaps the most popular troublemaker, while Boris and Doris (usually the former) are the most well-known punishers.
112* SoBadItsGood: The limited animation and bizarre subject matter have attracted a rather devoted following who love to watch the videos completely ironically.
113* StrawmanHasAPoint:
114** Crossing over with an unintentional BlackComedy version of HypocriticalHumor, [[https://youtu.be/qkeeZiyUTj8 In this video]], Dora mouths off to Miss Christina and calls her psychotic. The video obviously treats this as a terrible thing for Dora to say...but the fact that Dora's teacher tears up the classroom when Dora tells her this and gives her a "detention" that is really just Miss Christina torturing Dora in Dora's parents' room, it kinda makes you wonder how wrong Dora actually is.
115*** Two [[https://youtu.be/DykWz7eAfyA later]] [[https://youtu.be/ZvJF-Lc5zfM&t videos]] from the same creator basically take a common situation (Dora falling asleep in class and Dora refusing to do her math problems) and instead of Miss Christina gently waking her up and asking if she sleeps well or needs math help, have her command her do her work or be punished, then get in Dora's face by calling her "little girl" in the manner of a fire and brimstone preacher with an animation of her literally spitting angry. Both situations end up with Dora beyond annoyed at the teacher and beginning to toss things around in the classroom, or her waiting until Miss Christina leaves the classroom and steals her wallet, then her getting in trouble. In both cases, Dora only acted up due to being treated unfairly by her teacher and deciding to get revenge.
116*** Finally, [[https://youtu.be/_wEyeK2XOLA this video]] from that same creator casts Dora as frustrated when she only knocks down one pin in the first roll of her first frame '''ever''' of ten-pin bowling. Instead of doing the responsible thing of reminding Dora that there are 22 other rolls and 9 frames coming up for her to do well and encouraging her (and that they paid for three games; and for her age why they wouldn't consider bumper bowling to help her learn the game), they catch on her cursing and antagonize her for her slip of the tongue, then whine about her being a 'big baby, spoiled brat, spoiled loser with a bad attitude'. It's no wonder she tosses a bowling ball at an employee in annoyance about her 'bitch-ass family'.
117** While most "(Character) Gets a Job at (Place)" videos show that the central character brings their termination from their jobs upon themselves, due to the characters getting jobs just to lie to customers, some videos show the characters losing their jobs when one or more customers make ridiculous orders (such as ordering two billion cheeseburgers from a [=McDonald's=] or asking for a Whopper at a Wendy's) or when one or more of the customers tries to buy something they don't have enough money for; when the central character understandably questions their impossible order or tells them they don't have enough money, the customer gets pissed off and causes a scene, usually leading to the main character telling them to leave the store like anyone would do. (If the customer doesn't leave for a competing establishment in a huff themselves.) When the manager/boss finds out about what happened they side with the customer(s) one hundred percent and fire the main character despite their protests. While the intention is for the viewer to agree that the employed character deserved it and was harming the business, the character's protests that the customers were being unreasonable, that they couldn't possibly fill out the customer's absurd orders, and/or the customer not having enough money for what they were trying to buy aren't entirely invalid.
118** Little Bill in [[https://youtu.be/lfPp-K-5Lwc this video]]. Granted, he was being a bit of a smart-ass, but the car accident caused in the video was entirely his mother's fault thanks to her losing her temper and turning to yell at Little Bill instead of paying attention to the road. Little Bill actually points this out, but the video treats him as being insubordinate and [[NeverMyFault trying to shift the blame]] for saying this even though, in a way, he is actually right.
119** The detention teacher from [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GpTKXRkB70&ab_channel=ManAetherslime14 Dora Misbehaves In Detention]] orders Dora to write a report on the American Civil War ''by the end of the period'' with a threat of punishment if she doesn't. Although Dora did something to receive detention ([[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin and disobeys the teacher's orders in detention later on]]), she is not wrong to internally complain about the short time and difficulty of such a task, especially considering she doesn't appear to be even junior high-aged in the video. The principal later demanding the same report be done by the end of Dora's ''five-month suspension'' seems a lot more reasonable in comparison.
