Why do many of you guys hate Barney the dinosaur so much?

[Tyrannoraptor]

Why did any of you even depict this innocent, friendly and harmless anthropomorphic dinosaur as some kind of a child-molesting pedophile or a sadistic, brutal/murderous and terrifying giant monster?

[DrNewGod]

Why did any of you even depict this innocent (and harmless) anthropomorphic dinosaur as some kind of a child-molesting pedophile or a sadistic, brutal/murderous and terrifying giant monster?

I don't hate the character, but he came along after I was already an adult, and I found his omnipresent saccharine nature annoying.

[babyblob]

I could care less about Barney. he got on my nerves because my little sister watched him non stop but it made here happy and I could just go into the other room. But he was no where near as bad as that green Dino Baby Bop!

I dont know that many children would even know what a pedophile is let alone think Barney is one. And I never heard my sister or her friends say that Barny was going to eat them. I have no idea how your mind works to come up with these questions at times.

[Nschornhorst]

I didn't dislike Barney himself. I remember hating how cloying and overactingly bad some of the kids were, especially given that they were older than their demographic. I think cloying is the word I'm looking for there. He was like a meme before memes-- a representation of children's tv that annoyed adults, but there's far worse than Barney ever was.

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[Kirby101]

I don't care about Barney. But I would love to see the post that brought this on.

[CaptCleghorn]

I could care less about Barney. he got on my nerves because my little sister watched him non stop but it made here happy and I could just go into the other room. But he was no where near as bad as that green Dino Baby Bop!

I dont know that many children would even know what a pedophile is let alone think Barney is one. And I never heard my sister or her friends say that Barny was going to eat them. I have no idea how your mind works to come up with these questions at times.

This pretty much describes it for most of us Barney haters. Overly annoying with a schtick that adults find no enjoyment in whatsoever. And Baby Bop is a truly horrible personality. Most adults who hate Barney have kids in the barney demographic target range. Like me. Those who don't can easily avoid him and may need to turn down the dislike.

[Riv86672]

I was okay w. Barney.
My kids were of an age to watch his show, but they never had any interest in him.
They did like Bananas In Pajamas, though.

I could actually do a spot on Barney imitation, and for a few years my answering machine message was:

We’re not home
As you see
Leave a message at the beep
With your name & number
We’ll get back to you
We’ve got nothing else to do
(Insert Barney laugh)

It was pretty popular w. my co-workers and even superiors at the Army base I was stationed at at the time.

[CSTowle]

Every generation has its annoying kids shows or movies, just as every generation has its annoying boy band or the equivalent. When I was a kid it was New Kids on the Block, but you've had your Backstreet Boys, Justin Biebers, etc. I don't know what it is nowadays with the music industry being less important/central than it was in my day. K-Pop? That multi-colored hair-dyed gal?

My little brothers and sisters watched Barney, but I had to babysit them so it was that or the Lion King for the 400th time. I learned to ignore both and read (mostly comics). I liked He-Man, and rewatching that I can't argue it's superior. At least Barney wasn't trying to sell quite as many toys. Or at least, not as blatantly.

[Spike-X]

Because we're not three yea...

Why did any of you even depict this innocent, friendly and harmless anthropomorphic dinosaur as some kind of a child-molesting pedophile or a sadistic, brutal/murderous and terrifying giant monster?

...what the ****?!

[TheRay]

I feel like it's more a case of being "cool". It was "cool" to hate him so everyone did.
On the other side, it was wimpy, etc. to even be associated with him.

[Kieran_Frost]

Do people hate Barney? Is he still around? At-least the circle of people I know, it's Pepper Pig I hear them want to skewer with a pitchfork because their kids like her so much. That and... Pup Pawtrol???? Dogs in flying things. It's AWFUL!

[The Gold Stream]

punish bad content

[Rob Allen]

The pig is named Peppa, and the show is so popular that US parents are finding their toddlers speaking with a British accent.

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-r...ritish-accents

[GindyPosts]

Do people hate Barney? Is he still around? At-least the circle of people I know, it's Pepper Pig I hear them want to skewer with a pitchfork because their kids like her so much. That and... Pup Pawtrol???? Dogs in flying things. It's AWFUL!

I refer to Paw Patrol & Puppy Dog Pals as "Junk Food TV"; shows that serve no value whatsoever besides selling merchandise. It's funny how in the 1970s and 1980s, the FCC (this is an American thing; I don't know what the UK had for terrestrial programming back in the day) really hated the rampant commercialization of animated programming on network television, so most shows did spots at the end of episodes discussing safety, environmentalism, or healthy lifestyles as a means to "be good", but cable never had such restrictions, so shows could do whatever.

They have the illusion of teaching lessons, but are very useless and just serve as a vessel to have young children force parents to buy crap.

[Kirby101]

My niece loves PJ Masks.