this post was submitted on 23 Jul 2023
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[–] DavidGarcia@feddit.nl 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wikipedia says 1952 to 1961, not 1940s. Pretty important difference lol

[–] JimmyDean@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Unbeknownst to most, Barbie actually started out life in the late 1940s as a German cartoon character created by artist Reinhard Beuthien for the Hamburg-based tabloid, Bild-Zeitung.

I just pulled the date from this description under one of the images on imgur, if it's inaccurate that's why.