120** Roku Kun the Vyonder's videos often have this ''in spades'', specifically "troublemakers" like Dora, Caillou and Little Bill openly calling their [[AbusiveParents parents]] "psychopaths" and "abusers". While each of them is a VillainProtagonist who'll go so far as to commit ''mass murder'' [[EvilIsPetty for a petty reason]] or ForTheEvulz, [[HypocriteHasAPoint they are nowhere near incorrect]] to denounce their parents as immoral, given these adults will inflict disturbingly extreme DisproportionateRetribution at the drop of a hat. Not helping their case is that [[CantTakeCriticism they often respond in a fit of rage]] to their kids' truthful statements [[IResembleThatRemark with an act of violence]].
121* {{Squick}}: Some of the more gross-out situations really do sound and/or look disgusting in spite of the rampant SpecialEffectFailure:
122** Sometimes the punishments in the "Grounded" videos come off as rather gruesome or disgusting. [[https://youtu.be/d9KDa3dd4lE In this "Punishment Day" video]], for example, Caillou gets grounded [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment for being grounded]], and Boris punishes him by [[EyeScream licking Caillou's eyeballs]], force-feeding him dirt, pulling Caillou's teeth out and ''eating them'', forcing Caillou to drink out of a toilet that hasn't been flushed in 50 years, [[TongueTrauma cutting off his tongue]], then ''biting off all of the skin on Caillou's face''.
123---> '''Caillou''': Stop it. It's disgusting. [=WaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-ah=].
124** The video for Dora babysits Abuela. While seemingly normal, Dora is forced by Abuela (depicted as a heavyset woman in a yellow outfit) to give her a bath (and, to make matters worse, [[CrossesTheLineTwice clean her backside]]). Somehow, Dora's unclothed grandmother manages to be [[FanDisservice utterly disgusting]] in spite of the usual [=GoAnimate=] quality, especially since the user makes little effort to censor everything. [[https://youtu.be/OJ25qSgx_uw Watch it here, if you dare]].
125** [[https://youtu.be/kctmJdwNFoo This video]] depicts Caillou turning himself into a [[GenderBender hot lady]]. He goes to the mall... and gets hit on by his own dad. It's not so much that Boris (a married man) is hitting on a lady, it's that he's hitting on a lady who (unbeknownst to him) ''[[ParentalIncest is really his own son]]''. Fortunately, once Boris realizes what happened, he quickly stops and as expected grounds Caillou for turning himself into a grown woman.
126** The [[SmashCut Smash Cuts]] to actual fatalities from Franchise/MortalKombat in [[https://youtu.be/ftkO-C9lj1c Caillou Re-Enacts Mortal Kombat]] whenever Caillou attacks somebody.
127** In [[https://youtu.be/EH8uvvfUHtI Fat Caillou Poops On The World]], the title character... [[PottyFailure well]], [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin it speaks for itself really.]]
128* TakeThatScrappy:
129** The very premise of the "(preschool show character) Gets Grounded" videos are this, as kids who dislike the lead characters for being "baby show" characters are venting their frustrations on them with these videos.
130** It's more common with the ironic fanbase, but there are many videos where the [[TheScrappy widely disliked]] [[AbusiveParents parent characters]]' KarmaHoudiniWarranty runs out, often via the kid characters [[CallingTheOldManOut calling them out]] or getting them grounded or arrested. Boris (who is one of, if not ''the'' most hated out of all the parent characters) is the most common recipient of these types of videos.
131* TheyCopiedItSoItSucks: Many people have noticed that the animation in the Comedy World theme looks suspiciously similar to the early seasons of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', with some of the same background settings being recycled. As such, people often wrongfully believe that the website was ripping off ''Family Guy'' and detest it on that basis alone, even though there are other themes beyond the aformentioned Comedy World. [[WordofGod It was debunked by Alvin Hung]] that they plagiarized Creator/SethMacFarlane's work and he in fact confirmed that he acquired the rights to recycle the style and backgrounds.
132* TooBleakStoppedCaring:
133** The "grounded" videos are often '''drowning''' in this trope. [=Samster5677=]'s Dora, Caillou, and Scooby-Doo videos are pretty much the worst with this, and the constant meme references, suicide jokes and [[SensoryAbuse constant ear rape]] don't help either. Same thing with [=PaperLuigi99=]'s videos, but with the cynicism and violence cranked up to the nth degree.
