Grounded and Punishment Day videos

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Grounded and punishment videos are, by far, the most common type of videos made with the browser-based video maker, Vyond, and sometimes Plotagon. The first video, though not as the same type of formula of the videos nowadays, was a video titled Diaper grounding by PoseidonGodofWater20 Productions, which was uploaded on April 30, 2011. But, the first well-known grounded video was Brian Gets In Trouble At School by adamkleinschmidt2003, uploaded on July 2, 2011. They became popular with a video called Caillou calls his Baby Sister Stupid / Grounded, which was uploaded by African Vulture in December 2013 and later re-uploaded by the FunEditor4 on November 3, 2018.

Plot
A son/daughter (usually Caillou, but sometimes other characters such as Peppa Pig, Little Bill, and Dora) or sometimes a parent or an adult (Brian, Caillou's father, or Eric) does something bad like skipping school, pirating a movie or video game, bringing an NC-17 rated movie to school, getting a dead meat card, wishing someone an unhappy birthday, getting fat at a fast-food restaurant like McDonald’s or Burger King, beating someone up, bullying someone, flatulating in a classroom, giving someone else a punishment day, calling a baby stupid, misbehaving at Chuck E. Cheese’s, etc. After that, he or she gets grounded for either an average amount of time or a very long time.

Why Many Of Them (Intentionally or Mostly) Deserve To Be Grounded
NOTE: Some of them are made as jokes and are intentionally made to be bad.
 * 1) The troublemaker often does bad things for no legit reason other than for the sake of him/her getting grounded just to learn a lesson.
 * 2) While the troublemaker gets to listen to their parents talk about the situation on what they’ve done, his/her parents say "oh!" over ten times or more, then they tell them that they're grounded over and over (usually 3 times or more) which quickly gets annoying.
 * 3) Most of these videos have preschool show characters as the main grounded victims just because "they are for babies", which is a stupid excuse. The most common grounded victims are, as stated above, mh:terribletvshows:Caillou, Dora the Explorer and her friends, Jay Jay the Jet Plane, mh:terribletvshows:Peppa Pig, mh:besttvshows:Arthur and DW, The Backyardigans, Tree Fu Tom, Mike the Knight, and mh:besttvshows:Little Bill.
 * 4) * Since late 2020, people now think it's a good idea to make Caillou's shirt gray (thus making them “Classic Caillou”) because they think Caillou is only bad in the first two seasons, and that using the yellow shirt Caillou uses is "misleading". This is not the case as there's a lot of problems with modern Caillou, which is why Caillou as a character (even with the yellow shirt) is mediocre when it comes to saying something at least good to him.
 * 5) **Plus, these "Classic" characters are entirely separate characters from their counterparts, making the "Classic" prefix completely nonsensical.
 * 6) * Some people even make grounded videos out of non-troublemakers; for example, in VittorioTheVyonder2003's series of grounded videos out of Coop from mh:terribletvshows:Kid vs. Kat, Coop always gets grounded by Buck Diamond and Mayor Humdinger, neither of whom are anyway related to him at all, not to mention that the latter character is from a completely different TV show. In the show, Coop is shown to be a good protagonist and has a father and a sister. This shows that people who make grounded videos out of him haven’t watched the show at all nor done any research on the characters.
 * 7) Some people make grounded videos out of other users or real-life people, which can be considered cyberbullying and or harming the people they target, depending on the user or person.
 * 8) Adding on with Coris and Toris, those aren't even close to actual names, as they only replaced the B in his name with different letters, which is plain lazy. In addition, several other versions of characters have been lazily named, including:
 * 9) * The Caillou clones (e.g. Daillou, Baillou, Paillou).
 * 10) * Fora the Currer, who is the evil version of Dora. She wears a red T-shirt and blue shorts.
 * 11) * And some other characters as well, including Rosie and Doris.
 * 12) Depending on the type of grounded video, they are extremely repetitive and often reuse the same plot over and over again, just with different characters.
