Web Animation / ETU - Animated Stories

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ETU - Animated Stories is an American YouTube story time channel. True to it's tagline, the channel tells outlandish stories. Some of the themes in the videos are love, family and school.

There is another channel called Sharing My Secret - Anonymous Story Animated that shares the same art style and tells female-oriented stories.

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ETU provides examples of:

• Abusive Parents: Many stories feature neglectful or downright emotionally abusive parents. Some of them are very petty.
  • Milton's adoptive parents gave him a poor education and actively sabotage his efforts to be successful just because he wasn't born a girl. Although later in turned out they weren't his real parents.
  • One story had the protagonist being locked away for years by her mother because she was "too pretty". Though the mother's boyfriend broke her out and escaped with her.
• Academic Alpha Bitch: Bree has the highest grade in her class. She bullied Jacob for his low grades. After she tried to destroy his reputation, Bree was not asked by anyone to the prom, so she was forced to take along Jacob. But when Jacob took a babysitting job with a teenager daughter and a younger son, it’s revealed that Bree is the teenager, and she broke up with him.
• Art Evolution: The animation of the channel's older videos was very cartoonish, before evolving into their Animesque style.
• Animesque: The channel's later videos have anime-inspired art and even have anime expressions.
• Big Brother Bully:
  • Well they are sisters but Milton's are just as bad as their parents. Except for Tina who underwent a Heel–Face Turn and got on his side, at least until she betrayed him again along with her other sisters.
  • Sam's adoptive brother mocked him for being adopted.
• Brother–Sister Incest: One story has Sarah be attracted to her half-brother Scott, much to his discomfort. She was jealous of his girlfriend Eliza and tried to get them to break up. She even kissed Scott while he was blindfolded, pretending to be Eliza, but Eliza posted a video of her doing so and she was kicked out of the house by her parents.
• Broken Pedestal: Jonathan wanting to be an archeologist like his great grandfather, found out that he stole various treasures for himself. He found the stolen artifacts and donated some of them to museums.
• The Bully: Emily was tormented by Brutus. She got revenge on him by tricking him into marrying her. At the wedding, she exposed Brutus and dumped him at the altar.
• Butt-Monkey: Poor Milton. Raised to be a girl by his step father, having his step family be reliant on him for money. He was betrayed by multiple people including his business partner James and his election partner Beth. He encountered many problems during his election campaign, such as being locked up so he can't do any campaigning. His step sister Penny forced him to either kiss her or die. It's a miracle that he doesn't have any trust issues from all that.
• Cliffhanger: Many stories have multiple parts. Unfortunately some have yet to be continued.
• Demonic Possession: One story has Anya, who is implied to be possessed by a demon.
• Disappeared Dad: Angelina's father left her and her mother for another woman. She later came to work at his company to get revenge on him.
• Formerly Fat: Lily was fat due to working at a office for years. Her boyfriend Gary bullied her for it. She tried to lose weight but her trainer mocked her as well and Gary's comments didn't help. She eventually broke up with Gary and reported the trainer. She got a new one who helped her lose weight and Lily eventually became a trainer herself.
• Gold Digger: Very common. It mostly doesn't end well for them.
  • When Milton's dad's business failed, the family is forced to rely on their son, whom they didn't treat very well especially his sisters and mother. Although Tina eventually got a job.
  • Irvin's wife Lexi spends his money shopping and partying. After she humiliated him, he decides to make her tattooist write "Gold Digger" on her back.
  • Laurie's boyfriend decides to marry her bridesmaid, Amy, after he found out that she is rich. She rejects him.
  • Damon's stepmom and stepbrother had dumped him in an uncharted island just so that they can inherit his rich dad's money.
• Jerkass: The villains of the stories are always insufferable to an extreme degree.
• Laser-Guided Karma: The villains of the stories are almost always punished such as getting fired, expelled, divorced or the protagonists getting power over them.
• Laxative Prank: Bianca put laxatives in Aaron's drink to humiliate him. But he caught on and pretended to drink and exchanged the drinks and she ended up drinking the spiked drink. When she is dragged to go swimming, she suffers a Potty Failure.
• Lazy Bum: Milton's adoptive dad was extremely lazy and lounged around the house, which eventually caused his business to fail.
• Midas Touch: Henry helps an old lady and she gives him a wish. He wishes that everything he touches turn into diamonds. At first it improves his life but soon discovers how unpleasant it is and uses gloves. He eventually accidentally turned his wife into a diamond. He regrets his wish and begs the old lady to reverse it but she couldn't do it.
• Missing Mom: Milton's birth mother abandoned him at an elevator.
• Never Trust a Title:
  • "My Rich Son Shames Me for Being Broke at Age 35, He Lives to Regret His Decision" While Asher shamed his mother after his father turned him against her, he isn't thirty-five years old and he does not regret what he did.
