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Tapout shirts, the douche bag tag?

#81
you guys realize, of course, that an integral element of every trendy fashion is the "General uprising" against it and what it "represents", right? by working to explicitly create a population of "haters", the perpetrators and perpetuators of any style attempt to give it traction to gain recognition and identity among all the other styles competing for attention space among consumers. this helps the "style" last longer than a style that has some passive fans but no active detractors, since detractors do way more advertising of a style than any fan does.

you guys are all practically wearing tapout shirts yourself, by proxy. :).
 
#83
john turner said:
you guys realize, of course, that an integral element of every trendy fashion is the "General uprising" against it and what it "represents", right? by working to explicitly create a population of "haters", the perpetrators and perpetuators of any style attempt to give it traction to gain recognition and identity among all the other styles competing for attention space among consumers. this helps the "style" last longer than a style that has some passive fans but no active detractors, since detractors do way more advertising of a style than any fan does.

you guys are all practically wearing tapout shirts yourself, by proxy. :).
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It's not the shirts that people are against. It's the douches that wear the stuff. I like some of the styles they have but, because so MANY of the people wearing them have little **** syndrome, it just puts a dark spot on the entire brand.
 
#84
john turner said:
you guys realize, of course, that an integral element of every trendy fashion is the "General uprising" against it and what it "represents", right? by working to explicitly create a population of "haters", the perpetrators and perpetuators of any style attempt to give it traction to gain recognition and identity among all the other styles competing for attention space among consumers. this helps the "style" last longer than a style that has some passive fans but no active detractors, since detractors do way more advertising of a style than any fan does.

you guys are all practically wearing tapout shirts yourself, by proxy. :).
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I disagree. Whether or not every trendy fashion begins as this "general uprising", only the rebellious minority actually fall into the camp who wants to perpetuate the uprising, while the actual trend is spread by the conformist masses who see it as the "next cool thing". Thus, at least theoretically, if you build the population of "haters" to be large enough then the masses will see that tapout shirts are douche tags, rather than the symbols of incredible amounts of awesome that they once thought they were.

Just for the sake of playing devil's advocate, anyway. ;)
 
#85
Personally I laugh when I see someone wearing them, its usually a skinny guy with some huge ego and an ugly girl friend.

Same thing goes for the 50 year old dudes that one day go out and buy a 30,000$ harley and 2,000$ in leather clothes all printed with harley stuff , those guys win biggest D bag . My grandpa was one of them at 60 he bought 2 harleys and he is not a rich guy over 50,000$ on bikes, tons of harley stuff thats all he wears and got his ear pierced, its embarrasing.
 
#87
Disraeli Gears said:
I disagree. Whether or not every trendy fashion begins as this "general uprising", only the rebellious minority actually fall into the camp who wants to perpetuate the uprising, while the actual trend is spread by the conformist masses who see it as the "next cool thing". Thus, at least theoretically, if you build the population of "haters" to be large enough then the masses will see that tapout shirts are douche tags, rather than the symbols of incredible amounts of awesome that they once thought they were.

Just for the sake of playing devil's advocate, anyway. ;)
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heh heh.

the fashion trends begin by crap being marketted. a few key 'plants' are either then seen wearing the stuff or 'go on the record' with their endorsement of it. a few other 'plants' end up decrying it, splitting the target population into 'lovers' and 'haters', and perpetuating dialogue on the products. without both sides, the dialogue doesn't happen - how many folks see a shirt they don't recognize in use and ask the wearer what it is? on the other hand, how many folks in this thread have asked what tapout is, for example?:eyebrow:

this dialogue extends the sales life of the original crap substantially beyond that of equivalent styles that never create any dialogue in the first place. for a time, styles with haters gain cred with others as "nonconformist" by the backlash created by those same haters. these styles are even briefly seen as iconoclastic and avant-garde on their way to obsolesence, which can give them a resurgence in popularity among the weak willed who strive to appear relevant.
 
#91
Deluge Of Sound said:
Shades of douchebaggery, a collection of essays by 6jase5.
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#95
There is an MMA gym 2 doors down from my tattoo studio, it is a douche factory.....Tapout clothes, they all carry fancy equipment bags, pay $60 a month membership dues, all to let the owner, Rob, beat em up. I mean really, If you are paying a dude to teach you to fight in your late twentys and early 30's, do you really think your not a douche?

and those are MMA fighters (at least according to them)
double douche to anyone wearing em who doesn't train

or...if your wife bought it for you, it's okay. She didn't mean to make you look like a jerk........maybe not

and hell is reserved for anyone with any Ed Hardy stuff and no tattoos
 
#96
chrisisnotevil said:
Beware. The emos have mastered irony.



Ever? Like, all the time? I love a good suit and respect those who make an effort to look dignified rather than trendy, but surely that's impractical? What if you're at the beach, or working on a car?
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They might have mastered irony, but the jokes are apparently lost on them (assuming that you're emo)...
 

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