The Downfall of Goanimate/Vyond 

It’s pretty crazy how such a raunchy and toxic community arose from a guy just wanting to make something nice for his wife

To be honest, to see Goanimate/Vyond go from something Alvin Hung made for his wife to one of the most notorious communities on the internet is quite... alarming, to say the least. I've seen people who made the grounding videos come and go, either having their channels taken down by RU-vid, either to disappear online entirely or live on via new channels, retire from Goanimate as a whole, or both. I've seen my fair share of the disgusting content people can make with the content, and the worst of it was the death threats toward Alvin Hung over Comedy World and a few other non-business friendly themes being removed. One person does not deserve death over something so small and insignificant.

I used to watch goanimate for most of 2014. I watched it in fifth grade, my friends and I would watch the grounded videos in the school library and we would just be dying of laughter. I hated the behavior card day videos, but I loved everything else. I stopped watching in September 2014 a couple weeks after I started middle school because I kind of “grew out of them”, and my dad convinced me to. But now I’m gonna go back and watch all of the old 2014 goanimate vids, I have so many memories

Honestly if I were a GoAnimate user who wanted to follow on the trends, I would do grounded videos with morals like one of the original grounding videos intended. This way I can create filler content with decent lessons while allowing character development and buildup for a greater plot.

Updated information: There was an even earlier video, made all the way back in 2009, that got GA to downfall, unlike many GV, this one has just the parent saying: You're Grounded! then Stephanie responds nicely, That was when the downfall started

Man, I remember being a fan of GoAnimate content between late 2018 and Mid 2019. I remember being trapped in an endless wave of those grounding videos, ungrounding videos etc. But then, in the middle of summer, I finally gained some common sense and briefly lost interest in that shit... I don't regret ONE BIT about giving up on GoAnimate content!

As a someone who used to be an Goanimator, I can confirm that probably everyone gets addicted to grounded videos, making people creating their grounded videos on Goanimate, Vyond, Plotagon and anything else

It’s unfortunate that goanimate will be remembered as “the crappy animation program used by kids” when in reality if you know how to use it you can make some pretty darn good animations with it. (It-saac is a great example of someone who does this)

As someone who used this back in my mid to late elementary school years this hit hard

It’s weird to think that people genuinely made actual animations on Go Animate. I wish that side of Go Animate was known more to the public

This is what made me ruin my own childhood temporarily in 2015. All these people do is dislike preschool cartoons just because they are for *babies* as an excuse. I even hated people I used to love, like • Child characters • Katy Perry (just because she debuted in "You're So Gay") • Hatsune Miku (because my dad didn't like it) • And even my *all time* favorite Dance Central classic character, Oblio.

There was also “held back” videos where the character/s get helf back from 12th grade to preschool, usally ending in a massive temper tantrum about the students wanting to go back to 12th grade. The reasons could be anything from burning cown the school, to simply getting a wuestion incorrect. And also the “by the numbers” videos where the creator would rate chararacters or other things by assiging them a number. I remember I used to watch a behavior card day where it was over an hour long

Why is your editing so good? I'm glad i stumbled upon this video.

yoo this is underated, and as a goanimator myself, i've also seen the community collapsing

I was a huge fan of Barney Error videos back in 2016-2018. For some reason, I was drawn to both horror and computer software, and these videos combined them. I was scared by them, yet, they were addictive as heck, and I enjoyed them a lot. I didn't care much about grounded videos, but Barney Errors were my jam when I was 12-14 years old!

TL;DR: The founder of GoAnimate had a "We're a real company now" moment and decided to crack down on people using the site so they couldn't have fun with it anymore.

Even though i never made a single Video in Go!Animate or Vyond, i could have never been more happy with my decision of leaving the decaying Go!Animate community. Here is a backstory of mine: I used to be a fan of Go!Animate and the community in August/September of 2016. I was heavily hooked at the videos they made, But i was very blinded in it's way the Vyond/Go!Animate program was used for, that it took me over a year and a half to realize about it. The program was used originally for Business purposes, and create cool videos. but instead was used to Vent or Release their anger and hatred toward Cartoon Characters (e.g. Caillou, Dora, etc.) or Actual Users. Using methods such as Grounded Videos, Punishment Day Videos, and Dead Meat Videos. And on November of 2017, i became conscious with myself thinking "Why is everything the same?", "Is this the site was made for?", and "What am i doing here? Why tf is everyone unoriginal". Following that, I stepped off from Go!Animate knowing that it had a very bad reputation anyway. The Users there had very long usernames with the UTTP, ATHDTTC kind of stuff, idk what those are, and the FTW & FTL stuff in it too. (So basically, I Left Go!Animate because everything is just repetitive) This video will forever be a memory that i made a good decision of leaving something so bad, and try to move on and be original, Because Being Yourself makes you Special. But in all regards, Maybe one day Go!Animate/Vyond's Reputation becomes good like the old times. Only time will tell. (Btw, great video too.) Edit: 150 Likes?! Wow. Never thought my story can reach out to the people of the internet

