Grounded Videos

Grounded videos are a genre of videos that were created by Adamkleinschmidt2003 on July 2, 2011. These videos mainly focus on a character doing something bad before being grounded by their parents, guardians, or even friends. These videos have been the subject of mockery by many people for their repetitive, cheesy, and nonsensical nature, sometimes being considered "so bad, it's funny". In 2019, they have been reimagined as "Punished videos" by Jacob Torres (also known as EllaFTW SugarFTL or Jacob the Little Witch Academia Bro)

Why Many of Them Suck

 * 1) The main problem is that most of them revolve around the same children's show characters such as Caillou, Dora The Explorer, Little Bill, Barney The Dinosaur, Peppa Pig, etc. being punished, and original characters are seldom used.
 * 2) *It is said that the reason they do this is to express their undying (and blind) hatred for these shows, as well as the characters.
 * 3) *Heck, almost ALL of the characters get flanderized into nothing but loathsome type characters.
 * 4) They are oftentimes extremely unrealistic and very mean-spirited. There are also grounded videos out of real-life people and even adults like Alvin Hung, Donald Trump, etc., even though they are too old to even get grounded.
 * 5) These videos are formulaic, repetitive, and predictable. Most grounded videos go something like this: A character (usually one the uploader hates) openly declares they are going to do something considered bad, they do the said bad thing, and the parents show up and ground them, often for an impossibly long time, with the character running to their room crying.
 * 6) *If the video takes place in school, the character gets called out by the teacher for causing trouble in class. So the teacher sends them to the principal's office and then the principal unfairly punishes the troublemaker then sends the character home to get grounded by their parents.
 * 7) *If they were doing something bad in somewhere else when a parent is not here except school, The other characters call their parents. But How did they know their parents' phone number?!
 * 8) The creators of these videos tend to constantly recycle formats of grounded videos and usually make little to no changes save for having different characters. Just some examples of constantly recycled grounded video formats include "X Calls Y by Their First Name/Grounded", "X Misbehaves at (public location)/Grounded", "X Draws a Big Fat Meanie/Grounded", you name it.
 * 9) Some are done on other YouTube or Vyond users, which is considered cyberbullying.
 * 10) These videos are mostly made by little kids, pre-teens, and immature teenagers. Some are even made by adults (manchildren) as well.
 * 11) These videos tend to overlap with behavior card videos, which also have people getting grounded at the end.
 * 12) The reasons for getting grounded in these videos can be quite trivial and most of them aren't even a big deal. Some reasons include calling someone by their full name, farting in class, chewing bubblegum, bringing an NC-17 rated movie to school, failing a pop quiz, getting a math problem wrong, not wearing green on St. Patrick's Day, eating all of the cake on someone's (a user that the creator likes) birthday, calling someone's voice ugly, calling their newborn siblings stupid or ugly, etc. Some characters also get grounded for making fake VHS openings, or even doing good things (e.g. owning a lemonade stand), rapping orders at a restaurant, crying in the hospital after they were born, or even for no reason at all, which can be referred as "Grounded For Nothing" videos.
 * 13) Some grounded videos can have racially insensitive content, this is mostly shown in Caillou Says the N-word and gets grounded, in which Caillou says the N-word, uncensored.
 * 14) *Adding on to the racist content, a character known as Boris the Teeth Guy, a version of Caillou's dad uses all sorts of swear words and racial and homophobic slurs, including one video were he sings "The Nigger Song" in order to get a student to go to the principal's office after Boris expelled him.
 * 15) * Sometimes, they can use anti-Semitic or homophobic slurs as well, including common use of the word "Kike" and "Tranny".
 * 16) Whenever the parents, guardians, etc. are about to ground the troublemaker, they usually (though not always) say "Ohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohoh" out of anger which can get pretty annoying to hear.
 * 17) *Not only that but they repeat the word "grounded" several times, and for a ridiculous amount of years.
 * 18) *Punished videos on the other hand, don't repeat or mention the word "grounded", and they never mentioned the amount of years.
 * 19) The parents in these videos, as well as the teachers, can be very mean-spirited. They will regularly be condescending towards, humiliate, beat up, or even murder their children.
