With the new Barbie Movie proving to be a blockbusting global success story, both critically and commercially, it's pretty safe to say that the Mattel doll's popularity has never been higher.
So we would also assume that children across the world are also looking to celebrate their birthdays with Barbie themed parties.
Let's just hope they don't end up being adult-themed parties like the one TikTok user @joolia_go0lia had to endure when she was five.
Sharing the story with her 18,500 followers, Julia explained how her parents hired what they believed to be a children's entertainer for her fifth birthday party, only to discover they had made a terrible, terrible mistake.
In the video, Julia, who is dressed in pink and en route to the movies to watch Barbie, says, "I had a Barbie themed birthday party when I was five and my mom said that she hired someone from the phone book, because I'm 700-years-old and back then you were just like 'I'll look in the phone book for entertainers'.
"And there was one for Barbie, and that was the theme. Perfect. The woman shows up and she is a stripper. And love her, she played along, she did not take off her clothes, I followed her around thrilled that Barbie came to my birthday party and all of the parents there had a really good laugh."
Of course, this being social media, some users on TikTok were skeptical of the validity of the story, with Julia further commenting, "I'm still waiting for proof from my mom. She swears this happened, she's gonna look through pictures today but I will show you the receipts."
The original video was posted on July 25 and then three days later, on July 28, Julia provided an ending to the story, posting a follow up video.
"We do have an ending to the stripper Barbie situation," Julia reveals at the beginning of the video, before the video displays messages shared with her mom.
However, the messages do not provide the ending anyone was hoping for, with Julia's mom revealing that a lot of her photos were destroyed when the basement of her house flooded.
"This is not the ending that any of us wanted," Julia continues, "so stripper Barbie if you are out there just reach out and let us know you exist and how you're doing and just know that you made this Barbie loving girl's heart so happy that day."
Julia has yet to post a follow up video with any further information on stripper Barbie, so the mystery remains as to her whereabouts or whether she is still in the stripping/children's birthday party game. Perhaps she went down the more wholesome route and started performing at children's parties (fully clothed, obviously) full time?
With the new wave of popularity for the Mattel doll, stripper Barbie (must just stress this is not her official name) could stand to make an absolute fortune, whether she went down the family or the adult route with her career.
