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'''The Barney Bunch''' is a small, niche community of users that forms the backbone of the entire [[The Speakonia Community|Speakonia Community]]. The group primarily creates videos of children's show, cartoon characters, and mascots as being homosexual deviants engaging in over the top escapades and swell shenanigans using [[Speakonia]] for their voices. While there have been many attempts at unifying the community, the group is very much fractioned, with some individuals sticking to crating certain types of videos. Activity has also fluctuated over the years as well, with many high and low points.

'''The Barney Bunch''' is a small, niche community of users that forms the backbone of the entire [[The Speakonia Community|Speakonia Community]]. The group primarily creates videos of children's show characters, cartoon characters, and mascots as being homosexual deviants engaging in over the top escapades and swell shenanigans using [[Speakonia]] for their voices. While there have been many attempts at unifying the community, the group is very much fractioned, with some individuals sticking to crating certain types of videos. Activity has also fluctuated over the years as well, with many high and low points.

==History==

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The Barney Bunch first began life as a trolling group on August 25, 2005 on [[Newgrounds]], founded by [[BarneyPoop]] (Tim C.) and [[StrawberryBarney]]. According to SBB's YouTube profile, the group originally went under the name "The Barney Crew" before the "Crew" was replaced with "Bunch". They started out making simple Flashes featuring children's show characters and mascots like [[Barney|Barney the Dinosaur]], Big Bird, [[Krypto the Superdog]], [[Clifford|Clifford the Big Red Dog]], the [[The Wiggles|Wiggles]], and [[Ronald McDonald]] being portrayed as homosexuals, with explicit text to speech voices provided by Speakonia. What started as a simple in-joke quickly developed a decent-sized community of users, with members like [[SovietBarney]], L, and DiaperBarney quickly joining. StrawberryBarney would soon upload [[Drew Pickles is REALLY REALLY Gay!]] and BarneyPoop was so amused by it, it helped popularize [[Drew Pickles]] and the character quickly became the new face of the community. The group would also engage in file-swaps, replacing old Flashes with their own in the Newgrounds portal, often with over the top, ALL CAPS, porn-esque names.

By October, however, backlash from the general Newgrounds community resulted in many BB flashes to be deleted and several members ended up being banned. Things took a heel turn when HIT Entertainment, the owners of ''Barney and Friends'', threatened legal action towards Newgrounds over the Bunch's activity. This resulted in Newgrounds blacklisting and removing the term "Barney" from their search engine for several years. Some old BB content from those days still remained, and the group continued to inhabit Newgrounds for several more years, having claimed to return on Clock Day 2007 with a link to their (now long abandoned) Tripod website.

By October, however, backlash from the general Newgrounds community resulted in many BB flashes to be deleted and several members ended up being banned. Things took a heel turn when HIT Entertainment, the owners of ''Barney and Friends'', threatened legal action towards Newgrounds over the Bunch's activity. This resulted in Newgrounds blacklisting and removing the term "Barney" from their search engine for several years. Some old BB content from those days still remained, and the group continued to inhabit Newgrounds for several more years, having claimed to return on Clock Day 2007 with a link to their (now long abandoned) [[Barney Bunch Website|Tripod website]].

===The Big Move and Second Generation (April 2006-2009)===

By 2006, the Barney Bunch was declared "DEAD FOREVER" for the first time in its 17 year history following their ban from Newgrounds. However, StrawberryBarney did some scouting on a small Silicon Valley startup known as [[YouTube|YouTube.com]], where on April 20 he uploaded the very flash he submitted to Newgrounds the prior year, Drew Pickles is REALLY REALLY Gay!, and helped the Barney Bunch, and in a way the entirety of the Speakonia Community, establish themselves on the site. Newgrounds veterans such as L and SovietBarney, as well as several others, soon began uploading their content to YouTube, and several of them can still be seen today but, unfortunately, most of them are now considered lost. A handful of members would establish themselves on the site [[YTMND]], posting various sites in the style of what was on Newgrounds. This wave of Barney Bunch video-makers was retroactively dubbed as the "Second Generation", with those who were active on Newgrounds being the "First Generation".