134** Roku Kun the Vyonder and Harry Strack the GoAnimator’s videos could easily one-up both, with the troublemakers often not above causing chaos or straight up mass murder (usually [[EvilIsPetty for a petty reason]] or just ForTheEvulz), [[AbusiveParents their extremely violent parents]] [[HairTriggerTemper constantly treat them horribly on a hair-trigger]]. The brutal torture and/or capital punishments at the end of every video don't really help one bit.
135** Everything PC Gaming’s Caillou/Cody gets Grounded videos can invoke this feeling given on how they often end with Caillou and Cody getting humiliating punishments and physically assaulted, mutilated (and sometimes even killed) by their [[WouldHurtAChild adult peers]], especially Boris and they often get no consequences for their violent actions. The childish humor and hypocrisy don’t help either.
136* ToyShip: It's not uncommon for video makers to put Caillou and Dora together.
137* UnintentionallySympathetic: A problem with the "Grounded" videos as a video maker takes the DisproportionateRetribution of the punishment way too far. Being grounded for a ridiculously long time because you beat up your teacher is more silly, depending on the number. Being assaulted and killed for failing a test, however, is just disturbing and cruel.
138** For a specific example of this involving Caillou, we have [[https://youtu.be/U4Eqmzsz0cc this video]] where Caillou goes downstairs to open his birthday presents... only to be tricked into receiving a Punishment Day from his family. While normally Caillou does something terrible to deserve it, here he does absolutely nothing to warrant such a Punishment Day from his parents and Rosie. Add the fact that this occurs on his birthday, Caillou comes off as a big time {{woobie}}; having his birthday ruined and subsequently being bullied by his own family for a petty reason.
139** Another video (which is probably now deleted) had Caillou's family go to Chuck E. Cheese's, where Caillou behaves himself. However, Rosie is scared by Chuck E. and, for no reason, Caillou [[TheScapegoat gets blamed for scaring Rosie]]. Despite his attempts to explain he was behaving himself, Doris straight up admits that they don't care and [[MortonsFork he's grounded anyway]].
140** In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65wPJboDtds this video]], Music/JustinBieber gets made fun of and beaten up by [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario and Luigi]]. Because of that, he's expelled on the spot and given a punishment day by his parents, which includes pouring boiling hot water on him and forcing him to consume excrement. We're supposed to root against him, but it's pretty hard not to side with him.
141* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic:
142** In general:
143*** The parent characters and some of the troublesome kids' friends, teachers, and family members. While this could arguably be in affect for all grounding videos (considering the ridiculously long grounding times), some videos depict these characters as being massive {{Jerkass}}es towards the trouble-making kids by going out of their way to make them miserable, excluding them from parties or trips seemingly just to be mean, or even trash-talking them to their face. Oftentimes this is before the trouble-maker has even done anything wrong. Combine this with their treatment of the trouble-makers when they ''do'' cause trouble, and you can see why many of the trouble-makers are seen as UnintentionallySympathetic.
144*** Caillou's family and [[WithFriendsLikeThese friends]] (particularly Boris) most frequently fall under this trope, to name a specific example. Any sympathy that is attempted to be given to them often falls flat when previous videos (or even the very same video) show them to regularly physically and verbally abuse Caillou.
145*** Videos such as "Stop disliking my videos" or "My feelings right now" are this, mainly because the users who do these events seem to bring it on themselves (especially VGCP/UTTP users). And even if that isn't the case, they still come across as whiny and childish (Especially in "Stop Disliking" videos, which give off CantTakeCriticism vibes). "Destroy" videos, on the other hand, are clearly taking this up a notch too far.
146** Specific examples:
147*** [[https://youtu.be/SdjOIfN-sbk To name one example]], here, Caillou pranks Rosie by putting a shark tank in her room. When he gets busted by his parents, Caillou seems genuinely remorseful over this and apologizes to Rosie. Rosie, however, refuses the (actually reasonable) apology and Caillou is sent to his room as the others celebrate. The intention is like all the other videos, namely that Caillou has gone beyond their apologies. However, the context of the situation (Caillou actually realized what he did was wrong and clearly tried to apologize, not to mention the shark was only a few feet long and had no way to attack Rosie) makes Rosie come off as an unreasonable {{Jerkass}}. (As well as Boris and Doris, by extent, as they side with Rosie without a beat when she shrugs off Caillou's apology.)
