Vyond

Vyond, formerly known as GoAnimate (formerly stylized as Go!Animate), is an American animation platform founded by Hong Kong-based entrepreneur Alvin Hung in 2007.
==Overview==
Vyond was launched as Go!Animate on November 1, 2007, by Alvin Hung, as a program intended to make the process of animation easier for offices and schools. GoAnimate rebranded into Vyond on May 26, 2018. On September 7, 2018, Hung stepped down, passing the title to Gary Lipkowitz. Vyond operates on a freemium-based subscription model.
The Vyond YouTube channel was created on June 24, 2008, and uploads demonstrations, tutorials, and short animations.
==Content & Community==
Before 2018 when the website became "Vyond", a subculture of videos that utilizes Vyond emerged in 2011 on YouTube. These videos, colloquially known as "grounded videos" or "punishment day videos". These videos usually revolve around characters from preschool show media or shows for kids under the age of 5 (mainly , , and sometimes ) getting grounded and punished for a very long time where most of the time the average human could not even live for. Most of the time the videos are stylized with "Comedy World" but othertimes Business Friendly.
While there are still some grounded videos made with the main Vyond website, most of the users have moved to an alternate version of the site known as "Wrapper: Offline". Ever since then Vyond is mostly known as a business website used for commercial and story parodies you could find on an ad.
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