You’d think that someone who sells tshirts with slogans like “It’s not gay if you beat them up afterwards” and “Arrest Black Babies Before They Become Criminals” would not only be prepared for a tidal wave of hate email, but would be able to handle it as well. Some people just won’t find these shirts funny, or understand the social messaging behind it.
But that doesn’t appear to be the case. After 8 years, the owner of T-Shirt Hell, Sunshine Megatron (formerly Aaron Landau Schwarz according to Wikipedia), says he is shutting down the site on February 10, 2009:
I’m done. I’m finished. I can’t take the stupidity anymore, so I’m leaving and I’m taking my website with me. As of Tuesday, Feb 10, 2009, T-Shirt Hell will be no more.
No, I’m not selling out to some douchebag corporate entity. No, we’re not being sued by any of the over 40 companies that have sent us cease and desists over the years. No, I’m not going to jail (yet) and no, it’s not because of the economy. Although, the recent dip in sales certainly does make the idea easier to accept, even though we still sell over 3000 shirts a week.
I started this company in June of 2001, nearly 8 years ago, with the intention of producing the best satirical, the most controversial, the funniest t-shirts on the internet. Generally speaking, I feel I’ve accomplished that and am satisfied with what we’ve put out. I made a shitload of dough along the way. I’ve done cocaine off the better body parts of supermodels. I’ve even raped and killed a mountain panda in the hills of Shaanxi. But these perks are besides the point.
I just don’t feel like dealing with idiots anymore. I’ll give you an example of the kind of misguided morons we deal with on a regular basis at T-Shirt Hell. We released a new shirt a couple weeks ago that says “It’s not gay if you beat them up afterwards”. I will not explain the irony or the social commentary of the slogan because anyone with half a brain should be able to handle that on their own. Problem is, we’ve been besieged with emails from angry people complaining about the “fact” that the shirt is hate speech or that we’re promoting gay bashing and should take it down immediately.
Comments like:
Now, I can’t say I’m surprised we’re getting hate mail from people who have nothing better to do than to start half-assed campaigns because of their lazy, just enough passion for an email, ideals towards a misguided cause. It happened when we did our first really controversial shirt, “The School Shootings Tour”, it happened when we did our “What About All The Good Things Hitler Did” shirt, it happened when we did our “Arrest Black Babies Before They Become Criminals” shirt (boy did it happen then). It used to happen all the time when we did more social commentary and didn’t give a fuck about what anyone thought and did shirts that did not leave anyone out. Unfortunately, as a concern for the safety of my employees, we don’t push the envelope as much anymore…and I can’t say I feel good about having caved in.
Anyway, rather than cater to the masses, I’m just going to stop making shirts. It’s not enjoyable anymore and I have enough money to move on to something more rewarding. Maybe I’ll start my own hooker farm or maybe I’ll practice sleeping. Whatever I decide to do, it will be better than this.
Attention any venture capitalists or independent investors/business assholes who are about to inquire about purchasing T-Shirt Hell. Don’t. You won’t do the company justice and I won’t take that chance. I’m putting it to sleep. It’s over.
That’s right, I’m crazy. I’m pulling the plug on a company I could have sold for millions. Why in the fucking world would I do something so stupid? Because I can. I don’t care about money. This is the way I’ve always done things…my way.
So, to all the kickass motherfuckers who supported us and REALLY got what we were trying to do, thank you (no, not you, you racist idiots who thought we actually had racist intentions and no, not you, you dumb as a stump fucks who just think any shirt with the word “fuck” on it is as right as rain). Thanks to all the people who contributed to my vice fund and at the same time helped make a funny statement about the world today.
As a final farewell, I’m going to bring back some of the top selling Worse Than Hell shirts as a fuck you to those who forced me to remove them. To those who are offended by them and to those who think I’m racist, promoting rape, a nazi, homophobic or just the world’s biggest asshole…well, at least you think I’m something, which means I’ve achieved what I wanted.
