@@blackberrycheese3695 I thought these were bots or it could be these emotionally displaced teens or adults that have low social/ emotional exposure who feel the need to make a comment so people see that they dont care about their topic meanwhile ironically showing more than enough concern to create a comment to show their displacement. Fascinating!
Hearing Barney sing “I love you” was probably the only time some kids heard that phrase. That’s the bitter truth. Barney was more wholesome than the weirdos who hated him. I guarantee it wasn’t little kids.
"Hearing Barney sing 'I love you' was probably the only time some kids heard that phrase." Bruh why did I bust out laughing when I read that? Welp, I'll see you all in hell.
The ones who took it too far were definitely not little kids. However, there were little kids (me included) who disliked him, some kids do find him obnoxious and overexcited but we never went overboard, other than a silly song nothing really came of it.
I’ve met Bob West in person at a convention, He was very kind and wasn’t negative in any way. I can’t believe people would send a person like him death threats.
I have adored Barney ever since I was a little girl. The fact that the actor got death threats is extremely upsetting and heartbreaking. He didn’t deserve this…
I grew up with Bareny as a child in the 90s and I enjoyed him. Honestly, what is wrong with people? Seriously?! Why do people feel the need to tear someone or something down for no good reason?! It's not only sickening but pointless.
From what I remember when I was younger, it started out because it became fun to hate Barney, similar to how it was fun in the 2000s to hate Justin Bieber, but it turned into something much more extreme among certain groups of people. I mean when I was younger I remember among the older kids it was fun for them to hate on Barney, but they never did anything extreme like these people did
@@theincrediblehulk5797 Honestly, I'm all for dark humor but this? This is wayy too far. Those kind of people really should deserve to be institutionalized.
HOW CAN ANYONE WANT TO HURT ANOTHER PERSON. Even if your not a fan of the show YOU DO NOT send death threats to anybody. The show is a wonderful example for kids to be kind to themselves and others. I can’t believe people like this exist. I pray that the creator, anyone else working on the show, and the voice actor will forever be safe and live there lives happily.
There's something with the star wars fans aswell I ve seen some people hating the sequel Which is fine their opinion but senting messages like "the actor who played Rey should kill themselves" Which i ve seen around RU-vid recently
I remember singing songs like “let’s get together and kill Barney” when I was younger but the fact that people do this to a REAL person is absolutely disgusting. No body should ever receive death threats
Yess I love watching Barney growing up, and I never understood why other people started singing that disturbing remix. 😭😭😭 the ending of that song would be, “no more stupid dinosaur.” 😭😭😭 Yes, I’m still mad about about that song.
I slap you. You punch me, We're a dysfunctional family, With a broken down car, And a beat up shack. Won't you get the bill collectors Off of our back?
I remember all of this crazy hate happening and it was so disturbing that people would go to such hateful extremes...over a childhood character. My son's loved Barney when they were little. When we ended up in a domestic violence shelter with literally nothing but the clothes we were wearing, my youngest was devastated that he couldn't bring his Barney doll. He took that doll with him everywhere. A volunteer at the shelter gave him a new Barney doll and the Barney's Great Adventure movie. Barney was more than a fictitious character on a kids show to us. Barney was a comfort for a 1 and 5 year old that just had their lives turned upside down.
I’m 14, and Brazilian. I was born in the Brazil’s more ‘richer’ states, so I Didn’t have a childhood full of suffering, like everyone else from the poorer states of the country. I had access to TV my entire life, and I watched many kids shows. From the variety of shows, I saw Barney the most. Or I think I did because I remember most of him. I watched him for a very long time, and never seen anyone EVER hate on him. In fact I only saw hate around 2017ish when I was already in the us, where I’ve lived half of my life. When I discovered all this “hate”, i was shocked. Confused, also, Why would people like this be hating on a kids show? What has the shows staff done to make everyone hate them so much?
i agree with you. sadly with the current generation of kids basically being smart asses and punks(not all but those that i ran into online and had studied.) even worse is stuff like porno(yes its related cause barney is cringe to the current gen of people and kids) i like barney and i respect it.
