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 #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
@azj_womanSee it on YouTubeAs a red head this is kinda true
@evenicholas8562See it on YouTube
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- Channel
- phoebeisginger
- 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.
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Who plays Cady Heron in the 2004 film Mean Girls?
Lindsay Lohan plays Cady Heron, the new student at the center of Mean Girls.