 * 13) * Even almost all of the videos have the same backgrounds, rooms, and houses, most likely because the people who worked on this didn’t have the time to make different backgrounds. The videos where the characters are in real life or in non-GoAnimate backgrounds look plain scummy, as the characters’ feet aren't actually on the ground, due to some of the backgrounds not being in a good camera position.
 * 14) Atrocious writing as little-to-no research is done and most of the videos contain absolutely no common logic whatsoever and add in stuff that does not make any sense:
 * 15) * The troublemaker's grounding sentence almost always lasts several years, oftentimes lasting decades, centuries, millenniums, or in some cases, even for eternity, which is just crazy, outright mentally insane, and completely unrealistic. In real life, you'd be dead long before your grounding is over. In one circumstance, specifically when Caillou turned a fancy restaurant into Chuck E Cheese's, Caillou got grounded for over a quintillion years.
 * 16) * As mentioned earlier, Bob the Builder is shown to have actual parents in the show who became recurring characters after their introduction in Bob the Builder: The Knights of Fix-a-Lot, but for some reason, every grounded video involving him always have Bob being grounded by Farmer Pickles or Wendy, which doesn't make any sense as Bob is shown to have a good relationship with Farmer Pickles and Wendy, and neither of them is related to him.
 * 17) * Caillou is seen dating either Dora or Gina in a lot of videos when he's way too young for a girlfriend since he's just 4 years old.
 * 18) ** Besides that, Dora is also shown to be dating Caillou or Little Bill. As with the case of Caillou, Dora is way too young to have a boyfriend. Why couldn't they wait to date each other and just stayed as friends until they are teenagers? Because in real life, the average age to start dating is either 15 or 16 years old.
 * 19) * In most videos, characters under the age of 1 to 3 years can speak proper English without any hitch whatsoever, although in real life, it takes some time to succeed. In real life, most children start forming sentences around the age of 3, but their speech isn't fully developed until they get to be around 6 and 7 (sometimes 5).
 * 20) * In videos where the troublemaker insults their sibling who had just been born, the sibling can understand the insult, although they have been in the world for less than a minute.
 * 21) Sometimes, the grounded victim does something good, yet still gets grounded. For example, a user named AnthonyTheVyonder (formerly known as Go!Thug247 or OfficerPoop247) made a video on his old channel called "Paul rants on grounded videos / grounded" where Paul does a good thing but still gets grounded for it.
 * 22) In this other series of grounded videos known as "Behavior Card Days", the character could also get in trouble just for getting a black card, also known as dead meat, which is unfair since a character the user likes gets a good card (mostly leading to them graduating from school), while a character the user hates gets a bad one, expelling them from school. These types of videos, like many other ones, are extremely unrealistic, especially since it's literally against the law to give kids large amounts of time off of school without permission.
 * 23) Some scenes of certain videos can also scare users who come across them, like the Red Alert/Double Red Alert sound effects, some FNAF jumpscare sounds, and ear piercing-ish sounds. They mostly don't even design to add warnings too, though sometimes they do.
 * 24) They use boring and pointless text-to-speech voices, which make them sound monotonous and robotic.
 * 25) * When the character cry, they sound like this: Wah-ah. eeeeeeeeee, aw w-ah. (Ivy, Jennifer), Wah (several times) (Various), Wa-eeh, AH-AH-AH-AH-AH-AH, Aah, h, ah. (Eric), WAHRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR-rah (Oddcast Voices) or when the VoiceForge voices sound like strange machines when they cry, mainly with Julie's voice. (wAA-EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-ah). Said crying sounds are very glitchy and unrealistic due to the technical capabilities of the speech system.
 * 26) * When they say a sound-like expression like “GRRR”, the sound is pronounced by saying the letters in the word, such as "G-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R".
 * 27) * Also, if the character says "AHHHH", the letters in the word are pronounced as well. This also applies to some cases of crying as well.
 * 28) They mostly contain the same overused music such as Big Rock, Suspense, Devil's Lair, etc. Some of them don't even have background music, which makes the video boring and monotonous.
