Someone mentioned College Station in a thread the other day and I googled to see if it was an actual college. This pic came up in the image results.
Not a gamer whatsoever, but I am aware of GamerGate and some stuff like that. I have no doubt there are gamers that hate minorities, but is it a widespread problem? Or is this t-shirt going against some belief that all gamers are racist?
Description for those who can’t open links at work, the shirt says:
Summary
Yes, I’m a gamer and yes I hate minorities.
FWIW, when I saw it I assumed it was for real and if I saw someone wearing it I would take it that way.
I don’t know specifically about this slogan, but sellers make up all kinds of crazy slogans with the hopes of selling at least one. With on-demand printing, there is no cost associated with selling shirts with slogans on them. The seller can create 1000’s of pictures of shirts with slogans, but they don’t have any inventory or do any fulfillment. When a sale comes in, it’s forwarded to a 3rd-party printer who will print the shirt and drop ship it to the buyer. You may have seen similar sites like cafepress.com where you can order all kinds of stuff with slogans and pictures on it. People can create custom cafepress storefronts with whatever images and slogans they like and all the orders and sales go through cafepress. The owner of the storefront gets a certain cut of the sales. So many times when you see pics like the one you found, it’s from some bozo making a storefront with whatever wacko slogans they come up with. It doesn’t cost anything to make the storefront, so they’re free to create as many slogans as they like risk-free.
Yeah, no matter where you find them they are always loud. Especially if they can be anonymous while doing so.
I don’t remember exactly, it was something about a school rivalry and one of the College Station links had links to shirts with non-official school slogans. This came up second in a link for a shirt that read something like “Leave Collage Station Normal.” I don’t remember the other school.
The internet: where an idea can benefit both the best of us and the worst of us at the same time.
A few years back, I used Cafe Press to get some of my art printed on various things for friends and relatives. They had no problem doing water bottles or mugs, but wouldn’t let me do t-shirts because they couldn’t be sure it was my original art. What?
The other school is University of Texas at Austin. The slogan “Leave College Station Normal” was created in response to the “Keep Austin Weird” slogan that is popular among the students at UT.
Just to mention: College Station is a city, not a college. It is home to Texas A&M University. There is also a College Station, Arkansas, with about 600 population.
That’s not the website, though, in the URL. And I don’t see anything on that website other than a placeholder page).
Here’s what I see at (which seems to be) their store URL:
The same Hear our Voice logo is used as in the webpage up top. If you go to the exact url, you find this:
That page isn’t as extensive, but has “Save The Planet” type tee-shirts which I don’t think would be associated with right-wing groups.
It’s kind of puzzling. I would say somebody is maybe appropriating the “Hear Our Voice” brand, but the exact shop URL doesn’t seem to have anything white-power on it.
This is the actual page where I found the t-shirt. For some reason, I can’t see photos on their home page, but it seems to be a run of the mill clothing store.
