GoAnimate iceberg

GoAnimate iceberg is an iceberg chart topic. On r/IcebergCharts, the highest-scoring available chart on it, "The Goanimate iceberg", was posted by u/Toasterifclj on 15 February 2022 and had about 134 upvotes when it was collected. The subreddit has 2 other charts on the same or closely related topics; see Other versions. A text version, "The Definitive GoAnimate Iceberg" by RetroSpectre, is hosted on IcebergThreads, where it had 1,656 views as of 29 October 2026.

The IcebergThreads author describes it as: "Making this iceberg to show how deep the rabbit hole truly is."

Entries reflect the chart authors' choices and are not verified fact.

"The Goanimate iceberg" by u/Toasterifclj (15 February 2022)

Tiers

Tiers and entries from the IcebergThreads version. Notes after a dash are shortened from the author's explanations.

Tier 1

• Grounded videos – If you're on this iceberg, you probably know what grounded videos are. But in case you don't, basically just a character like Caillou, Dora, etc. getting grounded and typically sent to their room.
• Alvin Hung – GoAnimate's founder, featured in hundreds of hate videos due to the misconception that he removed the Comedy World theme.
• African Vulture – One of the most well-known GoAnimators.
• Buisness Friendly – GoAnimate's current main theme. As the title suggests, it's more business-related less cartoony.
• "GoAnimator" – The typical title given to a YouTuber/TikToker that makes use of GoAnimate when creating content (African Vulture, GoTube, etc.)
• Ms. Martin – Caillou's teacher.
• Punishment Days – A popular but controversial genre of GoAnimate content where a character goes through various extreme punishments throughout the day as an alternative to the usual grounding.
• Boris – Caillou's father. He is often depicted as very abusive towards Caillou.
• Ungrounded videos – Just like grounded videos, but opposite, involving characters such as Caillou and Dora getting ungrounded.
• Behavior Card Days – A popular genre of GoAnimate videos involving color coded cards that are basically the equivalent of grades in the GoAnimate universe. The lighter the card, the better.
• GoAnimate Cringe Compilations – Just what it sounds like, a compilation of cringe GoAnimate videos.
• GoTube – Currently the most popular GoAnimator (not counting Redmau), with 256K subscribers as of adding this entry
• Themes – The base of all GoAnimate content, includes props, characters, and backgrounds. Some examples of themes include Comedy World (the most popular theme created in a family guy artstyle) Business…
• Character Creator (CC) – The Character Creator is where custom GoAnimate characters like Caillou are created, additionally, themes that are created with the capability to create custom characters are sometimes referred to as…
• Red Hoodie Guy – One of the most famous non-troublemaker characters, he bares a striking resemblance to the default male character in the Comedy World character editor
• Vyond – What GoAnimate's current name is, focusing more on business.
• GoAnimate stock characters – GoAnimate's well-known library of characters such as Red Hoodie Guy, PC Guy, and the security guy.
• Legacy Video Maker (LVM) – The original videomaker GoAnimate is known for it is built on Flash and hosts themes like Comedy World, Lil Peepz, and other legacy themes. It has luckily been almost fully archived.
• Troublemakers – Characters commonly from childrens' TV show that are the ones causing mishap and getting grounded (Dora, Caillou, Little Bill, etc.)
• GoAnimate For Schools – A version of GoAnimate created for schools. It would be discontinued on June 30th, 2019.
• Little Bill – Another popular character used in a lot of GoAnimate videos, again, serving the same purpose as Caillou and Dora.
• GoAnimate's rebrand to Vyond – In 2018, GoAnimate rebranded to Vyond, and most of the old themes were removed.
• Rosie – Caillou's sister who sometimes serves the same role as him.
• Lil' Peepz – Another popular GoAnimate theme, it's theorized that it was meant to be GoAnimate's main theme, with themes like Comedy World as side themes.
• GoAnimate City/Gocity – A fictitious city present in GoAnimate videos usually where the characters live. There are also other variations like "Vyond City" and more that have the same purpose.
• Text to Speech – How most GoAnimators make their characters talk.
• Doris – Caillou's mother.
• Caillou – The most infamous character used in GoAnimate videos, and the character that GoAnimate is most known for.
• Dora – Likely the second-most popular character in GoAnimate after Caillou. She usually serves the same role.
• Comedy World – GoAnimate's most popular "art style", mimicking the style of Family Guy.

