"Depressed copywriter" looks more like "misogynistic copywriter" to me.

This feels like they just really wanted to use the deepfake technology, which is impressive, but it it's just shock value to the mothers who are there.

Where on earth did you get that idea? The fact is American women prefer applicator tampons, while the rest of the world's women do not. I am linking an article that has done its research on the topic. This isn't a place where people can just invent "facts" and not get called on it.

"Blog posts abound from American expats discovering, to their horror, that most tampons sold outside the US are the kind they have to “shove inside” with their own finger. And, from the other point of view, a Reddit thread entitled “Women of the US, why are your tampons so huge?” displays many people learning, for the first time, that applicators even exist."

As to why the Americans use applicator tampons more than digital tampons, it's actually largely due to Tampax. The first, biggest and most recognizable brand in the US market will get copycats, which resulted in many other tampons with applicators in the US market. Tampax isn't as big of a brand in other markets. As noted even in the Guardian, the brand that hit the market area first steered whether the women prefer applicators vs digital. "Oddly, depending on which brand reached a territory first, most countries have an in-built preference for one or another – so the vast majority of US consumers use applicators, while most German users don’t."

You claim it's for women with shorter fingers, which honestly sounds like something a dude who never used tampons would make up on the spot. Because men have longer fingers than women. 🙄

Glad I wasn't the only one who immediately thought of APple's "crazy ones". That was weak.