Topic: Furry artwork T-Shirts on Redbubble... opinion?

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I only just now discovered this website (I was googling "Lightning Dogs, to see if such a parody existed, came across an awesome parody of the Thundercats logo, sadly sized a bit too small on the shirt) and I've been digging through it for the past 2 hours, and I happened upon this.

http://www.redbubble.com/people/rainbowdropz/works/8546883-baby-fox-mcloud-tee

Of course, anyone from here looking at that will agree that's the image from here: http://e621.net/post/show/74783/2003-canine-chibi-clothing-cute-fangs-fox-fox_mccl and somebody just yanked the art and put it on a shirt without asking the artist (unless the person selling the shirt actually -is- the artist)

Yes yes, sure sure, profiting off the artwork of another is rude, but I also see just as many shirts posted on the site by artists, like this one: http://www.redbubble.com/people/edgedestroys/works/5005192-bandito-wolf#comment-52281835

I even see some shirts of Renard's characters on there.
http://www.redbubble.com/people/psurg/works/9032008-truxton

I actually think this is pretty neat, I mean... if Lando, Zen, Wolfblade, 0r0ch1 and all the other awesome artist out there in internetz land hopped on the bandwagon and started up their own personal accounts on Redbubble and started churning out shirts that are as good looking as their art (and preferably PG 13, as I don't think wearing pornography in public would be very well accepted) I think that would be awesome as hell.

But then maybe that's just me and I'm a soul-less bastard who wants furry to "go mainstream" and ruin its exclusivity and coolness.

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Silly_Lil_Foxcub said:
But then maybe that's just me and I'm a soul-less bastard who wants furry to "go mainstream" and ruin its exclusivity and coolness.

I like it.
More furries could be bullied into normalcy by society if they wore these gigantic target-marker shirts for a while.
"Please place prejudice here."

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Laevateinn said:
I like it.
More furries could be bullied into normalcy by society if they wore these gigantic target-marker shirts for a while.
"Please place prejudice here."

Unless... they only wore them to cons, or meets or something where being bullied for wearing such things would be less likely to occur.

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The cute Fox McCloud one would probably be pretty normal in public.

And last I checked it is strange to have a fetish "go mainstream"

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I was just mocking the "elitist / exclusivist" attitudes in general that crop up in just about every fandom. I like the shirts, but then I half-expected people to be all like "zomg, this is why we can't have nice things! Next thing you know, jean companies will be putting angsty-looking anthro skunks on ridiculously wide-legged pants and selling them in JC Penny's and Sears will start selling shirts portraying the Looney Tunes characters in urban 'hip-hop' clothing with angry sneers!"

I mean, in the J-Rock fandom for instance...

You wouldn't believe the amount of bitching there was when Dir en grey t-shirts and CDs started showing up in Hot Topic back in like, 2006, fangirls and fanboys alike acted like it was going to be the end of the world. By now most of those people, the so-called "true followers / been around since they were still Visual Kei and not Uhmurricanized Mainstream Screamo-Thrash-Sludgecore" type fans, jumped ship to K-Pop to maintain their "I like something that nobody else likes" cred.

And furry is one of those odd things that's a fetish -and- a fandom, kinda like how "Jew" is a race -and- a religion, lol.

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