Most Awesome T-Shirt Ever

IvySlayer

This was on Sky News!

yurmothrintites

It's the year of the wolf baby!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/21/AR2009052104472_2.html?g=0

Mike Musgrove
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, May 22, 2009
Something strange happened this week in Amazon.com's apparel section.

For a day or two, a black T-shirt featuring an image of three wolves baying at a full moon claimed the top slot at the online store's clothing bestseller list,, beating out the usual, unremarkable mix of Levi's 505 regular-fit jeans, Crocs clogs and Adidas running shoes.

And really, why wouldn't you buy the shirt, which is priced from $7.65 to $17.93, depending on your size? Just read the long and growing list of customer testimonials promising earth-shattering experiences or psychedelic vision quests upon purchase.

"I bought this shirt and instantly old girlfriends started calling me again," wrote one reviewer.

"My doctor says the cancer has gone into remission," wrote another. "Thanks for changing my life!"

As retailers, media companies and even government agencies attempt to get with the times and connect with an online audience, every once in a while they get a reminder: Anybody, or any group, armed with a Web browser can anonymously game the system and manipulate the marketplace at sites inviting user feedback -- for profit or just for fun.

Hence the sudden and unexpected popularity of an old and not quite "in" T-shirt.

The shirt's page at Amazon.com had quietly existed for years without much comment, but after a snarky link from CollegeHumor.com, the "Three Wolf Moon" shirt suddenly sprouted hundreds of five-star ratings. Reviewers have dreamed up epics about its powers, weaving fantasies involving everything from the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland to the pop group Duran Duran.



As the joke caught on and got passed around the Web, Photoshopped spoofs of the shirt started appearing online -- featuring corgi puppies, spiders or haddock instead of the now-famous wolves.

CollegeHumor.com, a comedy site started in 1999 by a couple of high school friends who grew up together in Timonium, Md., also claimed victory this week for rigging an online poll run by the state of Nebraska to select a new license-plate design. The site urged its readers to vote for what it deemed the most boring design available to Nebraska drivers. That gray-and-white plate won.

Officials in Nebraska said they monitored Web traffic to screen out visitors coming directly from the humor site, but CollegeHumor.com was still, credibly, claiming the joke a success this week. "Together we pranked the entire automobile-owning population of Nebraska," wrote a CollegeHumor.com editor, in a Wednesday posting. "Congratulations."

This type of online rabble-rousing appears to be catching on more than ever over the past year, said Tim Hwang, the organizer of ROFLCon, a convention dedicated to celebrating Internet memes. After all, another Web-based prank crossed over into the real world just last month when a 21-year-old college student, known by the online moniker "m00t," sailed to the top of Time's "most influential person" list in an online poll, beating out the likes of President Obama and Oprah Winfrey. Gathering nearly 17 million votes, the world's "most influential" person is the founder of another jokey Web culture site, 4chan.org, whose proprietor is known offline by the name Christopher Poole.

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The shirt rose to the top of Amazon.com's apparel bestseller list and inspired all manor of florid recommendations from ironically minded Web users. (Amazon.com - Amazon.com)

If you don't get why the shirt, and its reviews, are so funny, don't worry. CollegeHumor.com co-founder Josh Abramson said it's a case where the shirt is so uncool that it's cool.

"A lot of things that become popular on the Web are based around just being ironic and being an inside joke," Abramson said. "This resonates with a geeky, hip crowd that is very Web-savvy. When something resonates with that circle, crazy things can happen."

Abramson said his team had considered licensing the wolf shirt for sale. CollegeHumor.com, which had 7 million unique Web visitors last month, also has an online store that sells T-shirts with ironic catchphrases and designs, called BustedTees.com. But it appears that the site may have been a bit slow to catch on to its own meme.

"We're kicking ourselves that we didn't," he said.

The New Hampshire company that makes the "Three Wolf Moon" shirt said that it doesn't generally mind being the butt of this joke.

"You have to be able to laugh at yourself," said Michael McGloin, a partner and art director at the Mountain, who added that he finds some of the reviews to be "freaking hilarious."

