SavageBoy69

SavageBoy69 (born 2002) is a Speakonia Community user that joined on June 3, 2016 and apart from one retirement, remained consistently active until 2020. Initially known for his videos about The Who during the first Renaissance, he later along with Skewt took defacto leadership of the community by the Second Renaissance in 2019. While knowing about the Barney Bunch and Speakonia Community for several years but never thinking of actually participating in it, Savage joined during the aforementioned first Renaissance, and became a key player in it.

History
SavageBoy got his first taste of the community when he watched Tomservo3's Drew Pickles Talks 'Bout Closing Logos video in early 2011 and was obsessed with it, after gaining an interest in logos a few years prior. He stated in his I'm Taking A Break video that he initially didn't get the homosexual part of the video, but nonetheless, he found it funny. Savage also watched the Looney Tunes Intro Bloopers videos, which inspired him to download Speakonia by late 2011, although he really just horsed around with the idea of being able to make a voice say what you wanted it to rather than actually make videos with it, plus, given how he was nine years old at the time, not making videos then was probably for the best. He would use Speakonia intermittently throughout the next couple of years for unrelated purposes, later forgetting about it.

It wasn't until 2016 and rediscovering the video and watching more Drew Pickles videos that Savage decided to begin his channel on June 3rd of that year just right off of a rough patch in his life and unintentionally became part of a wave of new members of the Speakonia Community who all emerged during early-mid 2016. From June to December 2016 and to this very day on Discord, he was known in the community as SavageBoy69Alt.

Savage got fully into music in early 2015, so he began including the Who in his videos, which caused Blood to initially think Savage hated the band. The Who turned out to be a minor hit with the community with users such as Life or Death and Tomservo3 making videos on them. However, Savage got too carried away, and started including a lot of other bands, which culminated in a piece of advice from Blood on adding new characters.

As the 2016 Renaissance began to burn out, Savage began to take hiatuses that became more progressively common. The downward spiral the community seemed to have taken culminated in Savage infamously suggesting BB videos be monetized, which is generally agreed to have been an extremely stupid idea (especially how just a few months later the Adpocalypse began) and essentially saw him narrowly avoid falling from grace. His comment suggesting monetization read:

''"I'm not trying to be an asshole here, in fact this isn't targeted at no-one here, but I have to come clean about my silence lately. The BB is going down real fucking bad. And it's made some of us motivation. It's going down faster than the Hindenburg. But we can't let this happen. I recently commented on Life Or Death's week 9 winner video a long essay, similar to the one you gave me on classic rock characters in length, about my laziness and a suggestion I have. This will probably sound dumb but, I think we need to make money from this. Disagree all you want, I'm not forcing anybody to do this...I recently came across a Secret Missing Episode of Caillou or whatever you spell his name or something, that had 500,000 views. That's the same view count as an average big YouTuber almost. Using TubeBuddy it is estimated that if that user had monetization, he would have earned $833 from that video. If you earned that much money, that would be your starting point for saving up the $5000 you owe to that employer. In fact, another secret missing episode I was looking at could have earned $586. If we get the Barney Bunch back on track, and begin to get more people to fully understand the premise of the BB, then we'll get a bigger community, which means more views, and with monetization, money. It could solve your problem."''

By December, after suggestions by Blood and Mister Incognito, Savage had spun off his BB content into a new channel called SAVAGE GAYSHIT, with his main channel now concentrating on what he said were 'dank memes' (keep in mind this was late 2016 when the dank meme movement is considered to have been at its peak), but is mainly just whatever he felt like uploading at various points in time to varied reception. His main channel enjoyed success with a Steamed Hams edit in which it's the piano dub but in orchestral form which gained tens of thousands of views. He also sort of participated in the Wiki Saga in 2017 and was a member of the NewSchoolSwellness Google+ page (of which he kept a downloaded archive of when Google+ shut down). He was that page's subsequent Discord server's most vocal opponent.

n March 2018, after not having made much Barney Bunch content, Savage decided to retire, not too long after Skewt announced his (in fact, Savage was directly motivated to get on with it on the basis of Skewt's announcement). In his retirement video, he stated: "No hiatus, no little break. Complete, outright, flat out retirement, never to make a video again.". 2018 turned out to be a bad year for Savage, with personal issues that obviously won't be delved into. In early 2019, a much better year, he and Skewt began sharing Blood's videos once again, and both got the urge to return to video making, this time on VidLii. A little while before that, Savage made a surprise return on YouTube with a Blood-style video on Slipknot, but this didn't pick up steam. He also repurposed an old VidLii account he had created days after it's launch on June 12, 2017 for BB purposes. On May 21, 2019, he renamed his channel to SavageBarney, in tribute to usernames used by those in the original Newgrounds incarnation of the community. In June 2019, Savage announced he would move to VidLii, declaring he felt the Barney Bunch was becoming incompatible with YouTube.