 * 29) The animation is also very cheap too. Literally, when the characters move to express pain or discomfort, they are dancing, or when they eat something, they chew and that's it. Even the late Looney Tunes shorts outright had so much better animation compared to these lackluster computer-generated atrocities. Many of these videos outright use stock-images online for certain characters.
 * 30) * For example, in one grounded video titled "Classic Caillou Misbehaves At The Kalahari Water Park Resort", the beginning of the video features the characters fully-animated in their Comedy World counterparts. However, as the video progresses, the characters immediately turn into stock-images, even Classic Caillou, who literally uses a stock-image of his Comedy World self from online! 
 * 31) *Some videos are even aware of their laziness and have a character break the fourth wall to admit their laziness. For example, if one character asks why such thing is floating or such thing is of a certain color, the other character answers "GoAnimate/Vyond logic".
 * 32) * A good amount of the Comedy World character designs are lazy, as they look too stock, and they look like they use the same character template. While this isn't the case with all the character designs, it's still a problem nonetheless.
 * 33) **Some character designs from some other themes like Business Friendly and Lil Peeps can also look lazy too.
 * 34) A good majority of these videos have characters getting grounded for stupid and nonsensical reasons, such as:
 * 35) * Making fake VHS/DVD openings
 * 36) * Doing activities relating to certain holidays at the wrong time of the year (both of these are common with a user named Nicholas Crockett with his two now ended Zombie Jackson gets Grounded series)
 * 37) * Farting in class
 * 38) * Failing a pop quiz
 * 39) * Appearing on TV
 * 40) * Dancing naked (though it makes sense in context)
 * 41) * Getting a math question wrong
 * 42) * Expressing their opinion on something (ranting/saluting on a subject or saying yes/no to something)
 * 43) * Being held back to the previous grade
 * 44) * Creating a YouTube account
 * 45) * Buying something they like
 * 46) * Singing his or her theme song
 * 47) * Breathing (Yes, really)
 * 48) * Crying after being born
 * 49) * Insulting their siblings after they were born
 * 50) * Being grounded already
 * 51) * Chewing gum in class
 * 52) * Going up against someone's body
 * 53) * Existing (That too!)
 * 54) * Telling a joke in class
 * 55) * Getting fat at McDonald's
 * 56) * Even for no reason whatsoever
 * 57) The videos listed below are probably the worst kinds of grounded videos:
 * 58) * X Destroys the Buildings and Gets Grounded: This is probably the worst type of grounded videos. The synopsis goes as follows: Outside of a store, the troublemaker is with a parent/guardian, not that often a third character. The troublemaker tells the parent/guardian if they can go to either saying that it's nearby, or that they want to go to it. The parent/guardian says that they can't go, and the argument continues a few times. The troublemaker finally loses it, turns into a giant, and destroys a few buildings. After it’s over, the troublemaker goes back to normal size, and the characters go home. At home, usually one or more extra characters there, the parent/guardian gives them their grounding sentence, and the troublemaker goes to their room crying.
 * 59) ** Firstly, how can someone grow that big without any legit reason?
 * 60) ** Secondly, you wouldn't get grounded for destroying buildings. Instead, you would be arrested or even executed.
 * 61) ** Lastly, why were there not any people screaming while the city was being destroyed?
 * 62) *X Grounds the Whole World and Gets Grounded: Though the idea sounds kind of cool, it’s actually really horrible. The synopsis: The character says that they're tired of being grounded all the time, and come up with an idea about grounding the entire world. They call a few friends about their plan, and one of the troublemakers says that there's a broadcasting headquarters nearby. After meeting up, they go into the building and record themselves to the world in front of a single-color background to anyone in the entire world using a Television. They proceed to hijack the television feed and replace it with the recording, where they tell all the viewers that they're tired of everyone grounding them and that they're all grounded. Everyone on Earth, even if they're not watching, starts crying. After one family member finds out, they call the other troublemakers, family members, and one member of each troublemaker and tell them to come home for all the drama they've caused. In the end, there is a transition of each troublemaker grounding the rest of their family, and the characters go to their rooms crying.
