Editing Barneyfag (Lee Goldson)

[[File:Lee.jpg|thumb|A picture of Lee.]]

==Summery==
'''Lee Goldson''', also known as Barneyfag is a legendary 4chan spammer known for constant ban evasion and his enormous hatred of Barney and My Little Pony. Ever since his first identifiable post on /mlp/ in 2012,[https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/99464/#108046] Lee has been on a crusade to rid the site of MLP related content and those posting it. When finding someone posting MLP, he will often spam the thread with a set of images comparing MLP to barney, wish death on the poster in various ways and call them barneyfags.

==Origin Story==
Lee was born on January 8th 1995 and lives in Ontario, Canada. According to him, when he was in Special Education in high school he saw another student watching Barney and Friends in two hours blocks every day while he was watching other things on a smart board. This greatly damaged Lee and caused him to associate various other things he was watching with Barney. An example of such thing which he gives in his manifesto[https://archive.is/9LiN9] is his formerly favorite band Pink Floyd which he can no longer tolerate.

[[File:Bronies, this is your mindset.png|thumb|Lee's most iconic Image.]]
==4chan Posting Career==
When spamming a thread that contains MLP related content, Lee is best known for using the famous "bronies, this is your mindset.jpg". It's an image of a Treehouse TV airing schedule that shows MLP airing right after Barney and Friends, meant to imply that MLP is on the same level as Barney, which he despises. As of January 2022, this image is the number 1 most reposted image ever on /v/, /co/ and /qa/.

After gaining much notoriety for his spam on boards like /co/ and /v/, Lee was doxed by an anon on /v/ on November 17, 2016.[https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/357906495/#357907315] The dox included Lee's picture, name, and various online accounts. Lee indirectly confirmed the validity of the dox by responding with "DOXING! MODS!".[https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/357906495/#357908849]

On August 3rd 2015, Lee created a kiwifarms account with the username x86x2 and began answering questions about himself.[https://kiwifarms.net/threads/lee-goldson-barneyfag-x86x2-revved.10780/page-3#post-879018]
[[File:Pupils.jpg|thumb|Lee will often respond to this type of leebait by saying "they appear in the pupils".]]
==Lee Baiting==
'''Leebait''' is a type of image, gif or video created to bait Lee into spamming a thread without blatantly posting MLP content. Most commonly leebait is made by hiding MLP imagery in gifs so it only shows after waiting for a bit, putting very small ponies you wouldn't notice right away in regular images, or cropping brony fanart. The average person typically has no way of knowing an anime girl was actually cropped from a piece of art that has a pony in it, but lee often discovers that's the case using reverse image searching bots and than calls the leebaiter out by linking the full image in his posts. One of the most famous forms of leebaiting involves putting the bait in Pepe the Frog's pupils. On July 16th 2020 Lee accidently posted an overwatch feet picture on /qa/[https://desuarchive.org/qa/thread/3309564/#3311854] (a board he frequents alongside /co/ and /v/), leading people to start using the character Don Turtelli from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, known for tickling feet and saying his now iconic line "''It smell like cheese!"'' in leebait.

==Present Day==
It is unknown whether or no Lee himself is still posting on 4chan. Some speculate that Lee's appearances after the dox are actually bots or other posters pretending to be him due to his legendary status, or even that the leebaiters and "Lee" himself are one and the same. It is unlikely, however, that Lee's posts are made by bots since he often gives unique responses. Do note that leebaiting can result in a ban, and pretending to be lee will probably get you permabanned.