This is the second time today I've Turkey spelled this way. First time was on a travel programme on TV. They didn't call Italy Italia, so why this? Did I miss something?
I don't remember the details now, but a few years ago, Turkiye was big in the news because something bad was happening there. Maybe some kind of humanitarian crisis or something, I really don't remember. But at that time, there was this mass consensus that seemed to come out of nowhere and everywhere at once that we should be spelling the name of the country the way the Turkish people do, and so the media and lots of people switched over to this spelling.
How should I know? I'm not the boss of country names. I was just telling that other poster what I remembered of why people started doing it for Turkiye.
I went through the last two pages of posts (ordered by "active"), and you're right. There were maybe four good ones, and two noteworthy for extreme cringe, the rest was all boring or stupid.
I'm 83% sure it's fake. The alignment of the letters is all perfectly even, when the shirt isn't. But it looks like some shadow gradient effect was applied to try to match the shirt.
I feel like they started with a real image and asked ai to clean it up, and add the shirt text, leading to things like the svedka's V having the bottom cut off, and the camel logo looking all wavy.
I don't think it's AI generated.
It just looks like a low-res image of a guy buying alcohol, that someone stole to make an admittedly fantastic joke of a shirt.
It certainly is, I would have used a different version of a "stick up the ass shirt" to convey my contempt for people who can't joke, had I used Abominable Intelligence to generate it.
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It’s like a shitpost on a shirt. You have absolutely no idea where this guy’s values lie (or if he has any). It’s perfect.
He values alcohol.
And not raning out of it.
I never met a person who shitposts in reality who was tolerable in any way
Regrettably, the author of the image doesn't value the correct pronunciation of ‘Iran’.
Personally I've never met a person who shitposts in reality
Now he's between Iraq and a hard place.
Anyone Hungary for country puns? No? We should probably quit them cold Turkiye
Kenya stop already??
Pretty Laos-y way to ask…
mexico
UK hun?
This is the second time today I've Turkey spelled this way. First time was on a travel programme on TV. They didn't call Italy Italia, so why this? Did I miss something?
They got annoyed that the name was used for a bird as well so they changed it internationally to the way they write it themselves.
I don't remember the details now, but a few years ago, Turkiye was big in the news because something bad was happening there. Maybe some kind of humanitarian crisis or something, I really don't remember. But at that time, there was this mass consensus that seemed to come out of nowhere and everywhere at once that we should be spelling the name of the country the way the Turkish people do, and so the media and lots of people switched over to this spelling.
Ok thanks. I'm amazed it passed me by.
So why aren't we doing it for every other country? Why just Turkey?
How should I know? I'm not the boss of country names. I was just telling that other poster what I remembered of why people started doing it for Turkiye.
Why are you getting snarky? It's an open forum. People are allowed to pose questions. If you don't have an answer, just don't reply.
This one is less "Shirts That Go Hard", and more "Shirts That Go Stupid".
Feel like that described the majority of shirts posted to communities like this lol
I went through the last two pages of posts (ordered by "active"), and you're right. There were maybe four good ones, and two noteworthy for extreme cringe, the rest was all boring or stupid.
I always assume the Facebook ads with the bad mock-up of shit like this wouldn't even turn out half this good.
I'm 83% sure it's fake. The alignment of the letters is all perfectly even, when the shirt isn't. But it looks like some shadow gradient effect was applied to try to match the shirt.
Looks like it might be simply gimped rather than AIed.
Yah, I don't think it's AI at all.
Fake doesn't mean AI.
Yeah, didn't intend to imply that's what you meant, just commenting that it's a rare fake these days.
Standard common occurrence in apparel
Relevant xkcd
But it breaks rule 4
The bottle labels on the bottles looks weirdly half AI
I don't think so. It just seems like they started with a low-res image. Other details are too good for AI.
I feel like they started with a real image and asked ai to clean it up, and add the shirt text, leading to things like the svedka's V having the bottom cut off, and the camel logo looking all wavy.
Damn. I can't unsee that it isn't looking correct, now. Lame
Zoom in on the top left of the screen, there's weird AI-like artifacting in the Camel text and the price tags to the left
I don't think it's AI generated.
It just looks like a low-res image of a guy buying alcohol, that someone stole to make an admittedly fantastic joke of a shirt.
Title: How to get religious radicals on both sides to murder you
I dont get it
You have to mispronounce Iran to get it.
Technically you need to mispronounce both
I recognize those tequila bottles in the top right!
Espolon?
It’s one I like for making margaritas
Oman
It's posts like these that make me wish we had downvotes here.
Is this more your speed?
I love that shirt. Is it real?
It could be, there are alot worse out there already.
Be the screen printer you want to be.
Time to dust off my skills making Obey giant shirts in my 20s.
It certainly is, I would have used a different version of a "stick up the ass shirt" to convey my contempt for people who can't joke, had I used Abominable Intelligence to generate it.
How have I not seen Abominable Intelligence until now? I love it, made me think of Artifactual Intelligence.