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Follow Tech Insider: On Facebook Following is a transcript of the video: Being Barney was never an accident. I was supposed to do this character. Hi I'm David Joyner. I played Barney from 1991 ...

and “Emotional damage.” TikTokers who watched the Barney video lamented the day like Germans mourning the destruction of the Hindenburg. “The beginning of millennial trauma that continues to ...

This was in the earliest stages of “Barney”, when the videos were relatively unknown, somewhat amateurishly filmed and therefore shunted to bottom shelves in video stores. They were the ...

Barney’s story starts in late 1987 in Allen, Texas. At the time, a former teacher named Sheryl Leach had a two-year old son, Patrick. She struggled to find videos that held his attention.

NBCU Photo Bank/Getty “Anybody else think about the time we watched barney d*e [sic] on national tv?” text above the clip reads. The video is captioned simply, “Emotional damage.” ...

The healer still maintains a connection to Barney, however, evidenced by the fact that he wore a jacket emblazoned with the ...

Meet "Generation Barney," a podcast about the media we loved as kids and how it shapes us. It's about the purple dinosaur. But it's also about music and love and backlash and toys and nostalgia.

Kids like Leora were Barney's target audience. To make sure he was really onto something, Larry showed the video to some of Leora's friends, kind of like a makeshift focus group for preschoolers. They ...