As a boy, I can confirm that this shirt has made my life a living hell. Whenever I go outside I am showered in rocks. Local geologists harass me constantly to get their hands on the excess stones I have. My own family has betrayed me to throw rocks at me. Please, save me from this torture.
trying to use “what if it was the other way around” is so funny when every other boy in elementary school at the time was wearing a shirt that said some shit like “will trade my sister for video games”
“Boy” shirts were always so fucking goofy like they’ve got a graphic of a football and the caption says like “CARS… TRUCKS… SHIT YOUR PANTS…. KILL YOUR SISTERRR”
I feel like for 20 YEARS I have been seeing "FBI Female. Body. Inspector" shirts. I once saw a kid-sized version of it. Their selective outrage is funny.
@@Rose_Castle As early as last year I was working at a Walmart where they had gag worthy crap like "future heart breaker" on freaking baby onesies. I'm blanking on others but I def saw some baby gear for boys and girls that made me cringe and wonder how it's remotely acceptable (because it isn't and shouldn't be.)
these kinds of shirts plagued the k-mart boys clothes .. i just wanted a fun phineas and ferb shirt but i remember like half the shirts there were about tormenting your sister
Anyone remember those shirts that had that toilet symbol, a man figure and a woman figure separated by a vertical line, except that on that shirt the man figure was climbing over that line to peek at the woman figure? Or all the shirts with half-naked women on them?
When i was in primary school there was an upperclassmen who was wearing with... Naked woman. I dont know if school reacted or not, i was in 3-4 grade i think? If these shirts are bad it would be cool if school also reacted to shit like this too.
when i was a kid i had this exact "boys are stupid, throw rocks at them" shirt and my friends and teacher thought it was so funny, so i later drew a picture of the same thing and that teacher was like "hey maybe don't recreate that" and i was so scared i thought i'd get in trouble that i immediately threw the drawing away and never wore the shirt again
I figured preteens and actual teenagers would be smart enough to not follow the directions on every 6 dollar graphic tee you get at target but apparently a lot of people thought otherwise.
Imagine if someone did throw rocks at someone because of the shirt and ended up killing them and when the police question the rock thrower they say “ Becky’s shirt told me to do it “
Activates my braincell about how the framing of any outgroup as biologically “more dangerous” is disproven on its face simply by the fact we basically all have teeth and the human bite force is no laughing matter, but we all just trust that we won’t bite each other
My grandfather bought me a “boys are stupid” sticker to put in my locker right before I started middle school. Looking back, it felt like it was intended to discourage me from any growing interest in boys by making the idea of interacting with them more childish and antagonistic
It may have also been an attempt to pre-empt the kind of tween boy bullying he knew you would begin to receive. Anything they did or said to try to hurt you, you could just recall that they're stupid, so it doesn't matter.
@@billygoat2051Gender equality means believing men are capable of creditable thought. It’s also demeaning to say that about a sticker someone grandpa got them. If I did the same to a gift your grandmother got you you’d be upset right?
The "Miss" characters are "bad/adult" versions of a childs book series call "Little Miss ..." Little Miss Bossy, Little Miss Neat, etc Little Miss Late, etc
Yeah it says a lot about his actual politics (and the vibes of the early 2000s in general) that there was more outrage against a silly joke about boys than.... all the racism.
You must understand that dudes who invoke “misandry!” to refer to anything but the radfem/terfy argument that the current patriarchal systems would become utopic and functional if (a white patriarchal framing the ideology is allergic to examining) women became the dominant caste replacing white men but changing literally nothing else; and instead use the term “misandry” to refer to women’s voices being heard at all, do not care about racism
I remember having these rabbit figurine toys that had sassy phrases like the, "boys are stupid, throw rocks at them," quote so I always assumed that's where the controversy originated
fr. I love how there was absolutely nothing wrong with making shirt's that romantize assualt* culture. But we're gonna throw a whole feral fit over "throw rocks at boys." LIkee how can we not see that maybe there's an issue with both.. Wonder how young people, particularly, victims interpreted that shirt. It's just making a mockery out of people's traumatic experiences. Not to mention all the racist shirts.