 * 63) ** Firstly, it's not possible to air a single video feed to the entire world all at once.
 * 64) ** Secondly, why would everyone on Earth, especially including the people who aren't watching TV, start crying? Everyone has more than one emotion, and most of the people watching would probably be angry and frustrated. Also, why would everyone believe they are grounded after people who have no authority over them ground them?
 * 65) ** Third, how is it possible for the troublemakers to get into the studio, despite not even asking the people in there? If they were there, the people who work there would kick the troublemakers and tell them what they want to do. Also, how can you instantly make a video/announcement? It would take a few minutes or probably days, not right away.
 * 66) ** Lastly, how could people in countries that don't speak the language that the troublemakers are using even understand the message that the troublemakers are delivering? Sure, some of them speak English too, but this? Come on.
 * 67) * X Ruins Y 's Birthday and Gets Grounded: This is likely the most repetitive type of grounded video, at least for the movie theatre ones. The synopsis: The entire family is getting ready to go for that one character's birthday. The troublemaker asks if they can stay home, and one of the parents says "No." The troublemaker then says "Fine.", and they all start driving. Near the start of the way to the theatres, the troublemaker says that they're hungry and that they want to go to a fast-food restaurant. The driver says no because they can get food at the theatres. They continue to engage the driver about wanting food until the character who is driving the car finally says "Fine, but don't make it too long." About half an hour later, the troublemaker comes back into the car, where the driver is sleeping. The driver tells the troublemaker that they went to sleep because it took too long, and they continue driving. The troublemaker then throws the food they bought out of the car window and, for some reason, the car loses control and starts flipping, taking them to the movie theatre. One of the characters who were in the movie theatre comes out and tells the family that the movie is over and that it will never be played again nor put on DVD or VHS. After being told, the character who is having their birthday starts crying, and the rest of the family is angry at the troublemaker. They go home, and the rest of the family, excluding that one character who is crying, give the troublemaker their grounding sentence, and they go to their rooms crying.
 * 68) ** This type of grounded video has two plot holes:
 * 69) *** Firstly, how can a single piece of food cause a car to go off its wheels? Though it's possible at a high enough speed, the car was likely driving at a normal speed.
 * 70) *** Also, why would a movie only be played one time? The fact that a movie would never play again after one time makes absolutely no sense. While this is considered lost media, it's much rarer nowadays, as technology was not as advanced back then.
 * 71) ** As said above, this is very likely to be the most repetitive type of grounded video. This is because each video has the same entire plot, just with different characters and a different restaurant.
 * 72) ** Due to limited backgrounds, the movie theatre looks like a fancy restaurant.
 * 73) *X Swears in Class and Gets Grounded: The video starts with the troublemaker attending class in school as the teacher is teaching, and one student tries to answer the question only for the troublemaker to rudely interrupt their answer. The student tells the troublemaker to stop talking and to let them speak, the troublemaker defends themselves while also saying a swear word (censored or uncensored) out loud. Several other students in the class repeat the swear word with the teacher calling all of their names. The troublemaker then tries to prove that swearing is not wrong and does not hurt anybody by saying the word several times in front of the teacher. The teacher then threatens to send the troublemaker and all the other students who said the swear word to the principal’s office if they don’t stop, only for the troublemaker to say a profane insult to the teacher. The teacher loses it and sends all the students who said the word to the principals office where they are scolded. The troublemaker tries to claim that they learnt the word from their teacher and that he/she said it several times before. The principal denies these claims and sends them home where they are all grounded by their parents, with the starting troublemaker getting the most severe punishment of the all.
 * 74) ** While it may seem original at first, the plot of most of these types of videos (intentionally or unintentionally) straight up rip off the scene from South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut where Eric Cartman swears at Kyle in class only for Stan and Kenny to repeat what they were saying, and when Eric insults Mr. Garrison by using obscene language and what Eric said when they got sent to Mr. Mackey’s office.