Thanks to Gary, Mika, Jacob, Greg, Bob, the black lady who writes our newsletter, and to everyone else who was part of T-Shirt Hell. Time to move on to even greater things. I’ll miss you (by miss, I mean, it’s going to suck not being able to give you my excellent reach arounds when you least expect them).
Fuck you,
-Sunshine Megatron
All I can say is that I now have a great template to use when we eventually shut down TechCrunch. Thanks for the tip, Steve.
What a great way to exit.
Setting the standard LOL
If this guy is telling the truth, then I’m (somewhat) inspired. He gives the finger when he starts up, all during the run-up to success, and on the way out.
But, raping a Panda? That’s sick.
Ballsy!
CoolestJobsOnline
http://tinyurl.com/7uj5ay
Excellent Marketing Ploy!!!! – - – doubt he’s shutting it down, just trying to spike sales!
Thats exactly what he did. You think a person who makes fun of every type of person would shut down a website because of hate mail?
Its a joke.
T-Shirt hell isn’t going anywhere.
I loved t-shirt hell for it’s sick and twisted sense of humor, the type of people who didn’t get Tshirt Hell’s brand of satire are probably the same kind of comically brain-dead uppity fucks who screamed “THAT’S RACIST!” at Wonder Showzen (one of the only GOOD shows to ever come out of MTV). “It’s Not Gay, If You Beat Them Up Afterwards” this joke actually takes a little thought on your part. See, it’s a stab at all those sexually repressed closeted hicktown churchie fucks who end up play around with another person of their gender and then murdering or brutalizing the person they did stuff with to get rid of the evidence/witness. Do you get it NOW? The shirts were never ENCOURAGING or ENDORSING the actions they described, they were MAKING FUN OF THEM (Kinda like how Wonder Showzen made fun of everyone, from Jews, to Xtians, to Blacks, to sister-fucking, wife-beating, meth-cooking Rednecks).
T-Shirts Hell will be missed, just as I still miss the original incarnation of SatanLovesMe/PunkAssGear.com, before they turned into a pussy ass Emo/Horror Movie shirt site probably cuz some christfag complained that their stuff was “too controversial.”
Absolutely gutted. To my shame never purchased a T, but often browsed the site to laugh at the amazing concepts they had. Truely the pleasing underground of the net.
That letter is brilliant.
Where is that letter on their site?
This guy is really lucky for being able to do this kind of fu.. y.. shutdown instead of selling his work to idiots ripping it off!
Threadless.com is much better.
Yeah, because those two sites are really comparable. Douche.
Exactly… Thanks John, you just helped the world. (Not Kidding)
@ John: That’s why Threadless.com is much better.
BTW – why are their servers so ass slow?
Now that is hilarious. HA.
AWE.SOME. everything runs it’s course sometimes and if it’s not fun, f*ck it. good for him!
Once again – the idiots, fear-mongers and politically correct have won.
Absolutely. Nothing says intelligence, strength and fortitude like “arrest black babies.”
I can understand why Sunshine and others with an undeveloped sense of humour think it is funny to print T-shirts with slogans that purport to be racist, sexist, homophobic, etc. Frankly, it is pretty low brow humour and difficult to miss.
But what Sunshine and others fail to confront is that many people will not get the irony and what this means for people that genuinely are bigotted, even if only latently. In fact we’ve clearly seen through the mails he posted that some people do not get the irony or “social commentary” aspects of his work. If someone does harbour bigotted opinions, then seeing such messages serves to reinforce that person’s bigotry.
So I think the world is better off without them. Whatever little humourous value they had is easily overshadowed by the damage they can do by reinforcing negative stereotypes and bigotry.
“When the intelligent, fearing interaction with the ignorant, choose silence over contribution, thus begins the censorship of intelligence.”
The logical conclusion of your position here is that irony and satire should never be allowed unless a) it’s so heavy-handed that nobody dumb enough to be racist, sexist, etc. could miss it, or b) it comes with obvious warning labels: “Just kidding! And if you really believe this, you’re a bad person!”
