Flaky Pudding
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Ugh.....I just looked up the person who manufactured this trash and they are just as much a "crude dude" as I had thought. He goes by the name Sunshine Megatron (most likely a combination of Care Bears character Sunshine Bear and Transformers villain Megatron). Here is the "apology" (I use that term very loosely) that he had posted:With all this talk about Ariana Grande and the Manchester Bombings, that reminded me. You will not believe this awful thing I discovered last week. This is by far one of the most sick, disgusting, offensive, vile, cruel, mean spirited, twisted, insulting, disrespectful, ungodly, borderline evil, vomit inducing, blood boiling, infuriating "jokes" I've ever seen in my life.
Yes, your eyes do not deceive you. This is a real, legit t-shirt produced by an actual company. WHY!? That is by far one of the most despicable shirts out there. Ariana Grande STILL suffers PTSD from that tragedy and some horrible person that it would be a good idea to joke about that. Ariana can't even TALK about the tragedy herself, imagine how awful she would feel if she saw someone wearing a t-shirt with such a hateful slogan on it. She might even go into actual depression. Plus, to throw fuel on the already offensive fire this shirt came out only ONE WEEK after the bombing even happened! I was at a loss of words when I discovered the fact that a real t-shirt manufacturing business would not only do something this incredibly disrespectful but also have absolutely no concept of too soon at the same time. Heck, even Seth MacFarlane has said that he knows not to joke about recent tragedies and that's SETH FREAKING MACFARLANE! That's right, the people who made this shirt outdid Family Guy of all things in terms of being outright offensive and just plain cruel for absolutely no reason whatsoever. Nobody asked for this, this "joke" is completely uncalled for and I kinda doubt that it actually made many people laugh. Whoever thought it was clever and funny to put such a mean spirited quote on a shirt should feel ashamed of him/herself.
Thank you for contacting us at T-Shirt ****. Why does this shirt bother you when our other shirts dont? Simply because children were involved? Are their lives more valuable than adults?
Im sure you can tell from our website, we specialize in over-the-edge, offensive humor. There are many comedians who do not sensor their comedy. If they did, there would be far less comedy in the world. We are not making any kind of political statement by these shirts, nor are we trying to say we support or trivialize these events. But we dont think certain events should be off-limits just because of their nature or because of how recently it happened. If people are very offended, they should remember this is comedy, and they should focus their efforts not on comedians who might find some slight humor in a tragedy, but on the actual event or those affected. Not on a humor t-shirt website. Do you think Louis CK ,Daniel Tosh or Sarah Silverman sensor their comedy? Of course not. Do you not think sometimes a little comic relief is needed in a very stressful world? I do.
In the past we have released other shirts immediately after tragedies that you might find equally as offensive:
I surfed the Tsunami (immediately after the huge tsunami struck)
Great White Kills all 100 of its Fans (after the fire during their concert)
Whitney Houston Beats Bobby Brown to Death
Pirating Movies Saves Lives (with Batman Logo, after the Colorado movie theater shooting)
School Shooting Tour (listing of schools in the form of a concert tour)
Lunch Glocks (kids lunch box packed with sandwich and gun)
123 out of 124 high school students agree, Viva Aruba!
International Age of Consent Tour (showing teachers who were convicted of abusing their students)
There are many more that I could list, but if youve purchased from us before, you already know this. Why is only this one distasteful? For a company specializing in comedy that is not taking any kind of political or social statement in the world, but simply finding comedy any where it can, (and with a name such as T-Shirt ****), I thin we are doing exactly what we are supposed to be doing, and there are a huge number of people who understand this.
That is no apology. That is just direct proof that they can't see their own hate. This Sunshine Megatron guy believes that just because something is a "joke" makes it okay. While guess what? Hatred does not equal comedy. There are some things you just shouldn't make fun of, plain and simple. I enjoy dark comedy myself, being a huge fan of nearly everything on [adult swim]'s line up with a few exceptions. But I would never in a million years laugh at something so distasteful.