Tier 2

• Caillou's fanmade siblings – Basically just a bunch of extra siblings including, but NOT limited to: Daisy, Lily, Daillou, and Cody.
• Cartoon Classics – One of the three themes released when GoAnimate was launched, it is often mistaken for being the only theme released when GoAnimate launched.
• Childish Dad – A GoAnimate OC created by TheRealRandomLozzie. As you could probably tell by his name, he is an immature father who often throws temper tantrums and is obsessed with Barney the Dinosaur.
• Classic variants – As mentioned previously in the Classic Caillou entry, just the same version of a character but with a gray outfit.
• FlashThemes – A popular GoAnimate revival project made to accurately recreate the old GoAnimate website, with features such as the community library and a more social media-like approach to GoAnimate.
• Go Animate! An Animation Revolution – A famous video made by the animator Harry Partridge to poke fun at the then-new tool of GoAnimate.
• GoAnimate music library – This is referring to the dozens of songs in GoAnimate's audio library, some actually being pretty good.
• Held back videos – Videos of characters getting held back in school, usually until they get to kindergarten or preschool, then they get kicked out of school and typically get grounded at the end.
• IT-Saac/Isaac Anderson – A popular GoAnimator with 20K subscribers, famous for his unique take on creating GoAnimate videos.
• Laziness videos – Videos made to parody typical GoAnimate content, they also really, REALLY, like using the stretch tool.
• Plotagon – Basically just GoAnimate except much more limited and in 3D. The community also makes similar content.
• Rant videos – A type of GoAnimate video where a GoAnimator complains about a person, thing, character, or piece of media they hate and explains the reasons they hate it.
• Stick Figure – An old GoAnimate theme. Was popular during the community's early days.
• Brian Gets In Trouble At School – The Brian Gets In Trouble At School video was the first known grounded video, and in it, the character Brian, actually learns a lesson. The series went on until the creator deleted every video due to…
• Wrapper: Offline – A popular project made in 2020 to continue the legacy of GoAnimate. It would go on to be copied for other lesser known projects such as Wrapper Offline Remastered and Wrapper Offline Gold.
• GoAnimate for Schools (GA4S) – The main site used after the legacy themes were retired, allowing users to continue using legacy themes with the caveat that you couldn't use non school-appropriate props, backgrounds, etc. It was…
• CyansWorldCartoon – Probably the most infamous GoAnimator. He left YouTube in early 2022 after being exposed for grooming.
• Legacy Videomaker shutdown – On December 19th, 2019, the original GoAnimate videomaker was shut down and replaced by Vyond Studio after Flash was retired.
• Caillou destroys the buildings/grounded – A famous video originally made by African Vulture in 2014 that has been recreated many times, African Vulture has also archived the video on her channel.
• Arthur – A kids show character that's lost most of his precense in GoAnimate videos but was once a popular troublemaker character like Caillou or Little Bill
• Cringe Compilations – A compilation of cringey GoAnimate moments, variations also exist for things like out of context moments.
• Golden Era – The Era of GoAnimate considered to be the best, this era is usually agreed to be pre-grounded videos from 2010-2013.
• Cepestral/Voiceforge/Oddcast – The text to speech services used for most GoAnimate voices.
• OS Videos – Another popular type of video where a character gets a new operating system made by a troublemaker or their operating system is hijacked by a troublemaker.
• GoAnimate: The Movie – Likely the most famous GoAnimate video of all time, a "movie" centering around some stock characters.
• Jack Paul – A popular GoAnimate meme character resembling the stock male Business Friendly character.
• Roku Kun The Vyonder – An extremely controversial Indonesian GoAnimator infamous for adding excessive amounts of violence to his videos, and one of the biggest targets of rant videos.
• Weatherstar4000video – An infamous creator known for his videos where images of Mario characters are used as an alternative to actual character design.
• X Calls the Baby Stupid/Grounded – A famous GoAnimate genre where a troublemaker calls his mother's newborn baby stupid after she gives birth.
• Real people in GA stock character library – Like the title says, several real people from celebrities, to actors, are comedy world stock characters, although they can be hard to recognize.
• Uolliac – An ironic version of Caillou with a female TTS voice.
• Behavior Chart Days – A much lesser known version of Behavior Card Days. These typically involve a character's card starting at a neutral color and getting better or worse based off the character's actions throughout the…
• Custom Assets – Typically refers to any custom components of a Goanimate character made in external apps, from hats, upperbodies, and even heads.
• Caillou with different shirt colors – Pretty much just a character with the name "-aillou" with the prefix of just about any letter in the alphabet (Baillou, Daillou, Faillou, etc). They also usually have a different shirt color, which…
• NotSmirks – NotSmirks or OmgWtfProductions was a famous GoAnimator known for his music videos and his series "The Greatest GoAnimate Videos of the Week" in the older GoAnimate era. He is also known for his…
• Good/Bad users – A concept created by GoAnimators where users that are disliked for various reasons are considered "Bad users" and users that are well liked are considered "Good users". Many have also made the claim…
• Boris the Teeth Guy – A red and angry transformation of Boris with gigantic teeth and large eyes, he is very profane and extremley loud.
• GoAnimate Logic – A trope in GoAnimate videos where a character uses "GoAnimate Logic" to obtain or do something, it's basically just a lazy way to not have to set a joke up.
• Animator of the Month – An award granted to the best animator of each month back when GoAnimate still had social features, it has been archived on Flashthemes and has even been awarded to this iceberg's co-creator!

