{"id":6386,"date":"2009-01-26T18:51:22","date_gmt":"2009-01-27T00:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=6386"},"modified":"2009-01-26T18:52:09","modified_gmt":"2009-01-27T00:52:09","slug":"t-shirt-hell-shuts-down-humorless-oafs-to-blame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2009\/01\/t-shirt-hell-shuts-down-humorless-oafs-to-blame\/","title":{"rendered":"T-Shirt Hell Shuts Down. Humorless Oafs to Blame."},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s not that the snarky\/satirical t-shirt market was cornered. It’s just that you figure T-Shirt Hell<\/a> would at least survive a full decade before being pushed by the wayside. <\/p>\n

This bit of Sunshine Megatron’s, owner and operator of T-Shirt Hell, outgoing letter explains a lot.
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\nI 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\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve accomplished that and am satisfied with what we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve put out. I made a shitload of dough along the way. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve done cocaine off the better body parts of supermodels. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve even raped and killed a mountain panda in the hills of Shaanxi. But these perks are besides the point.<\/p>\n

I just don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t feel like dealing with idiots anymore.<\/a> I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll 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 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not gay if you beat them up afterwards\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. 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\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been besieged with emails from angry people complaining about the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153fact\u00e2\u20ac\u009d that the shirt is hate speech or that we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re promoting gay bashing and should take it down immediately.<\/p>\n

Comments like:<\/p>\n

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Now, I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t say I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m surprised we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re 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, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The School Shootings Tour\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, it happened when we did our \u00e2\u20ac\u0153What About All The Good Things Hitler Did\u00e2\u20ac\u009d shirt, it happened when we did our \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Arrest Black Babies Before They Become Criminals\u00e2\u20ac\u009d shirt (boy did it happen then). It used to happen all the time when we did more social commentary and didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t 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\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t push the envelope as much anymore\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6and I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t say I feel good about having caved in.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Techcrunch has the entire letter ready for reading<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On the bright side, there’s a 10% off going out of business sale<\/a>. Their pain is pleasure for your wallet.<\/p>\n

(via 7d, techcrunch<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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