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Jimmie on March 12, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: What Happens When You Piss Off the Internet

Case and point: Two years ago Hot Topic started selling "rage guy" t-shirts. The internet decided it would be having none of that and coerced the meme "rage guy" into "race guy" by pumping out tonnes of racist comics. Hot Topic were forced to withdraw its t-shirt range.

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/race-guy

tedunangst on March 12, 2012 [–]

I don't really track Hot Topics current inventory, but the same page you link to says they unwithdrew it one day later.

Jimmie on March 12, 2012 | [–]

Huh, I didn't know that. I was working from memory and didn't read the article. I wonder if they still sell the shirts?

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