Character Eliminations

Character elimination videos are a series of videos typically made with Vyond that are heavily inspired by Survivor and other shows that were inspired by it, namely the Total Drama series and Battle for Dream Island. These videos were first invented in 2013. The typical format of the videos consists of contestants completing challenges for rewards and immunity to elimination, which is done via votes by the other contestants or viewers or surviving on a stranded island providing themselves with resources.

Why They're Trashy

 * 1) As with many other Vyond videos, character elimination videos tend to be very repetitive and based on how much the uploader likes or dislikes the character in question.  For example, characters that the uploader hates, such as characters from preschool shows like Caillou, Barney, Dora or Teletubbies, are usually among the first to be eliminated. Likewise, characters that the uploader likes usually rank high or win.
 * 2) They feel like soulless ripoffs of Survivor, the Total Drama series, and mostly Battle For Dream Island, as they hardly do much to make them stand out from all three shows except for having random characters tossed in.
 * 3) These videos also steal copyrighted characters from multiple franchises and companies, as shown in this picture above.
 * 4) Whenever a character costs their team the challenge, they will usually be given a "vote me out" sign, which had originated from BFDI 23, which is an incredibly unfair disadvantage considering that the uploader is basically telling viewers who to vote to be eliminated from the game.
 * 5) * They will also put in more penalties like an extra amount of votes and a disadvantage if the targeted contestant is somehow not eliminated.
 * 6) * The penalties at the time make no sense, like getting penalized just for yelling at the host, pooping on the window, etc.
 * 7) Some series also have prize votes, where the contestant with most of these votes will earn a prize which is usually only seen once in the whole series.
 * 8) The team names make no sense at times such as the "Sky Blue Spiny Devils".
 * 9) The challenges are either way too easy or barely require any effort. Examples are below.
 * 10) The challenges are mostly skipped completely after the host says "GO!"
 * 11) Some even use Alvin Hung, sometimes depicting him getting eliminated early in the game.
 * 12) Sometimes there are no challenges, making the eliminations pointless.
 * 13) Most of them use the text-to-speech voices provided by Vyond instead of using sentence mixing or actual voice acting.
 * 14) When images of characters are used, the uploader may use an image of a character that does not have the background removed, which looks lazy and jarring when compared to other character images that have transparent backgrounds.
 * 15) Some of them also include interns, which are characters that get killed.
 * 16) * To make matters worse, some of the interns are CHILDREN.
 * 17) Some of them have a rushed finale, to where they eliminate almost all contestants when they still had a lot of them in the game, usually leaving two or three remaining contestants. Not only is it lazy, but also unfair to everyone still in the game.
 * 18) All of the contestants lack any kind of development or interaction with others, making it much blander and less interesting.
 * 19) GoBaniBoy5171's Battle for GoAnimate Island is a carbon copy/rip-off of BFDI (currently BFB) and also falls under this video category. This show mainly copied BFDI without putting care or love into it (mainly by rushing), having only 17 episodes before it was eventually cancelled.
 * 20) * Same thing (partially) with Laporte 124's Battle for a Mansion and GreenBall360's Battle for a Resort, which were both cancelled after 18 and 23 (with BFAR 1b, 24) episodes, respectively.
 * 21) * Weatherstar's Mario Enemy Character Elimination is one of the major offenders and is known to be the one of, if not, the worst character elimination of all time.
 * 22) Some users only make these to make fun of people they hate directly. This occurs in some ones with effort but they're done lightly and carefully.
 * 23) Some contestants end up getting immunity/win tokens just because they're the team captain/leader. How is that logically fair on the other contestants?!

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) Some character elimination videos can be actually rather well done and original. An example is Go!City Elimination by Poke Animations.
 * 2) Some videos feature actual voice acting as opposed to text-to-speech voices.
 * 3) Some of the challenges actually require a lot of effort. Examples are below.
 * 4) Sometimes, characters get punished for very good reasons like destroying stuff.
 * 5) Some characters can be fully original for the character eliminations.

Examples of Challenges
 

Challenges that require barely any effort

 * 1) Eating a giant piece of food/drink.
 * 2) * This is usually the first Challenge in a Character Elimination Series, and the losing team usually ended up losing because a contestant (usually the uploader's absolute least favorite character) puts something gross onto the food/drink, like poop or pee.
 * 3) Going inside a store and buying the host an item.
 * 4) Crossing a bridge.
 * 5) Building a snowman.
 * 6) Cooking the host a meal.
 * 7) Solving a math problem.
 * 8) Making a video, like a Vyond styled rant/salute.
 * 9) Singing a song.
 * 10) Doing Hungry Pumpkin, where you have to give an Anthromorphic pumpkin the food/drink he wants.
 * 11) Trying not to move.
 * 12) Killing another character, usually a non-contestant who is hated by the uploader.
 * 13) Carving a pumpkin.
 * 14) Racing.
 * 15) Playing Simon Says, where the host of the elimination is the Simon of the game.
 * 16) Trying not to say a certain word/sentence.

Challenges that require a lot of effort

 * 1) Climbing the Great Wall of China.
 * 2) Running around the world.

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