No offense meant, but that’s verging on clueless. Yes, not everybody gets satire. But one of the things that makes satire so powerful is that it initially pulls in exactly those people who have, or who are prone to having, exactly those opinions you want to fight.
Take Swift’s famous “A Modest Proposal”: it starts out with reasonable-sounding and presumably common complaints about the poor and ends up suggesting that the rich buy and eat the poor’s extra babies, something far more offensive than any of these shirts. Sure, it’s possible that some people actually had their opinions in favor of baby-eating reinforced. But the reason “A Modest Proposal” is a landmark of literature is that a lot more people were brought to realize that their might be something wrong with their current opinions.
The value in any satire isn’t primarily the humor; it’s making people think. The kind of people who will never be reached with your bland pieties might see one of these shirts, laugh, and then realize that they’re actually being laughed at.
I think Dave Chappelle experienced the same thing and that is why he killed his show. He felt he was “reinforcing negative stereotypes.”
So does that mean you think theonion.com should close it’s doors also? Rascism and bigotry very much disgust me but hard-edged satire has a valuable place in society and I’m not wiling to concede that particular corner of free speech.
Wait, why do you think Sunshine has an undeveloped sense of humour? This kind of thing may not be to your taste, but the humour is actually quite subtle–in all the myriad ways that people respond to this kind of blatantly offensive message (you included). I don’t fault you for not finding it funny, but it’s certainly not “undeveloped” or lowbrow in a technical sense.
Yeah, Sunshine is a coward for shutting down.
@scott. Where is that quote from?
“Rascism and bigotry very much disgust me but hard-edged satire has a valuable place in society and I’m not wiling to concede that particular corner of free speech.”
That is just a cop out so that assholes like “Sunshine Megatron” can sell shirts with “wee wee” and “poo poo” jokes on them.
Society does not need the right to degrade its members, no matter what the overall reason for doing so. We don’t need to make fun of homophobes, just to make people more aware of gay/lesbian issues. We don’t need to poke fun at racists, just to shine a light on racism.
What we need to have is civilized dialog about the underlying causes/problems associated with these very real social issues.
The people who buy/sell this crap are the lowest common denominator in terms of society. People hide behind freedom of speech as if it is a license for stupidity.
Degradation is not funny. This is not satire, and there is nothing subtle about promoting negativity. Nothing.
“Sunshine Megatron” is a douchebag, who has profited off of other douchebags and is crying “foul” because he is tired of people pointing out how much of a douchebag he actually is?
Um, no. I think douchbag is actually the wrong term for what this guy actually is…
Hypocrite seems a much better fit.
“Society does not need the right to degrade its members”
Fuck you, you illiberal piece of shit. Individuals DO have the right to degrade people and promote negativity. And if you try to stop people from speaking openly, then you deserve to be punished by the law.
example of actual politically correct oppression: the dixie chicks being banned from country radio for saying the horrible “were embarrassed to be from the same state as the president.”
t-shirt hell, not so much.
Because they got crunched
Publicity stunt?
My first thought, too. I bet they weren’t selling any (who would wear one?) and he had to get a job.
I would TOTALLY wear one. And I’m pretty sure I’m not alone.
Why wouldn’t you wear them? I wear quite a few of their t-shirts. Not a big deal
Ya know, this actually proves that you, and a lot of other people, have never even been to tshirthell and don’t know what you are talking about. I’m a white woman, 57 yrs old, and I bought a great white on black shirt from them with Obama’s pic and the caption “Honky Mom’s for Obama” on it. I wore it everywhere in the weeks before the election and I wore it to early voting at the county headquarters and got tons of favorable comments and a whole lot of laughs from blacks and whites out of it. tshirthell is about skewering falsely inflated egos and laughing at stupidity, not promoting bigotry and racism. Next time, try to actually know what you are talking about before you speak.
Wow. That was beautifully written. Yeah, I feel inspired to shut something down right this second so I can write a letter like that.
