
We were in the studio so often, and we really didn’t see a lot of the reaction to the show. Hit Entertainment / Everett Collectionīob West, a veteran performer who provided the voice for Barney from 1992 to 2000, recalls the production of “Barney & Friends” as a blissful experience that was sometimes shadowed by darker intrusions from the wider world, like a string of death threats he says he received via email. “Parents admit to a cordial dislike of the saccharine saurian, and no self-respecting second-grader will admit to liking Barney.” Barney on "Barney And Friends" in 1992. “Barney is on the receiving end of more hostility than just about any other popular cultural icon I can think of,” the University of Chicago academic W.J.T. The internet gave rise to new genres of anti-Barney humor that freely mixed winking irony with seemingly real rage. Urban legends about the character's dark secrets sprung up. NBA great Charles Barkley beat up Barney in a “Saturday Night Live” sketch. School-age kids added violent lyrics to the “Barney & Friends” theme song.

The docuseries explores how, throughout the ‘90s and early 2000s, Barney turned into a cultural punching bag, the subject of disdain from adults and derision from kids desperate to disavow their childish pastimes.
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Link lol - An research of Barney Bunch Videos on YouTube.But not everyone considered Barney a friend, a phenomenon at the heart of a new Peacock documentary series called “I Love You, You Hate Me.” (NBC News and Peacock are both owned and operated by NBCUniversal.) There was also once a movement to replace Dick with the Quaker Oats Man as the fourth biggest Barney Bunch member.

Even with these attempts at workarounds, the vast majority of Barney Bunch flashes have been removed from Newgrounds, and Barney Bunch videos are much easier to find on YouTube, which lacks a blam function. The low-effort nature and juvenile dialogue of Barney Bunch flashes meant blamming was inevitable without Barney Bunch members themselves attempting various workarounds, such as voting 5 en masse.

The Barney Bunch originated on Newgrounds, a site known for its "blam" function that saw flashes of a poor reception get removed from the site.
