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?
I mean, I wear band merch all the time, which is basically t-shirts, hats and hoodies that advertise the band.
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).
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.
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.
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.
Ever heard of brands?
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…
my favorite feature on this image every time I see it is the man on the right. pretty sure he is not amused about having to listen to what is happening behind him
I kinda think of it as a memento mori… he’s like: yep, that was me, 20 years ago… keep the sunglasses on son, now lean in and put your hand on her neck… yep, I remember those days…
The not-quite-visible whitehaired person to the left only adds to the effect. Like: this is the inevitable course of your life, buddy.
Just like a band shirt, no?
Isn’t that an open source project? How else do you want them to make money?
The old version from years ago was, the current version isn’t. (Hence the existence of fork awesome)
Don’t think they are open source but they do provide a ton of free, high quality icons. Presumably they make money off the organizations paying for the icon packs.
I’m not sure what OP has against them. He should take a look at how Nike has hypnotized a portion of the population into giving them money for shoes with a check mark.
Nothing against them, it’s just that it totally looks like a conference gift shirt, but indeed fashion brands brainwashed us to daily wear ads
I love my Jet Lag: The Game hat. I would love if more people subscribed to Nebula
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.
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
In their minds, they’re wearing something to show off.
