Safety pins complicate phoebeisginger's period-product history sketch
A fast-starting comedy Short turns changing menstrual products into a tour of awkward designs and social stigma.
Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 973,009 views a day, 5.8 times a normal first day on this channel (167,109).
PERIOD PRODUCTS THROUGHOUT THE YEARS😬: #fyp #periodproducts #throughouttheyears #thenvsnow #period
"This is a perfectly fitted cloth. By perfectly fitted, I mean it barely fits." That is phoebeisginger's opening sales pitch in a sketch where each supposed improvement comes with another catch.
The creator plays her way through successive eras of period care, introducing tampons alongside anxieties about virginity, demonstrating a strapped sponge apparatus, then offering pads with an inconvenient attachment method: safety pins. Historical packaging and a vintage sanitary-belt demonstration accompany the character changes. This is a comedy sketch, with the product history delivered through deliberately awkward pitches.
The Short drew roughly 460,000 views in eight hours, already well beyond the channel's usual full-day Shorts audience. Its subject changes, but the format is familiar: phoebeisginger's sketches about buying houses and cars also use the passage of time to expose how an everyday experience changes.
Here, viewers are picking up on both the equipment and the judgment surrounding it. Some discuss the practical problem of securing a pad; others focus on the contradiction between being shamed for bleeding and being judged for using tampons. A few bring their own period-day timing into the joke.
Another of the creator's historical sketches has reached a milestone alongside it: her upload about being left-handed throughout the years has passed a million views.
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What viewers say
Just give me a cloth and use the same thing as the sticky thing for pads 😭
@Ingram_123See it on YouTubeNot the society shaming us for bleeding and then judging us for using tampons 😭
@梅林MeiLin-c3wSee it on YouTubeDamn not me watching this on mine😂❤🩸
@OliviaRivera-r3eSee it on YouTube
Public comments from the video's page on YouTube
- Channel
- phoebeisginger
- Subscribers
- 496,000 ▲ 38,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 37,971,661
- Channel views, pace per day
- 1,953,779 (on a normal day: 4,943,236)
- Video published
- October 20, 2026
- Video views so far
- 461,064 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 973,009
The numbers
The period-product sketch has already exceeded phoebeisginger's usual first-day Shorts views, despite being only eight hours old. The first-day projection is an estimate, not a completed day's total.
💡 Test your knowledge
Which other subject does phoebeisginger's newly million-viewed "throughout the years" sketch explore?
Her sketch about being left-handed throughout the years has also passed a million views.


