Hate Mail, Threats Close 'Offensive' T-Shirt Hell Site

Hate Mail, Threats Close 'Offensive' T-Shirt Hell Site

www.news.com.au

THE man behind T-shirts emblazoned with slogans including “Arrest black babies before they become criminals” and “Nothing runs like a queer” is shutting shop after on ongoing barrage of hate mail and death threats.

Aaron Landau Schwarz, aka “Sunshine Megatron”, will close his T-Shirt Hell website because he is sick of complaints from “misguided morons” that can’t see the irony of his affronting repertoire.

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Wow, it's the end of an era. Sunshine Megatron is closing his site and the wowsers win again.

Actually, I'm surprised this didn't happen a few years ago. T-Shirt Hell became pretty darned huge pretty darned quickly and has had a pretty good life considering its bread and butter of offensive quips.

Another angle would be that it's all just a huge publicity ploy. Especially after I got an email from them today stating that the business will be open for another week so we can all rush in and buy, buy, buy!

www.news.com.au
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Since I own two print on demand t shirt shops it looks unlikely to me that anyone would stop his/her very lucrative business based on a few hate mails...

(the guy says that he sells 3000 shirts WEEKLY! If that is true, that's 12000 monthly, 144000 per year... let's say that he earns minimum $3 per shirt, it's $432000 a year, not bad for a small t shirt shop)

I do agree that there are some very rude designs on the site, but people obviously like it...



we will see, if they don't close the shop, then it was a publicity ploy




cheers

[edit on 11-2-2009 by donhuangenaro]

I hope they don't.

I've bought loads of t-shirts from that online store and I hope that I'll be able to buy loads more.

I really don't think that he'd give in to the pressure from the 'no sense of humour' brigade.

Shame if it's true and not just a publicity ploy.

Peace,

MGGG

Proud lover of the 'Your little princess is my little whore' Shirt. Finest shirt for meeting in-laws to be!

well, it seems that this was only a joke and like we said:

a publicity ploy!

www.tshirthell.com...

T-Shirt Hell going out of business? Really? Because of some hate mail? Are you f***ing kidding me?

a good one!

Im glad they arent going anywhere. I havent bought a shirt from there in a long time but I do still have my "School Shooting Tour" T-shirt. I plan on wearing it proudly if I get invited to my high scholl reunoin.

Phew, the first part of the thread gave me a freaking heart attack, but things just brightened up from there! I love that site.

I never heard of this site before. That is hilarious stuff there.

I read on his site that he is not(went there after getting newsletter saying he would close for the same reason) actually closing, and it was just a joke to annoy the people who sent all those hatemail