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==History== | ==History== | ||
The early months of 2022 proved to be rough for the Barney Bunch and Speakonia Community. On YouTube, the terminations of [[ToiletPranker]] and [[Skewt]] was met with outrage, especially since they have not been active in several years. VidLii was also in hot water too, with the revelation that it has been used for pro-Kremlin propaganda during the ongoing war in Ukraine, as well as allowing violent acts of gore on the site, and in retaliation, several community members who were stationed on the site deleted their accounts in protest. On April 2nd, [[IronYoshi1212 Productions|IronYoshi1212]] uploaded a video | The early months of 2022 proved to be rough for the Barney Bunch and Speakonia Community. On YouTube, the terminations of [[ToiletPranker]] and [[Skewt]] was met with outrage, especially since they have not been active in several years. VidLii was also in hot water too, with the revelation that it has been used for pro-Kremlin propaganda during the ongoing war in Ukraine, as well as allowing violent acts of gore on the site, and in retaliation, several community members who were stationed on the site deleted their accounts in protest. On April 2nd, [[IronYoshi1212 Productions|IronYoshi1212]] uploaded a video criticizing YouTube following the termination of ToiletPranker and Skewt, and discussed possible alternatives to YouTube, even suggesting a VidLii comeback (though this was before he found out about VidLii's recent controversy), but he mainly suggested backing up older videos so that they will be safe from YouTube's prying eyes. | ||
The discussion continued on in the Speakonia Community [[Discord]] server, with member [[RoboticBloxxer]] making the suggestion that the community use Tracle, a relatively small site that seemed perfect to join. He would make an account on there sometime later and began reuploading several videos from various community members like Skewt, ToiletPranker, [[StrawberryBarney]], [[BarneyBunchCompany]], Yuseeme90, Swellronald, and many more, even uploading several flashes from [[Newgrounds]] alongside his own videos. This was later followed by [[Slim Pickles]], who also joined the site and began to reupload his videos from YouTube to Tracle, along with doing exclusive [[Blood-style videos]] on the site. CalciferBarney, who was originally on VidLii, would also join and provide original content as well as reuploads of videos by Skewt and [[Blood]]. Finally, IronYoshi would join on April 16 and uploaded a video announcing that his channel will consist of older reuploads and new content, mostly in synergy with whatever new video he uploads to YouTube. He | The discussion continued on in the Speakonia Community [[Discord]] server, with member [[RoboticBloxxer]] making the suggestion that the community use Tracle, a relatively small site that seemed perfect to join. He would make an account on there sometime later and began reuploading several videos from various community members like Skewt, ToiletPranker, [[StrawberryBarney]], [[BarneyBunchCompany]], Yuseeme90, Swellronald, and many more, even uploading several flashes from [[Newgrounds]] alongside his own videos. This was later followed by [[Slim Pickles]], who also joined the site and began to reupload his videos from YouTube to Tracle, along with doing exclusive [[Blood-style videos]] on the site. CalciferBarney, who was originally on VidLii, would also join and provide original content as well as reuploads of videos by Skewt and [[Blood]]. Finally, IronYoshi would join on April 16 and uploaded a video announcing that his channel will consist of older reuploads and new content, mostly in synergy with whatever new video he uploads to YouTube. He uploaded all of his videos from 2020 and 2021 (bar update videos) onto Tracle, and reuploaded his earlier 2022 videos to the site alongside newer ones. | ||
=== Site Reaction and Drama === | === Site Reaction and Drama === | ||
Eventually, several more members began to migrate to Tracle, with people from the community reuploading older content alongside a mix of new material as well. Reception from the primary Tracle community was originally mixed to mostly negative, with some expressing disdain towards the flood of Speakonia content on the front page and fearing this might drive potential new users off the site due to the intentionally crude, vulgar, and shock value nature of the Barney Bunch videos, though a select few would hop on the bandwagon. Two users and members of popular Tracle channel Marble Studios Network, ZetaPrime77 and TheBucketCat, were extremely vocal about the Barney Bunch and the Speakonia Community's presence as a whole on Tracle, even releasing two videos respectively discussing it and expressing their disapproval for the BB videos on the Tracle Discord server. Many members of the Speakonia community seem to brush off the Tracle community's concerns as little more than overreacting. By late August, as activity had greatly slowed down, RoboticBloxxer was forced to remove a handful of reuploads from other BB members, as requested by the Tracle mods due to the fact he didn't necessarily ask the creators of said videos to publish them (save for the ones inactive or in the case of Blood, unfortunately dead), and proceeded to move them to the [[Internet