@@starryeyes999youtube is more likely to delete comments or flag the video if you don’t censor some controversial words. It’s common knowledge. No need to be condescending towards the original reply just because they follow the yt guidelines .
My parents bought me one of their bags for high school. It was my first year and really wanted a cool one. I picked the one that had a cute spoon and fork on it that said “spooning leads to forking” and only in later years didn’t I realise I spent my early years of highscool with an innuendo plastered all over my bag.
Back in middle school, I had a classmate who multiple times wore a shirt that said “cool story babe, now go make me a sandwich”. Mind you this wasn’t in 2004, this was in 2014. With how much influence Andrew Tate and the like have on the minds of young boys, maybe these shirts should make a return!
@@earthangelandrogynousmind1625 exactly! all i was thinking of is isnt there way more problematic shirts aimed at women.... i rlly dont see why this was so huge lol
Lol but the thing is I’m a trans male so ovbiously I had so many girly shirts when I was younger being assigned female, anyways I had many “I sold my brother for (item)”
"the company's $20 T shirts tend toward the dark and sarcastic. They mock blondes, smokers," Ok pretty mild, not sure what I expecte- "asians," huh "vegetarians, prissy girls" wait no go back a moment huh
I love her! just make her an awful yet kind-of charismatic character who's just a little too stupid to realise just how bad she is and there! perfect comedy!
Real question: is it not already? Because all i need to hear are the phrases "TH-camr Apology" and ukelele, and I swear I'm having flashbacks to toxic gossip trains and cold, dead eyes.
there's also "notes app apology" for non-apologies clearly written on someone's phone, lacking that sense of professionalism and ownership over their mistakes
"After thousands of years of being taught to protect women, they have no desire to battle or even critisize them" Bruhhh, where and how do we even start with this one? I don't think there are enough hours in the day!
@@juliacondensada Yet in every country in the world the homicide rate for men is far higher than for women. But yeah yeah this is the left-leaning internet; men and boys never have problems and just need to shut up right?
@@juliacondensada I mean, that's because murders against women are taken much more seriously. Men tend to make up the overwhelming majority of murder victims, at least in the US, UK, Canada, and similar western countries.
@@Raphe9000no they aren't. men are more likely to be murdered and overwhelmingly more likely to be murderers because they're more likely to be involved in violent / criminal activity, gangs, etc, and theyre more likely to respond to confrontation with violence. they're also more likely to put themselves at risk whereas women are taught from a young age to stay in groups and what areas to avoid to keep themselves safe. the reason why women being killed makes the news so often is because of the *reason* why they're killed. women are overwhelmingly more likely to be murdered because of sexism and domestic violence than men are and another woman being murdered by her boyfriend, husband, ex, etc is a bigger story because dv is such a huge problem. this is like during the blm movement how ppl would say "we'll police abuse white people too" like yeah cause police are terrible, they aren't targeting and abusing white people for being white though that's why it's not about them rn
We seem to have collectively agreed that we all want the shirts that are trying to make fun of us, and we do not want the shirts making fun of anyone else.
Because "boys" is the only targeted group he and his mostly white male audience used to be a part of. He never was or will ever be Asian or Native, and meninists don't usually see anorexia or intoxicated rape as a problem that can affect men too unless it can be said as a gotcha in response to women talking about these issues. Most of the guys offended by the boys t-shirt would likely call women and POC overly sensitive for being anywhere near that offended by any of the other shirts. I agree that the shirt is dumb and adult humor applied to children, but have you y'all *seen* the aggressively gendered baby shirts and onesies with boomer humor quotes like "Ladies, I have arrived" or "Does this diaper make my butt look big?" printed on them? It's dumb, but pretty normalized even today.
@@rainpooper7088 omg, i completely agree! Like "Ladies Man", or "Daddy is my only boyfriend." Legit, i've seen a pink little onesise with that scrawled across it. It's creepy to me! Like we are sexualing children before they even know what any of this means. Futhermore, the alt right is always going on about how the Lgbtq+ community groom children and push their agenda. Meanwhile, they are being groomed by their own family members.
I had a keychain with the "boys are stupid, throw rocks at them" slogan, complete with glittery background and lizzie mcguire font- if memory serves. Ironically as young teen when I was given that keychain, all my friends were boys. That keychain probably still exists somewhere in my childhood bedroom.