Tier 3

• Quick Video Maker (QVM) – A simplified GoAnimate videomaker allowing for fast premade animations, allowing you to only have control over things like expressions and dialogue. Several themes were only avaliable on the QVM and…
• GoAnimate community features – As many know, GoAnimate was originally more of a social media site where users could share their own animations, make comments, and like videos. These features were removed in July 2015 and are…
• GoAnimate Network – A fake broadcasting network in GoAnimate, widely known due to its use in various users' GoAnimate universes.
• Caillou's Trip to Heaven – A lost video later archived in which Caillou commits suicide after being grounded, going to heaven afterwards.
• XtraNormal – Xtranormal was an animation app with similar function to GoAnimate released in September 2008 under the tagline "if you can type you can make movies" it also featured CGI characters with more deadpan…
• R/Fuck Caillou – R/Fuck Caillou is a subreddit dedicated to hating on Caillou.
• Redmau – The actual most popular GoAnimator, with over 2 million subscribers. However, most usual GoAnimators probably haven't heard of him due to the fact that his content is different from that of most…
• Pyrocinical and African Vulture drama – A drama in 2016 occuring after the popular Youtuber "Pyrocynical" covered a video made by African Vulture, leading to her to make a copyright claim that would later be retracted.
• UTTP – The UTTP and other organizations similar like the VGCP are troll groups with some connections to the GoAnimate community.
• GoAnimate Wrapper – A GoAnimate Server Emulator developed by Visual plugin that was abandoned at the request of Vyond, several forks were made including Wrapper: Offline.
• Life without Doris – A famous GoAnimate series with 3 seasons about Caillou's life after Doris and Boris break up.
• GoAnimate: the Movie is a copy of another film – Just as it sounds, GoAnimate: the Movie is basically a direct copy of the “Greeny Phantom” movie with the below video showing how similar the two videos are.
• GoEnigma – The biggest GoAnimate project of all time, containing real voice actors and backed by one of the best modern GoAnimators, DemonetizedA.
• GoAnimate's first rebrand – Refers to GoAnimate's first and lesser known rebrand from "Go!Animate" to "GoAnimate" on September 13th, 2013, also refreshing the user interface.
• Vyond's removal of the old voices – This just refers to how Vyond took away almost all of the old voices and sparked an insane amount of outrage.
• FlashThemes cease and desist January 2025 – FlashThemes was momentarily shut down in January of 2025 after receiving a cease and desist from Vyond after a user reported them due to be upset over being banned from the site. Luckily, since they…
• Heroku LVMs – A cloud app hosting service previously used to host GoAnimate LVMs.
• Band logo on GoAnimate shirt – The Misfits logo is on a GoAnimate shirt that also includes a spiked wristband.