Kind of feel this video was actually made by Moon lol. Nevertheless, underrated this video and loved your edits, mate. As someone who used to be in this shit hole of this community myself and trying to grow away from it, I can confirm it is falling apart. Also, believe me, or not, it has gotten worse than anyone can imagine.

Interesting video about the goanimate community. Sucks that most stuff on Goanimate were grounded vids. Thankfully it appears to be coming back in better shape

I’m not even invovled in the Goaniamte community at all. I made the accident of responding to on a goanimate RU-vidr’s comment on some random video. I don’t even remember what I said but they got so mad they created a fake impersonation account of me and started spreading hate. And here I am today trying to learn and understand this community cause it just makes no sense why everyone is so toxic.

I honestly never got why people really liked grounded videos from Go!Animate/Vyond. I praise those who actually use the site to make original characters and stories to express their visions and passions, like with what I've been doing for the past couple years with my series.

GoAnimate content creators on their way to create a badly done video about insanely spoiled kids getting overwhelmingly punished by the worst parents in the planet:

I actually feel awful for this guy who just wanted to make a useful animated system that would be easy to use.😢😢😢😢😢😢😢

I’ve been on GoAnimate around spring of 2012 (before it became Vyond) and oh boy it has had a long history of toxicity.

I'm not sure if someone else talked about this, but I guess I'm the first to do so. 2 parts I think you missed out. 1) GoAnimate/Vyond probably stole the style and backgrounds from a 1999 TV series called "Family Guy", but with slight modification. That's all I have to say for this one. I'm not sure if the company got permission from Adult Swim or Fox to use it. 2) Caillou was the most targetted to be blamed in the community, because in the 1997 TV series (in Canada/Quebec, 2000 in America, cancelled in 2021 from PBS Kids), Caillou had been in a temper tantrum and other crazy things just so he can get away with anything, and nobody in the show does anything about it. However, in the new, web browser series (despite being remakes of older episodes), Caillou was officially grounded by his mother. As of the time making this comment, I find it hard to believe whether this was fan-made or canon. That's not all. Cinar, Caillou's creator, after the success of another TV series called Arthur, had it's own crazy history. If you want more about this second part, I suppose you go watch ElectricDragon505's video about ranting Caillou and it's history. Similar things happen in Peppa Pig and Max & Ruby, but I don't know if they're that as bad as Caillou. Edit: Never forget the funniest GoAnimate/Vyond user, NotSmirks. He predicted Gen-Z humor I hope.

The fact that there was a scene where Dora's grandmother threw Jarate at Dora made me die inside Like... I'm a hardcore tf2 fan and I'm like "OH DEAR GOD THERE ARE GOANIMATE USERS WHO LIKE TF2." There are probably grounded videos of the mercs and I don't think I'll recover from that knowledge XD

ah goanimate, my childhood. I used to watch goanimate videos a bunch when i was younger. And it's nostalgia to me (i was like 8 or 9 when i was into it ok dont judge me) Cool video essay man! You deserve MUCH more recognition.

I can tell this channel has a lot of potential to grow. My only complaint is the audio quality, but everything else is surprisingly great!

I used to watch this stuff, but I realized when I got older the people in this toxic community had no sense of nostalgia! They called shows for younger kids baby shows and ranted on them bc they were for kids. Sure, they may not appeal to everyone, but using the characters to go through brutal punishments for just misbehaving is just wrong

7:28 One slight mistake... Wrapper and Wrapper: Offline are both separate things. Wrapper was taken down by Vyond because it was an online tool. Thankfully, Wrapper: Offline is an offline application, which means it can't be taken down, and is still being used today.

