In late 2015, the company announced their shift to the new HTML5 standard in January 2016 and remove any video-making feature not centered on business. These videos are especially known for the troublemakers usually being characters from TV shows aimed at preschoolers, such as Caillou and Dora the Explorer, or simply individuals that the users hold contempt towards. Primarily made by young kids, these videos detail the misadventures of various characters as they cause or get themselves into trouble in all manner of ways, followed by them getting busted and grounded ( grounded grounded grounded grounded grounded grounded grounded) by their parents for absurd lengths of time. GoAnimate/Vyond would probably just be your standard run-of-the-mill video-making website if it wasn't for a series of videos that sent the website and video maker into infamy - the 'X Gets Grounded' videos, also simply known as 'grounded videos'. In addition, you must have an official business website and address to use it. You must be at least 13 years old to join, but like everything else limited by the American Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), many younger than 13 just disregard this requirement and put in another birth year. The site originally had most of its features free with additional features available with 'GoPlus', but in 2015 this was dropped after the website became pay-only. Signing up is free for 14 days, though you must upgrade to a paid account if you want to have access to their full resources. The original goal of the service was to make animation free for anyone and this was incentivised by the community features on the site that were phased out between 20. It has been used even by some noted animation personalities such as Paul Dini, who used it to produce his web series Super Rica and Rashy.

GoAnimate, now known as 'Vyond' as of its rebrand in May 2018 and formerly styled as Go!Animate, is a website that allows people to make their own animated videos, originally using Adobe Flash but now currently using the HTML5 standard.

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