Grounded and Punishment Day videos

Note: This page was previously on Atrocious YouTubers Wiki and Horrible GoAnimators Wiki but was imported here due to both wikis closing and is also the first page on this wiki! This page was originally created by FinesseFinish on November 2, 2019, on Atrocious YouTubers Wiki, then it was ported to Horrible Vyonders Wiki by TBCtableEX the same day and was re-created by DarkMatterMan4500 on April 23, 2021. This page was also once on the now closed Terrible Shows & Episodes Wiki, but the pages were merged by JigglypuffGuy04 on December 22, 2021. Grounded Videos are a genre of videos made with Vyond/GoAnimate, and are commonly uploaded to YouTube. Punishment Day is a spin-off genre. It is by far, the most popular genre of videos made with the browser-based video maker, GoAnimate/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. However, the first well-known grounded video was "Brian Gets in Trouble at School" by AdamKleinSchmidt2003, uploaded on July 2, 2011. They became popular with "Caillou Calls His Baby Sister Stupid", which was uploaded by African Vulture in December 2013 and later re-uploaded by the FunEditor4 on November 3, 2018.

Premise
A child (usually from a preschool show such as Caillou, Dora, or Little Bill) or sometimes an adult (Brian, Caillou's father Boris, or Eric) does something "bad" such as skipping school, getting a dead meat card, getting fat at a fast-food restaurant, beating someone up, or misbehaving outside of the house. After that, they are usually grounded for a very long time.

Why Many of Them (Intentionally or Not) Deserve to Be "Grounded Grounded Grounded"
Note: Some of them are made as jokes and are intentionally made to be bad.
 * 1) The main issue with grounded videos is that they are often overly formulaic, predictable, and repetitive. The majority of these videos follow the same structure, just with different characters:"A character (often disliked by the creator) openly declares they are going to do something which is considered to be bad, then proceeds to do it, and then the parents show up and ground them, usually for an unreasonably long time, before the character runs off to their room crying."
 * 2) Many of these videos portray characters from preschool/children's shows as the troublemakers, which is often done simply because they're "make for kids", which is a lazy and repetitive excuse. Popular grounded victims (and other characters from their respective media) include Caillou, Dora the Explorer, Little Bill, Kai-Lan, Peppa Pig, Arthur and D.W., Elmo, The Backyardigans, the Wonder Pets, Wubbzy and Daizy, the Little Einsteins, Super Why and the Super Readers, and Daniel Tiger. Worse, they flanderized these preschool show characters to becoming unlikable, abusive, idiotic, and mean-spirited, which contradict their actual shows.
 * 3) *Many grounded videos feature adults such as Boris and Doris (Caillou's parents); Elena and Cole (Dora's parents); Bob the Builder; Steve and Joe (Blue's Clues); Winnie the Pooh; Bear (Bear in the Big Blue House); and Barney the Dinosaur being grounded, even though in real life adults can't actually be grounded, as the legal age for grounding is 18. Again, worse, they flanderized these preschool show characters to becoming unlikable, abusive, idiotic, and mean-spirited, which contradict their real shows.
 * 4) *Even if the characters’ families were to be from the original source of media, they also get grounded by someone who aren't really related to them. The worst example is the Super Readers getting grounded by the Gonsin guardians. However, the Gonsin guardians do not exist in the actual show and are not their real parents, and the Super Readers have their own families: Whyatt/Super Why is shown to have actual parents and an older college-bound brother Jack and baby sister Joy along with his own pet dog Woofster, Pig/Alpha-Pig is shown to have two older brothers and a father (even though we never see his mother, despite being offscreen), Red/Wonder Red is shown to have a grandmother (even though we never see her actual parents, despite being offscreen), and Princess Pea/Princess Presto is shown to live in a castle with her own parents named Queen Pea and King Pea. This clearly shows that the people who make grounded videos out of these characters clearly haven’t watched this show at all nor have done any sufficient research on these characters.
