Dear Diary

Dear Diary is a former animated story time YouTube channel, owned by Bored Panda company and animated by MeinArt. The channel used to post videos about teenagers' and other young adult's lives. 
In most of their videos have various zoom in, and these videos are under 10 minutes long. There are closed captions on older videos, and there are large text in the thumbnail.
There are submission links for having a story featured, and the description contains the entire story which could be read out loud independent of the video. There are different playlist which are based on different motifs of the videos, and there are community post which contain pictures and video announcements, which they could ask by registering in their official website ( that today is disappeared) . Dear Diary also counts with a Facebook and Instagram profile.
There are two adapted and dubbed versions of Dear Diary, "Historias de la Vida" in Latin Spanish and "Assim Aconteceu" in Brazilian Portuguese, but they only reposted the original videos in their respective languages, including social media.
The videos were claimed to be real, which got more evidence since users could submit stories with an age and name, Or at least they were, till it was revealed that this channel actually was a hoax, because they discovered it was run mostly by bots and algorithms, and there were just a few human employees. 
The truth behind all this is that the administrator used the stories that users sent to them in the dirtiest way, they used bots to replicate the stories, but modifying them with surrealistic and shady plots before animating and then uploading the videos to Youtube, obviously to make money and make the audiences' attention.
But they also didn't let their human employees to exploit their ideas, not to mention most of the bots were also the animators of the videos and also the artists that designed and used suggestive thumbnails as a clickbait method. However, they actually hired real voice actors to narrate the stories, but those were bad paid.
It wasn' t till June 2021, when the administrator got caught and got into in a big fiscal fraud, including the companies Bored Panda and MeinArt for being hypocrite and irresponsible on the YouTube channel working algorithmically, none of the stories were real, but AI generated, but they used the trick of 100% real stories to make publicity and cover their lies.
That's the reason why the official website was taken down and the Youtube channel doesn't upload videos anymore, not even its Instagram page, though for some reason its Facebook page is still active.
But not only that, in earlier 2021, before the truth about Dear Diary was fully revealed, the YouTube channel had already turned controversial due that the stories were even more surrealistic than real (obviously because of the bots) and the bots were using even more sexist and obscene images for the thumbnails on its' latest videos as an attention factor, with sexualized characters and nasty title, because the Bored Panda company was under pressure, however, the channel was getting so down and Its audience wasn't enough. 
Returning to June 2021, Dear Diary staff was sued multiple times because of their big lie and Inhuman way to sponsor their channel, so all employees were fired, including the voice actors, who were mostly disgusted of this project, and the bots were taken down. 
So the administrator lost all their money and their job, driving them to misery and the channel was left behind, so Dear Diary could not continue anymore, all of this ended in a resounding failure. 
Months later after the truth of Dear Diary was revealed, there were spreaded rumors that the owner had died of COVID-19, which very much later would be confirmed by the Brazilian youtuber T3ddy. 
Though Dear Diary channel is still on YouTube, soon or later, it would be taken down like its' official website, because the project resulted as another failed attempt of "real" stories through animations, just like it occurred with "ACTUALLY HAPPENED."
== Trivia ==
* Nowadays, Dear Diary is considered one of the worst Youtube animation channels all over the world, not only because of its poor and mediocre animation, but also its reputation, very bad reputation that the audience that used to watched decided to forget about it.
* This channel could be included in the blacklist of "Animated Atrocities" by TheMisteriousMrEnter.
* The Dear Diary original channel wasn't so popular as it's Latin American and Brazilian versions, mostly in "Assim Aconteceu" in Brazil, in which the Brazilian YouTuber T3ddy has made many reaction videos about the stories he chose, he is still doing that.
* To difference from other YouTube animated stories channels, which they had different animations and character design, Dear Diary always used the same cheap, awful, limitated and roboticized animation style and character design in every single video, even it's new designs with more "realistic" characters (since October 2020) didn't help, the humans looked even more roboticized.
* Most of the stories were believed to be real, until they revealed bots made the stories pretending to be real, however, there a few videos in which the stories were absolutely real without being modified, due that sometimes bots and algorithms glitched or some stopped working.
* Viewers call "Dear Diary" with the name "ACTUALLY HAPPENED 2.0."
* The designs of the characters since October 2020 were originally made by an artist an animator named Guillherme Manzano, who was one of the few human employees that worked for Dear Diary, but the bots stole their designs and animations to reanimate them.
* Most of the artist that made the thumbnails were always bots.
* The original Dear Diary has a related channel named "Mashed Potatoes" which is about cartoon episodes of living vegetables. It is also abandoned, because yes, it was run by robots too, but this case wasn't so sounded as Dear Diary.
* There are no dubbed/adapted versions of Mashed Potatoes in Latin America and Brazil.
*Bored Panda staff secretly confessed Dear Diary was an experiment of trial and error test, and it ended in a big mistake.
*The voice actors behind the stories argued this was the most uncomfortable project they had worked for.
*Recently, "Historias de la Vida." the Latin American version of Dear Diary is starting to gain controversy, due that its Youtube channel and Facebook page are being hacked in this moment, posting videos from a channel named "Secret Diaries," a live action stories channel.
*It exist a theory that the owner Dear Diary Channel had died of COVID-19 shortly after they were stripped off and their channel got abandoned. However this resulted to be true, it was confirmed by T3ddy in a video named "T3DDY REAGE À HISTÓRIAS NOVAS APÓS A MORTE DO ASSIM ACONTECEU - T3DDY ASSIM ACONTECEU (LUTO)" , uploaded on May 15th 2024 on his secondary channel named "T3DDY CORTES ENGRAÇADOS.
*Such video would also serve as a dedicatory to this channel, including reactions to new channels of this typennel.
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*There are also rumors that this channel specifcilly took inspiration from the Mexican dramas "La Rosa de Guadalupe,""Como dice el Dicho" and "Mujer: Casos de La Vida Real" all them put together and in animation format.
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