The company certainly doesn't mind the shirt's recent uptick in sales: "Three Wolf Moon" is sold out, and the Mountain has started printing up a fresh batch. It seems that the wolf theme was growing in popularity even before the Internet hipsters descended, McGloin said.

"Wolf shirts are super hot right now," he said. "It's the year of the wolf, I guess."

BaconZombie

I think I just found a EVEN MORE EPIC version....

Threadless tops both three wolves and one bear by offering a shirt with FOUR wolves and bikini-clad chicks with guns!

yurmothrintites

NOTHING beats the wolves....

Overheal

If Just One Wolf can do that much for Napoleon, think of how much 3 can do for You!

AlmightyCushion

Overheal wrote: »

If Just One Wolf can do that much for Napoleon, think of how much 3 can do for You!

That film sucked ass. He doesn't deserve to wear that t-shirt.

Mmcd

Tarzan_man wrote: »

That's a very nice T-shirt, but it cannot compare to the pleasure of writing with a good pen.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/review/R3QR3AC2WXWHIT

...

Mebirdo says:
I often use pencils to write notes on paper, but have been thinking about changing to a pen. Is this pen a good starting point for a novice?

high horse

From todays Irish Times:

T-shirt maker has last laugh as web joke is a howling success Mon, May 25, 2009 - HAVE YOU ever bought an item of clothing that promised you instantirresistibility to the opposite sex, infinite knowledge or psychedelicvision quests?Such are some of the qualities being ascribed to an innocuous T-shirt thathas become a phenomenon due to the actions of internet pranksters.The shirt - entitled "Three Wolf Moon" - is a hideously kitsch aberration,with the fashion sense of a binliner. Featuring an airbrushed portrait ofthe creatures howling at a glistening lunar globe, it is the type ofgarment favoured by grizzly Tennessee mountain men who fly Confederateflags from the back of their pick-up trucks.It lay ignored for years on Amazon.com, until a sarcastic link from USwebsite CollegeHumor.com saw it suddenly gain hundreds of five-starratings.The reviews forum on the site blossomed into an often-hilarious exercise inone-upmanship, with nearly 500 contributors trying to outdo each other inweaving epic testimonies about the shirt's mystical properties.One poster claimed his dead grandfather came back to life after beingburied in the shirt. "It was clear a miracle had occurred," he wrote."Plus, the shipping was reasonable."Another claimed his brother Spud has disappeared since donning Three WolfMoon. "I believe that the shirt has actualised his spiritual abilities andtaken him to an alternate plane. Either that or supermodels took him," hestates."When I first saw it, it was like the heavens parted and all I could hearwas angels singing," mused another poster.Bizarrely, the caper translated into massive sales, with thousands ofbuyers helping the shirt briefly surge to the top of Amazon.com's list ofbestselling clothing, leaving Nike trainers and Levi jeans foundering inits wake like lame coyotes chasing the wolf pack.With many of the reviews poking fun at America's "white trash" underclass,the firm that manufactures the shirt wasn't initially over the moon at theattention."Not everyone from our neck of the woods lives in a trailer or cruisesWalmart to hook up," a spokesman for The Mountain company, based in NewHampshire, said.However, with sales up by over 2,300 per cent, they soon saw the funny sideand decided to print up 400,000 more shirts.The spoof is being seen as a wake-up call to multinational corporationsstruggling to maintain sales in a depressed global economy."This resonates with a geeky, hip crowd that is very web-savvy,"CollegeHumor.com co-founder Josh Abramson explained. "When somethingresonates with that circle, crazy things can happen."This episode proves that the world's biggest clothing companies, despitemultimillion-dollar advertising campaigns and global brand recognition, canbe trumped by a few hundred mischievous jokers with keyboards and a senseof irony. They must be howling mad.

pikachucheeks

When someone first showed me this thread,
I was like WTF - That t-shirt is hideous!
It's only now I understand the sarcasm.

I'd like one in white, for my wedding day.

A 3W1M dress! - I've called Vera Wang, she's interested in designing it.

