Barney pic suddenly popular
p2pnet.net news:- Every now and then I check my StatCounter to get a rough idea of what’s going where and for the past few weeks, I’ve been noticing one item, an image posted a couple of years ago, is being constantly and consistently grabbed, mostly, but not entirely, by Google.
It’s the Barney pic on the right, and it’s a spoof on Japan’s Mori Chack Gloomy bears.
Barney has to be one of the most obnoxious kids’ show ever made. Ask any mum or dad.
“I’ll sue you, you sue me, Oh what fun the suits will be,” says the p2pnet post in which the pic appears. It dates back to 2005, and goes on,
“That’s the latest refrain from Barney, the big, purple dinosaur adored by kids and loathed by their parents.
” ‘Barney’s lawyers at the New York firm of Gibney, Anthony and Flaherty sent stiff warning letters last week to Web sites displaying less-than-flattering images of the plump saurian,’ says CNET News.
” ‘Your Web site depicts a plush Barney toy in a violent manner or position,’ Matthew Carlin wrote Tuesday on behalf of Lyons Partnership, which owns the Barney trademark. ‘We are writing to request that you remove this violent content toward Barney on your Web site’.”
Our post points to another which kicks off:
“I was in Japan over the summer, spending time with a friend of mine,” said a p2pnet Reader’s Write in a post on Japanese suicide pacts. “I was shocked to see that a lot of Japanese school girls carry around ‘Gloomy Bear’!” – the comment post continued. “Its a little ‘Japanified’ bear that has really long claws and kills people, and children seem to love him for it. Japanese girls consider this VERY cute… and when I asked them why, they had no answer… just repeated ‘very cute’.”
The kiddie kill bear is still around and this current animated Mori Chack/Pony Canyon pic shows Gloomy destroying a kid. Says the caption:
“GLOOMY” is Pity’s pet bear. His height is about 7 ft.
He is well trained…except he has a hard time remembering not to attack humans.
What’s going on?
Cheers!
Jon
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April 6th, 2007 at 9:32 am
Kids will be kids! even if it’s slightly twisted and they’re being preyed upon by corporations who’s only concern is grooming them to be the next wave of consumers
April 7th, 2007 at 8:49 pm
What I don’t understand is why parents get their kids to watch this smut if they themselves hate it so much. The target audience (3 to 7) isn’t smart enough t find sources of entertainment that aren’t introduced by the parents themselves (although that may have changed in this new Internet age), so it is the parents who ultimately tune the sets to this stuff for their children to watch, as their peers are not yet smart enough to recommend where to find it (with regards to channel and time, anyway).
Bottom line: if you don’t want your kids watching Barney, don’t introduce ti to them. By the time they find out about it through other means, they will have outgrown the target audience and will have ultimately devised a hatred of it that is similar to that of the parents themselves.
April 8th, 2007 at 3:22 pm
You’re right. Parents shouldndt let their kids watch tv at all becayse its loaded with advertising garbage
July 15th, 2007 at 1:58 pm
bye
July 19th, 2007 at 5:42 pm
b
July 25th, 2007 at 5:38 pm
barney es gay…
July 26th, 2007 at 8:55 am
barney
November 3rd, 2007 at 10:06 pm
barney
November 3rd, 2007 at 10:12 pm
chistoso
March 20th, 2008 at 6:45 am
gosh this website sucks
May 24th, 2008 at 6:02 pm
Barney sucks
June 23rd, 2008 at 4:12 pm
barney is weird
June 23rd, 2008 at 4:14 pm
barney isn’t that bad is he
June 23rd, 2008 at 4:15 pm
parents tell me that barney is adjucational
June 23rd, 2008 at 4:16 pm
but if you ask me he’s scary
July 1st, 2008 at 6:44 am
did you know barney took drugs. no serusly
August 8th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
thats so scary omg how evil
November 14th, 2008 at 11:51 am
Your Gloomy Bear Is AMAZING and i love it…. I want a sweat shirt of the gloomy bear but yeah i fucking love it…..GLOOMYBEAR