I loved Barney as a kid, and I still love him. I don’t understand how he could receive so much hate just for singing songs to children about love and teaching them.
I was actually born in the early 2000s, but Barney was still on TV when I was little - I absolutely loved it and had no idea that any hate was going on during the time of it's showing, it's sad that people do such crazy things like this to something so innocent and kind-hearted....I miss Barney and to this day I still cry to the "I love you, you love me" song...We miss you Barney🤍🤍🤍
Barney was always there for me growing up. At age 3, I suffered with massive tooth pain that my dentist had to remove practically half of my upper teeth. What got me through that day was a new Barney VHS tape my mom bought to cheer me up. I can’t believe at the same time, the Barney actor himself was dealing with idiotic people wanting to end his life. And for WHAT?!?!?? Literally doing his damn job while influencing young minds to have better decorum?!!???!?!!? “Barney’s singing a song about reminding kids to say please and thank you?? Oh hell nah that mofo gotta go!” LIKE- 🥴
@@jenivettebigham7060 barney was a guilty pleasure, i recall at school in first grade kids wanted to say they watched beavis n butthead or mtv and that they hated barney, but when i was home i watched as didnt have cable alotta times. if you dont remeber that you dont remember barney
What's really rediculous is that, there is literally NO REASON for people to behave this way toward him. He wasn't teaching kids about hate, he was teaching kids about what love and inclusion looks like. wouldn't you want kids to know what those things look like?
thats true, and honestly yes. sadly with kids being on computers and such(alot of kids have smart devices). they would already know what it is simply by searching it. even more so is the fact barney is cringe to the current generation of kids and people
I was beaten at home, beaten and bullied at school, surrounded by alcoholics and drug addicts, gang wars, AIDS, the streets were dangerous, school was dangerous, home was dangerous, even getting a hug was dangerous, television and movies were glorifying the situation, and gratuitous violence was in vogue. Most everyone I knew was in a similar situation or worse, and at least one kid I knew was being raised by an actual paedophile and we were afraid of even going near his house. You have to understand what this happy dappy carefree Barney world of hugs and love and affection looked like to us. Imagine the North Korean government running a program on All-You-Can-Eat buffets on national TV and you can kind of get the sense of it. I remember distinctly the feeling that it was *mocking* us all. Of course I'm not saying it was right to hate or harass or threaten the actors, and I never liked those kill Barney songs, but you do really need to understand the Zeitgeist of the nineties to understand where much of the hate and casual talk of violence at the time was coming from. People look at it now with rose-tinted glasses, but it was also miserably violent for children.
@@crwnviic We had all been toddlers. Think about it. The Kill Barney thing was actually just adolescents playing out what they felt had been done to them and their own innocence.
@@mikicerise6250 🤦🏽♀️ Um just because u had terrible parents & a terrible city& school doesn't mean the majority of kids weren't loved. You're just looking with your twisted perspective. If it was that bad u should have been taken away from CPS. I had 2 married parents ,warm dinner every night, tucked in & books read to me ect. U were probably growing up in a city? Idk I was in Arkansas & always thought Barney was very sweet,kind , loving show. 🚩Your logic is basically I was miserable with drug addict parents so seeing something loving& kids being kind to one another & a show that's episodes taught little lessons on how to be kind upset me & I was bitter.
some people have so little going on in their life that they care about what’s going on from the past still. ps if u don’t see that purple pedophile as creepy then u would’ve been one of the kids he stuck his nvm
You can hate a fictional character all you want, but don't be sending death threats to an actor who worked so hard playing his role for an innocent kids show!
All the actor did was voice a stupid character. Doesn’t mean there’s anything wrong with him as a person, just means he voiced a character that happened to be stupid. Nothing less, nothing more.
