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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. This 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~~)===

===Post Renaissance and Eighth Generation (2020-2022)===

As a new decade rolled in, another shift began to happen within the community. During the early and middle half of 2020, activity was still fairly high, with a few new additions to the community, kicking off the Eighth Generation. Perhaps notable was the introduction of [[IronYoshi1212 Productions|IronYoshi1212]], whose more story-driven videos quickly garnered attention from both veterans and newcomers alike. The fifteenth anniversary of the community took place on August 25. Many well known members such as Blood and SavageBoy went into retirement, while some like [[DrewPicklesTheDark]] returned after notable absences to start producing content again. Activity also moved away from VidLii, with YouTube now being the center-stage of the community once again.

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]] (later renamed Shakeverse), 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. The Miraheze Speakonia Community wiki would shut down after months of inactivity, leading to a new one opening on Fandom which, despite some skirmishes with what could be posted there, was the defacto wiki for information on the community until its closure in 2023. During the later half of 2021, IronYoshi would create a Speakonia Community server on Discord, and several key community members would join.

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]] (later renamed Shakeverse), showed up later in the year and provided high-quality and fast paced [[The Drew Pickles Show|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. The Miraheze Speakonia Community wiki would shut down after months of inactivity, leading to a new one opening on Fandom which, despite some skirmishes with what could be posted there, was the defacto wiki for information on the community until its closure in 2023. During the later half of 2021, IronYoshi would create a Speakonia Community server on Discord, and several key community members would join.

2022 proved to be one of the roughest years for the Barney Bunch since 2018. The terminations of users such as Skewt is Back, ToiletPranker, and NintendoMaster2010 on YouTube caused outrage within the community, especially given that the listed channels had not been active in several years, in addition to 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 remaining Barney Bunch users there to stop using it. There was also the loss of several beloved creators, notable Garry21115 of Thirteeniverse and Blood, who passed away in August 2021, only for the community to find out a year later. In late August and early September, several members of the Discord server began [[The Oversaturation Bunch|adding an absurd number of new Speakonia groups]] and doing almost little to nothing with them, causing backlash among many veteran members.

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 and BarneyBunchCompany, albeit brief. This year would also be one that the community took a big priority on saving past work so it would not be lost to time, mainly through the [[Internet Archive]] and [[Tracle]], the latter of which was considered a prime YouTube alternative up until a skirmish broke out between the Tracle and Speakonia communities in October, resulting in a site-wide ban of Barney Bunch content the following year. This would also be the year that events and collabs would make a return, notably [[Krypto Week]] to coincide with the release of ''DC League of SuperPets'', a week celebrating the Pube Muppet's 20th birthday, and a collab hosted by RoboticBloxxer to coincide with the year's Barney Bunch anniversary. 2022 proved to be so much of a significant year that, much like Alfardo did with 2016, IronYoshi would make a retrospective video covering the highs and lows the year had to offer.

=== Expansion Beyond YouTube and Ninth Generation (2023-present) ===

After the Eighth Generation ended on a sour note, it seemed like 2023 and the Ninth Generation would bring more of the same. Tracle had initiated its aforementioned site-wide ban on Barney Bunch/Speakonia content, giving its members a deadline to remove their videos before the staff would do it themselves (though by that point the community had already jumped ship following the skirmish the past October). Fandom had begun purging any Wikis relating to the Barney Bunch, including the Speakonia Community Wiki. YouTube was still age-restricting both new and older uploads, with a CEO change seeming to not help matters. The community experienced the tragic loss of another veteran member with dildosdildo123, who passed away in April after a battle with cancer. Many of the key players who helped spearhead the Eighth Generation, including RoboticBloxxer, IronYoshi, and DrewPicklesTheDark, had either became significantly less active or decided to retire for the time being. Despite this, the community still marched forward. The Tracle ban initiated a desire to seek out more alternatives, with Internet Archive, Odysee, and Rumble being the top picks, as well as some members trying to station themselves on past sites like Dailymotion and Newgrounds with little success. One of the most notable events was the return/revival of Shakeverse's Drew Pickles series, which had remained dormant after the death of Gary21115.