 * 5) *Moreover, the characters being grounded by characters who never appeared in the original media, even though they may have family members in the original media. The parents in the videos are often copies of the troublemaker's design, making them appear generic and unoriginal, or they are nonexistent in the original media. The Little Einsteins Get Grounded is terrible because it shows Leo, Annie, June, and Quincy getting grounded by their guardians Daniel, Kate, and Raveena, even though we never see any of the Little Einsteins’ (Leo and Annie, June, or Quincy) parents onscreen in the actual show (even though they might be shown offscreen). As mentioned before, this clearly shows that the people who make grounded videos out of these characters clearly haven’t watched this show at all nor have done any sufficient research on these characters.
 * 6) *They also redundantly expanded Caillou's family and gave Anderson as his surname, though Caillou's surname was never revealed canonically, which proves that the creators of these videos did almost no research on Caillou's family and have not actually watched the real show before making these videos. They would even give Caillou hair for no reason.
 * 7) *Some people make grounded videos out of other users or real-life people and celebrities like Justin Bieber, Britney Spears, Avril Lavigne , Alvin Hung (the creator of Vyond/GoAnimate), and other YouTubers (mostly Vyonders/GoAnimators), which is considered cyber-bullying or harming the person they target. A common example would be Justin Bieber Gets Grounded.
 * 8) Oftentimes, the troublemakers in grounded videos are portrayed as entirely brainless idiots. For example, when they get grounded or subjected to a punishment day, instead of attempting to escape, fight back, or defend themselves, they simply cry and whine or refuse to accept their punishment.
 * 9) Possible victim-blaming in some videos, especially in one titled as "Justin Bieber Gets Beat Up/Grounded" where a ninja named Brian beats up Justin Bieber, when Justin told the teacher, she instead victim blames him and tells him to see the principal, when Justin told the principal what happened, he victim blames him as well, along with the parents.
 * 10) 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 doesn’t make any sense:
 * 11) The troublemaker's grounding sentence is absurd, oftentimes lasting years, decades, or in some cases, even for eternity, which is just crazy, outright mentally insane, and completely irrational. In real life, you'd be dead long before then. In one circumstance, specifically when Caillou turned a school into Chuck E Cheese's, he got grounded for over a quintillion years.
 * 12) Sometimes characters get grounded by characters that they have a good relationship with. An example of this is in the "Bob The Builder Gets Grounded" series, where he gets grounded by Farmer Pickles and/or his partner Wendy, even though Farmer Pickles isn't even related to Bob in the actual show, and neither is Wendy (even though she's Bob's girlfriend). To make matters worse, not only is Bob shown to have a father and a mother seen in the actual show, but he also has brother named Tom! In the show, Bob is shown to have a good relationship with Wendy and Farmer Pickles, whom again, aren't even related to him.
 * 13) Caillou is seen having a crush on or dating Dora in a lot of videos, which is pedophilia, since he's just 4 years old and Dora is only 7 years old, an age that's way too young for relationships.
 * 14) *Rather than being in a relationship, couldn't they wait and stay as friends until they're teenagers? Because in real life, the average age to start dating is between 15-16 years old.
 * 15) In most videos, characters aged 0-3 years are able to speak proper English. In real life, it takes some time to succeed as most children start forming sentences around the age of 3, but their speech isn't fully developed until they get to be around 5-6 years of age.
 * 16) In videos where the troublemaker insults their sibling who had just been born, it's evident that the sibling understood the insult, despite being born less than a minute ago.
 * 17) In a school-themed genre called "Held Back," 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 down a grade, i.e. 12th grade to 11th grade. That's not even the definition of "held back". To be held back actually means that the student will have to redo the same grade the following year(s), not get sent to a lower grade that same year. It's also unrealistic and irrational to go back from high school all the way down to preschool, for example.
 * 18) *There is also a plot hole: how would the previous teachers know what the troublemaker did in their initial grade? It’s as if that teacher notified the troublemakers' past/former teachers and told them to hold the student back if they make one small mistake, which is also really unfair.
