Brooke Monk takes on the "pink is for girls" rule
A wordless sketch about a shirt and a little encouragement draws an estimated twenty times her usual first-day views.
Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 1,523,225 views a day, 21 times a normal first day on this channel (71,860).
Has this ever happened to you?
Brooke Monk plays everyone in this tiny social drama: the boy wearing pink, the person judging him and the girl who sees nothing wrong with his choice. Nobody needs to speak. A disapproving face and a few captions do the work over a Spanish dance track.
"Has this ever happened to you?" drew an estimated 1.5 million views in its first day, an unusually fast start even among Monk's other lively uploads. "I love this trend" and "This was fun to make" are also drawing views faster than her usual Shorts.
The pink-shirt sketch makes its point through a small contrast. One character treats a color as a rule; another simply offers encouragement. Monk switches between the roles, letting the boy's confused reaction carry the awkwardness rather than adding a spoken argument.
In the comments, viewers are discussing why pink clothing still attracts judgment and why blue rarely prompts the same objection when girls wear it. One viewer recognizes the supportive role, remembering being the girl who encouraged a boy herself. Monk's broad question in the title has produced a very specific conversation about who gets to wear what.
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What viewers say
This has happened to me before, except I was the girl who hyped up the boy😊😊
@Kaylie-JSee it on YouTubeTo be honest, girls can like blue and boys can like pink. It's their opinion/choice to like what color they like.
@stevewonder1227See it on YouTubeOmg love the friends hat
@HK-SK8See it on YouTube
Public comments from the video's page on YouTube
- Channel
- Brooke Monk
- Subscribers
- 12,000,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 98,697,354
- Channel views, pace per day
- 13,119,304 (on a normal day: 12,034,467)
- Video published
- October 22, 2026
- Video views so far
- 1,962,780 (2 days online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 1,766,091
The numbers
The pink-shirt sketch's estimated first-day views stand well above Brooke Monk's usual Shorts start. Several other uploads are also having faster-than-usual starts.
💡 Test your knowledge
What language is the dance track in Brooke's pink-shirt sketch?
The sketch has no spoken dialogue and plays over a Spanish dance track.