I did write a letter similar to that a month ago when I shut down one of my projects but it wasn’t as funny.
http://adamsblo...ld/apology.html
“Thanks to Gary, Mika, Jacob, Greg, Bob, the black lady who writes our newsletter”
Hilarious
That guy sure knows what he does and he’s damn good at it!
Fuck political correctness! It’s foreseeable and boring and life isn’t supposed to be boring.
All the best, man.
So that’s what awesome looks like.
hah.
The best comment so far! Nice one, liked it, liked it.
stop kissing arrington’s back
pretty fucking admirable. I can’t say I would do the same thing. I’m a total sellout
It’s his business to do as he pleases, but just wondering whatever happened to his delete key? It takes about 1 sec to “deal with the idiots”.
Awesome letter though. What a way to go.
“Unfortunately, as a concern for the safety of my employees, we don’t push the envelope as much anymore…and I can’t say I feel good about having caved in.”
it sounds like it’s more than that.
Well apparently he was also rushed to the hospital once because they thought he might have been poisoned by some crazy. Dunno if thats true or not, but 8 years of near constant hate mail and death threats would get to anyone, I expect. Piss off enough people and you do need to worry about that kind of stuff.
Farewell T-shirt Hell. You will be missed. And by missed…
Spin my dreidel!
I think I am going to order one shirt before it closes. What a great exit indeed.
Self-righteous, insensitive, puerile idiot.
And no doubt a white male. What does he know about the pain of prejudice? It’s all a lark and the oportunity to be the grade school kid who shocks the class by farting during lessons.
Very mature. Go to Hell with your t-shirts.
What the f**k do *you* know about the “pain of prejudice”, idiot?
Well, being a black man, I know more than you, you flaming buffoon.
Oh, on second thoughts, maybe not. I understand overweight trailer park geek retards with micropenises are suffering severe discrimination these days. My apologies.
yeah i’m kinda shocked at the level of idiocy in this forum – reminds me of a hannity site.. i thought tech-folks were pretty progressive and understood racist trolls when they saw them but as i stated elsewhere, this is my last session on TC and I already unfollowed on twitter.. If this “writer” thinks this is social commentary, I have better shit to read..
Ari
Are you a Jew, by any chance?
definetly jewish…
Ari,
Spin my dreidel!
I think its a publicity stunt. I really don’t think anyone would buy a shirt from there and where it in public without getting beat up or arrested. Its one thing to see the slogans in private but you don’t want to get into fights by just wearing a t-shirt.
I have multiple shirts from tshirthell. I proudly wear my “Fuck the Colorblind”, “Yes, I know my shirt says fuck on it…”, and several other shirts in public all the time.
I’ll be purchasing another shirt or two before he closes his doors.
I’ve owned many tees from them. People need to lighten up and laugh sometimes. My personal favorite shirt from tshirthell.com is the Pot and the Kettle, the kettle says “what the fuck did you call me?”
I suggest that everyone go watch Blazing Saddles and have a great day. Life is to short to get upset over a t-shirt.
Interesting that all the t-shirts people have said they have actually worn, are the tame ones that are not likely to get them beat up….
those shirts will become collectors items.
HellLocator.com – find your fire
The Biggest question I have is… What about the employees?
If this is some big gesture about “doing the right thing”… what about them?
I assume T-Shirt Hell has few people on their roster, and of those few, I’m sure they are well enough off with all the sales they make. Aside from that, I’m sure they knew about this well in advance.
Hah! Great farewell email!
This is gold!(I smell movie rights!)
He’s done this before – whining about hate mail and death threats and actual attacks and wanting to get out. Don’t be surprised if his site comes back and he makes no mention of his “exit.”
I love his site, have bought from his site, love that he’s pushed the envelope of the First Amendment, but quiting just shows he’s no Larry Flynt.
Come on, Schwarzy, you whiny little black Jew. Just admit you got depressed again and you’re feeling better after your sales jumped from this press release and we’ll all keep buying and ignore the occasional pity-party and “feel sorry for me someone shot at me at the bar” press releases. Maybe if you make a little more money, you can move out of your mom’s basement and not have to be so quiet during your pedo-porn “watching” sessions dreaming you’ve gotten anywhere near a supermodel… or a female, even. You have a job to do, get back to work, you sniveling baby.