I specifically remember having this one trendy wendy notebook that i'd learn spanish in and I loved the simplistic and sassy design. i had no idea she was involved in a controversy. little did i know i'd transition to the group of people she'd throw a rock at, lol
You'd think the glaringly racist ones should have been the controversial part, but the "throw rocks at boys" shirts that lead to nothing, was what got the big backlash? 🙃Then again racism wasn't taken very seriously at all then with all the "ironic" blackface and general Asian culture mockery then and how much that was actually defended by people.
@@karlo125 yeah, it's not like just because something is "worse" or as they say "there is worse things happening in the world for me to care about that" instead why can't we all just agree that we can see both things as bad and we should try to fix them both
19:52 Look, I know it's a reference to that "women can't drive" stereotype, but I would unironically buy the "Hot Girls Hit Curbs" t-shirt. Because I'm a hot girl, and I SUCK at driving.
I think that shirt in particular would do absolute numbers in the new post-ironic world. I'm not particuarly hot or a girl (anymore) and I don't know how to drive but I'd totally wear it
I remember these. Maybe not this brand specifically, but my mom called them "attitude shirts" and would pick them out of my older cousins hand me downs so i didnt get to wear them 💀
@@AprilBorealis You're right. As kids, we don't know better. We look at what our peers are doing and we get our morality from that. If an adult gave you that journal, a kids' reaction is usually, 'If a grownup approved of this, it must be okay.' The failure here isn't the kids, it's the adults who thought it'd be cute to sell inappropriate jokes to kids. They thought, 'Isn't it cute how little girls and boys hate each other? Let's make merch of that?' Never considering that, maybe there'd be LESS of that if it wasn't intentionally normalized. In general, I get upset at things where, any one person's conscience might be uncomfortable with [hurtful thing], but then if everyone else says [hurtful thing] is okay, that individual conscience gets squashed down. I hate that we're like this.
I remember as a kid I saw a little boy crying hysterically at my school, I asked what was wrong and he pointed to a girl who was wearing that shirt 😂I think she was asked to not wear it again at school. But honestly I think she felt bad
Yeah ngl there's a lot of people in this comment section who are really over-estimating the cognitive capabilities of young children. I was a boy when this t-shirt was making the news and I just remember feeling pretty sad/uncomfortable about a t-shirt becoming popular that encouraged people to hurt me, and the fact people were defending it saying "Well no actually it's fine!" when my entire life to that point I'd always been told that you should never hit people.
@@spacecorgi3074 you are right. It is a very mean joke. I think the girl felt bad realizing how much she hurt the little boy. You don’t really think about the possible impact until it’s right infront of you
Isn’t it super fascinating that in the 2000’s pointless racism towards Asian was so common you could get away with selling shirts like these 3:13 but two decades later Japanese manga are outselling American comic books in the US and every one loves bulba tea
theres a very ironic pattern ive observed with a lot of racists where theyll appear to love aspects of another culture, but then also belittle the people the culture is from. an example being there were a few guy students (they all knew each other) @ my old high school who were Sooo nauseatingly immature. i'd overhear them make comments about the asian girl students, calling them all sorts of names including the c slur, but at the same time they loved reading manga and would obsess over anime girls? ??😭😭shit used to trip me & my friends out BADD LMFAO.
in a similar vein; i had lived in south virginia for a time and you can already imagine the type of people you can encounter there 😭i had lil nasties insult my appearance, such as my skin, and tell me to "go back to africa" becuase "i dont belong here," but what was funny asl to me is that some of these same people would have tans ?>?@? LIKE OKAY. what are we even doing. obviously u dont think my skin tone is _that_ ugly if u go out of ur way to make urself darker
it is a bit funny that teenage boys, who notoriously make "dark humour" their entire personality in teenage years, would be so offended by a t-shirt like that lol suddenly the "dark humour" isn't funny when it's directed at you huh...
