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=== Peak and Eventual Decline ===

Towards the end of 2009 and well into 2010, two members of the community, [[MrCaptainJeff]] and [[DrewPicklesAintDed69]], were some of, if not the most prolific, creators of Goes To videos, with their content being held in high regard to this very day. Both their channels would end up being suspended numerous times in the early 2010s until they were permanently terminated off YouTube, leading to countless tribute videos and all but a handful of their original videos becoming lost. Later members like [[DJSwell69]] and [[ShelltoonTV1]] continued the tradition by making them even longer, wittier, and more complex, even going more over the top than usual. It got to a point where other characters, like [[Yogi Bear]], [[Betty DeVille]], [[Stu Pickles]], and even [[Drew Pickles Jr.]] began starring in their own brand of Goes To videos, with a similar setup.

Towards the end of 2009 and well into 2010, two members of the community, [[MrCaptainJeff]] and [[DrewPicklesAintDed69]], were some of, if not the most prolific, creators of Goes To videos, with their content being held in high regard to this very day. Both their channels would end up being suspended numerous times in the early 2010s until they were permanently terminated off YouTube, leading to countless tribute videos and all but a handful of their original videos becoming lost. Later members like [[DJSwell69]] and [[ShelltoonTV1]] continued the tradition by making them even longer, wittier, and more complex, even going more over the top than usual. It got to a point where other characters, like [[Yogi Bear]], [[Betty DeVille]], [[Stu Pickles]], [[Nega Drew Pickles]], and even [[Drew Pickles Jr.]] began starring in their own brand of Goes To videos, with a similar setup.

However, by the mid to late 2010s, towards the start of the first [[Barney Bunch Renaissance|Renaissance]] era, the videos were not held in the same high regard by the more high-ranking members of the community. Blood and Life or Death have been very vocal with their criticisms of the videos, stating that they were completely different originally, with the homosexual shenanigans took center stage, but were gradually becoming more racist and lacked many of the swell shenanigans. The sharper writing of later entries also proved a challenge to less-experienced content creators, who would turn out low effort videos. The format was also becoming more repetitive, with the only thing Drew doing was just raping men and eating poopycum and not going to the extremes as in prior videos. Even founding community members on YouTube such as [[BooNube]] shared a disdain for the Goes To videos as far back as 2011. This, combined with the rise of the [[Blood-style videos]], lead to many veteran members ditching the Goes To style of videos in favor of the Blood-style, and many of them disregarding the Goes To videos as a past phase.