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10 Struggles Only Girls Can Understand

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Every girl has lived through at least half of this list, and TheThings knew it.

TheThings Celebrity, the pop-culture and lifestyle channel that grew out of the TheTalko network back in 2015, built a whole lane out of videos like this one. “10 Struggles Only Girls Can Understand” isn’t a hard-news countdown — it’s a relatable-content listicle, the kind built to make viewers nod along and tag their friends in the comments. No headline event, no scandal, just ten everyday annoyances that women deal with and laugh about together.

• The video is a comedic lifestyle countdown from TheThings Celebrity (originally under the TheTalko banner), part of Valnet’s digital media network since 2015.
• The ten entries center on beauty and wardrobe mishaps — underwire bra discomfort, winged eyeliner gone wrong, ruined mascara, hair ties snapping, windy-day hair tangles, and lost bobby pins.
• The list also covers period cramp discomfort and the broader hassle of navigating societal beauty and wardrobe expectations, framed as shared struggles rather than heavy social commentary.

The Format TheThings Built Its Name On

By 2017, TheThings Celebrity had already carved out a recognizable niche in the countdown-video economy: quick-hit, ten-item lists narrated over stock and B-roll footage, built for viewers scrolling YouTube for something breezy between celebrity gossip clips. “10 Struggles Only Girls Can Understand” fits squarely into that mold — no correspondents, no interview subjects, just a rundown of small, universal frustrations packaged for maximum relatability and shareability.

That’s a deliberate departure from the heavier gender-issue explainers that sometimes get mistaken for this kind of content. This video isn’t tackling body image politics or workplace bias — it’s mascara smudging five minutes after you apply it, and a bra strap that digs in by lunchtime.

The Struggles, Broken Down

The countdown leans hardest on beauty routine chaos. Winged eyeliner that comes out crooked on one eye, mascara that clumps or runs, and the general math of trying to get ready in under twenty minutes all make the list. Hair gets its own trio of headaches — ties that snap at the worst moment, windy days that turn a blowout into knots, and bobby pins that vanish the second you need one.

Ten struggles, zero surprises — and that’s exactly the point.

Wardrobe annoyances round out the middle of the list, the kind of fit-check frustrations anyone who’s ever fought with an outfit before walking out the door will recognize. Readers looking for a lighter dose of fashion drama might also enjoy the most expensive royal wedding dresses ever put on a bride, a very different kind of wardrobe stress but a wardrobe stress nonetheless.

Cramps And The Beauty-Standard Grind

Menstrual cramps get their own entry, treated with the same light touch as the hair-tie and mascara jokes rather than as a medical deep dive. The final stretch of the countdown widens out slightly to societal beauty standards — the pressure to look a certain way without much practical guidance on how to actually pull it off day to day. It’s the same territory that shows like America’s Next Top Model built entire seasons around, and fans curious how that pageant-adjacent beauty pressure plays out over the years can check in on what the winners of America’s Next Top Model look like today.

None of it is played for outrage. The video’s whole appeal is that it validates the small stuff — the stuff that’s genuinely annoying but not worth a Twitter thread — and lets it be funny instead of heavy.

TheThings Celebrity kept churning out these countdown videos on a near-weekly clip through 2016 and into 2017, and this one slots in as a low-stakes, high-relatability entry in that catalog — the kind of clip that doesn’t need a news hook to rack up views, just ten things enough people have actually lived through.