my mum bought me that boys are stupid throw rocks at them book when we were on holiday in 06, presumably because it was small and light, and it was my most prized possession, i loved it. i still have it to this day because of the insane sentimental value it holds
When I was little I had a bunch of It's Happy Bunny merch, from shirts to notebooks and stickers, and they all had similar sassy/off-color phrases and jokes lol. The early 2000s was a wild time
Oh my god that brings me back, I had a pencil case with Happy Bunny printed on the side when I was in 6th grade! Iirc it said “I think you’re funny... looking” or something like that
I absolutely lived in my ‘cute but psycho’ Happy Bunny hoodie as a kid 💀I was so obsessed with that Gloomy Bear/Happy Tree Friends/im so crazy lolrandomXD era as a kid and honestly still very much enjoy now as an adult, but that particular design probably isn’t one I’d get a reprint of now
@@onionbubs386 I believe they goes by They/She, but mostly They. In one post one their Instagram they said they feel uncomfortable with people calling they Queen/Girl etc
Oh. My god. When I was 10 I went to Hawaii with my family and there was a David & Goliath store I went to and loved. It was mostly ‘Trendy Wendy’ (just found out her name lol) and I got a decent amount of school stuff so I still have a notebook with her on it. I have never been able to find the name of the brand or anything about it ever since and I’ve looked many times. Thank you so much 😮💨
The phrase “boys are stupid, throw rocks at them” sounds like a post-ironydeath shitpost phrase that would make numbers. At the very least id laugh at it, and I’m pretty sure my flavor blend of neurodivergency isn’t unique to me alone!
no literally i want that shirt now and i’m a trans man 💀 if it wasn’t linked to a company that made horribly racist shirts against asian people i’d 100% buy one
As an Asian American, I wonder if the reason as to why the really racist shirts didn’t get as addressed in the public eye is because racism towards Asians in white america is kinda seen as “acceptable”. Faux Asian accents, China man jokes, and racist t shirts kinda just… happen and when I try to explain why they make me feel uncomfortable to my white people I know it’s definitely a bit of an argument. I think there’s a sentiment that you “can’t” be racist towards Asians in America. I’m not really sure why, but it’s just something I’ve noticed. I’ve had to explain to people my age why you shouldn’t call actual humans “oriental”. The response usually isn’t embarrassment or “Oh shit ok”. It’s usually more “Well, the orient refers to the west,” or “Well Asian people call themselves that”. Well I’m Asian and I’m telling you I don’t :/
"The orient refers to the west" (i think you meant the east btw) "ok so do we call everyone from australia "southerners" now since they're in the southern hemisphere?"
I think the fact a lot of Asians helped build the railroads plays a part, besides "Taking our jobs" The press literally talked about them like they were machines. Because unsurprisingly, immigrants will break their backs trying to secure a place. And then came the "Chinese" Exclusion Act, it's all beyond messed up
i always just heard "girls go to college to get more knowledge" ... man if i knew i could've gone to mars AND become a superstar i would've stayed a girl /silly
@@embrixcandray6073 There's not half as many made "for girls" about brothers. I've also never seen one "for boys" about a brother, or that uses the word sibling instead.
when i was 7, i had a shirt that said "I like girls and sausage rolls". Im from the UK so for anyone wondering, a sausage roll is a very popular pastry wrapped sausage (of course) and its crazy how popular it is in british culture, Greggs especially (A pastry chain in the UK) to the point that there is a WHOLE clothing line for Greggs... its crazy.
This is so interesting to me because I remember there being SO many little boy shirts that had similar sentiments "Video games good sister bad" obviously as a kid I wasn't aware if any big public controversies existed around these shirts. If I saw a "boys are stupid throw rocks at them" shirt as a kid I would totally want one to sort of "level the playing field"
Please never stop making videos- without you I wouldn't have half the useless and obscure internet knowledge I do now. I need more to satisfy the brain tingles.
I don't remember anything about the company, the products, or the character Trendy Wendy, but I definitely remember my best friend from high school saying, "Boys are stupid, throw rocks at them." There were so many sarcastic t-shirts they all kind of blend together. I do remember Happy Bunny pretty well.