 * 19) In another series of grounded videos known as "Behavior Card Days", the character could also get in trouble just for getting in "dead meat" (usually a black or red card), which is unfair since the characters that the user likes get better cards (the best one leading to them either graduating from school or getting an extremely long time off school), while a character the user hates gets a bad one, expelling them from school (usually from every school in the world). These types of videos, like many other ones, are extremely unrealistic and irrational, especially since it's against the law to give kids massive amounts of time off school without permission.
 * 20) Oftentimes, the grounded victim does something good, yet still gets grounded, (for example Eric kills Bin Laden, and his parents grounded him despite what he did was right).
 * 21) Some of the punishments involve sending the victim to a foreign country (usually European and/or Asian) without any food, money, family, shelter, or anything whatsoever. And when the said victim escapes the country, they will get grounded by a bunch of other people (even though they have nothing to do with the video), which is downright stupid, repetitive, and abusive.
 * 22) Some videos can also scare users who come across them, like those including the Red Alert/Double Red Alert sound effects, FNAF jumpscare sounds, and ear piercing sounds. They mostly don't even design to add warnings too, though sometimes they do.
 * 23) They mostly contain the same overused music such as Big Rock, Suspense, Devil's Lair, etc. Most of them don't even have background music, which makes the video dull, boring and monotonous.
 * 24) Cheap and lazy animation. When the characters move to express pain or discomfort, they are dancing, or when they eat something, they chew and that's it, and most notoriously, when they are shown to be interacting with something, they simply point at it. Even the late Looney Tunes shorts have way better animation compared to these lackluster computer-generated atrocities.
 * 25) Many videos opt to use stock-images for certain characters, while others enjoy full animation. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, however it can become somewhat of an issue as there is often only one image which leads the said character to remain static throughout the entirety of the video, with no variation in facial expressions and unnatural movements and gestures with the objects they are interacting with.
 * 26) Some videos are even aware of how lazy their animation is and have a character break the fourth wall to address it. For example, if one character asks why such thing is floating, is of a certain color, or just about anything out of the norm, the other character answers "Vyond/GoAnimate logic".
 * 27) 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.
 * 28) *Some character designs from some other themes like Lil' Peepz can also look lazy too.
 * 29) *A few of the character designs look inaccurate to the character designs from the source material. Notably, Pablo the Penguin's Vyond/GoAnimate design looks absolutely nothing like his design from The Backyardigans, with the only resemblance to that design being the blue and yellow color scheme, and Oswald the Octopus's design in the Business Friendly theme depicts him with a humanoid body, even though in Oswald and in the Lil' Peepz theme, he has a round, octopus-like body (aside from him having two feet in the latter).
 * 30) Clipping is also very common throughout these videos. For instance, one character may walk behind the props and/or characters in a scene, despite originally being in front of them.
 * 31) 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 (Cartoon Classics and Stick Figure), or they don't fit up with the emotion (Lil' Peepz and Business Friendly).
 * 32) 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. This issue is present considering that GoAnimate runs on Adobe Flash (before 2019), and the video maker will lag if used for long periods of time.
 * 33) The text-to-speech voices used are very monotonous and robotic, which makes the characters sound boring and unnatural:
 * 34) When the characters cry, they sound like this:
 * 35) Wah-ah eeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-aw w-ah (Ivy, Jennifer)
 * 36) Wah (several times, various)
 * 37) WA-EE AH-AH-AH-AH-AH-AH-AH-AH-AH-AH AUGH-H-AH (Eric)
 * 38) WAHERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR-rah (Oddcast Voices), or when the VoiceForge voices sound like strange machines when they cry, mainly with Kayla's voice.
 * 39) Said crying sounds are very glitchy and unrealistic due to the limited technical capabilities of the speech system.
