GoAnimate

GoAnimate is an animation website where users can make videos out of selected-animations. These are mostly used for entertainment, businesses and schools.

Background and History
GoAnimate was founded in late-2007 by Alvin Hung. By 2013, one million videos had been uploaded onto YouTube. A user has a 2-week free trial, after which one has to pay to use the site.

Grounding Videos/Subculture/Formulas
Around 99.9% of the videos uploaded onto YouTube from GoAnimate are known as "grounding videos". "Grounding videos" usually involve characters from shows for little kids such as Caillou, Dora the Explorer, Little Bill and Peppa Pig misbehaving causing them to get grounded for absurdly long periods such as 20,000 centuries. The "grounding videos" are done in several different formulas listed below:

Formula 1-A: Misbehaves at *Insert Place Here*
This formula involves the set-character going to a restaurant such as McDonald's and ordering a food along with a drink and some type of milkshake. However, the restaurant is currently out of the type of ice cream shake the character wants, causing the person to "cuss-out" their parents and proceed to destroy the restaurant. The parent yells at them and they get grounded.

Formula 1-B: Destroys *Insert Place Here*
This formula is similar to 1-A, involving a restaurant of play-place. The character arrives at a set-place they really want to go to, but the place (usually Chuck-E-Cheese's) is closed for some reason (usually repairs). The parents offer their condolences and offer to take the character to a different play-place. But the child refuses and destroys the place. The ending of the video is usually the same as in Formula 1-A. Formula 1-B usually involve Caillou.

Formula 2: Punishment Days
Punishment days are used on characters for extreme misbehaviors either earlier in the video or off-camera altogether. The types of punishments used are usually down-right abusive and absurd, such as "shitting on the person being punished", "really loud music", or drinking out of the toilet. Punishments are sometimes followed by groundings. There have not been any videos where one of the punishments is being forced to go to Pensacola Christian College for four years.

Formula 3: Behavior Card Days
Behavior Card days take place at the character's school. Usually the "baby-show character" gets the black or red car which means "dead-meat and expulsion". The behavior cards can vary from five years off of school to "dead meat". The character who gets dead meat goes to the principal's office to show the principal their card, usually followed by an explosion and being told to "go home". The character is then grounded.

Formula 4: Skips or Ruins *Insert Event Here*
This formula involves a character being forced to go to a place or event (such as school, church, a movie or school play) that they do not want to go to. During the event, the character asks to go to the bathroom, and either escapes home, goes to a restaurant (usually Chuck-E-Cheese's), or in some cases goes on stage ruining the event/play. The parents somehow find out where the child is, take him home, and ground him.