I doesn't surprise me that during that time the more concerning t-shirts (like the heavily racist ones and the one with "except when I'm drunk") weren't the ones to recieve backlash. It may only have happened in my circle, but I remember the 2000s being really mean-spirited, in the sense that unlike nowadays corcerning yourself about certain subjects like consent and mental health made people call you exaggerated or too sensitive. Only a person who is already controversial during that time would've made people notice other problematic stuff. That's why this story disappoints me but doesn't surprise me either. It was two decades ago but the contrasting differences to what's considered sensitive nowadays make me loose a little hope
I take it more as a sign of progress, personally. Most of us KNOW this stuff isn't good now, and the majority of peoples' reactions are gonna be a similar amount of discomfort or disgust, and those whose reactions are anything else are seen as in the wrong. What was once seen as just "edgy" is now seen for what it actually is: gross and insensitive attempts at humor under the guise of dark comedy.
If anyone wants a GOOD version of The Blah Girls, just watch Teen Girl Squad from Homestar Runner. It's a similar premise but executed infinitely better by actually smart and funny people.
I haven’t thought about David and Goliath for a long time! Unlocked a core memory here! I used to have a t-shirt which I adored which said “Come to the dark side we have cookies” 😅 going to the store was so much fun but everything was too expensive when I was a child
"But you see, we NEED rich people cuz it trickles down" doesnt hold water when your average rich person is investing in detached-from-reality, anti human nonsense like ai and nfts (It doesnt hold water regardless, just an extra kick in the nads)
I’m from England and I had that “boys are stupid throw rocks at them” on a CD case! On the other side it said “boys belong behind bars”. I still have it 😂
omg speaking of 2000s shirts izzzyyyyyy i used to have a shirt just like yours when i was little! mine was purple and the butterfly had a bluish purple tinsel glitter. it was my favorite shirt!! so glad to see that style come around again!!
I used to have a poster of the "boys are stupid throw rocks at them" poster up in my room, yet i am boys! My mum still has a drinks glass with that design I got as a kid.
My sister passed down a "boys are stupid throw rocks at them" shirt and I still have it. I've worn it out and to sleep before. I still find it kinda funny but of course nothing beyond being satire
Omg, this unlocked a memory for me! I remember trendy wendy stuff being at hot topic when i was a kid and seeing that "throw rocks at them" design on shirts. See, this is one of the many reasons why I like your videos -- they're not only entertaining but they also unlock memories about things I had forgotten LOL
I had no idea these were a thing but I do remember a t-shirt trend among boys in like 2004/2005 that were these pink shirts that would always say something along the lines of “Real Men Wear Pink” or “Tough Guys Wear Pink”. The 2000s were truly a wild west of stereotypically gendered things…
This reminds me of something I went through in middle school that is honestly so stupid that it feels like something I made up. On my first day of middle school, I wore one of those Happy Bunny shirts that said, "I'll try being nicer if you try being smarter." Apparently, one of the cheerleaders in my class block somehow took offense to my shirt and made it her life goal to absolutely ruin my life. She befriended me, himg out with the group of friends I ate lunch with, and then slowly poisoned the water by spreading rumors about me and talking behind my back. By the end of the year, I was a social pariah with no friends, and it was bad enough that no one wanted to be my friend the next year either. 👏Over 👏a 👏Happy 👏Bunny 👏Shirt! 👏 Bro, cancel culture today has nothing on how we treated each other in the early 2000s. We all just kind of low-key hated everyone while picking who this week's Villian was. Glad we've evolved since then, even if it's just by a smidge.
Doesn't he usually wear band/rapper shirts? I don't recall any of them being in particularly poor taste save for the dead prez one when they were literally in a safety bunker protecting a presidential nominee.
I was surprised you didn't bring up the art theft! This guy was an infamous art thief (and probably still is.) I remember there was a big thread comparing his "designs" with all the shit he had traced.
When I tell you that I looked up the Blah girls about 72 hours ago because U randomly remembered them, please believe me. I can’t believe you made a video at the exact moment I remembered them. That is so strange and awesome!
I don’t remember the shirts but I remember having a ‘Boys Are Stupid Throw Rocks At Them’ book and was absolutely obsessed with it as a tween for whatever reason (the hyperfixations really choose you)
4:00 OH MY GOD I HAD A BOOK WITH THAT CHARACTER AS A TWEEN It was literally called "Boys Are Stupid Throw Rocks At Them" oh my god the memories are flooding back what the hell EDIT: 9:23 OMG THERE IT IS THAT'S THE BOOK I HAD EDIT 2: 20:36 After this and seeing the comments, JUST HOW POPULAR WAS THAT BOOK?