The worst parts of GoAnimate were late 2015 to mid 2016 and 2020 onwards. In late 2015 to mid 2016 people started hating Sky from Total Drama, Boomboxer from Super Paper Mario and Sally Acorn for being "Overrated" It wasn't true! than the community's toxicity became worse, more drama started to occur, people began hating tv shows to the extreme such as Strawberry Shortcake, Total Drama All Stars, ETC, more grounded videos, more punishment day videos and dead meat videos started to be made, The worst examples was the videos of Sky from Total Drama getting grounded, and for the fact that people started shipping Sky from Total Drama with Boomboxer from Super Paper Mario was another reason why i slowly started to dislike Vyond and GoAnimate, now we approach to 2020, what went wrong? The Childish Dad gets grounded series videos and the Tripp's Gang Videos, those videos were not fun to watch and the community became worse and worse especially with the Punishment Day videos as they became overused. Those will leave stains on Goanimate's legacy and it's thanks to reasons that i mentioned.

i really love witnessing the confusing drama of the goanimate/vyond community yo but me must admit it is sad seeing tha community die slowly

I still make grounded videos to this day. They are how I make most of my ad revenue from to live in my house. I never try to post anything too gruesome but just entertain people. I never thought I'd be the "downfall" of anything.

As someone who is been aware of the Goanimate/Vyond downfall, it's surprising to see that one person making a grounded video in 2011 would trigger a explosive trend, and thus ruin the entire site. But not only that, it not just the site that is littered with these videos, the people who make these spread to other websites on social media, such as like Google Slides, Plotagon, Scratch, and Gacha Life. I admit that I even used to make these videos back in 2018, but now that I retried from making these, I've have made better videos. Although there a handful of decent or original ones, but still.

I think it's sad... What used to be a wholesome and friendly community turned vulgar, toxic, and despicable All Alvin Hung wanted was something good for his family, but no, it had to be ruined. I'm so glad I left this community after 9 years

“Kail-ooh, you are grounded grounded grounded grounded grounded grounded grounded grounded grounded grounded grounded grounded grounded for 82747832727737372727364637727227 years. Go to your room.” “WWAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHHRHEHEHEHHAHEHRHH”

My fav channel is trouble busters and refreshing stories bc they’re actually funny

Oh my gosh... I was once a Goanimator back in 8th grade. It was just me and my crappy chromebook making these videos, but I didn't care because I loved them! But after I was over with that obsession, I deleted the videos. Now I'm 20, and I sometimes look back to it and wish I didn't delete them, as I could still see what I made in that era if I didn't. Oh well!

I am the only one who wants to use Goanimate to make my own original videos that are appropriate for all ages and less terrible than the Caillou videos. I would make my own characters and my own stories with characters I like in it! I would definitely do that if I had my own PC and loads of free time. Update! I am currently making my own video using Vyond at school! I am using the 14 day free trial and I hope I can make it before the 14 days are over! New update! I finished my Vyond animation! You can watch it right here! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Y83ng9O-rOw.html

I use to watch these back in 2016-2018. A lot has changed since those years.

I once got hated and got death threats by a Goanimater by the name of "Inferno Bledose". I first made some video about a PNG tuber and about 2 hours later, I got a comment by him saying that the PNG tuber is better than me. I didn't really understand so I checked on his channel and a new video titled "Kaiden Barillas gets killed by RPG!" I saw the video, and it was a image of the goanimate avatar shooting me. I thought this was a joke, but he was actually hating on me. I checked on his channel a couple days later, and he made a video titled, "Kaiden Barillas Aquatic Punishment Day!" He made a FREAKING PUNISHMENT DAY ON ME. I was for some reasaon really excited since I like getting attention from other youtubers so I saw the video, and I kinda liked it cause I was being hated by some 8 year old or something... I commented on his videos, asked him if he had discord, and he added me. I was a bit curious so I asked him why he's so toxic, he responded with "Because I have freedom of speech." Even though you have freedom of speech doesn't mean you can be this toxic. He said he was making another hate video on me with an angry emoji in the responce. I was a bit scared so I ignored him. But 2 months later, he said he will be quitting RU-vid. I checked on his channel, and there, all his videos were deleted. I has so happy at this point. If you want to see his youtube channel, I will leave a link to his channels. His first channel - www.youtube.com/@infernobledsoe4267 His second channel - www.youtube.com/@infernobledsoe7263

I feel bad for Alvin hung because his website he created for business has now become the most toxic community online

I left the goanimate community back in 2020 and haven't looked back.

I remember watching my first goanimate video back in late 2014. Very interesting how most of the community is always at war with each other especially regarding what content should be made on Goanimate.

