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• Adaptational Nice Guy: D.W. Read. As a consequence of Arthur being the most targeted character from his eponymous show, she is commonly portrayed as an innocent victim of Arthur's schemes (like Rosie) with her trademark brattiness rarely coming into play, if at all. But that's not to say that she never gets in trouble and grounded...
• Abusive Parents: Seen in spades. The parents ground their children for everything short of breathing, and often inflict physical maltreatment upon their kids, such as making them listen to loud music on speakers or forcing them to wear diapers past their infanthood. Some videos even have a kid getting grounded for simply existing or practically nothing.

• And There Was Much Rejoicing: Rarely is anyone shown being upset over a trouble-maker being grounded, arrested, or even killed in some way. Sometimes a video will show everyone celebrating the fact that the trouble-maker is out of their hair with parties and trips to Chuck E. Cheese's and the like. Tropes Are Not Good, however: the "(troublemaker) Gets Executed" videos take this trope up to levels that are beyond disturbing, as they present the characters as openly celebrating the death of a troublemaker (who is often a child) to the point where the news reports on it.

• California Doubling: Grocery stores double as other stores such as Wal-Mart, GameStop and Best Buy, hamburger-type fast food restaurants double as all types of fast food restaurants and the fancy restaurant doubles as all other types of them (such as Olive Garden). This reads more like a case of reusing assets instead of pretending one real-life place is another.

The original goal of the service was to make animation free for anyone and this was incentivized by the community features on the site that were phased out between 2013 and 2016. Before 2015, users could either use the "Quick Video Maker", which offered several ready-made "animated shorts" (some of which are based on licensed properties) with the settings and actions already selected, a small cast of characters to choose from, and the ability for you to write dialogue, or the "Full Featured Video Maker", where you can start from scratch and select almost everything by yourself. During this period, it was used by some noted animation personalities such as Paul Dini, who used it to produce his web series Super Rica and Rashy.

GoAnimate/Vyond is best known for its "X Gets Grounded" videos, also simply known as "grounded videos". Primarily made by young kids, these videos detail the misadventures of various characters as they cause or get themselves into trouble in all manner of ways, followed by them getting busted and grounded (grounded grounded grounded grounded grounded grounded grounded) by their parents for absurd lengths of time. These videos are especially known for the troublemakers usually being characters from TV shows aimed at preschoolers, such as Caillou and Dora the Explorer, or simply individuals that the users hold contempt towards.

In late 2015, the company announced their shift to the new HTML5 standard in January 2016 and removed any video-making feature not centered around business. The other themes were immediately incompatible with HTML5, with the business theme rebuilt in the format for its business customers. The removal of these themes resulted in a backlash from users unfamiliar with the HTML5 standard, though the major decline of Adobe Flash and the growing importance of mobile devices that work with HTML5 meant GoAnimate had to do something to keep up with current trends. On May 6, 2018, the website was rebranded to Vyond, with a new focus on providing easy-to-use animations for businesses and other professional uses.

As of 2020, a group of coders in the fandom managed to successfully create a port of the old Legacy Video Maker named "Wrapper Offline", which doesn't require the internet to run and is a mostly-complete copy of the older assets.

You can find it here.

• Accentuate the Negative: The rant videos, which mostly cover only the negative qualities or simply what the user doesn't like about the subject. What sets the GoAnimate rant videos from normal criticism videos like this is that, most of the time, the user is being dead serious when they're using this trope in their rants (including their Fan Hater-charged remarks).
• Malicious Misnaming:
  • The rants made with GoAnimate usually start with the user calling the subject of the rant a derogatory name, moslty in the form of: "(Subject)? More like (Derogatory name)!".
• Take That!:
  • Users are known to regularly make rant videos disparaging shows or movies they don't like.

• Most rant videos made with GoAnimate open with the uploader making fun of the name of the rant subject (usually a TV show)^note e.g. "Caillou? More like Fuck You.", before proceeding to give an insulting "overview" of the subject, which is then followed by nitpicking the subject's flaws (e.g. "the characters are (insult)") without going in-depth on the subject itself. Afterwards, they state characters or people that supposedly like or hate the subject before dissing it (along with another thing they hate) one last time before proclaiming that another thing is much better than the subject. Lines like "(subject's characters, if it's a show or other fictional work) like to go on failure adventures", "nobody gives a (profanity) about this character... not two, three, four, either. Not even(absurd number)", and "Do you know who likes/hates this (format of subject)? (character)!" are pretty much status quo in them. The sheer fact that these rants boil down to "it sucks Because I Said So" combined with this trope in general make most GoAnimate rants Narm territory by default. The same also applies to the inverse salute videos.
  • If the subject of the rant is a show or other fictional work, there is a chance that the uploader will bash the creators or writers (in a style vaguely similar to The Mysterious Mr. Enter, who has been criticized for this) for doing something as simple as creating the work.
  • That's not even getting into the rant videos made out of these rants and salutes themselves. While it's understandable for these uploaders to hate the rants, most of the time they always use the same words or points without specifying their actual opinion at all.