@@DeadAccount33 Too many weird and crazy people nowadays having this obssesion with hunting down the purple dinosaure that doesn't exsist. The voice actor was just doing his job HIS JOB and he dosent deserve the hate and death treats he is getting becasue he voiced the character. Some people just lump the purple dinosaur and the voice actor as being one in the same ( when they shouldn't ) people who do like doen't know how to seperate fiction from reality, imagine watching a show where the actor plays the role as a villain that is hated in the show ( becasue the villain did some horrendous crimes on the show) does that mean people should start hating on the actor who plays the role in the show then. If they don't like the purple dinosaur then fine ( some people just hate positive stuff because it's to cringe for them to handle ), there is no need to reach to the point where they start hunting down the voice actor who was DOING HIS JOB TO MAKE A LIVING who played the role in real life.
Can't believe people would go that far as sending death threats and more. People must have such a significant mental issue because they don't have the same type of love back when they hear the song so all they can think about is blame the person singing it to make themself feel better. Barney is not stupid, the song is not stupid, the show is not stupid. What is stupid is those mean people.
I remember being a kid and so many people had an intense hate for Barney. I always thought it was odd how passionate people were to hate something so innocent.
I kinda hate barney too coz the lovey dovey attitude is not my thing, but I would never go to far to send him hate or death theats. I just straight up ignore him and the show, no need to go through the hassle of sending hate
Am 34 years old and he was a big part of my childhood when I was little. Glad to be from a generation that wasn't as immature as today's generational society. 90s we're the simple and peaceful life, unlike today we're we constantly live in dark and immature times.
@@thinline8504 I’m a ‘99 baby and ahhhmm… it’s what I watched for 8 years straight. (: and still very much love it. You can’t gatekeep Barney from 90’s kids hon.
As a 90s kid I vividly remember practically everyone above the age of 5 hated Barney. No one I knew thought anything of it. What does disturb me is people actually sending death threats to the actor who played him... I always feel bad for the guy who played Barney but now for a different reason.
This breaks my heart 😞 Barney was a huge chunk of my childhood. My dad still remembers all the songs because we played the cassette tapes over & over again. It’s sad to see so much hate in the world for something so innocent. 😩
Imagine having such a pathetic life that you waste time sending death threats to a beloved kids character. You have to be a messed up person that NO ONE ever wants to spend time with. I love Barney and I watched it growing up, it brings pleasant childhood memories. We need more of Barney's positivity and compassion in this world.
It’s important to remember that anyone who is so much of a loser that they threaten a fictional character is unlikely to have the drive to do anything.
I met Bob West at Comic Con a few years ago. He is such a sweet guy who cares about people who grew-up watching Barney. So why would anyone send him death threats?!?!?!
He seems really nice, I hate Barney, but come on… he’s a fictional character no one should care too much about… The guy seems nice, so who cares if he voiced him!
Barney was the dinoSAUR for the ages. I don’t understand how people find hate on such a positive image. Mr. Rogers and Barney were the moral compass for kids and some adults.
imagine being an adult… being THAT miserable and showing that much hate towards a show that technically isn’t even meant for you…. ridiculous. Barney stands for nothing except love. people wanted him to stand for nothing but negativity and it’s sad.
I was born in 1997 I grew up watching Teletubbies, dragon tales, magic school bus, reading rainbow, PBS channel, kids wb, and Barney the nostalgia and happy memories. These shows taught me about how to be compassionate and loving towards others and the importance of reading and sharing with each other.❤ But growing up in this generation when I got in middle school and then from there on to high school and graduating what we were taught we’re non-existent… I miss that 💯❤️ But you have to be the laziest evilest person in this universe to hate barney
In my defense, I didn’t have the luxury of consistently having cable for most of elementary. As a result, I had no choice BUT to watch PBS kids, 1 Saturday morning (Recess😊), and Fox Kids. I didn’t get consistent cable until around 5th grade.
