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New Barney Docuseries Exposes Dark Side of Kids Show: Death Threats, Drug Rumors and Intense Hatred
I Love You, You Hate Me is set to premiere Oct. 12 on Peacock
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"I Love You, You Hate Me" - Trailer for Peacock's Barney Documentary
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Huh. I never hated Barney. Wasn't eager to watch it, but no outright hate.
Mocking sure. Lots and lots and lots of mocking.
Mocking sure. Lots and lots and lots of mocking.
as a kid i was scared to tell other kids i loved barney because they were edgy 6 year olds, but i think this documentary is more about the adults. which is more weird
Barney was the only show I really watched as an (extremely) small child - like, small enough that I don't actually remember anything about it, just that my parents say I watched it all the time. But I do specifically remember hating Barney to be the first steps of rebellion among elementary school kids. A sort of specific, targeted dislike that I have to assume is inherited from adults - like, you didn't see that level of vitriol toward Sesame Street or other "baby stuff."
So yeah, would be interested in seeing that from a boots-on-the-ground perspective.
So yeah, would be interested in seeing that from a boots-on-the-ground perspective.
I remember as a child feeling that once I was too old for Barney I had to not only stop watching Barney but also actively hate it and mock it, but I always figured that was just because I was like six years old and trying to be cool. I didn't realize there were adults at the time also hating a show for pre-schoolers and sending death threats to the guy playing Barney. What the fuck?
I used to love Barney as a kid until I got a talking Barney doll as a gift. It was supposed to only talk when you pressed it's hand, but it kept turning itself on and scaring me at night, so I put it in my parents closet and then it scared them. They even removed the batteries and it would still activate, and eventually we had to return it, where it also freaked the customer service desk out as everyone tried to figure out what was causing it to turn on.
I was pretty young and it was enough to scare me from watching the show ever again and I quickly stopped caring about Barney.
I was pretty young and it was enough to scare me from watching the show ever again and I quickly stopped caring about Barney.
Y'all never heard the hate emanating from the playground?
I wonder if that's what adult's who were annoyed by media did back then instead of complain on internet forums. Without an easy passive outlet, they'd be driven so mad that it compelled them to write threatening hatemail? Still seems fuckin weird. Barney is so dead-simple in terms of design, message, melodies, it probably activated something primal in those who were prone to violence. Now I'm just rambling.
I wonder if that's what adult's who were annoyed by media did back then instead of complain on internet forums. Without an easy passive outlet, they'd be driven so mad that it compelled them to write threatening hatemail? Still seems fuckin weird. Barney is so dead-simple in terms of design, message, melodies, it probably activated something primal in those who were prone to violence. Now I'm just rambling.
Hating Barney was definitely extremely popular. For example:
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At the time, I saw a bunch of it. I don't know if I every watched much Barney - I certainly retained very little of it if I did - but it struck me as rooted in the humour of the time, like a misanthropic purposeless iconoclasm. I guess I didn't see how far that hatred went though.
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At the time, I saw a bunch of it. I don't know if I every watched much Barney - I certainly retained very little of it if I did - but it struck me as rooted in the humour of the time, like a misanthropic purposeless iconoclasm. I guess I didn't see how far that hatred went though.
I thought the voice was annoying and I remembered the jokes back then, but the threats are beyond ridiculous.
i remember a shareware cd my father bought me which had like 100 games and one of them was an asteroids clone except they were barney dinosaurs that broke apart to various gibs as you blast them. I think the game was called Barney Blaster.
Same. I was like "oh, I'm too old for this," but death threats? Actual hate? Wild.
I remember elementary kids "hating" Barney, cause liking him meant you were a baby.
Hating him meant you were a cool 7 year old, and totally not a baby.
And many were irritated by having to listen to him with younger siblings watching all the time.
I never thought it was actual hatred though.
Hating him meant you were a cool 7 year old, and totally not a baby.
And many were irritated by having to listen to him with younger siblings watching all the time.
I never thought it was actual hatred though.
Did it say things like "Hail Satan!" and "I'll swallow your soul!"?
I came in at that time where Barney started right as i dropped Sesame Street. I remember the hate, but i never understood why, especially since i never watched the show. He was just an easy punching bag. There was even an episode of Animaniacs featuring Baloney where he was overbearing and obnoxious. Then came Teletubbies and Tinky Winky.
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It was universally considered to the the most annoying and irritating show on TV. Like we used that to gauge how much we hated things. "I hate this as much as I hate Barney". Like consider how people recently hated Baby Shark and multiply that by 2.
But fuck, I didn't know they received terroristic threats.
But fuck, I didn't know they received terroristic threats.
Wow… memory really is context sensitive
Where the fuck was this lurking
Thankfully no, it just sang the alphabet song or the "I love you, you love me" song. I think it also asked for hugs?
...why would anyone give a shit about something this stupid, and why would someone use this in a documentary as an example for the show being hated?
I don't remember ANYONE liking Barney when I was little. We all bonded over hating it in grade school.
The point is the kind of insane rumors people would spin up about a children's show for no good god damn reason
This brings me back to playing Barney Doom mods and drawing him getting decapitated in my notebook and my classmates thinking it ruled.
I liked Barney. But his Thanksgiving parade balloon getting popped one year scared me for life. Lol
I remember me and my dad hated some specific kid in the show. It was our inside joke when he watched it with me.
Did not realized people hated Barney at all. Loved Barney as a kid and even had a cousin have Barney call me once for my birthday.
The hate for Barney was definitely real and weird because it all came from adults.
I remember being young enough to recognize what I was hearing but not old enough to know why but there was a pretty common bit on morning zoo shows where they would murder Barney in various ways everyday or the Barney doom mod my cousin downloaded or just the general negative reaction and it being used as a joke or you're "not really a boy" if you liked Barney as a child.
It was all wrapped up in the usual homophobic/toxic masculinity thing. This dinosaur wasn't eating people but it was telling you to be nice, kind and to love the people around you so naturally if you're into it you must be gay.
It permeated everything surrounding the show.
I remember being young enough to recognize what I was hearing but not old enough to know why but there was a pretty common bit on morning zoo shows where they would murder Barney in various ways everyday or the Barney doom mod my cousin downloaded or just the general negative reaction and it being used as a joke or you're "not really a boy" if you liked Barney as a child.
It was all wrapped up in the usual homophobic/toxic masculinity thing. This dinosaur wasn't eating people but it was telling you to be nice, kind and to love the people around you so naturally if you're into it you must be gay.
It permeated everything surrounding the show.