You know when i clicked on the video i thought "yeah anti boy/girl shirts are not very good", but the fact that THIS caused controversy but not literal racism, or a shirt about sexual assault??? Like, huh? And the fact that the topic was "bashing boys and non existing violence" and not like the whole... Thing? Including girls are stupid products? Huh??
when i was really young i was in the mall with my mother and she found a pin on the ground that said "boys are stupid, throw rocks at them" and i remember how delighted she was, and how she loved it for like a decade.
i think the shirt is not a good message for kids, i think we should teach that any sexism is bad obviously. but also i think its worth mentioning that if a boy wore a "girls are stupid, throw rocks at them" shirt, there WOULD be a difference since little boys are genuinely likely to throw rocks at little girls (happened to me LOL) but growing up it hasnt really happened the other way around, because a girl would get into so much more trouble over it than a boy would.
I mean, there very much were plenty of boys shirts that were about hating their sister/girls in general, and similar sentiments were present on pretty much any kid show with a boy protagonist. Seeing as that was the vast majority of cartoons back then, it didn’t exactly leave a great taste in my mouth as a girl watching them as a kid.
My experience is the opposite; it was much worse to be bullied by a girl because the teachers did not care. Boys were considered to be the troublesome and problematic ones, and a boy telling on a girl for bullying him was just being a crybaby.
@tearoses9940 there was always a lot of "boys only" phrasing but i cant recall anything actually suggesting violence on the level of the throwing rocks shirt
@Raphe9000 its bad both ways, its not worse either way. girls in my elementary school would get put on the same "plans" just for being talkative that boys got put on for being genuinely violent. boys would never get punished properly because it was seen as something that was unavoidable and part of their nature, and thats the same reason boys were expected to just "suck it up" whenever it happened to them.
I remember the David and Goliath shirts well, they were everywhere. Everyone at my school wanted 'spooning leads to forking' with a cute cartoon spoon and fork on it My mum said I wasn't allowed lol
This is absolutely WILD. I vividly remember D&G, Happy Bunny, and similar graphic tee companies because my parents wouldn’t let me wear them. They kept claiming the shirts would “encourage me to be mean”, but they had no problem buying me a notebook for school that had a joke about slapping your friends in the face… The 2000s were an odd time, that’s for sure.
i hate how the exact same company was putting down women, asian people, and indigenous people, but as soon as they put down boys, THAT’S where people drew the line and it became a big controversy. like, i don’t think the throw rocks at boys shirt is a good shirt nor do i think the message is good, but the lack of controversy for all the other stuff reeks of misogyny and racism. it seems pretty clear to me why this is the shirt everyone was up in arms about :/
This is wild to me as someone who was obsessed with David & Goliath in the early 2010s. Every weird girl tween at that time knew about the “Come to the dark side, we have cookies” t shirt - I had one, another than said “come to the dork side, we have video games” and a plethora of “quirky” stuff. I still wear some of it as pjs! I remember wondering where it had gone in recent years but had no idea about the brands past. They did a good job, at least in the UK, of distancing themselves from it and just being seen as off-beat. I feel bad about dropping so much money on a brand that still makes offensive stuff, even if I didn’t know until now!
That's the thing. Todd did for clothing what Eminem did for rap, and that was having a penchant for controversy. But by the mid 2010s, D&G was steering more towards 'kawaii' designs that, while they still maintained a sense of quirky postmodern humour, it was a far cry from the halcyon days of being ultra-edgy to the point that it exploited stereotypes. Cakes With Faces is similar to the later, less-controversial cutesy D&G designs, but does not have the same baggage, and has designs that are even properly inspired by Japan and their kawaii scene.
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As a boy, I can confirm that this shirt has made my life a living hell. Whenever I go outside I am showered in rocks. Local geologists harass me constantly to get their hands on the excess stones I have. My own family has betrayed me to throw rocks at me. Please, save me from this torture.
