Wear a shirt for a Meme you don't understand...

[El Luck]

No not really, a t-shirt with a random picture on it that might be a reference to something on the internet and the person wearing it not knowing this is not really in poor form. In anyway, what so ever. And it really isn't comparable to the whole band t-shirt thing.

 

[DoPo]

It's a shirt, get over it.

I've got far more respect for the "I bought it because I like the look of it" line of thinking. That's perfectly understandable. Sure, you CAN buy something because the design is oh so deep and you know the in depth back story behind it, but it's a pretentious tosser that expects and/or demands it of other people.

Besides, memes are essentially worthless, you can do whatever the hell you like with them.

Whilst you're entitled to your opinion: Do you not think it's poor form to wear something without some passing knowledge of it.

No, because I don't think they would be subjected to a thorough questioning related to the shirt. Which would be the only rational reason it could be considered "poor form". Unless there is another you can think of? I mean something with real ramifications associated with it.

"It's just a shirt" yet again.

 

[Padwolf]

I'm in the "it's just a shirt" category. However, that being said, if someone wore a shirt and claimed to know everything about it but didn't then I would have to say "wha?". I actually have an example of this. My old friend once wore a Rolling Stones t-shirt when we were young. She claimed to be a big fan of them. My dad is a massive fan, you could ask him anything about the band and he will know the answer. My friend knew this. She came round my house wearing the Rolling Stones t-shirt. My dad noticed it and started asking her questions, she couldn't name a song, any of the band members and didn't know any of the albums. She was highly embarrassed about it and was very awkward after. Funnily enough she never wore the t-shirt again.

 

[Lieju]

but question is, people wearing a net-culture or meme shirt without knowing what the particular context is, is it just as bad as people wearing t-shirts for bands they've never heard of?

Wearing T-shirts for bands you've never heard of is not the worst thing ever.

Surely that is wearing cat-shirts if they don't have cats themselves?

I am just so annoyed by people doing that.
If you don't have a cat, your shirt will only send a confusing message, stop doing it.


Seriously though, who cares?
Also how would she have known it even was a thing, and not just a cute kitty?

 

[Thaluikhain]

As long as it's not a Che Guevara shirt worn by someone with no knowledge of him.

 

[Guitarmasterx7]

If the meme is a meme because of something that's immediately apparent visually then what's there to understand? Like someone who has never seen doge might like a shirt with doge on it because its a funny picture of a dog.

But yes, it's leaps and bounds worse than wearing a shirt of a band you've never heard of because you're wearing a meme shirt.

 

[Luminous_Umbra]

I feel one should at least have some idea of what an image on a shirt is, to at minimum prevent an awkward situation where a logo or something on a shirt belongs to a group or whatever of something you don't want to associate with.

 

[WindKnight]

About the only way I could see this being a problem is similar to the old Chinese character tattoo problem (specifically, getting chinese characters tattooed on your body when you don't understand them, and hoping the tattooist is actually writing what you asked for there instead of 'f***ing white-trash' or 'stupid white b****').

Generally speaking, unless the meme has some unfortunate connotations their not aware of, no problem

 

[viscomica]

So my mother just came in to show off her (admittedly kinda cool) new t-shirt, it's an MLP cross over... with Pusheen Cat on it, so I ask her in wonderment; "Do you know what Pusheen Cat is?" to which she replies; "Nope," my face drops and I call her a towny (it's an old world for a follower of trends who doesn't get why the trend is trendy, like people wearing a Led Zepplin shirt without ever having heard of Led Zepplin).

Now obviously at some point I'll show her Pusheen Cat, but question is, people wearing a net-culture or meme shirt without knowing what the particular context is, is it just as bad as people wearing t-shirts for bands they've never heard of?

I can accept that someone picked a t-shirt up because they thought it was cool and didn't even know it's supposed to be a meme. That's quite possible and I wouldn't judge. But wearing t-shirts for bands one never even heard of is unacceptable. I mean, most of the time it's fairly obvious it's a band in the t-shirt and again, most of the time they are pretty well-known bands (as in, it's impossible you're living in this world and never ever heard of them). Why would you wear something from Led Zeppelin or Deep Purple if you never listened to their music? It strikes me as the kind of thing a poser would do. I wouldn't go as far as to say it disgusts me (that would be too over the top) but it does baffle me.

 

[Spider RedNight]

I don't really judge someone on what they wear but I prefer if they have at least SOME idea. I don't hand out compliments so I'm sincere when I say "hey I like your shirt". I can tell when someone doesn't know what they're wearing if they reply with an awkward "thanks" and by extension it makes ME feel incredibly awkward.

Personally, I never wear something unless I'm prepared to talk about it just in case it's a conversation starter

 

[Remus]

The closest I have to a shirt with a meme is a stick figure of 2 people rowing, and under it, says "Paddle faster, I hear banjos". I'm not meta enough to wear shirts with classic cultural icons or internet catchphrases. My shirts just make people laugh because they say stupid things that most people agree with, so that even though they may not remember my face, they'll remember that chuckle they got waiting in line in front of me. With that in mind, I've had guys snap pictures of me on their phone, then ask "Where'd you get that shirt?" while being told by employers "You can't wear that!" over the same exact T. Guess casual work environment doesn't include putting a smile on a customer's face just by my very presence.

 

[Flutterguy]

Because people who classify others based on their choice of entertainment might misjudge her?

Who cares. It's a very limited way of 'understanding' people employed by people too self absorbed or idiotic to reason on people by their actions, presence, vocabulary, ability to express their thoughts or fathom what said thoughts imply.

Personally, I buy plain shirts in multicolored 5 packs or secondhand.

 

[Augustine]

If we are to start policing this sort of thing, I would start with an army of people out there, wearing Che Guevara merchandise.
Then we can work our way down from there...

 

[Creator002]

I'm a guy who saw a cool Princess Mononoke T-shirt online, ordered it, and made sure to rent and watch the movie before the T-shirt arrived so I wouldn't go around with a T-shirt with a movie I knew squat about.

If you wear a T-shirt, it's always a good idea to find out what it's about.

I'm like this. I saw Super Sonico pictures and liked the design, downloaded some backgrounds then went and found out what I could about the character. I now have a PVC figure (which cost a lot and broke a bit (my fault a bit too)) and ordered some T-shirts. I've even seen a bit of the anime, which I'm not a huge fan of animes to begin with.