== Future ==

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 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. This 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)===
+===Post Renaissance and Eighth Generation (2020-2022)===
 As a new decade rolled in, another shift began to happen within the community. During the early and middle half of 2020, activity was still fairly high, with a few new additions to the community, kicking off the Eighth Generation. Perhaps notable was the introduction of [[IronYoshi1212 Productions|IronYoshi1212]], whose more story-driven videos quickly garnered attention from both veterans and newcomers alike. The fifteenth anniversary of the community took place on August 25. Many well known members such as Blood and SavageBoy went into retirement, while some like [[DrewPicklesTheDark]] returned after notable absences to start producing content again. Activity also moved away from VidLii, with YouTube now being the center-stage of the community once again.
-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]] (later renamed Shakeverse), 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. The Miraheze Speakonia Community wiki would shut down after months of inactivity, leading to a new one opening on Fandom which, despite some skirmishes with what could be posted there, was the defacto wiki for information on the community until its closure in 2023. During the later half of 2021, IronYoshi would create a Speakonia Community server on Discord, and several key community members would join.
+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]] (later renamed Shakeverse), showed up later in the year and provided high-quality and fast paced [[The Drew Pickles Show|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. The Miraheze Speakonia Community wiki would shut down after months of inactivity, leading to a new one opening on Fandom which, despite some skirmishes with what could be posted there, was the defacto wiki for information on the community until its closure in 2023. During the later half of 2021, IronYoshi would create a Speakonia Community server on Discord, and several key community members would join.
 proved to be one of the roughest years for the Barney Bunch since 2018. The terminations of users such as Skewt is Back, ToiletPranker, and NintendoMaster2010 on YouTube caused outrage within the community, especially given that the listed channels had not been active in several years, in addition to 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 remaining Barney Bunch users there to stop using it. There was also the loss of several beloved creators, notable Garry21115 of Thirteeniverse and Blood, who passed away in August 2021, only for the community to find out a year later. In late August and early September, several members of the Discord server began [[The Oversaturation Bunch|adding an absurd number of new Speakonia groups]] and doing almost little to nothing with them, causing backlash among many veteran members.
 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 and BarneyBunchCompany, albeit brief. This year would also be one that the community took a big priority on saving past work so it would not be lost to time, mainly through the [[Internet Archive]] and [[Tracle]], the latter of which was considered a prime YouTube alternative up until a skirmish broke out between the Tracle and Speakonia communities in October, resulting in a site-wide ban of Barney Bunch content the following year. This would also be the year that events and collabs would make a return, notably [[Krypto Week]] to coincide with the release of ''DC League of SuperPets'', a week celebrating the Pube Muppet's 20th birthday, and a collab hosted by RoboticBloxxer to coincide with the year's Barney Bunch anniversary. 2022 proved to be so much of a significant year that, much like Alfardo did with 2016, IronYoshi would make a retrospective video covering the highs and lows the year had to offer.
+=== Expansion Beyond YouTube and Ninth Generation (2023-present) ===
+After the Eighth Generation ended on a sour note, it seemed like 2023 and the Ninth Generation would bring more of the same. Tracle had initiated its aforementioned site-wide ban on Barney Bunch/Speakonia content, giving its members a deadline to remove their videos before the staff would do it themselves (though by that point the community had already jumped ship following the skirmish the past October). Fandom had begun purging any Wikis relating to the Barney Bunch, including the Speakonia Community Wiki. YouTube was still age-restricting both new and older uploads, with a CEO change seeming to not help matters. The community experienced the tragic loss of another veteran member with dildosdildo123, who passed away in April after a battle with cancer. Many of the key players who helped spearhead the Eighth Generation, including RoboticBloxxer, IronYoshi, and DrewPicklesTheDark, had either became significantly less active or decided to retire for the time being. Despite this, the community still marched forward. The Tracle ban initiated a desire to seek out more alternatives, with Internet Archive, Odysee, and Rumble being the top picks, as well as some members trying to station themselves on past sites like Dailymotion and Newgrounds with little success. One of the most notable events was the return/revival of Shakeverse's Drew Pickles series, which had remained dormant after the death of Gary21115.
 == Future ==