148*** The ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'' characters in [[https://youtu.be/Qd82jI4IaGw this video]]. The basic plot is that one of Dora's friends, a blue train named Azul, challenges Gordon to a race around the Island of Sodor, and two of the rules Sir Topham Hatt gives is that nobody is to cheat or intentionally block the lines. While Dora, Boots, and Azul are rude characters in the video (as intended), so is pretty much every character: During the race, Azul cheats by sending Boots to stand in Gordon's way on the tracks, which they are instantly called out on. Gordon ultimately secures a victory by having James block Azul at a train station, i.e. ''[[ProtagonistCenteredMorality the exact same thing Azul did]]''. This appears to be an attempt at writing in LaserGuidedKarma, but the morality of this action not being questioned at any point when it happens to Azul's team and the engines and Sir Topham Hatt rubbing Gordon's victory in Dora, Boots, and Azul's faces later ([[KickTheDog even calling Azul a "fake train" while they're at it]]), make the ''Thomas & Friends'' characters come off as really no better than Dora and her friends here.
149* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The original "Politics and Celebrity" and "White Houserz" themes that came with the program are clearly dated in 2007. The themes contain several politicians (e.g. UsefulNotes/SarahPalin and UsefulNotes/MittRomney for example) from the 2008 and 2012 US elections, respectively, an {{Expy}} of UsefulNotes/OsamaBinLaden called "Been Hiding" that came 4 years before his assassination, and the PC Guy and Mac Guy characters from [[Creator/{{Apple}} Apple's]] former Get a Mac advert campaign.
150* UnintentionalUncannyValley:
151** This is what happens when a user tries to make a character super accurate to their real counterpart, including changing their eyes, often resulting in them looking creepy and unemotional.
152** This also happens whenever people try to make more dynamic poses with characters, such as making them move their head to the other side, or up or down, particularly in the Comedy World theme. That theme simply isn't advanced enough to make said poses look even remotely natural or right, and 100% of the time they just look ''off''.
153* VindicatedByHistory: The Business Friendly theme, once the most loathed theme, has become popular with users due to having more effects, the [[LoopholeAbuse many ways people use to access the Flash themes]], and because the other two [=HTML=] 5 themes are seen as lacking and complicated in comparison, whereas Business Friendly can be used casually too.
154* SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome: Yes, even [=GoAnimate=] has its fair share of [=VEoA=] moments.
155** [[https://youtu.be/apmKlvgG9K4 Exhibit A]].
156** [=NotSmirks=] managed to create a 3D water effect that's pretty impressive by [=GoAnimate=] standards, as [[https://youtu.be/HI-Bcak0Co0 shown here]].
157** Other animators like African Vulture and Issac Anderson have been able to, with some decent work, make well-animated scenes with what little Comedy World has given them.
158** While the video itself suffers from SpecialEffectsFailure, [[https://youtu.be/OJ25qSgx_uw "Dora Babysits Abuela"]] has a ''WesternAnimation/{{Noveltoons}}''-esque intro that doesn't look too shabby.
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162* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: Happens a lot of times, intentionally or not. Some videos will feature characters from children's television series engaging in TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior involving sex, drugs, profanity, and violence. Generally, some videos can have these themes without the user leaving a warning beforehand, and it's all too easy to mistake the video as appropriate for kids if the title is harmless and the thumbnail contains bright and colorful animated characters. It doesn't help that [=YouTube=] often mistakenly tags these videos as "for Kids" [[AnimationAgeGhetto simply for being animated]], even the ones that contain blatantly inappropriate themes.
163* TheWoobie:
164** Really, just about nearly every single target of the "Grounded" videos.