Tier 4

• The Multiverse Project/Comedy World RP – This refers to a GoAnimate-related Roblox game.
• GoAnimate song library's lost songs – This refers to the GoAnimate music library deleted/lost songs. It's unknown as to why they were deleted, however you can find most of them in the linked playlist.
• GoPlus – GoPlus was a subscription service in GoAnimate. Its features include more voicelines in the QVM, more QVM templates, etc. It was discontinued in early 2015.
• Requestly – A website that was used to gain access to older themes in Vyond by taking a piece of the website's code and replacing it with the Requestly link.
• You can think! – A FlashThemes "easter egg."
• GoAnimate traced/stolen assets – This is referring to assets made by GoAnimate that have been traced. While most of these traced assets come from Family Guy, there's some from other shows and anime too.
• RoTV – GoAnimator from the old GoAnimate era who sadly passed away due to cancer.
• GA4S Censorship – Just like what it sounds, many action packs that included weapons were not included in GoAnimate For Schools, in addition “inappropriate” props and backgrounds like wine bottles were also removed.
• GoAnimate YouTube partnership – GoAnimate was once partnered with YouTube and videos could be exported directly to YouTube from GoAnimate with the caveat that “created at goanimate.com” would be included in the description.
• Lamont Wayne/ChaosToon – A popular GoAnimator in the Golden Era known for his videos like "Swords 3" in additon to being an active member of the community he was also a GoAnimate employee, ChaosToon is now somewhat active in…
• Nawmal – Nawmal is the "spiritual successor" to Xtranormal released in 2015, it features the same exact assets but features refined voices and actions backed by a new company.
• Go_Full.swf – Go_Full.swf is essentially the entire videomaker, just without the assets.
• FutureAnimate/HoverAnimate/Incredible Animate etc – The first LVM clones from when the site announced the html 5 shift. They are mostly fake.
• Trashy Vyond Videos Wiki – A "reception wiki" that nitpicks Vyond/GoAnimate users, videos, sites and more. The site was criticized by the wider GoAnimate community because of how nitpicky it was over videos made by children.…
• Caillou is Stupid – Caillou is Stupid is a lost video created by Isaac Anderson Animations, many have tried to find it but currently only the audio has been found.
• Full Energy – A theme made around 2009 meant to be ugly and copy the aesthetic of some adult swim shows like Aqua Teen Hunger Force and Robot Chicken mixing real and drawn assets. It was one of the fastest removed…
• 70 Million View GA Video – A 70 Million view video named Chistes de Pepito - Colección de chistes from a Spanish GoAnimate channel called "Milagrosas"
• Domo Animate – A fairly unknown GoAnimate version that's themed around the Domo-Kun Japanese mascot. It was supposedly launched in 2009 and is said to have shut down in 2014.
• Samantha's Support – A lost video from TechnoGlitch, only a script reconstruction from automated captions and a small snippet from the video remain.