 * 40) When making an expression like "Grrrr!" and "Ahhhhh", the character pronounces the letters in the expression, making them say "G-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R" or "A-H-H-H-H-H-H-H-H-H-H". This can apply to crying as well (W-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-H-H-H-H).
 * 41) They also mispronounce words, like "Caillou" as "kay-loo" or "K.I. You." This is because the name "Caillou" is French and the TTS voices speak English, though you can bypass this by typing kai-u or kai-you. Please note that the mispronunciations of the word "Caillou" became so common in these videos that they became in-jokes amongst English-speaking audiences
 * 42) A lot of times, the characters get grounded for stupid, nonsensical and irrational reasons, such as:
 * 43) Making fake VHS/DVD openings (though it is a form of copyright infringement)
 * 44) Farting, peeing, or pooping in class (even if it's disgusting)
 * 45) Appearing on TV
 * 46) Expressing their opinion on something (ranting/saluting on a subject or saying yes/no to something)
 * 47) Being held back to previous grades
 * 48) Insulting their newly born sibling
 * 49) Getting fat at a restaurant (even though eating too much junk food is unhealthy)
 * 50) Dropping by Squidward's house
 * 51) Not wearing green on St. Patrick's Day (What if they don't like the color green?)
 * 52) Listening/Singing to Music (even if it has no explicit content, especially singing a preschool show theme song)
 * 53) Getting pregnant (Even if the troublemaker is male.)
 * 54) Crying after being born (What do you expect? Babies are supposed to cry)
 * 55) Breathing (Yes, really?!)
 * 56) Existing (That too!)
 * 57) Taking a shower (Seriously?!)
 * 58) Even For No Reason At All
 * 59) Even worse, the troublemaker sometimes gets executed by the law for repeating their bad behavior despite them not even being criminal offense, though this isn't as common as groundings.
 * 60) And speaking of execution, several of these videos depict a troublemaker celebrating someone's death.
 * 61) *For example, in the infamous and pointless video, Dora And Caillou Get Executed Big Time, their parents (Boris and Doris, and Elena and Cole) and other various people (such as Sonic) celebrate the death of Caillou and Dora just for a very demonic reason. In real life, the people gives a tribute and dedication to a deceased person, not celebrating their death, which shows how many of these idiots these characters are in these grounded videos.
 * 62) Sometimes when a character gets grounded, their parents will call a bunch of random people over 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). These are called Warren-style punishments.
 * 63) Many grounded videos have disturbing and gross content, such as one that has Dora putting rat poison in the school lunch.
 * 64) Punishment day videos, speaking of which, have punishments that can't even be considered punishments; it's nothing but plain cruelty, torture, and child abuse, which consist of the troublemaker being forced to do things like:
 * 65) While not entirely child abuse, the character could be forced to wear diapers (often referred as "nappies", even though they're clearly too old for them), or worse, being treated like a baby (which means things like eating baby food, sleeping in a crib, and going to daycare). And speaking of wearing diapers, the troublemaker may only be allowed to urinate and defecate in diapers instead of the toilet, and have their underwear and toilet destroyed.
 * 66) Having everything in their bedroom (including furniture) taken away, making them sleep in a room with absolutely nothing.
 * 67) Drinking toilet water or contaminated water
 * 68) Eating or drinking poison
 * 69) Getting spanked in the butt
 * 70) Eating feces and/or drinking urine
 * 71) Being wildly mutilated or beaten
 * 72) Getting sent to scary logos (Such logos include 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, which are barely scary)
 * 73) Listening to earrape until said troublemaker has bleeding ears or goes deaf
 * 74) Taking a shower with excruciatingly hot or cold water that would either burn or freeze you to death
 * 75) Having their favorite things either burned, broken, sold to a character the user likes, or crushed no matter what price
 * 76) Sleeping outside, no matter the conditions (e.g. rain, thunder, lightning, snow), without campfires or bonfires
 * 77) Watching TV shows and movies, playing video games, or reading books not belonging to companies they like, not made for their age, or related to a certain character or property
 * 78) * This especially applies to videos involving Warren Cook (aka SeaDisney1998), a certain user who was criticized a lot for uploading a bunch of fake VHS openings with clickbait titles like "REAL NOT FAKE" and having the wrong release years.