 * 75) Even worse, the troublemaker sometimes gets executed by the law for repeating these bad behaviors despite them not even being criminal offenses.
 * 76) Sometimes when a character gets grounded, their parent will call a bunch of random people over to their house to interrogate the grounded character or discuss the punishments they will be getting. This gets annoying and repetitive and only exists as filler to pad out most of the remaining running time (user Nicholas Crockett has done this a lot with his previously mentioned Zombie Jackson gets Grounded series).
 * 77) Ungrounded videos are not any better because they have the same plot as grounded videos, except the kid does something good and gets rewarded.
 * 78) *Sometimes, the kid does something that deserves punishment, such as destroying Nick Jr. or PBS Kids, all because of Dora the Explorer or Barney the Purple Dinosaur, but then again, they get rewarded all because of it. There's also a Plotagon video where Caillou blows up the Sony Pictures Animation HQ, yet he gets ungrounded. There are even types of videos when a kid arrests someone, and yet they still get ungrounded and rewarded.
 * 79) *The kid getting ungrounded might not even be grounded at the beginning, so what's the point of being ungrounded if you're not even grounded in the first place?
 * 80) In many of these videos, a certain plot plays out where every time a student misbehaves at school, they get held back a grade, or in this case, they are moved back from, say, 12th grade to 11th grade. That's not even the definition of "held back". To be held back would mean that you would have to repeat the same grade the next year, not get sent back a grade that same year. It's also unrealistic to go back from high school to middle school to elementary school and to preschool for example.
 * 81) *There is also a plot hole: how would the previous teachers know what the troublemaker did in 12th grade. It’s as if the 12th-grade teacher notified the troublemakers' past teachers and told them to hold the student back if he makes one small mistake, which is also really unfair.
 * 82) Many grounded videos have disturbing content, such as one that has Dora putting rat poison in the school lunch.
 * 83) Punishment day videos, speaking of which, have punishments that can't even be considered punishments; it's nothing but plain cruelty, and child abuse, which consist of the troublemaker being forced to do things like:
 * 84) *Drink toilet water
 * 85) *Eat or drink poison
 * 86) *Get spanked in the butt
 * 87) *Drink pee or poop of someone else's
 * 88) *Be wildly mutilated or beaten
 * 89) *Get sent to scary logos, such as Klasky Csupo's "Super Scary Face", Viacom's "V of Doom", ВИD's "Mask of Guo Xiang", WGBH Boston's "Neon Sign", THX's "Deep Note", Screen Gems' "S from Hell", or the Nickelodeon pinch face. None of them are scary, and most people won’t get nightmares. They’re only frightening to watch.
 * 90) *Listen to loud music or sounds until he/she is bleeding from the ears or goes deaf
 * 91) *Take a shower with excruciatingly hot or cold water that would either burn or freeze you to death (besides, it's not possible to go below the absolute zero, -273.15 degrees C or -459.67 degrees F)
 * 92) *Have his/her favorite things burned, broken, sold to a "good" user, or crushed no matter what price
 * 93) *Have his/her TV show dropped from the air forever
 * 94) *Sleep outside, even if there is rain, thunder, lightning, or snow
 * 95) *Compete in the running of The Bulls
 * 96) *Rake leaves and shovel driveways without any breaks for snacks or water
 * 97) *Wear diapers, or worse, be treated like a baby (which means things like eating baby food, sleeping in a crib, and going to daycare)
 * 98) *Watch preschool shows, big kid shows, primetime shows, films, and play video games not owned/produced/distributed by companies they like, not made for their age, or related to a certain character or property, which especially applies to videos involving Warren Cook
 * 99) **Speaking of Warren Cook, he is very close-minded and is too old to get grounded. Some new videos show him as a good man.
 * 100) *Drink fiery hot sauce or an ice-cold soda
 * 101) *Eat food he/she doesn't like
 * 102) *Listening to music they hate
 * 103) * Eat at fast-food restaurants they hate eating at
 * 104) *Eating/drinking food or drinks that expired
 * 105) *Getting brutally killed or executed (as it followed along with the others celebrating the troublemaker's death at the end, which is not only very heartless, but it's also considered as disrespecting the dead).