I will admit. I'm 35 Years Old and still have my Barney doll sitting in my room. It kind of collects dust with all my other childhood toys in my room but it always serves as a reminder to not take life so seriously and that life back in the 90s felt so innocent and pure.
My 15 old only watched Barney as a baby and when he started prekindergarten his teacher told me he was the smartest, most caring, polite little boy she had in her class. He knew all his ABCs, knew how to count, his colors, how to share, say please and thank you. My son had a collection of all the Barney shows. My grandmother that also baby sat him also told me how calm and loving he was and how bell behaved a child he was. That made me so proud hearing great things about my child. We have Barney to thank! We loved Barney in our home!❤❤❤❤❤
I would’ve never in my life seen the day that a couple of low lifes start a group to send death threats to a voice actor that plays a purple dinosaur in a kids show, what has our world come to?
I was born in 1996 and I loved Barney growing up along with other kid TV shows at the time. So I can't imagine hating Barney so much that you would legit throw a death threat at the actor who played him.
I remember somewhere from a video of someone trying to analyze of why people hate Barney was because he just looks creepy from his lifeless eyes and strange teeth and his only personality just being happy all the time while other kids shows having different feelings and sometimes teaches some tough situations like Big Bird learning Mr. Hooper has passed and Daniel Tiger trying to understand what is assassination while Barney doesn’t teach those kind of things and keeps doing the same thing every episode which is why he gets on people’s nerves
it's beyond messed up how there's people out there ACTUALLY sending death threats to the guy who's the voice actor for barney. hopefully the people who did send those death threats to him get held accountable for what they did, because that is NOT okay and they shouldn't have done that. smh
I grew up watching Barney… Barney brings back so much nostalgic memories of my childhood… As an ESL student, Barney and all other programs on PBS, provided me comfort and solace🙂
Back when I was little, I found Barney rather creepy that I barely watched clips of the show yet my mom kept buying us barney merchandise and plushies. Now that I accept who Barney is, but it's just so irrational to hate over some fictional character who is just wants to teach children how to be better people in the future.
I grew up with Bob West as Barney, and I remember the non-stop hatred towards Barney and Friends. In response, I wasn’t too vocal about my love for Barney towards people outside of my family due to the possibility of backlash. Looking back, I don’t hate Barney at all! It had good intentions, & Bob West surely didn’t deserve the death threats he got. I only wish for the best for him and Sheryl Leach.
same too. but with the current generation of people. i doubt it mainly cause the fact barney is actually considered a furry. and people find it very cringe. people said ew to me when i dressed as a muscular hellhound in a video game
I was born in 1990 and 2 when the show begin and I love Barney because the show filled my heart it taught us to always be good and helping friends. It hurts seeing some people hating the show and not understanding and not showing Respect.
As a childhood fan of Barney I was shocked by that news. Cause the character was a nice guy. And that song that sang at the end of the show, I remember it so vividly after hearing it again after all these years.
As a Child with an Autism Spectrum Disorder (born in 1990) in The 90s and whose 1st Special Interest was Dinosaurs, I watched Barney until I was 9 years old; to hear that The Voice Actor who played him received Death Threats is extremely upsetting and heartbreaking!
It's not all THAT bad though. There was this once case where a bed-ridden paralytic patient was accidentally forced to watch "Barney" on television as he laid on his hospital bed. He hated the show so much, it actually motivated his nerves into regaining his mobility, thereby freeing him from his paralysis
I am sorry, I envisioned a man who was paralyzed one day, and then rampaging around the hospital like a lunatic the next……… Plus very confused doctors and nurses chasing after him.
Exactly like what happened with Scrappy-Doo…He had always been my favorite childhood hero and the creators made him rip my heart out by writing him into a character that wanted to kill all of humanity, including his fans…so I became Mickey in real life through Disney…and typed up a story to save him, and sent it to him on Cameo…He made me a video and made my review #1 to show he’s with me on this…I did it…I brought him back to us…
I remember watching this show when I was kid. It was shown in Malaysia too. I just have a hard time wrapping my head around the fact that someone was sending death threats to Barney and his actor..
