Born To Die With A Smack On The Ass In Between

Helen Kane sued Fleischer Studios for infringement of her act with the Betty Boop character. She lost that lawsuit because it had been proven that she had stolen her act and signature baby-voiced scatting from this child performer, Baby Esther. Baby Esther however was originally imitating Florence Mills, the most famous Broadway performer of her day, and the likely originator of both the scatting and the dancing eyes, cutesy act: Note the head shape and large eyes...

Baby Esther was called the Mini Florence Mills. So, I think the blueprint for Betty is actually Florence Mills.

Here are clippings about Esther's act and the lawsuit:

THAT is a photo of Florence Mills' funeral in New York. We don't have recordings of her performances, but...You can see that her passing SHUTDOWN New York streets. And those mourners are all colors, packed in for her. She was a GIANT STAR. A lot of old cartoon stars, that started out anthropomorphized, were based on minstrel performances.

Which is the reason why their eyes were often drawn big, and their forms human-animal hybrids. Betty started out as a human-like dog. That for me is further evidence that she was based on a Black Woman as is the styling of her companion admirer....with his lower lip and bowler hat placement.

The way her earliest form is drawn as well as the gestures...

...Again, note that her teeth and the way her figure is drawn and positioned are clues. In fact, one of the Fleischer's most famous ground-breaking cartoons Minnie The Moocher was animated with that same style common to that day, was done with a early form of rotoscoping from Cab Calloway, a technique that was subsequently perfected and still used:

Here's what I need you to do:

If you see a post with a "mature content" label, and it's 2026, DM me a link to the post.

Yes, that's really it.

I am hoping to collect several thousand such posts, so that I have a decent sized dataset. I do not care what the post is about; if it's labeled as "mature content", I want to add it to my dataset.

What's your hypothesis, OP?

I am not talking about that unless I have results to share. That would bias the results.

I did write them down and I did share them with a trusted contact who can prove that I wrote them down the same day I made this post. (While I did so before I made this post, I am not sure they will be able to provide proof of that, because I did so on the same day.)

OP are you interested in...?

Do you have to click through to see the post? Does the clickthrough contain the words "mature content"? Then yes.

OP are you interested if the post is about...?

Should I reblog this for reach?

Yes, please. I felt really silly when I noticed I forgot to include that in the original post.

Is it okay if I send you my own posts?

Yes, those are perfect for what I'm looking for. I actually need to do some processing on a post to make it useful for testing my hypothesis, and this makes it easy.

Are you looking for "potentially mature content" also, or just "mature content"?

I want both, please. Anything that throws up a blocking screen that you have to click through. The distinctions between them are one of the things I am hoping to study.

Does it matter when the post was made originally?

Technically no. There's no way to respond to this without introducing some bias in the results, and I don't want that. However, I do collect some data on a post as part of making it useful to me, and that data is easier to collect if the post is recent.

What if I request content label review on a post after I send it to you?

I need to see the mature content label to be able to use the post. Because the mature content label hides the content of the post, it is very hard to use a post that no longer has a mature content label. You could send me a screenshot, but people could use that to lie to me.

Basically, it's more work for you to make it usable to me.

OP are you a transphobe? It would ruin the experiment for me if you're a transphobe.

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