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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.

OP acting like he seriously doesn't own a shirt with a logo on it.

Uhh yes. Often. First day on Earth?

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.

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.

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.

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…

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.

People pay huge amounts of money for clothes with adverts on them.

Isn't that an open source project? How else do you want them to make money?

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

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.

In their minds, they're wearing something to show off.

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.

I love my Jet Lag: The Game hat. I would love if more people subscribed to Nebula

Um. If you order by May 25th, they will ship it three weeks into the past? Or do they need to know by May 25th 2025 to get it to you on time by May 4th 2026?

I despise branded clothing but that does look like something funny to wear.