I was born in 89’ and I was Barney obsessed!! I had all the stuffed animals and VHS tapes. Even recorded episodes from the TV onto tapes. I had all the songs memorized. I can’t imagine or believe the character received that much hate. Even the actor. So ridiculous!
I to was born in 1989 i to was a fan of it i watched all the time to as a kid then later on in mid 90"s i watched a few times cause i had feeling it was going downhill for me cause my strong interest in superhero"s then once i started 1st grade i stopped watching it cause I took a interest in anime franchise from Japan
Barney was always my inspiration back when I was a young child and helped me grow to be a loving and caring person to others until I became a semi-teen. Seeing the footage of Barney dolls being destroyed and tortured is something I take a great offense to, plus the original voice of Barney receiving death threats is really shocking.
Same here, I’m a 90s girl and grew up on the original series. Now seeing this video at age 32, is quite upsetting! I STILL have a huge collection of various Barney collectables including an ORIGINAL plush AND SEVERAL episodes on VHS stored in a sealed cardboard box in my bedroom closet!
@@laurakruk4692 wow, that’s great to hear, a lot of wonderful childhood memories from Barney to have and to hold forever. I’ll be 28 this November and I’m also a ‘90’s boy and when I happen to have children in the future, Barney is what I will certainly pass on to them.
Barney was with me throughout my entire childhood. I knew every song by heart. But for my older cousins, it was torture cuz every time they're in the car with me, they're stuck to hearing me sing "I love you" like a broken record player.
Oh my god- its been literal years since i saw barney the dinosaur and now im watching the voice actor get death threats this is honestly terrible i hope nothing bad happens
As a 90s kid, I was not only aware of Barney, but also the backlash surrounding him. People made fun of Barney for being a big purple doofus that did things like teaching overly simplistic, overly positive messages to kids, acting annoyingly saccharine, and plagiarizing songs (the melody for "I Love You" was taken from the children's song "This Old Man"). He has been parodied on shows like Animaniacs and radio skits and other sorts of media. I understood the appeal for hating on Barney and where that would come from, but man, death threats against the voice actor is just taking things WAAAAAAAAAAAY too far.
Barney also appeared twice on the original MTV run of Beavis and Butthead and "Weird Al" Yankovic's parody of "MacArthur Park" called "Jurassic Park" had a line in there that said "I'm afraid that they will harm me 'cause they sure don't act like Barney." In the music video for that parody, Barney appears during that line while also getting his head bitten off by another member of his species (Tyrannosaurus Rex)
@@marissawolff8491 You forgot to mention that later on in that music video, Barney's head gets hocked up by a T-Rex who was getting the Heimlich maneuver done on him by another dinosaur.
Oh for chrissake societies always have people like that politicians movie stars who hasn’t received death threats especially nowadays suck it up and move on that’s why you should support the second amendment
Those people who send death threats need to keep it to theirselfs, they literally dont have the right to do this. And barney was my favorite childhood and actor. Its disgusting to see random people sending death threats to a kids show actor. If you were one of the people who sent death threats, keep it to yourself okay? Barney is innocent and literally shows kindness, knowledge, and helpfulness. Barney will always be our favorite character and forever will.
To be honest, I never liked Barney the Dinosaur as a kid and I still don't like Barney the Dinosaur as an adult. However, never in a million years such a thought came across my mind about sending threats or even wanting to kill the purple Dinosaur. Like good lord these people have way too much FREE time on their hands! They need to do something with their lives and stop hating on the voice actor and the man sweating bricks under that big ass purple dinosaur custom. No way hell they get paid enough to deal with these hating people smh.
I’ve always loved Barney. Of course, it was never “cool” to like him after a certain age but how can you not adore a purple dinosaur whose life mantra is “love yourself and each other”?!