Archive]]. | Eventually, several more members began to migrate to Tracle, with people from the community reuploading older content alongside a mix of new material as well. Reception from the primary Tracle community was originally mixed to mostly negative, with some expressing disdain towards the flood of Speakonia content on the front page and fearing this might drive potential new users off the site due to the intentionally crude, vulgar, and shock value nature of the Barney Bunch videos, though a select few would hop on the bandwagon. Two users and members of popular Tracle channel Marble Studios Network, ZetaPrime77 and TheBucketCat, were extremely vocal about the Barney Bunch and the Speakonia Community's presence as a whole on Tracle, even releasing two videos respectively discussing it and expressing their disapproval for the BB videos on the Tracle Discord server. Many members of the Speakonia community seem to brush off the Tracle community's concerns as little more than overreacting. By late August, as activity had greatly slowed down, RoboticBloxxer was forced to remove a handful of reuploads from other BB members, as requested by the Tracle mods due to the fact he didn't necessarily ask the creators of said videos to publish them (save for the ones inactive or in the case of Blood, unfortunately dead), and proceeded to move them to the [[Internet Archive]]. | ||
Things would take a | Things would take a turn for the worst in late October, as Tracle updated its TOS regarding videos with sexual content (no doubt a response to the Speakonia Community's activities), resulting in many videos being removed and several community member receiving strikes, some were even banned. Many members of the community did not take this news well, with IronYoshi ceasing uploads to the site as a form of protest. On October 29, [[StraightFusion]] would make "[[Drew Pickles goes to Tracle]]", a 40+ minute long video, as a form of revenge trolling for their distain to the Barney Bunch, for striking and banning users, and the the videos complaining about them. However, this was negatively received on the site and its Discord server, with many non-BB Tracle users criticizing it particularly for the mean-spirited portrayal of Tracle personality and site mod Nathan Boehm, who was still underage at the time of the video's release (though StraightFusion and RoboticBloxxer had no idea as they assumed his age by his appearance and jawlines, otherwise they would have replace him with an generic manager), not to mention the aforementioned videos by Zeta and BucketCat, as well as making the BB community on Tracle look butthurt and sensitive, ironically more so than they were painting the Tracle community as. | ||
This, combined with the already building tension/lack of communication between the two communities, RoboticBloxxer's strange behavior on the Discord server, and the questions arising about his involvement with | This, combined with the already building tension/lack of communication between the two communities, RoboticBloxxer's strange behavior on the Discord server, and the questions arising about his involvement with StraightFusion's video, caused the ban of a lot of the main BB users including Bloxxer, DharMannFan69, and Slim Pickles from the Tracle Discord on October 30th, as well as TheBucketCat and Zeta making responses to StraightFusion's video and his Tracle account was banned later on in the day by the staff. IronYoshi would break his no-upload protest from Tracle to upload a video condemning both sides on their handling of the situation. This, alongside one of the Tracle mods entering and mocking the Speakonia Community in their Discord server after finding a link to it in one of the videos on the site, would spark more fuel to the fire between the Speakonia members on Tracle and the primary Tracle community. Ultimately, the drama soon died down after IronYoshi and Nathan would reach a calm, peaceful agreement, with IronYoshi announcing that he would retire from Tracle and convince the community to move on from the site without any ill-will, and it would seem that this would bring an end to the community's time on Tracle. | ||
=== Aftermath | === Aftermath === | ||
In the end, the drama proved to be the final nail in the coffin for the community's time on Tracle. While it would be easy to pin the blame on the mods and the Tracle community for overreacting (almost to a level the original Barney Bunch received on Newgrounds) and for pulling some rather dirty tricks, the Speakonia Community isn't entirely blameless either, as IronYoshi would point out in his video. The community could have handled the news regarding the TOS better, and Drew Pickles goes to Tracle certainly didn't help the strained relationship at all. The impact of the drama would also leave the Speakonia Discord server on full lockdown for a brief time, with invites disabled and a new mod team and verification system added. IronYoshi and a few other members would greatly discourage going after the Tracle community or retaliating in any manner, lest the whole thing gets dragged on longer than it needed to or made worse. IronYoshi believed it would be best to ultimately move on and find another site to set up | In the end, the drama proved to be the final nail in the coffin for the community's time on Tracle. While