The Barney Bunch: Difference between revisions

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===Revitalization, Blood's Return, and Forth/Fifth Generation (2012-2015)===

By 2012, many of the users involved in the Unestablished War had either retired or had their channels terminated. The OldSchoolSwellness channel had since shut down, but the SwellDrewTube channel remains up as of 2021, albeit inactive. By this point, the Barney Bunch remained scattered and decentralized, marking the beginning of the "Forth Generation". In late 2014, a quadrilateral of users consisting of [[Skewt|Scoot69]] (Skewt~~), [[Tomservo3]] (under her Tomservo3alt account~~), Prime8NStuff, and dildosdildo123, came together, and helped the Barney Bunch become a connected entity once again by creating the Barney Bunch [[Google+]] community, though its now inactive and inaccessible following the closure of G+ in 2019. In February 2015, Blood returned from his long hiatus after seeing the reverence shown for his legacy by users such as Skewt and Prime, but by May had re-entered hiatus after a run of spam videos.

By 2012, many of the users involved in the Unestablished War had either retired or had their channels terminated. The OldSchoolSwellness channel had since shut down, but the SwellDrewTube channel remains up as of 2021, albeit inactive. By this point, the Barney Bunch remained scattered and decentralized, marking the beginning of the "Forth Generation". In late 2014, a quadrilateral of users consisting of [[Skewt|Scoot69]] (Skewt), Prime8NStuff, and dildosdildo123, came together, and helped the Barney Bunch become a connected entity once again by creating the Barney Bunch [[Google+]] community, though its now inactive and inaccessible following the closure of G+ in 2019. In February 2015, Blood returned from his long hiatus after seeing the reverence shown for his legacy by users such as Skewt and Prime, but by May had re-entered hiatus after a run of spam videos.

===First Renaissance and Sixth Generation (2016-2017)===

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''Main article: [[Second Barney Bunch Renaissance]]''

2018 marked the lowest point in the Barney Bunch's entire history, as many legendary users from the Forth Generation either retiring (as was what happened with Skewt), or having their channels terminated off YouTube (as was what happened with Prime)~~. Tomservo3, who had over a thousand subs, deleted her channel~~. The Barney Bunch came to be in a state comparable to the Fourth Generation period of 2012-14, scattered and decentralized. The one user worth noting during this time was [[SwellFusion]], who quickly won the community over thanks to his high quality editing which took BB videos to places they never went before.

2018 marked the lowest point in the Barney Bunch's entire history, as many legendary users from the Forth Generation either retiring (as was what happened with Skewt), or having their channels terminated off YouTube (as was what happened with Prime). The Barney Bunch came to be in a state comparable to the Fourth Generation period of 2012-14, scattered and decentralized. The one user worth noting during this time was [[SwellFusion]], who quickly won the community over thanks to his high quality editing which took BB videos to places they never went before.

By 2019, many members of the community, both old and new, quickly migrated over to a new video site known as [[VidLii]], and took advantage of the site, kickstarting a new Renaissance and ripping the community out of the downward spiral. There was also another shot at reunifying the community when SavageBoy created a new Barney Bunch Discord server, with many veteran users having joined it. The Renaissance eventually petered out after Blood was banned from VidLii and a bunch of other events by August.

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2021 was a fairly quiet year for the Barney Bunch, with many of the members of the Second Renaissance having retired or became inactive. The Blood style, which had been the dominant video format since 2016, began to be phased out as the Goes To videos saw a small resurgence in the community, along with the additions of the more plot-driven videos provided by IronYoshi and DrewPicklesTheDark, who released his [[The Great Speakonia War|Great Speakonia War]] series. Another channel, [[Thirteeniverse]], showed up later in the year and provided high-quality and fast paced Drew Pickles videos, quickly winning over the community, though this success was tragically cut short following the passing of one if the channel's members, Gary21115/WaRnEr, in early 2022. During the later half of 2021, IronYoshi would create a Speakonia Community server on Discord, and several key community members would join.

~~In April~~ of ~~2022,~~ the terminations of ~~both~~ Skewt is Back and ~~ToiletPranker causes~~ outrage within the community ~~on YouTube~~, especially given that ~~their~~ channels had not been active in several years. ~~Vidlii~~ also faced backlash as kremlin/pro-Putin propaganda became rampant on the site, causing a majority of Barney Bunch users to stop using the site. In various attempts to start looking for alternatives, as well as preserve past content, [[RoboticBloxxer]] found a site called [[Tracle]], and helped kickstart the community there.

2022 proved to be one of the roughest years for the Barney Bunch since 2018. YouTube became increasingly more intolerable thanks in large part to the terminations of users such as Skewt is Back, ToiletPranker, and NintendoMaster2010, causing outrage within the community, especially given that the listed channels had not been active in several years, as well as YouTube heavily age-restricting almost every new upload the community made. VidLii also faced backlash as kremlin/pro-Putin propaganda became rampant on the site, causing a majority of Barney Bunch users to stop using the site. The community also had to deal with Digi Data, a user who tried hard to get his own Speakonia group recognized, but earned the ire of the community and came off as a wannabe troll who would end up leaving by July. There was also the loss of several beloved creators, notable Garry21115 of Thirteeniverse and Blood, who passed away in August last year, only for the community to find out a year later. That said, the year wasn't all doom and gloom, as there was a large surge of new community members including RoboticBloxxer, Slim Pickles, CalciferBarney, and DuchessTheSponge to name a few. A handful of veterans would also return such as SavageBoy (albeit briefly) and BarneyBunchCompany. This year would also be the year that the community took a big priority on saving past work so it would not be lost to time. In various attempts to start looking for alternatives, as well as preserve past content, RoboticBloxxer found a site called Tracle, and helped kickstart the community there. Other members would preserve their work through the Internet Archive as well. This would also be the year that collabs would make a return, notably Krypto Week and a collab hosted by RoboticBloxxer to coincide with the year's Barney Bunch anniversary.

As of today, the Barney Bunch remains mostly on and off as far as activity goes. The main Discord server has disabled invites (though the Speakonia Community one is still active), and activity on VidLii has seemed to decrease save for a few key members like ToiletPranker and DrewPicklesTheDark joining. So if you happen to be browsing YouTube and you come across some videos of a bunch of children show characters and mascots with funny robotic voices talking about their homosexuality, you can stop and appreciate it, because there'll Never Ever be another online community like it.