By 2006, the Barney Bunch was declared "DEAD FOREVER" for the first time in its 18 year history following their ban from Newgrounds. However, StrawberryBarney did some scouting on a small Silicon Valley startup known as [[YouTube|YouTube.com]], where on April 20 he uploaded the very flash he submitted to Newgrounds the prior year, Drew Pickles is REALLY REALLY Gay!, and helped the Barney Bunch, and in a way the entirety of the Speakonia Community, establish themselves on the site. Newgrounds veterans such as L and SovietBarney, as well as several others, soon began uploading their content to YouTube, and several of them can still be seen today but, unfortunately, most of them are now considered lost. A handful of members would establish themselves on the site [[YTMND]], posting various sites in the style of what was on Newgrounds. This wave of Barney Bunch video-makers was retroactively dubbed as the "Second Generation", with those who were active on Newgrounds being the "First Generation".

2007/2008 saw the first known BB collab on YouTube: in which just like YouTube Poop collabs, a user announces a video collab, and other users send in entries and then that user combines them all into one big video. Several of these existed prior on Newgrounds. This first YouTube collab was courtesy of MrBadBarney, although this has been taken down. According to Skewt, [[Blood]], soon to be an icon in the Speakonia scene, was a known participant of this collab. Many other users such as [[Sammyt3hSnake]] were also active around this time, and while he was close to the main Barney Bunch on YouTube, he broke off into doing his own unique videos. Other users who emerged at this time included [[BooNube]] and PanicPagoda, the latter of whom made more experimental videos. This would also be the time that the popular [[Drew Pickles Goes To]] videos were introduced, and quickly became a hit for the community and the default video style for years to come. The [[Pube Muppet]], a character created by Drunkmagikoopa on Newgrounds, was also adopted into the community and turned into a rival for the fictional Barney Bunch.

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''Main article: [[The Unestablished War]]''

2009 saw the introduction of the "Third Generation". Unlike the First ~~Generation~~, the Third Generation fully embraced the Drew Pickles Goes To videos with their constant breaks of the 4th Wall, long ass lines, and homosexual shenanigans ramped up to 11. Much of this was not seen in the content produced in the First and Second Generations, and, according to Blood, were usually associated with "poorly executed videos". Nevertheless, users such as YTComedyChannel365, [[MrCaptainJeff]], [[DrewPicklesAintDed69]], [[HappyTheHomo45]], and many, many others cranked out some classic and legendary videos around this time. This would also be around the time that [[bigboyrats]], a channel set up by two brothers, would appear on the scene, and provide Barney Bunch-esque [[Speakonia dubs|gag dubs]] of ''Rugrats'' episodes, inspiring many members to try out Speakonia dubs of their own. But this newfound peace would not last long.

2009 saw the introduction of the "Third Generation". Unlike the First and Second Generations, the Third Generation fully embraced the Drew Pickles Goes To videos with their constant breaks of the 4th Wall, long ass lines, and homosexual shenanigans ramped up to 11. Much of this was not seen in the content produced in the First and Second Generations, and, according to Blood, were usually associated with "poorly executed videos". Nevertheless, users such as YTComedyChannel365, [[MrCaptainJeff]], [[DrewPicklesAintDed69]], [[HappyTheHomo45]], and many, many others cranked out some classic and legendary videos around this time. This would also be around the time that [[bigboyrats]], a channel set up by two brothers, would appear on the scene, and provide Barney Bunch-esque [[Speakonia dubs|gag dubs]] of ''Rugrats'' episodes, inspiring many members to try out Speakonia dubs of their own. But this newfound peace would not last long.

During the summer of 2011, conflict began to arise in the community, with users like RCDeschene, MrCaptainJeff, timmyt333, BakaSurvivor2102, Pwnisher248, and several others over the addition of characters to the fictional Barney Bunch and wider Speakonia lore, and what and what was not "established", among other issues. It resulted in the formations of [[OldSchoolSwellness]] and [[SwellDrewTube]], with OSS intending on making videos using only "established" characters and ideas, while SDT wanted more creative freedom when it came to characters and lore. This event was referred to as the "Unestablished War of 2011", and 2011 essentially became Year 0 for the community, after which nothing was ever the same again. This conflict was marred by moments such as the increased prevalence of [[Yogi Bear]], the term "unestablished", the rise of the [[The Humongous Bunch|Humongous Bunch]] and characters like [[Maid Marian]] and [[Brony Drew Pickles]], among several other things. Also at this time, a small faction of the community formed known as the [[The Foot Fetish Community|Foot Fetish Community]], which seem to have taken inspiration from the Barney Bunch, though their approach to videos and lore is much different and more quality-driven.

