Barney is the friendly purple dinosaur at the centre of Barney and Friends, the American children's television series that began in the early 1990s and became a familiar part of childhood for millions of viewers. In Spanish-language versions, he greets children as his little friends, and that warm welcome became one of his most recognisable catchphrases. Short clips of the greeting later circulated on soundboards and social video, where creators reuse it to signal innocence, friendship or nostalgia in a single instant.