My mom had gotten me a lot of Barney episode tapes and I would binge watch them a lot when I was a kid. My favorite episode was the Christmas special and I still have great memories watching that episode and all the other episodes. As a guy who just reached his twenties, I find it hard to hate Barney and I never will hate Barney. I couldn’t imagine myself hating or wanting to kill a dinosaur who helped to teach me life lessons to help prepare me for entering teenhood and adulthood💯💯💯
I think the under current of the hatred starts with Baby Bop and BJ. The show centers around Barney with that fake smile and the kids hyped up on ritalin. Then you see this one character (Baby Bop) walking around clinically depressed carrying a blanket. I wanna cry just looking at her glazed over eyes. Then there's BJ with his slit watermelon (I'm talking about his plastered smile). He's nothing more than Barney's clone. The show might have had positive messages for some. But all I saw were actors living in total denial. Sorry, nobody acted that way in real live even back then.
Barney was one of my childhood favorites when I was watching PBS Kids back in the 2000s. Can’t believe some people actually HATED the guy for just being a kid!
This all feels like a fever dream. First the title of the doc "I love you, YOU HATE ME" sounds like a Nine Inch Nails song, then there was a group calling themselves "Jihad against Barney"!? This world is f-ing insane.
I remember when I was a little kid at my babysitter’s house, I had to watch a lot of Barney stuff because my baby cousin loved it so much. I didn’t really mind watching it. I never had any problems with that show. If she wanted to watch Barney, that’s what we all watched. whatever made her happy, that’s what we did.
Im 32 and this show influenced me enough that I still love dinosaurs (got into raising chickens literally because I love dinosaurs) and I like to think Im a more open minded and open hearted person thanks to this show. it be what it be.
I never got the chance to watch barney cause never in my life had i seen it in belgium i also like dinosaurs but not cause of barney but if my young self would have seen it id most likely like it and be kinder its such a shame people send death threats to the actors
Aww Barney we love you 🙌🙏❤️ this was one of the few shows that taught true friendship values, compassion, love in it's purest form, imagination and creativity and so much more. I felt like it shaped my moral values throughout my childhood and prepared me for my future adulthood. Thank you to the creators for such an unforgettable everlasting childhood experience. P.S. I'm not gonna lie, I started jamming out once I heard this classic tune play, reminded me of the time when I met Barney and took pictures with him as a child at a community event. Such sweet precious memories. 🎶💃💕🌻🙏
I loved Barney SO much growing up in the 90s. I had a little stuffed animal of Barney I always carried around with me and eventually gave it to my little cousin when he was about 5 and I was 10. Honestly I regret giving it to him. 😂😬 It is baffling and really pathetic that this man received ACTUAL death threats from people just because he was the voice actor for an incredibly popular and successful children’s show. Everyone recognizes how absurd that is, right?
I don’t see anything wrong with a talking dinosaur that loves to sing with kids. I used to work with 18 month old toddlers at a daycare and I would bring my iPad and I would play the Barney songs for the kids at circle time. The kids were absolutely in love with it and would always ask me to play the barn barn songs, they started going home to watch it because I was always singing it to them. One child came up at the daycare I worked at and started crying because he said to me I want my barn barn songs. Barney really helped kids that also had language issues, one little girl had issues with her language development. One day I am doing circle time and she sang the whole song to I Love You and didn’t miss a lyric. Barney is annoying but he was such big help when it came to teaching kids.
This show saved me from something I shouldn't know when I was a Toddler. When I was 3,I've never learn or what was going on about 9/11 until I was 13(10 yrs after). This show gains a lot of attention to young kids distracting them what they're not supposed to know until they're old enough until the Internet came with RU-vid Kids infamous Elsagate.
The threat against Bob West is just blackhearted. It's fine to just hate the character, but trying to kill someone who played Barney is not an option and never will be acceptable