NOTE: Don’t send ME hate mail, people. If you don’t get the joke of that last paragraph, you aren’t on his email list and don’t get his site at all.
He is not black at all:
http://www.t-sh...f-t-shirt-hell/
Jewish people has always found ways of making money off the exploits of other races. Now you better hope that we “black people” have some sympathy to what all those middle eastern places want to do to Israel….
Their worst nightmares hasn’t even begun yet, should have never took the white mans side with the treatment of black people… oh well good luck on this PR stunt Swartzy!
Hey Bran
I’ve lost your mom’s number. Any chance you could send it to me?
Dude,
You’re blaming the Jews. Seriously?
I mean, first off: fuck you. Second, can’t you be a little more original? It’s 2009 man, blaming the Jews for your problems is so last century…(Well, last ten centuries really).
I suggest you start fresh. North Koreans or Persians would probably be great contemporary scapegoats for your problems.
Now I see how Christ felt.
“Now you better hope that we “black people” have some sympathy to what all those middle eastern places want to do to Israel….”
I HIGHLY doubt you speak for all “black people”. I can say without a shadow of a doubt you do not represent my (black) viewpoint about Jews in the slightest. In fact, I believe the opposite. Many are smart and have a great work ethic and create something out of nothing all the time. As opposed to “all those middle eastern places” who do what exactly? Sell their oil?
“Many are smart and have a great work ethic and create something out of nothing all the time.”
I tell you what, walk into any media based company in america and you will see many believe in only dealing with each other, and will not pay you blackman unless you have one getting paid off you somehow….
Russel Simons and Lyor Cohen
Any great black musician and their management/agents
Any great black actor and their agents
Any rich black person and their lawyers
The sad thing is that black people were the Jews before the tier of people that adopt it now were.
The bible says that God will punish his people (Jews) and we are, we have an entire group of people calling themselves Jews and us original Jews are running aloof enslaved by this “black” thing.
Only our people can build pyramids, the original Jews aka black people. Any serious scholar knows this and this is why we excel in everything we participate in and why they hate us so much.
I know I am Jewish, I just don’t like the fake Jews disrespecting us.
I dont think you have any idea how Christ felt, but keep telling yourself that.
Would it make you feel better if you knew that they’ve sold shirts that are, um, less than sensitive about the subject of the Holocaust? This one, for example:
http://www.tshi...ings-hitler-did
Okay, anything that had a shred of a justifiable argument in your first post was completely ruined by what you just said. It’s not even worth quoting any specific line because the whole thing makes no sense at all. I won’t even respond, I’ll just assume everyone can see how batshit crazy you are from what you wrote.
And it shows that they don’t teach us our real history just to keep us in the dark.
Look to the 13th letter and find the light on the 33rd step my brother. You see me as batshit crazy, but many of us in the light are looking at you as batshit blind toby.
My comment was meant to be tshirthell-like, with fake sarcastic racism and antisemitism that actually makes fools of the true racists and anti-Semites. Schwarzy knows what I mean. But it seems the reply comments went in a whole different direction! All the fun of my comment taken away by the very people I was making fun of! Poo on you all, I say. Poo. Literal poo. On your faces. Now inhale. That’s your comment smell.
is this company really worth millions as he claims? and he is closing down because the vast alleged profit is not worth the bullshit emails? man, i don’t know, i’m not buying it.
i am a Vc and interested in buying ur company.
drop me an email for an appointment.
u r not a Vc and if u r, u suck.
i am a vc.
im in ur portfolio
buyin ur stockz
ROTFLMAO. Best. Comment. Evar.
This letter is simply brilliant, I love it!
I am sad to see you go. We sell different kinds of tees, but you’re still someone I look up to.
Can I buy your email address list?
I love this shirt… http://www.tshi...cs/a190_009.jpg
Looks like someone from the UK also (notice the Tesco bog rolls).