During the summer of 2011, conflict began to arise in the community, with users like RCDeschene, MrCaptainJeff, timmyt333, BakaSurvivor2102, Pwnisher248, and several others arguing over the addition of characters to the fictional Barney Bunch and wider Speakonia lore, and what and what was not "established", among other issues. It resulted in the formations of [[OldSchoolSwellness]] and [[SwellDrewTube]], with OSS intending on making videos using only "established" characters and ideas, while SDT wanted more creative freedom when it came to characters and lore. This event was referred to as the "Unestablished War of 2011", and 2011 essentially became Year 0 for the community, after which nothing was ever the same again. This conflict was marred by moments such as the increased prevalence of [[Yogi Bear]], the term "unestablished", the rise of Speakonia groups like the [[The Humongous Bunch|Humongous Bunch]] and characters like [[Maid Marian]] and [[Brony Drew Pickles]], among several other things. Also at this time, a small faction of the community formed known as the [[The Foot Fetish Community|Foot Fetish Community]], which seem to have taken inspiration from the main Barney Bunch users, though their approach to videos and lore is much different and more quality-driven.

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

===Revitalization, Blood's Return, and Fourth/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), [[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 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 "Fourth 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 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). 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 Fourth 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 start of 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, in addition to creating a new wiki on Miraheze. The Renaissance eventually petered out after Blood was banned from VidLii and a bunch of other events by August.

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, in addition to creating a new wiki on Miraheze. The Second Renaissance eventually petered out after Blood was banned from VidLii and a bunch of other events by August.

===Post Renaissance, Expansion Beyond YouTube, and Eighth Generation (2020-present)===

