“Sh*t Girls Say” Video Series Rings True to Girly Chit-Chat

Ladies, it appears that the guys are listening in on our everyday conversations. Otherwise, how  else would they know exactly what we say and just exactly how we say it?
 
 “First of all – ew.”
“I know, right?”
“I mean, get it together.”
“Exactly.”
“Like, I’m not even joking right now.”
“You know what? You’re the best.”
“No… you’re the best.”
 
If this conversation sounds strangely familiar to you (wine night with your posse of girlfriends, maybe?), then trust me when I say, you’ll love Sh*t Girls Say.
 
The idea is simply hilarious. It’s just a compiled back-to-back collection of the silly soundbites that as women, we can all relate to saying at least once in our lives. “Listen to this e-mail,” “Could you do me a huge favor?” “Did I lock the door…? Yes.”
 
Sh*t Girls Say has been racking up followers on Twitter for a few months now, but the feed’s creators began posting YouTube clips and now the videos are going viral almost instantly. Graydon Sheppard, who stars as the mildly ditzy brown-haired bestie to Juliette Lewis, originally launched the Twitter account @ShitGirlsSay and created the videos with his boyfriend, Kyle Humphrey.
 
“We were sitting around one day watching TV, and one of us said, ‘Can you pass me that blanket?’ It immediately struck us as a ‘girl’ thing to say,” Sheppard says to The A.V. Club. “I know that sounds terrible. But we immediately started thinking about what that means, to have a saying attributed to a sex, and then we started going back and forth. Within a couple days, we had a couple hundred tweets.”

Over 230,000 followers later, the writers of the parody feed have decided to bring these tweets to life with a web series. The first episode, featuring a cameo appearance by actress Juliette Lewis, launched on YouTube December 12th and instantly went viral. The video now has well over 8 million views. The second and third videos have done just as well.

“Eventually, [the feed] started going well and I’m a filmmaker and I thought it would be a great project to do a little comedy short to bring the tweets to life,” Sheppard tells ABCNews.com.

“At first we weren’t sure how long it would be able to go. First it was just us gleaning what we had heard in the past, and not necessarily any specific women or people. I grew up with my mom and sisters in the house, and then, growing up, had a lot of mostly girl friends. It kind of comes from being around women but not being a woman.”
 
Much like like the Twitter-feed-turned-TV-show Sh*t My Dad Says or Cosmopolitan’s now famous “Sh*t My Boyfriend Says” feature, Sh*t Girls Say is gathering a huge following and everyone is wanting a piece of the action. The imitators have been popping up all over the Internet from Sh*t Asian Girls Say to Sh*t Black Girls Say (which was up within a matter of days after the original).

Sheppard thinks the copies are “absolutely flattering.”
 
“I mean, the Sh*t Black Girls Say guys credited us in the actual video, and below. And the other ones are all referencing back to us, so it only serves to bring more views to our videos. I’m not at all threatened. It’s fun to see people’s takes on it.”

Admittedly, not everyone thinks Sh*t Girls Say is so funny, as the videos have been criticized as being offensive and misogynistic, but the videos are racking up millions of views by the day and here at HC, we think the videos are hilarious.
 
“We hoped it would do well. We thought it would be kind of popular,” Sheppard says. “But we never thought it’d take off in such a way. This past week has just been crazy, with all the feedback coming in. It’s been amazing.”

According to the writers, there are more videos in the works, so keep your eyes peeled! In the meantime, follow @shitgirlssay on Twitter for more LOL-worthy one-liners!

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