He announced on VidLii on June 26, 2019 that he would take a break for unrelated issues but returned a day later when said issues seemed to be solved (they were). July 2019 turned out to be his most productive month yet out of his entire career, with about 60+ new videos uploaded throughout the entire month. In late July 2019, after uploading actual Arthur Read and Buster Baxter hentai, Savage received two strikes on his account, yet he could still upload for some reason. Citing increasing disillusionment with VidLii, evidenced by growing drama and hostility between various users, he announced he would leave there on August 17, 2019, but will still upload to YouTube. He shut down his account entirely ten days later. However, on December 16, 2019, Savage returned to VidLii. As of March 2020, he juggles uploading between VidLii and YouTube.

On November 10, 2020, Savage left a message on both the Miraheze Speakonia Community Wiki and the Discord server announcing a second retirement after losing interest in the Barney Bunch. His statement read as follows:

"As of November 10, 2020, and going forward, this wiki is no longer being actively maintained. In fact, I do not plan on doing anything with this place, except making a small change every 45 days so Miraheze doesn't delete it. I will mostly only carry out requests to remove info users do not want on their page. I hate to say it, but I've completely lost interest in doing this. It wasn't really anything that caused my disinterest, but rather it came on naturally. The community is pretty much gone, with the few outliers just kinda staying silent on the matter for the most part. I've contemplated multiple times on whether to try and make an attempt to come back, but the community...let's just be honest. There's fucking like two people that give a fuck about it left, and that doesn't include me. I can't even interject BB slang into this because I've lost interest THAT much.

''I announced a 15th anniversary collab, but it was obvious it wasn't gonna go anywhere. I have received two entries so far but that is it...I'm starting to question whether I want to keep the collab going...but it's amounting to whether I really have the patience to make a decision. I would like to thank you guys that did make an effort though. It's just a shame it was at a time where the active community is extremely, and I mean literally pint-sized, small. Please don't think your work was in vain though. Several users I've known for years have really just had better things to do and quit being active. But I just wanna make public that I'm finished with the community. For good. Not finished with the people in the community, just the whole Barney Bunch thing. I'm turning eighteen years old pretty soon, and it's as if my brain is telling me that it's just time to stop making videos about childhood cartoon characters being stinky HOMO toilet slaves and pursue other interests.''

''Being perfectly honest, I have no major life problems right now. This isn't one of those updates where I'd whine and bitch about my (Far lesser than other users') problems like I've done in the past, if you can even remember. I am not in a depression, or going through a tough time, which is conveniently ruining my interest in making BB content. You know those fucking videos YouTubers make when they're in a controversy and they claim they're having depression or hiding behind life problems as an excuse of their shitty behavior? In fact my life is uneventful and boring, but okay. Nothing really great and nothing really horrible has happened. If you're interested, the past month or two of my life has been mostly either helping build structures in the backyard, watching stuff like Malcolm in the Middle, Beverly Hills 90210 (the old one fuck the new one) and the 80s Degrassi (Spike is a fucking legend based off her hair alone) and learning how to be musically talented. And maybe once or twice throughout all this, I've thought about the BB. It's as if it's escaped my brain the same way an inmate would escape prison with no supervision. I come back and it's gone.''

''Another thing I would like to mention is my videos. I have some favorites, but I was just going through the stuff that I made and I don't even find it that funny anymore. In fact I think the videos fucking suck, drawing from my own conclusion. It may be just a phase of regret before feeling nostalgic five-ten years later, but this is now and I think those videos are ass. My favorite one is still the PXL2000 COCK FUCK one though. I feel like I could have made that into a written story. It is one of my "highlights" I guess.''

''And last year, I couldn't handle drama for shit. I never told anyone this, but when we "invaded" VidLii and trolled it's Discord server, my DMs with one of the mods was quite colorful, and not in my favour. I wrote a fucking Google Doc disproving all of his insults and sent it to him for gods sake. Like I was utterly owning and destroying the guy. I am actually quite in the wrong when it comes to handling that sort of situation.''

''I had a moment where I hated the other servers I was putting myself in and wanted to go back to earlier this year, but that turned out to just be a vapid bit of nostalgia that quickly went away. And honestly, I'm sick to death of contemplating my status in this community. I'm either retired, unretired, leaving, coming back...so I might as well just go ahead and say that for good, I am out. I'm getting too old for this. And you may say you're never too old for the Barney Bunch...just look at Blood, Tomservo, pretty much most of the "current" community were in their mid to late 20s. But while I may still be a fan of retarded humor, I don't have an interest in making that particular brand of retarded humor anymore. (EDIT 5/02/21: It's more as if the type of retarded humor I'm interested in has changed)''

''I guarantee you 100% that the next time I resurface, it will not be in the BB. It will be on Bandcamp or somewhere else. But right now, I'd like to thank absolutely everyone I've worked with in this community. You've all been fucking great to work with. I appreciate you guys supporting my shit over the years. It means a lot. But I'm losing interest. I just can't do this anymore, as Blood said once. If you first read this here, then you'd already know by the time I put this on Discord. Pirates of your ass, please refer to later."''

Following this message, active updates to the Speakonia Community Wiki stopped. It would eventually shut down completely by August.

Personal life
SavageBoy included an admission that he was bisexual in his 2020 retirement announcement, but removed and restored it back and forth multiple times until ultimately removing it for good. He toyed around with identifying as bisexual since early 2019, but as of 2021 is unsure of his orientation outside of liking girls, and currently identifies as heteroflexible.