 * 79) *Speaking of Warren Cook, he is very close-minded and too old to get grounded. Some new videos show him as a good man.
 * 80) Drinking fiery hot sauce
 * 81) Getting their eyes gouged out
 * 82) Eating/drinking food or drinks they hate or have expired
 * 83) Getting blasted off like Team Rocket
 * 84) Being discouraged from taking any showers to force others to hate them or their show/franchise/theme song/behavior by smelling horrific
 * 85) Being assigned with an extremely large and unreasonable amount of homework without any breaks
 * 86) Getting rickrolled (cashes in the outdated Rickroll meme, proving they try to be relevant)
 * 87) Getting brutally killed or executed (followed with the others celebrating the troublemaker's death at the end)
 * 88) While it isn't too common, some people who watch might become uncomfortable due to the inclusion of gross-out humor, shock value, nudity, pedophilia, incest, urine, vomit, fecal matter, blood, mutilation, and on less common occasions, female periods, etc.
 * 89) A video has Arthur and D.W. getting grounded for dancing naked, which is highly inappropriate.
 * 90) Another video shows Caillou raping and having sex with Rosie, then being raped by Boris.
 * 91) 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 get off scot-free, making them Karma Houdinis.
 * 92) *Even if the characters commit bad stuff like skipping school, cheating, and such, it’s still not an excuse for the parents to brutally torture them.
 * 93) 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 (besides, India and Italy aren't bad countries!). Sometimes, the victim is even able to speak the languages of the country they are sent to.
 * 94) 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 offensive slurs like the homophobic f-word or the n-word.
 * 95) Dora's mother (Elena) is prejudiced against her daughter since she keeps using anti-Mexican/Hispanic insults towards her, despite being Hispanic herself, meaning she's a hypocrite. It's also offensive and child abuse, especially to the Mexican/Hispanic audience. To add insult to injury she's also saying it in front of her family members.
 * 96) In the "laziness" versions of grounded videos, where there are bastardized versions of each character, Caillou's name is changed to "Gayloo." This can be seen as really offensive to those in the LGBT+ community.
 * 97) Some people that make these videos are not only SJWs and obsessive Anti-SJWs, but also Neo-Nazis as well!
 * 98) Some of these videos can break YouTube's guidelines, as with one video about Dora committing a mass school shooting and killing dozens of innocent children and teachers. Yes, these videos exist! Here is the video link if you don't believe us.
 * 99) *Usually, there are some Punishment Day videos that even break YouTube’s community guidelines as well. WE KID YOU NOT!
 * 100) Ungrounded videos aren't any better because they have the same plot as grounded videos, except the kid does something good and gets rewarded.
 * 101) *Sometimes, the kid does something that deserves punishment, but they get rewarded all because of it. For example, there's a Plotagon video where Caillou blows up the Sony Pictures Animation HQ, yet he gets ungrounded. There are even videos where a kid kills someone, and yet they still get ungrounded and rewarded.
 * 102) **The worst example of this is a video showing  Adolf Hitler getting ungrounded for killing Barney the Dinosaur.We're not joking.
 * 103) *The character 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?
 * 104) *They are one of the reasons for ruining Vyond.

Ungrounding Qualities

 * 1) Some grounded videos are okay or decent because the parents don't repeat the word "grounded", and sometimes even give realistic grounding sentences (such as DeVario Lopez's "Mean Big Sister Curses At The Baby"). 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 try there best to make the characters accurate. On top of that, some designs can look accurate, but they mostly 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 meant to be funny.
 * 4) *As mentioned earlier, bastardized versions of commonly-used characters are used in "laziness" videos, and are extremely funny, despite the "Gayloo" naming controversy.