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-'''The Barney Bunch''' is a small, niche community of users that forms the backbone of the entire [[The Speakonia Community|Speakonia Community]]. The group primarily creates videos of children's show, cartoon characters, and mascots as being homosexual deviants engaging in over the top escapades and swell shenanigans using [[Speakonia]] for their voices. While there have been many attempts at unifying the community, the group is very much fractioned, with some individuals sticking to crating certain types of videos. Activity has also fluctuated over the years as well, with many high and low points.
+'''The Barney Bunch''' is a small, niche community of users that forms the backbone of the entire [[The Speakonia Community|Speakonia Community]]. The group primarily creates videos of children's show characters, cartoon characters, and mascots as being homosexual deviants engaging in over the top escapades and swell shenanigans using [[Speakonia]] for their voices. While there have been many attempts at unifying the community, the group is very much fractioned, with some individuals sticking to crating certain types of videos. Activity has also fluctuated over the years as well, with many high and low points.
 ==History==
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 The Barney Bunch first began life as a trolling group on August 25, 2005 on [[Newgrounds]], founded by [[BarneyPoop]] (Tim C.) and [[StrawberryBarney]]. According to SBB's YouTube profile, the group originally went under the name "The Barney Crew" before the "Crew" was replaced with "Bunch". They started out making simple Flashes featuring children's show characters and mascots like [[Barney|Barney the Dinosaur]], Big Bird, [[Krypto the Superdog]], [[Clifford|Clifford the Big Red Dog]], the [[The Wiggles|Wiggles]], and [[Ronald McDonald]] being portrayed as homosexuals, with explicit text to speech voices provided by Speakonia. What started as a simple in-joke quickly developed a decent-sized community of users, with members like [[SovietBarney]], L, and DiaperBarney quickly joining. StrawberryBarney would soon upload [[Drew Pickles is REALLY REALLY Gay!]] and BarneyPoop was so amused by it, it helped popularize [[Drew Pickles]] and the character quickly became the new face of the community. The group would also engage in file-swaps, replacing old Flashes with their own in the Newgrounds portal, often with over the top, ALL CAPS, porn-esque names.
-By October, however, backlash from the general Newgrounds community resulted in many BB flashes to be deleted and several members ended up being banned. Things took a heel turn when HIT Entertainment, the owners of ''Barney and Friends'', threatened legal action towards Newgrounds over the Bunch's activity. This resulted in Newgrounds blacklisting and removing the term "Barney" from their search engine for several years. Some old BB content from those days still remained, and the group continued to inhabit Newgrounds for several more years, having claimed to return on Clock Day 2007 with a link to their (now long abandoned) Tripod website.
+By October, however, backlash from the general Newgrounds community resulted in many BB flashes to be deleted and several members ended up being banned. Things took a heel turn when HIT Entertainment, the owners of ''Barney and Friends'', threatened legal action towards Newgrounds over the Bunch's activity. This resulted in Newgrounds blacklisting and removing the term "Barney" from their search engine for several years. Some old BB content from those days still remained, and the group continued to inhabit Newgrounds for several more years, having claimed to return on Clock Day 2007 with a link to their (now long abandoned) [[Barney Bunch Website|Tripod website]].
 ===The Big Move and Second Generation (April 2006-2009)===
-By 2006, the Barney Bunch was declared "DEAD FOREVER" for the first time in its 17 year history following their ban from Newgrounds. However, StrawberryBarney did some scouting on a small Silicon Valley startup known as [[YouTube|YouTube.com]], where on April 20 he uploaded the very flash he submitted to Newgrounds the prior year, Drew Pickles is REALLY REALLY Gay!, and helped the Barney Bunch, and in a way the entirety of the Speakonia Community, establish themselves on the site. Newgrounds veterans such as L and SovietBarney, as well as several others, soon began uploading their content to YouTube, and several of them can still be seen today but, unfortunately, most of them are now considered lost.  A handful of members would establish themselves on the site [[YTMND]], posting various sites in the style of what was on Newgrounds. This wave of Barney Bunch video-makers was retroactively dubbed as the "Second Generation", with those who were active on Newgrounds being the "First Generation".
+By 2006, the Barney Bunch was declared "DEAD FOREVER" for the first time in its 18 year history following their ban from Newgrounds. However, StrawberryBarney did some scouting on a small Silicon Valley startup known as [[YouTube|YouTube.com]], where on April 20 he uploaded the very flash he submitted to Newgrounds the prior year, Drew Pickles is REALLY REALLY Gay!, and helped the Barney Bunch, and in a way the entirety of the Speakonia Community, establish themselves on the site. Newgrounds veterans such as L and SovietBarney, as well as several others, soon began uploading their content to YouTube, and several of them can still be seen today but, unfortunately, most of them are now considered lost.  A handful of members would establish themselves on the site [[YTMND]], posting various sites in the style of what was on Newgrounds. This wave of Barney Bunch video-makers was retroactively dubbed as the "Second Generation", with those who were active on Newgrounds being the "First Generation".