Tier 5

• Voice renames – Several text to speech voices have been renamed, such as Scary Voice's change to Damien.
• Early Wrapper character scaling bug – An early Wrapper glitch where characters would appear extremely large when the video was previewed.
• Expunged – Another FlashThemes easter egg, however lesser known then "You Can Think"
• Wrapper Logo is a GoAnimate prop – Self explanatory, the theme Monster's Mayhem has a candy prop that is used in the Wrapper logo.
• Wildlife/E-card/Talking Pics – These themes are the only QVM themes that never made it to the full videomaker, unfortunatley these themes are now considered partially lost media with many assets being lost, hopefully they will be…
• GoTest334.esy.es
• X-Ray Prop uses Homer Simpson – Pretty self explanatory, an X-Ray prop has Homer's skull as an option for the X-Ray prop states.
• Action Pack – A purchasable pack that could be bought with GoBucks to add actions to a specific character, action packs could be anything from guns to guitars.
• GoAnimate sample assets – In older videomakers, there are two sample FLA files including a background and a prop that instruct users how to create a GoAnimate prop/BG.
• Jexx – Jexx was the community manager and main admin for Domo Animate, he was loved in the community and seen as a protector, but in 2013 he would leave Domo for a gaming company, this caused huge outrage,…
• Street Theme – Possibly the first GoAnimate theme, it contains assets from other GoAnimate themes and its own unreleased assets as well, it is the only theme to have shadows and was discovered in 2017 when a user…
• GoAnimate 2007 Beta Archive – A GoAnimate ARG
• Nicolas Lassus – The creator of the GoAnimate videomaker, he still currently works for Vyond.
• Super Rica and Rashy!!! Rashy gets grounded – The possible oldest grounded video from 2008. Sadly, it has long since been deleted.
• Family Guy referenced in Comedy World files – Like it sounds, Family Guy has been referenced in the theme XML for Comedy World and the character creator ID is “family”.
• Alvin Google+ Drama – Several years ago a post circulated on Reddit where a user went into pretty in depth detail on a GoAnimate drama. According to their story a Google+ Group was created for a new LVM clone called…
• Dan the Handsome – Dan the Handsome was an allegedly a tyrannical GoAnimate admin who joined in 2013. He was known for policing users and even apparently mass banning them, he also called out grounded videos on the…
• Full Energy Image Origins – Because Full Energy uses real images the origins of said images have been sought out. This has been made difficult due to the highly edited nature of the images but some matches and possible matches…
• Mr Blue Sky inspired GoAnimate song – In the GoAnimate song library a song is featured named Sunshine in the Rain, its beat, vibe, and lyrics feel very much like Mr Blue Sky by Electric Blue Light Orchestra. Dare I say it's a great song…
• Prop Art – Prop art was a popular genre of videos in both GoAnimate and Domo but particularly Domo, users would make art of characters like Spongebob or Pikachu with just shape props.
• Official GoAnimate Merch – Star Trek Quogs which is almost exclusively featured in GoAnimate has a lot of merch, from shirts to vinyl figures of characters straight out of the theme.
• 2008 Comic Con

Tier 6

• GoAnimate stock character lore – This entry refers to how the GoAnimate stock characters, and backgrounds, have lore connecting them, like in this example (courtesy of Hypographix Prod)
• GoFella – A term used in the early 2010s when using GoAnimate was shamed by traditional animators, it has now been forgotten and replaced with GoKid and other insults.
• Blood on the Dance Floor – A scrapped/unreleased GoAnimate theme. Very little is known about it but some have speculated it was the original concept for Lil Peepz, being just a licensed theme for the band of the same name, but…
• Dfilm/Devolver – Dvolver/Dfilm Moviemaker was an app similar to GoAnimate, it was very barebones and from an early era of flash, from a glance, the platform looks eerily similar to GoAnimate particularly the cartoon…
• Comedy World was originally named Custom World
• Cartoon Network Toon Creator – Refers to a 2009-2011 contest in which GoAnimate collaborated with Cartoon Network to make a website similar to GoAnimate where users could create animations for prizes
• The First GoAnimate Contest – An early contest lasting two months in total with a prize of up to $1000 for top animations.
• GoHobbyist and Go!Tavern – fan made goanimate discussion sites for talking about anything GoAnimate.
• Domo Animate Forums – The DomoAnimators forum is another forum hosted by proboards and is very similar to GoHobbyist although it is still up and usable. It was created on June 22nd 2014, and interestingly it seems to have…
• GoAnimate Facebook Edition – in 2008, the app launched on Facebook, very little information is available with no archival but it likely functioned somewhat similar to the full app, it was separated in 2008
• Redmau's Game – Redmau has created and published a platforming game to the Google Playstore, it was removed off of the app store however due to poor update support and compatibility issues with new android device,…
• Mass shooter who used GoAnimate – Anderson Lee Aldrich was a mass shooter who targeted an LGBTQ nightclub, killing 5 and being given several live sentences. Not much is known about his channel but one video was archived, as well as a…
• Lil' Peepz assets derived from Toon Adventure counterparts – The linked image shows how the Lil' Peepz assets seem to be derived from their Toon Adventure countparts as they look much more polished and because Toon Adventure was likely developed first.
• Freeaction – Freeaction is a system developed by GoAnimate after Comedy World. Comedy World was the first custom character theme (CC theme) but struggled because making new assets meant manually redrawing every…
• Skeleton – What early CC themes like Comedy World were built off of prior to Freeaction. Skeleton themes are very inefficient because they require you to manually redraw every single action including running,…
• Tink the Taco – Tink was user on DomoAnimate who was known for being very kind to others and making poem or story videos, because of her kindness she was a victim of trolls and in mid 2013 she reportedly took her…
• Edit Mes – Edit Mes were remixes of videos on DomoAnimate, since it allowed users to duplicate public videos many Edit Mes were made out of all sorts of videos, these could range from Memes to complete…

