do kids these days make up songs about killing the wiggles and doc mcstuffins or did barney the dinosaur just unlock some latent primal rage in my generation
Listen I had a childhood pre-Barney and we didn’t sing about killing our childhood characters then as far as I am aware so I am inclined to suspect that goddamn purple dinosaur just struck some kind of collective nerve.
I grew up in a transitional period. When I was really young, we had Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers, and we had nothing but unconditional love for them.
Then Barney came along, and so great was our rage that we would need to slaughter not only him but also Baby Bop to slake our bloodthirst.
Then as far as I can tell came the Wiggles, Lazytown, and Blue’s Clues, and all of them are still quite beloved.
Maybe there’s still some primitive part of our brain that knows to fear dinosaurs?
Yeah I was born on the tail end of Barney and that was the only one we ever wanted dead
At the very least I’d say it’s a strong indicator of discretionary spending amongst lower to upper middle class men. Probably in line with things like steakhouse profits on work nights.
