Admitting wrongdoing videos

Admitting wrongdoing videos are a genre of videos in the GoAnimate/Vyond community that have started becoming popular in 2020/2021. They feature a user appearing out of the shadows to admit the mistakes that they've made. However, they can be quite controversial, because they may be used as a manipulation attempt to stop their hate, along with other reasons explained below.

Note: Due to the controversial nature of these videos and how malicious/horrible people tend to exploit them, there will only be one redeeming quality with no more being included. Anyone who adds more will have their edits reverted. Please don't attack anyone mentioned or shown in the examples down below.

Why They Admit to Nothing Useful

 * 1) As stated above, they can be used as a manipulation attempt to stop their hate. Criminals and (advocates of) pedophiles are known for making videos like these as a last resort, which can result in propaganda being spread, such as criminals being forgiven.
 * 2) They have similar problems to "please cheer me up" and "opinion change" videos, but they don't involve crying or unnecessarily large amounts of anger (usually).
 * 3) *The wrongdoings are put in the description when the uploader would've been more than capable of putting them in the video.
 * 4) *They feature a random image of a character that may not be their user avatar.
 * 5) *A lot of them are made/edited with Kinemaster.
 * 6) *They mention unnecessary opinions when mentioning specific users.
 * 7) The videos tend to be as vague as possible, as they don't seem to explain much other than the bare minimum.
 * 8) *Sometimes, the videos can be a single screenshot or a motionless recording of text. Even then, if they were going to be that basic, then they could've been community posts instead of videos.
 * 9) *Usually, instead of explaining the actual thing that they did wrong to someone, they say "treating [user] like they're worse than [horrible person]", which isn't being direct or sincere. The first video example shows what we mean by this.
 * 10) They cause rumination and overthinking before and after the video(s) is/are made; harmless mistakes are treated like they're something moderately bad in the community, causing people to admit more mistakes than they need to.
 * 11) *They mention past mistakes that shouldn't have much relevance now, because the creators would've been younger and they likely wouldn't have known better back then. The best solution would be to not worry about (most of) your past mistakes and focus on your future.
 * 12) *Also, hypocrisy: A good chunk of the community complains when you bring up their past, but these videos do the exact same thing, and one complainer could make videos like this, which fills in the blanks of this point.
 * 13) *Some wrongdoings can be liking/supporting criminals, even if they were unaware that they were criminals in the first place. Obviously, it's not a good idea to side with menaces to society, but if you didn't know that they were criminals, then that wouldn't be your fault (unless you refuse to cut ties with them and/or are aware and understand that they're criminals). The benefit of the doubt comes into play here.
 * 14) When they are aware that they've received massive waves of backlash even after making a video like this, they usually private or delete the video, which usually causes everyone to reupload it, usually as free dislike videos (which don't help at all). Here's an example.
 * 15) Many, many people mistake these videos for apologies (they usually aren't). As an example, most of the comments on these videos will either say exactly "apology accepted" or "denied".
 * 16) Adding to #6, some creators of these videos can't handle the fact that people may disagree with the video, hence why they end up deleting any comment that goes "denied", which is automatically hypocritical.
 * 17) *Sometimes, even worse, they may disable the comments or set the video to make it only for kids over this even if there were more positive comments than negative ones. Emmanuel Thomas did this before, as an example (his video is on this page).
 * 18) Due to their popularity and high quantity, they obscure genuine apologies made by people in the GoAnimate community who know what they're doing.
 * 19) If a toxic person ends up making videos like these, when their hate dies down, they go right back to before they made the video as if they never made it, defeating the point of the video and wasting all their effort spent making it.
 * 20) *They may unlist, private or even (erroneously) "disown" the video once it has been on YouTube long enough.
 * 21) People gather the narrative that these videos/posts make the community better. Even though it does show that people take responsibility for their own actions, these videos don't help the community at all because of how basic they are, and how anyone can make them at any time, and how they may not always be sorry because of the mistakes that they make, listed above.
 * 22) *In fact, they may make the community worse, hence why they're responsible for contributing to GoAnimate/Vyond's downfall.
 * 23) Some people may be influenced to bring up drama referenced in wrongdoings as an act of trying to start said drama again, which promotes cancel culture and gravedigging.
 * 24) These videos can be made repeatedly, sometimes for similar/identical wrongdoings.
 * 25) *They also go against the two common sayings: "There's no such thing as infinite chances" and "benefit of the doubt".
 * 26) *If someone has made the same mistake 3 times in a row, then it's mainly recommended to cut ties with them indefinitely.
 * 27) Grounding (or ungrounding) videos can be made of this, which are exactly as you'd expect; similar to a character making a rant/salute to something that's the opposite of the uploader's opinion.
 * 28) The titles of videos may be from desperate uploaders, because they may contain phrases such as "100% real", "not lying/begging", or "what have I done", in the title, thumbnail, or description.
 * 29) They completely disregard the fact that some mistakes can't be forgiven due to their severity. Pedophilia, NSFW content (such as porn and gore), punishment days, and more, are all controversial actions that can enable criminals online, regardless of the intentions. The criminals are a threat to society, especially children online, hence why such advocates of said subjects should cease to exist for safety purposes.

The Only Redeeming Quality

 * 1) Some videos can be truthful, and the uploader may be sincere with their words (unless they're a criminal, obviously, then it's never truthful). However, this is rare to come across.

Examples of wrongdoings that the community frequently admits

 * Taking trolls seriously/troll feeding
 * Taking their haters seriously
 * Disrespecting opinions
 * Making killing or out-of-user videos (such as rants, grounding videos, dead meat videos, etc.)
 * Raging in all caps
 * Treating [user(s)] like they're worse than [horrible person, especially Hitler or Satan]
 * Making angry message videos
 * Sending grounding "threats" (which aren't really threats at all)
 * Deleting comments to avoid criticism
 * Being a fanboy
 * Making channel rules (shouldn't even be a wrongdoing as rules exist on Discord servers and channel rules control the flow of how one should manage their channel, hypocrite or not)
 * Whiteknighting [user(s)]
 * Being a manipulator (telling people to dislike-bomb, spam-report, or raid videos, live streams, or Discord servers)
 * Being a hypocrite (everyone can be a hypocrite, but the goal is to try not to be one)
 * Begging for support
 * Making GoAnimate-styled rants/salutes in general
 * Subscribing to a controversial person or a criminal (justified if they didn't know that they shouldn't be supported or subscribed to because of their horrible conduct and/or intentions)
 * Couldn't handle hate/backlash (you will have to accept that not everyone will like you, so everyone will have to handle hate one way or another - it's not a choice)
 * Denying their wrongdoings
 * Ranting/hating someone with invalid/inaccurate reasons
 * Being a wannabe of someone (even if they're actually not, due to them copying only one action)
 * Anything that has to do with a user forcing someone else to do an action (e.g: Forcing people to like Tbone Animate)
 * Anything that has to do with the wrong context being used with a phrase

Video examples
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Video parodies
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