 But eventually, like, as it became more lucrative and more sensational, it led to an audience, right? So we don't have American pop music and entertainment without an audience. And soon, blackface menstrual shows were springing up everywhere. Blackface entertainment in America becomes the dominant, you know, form of popular culture in the antebellum era, 1820s, 30s, 40s. You see a massive explosion. This is Daphne A. Brooks.