 * 106) While it isn't too common, some people who watch might become uncomfortable due to the inclusion of nudity, pedophilia, incest, pee, vomit, feces and blood, mutilation, female periods, etc.
 * 107) *A video has Arthur and D.W. getting grounded for dancing naked, which is highly inappropriate.
 * 108) **Speaking of naked, Arthur and D.W. aren't even dancing naked, but are dancing with clothes that are the same color as their hair.
 * 109) *Another video shows Caillou raping and having sex with Rosie, then being raped by Boris.
 * 110) Atrocious and horrific morals: You should ground your kids for very long periods and abuse them. The parents never even get punished for abusing their kids and gets off scot-free, making them Karma Houdinis.
 * 111) * Even though they do bad stuff like call the baby stupid, it’s still not an excuse for parents.
 * 112) Some punishments are pretty offensive, such as Caillou getting sent to India in one video as a punishment, and Dora getting sent to Italy in another, and being able to speak Italian as soon as she gets there by the way.
 * 113) Speaking of offensive, some videos can even contain racially insensitive content, one of the most infamous examples being "Boris the Teeth Guy", an evil version of Caillou's father who uses profanities and all sorts of racial and homophobic slurs like the n-word or the homophobic f-word.
 * 114) Most grounded videos contain the word "um" a lot when the victim tries to confess, and then they tell the truth, which can get annoying. Additionally, if they lie, then the parents will correct them, so why bother asking them if you already know what they did?
 * 115) Dora's mother is prejudiced against her daughter, despite being Mexican herself, meaning she's a hypocrite. It's also an offense, especially to the Mexican audience.
 * 116) Some of these videos depict a troublemaker celebrating someone's death.
 * 117) *For example, in the infamous and pointless video called, Dora And Caillou Get Executed Big Time, their parents (Boris, Doris, Elena, and Miguel) and other various people (such as Sonic) celebrate the death of Caillou and Dora just for a very demonic reason. In real life, you would give a tribute to a person who has passed away, not celebrating their death, which shows how many of these idiots these characters are in these grounded videos.
 * 118) In most videos, the troublemakers are brainless and are complete jerks. For example, when they need to throw up or use the washroom, they do it on the spot, when they could easily go to the bathroom instead? Or, when their parent tells them they're grounded or subjected to a punishment day, why couldn't they try to escape, do something, or defend themselves instead of just yelling and crying?
 * 119) Some people that make these videos are not only SJWs and Obsessive Anti-SJWs, but also Neo-Nazis as well!
 * 120) Most of these rip-off clips from amazing cartoon shows or TV shows, and take them out of context, such as SpongeBob SquarePants, Family Guy, South Park, The Simpsons, or even YouTubers' content, such as SuperMarioLogan and, rarely if ever, SMG4.
 * 121) Barney/Character Error Videos: They are outright awful, pointless, and make no sense in context. Look them up yourself online, and you'll immediately catch the point.
 * 122) Latin American videos are much worse than American ones since the editing is worse and lazier, most of them are copies of other existing videos and they are only about expressing hatred for a character.
 * 123) Characters clip at times throughout the video, making them look like their feet are touching the desk of the other Character next to them.
 * 124) While the lip-syncing is okay for most of the themes, some of them have bad lip-syncing as they either don't fit up with the voices, or they don't fit up with the emotion.
 * 125) Oftentimes, due to many of the videos being made with weak hardware and then screen-recorded with Bandicam or similar software, there tends to be a lot of lag in these videos, especially when there are a lot of characters on-screen.
 * 126) Some of the punishments involve sending the victim to a foreign country (usually European). They are sent there without food, money, or their parents.
 * 127) *And when the said victim attempts to escape the country, the victim will get grounded by a bunch of other people even though they have nothing to do with the video, which is downright stupid.