 /2008 saw the first known BB collab on YouTube: in which just like YouTube Poop collabs, a user announces a video collab, and other users send in entries and then that user combines them all into one big video. Several of these existed prior on Newgrounds. This first YouTube collab was courtesy of MrBadBarney, although this has been taken down. According to Skewt, [[Blood]], soon to be an icon in the Speakonia scene, was a known participant of this collab. Many other users such as [[Sammyt3hSnake]] were also active around this time, and while he was close to the main Barney Bunch on YouTube, he broke off into doing his own unique videos. Other users who emerged at this time included [[BooNube]] and PanicPagoda, the latter of whom made more experimental videos. This would also be the time that the popular [[Drew Pickles Goes To]] videos were introduced, and quickly became a hit for the community and the default video style for years to come. The [[Pube Muppet]], a character created by Drunkmagikoopa on Newgrounds, was also adopted into the community and turned into a rival for the fictional Barney Bunch.
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 ''Main article: [[The Unestablished War]]''
-saw the introduction of the "Third Generation". Unlike the First Generation, the Third Generation fully embraced the Drew Pickles Goes To videos with their constant breaks of the 4th Wall, long ass lines, and homosexual shenanigans ramped up to 11. Much of this was not seen in the content produced in the First and Second Generations, and, according to Blood, were usually associated with "poorly executed videos". Nevertheless, users such as YTComedyChannel365, [[MrCaptainJeff]], [[DrewPicklesAintDed69]], [[HappyTheHomo45]], and many, many others cranked out some classic and legendary videos around this time. This would also be around the time that [[bigboyrats]], a channel set up by two brothers, would appear on the scene, and provide Barney Bunch-esque [[Speakonia dubs|gag dubs]] of ''Rugrats'' episodes, inspiring many members to try out Speakonia dubs of their own. But this newfound peace would not last long.
+saw the introduction of the "Third Generation". Unlike the First and Second Generations, the Third Generation fully embraced the Drew Pickles Goes To videos with their constant breaks of the 4th Wall, long ass lines, and homosexual shenanigans ramped up to 11. Much of this was not seen in the content produced in the First and Second Generations, and, according to Blood, were usually associated with "poorly executed videos". Nevertheless, users such as YTComedyChannel365, [[MrCaptainJeff]], [[DrewPicklesAintDed69]], [[HappyTheHomo45]], and many, many others cranked out some classic and legendary videos around this time. This would also be around the time that [[bigboyrats]], a channel set up by two brothers, would appear on the scene, and provide Barney Bunch-esque [[Speakonia dubs|gag dubs]] of ''Rugrats'' episodes, inspiring many members to try out Speakonia dubs of their own. But this newfound peace would not last long.
-During the summer of 2011, conflict began to arise in the community, with users like RCDeschene, MrCaptainJeff, timmyt333, BakaSurvivor2102, Pwnisher248, and several others over the addition of characters to the fictional Barney Bunch and wider Speakonia lore, and what and what was not "established", among other issues. It resulted in the formations of [[OldSchoolSwellness]] and [[SwellDrewTube]], with OSS intending on making videos using only "established" characters and ideas, while SDT wanted more creative freedom when it came to characters and lore. This event was referred to as the "Unestablished War of 2011", and 2011 essentially became Year 0 for the community, after which nothing was ever the same again. This conflict was marred by moments such as the increased prevalence of [[Yogi Bear]], the term "unestablished", the rise of the [[The Humongous Bunch|Humongous Bunch]] and characters like [[Maid Marian]] and [[Brony Drew Pickles]], among several other things. Also at this time, a small faction of the community formed known as the [[The Foot Fetish Community|Foot Fetish Community]], which seem to have taken inspiration from the Barney Bunch, though their approach to videos and lore is much different and more quality-driven.
+During the summer of 2011, conflict began to arise in the community, with users like RCDeschene, MrCaptainJeff, timmyt333, BakaSurvivor2102, Pwnisher248, and several others arguing over the addition of characters to the fictional Barney Bunch and wider Speakonia lore, and what and what was not "established", among other issues. It resulted in the formations of [[OldSchoolSwellness]] and [[SwellDrewTube]], with OSS intending on making videos using only "established" characters and ideas, while SDT wanted more creative freedom when it came to characters and lore. This event was referred to as the "Unestablished War of 2011", and 2011 essentially became Year 0 for the community, after which nothing was ever the same again. This conflict was marred by moments such as the increased prevalence of [[Yogi Bear]], the term "unestablished", the rise of Speakonia groups like the [[The Humongous Bunch|Humongous Bunch]] and characters like [[Maid Marian]] and [[Brony Drew Pickles]], among several other things. Also at this time, a small faction of the community formed known as the [[The Foot Fetish Community|Foot Fetish Community]], which seem to have taken inspiration from the main Barney Bunch users, though their approach to videos and lore is much different and more quality-driven.
-===Revitalization, Blood's Return, and Forth/Fifth Generation (2012-2015)===
+===Revitalization, Blood's Return, and Fourth/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), [[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 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 "Fourth 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 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]]''
-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.
+marked the lowest point in the Barney Bunch's entire history, as many legendary users from the Fourth 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 start of 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, in addition to creating a new wiki on Miraheze. The Renaissance eventually petered out after Blood was banned from VidLii and a bunch of other events by August.
+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, in addition to creating a new wiki on Miraheze. The Second Renaissance eventually petered out after Blood was banned from VidLii and a bunch of other events by August.
 ===Post Renaissance, Expansion Beyond YouTube, and Eighth Generation (2020-present)===