>>149364614
We were living in a soulless age of decadence, and as a result the rising counter culture (which became the popular culture) was really angry and had an instinctual mistrust and aversion towards anything suspiciously happy or positive. Barney became a poster child representing all retarded corporate saccharine slop that was rotting children’s minds. Now that everyone is poor and depressed all the time, it’s harder to make kids understand the rebellious mindset that would look at a smiling purple dinosaur plushie and be revulsed.

But the best way to sum it up is that kids and teens thought Barney was cringe. That opinion snowballed until it was pretty much commonly accepted, even among the intended target demographic. So even toddlers hated Barney, because their older siblings and even other kids’ shows like Animaniacs taught them to hate Barney.


I remember being a kid and terrified that other kids were gonna call me a baby for watching baby shows. So I avoided Barney like the plague and watched older kid shows, but eventually started hiding that I even watched any kind of puppetry or animation at all. Whenever my parents walked in the room, I switched the channel from Nickelodeon to some documentary channel like Discovery.

In hindsight, this in itself was an immature attitude.

>>280485530
i dont post this very often but this is just a perfect opportunity. There's no way you're even over 20 yet

>>279672571
Ah, a tryhard juvenile that only watch mature things to impress the others I see.
I understand, we all used to have such phase too, you'll get over it sooner or later.