if you ever see anyone wearing this

[rtil]

be sure to strangle the life out of them

[funzop]

i saw a girl wearing a nom nom nom shirt or w/e she had very big glasses and an invader zim beanie she was prety fucken rad

[MarcK]

God, I hate this so fucking much

[Ashington]

Surely you should just strangle someone wearing stuff from hot topic anyway?

[shura]

i would totally wear this one ^-^
and this one too lol XD


and this one 2 omg ^_^;;;

[spite]

their novelty tee's usually make me HHhnnngg.  especially the faux vintage ones.

I bought a bloo button from hot topic once

[emanhattan]

The t-shirt that im wearing in that video where a fat guy fights me was purchased at hot topic

[MarcK]

You guys were all really excited to go to hot topic and 99 was the only on who stayed with me to eat ice cream.

[99]

You guys were all really excited to go to hot topic and 99 was the only on who stayed with me to eat ice cream.

Lmao I remember that.  Why you guys even wanted to go in there is beyond me.

[Shaughtzer]

Oh boy this calls for some internet activism.

[funzop]

"creativity"

[shura]

that is only because jseed thought we could find a Finn Hat in there

i still haven\\\'t found one...........................

[jjjjjjjjjj]

youre all gay

[spite]

I remember everyone making fun of hot topic but going in anyway and sayin that they had some cool stuff but also had some gay stuff
then I bought a bloo button cause I didn't get to meet craig mcrackin

[Kött]

Why? It's a good topic starter for equal ones if you're bad at starting conversations and would like to get to know people with the same interests as you. Not this shirt in particular but generally, wearing a memeshirt is nothing but a silently hinted "hi, I'm from the internet", only understood by people who are fond of it as well.

As for the haters, it's pretty much a declination of a certain fascination for the relative issue that they definitely have for even knowing enough about it to think they should have a certain hate against it. (I'm not saying that hate generally is a kind of reversed fascination but in this case it most likely is. One should keep in mind that it is something neutral that doesn't even conflict with anyones interests or opinions in any way.)
They doom it because they want to avoid any unnecessary contact with these kinds of things to prove others, sometimes even themselves that they are totally not part of this fandom and don't belong to either the mindless masses or the deviant weirdos.

In fact, I'm pretty sure that if a hater would actually meet someone wearing a shirt like this, he or she will probably even feel a touch of sympathy and recognition, although mixed with a certain attitude of declining despise. The rest would depend on the character and the behaviour, mainly the first impression apart form the shirt that the person has on you but most likely it will have a positive impact one you.

most everyone i've known in person that pretends to hate anime [...] i later find out has a secret soft spot for it

^Replace the keyword with the relative fad and you got a rule of thumb. It's an unproven fact. Yeye, oxymoron... I like metaphors, ok?

[rtil]

it's less about being "a hater" and more about a corporate entity taking a joke from the internet everyone could enjoy, turning it into merchandise, and making millions off of it by people they used to sell foamy dvd's to

[Kött]

Well, if you're clever you make yourself a custom one on cafepress anyway. It's not like this site/shop is a monopoly and there have always been people, trying to make money by using the ideas of others or the goods belonging to everyone. Communism only works on the internet itself.

[shura]

internet memes belong on the internet. taking an already stupid overused joke and wearing it on a t-shirt in the real world, does nothing but make you look profoundly annoying

[MarcK]

edit: J can't handle the pressure of that huge burn I laid on him so I'm just gonna edit it out to save him the hardcore embarrassment.

[retrosmash]

internet memes belong on the internet. taking an already stupid overused joke and wearing it on a t-shirt in the real world, does nothing but make you look profoundly annoying