Tier 7

• Weird Preview Character during Beta Wrapper – During the early days of Wrapper Offline a business friendly character in a skirt and tanktop was the preview for every single character including non business friendly characters.
• YME – The YME theme, was discovered in 2021 through a directory brute forcer. YME was likely created to test headprops as it only contains a baby's head prop.
• Scaffhold Themes – Extremley obscure topic, essentially GoAnimate used to use a process referred to as "scaffholding" to generate a new theme from an old one. Many “sister themes” were generated by using original code…
• Business Friendly assets hidden on Anime assets – The image (courtesy of Luis Strublic) shows a likely example of Theme Scaffholding, hidden on Custom Character Anime assets we can find Business Friendly assets, likely used as a base for the assets.
• Unused CN style theme and “Gangnam Style” video – The archived video shows a bizarre GoAnimate video that is long deleted made to capitalize on the Gangnam style trend at the time. It is not only bizarre for not being the typical corporate style…
• “Cartoon Solutions” Backgrounds – A website that sells assets for animators has several “familiar” backgrounds for sale. For around 13 dollars each, backgrounds used in GoAnimate like “Dr Naughty’s Evil Lair” are being sold on this…
• Mr. Fung – An artist who has designed not only some characters for the GoAnimate "White Houserz" theme but also has designed some backgrounds for the Cartoon Network Toon Creator, the backgrounds can also be…
• Anime theme hidden reference images – After the Anime theme was decompiled, some reference images were discovered, being traced back to the Anime "K-On!" also having notes in Chinese that translate to instructions.
• 100 Ways to Die – An animation uploaded to Newgrounds by the GoAnimate team in 2008, it shows off some possible early designs for the Cartoon Classics character "Match Boy". There is also apparently a "short" version…
• How old is GoAnimate?
• Scrapped “Monsters Theme” expansion – A proposed expansion for the “Monsters Madness” theme in 2009. The archived blog post shows off some concept character art for the proposed characters.
• Hitman Theme – Speaking of 100 Ways to Die, in the description of that very video GoAnimate mentions that a Hitman theme was used in the making of this video. However this theme has little to no information…
• Cartoon Classics book – A book that GoAnimate asset designers used to learn how to draw characters in the Cartoon Classics style.
• GoAnimate Patents 9959586 and 9813725 – These are two GoAnimate that (from what I understand) aim to embed a digital signature within both the audio and video of GoAnimate videos allowing the videos to be decoded by GoAnimate and traced…
• 2014 To Do Document – This was a document created by the GoAnimate Team on March 6th 2014, while originally private, it was discovered after GoAnimate's themes were decompiled, in the XML files of Stickly Business it was…

Other versions

Other charts from r/IcebergCharts grouped under this topic, ordered by score:

• 
  GoAnimate iceberg by u/goldboy890, 8 July 2023 (63 upvotes)
• 
  The Definitive GoAnimate Iceberg by u/gom973, 15 April 2026 (14 upvotes)

See also

• Iceberg chart
• R/IcebergCharts
• Digital animated web series iceberg

Sources

• Featured Reddit chart: u/Toasterifclj. The Goanimate iceberg. Reddit (r/IcebergCharts). 15 February 2022. Retrieved 29 October 2026.
• IcebergThreads version: RetroSpectre. The Definitive GoAnimate Iceberg. IcebergThreads. 16 January 2026. Retrieved 29 October 2026.