 * 128) Some of these videos can actually break YouTube's guidelines, as with one video about Dora committing a mass school shooting and killing dozens of innocent children and teachers. No joke. Here is the video link if you don't believe us.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) On extremely rare to almost nonexistent cases, grounded videos are okay because the parents don't repeat the word "grounded", and sometimes they even give realistic grounding sentences. Others (like Ivan the Brony Kaiju and Jacob the Little Witch Academia Bro) never use the word "grounded" and instead has the guardians send the troublemaker to their room.
 * 2) Although most of the Comedy World (and some character designs from other themes) character designs look lazy, some of the creators at least tried their best to make the characters accurate. On top of that, some designs can look accurate, but they only come from users who actually care about quality.
 * 3) There are several Satirical videos, parodies, and laziness videos, all of which are hilarious, and are supposed to be funny.
 * 4) *In the "laziness" versions of grounded videos, bastardized versions of commonly used characters (like Caillou) in these types of videos.
 * 5) The very first grounded video made by adamkleinschmidt2003 wasn't too bad, as it was much more realistic than grounded videos nowadays and the troublemaker gets grounded for being rude to a teacher, which is completely understandable for the parents to ground him for that. Besides, it wasn't an exaggeratedly infinite sentence.
 * 6) *On top of that, the troublemaker even redeems himself by apologizing to his teacher at the end and gets ungrounded, which is nice.
 * 7) Though it doesn't usually happen, there are a good number of videos where the troublemaker tries their best to escape any harm.
 * 8) Despite some videos having very offensive swear words, some other videos contain censorship whenever a character says it. What's even better is that videos with porn in them are quite rare.
 * 9) Despite the troublemaker getting grounded for an unrealistically long time or receiving unfair punishments, some videos have characters getting grounded for fair and realistic reasons, such as:
 * 10) *Skipping school
 * 11) *Misbehaving at a certain place
 * 12) *Bullying
 * 13) *Beating someone up
 * 14) *Going to their favorite restaurant while grounded
 * 15) * Lying
 * 16) *Sneaking out
 * 17) *Dating someone at an early age (mostly at around 4 to 8)
 * 18) *Being rude to a teacher
 * 19) *Insulting someone
 * 20) *Being disrespectful to a parent
 * 21) *Refusing to do things they get asked to do (i.e., Homework, Chores, etc.)
 * 22) *Throwing a temper tantrum
 * 23) *Smoking cigarettes harm your health in several ways
 * 24) *Vandalizing school property
 * 25) *Cutting class
 * 26) *Hurting someone's feelings
 * 27) *Mistreating their younger sibling
 * 28) *Pirating a movie/video game
 * 29) *Selling bootleg/pirated DVDs
 * 30) * Breaking someone's item
 * 31) *Celebrating deaths
 * 32) *Giving someone a Punishment Day (one of the main reasons for getting grounded for excessive child abuse)
 * 33) * Blaming someone else for their actions (known as playing a blame game)
 * 34) Some people (such as mh:amazingyoutubers:samster5677 and mh:amazingyoutubers:Kenny Animate for example) put more effort into making their grounded videos by making them more realistic and funny than most grounded videos you can find on YouTube, not to mention that some of them make grounded videos for fun more than just expressing hatred towards a character.
 * 35) Not all grounded videos use characters from other intellectual properties. Some grounded videos are made with original characters (e.g. Violy).
 * 36) The text-to-speech voices can sound funny sometimes.
 * 37) They could be considered "so bad, they're good". So that makes them usually funny to watch.
 * 38) Some of them poke fun at how unreasonable the grounding reasons are.
 * 39) *In some cases, the parents can also get grounded (like Boris in most cases where he can be portrayed as a troublemaker) for grounding their kids for no reason. Karma.
 * 40) Sometimes grounded videos do show us the consequences of causing trouble and bad behavior, even if not well executed.
 * 41) There are two themes, the Lil' Peepz theme (very seldom used) and the Business Friendly theme (sometimes used), which are much better themes to use instead of Comedy World, as they have a lot more character movements and reactions to choose from.