 * 20) * Speaking of mean-spirited, the characters can sometimes get executed for something that is not even remotely illegal. The parents will even celebrate the death of their children, which can make these videos have a sadistic feel to them.
 * 21) Many of the characters in grounded videos are often one-dimensional.
 * 22) Sometimes, characters get sent off to foreign countries (usually European) as punishment. They are sent there without food, money, and their parents.
 * 23) *When said character escapes from that country, they are grounded by other people and other Vyond users even though those people had nothing to do with the video.
 * 24) Sometimes the younger siblings will ground the troublemaker, even though they're not supposed to.
 * 25) They use a lot of copyrighted characters even though they can just make their own in the options on where they can make a character sometimes.
 * 26) Some grounded videos have disturbing content. One grounded video depicts Dora putting rat poison in the school lunch!
 * 27) Many grounded videos make you people think "In this world, it's ground or be grounded".
 * 28) Assaulted videos are the worst types out of all of these videos because the parents kill their kids as a punishment, yet don't even get arrested, making them Karma Houdinis.
 * 29) Every time a child misbehaves at school they get held back a grade, or in this case, they are moved back from, say, 12th grade to 11th grade and often times, getting held all the way back to Preschool. Which is not even the definition of "getting held back". To be held back would mean that you would have to repeat the same grade again the next year, not get sent back a grade that same year.
 * 30) The text-to-speech voices that are used for the characters are often inaccurate and cheesy. For example, Dora usually sounds like a teenager despite being 7 years old with the Kayla or Julie voice, Caillou sounds like a young girl instead of a 4 year old boy with the Ivy voice (and grown man in some videos utilizing the David voice for Caillou), Rosie's TTS voice sometimes uses a voice that sounds like a grown woman despite Rosie being 2 years old, and Little Bill has a British accent.
 * 31) Some grounded videos lazily use stock images of characters rather than recreating the characters themselves.
 * 32) Some grounded videos are made with Google Slides but recorded with a phone, making the video quality look worse, the audio isn't any better either.
 * 33) Sometimes, the phrase “GoAnimate logic/Vyond logic “ will appear, and it’s an annoying joke that gets old fast, and is Most of the Time, lazy writing
 * 34) They caused ungrounded videos to exist, which surprisingly are no better than grounded videos since the only key difference to note is that the character in the video does good things instead of bad.
 * 35) Most Videos when a character litters stuff and runs away to get his/her parents in trouble. Then, They were caught and get sent to jail. In Real Life, They can't do that! The person would need to face trial first before going to prison, not just arrested and immediately thrown in jail.
 * 36) Some grounded videos encourage murder, which is illegal.
 * 37) *They also promote child abuse, which is illegal in some places.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) Some grounded videos are actually original, fun to watch, or are so bad, they're hilarious.
 * 2) The first grounded video by Adamkleinschmidt2003 was pretty decent.
 * 3) Although rare, some grounded videos can actually be more realistic. For instance, a character can get grounded for a few weeks for skipping school.
 * 4) Some grounded videos have original characters, although like reason #3, they are rare.
 * 5) They’re more memorable than ungrounded videos.
 * 6) Some videos are even self-aware that there bad.

Reception
Prior to 2015, these videos were met with praise from (mostly) Vyond/GoAnimate users. However, as years come by, they have mostly received 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.

How To Protect Yourself From Them

 * 1) Make a playlist for videos of kids' shows like the official Caillou from PBS Kids.
 * 2) Instead of using YouTube use the YT Kids app since grounded videos are blocked from YT Kids.
 * 3) Flag the punishment day & assaulted videos. YouTube will age restrict it.
 * 4) Leave the autoplay option off.
 * 5) Click the “Not Interested” button if any of these videos show up on a video that is not related to these cartoons.
 * 6) If these videos keep appearing on the related videos section, go to your watch history and remove the Grounded Videos from your history by hovering over the video and clicking on the X button.

Examples
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Videos
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