As a Go!Animator, I would say that this is a pretty accurate representation on what's going on

Im a Vyonder/Go Animator myself, and now that I know about this, I hate how many people just talk about wanting to do Grounded videos in the community. I had no idea what this meant, but this just seems like some slop, like Skibidi Toilet... I like some immaturity, and I like early 2000s humor and the style that was created. I like replicating this style and be a bit more "edgy," but I still try to keep boundaries and make professional products of storytelling and animation. I even wanted to make an entire movie at one point, which was supposed to be really emotional, for a dumb sitcom called Mom and Incel. But i lost my video because of the trial duration expiry I switched to the wrapper for now since theres no watermark and more things to do, plus its offline. (and its less annoying) Vyond just give me the trial forever, it sucks and nobody likes this GIGANTIC AWFULL Watermark.

Let’s face it. we’ve all gone through a grounding videos phase.

I hated GoAnimate grounding videos. They always cross the line. Especially with Caillou. I enjoy Caillou as a kid not because he's whiny and stuff. It's OK for people to not like Caillou, everyone has a preference. But these animations take things too far including anything that is violent, and they're self-aware by breaking the fourth wall that they don't support child abuse which I still see them as evil. Those animations make me rage and bite my thumb at them.

6:03 my humor is destroyed 💀

Been watching GoAnimate in the early 2010s, don't know exactly what year, maybe in 2013-2014. I was into it with AniTrooperGirl's videos firstly, who I heard he has passed away. I also watched funtime videos, OS videos, and grounded videos.

Finally someone talks about this 😭

It’s too bad a website meant to be a gift for starting animators turned into such a cesspool, and all because of one narcissistic, lazy, selfish, and possibly developmentally stunted womanchild by the name of African Vulture who sits her impressionable fanbase on anyone who tries to get rid of grounded videos.

Also worth noting how 2011 was a huge year for GoAnimate. The site was already hated for commodifying animation, but Harry Partridge’s video took it a step further. Not to mention the RU-vid studio was what brought a ton of people into GA

I’ve made a couple vids like that in the past, a guilty pleasure of mine (as I despise Caillou) that keeps coming every other year and then vanishing in the blink of an eye. The grounded community is definitely a huge brand risk that is obviously what sunk them, it has persevered despite years of vyond actively trying to kill it. But I really don’t get the negativity of that community, though. Must be because their average age is like 12, not exactly the kindest or most mature age. And apparently they’ve been grounding people the characters have no parental authority over, like creators they dislike, characters from less reviled kids shows and… Minecraft animations? I’m glad it seems like they’re going nowhere, goanimate serves as a means of quarantining them.

Who Ever hates caillou gets grounded : MEEE

Cailou's dad: *"CAYOU YOU ARE GROUNDED GROUNDED GROUNDED GROUNDED GROUNDED GROUNDED GROUNDED GROUNDED GROUNDED FOR 37487 YEARS AND DONT COME OUT FOR 69420 YEARS"* Cailou: *"Wah AAAAAAAAA-"*

I remember watching these videos when I was 10. I knew these video's were horrible but I watched them anyway.

I used to want to join the community back in 2017, now i am not too sure. This community isnt the worst thing because unlike the Gacha (terrible) community, it doesnt mess with other fandoms. Also the videos in the community arent as bad as the community itself

I feel extremely ashamed to have been apart of the GoAnimate community in the past

Sadly, I used to be part of this toxic fandom back between 2016 and 2019. Thank god I left it.

I'm a bit of a GoAnimator myself but I have literally just recently came back after leaving the community due to toxicity, let me tell you, the fanbase is absolutely wild 💀

This is some actual true facts. As I may still make wrapper offline content, the vyond community was becoming way too toxic just as far that the human eye can see. It seems that people used the “gRoUnDiNg” parts over and over again to the fact that they might get eventually hated on at this point.

Not gonna lie, plotagon, and these videos literally made my childhood so nostalgic, fun and memorable.... now I'm a mid-teen and life is just more harder. Being a 2010s kid was simpler...

I remember I used to watch Goanimate videos on RU-vid in 2015, when I was in Junior High as an 8th grade but I stop watching the random videos of Goanimate because I didn’t like it because of the same repeating sound. In August 2015 I stop watching it because I have to lower my mild Autism level to get rid of it even though I don’t watch those anymore.