This guy is himself a douche bag. Good riddance. The world truly needs a lot less of these kinds of people.
Dear Mr. Aaron Landau Schwarz,
“Arrest Black Babies Before They Become Criminals” ?
I know your reading this because who doesn’t read TC?
I was told once that Jewish people are racist against any person that believes in Christ, and it was hard for me to believe it. Every time I turn around, people like you are disrespecting a group of people that has suffered way much more than any other group in the world, so your people can have a place to escape from the tragedy experienced during WWII.
Why don’t Jewish people exploit and make fun of their own? Take a look at the Justin Timberlake “D$#$ in a Box” SNL skit…. When they are naming the religions:
Christmas: (shows box on private area)
Kwanza: (shows box on private area)
Kanaka: Close up on upper torso, no box.
Is this the thanks we get? You just remember the skin color of the person that needs to protect your people from being totally nuked in the middle east.
Now that there is a black president, we will no longer take insults from 1942 immigrants.
I hope your publicity stunt does you well.
Man, I really hate it when people judge a whole group of people based on the actions of just one of them, don’t you? Oh, wait. I guess it’s ok if you are bigoted against jews, right?
Wait, wait, before you answer that, would it make you feel better to know that tshirts from hell sells shirts that are rather insensitive to the plight of the Jews as well:
http://www.tshi...ings-hitler-did
Hmm… I don’t remember them putting Kwanza in that skit twice. Maybe read your comments over a couple of times before sending them. Might help make your point better.
lol, guess I should listen to my own advice. Although, to be fair, you did misspell Hanukkah.
Um. Justin Timberlake is not Jewish.
Justin Timberlake is black, you fool.
Hi Dan dear
Dont forget to take your meds tonight before you go online honey! You dont want to go talking bollocks and frothing at the mouth aga…
oh. too late.
Kinda tough to believe anything he says but if the site does shut down in February then I’ll take his word for how much money it was making and the reasons why he’s doing it.
http://www.allyallshirts.com/
One shirt is all you need.
Priceless
It must be a good site. The URL is blocked by my company’s firewall.
This guy and apparently a lot others don’t seem to appreciate just how many idiots are in this world. They are so “clever” and righteous they can do no wrong. Never mind the young or moronic who are easily influenced, the very ones that make it necessary for thousands of officers and bomb sniffing dogs to guard the inauguration of a “black” man attempting to lead the country in a better direction.
Yeah, I “get it”. And I think parties and social circles would be a hoot for these shirts, but not the general (often moronic) public. I think its incredibly presumptuous and either big-headed or small minded to attempt to proclaim that “we are there”. It’s like when the South Park creators immediately mocked the stingray death of the Crocodile Hunter within about a week of it happening. Never mind his grieving family. Yes, there is money to be made by walking right up to the line and daring to cross it. My concern is those who presume no lines of respect at all.
Menstruate much?
Think much?
“Arrest Black Babies Before They Become Criminals”
If I see someone wearing that as I walk down the street, how can I possibly know the context they mean it in? How can I know that this is a T-Shirt Hell shirt, and that T-Shirt Hell is a company that as a general rule makes remarks that will be perceived as socially insensitive to make a point?
To me, it’s not that there is no context in which “Arrest Black Babies Before They Become Criminals” can be seen as humorous, it’s that without any context, it will undoubtedly be seen as racist. Whether or not the T-Shirt Hell folks intent to promote racism is irrelevant; whether they DO promote racism is all that matters, and for me, that quote is well across the line.
The Pot and the Kettle one was funny, though, and if these guys had the balls to apologize when they cross the line and keep being funny, they could have probably maintained a successful business with much fewer death threats.
I completely agree – even if its not racist, its still as racist as you get relative to everyhing else out there.
Making money off of fear and ignorance is everyone’s God-given right, but it is what it is.
Good riddance.
What if the person wearing it is black?
Wow, we never had bomb sniffing dogs, or guards or anything to protect a white president being inaugurated did we?
