A 'straitjacket for your butt' and the 1900s silhouette: Gabi Jones on shapewear
Her skit on how the ideal body shape keeps changing passed a million views in its first day, with a 1990s internet-safety sketch close behind.
Gabi JonesStory of Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.
1900s is my GIRL 😆 #skit #comedycreator #fashionhistory
Shapewear did it. Gabi Jones, the actress and history nerd who calls herself an aspiring 21st-century Lucille Ball, posted "1900s is my GIRL" on October 1, and it passed a million views within a day. The skit walks through the decades of the fashionable figure, each era wanting a different body and selling a different undergarment to get there. The line viewers keep repeating calls one of those garments a straitjacket for your butt, and a tiny phone pocket gets its own laughs.
The comments read like a long kitchen-table conversation. Many people take the moral as a reason not to reshape themselves for whatever is in style, others share the day they gave up shapewear for good, and a few speak up for it as a comfortable hug rather than a corset. Someone even remembers the girdle-free looks of the mid-70s fondly.
The rest of the week kept to the same time machine. "The era of ZERO internet safety" took the 1990s and its chat rooms for a spin, "We wear fedoras ironically" had fun with a hat that never quite left, and "The ORIGINAL vertical shorts" closed the week with a fast start. Eight days on, the penny loafer skit is still drawing a steady crowd.
All of it roughly doubled the channel's usual daily views, and 10,000 new subscribers came along. Among sketch channels her size, Gabi has the most subscribers, while Sophia & Noelle are having the biggest week by far and Colby Martel is running well ahead of his usual pace too.
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What viewers say
"I just want a snatched waist. " same girl. Same
@Brookiebookworm-w2ySee it on YouTube"Straightjacket for your butt" is an amazing line
@No_one_Mourns_the_WickedSee it on YouTubeMy grandma would say, dress to compliment your body. Big hips, big breasts, thin frame, whatever was once "in" will come back in style eventually. (I paraphrased)
@evmendezSee it on YouTube
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The videos drawing views on Gabi Jones right now
The era of ZERO internet safety 🖥️ 🤷♀️ 🤦 #skit #1990s509,490 views · 2026-09-30
What would YOU put in the vial?! 😬 😳 (check out @1928Jewelry #AD) #…421,469 views · 2026-09-26
“We wear fedoras ironically” 🤔 😳 #skit #comedycreator #sketchcomedy328,114 views · 2026-09-28
The ORIGINAL vertical shorts 😆 #comedy #comedycreator #pov18,287 views · 2026-10-02
The penny loafer thing BLEW MY MIND 🤯 #skit #sketchcomedy #acting #1…1,646,294 views
- Channel
- Gabi Jones
- Subscribers
- 1,460,000 ▲ 10,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 17,758,991
- Videos published this week
- 5
- Video published
- October 1, 2026
- Video views so far
- 1,378,549
- Views on its first day
- 1,088,278
The numbers
Here is how Gabi Jones' week looks in figures.
💡 Test your knowledge
Which 1950s sitcom made Lucille Ball a household name?
Lucille Ball starred as Lucy Ricardo in I Love Lucy, which premiered on CBS in 1951.
