Most Offensive Valentine's Day Shirt EVER

The question being is how many people consider being the MOST offensive to be a major selling point?

Is that REALLY the market that has a lot of potential sales? How big is that niche?

Whatever it is, it missed the target, as you pointed out those slogans could be more offensive with the right designs on them

This is one of the few times I would have any respect for the "FREE" market ; sales would tell the tale,....as it were. If someone wants to gamble resources on something that MAY or MAY NOT sell,.....well,................go for it.
It would not bother me in the slightest if the producer MADE or LOST a million dollars,.......or ten. TASTE -does not equal- market value.

....anyway,......soooooooo,...
the "question" REALLY IS "MOST OFFENSIVE" ( or not )----see title of post

"Should non-PC items sell,.....or not,....is a silly question,..........because IN REALITY,....they either DO,....................................or NOT. End of question.

That was the question I was asking, how many sales are going to be generated by touting the specious claim of being the MOST offensive?

It's not a question of FREE markets since people are just as FREE not to buy it as people are to sell it.

So is that "race to the bottom" of trying to be the MOST OFFENSIVE worth what sales are going to be made? How many people are actually going to be interested enough to pay for it?

Got that straight

Wait, you read the article, then commented on it, and SHE failed? ah yea , just admit its funny and move on..

It's not a success unless it sells the shirts. How many have bought them? None of the people commenting have indicated that they would so that's a FAIL

ok.. i repeat..Wait, you read the article, then commented on it, and SHE failed? ah yea , just admit its funny and move on..

Very low standards,isn't it? Repeating it doesn't make it any more relevant. You didn't read the whole thing since it takes a lot more interest than reading and commenting.

"this may be the perfect t-shirt for you. 4 color screen print (white, pink, orange, and black on Sky Blue shirt) shown here on a woman's fitted cut."

It's an obvious sales pitch. It's a bit funny, but that doesn't sell any shirts.

Yes, I read the article and commented on it, and she failed.
You see, I can actually comment on things I DON'T like.
I will not admit it's funny because it's not funny.
If you think that's funny, you have the sense of humor of Charles Manson.

LOL, she is quite plump, looks like she'll eat her hand any second.

I don't know what you're talking about.

I wouldn't say we're angry. I'd say we're disappointed in humanity. It's a disgrace, nothing more, nothing less, and merely a reflection of a warped society filled with dim-witted children trying to stand out and be 'cool'

WHAT.

It's not the same principle at all. We're not trying to kill you because you made the shirt. We just want to make people aware that you're complete jackasses for supporting such a crude joke.

Fuck Muhammad, he was a pedophile... Muslims have a right to be offended, but they cannot threaten people because it. No one has a right to tell people what they can and can't say, but on that same token, we can't demand people not get offended, or say its silly that they do [actually, you can say it...].

We as Americans have every right to be pissed off and offended about this shirt, though, most of us will try to defend your right and freedom to the death.

See the difference?

The difference is that there are a lot of things more offensive so the claim that particular shirt is the MOST offensive is wildly inaccurate.

Especially since the degree is highly subjective to others drawings of Mohammed are a LOT more offensive than that.

AH i see what you're getting at. I can agree it's very subjective, but Muhammad drawings are typically stick figures. In this case it's pretty clear what the intention is [i know its subjective, but much less than a stick figure], which really serves no greater purpose than piss people off and draw on fairly recent horrid memories.

The Muhammad drawings are almost a different case all together. At least with those, there is a point to be made. If people were threatening the makers of the shirt, then i would crusade for shirt makers, but it's just not the case

The marketing ploy fails since it can't justify the claim to being the MOST offensive since a lot of other things can be shown to be more.

All it has is the controversy it can try to drum up because the design is only average and it has nothing else to recommend it.

You speak the truth. It's a really desperate attempt at that. I wonder who really bought it?

I just want to say to EthicalVegan; great response. I'm sorry your friends were on that flight, I can't imagine what they were going through right before they perished, it makes me shudder. This is in no way funny to me at all and the only people who find this funny lack empathy and respect for others.

You love really stupid things.

Meh, it's freedom, can't say freedom is stupid. It's offensive and in poor taste, but there are a lot of people who, even if offended, would and do die to protect the right to create such a thing.

