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Phoebe revisits the changing stereotypes around redheads

Her comic trip through the years has viewers recalling schoolyard teasing and bringing Mean Girls into the conversation.

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 1,031,450 views a day, 7.9 times a normal first day on this channel (131,373).

HOW REDHEADS ARE TREATED THROUGHOUT THE YEARS 👩🏻‍🦰: #fyp #redhead #history #throughtheyearsHOW REDHEADS ARE TREATED THROUGHOUT THE YEARS 👩🏻‍🦰: #fyp #redhead #history #throughtheyears

What happens when the trait in your channel name becomes the subject of your next sketch? For phoebeisginger, it has brought roughly 457,000 views in seven hours, already more than three times her Shorts' usual full-day audience.

Phoebe's latest upload takes changing attitudes toward redheads as its premise. This is a comedy sketch, not a historical documentary, and the comments are treating it as both a nostalgia prompt and a chance to compare experiences.

Viewers keep returning to the teasing associated with the 2000s and 2010s. One brings up Mean Girls as a contrasting pop-culture reference; others discuss the shift from ridicule to admiration. Those recollections give the joke a more personal edge than a simple then-and-now comparison.

The format connects with Phoebe's recent Short about how women sang about men through the years. But this time, the subject is closer to the identity she puts right at the front of her channel: her introduction reads, "i'm ginger, if you didn't know :)".

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What viewers say

  • Mean girls was the only time when people in the 2000 weren’t like saying that
  • As a red head this is kinda true
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The facts
Subscribers
448,000 ▲ 29,000 this week
Channel views, last 7 days
27,019,539
Channel views, pace per day
6,668,445 (on a normal day: 3,412,558)
Video published
October 11, 2026
Video views so far
456,997 (less than a day online)
Video views, pace per day
1,031,450

The numbers

The redhead sketch has already passed Phoebe's usual first-day Shorts audience, with only seven hours online.

the video's first day
usual first day here
131,373
this video
1,031,450
subscribers
448,000
▲ 29,000 in the last 7 days
total views
348,867,536
views per day
6,668,445
typical day: 3,412,558
the video
views
456,997
likes
20,852
comments
302
days online
1
subscribers: this channel and similar channels
Grayskitz
476,000
As of October 12, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube
Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.
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