The Barney Bunch: Difference between revisions

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===Newgrounds and First Generation (August-October 2005) ===

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 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.

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.

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 ===Newgrounds and First Generation (August-October 2005) ===
-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 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.
+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.