it would be easy to pin the blame on the mods and the Tracle community for overreacting (almost to a level the original Barney Bunch received on Newgrounds) and for pulling some rather dirty tricks, the Speakonia Community isn't entirely blameless either, as IronYoshi would point out in his video. The community could have handled the news regarding the TOS better, and Drew Pickles goes to Tracle certainly didn't help the strained relationship at all. The impact of the drama would also leave the Speakonia Discord server on full lockdown for a brief time, with invites disabled and a new mod team and verification system added. IronYoshi and a few other members would greatly discourage going after the Tracle community or retaliating in any manner, lest the whole thing gets dragged on longer than it needed to or made worse. IronYoshi believed it would be best to ultimately move on and find another site to set up. | ||
Later on Halloween day, TheBucketCat would issue an apology to the Speakonia Community in a video, acknowledging the points in IronYoshi's video and realizing he went a bit too far, with the Tracle mod who broke into the server, RedTurbo13, also apologizing for his actions on the Speakonia server and lifting RoboticBloxxer and DharMannFan69's bans in the Tracle server. The community would forgive them in the end, and it would seem that both sides would go their separate ways. Even after the drama, a small handful of users would continue to post on the site, mainly SpeakoniaSwellness, with RoboticBloxxer, CalciferBarney, and EarthHound uploading content on occasion, though not on the same frequency as the previous months. Many members, such as IronYoshi, StraightFusion, and SexyLuver69 have since retired from the site and would post their content back on YouTube or began using alternatives like Internet Archive as a backup. | |||
=== Ban and Shutdown === | |||
Despite the Speakonia Community moving on from the site after the events in October and stopped regularly posting there, Tracle still got criticism for the amount of Barney Bunch videos on there, and according to one of the mods, many broadband providers had categorized the site as "pornography" (possibly due to the explicit titles of many Blood-style videos), some even blocking Tracle as a whole because of it. This would all come to a head on January 25, 2023, when word got out that Tracle held a poll on their Discord server in order to determine the fate of all the Barney Bunch videos on their site due to the criticism levied against them for hosting Barney Bunch content by its users. The options were to either remove all the videos and ban the associated users behind them, age-restrict all the videos, remove newly posted Barney Bunch videos and age-restrict the older ones, or just leave the videos as is. The votes began to lean heavily between the first two options, with news breaking out to the Speakonia Community, who were not happy and began to question the validity of the apology that was sent to them by the Tracle community beforehand. Some wanted to retaliate against Tracle, but others shot this down, not wanting a repeat of past events. Some members of the Speakonia Community on the Tracle Discord server were even banned for trying to go in and sway the vote in the Speakonia Community's favor. | |||
In spite of this, the next day would see the poll close and the Tracle community voted for all Barney Bunch/Speakonia content to be banned. The staff though would let the Barney Bunch creators remove the videos themselves until February 4th when the ban is put into place. This signaled the official end of the Barney Bunch's time on Tracle, and the community has not been on the site since. In order to make up for this, one of the Tracle mods, sks2002, offered the community the opportunity to start up their own video-hosting platform under the proposed name Swell.TV (or Swelly) using Tracle's open source code, though nothing came of this idea. In the meantime, many members of the community began searching for more alternatives, leading to some going to [[Dailymotion]], Rumble, Odysee, BitChute, Vimeo, and even an attempt to return to Newgrounds, with varying degrees of success. | |||
==Notable Users== | On January 9, 2024, close to a year after Speakonia content would be banned from their site, Tracle announced that they were shutting down. According to sks2002, it was due to Danjo (the owner of Tracle) not having enough money to run it and personal reasons. Many in the community celebrated the news, still feeling scorned by them following the events in late 2022 as well as the aforementioned ban they placed on Speakonia content. Funnily enough, two Speakonia Community members would be on the list of the most followed Tracle channels, those being RoboticBloxer (placed at Number 8) and IronYoshi (placed at Number 15) respectively. | ||
==Notable Users== | |||
*RoboticBloxxer (first community member to join) | |||
*Slim Pickles | |||
*CalciferBarney | |||
*IronYoshi1212 | |||
*Turndown4hwut | |||
*Thirteeniverse | |||
*dildosdildo123 | |||
*SpeakoniaSwellness | |||
*SexyLuver69 | |||
*TheSwellObserver | |||
*Dr. Drew Pickles | |||
*SwellWigglyHomo45 | |||
*SavageBoy69 | |||
*DuchessTheSponge (DharMannFan69) | |||
*Jamesinator | |||
*StraightFusion | |||
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