23: T-shirts - Revision history

DollarStoreBa'al: This comic came out in 2005. In terms of trends, that is not 'recent'

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This comic came out in 2005. In terms of trends, that is not 'recent'

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Reverted edit 336211 by 108.162.245.166 to 323028

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FaviFake: /* Trivia */ Updated xkcd store link with Web archive link

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‎Trivia: Updated xkcd store link with Web archive link

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FaviFake at 13:58, 6 August 2023

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 ==Explanation==
-This comic satirizes the plethora of "snarky" phrase T-shirts that exist today. In the top-left, the character wears a typical (and real) snark shirt, "I see dumb people" (suggesting that the wearer thinks everyone else is dumb, while being a parody of the phrase "I see dead people" from the movie ''{{w|The Sixth Sense}}''). Other shirts shown also suggest that the wearer is better than everyone else, and perhaps the shirts increasingly suggest that the wearer is anti-social moving from top to bottom. Near the bottom of the screen, the T-shirts no longer attempt to be witty and simply have straightforward phrases like "go away" and "die". These are exaggerations of the message that the other more-realistic shirts broadcast.
+This comic satirizes a recent trend at the time of this comic's publication: shirts with 'snarky' writing on them. In the top-left, the character wears a typical (and real) snark shirt, "I see dumb people" (suggesting that the wearer thinks everyone else is dumb, while being a parody of the phrase "I see dead people" from the movie ''{{w|The Sixth Sense}}''). Other shirts shown also suggest that the wearer is better than everyone else, and perhaps the shirts increasingly suggest that the wearer is anti-social moving from top to bottom. Near the bottom of the screen, the T-shirts no longer attempt to be witty and simply have straightforward phrases like "go away" and "die". These are exaggerations of the message that the other more-realistic shirts broadcast.
 The final three shirts are also exaggerated shirts that suggest [[Randall]]'s view that people who wear snarky shirts are overcompensating for the fact that they are already alone or perhaps putting up a tough exterior to conceal their sadness that no one would talk to them anyway. Most notably "maybe if this T-shirt is witty enough, someone will finally love me" sums up what Randall thinks snarky shirts really say. There are shirts with this or a similar message, although it is unclear whether they were created before this comic or as a tribute to this comic.

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 | date      = October 26, 2005
 | title     = T-shirts
-| before    = <big><big><span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20060529063505/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=20#:~:text=1%3A10%20pm-,Wednesday%27s%20Drawing,-I%20saw%20the Original title</span>]: '''Wednesday's Drawing'''</big></big>
+| ognumber  = 24
 | image     = t-shirts.jpg
-| titletext = It's depressing how many of these are real shirts<br><br><span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20060529063505/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=20#:~:text=1%3A10%20pm-,Wednesday%27s%20Drawing,-I%20saw%20the Original caption</span>]: I saw the "problem" t-shirt (upper right) on campus a few days ago and suddenly felt so sad.
+| titletext = It's depressing how many of these are real shirts<br><br>''<span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20060529063505/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=20#:~:text=1%3A10%20pm-,Wednesday%27s%20Drawing,-I%20saw%20the Original caption</span>]:'' I saw the "problem" t-shirt (upper right) on campus a few days ago and suddenly felt so sad.
 }}
-This was the twenty-fourth comic originally posted to [[LiveJournal]]. The previous one was [[22: Barrel - Part 3]], and the next one was [[37: Hyphen]].
+This was the twenty-fourth comic [[LiveJournal|originally posted to LiveJournal]]. The previous one was [[22: Barrel - Part 3]], and the next one was [[37: Hyphen]].
 ==Explanation==

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 }}
 This was the twenty-fourth comic originally posted to [[LiveJournal]]. The previous one was [[22: Barrel - Part 3]], and the next one was [[37: Hyphen]].
 This comic satirizes the plethora of "snarky" phrase T-shirts that exist today. In the top-left, the character wears a typical (and real) snark shirt, "I see dumb people" (suggesting that the wearer thinks everyone else is dumb, while being a parody of the phrase "I see dead people" from the movie ''{{w|The Sixth Sense}}''). Other shirts shown also suggest that the wearer is better than everyone else, and perhaps the shirts increasingly suggest that the wearer is anti-social moving from top to bottom. Near the bottom of the screen, the T-shirts no longer attempt to be witty and simply have straightforward phrases like "go away" and "die". These are exaggerations of the message that the other more-realistic shirts broadcast.

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 | title     = T-shirts
 | before    = <big><big><span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20060529063505/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=20#:~:text=1%3A10%20pm-,Wednesday%27s%20Drawing,-I%20saw%20the Original title</span>]: '''Wednesday's Drawing'''</big></big>
-| image     = Flag of the Soviet Union.svg
+| image     = t-shirts.jpg
 | titletext = It's depressing how many of these are real shirts<br><br><span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20060529063505/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=20#:~:text=1%3A10%20pm-,Wednesday%27s%20Drawing,-I%20saw%20the Original caption</span>]: I saw the "problem" t-shirt (upper right) on campus a few days ago and suddenly felt so sad.
 }}

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 | title     = T-shirts
 | before    = <big><big><span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20060529063505/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=20#:~:text=1%3A10%20pm-,Wednesday%27s%20Drawing,-I%20saw%20the Original title</span>]: '''Wednesday's Drawing'''</big></big>
-| image     = t-shirts.jpg]][[File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg
+| image     = Flag of the Soviet Union.svg
 | titletext = It's depressing how many of these are real shirts<br><br><span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20060529063505/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=20#:~:text=1%3A10%20pm-,Wednesday%27s%20Drawing,-I%20saw%20the Original caption</span>]: I saw the "problem" t-shirt (upper right) on campus a few days ago and suddenly felt so sad.
 }}

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 ==Trivia==
-The last phrase of the comic was made into an actual T-shirt called "[https://store.xkcd.com/products/witty Witty]" sold at the xkcd store (as "maybe if this shirt is witty enough, someone will finally love me").
+The last sentence in the comic used to be [https://web.archive.org/web/20211215102218/https://store.xkcd.com/products/witty available as a T-shirt] in the xkcd store before it was [[Store|shut down]].
 {{comic discussion}}

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 [[Category:Posted on LiveJournal| 24]]
-[[Category:First day on xkcd]]
+[[Category:First day on xkcd.com]]
 [[Category:Checkered paper]]
 [[Category:Sarcasm]]
 [[Category:Comics with xkcd store products]]

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 The final three shirts are also exaggerated shirts that suggest [[Randall]]'s view that people who wear snarky shirts are overcompensating for the fact that they are already alone or perhaps putting up a tough exterior to conceal their sadness that no one would talk to them anyway. Most notably "maybe if this T-shirt is witty enough, someone will finally love me" sums up what Randall thinks snarky shirts really say. There are shirts with this or a similar message, although it is unclear whether they were created before this comic or as a tribute to this comic.
-In the title text, Randall says that it's depressing how many of the shirts in the comic actually exist in real life, further underlining the point that these shirts are overly arrogant, to the point where one might believe that Randall made them up. This highlights the inadequacy of substance within these T-shirts and the terror they invoke in Randall's mind.
+In the title text, Randall says that it's depressing how many of the shirts in the comic actually exist in real life, further underlining the point that these shirts are overly arrogant, to the point where one might believe that Randall made them up. This highlights the inadequacy of substance within these T-shirts and the emotions they invoke in Randall's mind, as shown in the original caption.
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