 * 42) In some grounded videos, they use more varied music.

Reception
Before 2016, these videos were met with praise from (mostly) Vyond/GoAnimate users. However, as years come by, they have mostly received mixed to negative reception from a majority of YouTubers, GoAnimators, and professional animators. They have been criticized for being formulaic, repetitive, predictable, unoriginal, lazy, mean-spirited, etc. However, they do have a cult following, with some considering them to be "so bad, they're good".

Examples of Grounded Videos
There are multiple ways that a troublemaker gets grounded in these videos. Here's a list of examples of ways a troublemaker can get grounded, with some of the reasons being nonsensical or realistic:
 * Beating up another person
 * Blaming some else/Playing a blame game
 * Blasting loud music (usually on any location or at 3AM)
 * Breaking someone's item
 * Bringing an adult-rated movie to school
 * Bullying someone else
 * Buying an item (usually using someone else's credit card, usually of a relative)
 * Calling somebody (usually a relative) by their real name
 * Celebrating deaths
 * Chewing gum at school (Consuming chewing gum anywhere in Singapore is illegal, believe it or not)
 * Crying in the hospital after being born
 * Cutting class
 * Doing their favorite activity while grounded
 * Downgrading computers to an older operating system
 * Doxxing
 * Drawing a big fat meanie/getting blamed for drawing it
 * Eating food that is not allowed by the guardians
 * Expressing your opinion on something
 * Failing a pop quiz
 * Farting in class
 * Framing someone who didn't do anything wrong
 * Getting a math question wrong
 * Getting coal/bad presents for Christmas
 * Getting detention
 * Getting held back
 * Getting in dead meat on a behavior card day
 * Getting someone in dead meat/expelled for no reason
 * Getting someone else arrested
 * Getting someone else grounded
 * Giving someone else a punishment day
 * Giving someone a concussion
 * Going trick or treating, usually without permission
 * Grounding someone (example: Grounding an innocent character/user)
 * Grounding the whole world along with other troublemakers
 * Hosting a slumber party when not allowed to
 * Hurting somebody's feelings
 * Insulting their newborn sibling
 * Killing somebody else (and disrespecting their funeral)
 * Killing somebody's favorite character
 * Locking somebody in their room
 * Losing a game
 * Making a fake food stand (example: a chocolate stand that has poop)
 * Making a fake VHS opening (seriously, what even are they?!)
 * Making a grounded video out of someone
 * Making a pirated video game and selling it
 * Making an account on a website (Even though this condition isn't that bad in real-life)
 * Making an unfair Behavior Card Day (Giving the troublemakers/bad characters/users some good cards, and giving the innocent/good characters/users some bad cards)
 * Making everybody cry
 * Misbehaving at any location (usually at fast food or store; these are mostly longer length videos)
 * Misbehaving on a car, or bus ride (usually to a movie, and everyone outright misses it in the end usually)
 * Mistreating their younger sibling
 * Not wearing green on St. Patrick's Day
 * Owning a certain item, like a VHS tape
 * Owning a lemonade stand
 * Pirating a movie/video game
 * Playing "Hooky" (skipping school)
 * Pushing someone in a locker
 * Putting a poisonous substance in school lunch, like rat poison
 * Ranting on something the uploader likes
 * Rapping orders at a restaurant
 * Running away from home
 * Saluting on something the uploader hates
 * Saying a word/sentence (often offensive)
 * Saying (yes/no/something)
 * Scaring people
 * Selling pirated DVDs
 * Stealing someone's lunch
 * Stealing an item from a public location
 * Stealing other people's junk food
 * Taking over a teacher's job
 * Telling a joke in class
 * Turning someone into a giant
 * Turning Vyond into Plotagon or vice versa
 * Ungrounding a bad character/troublemaker
 * Uploading a sex tape
 * Vandalizing school property, such as using spray paint
 * No. Reason. At. All.
 * And much, much, more.

Examples: Warning: NSFW! Child Abuse and Adult Abuse content
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