How did the Hays Code censorship affect Betty Boop’s popularity?

Betty Boop’s overtly sexualized image made her the first cartoon character to be censored by the Hays Office, the Hollywood industry body that enforced the Production Code (also known as the Hays Code) starting in 1934. The code excised the cartoon’s adult themes and forced the studio to water down Betty’s image as a sex symbol. Betty, a risqué and free-spirited Jazz Age rebel, was reimagined as modest and domesticated.