About

Projecting My Period Cramps refers to a series of redraws based on an illustration of a unique character projecting period cramps onto Vegeta. The drawing was posted on X, formerly Twitter, by artist @CathChicken in May 2024, but gained in early October 2024, in which artists replaced the drawings with other individuals either giving or receiving the cramps, mostly related to psych-power characters.

Origin

On May 13th, 2024, X^[1] artist @CathChicken uploaded a drawing of a character designed by her mentally projecting her cramps to the Dragon Ball character Vegeta, who's lying on the floor in pain. The illustration (seen below) amassed over 4 million views and 50,000 likes in six months.

Spread

The drawing gained viral attention a few months later on X in October 2024, inspiring other artists to redraw the characters. For example, on October 6th, 2024, X^[2] artist @Padawan_Carol posted a version of the drawing featuring the X-Men character "Emma projecting her period cramps onto Scott." The post (seen below) received roughly 29,000 likes and 2,900 reposts in three days.

On October 8th, X^[3] artist @HeyItsGat0w uploaded a version of the illustration featuring the Fate/Stay Night character Rin "projecting her period cramps onto Kirei," which amassed more than 2,500 likes and 545 reposts in a day.

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