 * 5) Though it doesn't usually happen, there are a good number of videos where the troublemaker tries their best to escape any harm.
 * 6) Some troublemakers do deserve to get grounded for their misfortunes, whether it would be either karmic or satisfying such as being unlikable, mean, annoying, selfish, immature, etc.
 * 7) In many videos, censorship may be included when swearing is used.
 * 8) Despite the troublemaker getting grounded for an unrealistically long time and receiving cruel punishments or when the said victim is from a preschool show, several videos have characters getting grounded for fair and realistic reasons, such as:
 * 9) Misbehaving at a certain place
 * 10) Bullying/cyberbullying
 * 11) Stalking
 * 12) Beating someone up
 * 13) Going to their favorite restaurant while grounded
 * 14) Lying
 * 15) Dating someone at an early age
 * 16) Being rude to a teacher
 * 17) Insulting someone
 * 18) Discriminating someone
 * 19) Raping someone
 * 20) Being disrespectful to a parent
 * 21) Refusing to do things they get asked to do (e.g. homework, chores, etc)
 * 22) Throwing fits
 * 23) Smoking/vaping (harms your health in several ways)
 * 24) Vandalism
 * 25) Hurting someone's feelings
 * 26) Mistreating their younger sibling
 * 27) Pirating a movie/video game
 * 28) Selling bootleg/pirated DVDs
 * 29) Breaking someone's item
 * 30) Celebrating deaths
 * 31) Giving someone a punishment day
 * 32) Blaming someone else for their actions/victim-playing (known as playing a blame game)
 * 33) Threatening people
 * 34) Watching a movie/show or playing a game they aren't supposed to watch/play
 * 35) Going on websites they aren't supposed to be on
 * 36) Cheating in school (especially plagiarism)
 * 37) Cutting class and/or skipping school (especially truancy)
 * 38) Committing various crimes (theft, robbery, murder and terrorism being the most common.)
 * 39) Ordering an item from a food place without permission
 * 40) Some people (such as Samster5677 and 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.
 * 41) Not all grounded videos use characters from other intellectual properties. Several grounded videos are made with original characters (e.g. Violy, Cooper, Kenward, Raven, Rebecca, Christo, Lamar, Tristan, Ekul, Nailij, Derf Siregor, and Evets).
 * 42) The text-to-speech voices can sound funny sometimes.
 * 43) They could be considered "so bad, it's good", so that makes them usually funny to watch, even if the creators never intended on it.
 * 44) 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.
 * 45) Sometimes, grounded videos do show us the consequences of causing trouble and bad behavior, even if not well-executed.
 * 46) There are several other themes, such as the Lil' Peepz theme (rarely used, but more common until 2016) and the Business Friendly theme (mostly used since 2017), which are much better themes to use instead of Comedy World, as they have a lot more character movements and reactions to choose from.
 * 47) In several grounded videos, they use more varied music.
 * 48) The very first grounded video made by adamkleinschmidt2003 was way better and much more realistic than most 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 long sentence and was given a second chance by the end of the video.
 * 49) *On top of that, the troublemaker even redeems himself by apologizing to his teacher at the end and gets ungrounded, which is nice.
 * 50) *Better yet, this troublemaker is an original character the creator makes and is not from a preschool show.

