Wednesday, January 30, 2013

The Wonderful Winners Of The Funny T-Shirt Awards

By Kenneth York


With the Internet bursting at the seams with so many sites that sell funny shirts, I've decided that there needs to be a bit of guidance. Who am I, you may ask? Well, no...you may not ask. I am just a guy who has worked in the field of Internet shirt retail for many years who may know a thing or two about the business. I hope you're satisfied, because you're going to have to be. I have created a list of the best vendors of funny ees in the whole wide world...web. The votes were easily compiled, because there was only one...which was mine.

The reason I picked Threadless.com as the winner for best artistic shirts is because there simply is no one else in their league stylistically. The way they keep the artistic bar so high is that they allow anyone calling themselves an artist to design shirts for them. The artists get a cut of the proceeds, and everyone wins in the end. While not all of their shirts are funny, there are a great many that are. There are also plenty of t-shirts that don't make the grade, but those get phased out fairly quickly.

There is a delicate line between making a funny t-shirt and making an abomination. FoulMouthShirts.com knows this because they have made plenty of both, but they do it intentionally and many times...on the same shirt. They win the best offensive funny tees grand prize because they have never taken down a t-shirt due to complaint. They preach that they are trying to allow everyone a voice to say whatever they want on a shirt, and they even offer customs. They have put out some pretty outrageous shirts that can barely be worn in public, if at all. That kind of dedication should be admired.

The winner for the best alternative funny tshirts is...Snorgtees.com! Alt-comedy is a tricky thing. You have to ride a wave of innovation so that people can buy these clothes before anyone else, but you can't seem to be forcing the product down the consumers throats or else you seem too "corporate." Snorg does this very well, and you can find all kinds of funny t-shirts here that ridicule pop culture and support greatness.

While all of these previous winners are fantastic in their own right, there still has to be an overall winner that takes home the trophy for Best Funny TShirts. That award most surely needs to go to Bustedtees.com. This company is fronted by the creators of CollegeHumor.com, who have spent years bringing comedy to the masses of 18-35 year olds of the world. They are what all funny shirts vendors should aspire to.

So many winners, and they all justly deserve their place amongst the elite this year. What does the old Academy have in store for next year? Will some new upstart step up to the plate and dethrone one of these solid-gold champs? Will T-Shirt Hell make a comeback and quit releasing the same old shirts every month? Who knows? Who really cares? They're just funny t-shirts, right?




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