By the time Vine was shut down in January 2017, the "Sanders Shorts", or "Thomas Sanders Vines" as they were known then, had been seen a total of 7.4 billion times, and Sanders' account had 8.3 million subscribers, which made Thomas Sanders one of the most successful viners in the history of the Vine platform.
The first nine episodes were recordings of Thomas Sanders and his friends in their real life, either before or after stage performances or at parties, some of them even untitled. It was on the 10th episode when he started doing proper scripted episodes, first with puns or rudimentary animations, and later including music snippets and impressions, until an impression of Stewie Griffin, from "Family Guy", gave him his first huge success and prompted him to start doing more impressions and later include the skits and pranks that, along with music, became the sign of identity of the series.
This series is a combination of unrelated episodes and different sub-series of related episodes. The most important of them is the "Narrating People's Lives" sub-series, a.k.a. "Storytime", which is the one that made Thomas Sanders an online star, spawning a stage musical tour through the USA and Canada in 2016, "Ultimate Storytime". Other important sub-series include 'Misleading Compliments', 'Disney/Pokemon Pranks with Friends', 'Shoutout Sunday', the two sub-series starring Brain and Sleep, and the four sub-series starring Dad Guy, Prince Guy, Teacher Guy and Anxiety Guy, who would be the base for the main characters of the spin-off Sanders Sides (2016).
The longest running of the "Sanders Shorts" sub-series of episodes is "Shoutout Sunday", where each Sunday Thomas Sanders chooses a name among his followers an dedicates them a snippet of a song with their name on it, a dedication which also goes to anyone watching sharing that name.
The first entry as "Shoutout Sunday" (there was an earlier entry, Shoutout to Blue Dreams (2013), released on a Thursday, 2 May 2013) was Shoutout Sunday: Lisa (2013), and it was released on 6 May 2013 (actually released on a Monday for being released after midnight, something that has happened on rare occasions), barely one month after the beginning of the series.
Since then, whether on Sunday or the following Monday, it hasn't failed any single week, even after the change from Vine to Instagram, and still goes on nowadays, which means several hundreds of "Sanders Shorts" episodes are Shoutout Sundays, many times the quantity of other classic series like "Narrating People's Lives" or "Disney Pranks with Friends", and counting. The 300th entry, Shoutout Sunday: Allanah (2019), was released on 20 January 2019.
Despite of this longevity, "Shoutout Sunday" is the only of the classic "Sanders Shorts" series that is never featured on Thomas Sanders (2013) or Thomas Sanders & Friends (2018) compilations, because Thomas doesn't want to get any profit from the use of the song snippets.
The first entry as "Shoutout Sunday" (there was an earlier entry, Shoutout to Blue Dreams (2013), released on a Thursday, 2 May 2013) was Shoutout Sunday: Lisa (2013), and it was released on 6 May 2013 (actually released on a Monday for being released after midnight, something that has happened on rare occasions), barely one month after the beginning of the series.
Since then, whether on Sunday or the following Monday, it hasn't failed any single week, even after the change from Vine to Instagram, and still goes on nowadays, which means several hundreds of "Sanders Shorts" episodes are Shoutout Sundays, many times the quantity of other classic series like "Narrating People's Lives" or "Disney Pranks with Friends", and counting. The 300th entry, Shoutout Sunday: Allanah (2019), was released on 20 January 2019.
Despite of this longevity, "Shoutout Sunday" is the only of the classic "Sanders Shorts" series that is never featured on Thomas Sanders (2013) or Thomas Sanders & Friends (2018) compilations, because Thomas doesn't want to get any profit from the use of the song snippets.
For most of 2013, Thomas Sanders did the Vines only for fun and not for profit. Especially in the first three months, he would experiment and experiment with the Vine app, releasing several episodes each day. The record of the highest number of "Sanders Shorts" in a single day is in May 11, 2013, when he released five episodes the same day (counting from midnight), but the average rate between April and June 2013 was of three episodes each day.
May 2013 also has the record of the highest number of episodes in a single month, with 86 episodes, followed by June 2013 with 66 episodes. It would be in July 2013 when he would slow himself down and set the goal of doing at least one Vine each day. He would fulfill this with rare occasional exceptions until he started focusing more on his YouTube activity in 2016, when the closure of Vine was announced, and more notably when Vine was actually shut down in January 2017.
From then on, releases started getting separated in time as a rule. Usually, though, there would be no more than three or four days between each release with exceptions, and he keeps his goal of releasing at least one short entry each and every day he's not working on a YouTube production or releasing it. To make up for the lower number of entries, he makes them longer, now that the 6-second time limit imposed by Vine is gone.
May 2013 also has the record of the highest number of episodes in a single month, with 86 episodes, followed by June 2013 with 66 episodes. It would be in July 2013 when he would slow himself down and set the goal of doing at least one Vine each day. He would fulfill this with rare occasional exceptions until he started focusing more on his YouTube activity in 2016, when the closure of Vine was announced, and more notably when Vine was actually shut down in January 2017.
From then on, releases started getting separated in time as a rule. Usually, though, there would be no more than three or four days between each release with exceptions, and he keeps his goal of releasing at least one short entry each and every day he's not working on a YouTube production or releasing it. To make up for the lower number of entries, he makes them longer, now that the 6-second time limit imposed by Vine is gone.