Reception
Until 2019, these videos were met with praise from (mostly) Vyonders/GoAnimators. However, as years came by, they mostly received mixed-to-negative reception from a majority of YouTubers, Vyonders/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, but not limited to:
 * 1) Abusing Vyond/GoAnimate logic
 * 2) Beating up another person
 * 3) Blaming someone else for their actions/Playing a blame game
 * 4) Blasting loud music (usually on any location or at 3AM)
 * 5) Breaking someone's item
 * 6) Bringing an adult-rated movie to school
 * 7) Bullying someone else
 * 8) Buying an item (usually using someone else's credit card, usually from a relative)
 * 9) Calling somebody (usually a relative) by their real name
 * 10) Celebrating deaths
 * 11) Cheating in school (usually a school test or the finals, especially plagiarism)
 * 12) Chewing gum at school (consuming chewing gum anywhere in Singapore is illegal, believe it or not)
 * 13) Crying in the hospital after being born
 * 14) Cutting class
 * 15) Doing their favorite activity while grounded
 * 16) Downgrading computers to an older operating system
 * 17) Doxxing
 * 18) Drawing a big fat meanie/getting blamed for drawing it
 * 19) Dropping by Squidward's house
 * 20) Eating food that is not allowed by the guardians
 * 21) Eating too much junk food
 * 22) Expressing your opinion on something
 * 23) Failing a pop quiz
 * 24) Farting in class
 * 25) Framing someone who didn't do anything wrong
 * 26) Getting a math problem incorrect
 * 27) Getting coal/bad presents for Christmas
 * 28) Getting detention
 * 29) Getting held back
 * 30) Getting in dead meat on a behavior card day
 * 31) Getting someone else arrested
 * 32) Getting someone else grounded for their actions
 * 33) Getting someone in dead meat/expelled for no reason
 * 34) Giving someone a concussion
 * 35) Giving someone a punishment day
 * 36) Going trick or treating without permission
 * 37) Grounding someone (e.g. grounding an innocent character/user)
 * 38) Grounding the whole world along with other troublemakers
 * 39) Having a nightmare
 * 40) Hosting a slumber party when not allowed to
 * 41) Hurting somebody's feelings
 * 42) Injuring someone
 * 43) Insulting someone (e.g. their parents, their newborn sibling)
 * 44) Killing somebody (and disrespecting their funeral)
 * 45) Killing somebody's favorite character
 * 46) Locking somebody in a room
 * 47) Losing a game
 * 48) Making a fake food stand (e.g. a chocolate stand that has fecal matter)
 * 49) Making a fake VHS opening
 * 50) Making a grounded video out of someone
 * 51) Making a pirated video game and selling it
 * 52) Making an account on a website
 * 53) Making an unfair Behavior Card Day (giving bad characters/users good cards, and giving innocent characters/users bad cards)
 * 54) Making everybody cry
 * 55) Making up false accusations for their actions who haven't done anything wrong
 * 56) Misbehaving at any location (e.g. a fast food restaurant, a resort, or a store; these are mostly longer length videos)
 * 57) Misbehaving on a car or bus ride (usually to a movie, and everyone outright misses it in the end usually)
 * 58) Mistreating their younger sibling
 * 59) Not wearing green on St. Patrick's Day
 * 60) Ordering an item from a food place without permission
 * 61) Owning a certain item, like a VHS tape
 * 62) Owning a lemonade stand
 * 63) Pirating a movie/video game
 * 64) Playing "hooky" (skipping school), also known as Truancy
 * 65) Pushing someone in a locker
 * 66) Putting a poisonous substance in school lunch, like rat poison
 * 67) Ranting on something the uploader likes
 * 68) Rapping orders at a restaurant
 * 69) Running away from home
 * 70) Saluting on something the uploader hates
 * 71) Saying a word/sentence (often offensive)
 * 72) Saying "yes/no [something]"
 * 73) Scaring people
 * 74) Selling pirated DVDs
 * 75) Singing their theme song (usually from a preschool show)
 * 76) Smoking cigarettes
 * 77) Stalking
 * 78) Stealing an item from a public location
 * 79) Stealing someone's car
 * 80) Stealing someone's lunch
 * 81) Taking over a teacher's job
 * 82) Telling a joke in class
 * 83) Turning someone into a giant
 * 84) Turning GoAnimate into Plotagon or vice versa
 * 85) Ungrounding a bad character/troublemaker
 * 86) Uploading a sex tape
 * 87) Vandalizing school property, such as using spray paint
 * 88) No reason at all

Videos
Warning: This section is NSFW. Thus, contains child and adult abuse content. It may be disturbing or unsettling for some viewers.

Lists
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