Grounded videos are the definition of internet brain rot, I got quite a good number of laughs from them back in the day; although I was admittedly more of a plotagon guy. Wild how the site evolved so much since like 2018 since I last checked in

Honestly, it's hard to call GoAnimate/Vyond as a business program after its grounding past, but I get the idea. Not everyone wants to spend lots of time on making animations, so they use Vyond instead. Nothing will be better than a actual animation in a frame by frame animation software, but it's crazy to see the things people can do with limited resources.

I remember I used to be into these videos when I was younger and even had my own GoAnimate account for a little while until switching to Plotagon. But as I got older, I started to gain some common sense and started to lose interest in these grounded videos and especially the cruel “punishment day” videos. I also started to realize the toxic community, especially the UTTP, AUTTP, and AAUTTP wars and other users threatening and cyber bullying each other. I haven’t made any animated videos in a while but I might go back to making original storylines like my existing series about some best friends of mine that are superheroes

you know when a man just wanted to make something wholesome for his wife...becomes well known....you know things start to fall off.

It’s very funny how a community like that became so popular

I think it would have been interesting to mention all the biggest community drama. Warren Cook, Memy9909 all played a role in shaping it.

OK sending death threats is not ok i mean you’re send these threats to THE FRIKING CREATOR so just beyond messed up!

A long, long time ago, when I was a kid, I had a Goanimate account and actually bought assets to make videos with. I made a bunch of little cartoons and then lost interest. I came back a few years later and found that they had rebranded and my account was gone. All of the cartoons I made were gone, along with the assets I had bought through microtransactions. Still salty about that one...

Vyond Is Ruined Because Everyone Supports Go#*!$ By Making Grounded Videos

whats your opinion on uolliac

Well GoAnimate and Gacha Life Both Go Down Because People Have Been Making So Many Brutal and Explicit Contents and Stories in There. It Hurts My Stomach and Head Watching Those

We're very appreciative to hear you admire our content! 💚 As storywriters who even develop content outside Vyond, we try to separate ourselves from the toxic behavior of the GoAnimate community. [CJ] Studios strives to become the best indie filmmaking team on RU-vid, and story writing is our biggest strengths! Thank you for your support! - Cesar Rosas Jr.

why is he at 92 subcribers? give this man even more for his editing

oh God, GoAnimate videos? Such bullshit content yet so many good memories

I can tell, i agree on what you said there, i am permanently no longer making Vyond-Related Content starting August 1, 2023

Nothing Will Stop People From Using Comedy World!

I didn't even watch those but GoAnimate and all that stuff was kinda garbage Imao

I remember 2017-2020 go animate videos were always funny and original but after that this community became the most drama filled community on yt…

Goanimate or Vyond was meant to help you create your own animation. Not make cringy grounded videos, dead meat videos, punishment day videos, etc.

I lost my interest in it since late 2018. Used to watch it starting in 2013-14

Used to watch one of these vids back in like 2016-2017 my parents were concerned abt these videos.

Great video. Appreciate you including some of my work around 2:37. So much has changed in the community in a decade, it's pretty fascinating

I think GoAnimate aka Vyond might come back soon for it's intended purpose. It's sad seeing a service with so much potential being used to make the same stuff over and over again. (grounded/dead meat/punishment day videos) The definition of insanity.

I know the GoAnimate community is so toxic I’m actually a Goanimator that doesn’t create Grounded videos anymore because I wanted to come up with my own series of videos but yes there is so much drama in the community

4:28 I was one of those kids 💀

Damn it seemed like such a fun idea in the beginning. Too bad the point it’s at now.

coming back from school and watching goanimate videos in late 2016

GoAnimate reminds me of the Nazis.

Every GoAnimater needs to see this video.

This is a very good and well-produced video about the site and how in the end, the community left a legacy that most websites don't normally get. It of course wasn't great, but you get what I mean. I never made any grounded videos in my life or any of the trendy types, but I did watch quite a lot.

I'm a Vyonder, I'm just sad how the software we use is getting f'd up by business owners and educational channels on RU-vid. Vyond was always mean't to be entertaining, not business.

Go animate nowadays is just full of grounded videos

Vyond needs to be shut down

As a goanimate hater in DeviantArt, i've even seen the goanimate deviantart community getting ban there

I came across goanimate around 2010 when i was 8 years old on youtube and I use to like it but I hated the grounding videos of tv show characters so I stopped watching goanimate around 2015 I miss when goanimate wasn't about cringy grounding videos

man i feel bad for the man who created goanimate, he just wanted to make something for his wife