goanimate

GoAnimate (stylized as Go!Animate until 2013) is a site created that let users create their own videos with text-to-speech characters. Although the site has shown that they are obviously geared more toward the buisness side, a lot of users have been using the site to upload videos of widely known TV characters, such as Barney, Elmo, Caillou, and Dora, with plenty of profanity, violence, sexual content, and even more, that have racked up tens of thousands of views on sites such as YouTube. The company did NOT want themselves to turn out this way, so the result was slowly over time erasing voices, characters, and replacing non-professional themes with business themes. People still used GoAnimate, so they did something HUGE. The company announced that they were going to switch from Flash to HTML5, but most suppose they just did this because they didn't want to tell GoAnimaters the truth. Once they switched from HTML5, they were going to raise the prices to over $300 a month, and take away themes such as Comedy World, Lil' Peepz, and more. These were by far the most popular themes on the site.