PS: The above is drifted over from the What is a Shanty thread. Like it or not, nowadays some people call their pseudo-shanty video games and TikTok stuff as just plain 'shanty.'

And while it is tempting to lay it off as a cyberspace thing, it appears some degree of that ages old show biz switcherooni may have been going on from day one.

Not speaking to the American minstrelsy crossovers per se, but that's certainly one aspect of it.