Posted on 05/20/2026 8:52:02 PM PDT by Red Badger
Alright, who had Betty Boop for Hollywood's next skin-color swap?
This is reportedly a live-action film, by the way, and Brunson will play Betty Boop as herself.
From Variety:
The film will trace the origin and evolution of Betty Boop through the perspective of her creator, Max Fleischer, examining the relationship between the artist and his creation as he navigates the creative and commercial pressures of building one of the world's first animated icons, particularly as that icon begins to take on a life of its own.
You just know this is gonna be super woke 😂
(I can't wait to learn how Betty Boop was actually a Marxist struggle icon in the fight against white Christofascism!)
I jest, but don't discount the rewriting of history that could happen here. Fleischer is on record telling his artists that he wanted a caricature of flapper-girl Helen Kane, who was known for her "boop-boop-a-doop" routine.
I'll link the Wikipedia source here before the woke editors inevitably change history:
One day [in 1930], Dave Fleischer handed Grim a photograph of singer, Helen Kane and asked him to design a caricature. Fleischer had found a sound-alike, and planned to use her in the upcoming Talkartoon, 'Dizzy Dishes'. Grim exaggerated Kane's wide eyes and rosebud mouth, creating a slightly coarse, but strikingly original design.
An excerpt from film magazine Photoplay in April 1932 compared the two. One month later, Kane sued Fleischer for more than $6 million in today's currency for using her likeness.
Despite this, you will see wokies and black revisionists in the comments painting an entirely different picture:
Factoring into the production of this film for the illusive modern audience is a thing called the Third Generation Curse, where the grandkids of notable public figures ruin the legacy/inheritance of their forebears. Fleischer's grandson is involved in the production of the film:
The 'Abbott Elementary' creator and Emmy winner will develop and star as Betty Boop in a feature film adaptation of the nearly century-old animated icon, Variety has learned exclusively. Brunson's company, Fifth Chance Productions, has partnered with Mark Fleischer, grandson of Betty Boop creator Max Fleischer, and Fleischer Studios on the project, which is currently in development and overseen by Fifth Chance's head of creative affairs, Erin Wehrenberg.
I have to include the Redditors making fun of the critics (you and me), because it made me laugh 😂👇
As we like to say around these parts, it's not just about swapping skin colors or genitals. It's about the purposeful Marxist strategy of hijacking and destroying the stories that unite us as a culture and as a nation.
Anyway, that's your Hollywood update for the day!
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Boop, boop-a-doop!!
Betty Boop entered the public domain a year or two ago, so anyone can do anything with it now.
I thought they gave the MLK role to Bill Murray?
It’s a cartoon character.
It’s nit like the dumb casting of Helen of Troy or Moses
It sure looks like it! Betty Boop was not a very dark black person, but one can tell that she was indeed, black.
This is NOT a swap. It is more like revealing a truth.
Just because people are more familiar with the white version it does not make it correct, especially when the truth is a black person as depicted.
At least a decade ago, Matt Damon was on a tv show in which a handful of actors was being coached by Damon and others, to audition for a part. When the winner, who was black, was announced, Damon objected, stating that another candidate was the clear winner. He was immediately rebuffed, being told, no, this is who we (the producers) are choosing. That was around the time DEI was becoming a trend. Even an actor of Damon’s caliber had no say over the politics of DEI. It’s only gotten much worse since then. It is absurd.
This is just stupid. Why in the hell should racism be injected to just a cartoon character of years ago? She was Betty Boop and funny. Enc of story, please.
“In the first Fleischer cartoons ...Betty Boop was a canine.”
Yep, a beagle
I'm sorry to break the news to you, but Negroes didn't not invent
everything—not even peanut butter or Egyptian airplanes.
This sh*t is getting ridiculous. Since when was Helen Kane black?
Jan wasn’t black but likely inspired by black performers, including Josephine Baker.
https://bettyboop.fandom.com/wiki/$250,000_Infringement_Lawsuit#Helen_Kane‘s_Scat_Interpolations:
See the part where it says Helen Kane’s sat interpolations.
Personally I think sh should’ve won the lawsuit. That character was her, outright.
That should read Kane.
The article is about Betty Boop
In 1932, Helen Kane sued Fleischer Studios and Paramount Publix Corporation for $250,000. She claimed they had stolen her likeness and her famous, baby-voiced “boop-oop-a-doop” singing style. But this backfired on Kane during the New York Supreme Court trial. Fleischer’s defense team proved that Kane did not invent the baby-voiced scatting style. Instead, Kane had stolen it from a young Black child performer named Esther Jones, known on stage as “Baby Esther”
Baby Esther was famous for dancing, making funny faces, and interpolating childlike scat sounds like “boo-boo-boo” and “doo-doo-doo” into her jazz routines
Militant black folk get upset when they see what they consider black culture appropriation.
-PJ
This is really strange timing..
I was thinking about Betty Boop earlier today o.O
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