An unusual example of this trope occurred with obscure Boston punk group Sinkhole, whose song "Smell Isn't Everything" was bizarrely included as a stock music track video makers could use in GoAnimate. This might have something to do with the band re-releasing all of their music under a free, open-source license.
Creator Backlash: NotSmirks, best known for being the creator of the famous Bizarro Episode satirical video trend, has since departed the site following December 2016. He admitted that over time he has fully lost interest in making satire videos, even claiming that the trend was now dead. This stems from users misunderstanding the meaning behind his videos and proceeding to make videos of their own with more elements to the bizarre montage for comedy. Smirks' departure in itself mostly put a stop to videos of this kind.
Creator Breakdown: Isaac Anderson, around the time GoAnimate made the switchover, made all of his YouTube videos private, then later brought back a handful, notably a handful of Caillou grounding videos and his first "Caillou Gets Grounded: The Movie" video. A few people, however were not impressed with these videos, including finding making Caillou grounding videos boring, while a large side of viewers started to hate Isaac for his more violent Caillou videos (and most likely not enjoying his original works). This led to Isaac not only losing his GoPlus account but also his GoAnimate account. He seems to have returned as of recently, however, through a new YouTube account, and has started uploading content again (mostly his older videos).
The move to HTML5 and the removal of everything not business-related (until people discovered several Loophole Abuses around this) on January 4, 2016 effectively forced many creators into retirement, although the Business Friendly theme eventually became a favorite over time, as mentioned below. Parodic video makers NotSmirks and Warrun Cookie have expressed displeasure and have since moved on from the fandom, and any respect for Alvin Hung by the Grounded community had nearly decimated right after the announcement. However, the hatebase for Alvin Hung has largely died down overtime.
African Vulture, both one of the oldest and earliest GoAnimators on YouTube, is known for being a loose cannon at times, especially in 2019, when she openly admitted to getting Isaac Anderson's channel shut down and attempted to do the same to CowAnim8s after he made a satirical video featuring her.
Not helping is the fact that three years earlier, she ordered a false strike against Pyrocynical (a user who was half her age at the time) for creating a video primarily featuring her channel and one of her videos.
SolitaireJoker, a user who was famous for creating down-to-earth GoAnimate videos and his partnership with Isaac Anderson, ended up leaving after tension between the latter caused SolitaireJoker to remove his GoAnimate videos and move account.
The rebrand to Vyond, removal of schools, and change to a more traditional enterprise pricing model will likely drive everyone but the most most wealthy and dedicated creators off the site.
The Danza: Several characters in videos are named after their default voices. For example, Dora's parents aren't named in the series, but GoAnimate users usually call them "Veena" or "Miguel" after their default voices.
Dummied Out: Although GoAnimate keeps patching ways to get to them, the old themes aren't actually gone, most likely so that older animations produced on the site will still work. Comedy World and Lil' Peeps are confirmed to work fine with starters on GoAnimate For Schools, while the others function in varying states of stability.
Keep Circulating the Tapes: When the site rebranded itself as Vyond, it took hundreds of old GoAnimate videos along with it. Most of these videos haven't been uploaded to YouTube, however, there are a couple ofYouTube channels that are dedicated to finding lost GoAnimate videos. Some videos survived because the users uploaded them to YouTube while users could still upload GoAnimate videos to that site.
Whenever one of Jake Crader's (whose channel name is now HiHiPuffyAmiYumiRules2001) videos gets deleted from YouTube, he uploads a video called "My Video Has Been Deleted" and acts like the video is dead forever. However, Toodle-oo Enterprises has copies of all videos intact on the channel as of early 2021 (plus two of the lost videos from before, one of which was found in an unlisted reupload by someone else) and uploads deleted ones to the Internet Archive.
No Budget: Back in the early days of the website, GoAnimate was a Freemium style website, where users can join for free, although had limited access to certain themes and had the ability to create their first character for free. Their videos could be no longer than 2 minutes and didn't have the ability to export their videos to YouTube, although some users were able to export to YouTube using a creator feature until early 2013. These limitations were not present the GoPlus subscription, which costed $4.50-6 per month. On top of that, GoAnimate featured GoBucks as a virtual currency which limited their ability to create characters, having to spend real money in order to create more characters, until September 16, 2013 when GoBucks were retired, allowing users to create unlimited characters for free.
The Other Darrin: If it can apply here. After Caillou's default voice "David" was removed from the GoAnimate interface, users were forced to use other voices for him, particularly the other standard for Caillou's voice: "Ivy". (Usage of the Joey voice setting for Caillou also became far more frequent as well.) The default voices for folks like Dora, Doris, Rosie, and some other characters were among the removed voices as well, forcing the use of alternate voices for them, too. This can be subverted, however, as recently Requestly has been discovered to also bring back all of the old voices. The Vocalware voices, which include Paul and Julie, returned in March 2017, at the cost of Ivona retiring the Eric and Jennifer voices.
Eric and Jennifer may be found on Lumenvox, under the names "Andrew" and "Kim".
Prop Recycling: Because of obvious limitations, headbands are often used to make letters such as the hat "M" for Mario and the "A" on Alvin's shirt, along with forming Dora's backpack (it's very obvious if she bends slightly and no actual bag structure exists). Dinner plate covers with crude lines or screamer masks are used to become electrode "hats" for execution, and black/grey boxes are restructured into restraining duct tape. Simple shapes such as circles and squares are re-formed by some video makers to become crude body forms. It is also common to use FedEx boxes to represent VHS or DVD cases, as well as bibles as homework or reading material.
A trend to make the grounded characters more accurate to their actual versions, started by Alan the Video Maker, uses this in spades; While roses are now used to recreate the ruffles on Doris' shirt, chef hats are used to recreate long sleeves, and headbands (and MS Paint sketching) are now used to make the hair of Mami (and Dora). However, problems ensue as these props do not have a structure, causing them to go out of place when the character is moving.
Screwed by the Network: Several big GoAnimators have had their accounts suspended abruptly without any real reason over the years; as you can expect, the fandom did not take that very well.
The "swapped report card" videos can turn into this - Most report cards are printed instead of handwritten (and if not that, written in pen), which would make it very hard to change the grades. In addition, many teachers keep students' permanent records on computers, making the trick even harder to pull off.
Videos involving students escaping class to pull of a trick, since many modern schools have some form of CCTV cameras installed in the premises. If not that, then hall-monitors or prefects.
In-universe in many Warren Cook videos, where many characters try to tell Warren that VHS is incredibly outdated and no one would fall for his false openings. It doesn't stop Warren Cook from making fake CD openings, on one hand.
Boris: OH OH OH OH OH OH OH OH OH. KAYLEW, HOW DARE YOU FIND OUT THE TRUTH ABOUT GOANIMATE. THAT'S IT. You Are Grounded! GROUNDED GROUNDED GROUNDED GROUNDED GROUNDED GROUNDED GROUNDED FOR 9 MONTHS! That means no TV, no video games, no Chuck E. Cheese's, no ice cream, no pizza, no life and more. Go to Your Room! RIGHT NOW.
was uploaded on July 2, 2011.