Barneyfag (Lee Goldson)

A picture of Lee.

Summery

An example of Lee spamming.

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 February of 2012, Lee has been on a crusade to rid the site of all MLP related content outside of /mlp/ 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. In the past decade, Lee has become one of the most famous anonymous posters in 4chan history.

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 is his formerly favorite band Pink Floyd which he can no longer tolerate.

4chan Posting Career

When spamming a thread that contains MLP related content, Lee is best known for using the famous image titled "bronies, this is your mindset".

Lee's most iconic Image.

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, despite having been hashbanned from multiple boards on several occasions, this image is the number 1 most reposted image ever on /v/, /co/ and /qa/.

On August 3rd 2015, Lee created a kiwifarms account with the username x86x2 and began answering questions about himself.

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. The dox included Lee's picture, name, and various online accounts. Lee indirectly confirmed the validity of the dox by responding with "DOXING! MODS!".

Lee has been acknowledged by the moderators on two different occasions. The first was when he was publicly double banned on /qa/ on April 1st 2017. The second was when the mods made a pony sticky on /b/ on October 11th which included the public ban message "(bronies this is your mindset)".

Lee Baiting

Leebait is a type of image, gif or video created to bait Lee into spamming a thread without blatantly posting MLP content as to not get banned for violating Global Rule 15. 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.

Lee will often respond to this type of leebait by saying "they appear in the pupils".

On July 16th 2020 Lee accidently posted an overwatch feet picture on /qa/ (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.

Leebaiting is most commonly done to troll, but at the height of Lee's career he was so persistent in spamming and evading bans that leebaiting became a powerful tool for ruining threads you don't like. Simply post an innocent looking image that was secretly cropped from brony fanart, and within the hour Lee will descend down from the heavens with a trillion proxy IPs at his side to stomp that thread into the ground. It's possibly for this reason that leebaiting can result in a 3-30 day ban for "barneyfag bullshit".

In October of 2020 someone paid for a self serving ad which included leebait.

In what some consider to be the greatest act of leebaiting ever, on December 7th 2020 a guy on /qa/ paid Bob West, Barney's actual voice actor, to record a video mocking Lee for his constant spamming and love of cheese.

A couple of leebaiters have been nicknamed by Lee. These include "British Scum" and "Ban Evading Argentenian".

Present Day

It is unknown whether or not Lee himself is still posting on 4chan. Some speculate that Lee's appearances after the dox (which are fewer than they used to be) 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 pretending to be Lee will probably get you permabanned.