  • "The school's Bad Boy Tormented Me for Years, Now He's My Servant" may seem like a story of a girl who made her bully a servant but he redeemed himself and saved her, and he decided to become her bodyguard.
  • "I Was Shunned by Everyone, Now I Own Everything in the City" is not accurate. Aaron just made android maids that happened to be popular in his hometown.
• Obfuscating Stupidity: Charlie pretended to be dumb and deliberately failed his exams so that he can escape the pressures of being a genius from his parents and teachers.
• Old Man Marrying a Child: Subverted in a now deleted video has a girl who was sold by her parents to an old man for money. He failed to marry her and she managed to get away.
• Only Six Faces: The character designs are quite limited and several character model sheets have been recycled fairly often, especially in recent videos.
• Potty Emergency: Steph has to go to the bathroom after Derrick laced her food with laxatives after she mocked him for being a waiter.
• Potty Failure: Bianca, after taking a drink laced with laxatives.
• Parental Abandonment:
  • Sarah's mother left her after inheriting her dad's money leaving her with only her little brother.
  • Peter's parents sold him to the Yakuza in exchange for money.
• Pirate Girl: One story has Annie the leader of the pirates is the protector of the island that Damon has been dumped on. She inherited the land from her father.
• Really Royalty Reveal: Anika, who lives in the sewers with the protagonist is revealed as a lost Scandinavian princess after Stella saw her performing a song with the main protagonist.
• Royal Harem: David was auctioned off by his wife Annie to three princesses. He married all of them on the same day.
• Sadist Teacher: A couple appear as villains.
  • One example is Mr. Anderson who gives the protagonist more assignments than she can handle, cut her grades for silly reasons, and got her expelled.
  • Another example is Joanne's teacher, Miss Digbly. She often antagonizes Joanne, because she seemed to be getting good grades despite the fact that she is coasting by, and locked her up for an entire weekend.
  • Miss Ramsey humiliated Amelia during a PTA meeting by saying that she is too dumb to be an scientist when she expresses her dream to be one.
  • Principal Green was a mean principal that puts down her students for petty reasons. She particularly picked on Ali and forced him to date her daughter when he solved a math equation with the promise of getting him into an Ivy League college.
• The Scrooge: Rina's husband despite being rich buys her a run-down second hand computer. Although despite this he still loves her and she found some bitcoins on it.
• The Un-Favourite:
  • Josh was ignored by his parents in favor of his brother Brody. Despite Brody failing his exams and not being eligible for a scholarship, his parents still paid for it while ignoring Josh's pleas for a scholarship despite him getting excellent grades.
  • Violet was not treated well in favor of her sister Lily, because the latter is prettier than her. Their parents forced Violet to do art for Lily and have her take all the credit. When Lily was exposed as a fraud and Violet became successful in the end, Lily and their parents tried to ask for a loan but Violet declined.
  • Tom was ignored by his parents in favor of his younger sister Twyla. They demanded that Tom become Twyla's bodyguard when she was bullied by the queen bee after she stole her boyfriend.
  • The protagonist of this story was ignored in favor of his brother Danny due to their father disliking the former's intelligence. When Danny got ill, his father decided to save his life and put the protagonist in foster care due to Danny's medical bills.
  • Emily was neglected by her parents in favor of her older sister Jessica, because of the latter's accomplishments.
• Spoiled Brat: Has several examples of that.
• Spy's Suspicious Spouse: Ethan, a CIA agent, finds out that his wife Jodi is a undercover Chinese spy and they solve a case together.
• Stolen Credit Backfire: Megan stole the protagonist's designs that she made during her internship at her company. When she found out, she decided to make deliberately terrible designs and Megan didn't even bother to check them resulting in a model (who the protagonist's fiance dumped her for) being humiliated and her company's agency dropping her.
• Tagline: Expect The Unexpected.
• Teacher/Student Romance:
  • Cameron's high school teacher Jenny tried to get into a relationship with him, but he refuses since he was married. She gets back at him by ruining his marriage.
  • Ezra's student, Alisha attempted to invoke this and tried to kiss him in a livestream, but he lets her down gently and gives her a stern lecture.
• Teen Genius: In this story, the protagonist dropped out of school at 15 and managed to fake her way into being a university professor. She was quite good at teaching the students there though the school eventually found out about her fraud.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: Toni is a tomboy who grew up on a farm with her tomboy grandmother, in contrast to her sisters and mother. They aren't very accepting of her tomboyish personality.
• Truth Serums: Lydia's divorced husband refuses to pay her child support, so she decides to spike his and his finance's drink to make them confess their crimes and secrets. They were arrested.
• Yandere: Has several examples of that.
  • One story has Skylar who David has a crush on. She rescued him from homelessness and began to date him. Unfortunately for him it turned into a obsession...

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