Got an email that says "please pay $33 + shipping to get a t-shirt with our ad on it"
There's people that would actually pay for something like this? This stuff is usually give away for free at conferences and then used as a sleeping dress, no?
OP acting like he seriously doesn't own a shirt with a logo on it.
Uhh yes. Often. First day on Earth?
Must be Ford Prefect within a couple days after being stranded on Earth. The only logical way they don't know about branded clothing.
I mean, I wear band merch all the time, which is basically t-shirts, hats and hoodies that advertise the band.
I was going to say the same. But I think there's a big difference between a band (art) and like the startup tshirts I've accumulated as "free swag" over the years (not art).
A band is cool and human expression. Some website that sells ads in emails is capitalist nonsense.
People pay for shirts with the nike logo on it all the time. Maybe folks think they're big enough now that they can do the same.
This is the main reason I hate branded clothing, With moth clothing they have branding on it and it's just an advert to the clothing brand. I personally hate this and try and find brands that are rather hidden / hard to see but also cost effective for me as I can't afford something super expensive especially for somethings small like clothing.
I stopped wearing any clothing with visible brand logos years ago. The only branding on my shirts is for bands and podcasts that I like.
Same, except I got a Kirkland brand t shirt that's thick and comfy as fuck and I'll rep Kirkland all day (except their dishwasher pods fuck those).
Ever heard of brands?
I developed a distate for visible branding on my clothes and other items around 7 years ago and ever since I've gone out of my way to not buy any clothes with logos on them and I've been scratching away / putting tape over the logos on everything else.
I feel like I became cognizant of this when I tried customizing my GTA Online character in something that wasn't a nice suit (street wear). After scroling through so much cotton billboard it made get how tacky and humiliating it is. Turned out to be much harder in real life to find non-branded shirts with cool designs, such utter bullshit.
This is why I love furry stuff. Nomad Complex, Hyena Agenda and Weasel Gear are great. I mean, I guess Nomad Complex and Hyena Agenda could technically be kinda considered branded since Nomad Complex puts their logo on the front of their hoodies and Hyena Agenda has some shirts that incorporate their logo into the design, but the designs are generally really good.
Edit: okay fine, it's one of the reasons why I love furry stuff.
I'm familiar with Hyena Agenda. A friend showed me their shirts because he is one. Never before been so jealous.
You know you don't have to be a furry to buy furry stuff, ye? It's not like anyone's checking for a "furcard" or anything.
Besides: for those of y'all boycotting US goods, Nomad Complex is Canadian. It actually sucks for those of us in the US because afaik, Nomad Complex has stated that they're not attending US furcons anymore. They've apparently had issues with immigration and customs prior to Trump, and they've decided (and for good reason) not to enter the US for the foreseeable future.
Why would I want an anthropomorphic hyena over my shirts? It's still a kind of branding.
...are you literally wanting plain colored t-shirts? I mean, those exist, but... They have other shirts that don't say "Hyena Agenda" on them.
That's why you love furry stuff?
No, but it's one of many. c:
Some random ass site making shirts will always be funny to me because why would I wear an ad for a odt to pdf converter
I don't get the appeal either, the idea of paying a company to advertise for them always struck me as odd, but I understand a lot of people, including content creators, mainly make money off merch, so I don't hold it against them.
Isn't that an open source project? How else do you want them to make money?
Just like a band shirt, no?
from my perspective there are two types of t-shirt acquisitions: a) you need cloths b) you want to spread a message.
i would think most of the fashion brand t-shirts fall mainly into a) with a little bit of c) you want to be part of a superior group
most of the funny t-shirts and band-t-shirts fall into category b) and basically you also place yourself into a certain group but into a smaller, more specific one. the big fashion brands are arbitrary so many people can identify with them. they don't want to be associated with a real message, because then some people would be excluded from wearing that brand.
so the t-shirt presented as exhibit 1) certainly falls into category b). but i really can not come up with a message you want to send by wearing the t-shirt: it's not the "font-nerd" it's not the "web-dev-nerd" or anything like this. how big is the overlap of star-wars-fans and font-awesome users?
i think at the end it's just a marketing department that jumps on the latest bandwagon of internet memes in the hope that they can gain some popularity.
they could produce t-shirts that are fun to wear and spread the brand more subtle, but in this case i completely agree with op: this is a very strange campaign. and i also think that the comments here comparing this with fashion brands completely miss the point.
Glad you asked me what it is. So you see, there are things call webpages. Yes, they are pages on the web. Guess what, there are people making them. Shocking, right? So part of the webpage…
Idk what's the organisation structure, but they can be used as a gift for donators. The EFF does that and has pretty cool original tshirts than change every few years.
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