Fat Goanimate -

The humor, such as it is, operates on a primal, almost medieval level of caricature. In a GoAnimate video, a character’s fatness is not a trait; it is an event . It is a reason for the dad to yell, “THAT’S IT, YOU ARE SO GROUNDED!” It is the justification for the bully to push him into a jpeg of a mud puddle. The character waddles—using the same stiff “walk cycle” as everyone else, which makes the effect hilariously uncanny—and inevitably falls down, breaking a pixelated chair.

In the chaotic, text-to-speech-driven world of GoAnimate “grounded” videos, there exists a hierarchy of outrage. At the top is the “Grounding Character” (usually a mom with a polygon hairline), followed by the “Bully” (who laughs in pre-recorded MP3), and then there is the archetype that defies all logic of physics and storytelling: fat goanimate

In the end, the fat GoAnimate character is tragic. He waddles into a scene, delivers a line in the robotic voice of “Mike (US),” gets screamed at, falls over, and is never seen again. He is a punchline, a spectacle, and a strange, unintentional folk hero for the YouTube underground—a soft, round middle finger to the world of corporate animation. The humor, such as it is, operates on