Overheal

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

That film sucked ass. He doesn't deserve to wear that t-shirt.

Marmite film tbh. You either get it or you don't.

kraggy

This story was ABC news tonight.

And now it's on Youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPB45AUmchM

Kinetic^

Ah lads, this has gone too far and we've barely had a part to play!


I feel we need to pimp out a new T-shirt! I will be back with a new super powered item of clothing!

seanybiker

funniest thing I seen in a long time. I wants me one of them now

gary nevillevil

i want one notttttttttttttttt....
.....You TUBE my SPACE and I'LL google YOUR yahoo :pac:

kumate_champ07

i still think its cool, ill prob get a vest with that image.
obviously it doesnt do anything magical but its an iconic tshirt, band tshirts are kinda lame

The guy

Look at the images for it

banquo

Cianos

A long, long time ago back in ancient times (6 months ago), I found this sacred shirt in a most holy place (a shop called "Le Discount", ran by Chinese people, in Berlin.)

http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/9246/dsc01495a.jpg

And just in case anyone sneaks up from behind, the 3 wolves and their kindred man-creature have my back...

http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/2047/dsc01493s.jpg

powerzjim

seanybiker wrote: »

funniest thing I seen in a long time. I wants me one of them now

me too, even though i had something like that and the novelty soon ran out

My name is URL

Why is this still stickied?

I mean sure the shirts awesome but even it wouldn't last three weeks

*hides

BaconZombie

With the power of a REAL wolf you to can get two hot girls at the same time:

http://f.imagehost.org/0073/99143_FancyHD65.jpg

mcowhey

wow that guy trained his wolf well, like how did he get it to just sit on his head for the picture

Gingervitis

http://media.threadless.com/subs/big/222011.jpg

The 3 Keyboards Cat Moon Shirt!

Basq

Gingervitis wrote: »

http://media.threadless.com/subs/big/222011.jpg

The 3 Keyboards Cat Moon Shirt!

Just read about this on BitterWallet.com..


.. Threadless, make it so!

bronte

Gingervitis wrote: »

http://media.threadless.com/subs/big/222011.jpg

The 3 Keyboards Cat Moon Shirt!

Want!

Jesus Wept

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http://www.pajamacity.com/3-Wolf-Moon-Fleece-Adult-Footed-Pajamas-with-Drop-Seat/productinfo/J635-WO/

Korvanica

got one in pennys a few years ago that says
"Also Available Sober"

JJ

Oh my! I only read 3 reviews and I'm in stiches. I'll die laughing if I read all of them.

phasers

JJ wrote: »

Oh my! I only read 3 reviews and I'm in stiches. I'll die laughing if I read all of them.

It took you 5 months to read 3 reviews?

JJ

I only just discovered this yesterday.

G-Money

Amazon UK sell them also. No risk of customs or hefty delivery charges either:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Original-Three-Adult-T-Shirt-Medium/dp/B002DGLCJ2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=clothing&qid=1268830609&sr=8-1

Minstrel27

I have one for around the house and it is a great t-shirt

G-Money

I intend to buy one at some stage and wear it on a night out.

I fully expect to be mauled by females as a result.

leavingcert92

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPi6R7HKnfg


Dwights the man

Mance Rayder

I know it's not ok to dig up old threads but I feel this shirt is so awesome it deserves it. I think given the economic difficulties we are experiencing today the country, nay, the world, needs to know about the wolf shirt. Enda Kenny needs a Wolf Shirt!

Bump!

red menace

Zombie wolf shirt lives

sunflower27

Hilarious. The shirts don't look so good in the picture. I suppose when they are worn by a one-time loser that is when we see the magic

IsMiseDaithair

This is the Chuck Norris of t-shirts.

You dont wear this t shirt , it wears you ...

seamusmcspud

Warning.... read this a few years ago and tired to get a really cheap version of the t-shirt.... it had 3 huskies instead of wolves, life has been miserable since...

fasttalkerchat

Anyone have a screenshot for this?

DrumSteve

aw sheeeeet.