I didn't say freedom was stupid. I said liking the fact that the shirt was created by an American is stupid.

If that's what you meant, than yes, Fact. He simply said he loves the fact that it exists, which isn't quite supporting the shirt, but i get what you're saying now.

From a freedom of speech standpoint, yes, I'm glad this is a nation where people are free to make something like this.
But I'm also sad that this is a nation where people would want to make something like this.

put in a different context with some gruesome images that could be a lot more offensive than this

Yepper---I think it has more "bite" as a simple "one liner". ( That was my point,....as something billed as the "MOST offensive..." well, I think you could pump things up from there a bit. )

sure.

How soon they forget... Maybe if they heard the horrid sound of people hitting pavement and awnings, they'd re-think it. It doesn't even make any fucking sense, what does it have to do with valentines day? It has everything to do with pissing on the innocent dead. I find it funny the post is tagged with "Iraq" though.

Maybe they should wear this into a firehouse and see how long they last before an axe goes through their face. People did fall for others, even for the fuckers who made the shirt.

i accept your firehouse challenge

Well, you see it's a play on the old phrase "I'm falling for you," which is similar to "I'm falling in love with you." The illustrator puts it in the context of September 11th, punning on "falling" to relate to the towers. Does that help?

People who "like" it are just loving the attention of being all, "LOOKIT ME! I'M OFFENSIVE! I'M CHALLENGING YOUR SOCIAL MOIRES!" It's not even a joke or a statement, it's just... nothing. Something for people to get attention with and act all rebellious about. "What're YOU looking at, this is America and I can wear what I want!" Boring.

But it doesn't make sense as a joke or humorous statement. We all know what "Falling For You" means, but what do the towers "falling" have to do with love? You could take any tragic event and put some sort of "cute" saying that is mildly relevant but that doesn't make it amusing. Maybe an oil-soaked pelican with the phrase, "I'm in hot water now!" How adorable.

Do it, you won't...

Oh wow, clever... Yea, I understood that part of it, thanks captain obvious, it's really not that ground breaking, there's just no point in using the towers or depicting people jumping. You can use the same words with trees being cut down, and achieve an almost better affect, there's no need to bring a tragedy into the mix.

I'd buy that, does that make me badass and cool? Or just a jackass...

I'm assuming the latter.

Buddhas do not make fun of tragedies.

Meh, sometimes I do, I think we're all guilty of poor-taste jokes every once in a while, but it's important people speak out against it, how can we learn/grow/change if everyone keeps quiet? This is just childish beyond all childish, and a stupid marketing ploy of an ancient meme... no surprise really...

done it they told to get the fuck out and it was at my brothers station so now they think he's an ass for bringing me

Lol

If you look closely at the tower on the left there are people falling out of it...

Not people, stick figures, how offensive are those? Stick figures don't bleed

I guess... its just that what they are representing are people who had to jump to their deaths to avoid being killed by fire... which is kinda fucked up. Not exactly the cutest valentines day shirt ever.

Not the cutest, but certainly not the most offensive either, so it fails on all standards to live up to the hype since it is only mediocre.

Havent seen a more offensive one personally but im sure one is out there true.

or not

and stick figures do bleed ever been to stickdeath.com?

Yes I have actually since a teacher brought it up as examples in a class on Flash. It is more outrageous than that drawing on that T-Shirt, but certainly you're not equating lines and circles even with photos of blood are you? Much less comparing them to actual blood is ridiculous.

Photos of blood are least one abstract representation removed from actual blood while lines and symbols are removed even more from photos. So how can such a crude representation as even those at stick death be the MOST offensive, and even less that T-shirt?

so for it to be offensive, it has to have blood?

a blood donor tshirt is more offensive than a shirt using 9/11 as a joke? lol ok

So stabbing you with a stick figure knife would kill you from loss of blood?

Niether is offensive that's the WHOLE point! It's just a marketing ploy that was an EPIC FAIL.

At least blood donor t-shirts don't try to be offensive and use a better strategy of charity to sell

CafePress sucks. They use iron-on transfers. I screen print using real ink.

GO quality scree-printing ! +^d !