165** Daillou in [[https://youtu.be/X7gzg-xC51g Caillou's Teenhood.]] He was physically abused to point of being [[WheelchairWoobie crippled]] [[BodyHorror and his head shaped abnormally,]] and [[spoiler:eventually killed]] by Boris. Even worse, he [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness doesn't act sexy and/or goofy like he usually does, and is much more serious than normal.]]
166** Ballad in [[https://youtu.be/85cQqmQTU5k Ballad's Embarrassment]] after she gets laughed at by her class.
167** Rosie. She's constantly getting tormented, bossed around, and/or killed by Caillou, plus her [[ABirthdayNotABreak birthdays]] are always ruined by him too. And being the TokenGoodTeammate of a {{dysfunctional family}} just adds to her woobiness factor.
168** Gina, due to getting constantly pranked by Dora, despite Dora having little reason to hate her besides being Ms. Christina's favorite student.
169** Macusoper. He always gets in trouble at school for things that aren't even his fault.
170** Shaggy, Scooby, Daphne and Velma. They are always getting concussions from Fred, even for doing things that any sane person would consider harmless and to top all that, any attempts at revenge on Fred always end in tears for them.
171** Music/JustinBieber as depicted in [=LordItachiUchihaZero=]'s videos, who is constantly getting in trouble for things that aren’t even his fault, such as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmTerG_g8Uw catching a cold]] or [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65wPJboDtds getting bullied in school]]. [[AlasPoorScrappy Even his haters feel sorry for him in these videos]].
172* YouLookFamiliar: Since the Flash era had a subset of real-life politicians being parodied known as "White Houserz", it was common to see Sarah Palin being Dora's teacher, Hillary Clinton as a news anchor and Newt Gingrich generally portrayed as a grumpy authority figure (and because kids might not know who these people are or what their views are, the vast majority of these videos are [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools pretty light on political attacks]], unlike grown-ups on the Internet). It's usually the troublemakers that are causing all the issues that politicians need to solve in this world.
173** The Paul voice has had other appearances: in mid-2016, he was licensed to [[http://blogs.mprnews.org/updraft/2016/06/noaa-weather-radio-has-a-new-voice-and-his-name-is-paul/ NOAA Weather Radio]], and (more infamously) he has also been used in certain scam pop-ups that claim that the computer that the Internet browser is running on has a virus on it. Some weather radio enthusiasts and scambaiters have noticed this and made "grounded grounded grounded" jokes as a result.
174** The Wiseguy voice setting was heard in various [=GoAnimate=] videos before being used in the infamous "[[ComicStrip/{{Garfield}} Garfielf]]" video and as the voice of Music/SiIvaGunner.
175** You might be able to recognize the music track that plays during news reports as being the same one used by Keemstar for his ''Drama Alert'' videos. It has been also used frequently in ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'' (including in the episode "Gun Fever Too: Still Hot", right before Frank Reynolds says the memetic "So anyway, I started blasting" line).
176** The interactive doll ''Toys/MyFriendCayla'' uses the Ivy voice setting. Coincidentally, there's another [=GoAnimate=] voice called '''K'''ayla (best known as the main voice used for Dora the Explorer).
177** The voice most often used for Boris (Eric) was used for [[WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius Hugh Neutron]] in ''WebAnimation/JimmyNeutronHappyFamilyHappyHour''.
178** Some of the [=VoiceForge=] voices were featured as announcers in ''VideoGame/{{Loadout}}''.
179** The Eric, Joey and Paul voices have also been used for scam [=robocalls=] (most often [=IRS=] scam calls).
180** The David voice was used in several audio communiqués for [[Tropers/{{Anonymous}} a certain hacktivist group]].
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183!!YMMV tropes with their own pages:
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185[[index]]
186* [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation/GoAnimate Alternative Character Interpretation]]
187* [[AssPull/GoAnimate Ass Pull]]
188* [[BLAM/GoAnimate Big-Lipped Alligator Moment]]
189* [[BrokenBase/GoAnimate Broken Base]]
190* [[DesignatedHero/GoAnimate Designated Hero]]
191* [[DesignatedVillain/GoAnimate Designated Villain]]
192* [[Memes/GoAnimate Memetic Mutation]]
193* [[Narm/GoAnimate Narm]]
194* [[SpecialEffectFailure/GoAnimate Special Effect Failure]]
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