As a white man, I’m perfectly willing to look past your race, but I’m finding that more and more, black men are not near as willing to do the same in return.
Racism is, as racism does. And oh yes, you can be black and racist. The two are not mutually exclusive.
What? Of course we did. And snipers on rooftops as well. You do realize that assassination attempts aren’t anything new right?
Wow..a douchebag of epic proportions… I don’t feel sorry for this prick, good riddance moron.
Awe, someone needs some Monistat. Or perhaps Vagisil? Which one works better for you? I know you’ve had to try at least one, cause you sure show the signs of an overly sore vagina.
wow I see what you did there – its funny because vaginas are inferior! haha!
women stupid, men strong!
women are stupid
Anyways, best of luck to this dude. And a very appropriate send-off letter. It was clearly all a joke. When you take things over the edge, it’s clearly a joke.
Didn’t tshirthell “close” once before only to re-open? Sounds like a stunt to me.
Pussy.
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We never thought your shirts were intentionally racist or homophobic. They were, on the other hand, stupid. And lame. And about getting attention. That’s why you’re going out of business. And most of us are okay with that.
Sad to see t-shirt hell go. And to think I’m spotting my anthrax the other white powder t-shirt as i read this.
great example of a micro-niche site that likely was doing killing it. so much better then reading about the VCs booting out a founder and another ex googler getting funded. as random and weird as this company is its what makes the whole web/startups space so interesting. as for the offensive t-shirts, not my style at all so whatev..
I hope this a publicity stunt, otherwise this guy is an idiot. I have no respect for people who do not respect money. You don’t just throw away something worth millions. At the very least, sell it and give the money to your favorite charities. Don’t be a jerk off Megatron!
Amen!
This guy can claim what he wants if it makes him sleep better at night, but he’s deluding himself if he honestly believes that the vast majority of his customers are buying his shirts for the “the irony or social commentary of their slogans.”
Seriously.
His customers and him seem to assume the false correlate that, “if i’ve managed to offend you, it demonstrates my superior comedic intellect”.
The whole “it’s only offensive to you because you don’t get what it is i’m saying” is such a tired defense for making tedious, contrived ‘jokes’.
This style of comedy amused me when I was a teenager, but I grew out of it; now, when I see people wearing these humorous/offensive tshirts, it suggests to me that they are about as socially conscious as I was at 17. They are, of course, always highly confident that they have reached the pinnacle of wit.
Most people “REALLY got” what you were about; but really, there’s not all that much to “get” about it.
At least you can still look forward to growing out of being smug and self-righteous over how wise and mature you are now.
Everyone whining because this poor businessman who condones and facilitates the expression of homophobia, racism and other forms of hate are complete fucking idiots.
He wasn’t shut down by the government. He caved in to the public expressing their dislike for his service and product and not enough were wanting his product for him to justify putting up with an angry public.
It is, in fact, the purest form of capitalism. If you have a product that nobody wants and enough people express their dislike over, your product goes away.
Frankly, I’ve never heard of this idiot’s side, but I’m glad he’s shutting down. I hope he ends up begging for change by a bridge somewhere. Fuck him.
Um, he was making money, according to his letter. He just got sick of dealing with the opinions of others… This is not a typical expression of capitalism whatsoever. The market made no decision in this case, only one individual did.
You should work on the reading skills a little. Assuming we take him at his word, he was doing fine from a business perspective, but was tired of the bullshit and worried about his employees.
Also, again taking him at his word, he was doing just the opposite of expressing racism, homophobia, etc. Unless, of course, you also think that Jonathon Swift was in favor of eating babies.
HA HA!
Oh thats great. So fresh. And so witty too! What a clever little boy you are!
This is the ultimate douchebag comment of the day. This person is obviously more concerned with speaking out of their ass than reading.
oh thats really interesting. Do go on. Continue.
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Too Bad.
How about -
Breastfeeding is OK if the mom is hot.
http://www.cafe...ess.com/feeders
I hope this is a publicity stunt.
Fuck those fucking fuckers. Thanks for the laughs.