In the 1970s, Matthew Keith used his allowance money to purchase his first Barbie dolls, which he kept from his parents out of concern that they would criticise the toys as being insufficiently masculine.
His Barbie collection, which is currently housed on 22 feet of bookcases in his Los Angeles home and is worth about $20,000, is there. More than 70,000 people follow the middle school teacher’s Instagram account, “DollsOnTheBrain,” with roughly 15,000 of those followers joining in the previous few weeks.
Due to the “Barbie” movie’s opening weekend promotion and audience excitement, what was once a strange hobby has recently become much more mainstream.