I have been online since way before most people accessed the internet. When did you first start to realize there was all this hatred swirling around the show, though? It’s a pretty good indication the love was strong. When you show up at a shopping mall in Hartford, Connecticut, and the sidewalks are lined with parents and strollers, and you get inside, where you expect 600 people but there’s 6,000, that’ll bring you to the present. We’d get to see the love that was being poured out toward Barney, and that was just amazing. But then we would go out and do personal appearances, and we’d have meet-and-greets with kids and parents. We were in the studio so often, and we really didn’t see a lot of the reaction to the show. Hit Entertainment / Everett Collectionīob West, a veteran performer who provided the voice for Barney from 1992 to 2000, recalls the production of “Barney & Friends” as a blissful experience that was sometimes shadowed by darker intrusions from the wider world, like a string of death threats he says he received via email. “Parents admit to a cordial dislike of the saccharine saurian, and no self-respecting second-grader will admit to liking Barney.” Barney on "Barney And Friends" in 1992. “Barney is on the receiving end of more hostility than just about any other popular cultural icon I can think of,” the University of Chicago academic W.J.T. The internet gave rise to new genres of anti-Barney humor that freely mixed winking irony with seemingly real rage. Urban legends about the character's dark secrets sprung up. NBA great Charles Barkley beat up Barney in a “Saturday Night Live” sketch. School-age kids added violent lyrics to the “Barney & Friends” theme song. The docuseries explores how, throughout the ‘90s and early 2000s, Barney turned into a cultural punching bag, the subject of disdain from adults and derision from kids desperate to disavow their childish pastimes. On March 9th, 2020, the Facebook page Car Memes uploaded another example to their newsfeed with the title, “I promise I'm going to finish it this year.” The meme (seen below) received 6,400 likes, 1,200 shares and 739 comments.But not everyone considered Barney a friend, a phenomenon at the heart of a new Peacock documentary series called “I Love You, You Hate Me.” (NBC News and Peacock are both owned and operated by NBCUniversal.) This tweet (shown below) was liked 110 times and retweeted 47 times. The meme also crossed over to Twitter, seen in a tweet from user memessss28 on March 7th, 2020. The meme received over 24,000 upvotes and 115 comments. On December 3rd, 2019, Redditor ZeraoraKing then uploaded a version about Minecraft on the r/dankmemes sub (seen below). This post (shown below) was upvoted over 21,000 times. Redditor ourobox posted one of the earliest examples with “whomst has awakened the ancient one” to r/dankmemes on November 9th, 2019, referencing the announcement of a new live-action Barney movie. The post (seen below) uses a cropped version of the photo as a reaction, receiving over 29,000 upvotes. One such example was posted on July 22nd, 2018, by Redditor CredibleSoap to the r/thanosdidnothingwrong sub. Spreadīefore the text was added to the bottom of the image, it appeared in memes without “whomst has awakened the ancient one” initially. The original photo of the statue was taken in Scotland at the Storybook Glen children’s park, which includes several other life-sized statues from various TV shows like The Simpsons and movies like Shrek. The post (shown below) features an uncropped version of the image, which OP said, “Was sent to me from my SO.” The photo used in the Whomst Has Awakened The Ancient One meme comes from a post on June 29th, 2018, by Redditor Flexi-boot to the r/cursedimages sub, receiving over 7,300 upvotes.
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