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The entire controversy plays out like that one meme
"I can excuse racism, but I draw the line at throwing rocks at boys"
"You can excuse racism????"
THATS WHAT I THOUGHT!!! i was like this reminds me of this one meme
I get the impression that most of the people responding to the first guy didn't know anything about the shirt company itself
That’s from Community btw
@@GreyMcBeal great show roughly 84% of the time
YES LOL
trying to use “what if it was the other way around” is so funny when every other boy in elementary school at the time was wearing a shirt that said some shit like “will trade my sister for video games”
“Boy” shirts were always so fucking goofy like they’ve got a graphic of a football and the caption says like “CARS… TRUCKS… SHIT YOUR PANTS…. KILL YOUR SISTERRR”
I feel like for 20 YEARS I have been seeing "FBI Female. Body. Inspector" shirts. I once saw a kid-sized version of it. Their selective outrage is funny.
@@Rose_Castle As early as last year I was working at a Walmart where they had gag worthy crap like "future heart breaker" on freaking baby onesies. I'm blanking on others but I def saw some baby gear for boys and girls that made me cringe and wonder how it's remotely acceptable (because it isn't and shouldn't be.)
these kinds of shirts plagued the k-mart boys clothes .. i just wanted a fun phineas and ferb shirt but i remember like half the shirts there were about tormenting your sister
Anyone remember those shirts that had that toilet symbol, a man figure and a woman figure separated by a vertical line, except that on that shirt the man figure was climbing over that line to peek at the woman figure? Or all the shirts with half-naked women on them?
“Imagine if a boy went around wearing a shirt saying girls are stupid!” They did. There were tons of those
Even if there is it still doesn't make these shirts okay for children! Damn like can't we all agree both are horrible
When i was in primary school there was an upperclassmen who was wearing with... Naked woman. I dont know if school reacted or not, i was in 3-4 grade i think?
If these shirts are bad it would be cool if school also reacted to shit like this too.
BOTH are bad. One is not less bad than the other. Sexism against men is no better than sexism against women.
The *same* company literally made a shirt that said "no means no except when I'm drunk" so yes, boys definitely did.
@@estherstreet4582 Jesus Christ. That alone makes me hate this company more than the boys are stupid shirt ever could.
when i was a kid i had this exact "boys are stupid, throw rocks at them" shirt and my friends and teacher thought it was so funny, so i later drew a picture of the same thing and that teacher was like "hey maybe don't recreate that" and i was so scared i thought i'd get in trouble that i immediately threw the drawing away and never wore the shirt again
😢 what happened to the shirt hahaha
Emotional rollercoaster 😭
@@hotwateronwool i have no idea this was in like 2008 LOL
Did you throw the drawing at boys?
I know that exact childhood guilt feeling 😭
At the start of this video I went "this probably connects to NFT's somehow" and by the end I wasnt surprised
I spaced out for a minute while reading comments and suddenly the video became about NFTs and cats? It totally snuck up on me
I figured preteens and actual teenagers would be smart enough to not follow the directions on every 6 dollar graphic tee you get at target but apparently a lot of people thought otherwise.
It's just another case of adults not understanding kids.
Imagine if someone did throw rocks at someone because of the shirt and ended up killing them and when the police question the rock thrower they say “ Becky’s shirt told me to do it “
Its like that South Park episode when all the grown ups see racism on the new flag but the kids have no idea what they are on about.
@@nikguimont8546 At that point, the rock thrower also got rocks for brains 💀
reading that reminds me of when i threw my shoes at the kids my age because I was influenced by a minecraft youtuber
I bought a sweater from a thrift store that says 'Girls bite back' because I thought it was funny but I have yet to bite anyone.
Its NEVER too late!
Follow your dreams
you're telling me not one person has looked even a _little_ biteable to you?? crazy.
Activates my braincell about how the framing of any outgroup as biologically “more dangerous” is disproven on its face simply by the fact we basically all have teeth and the human bite force is no laughing matter, but we all just trust that we won’t bite each other
I should have had that as the feral kindergartner I was.
My grandfather bought me a “boys are stupid” sticker to put in my locker right before I started middle school. Looking back, it felt like it was intended to discourage me from any growing interest in boys by making the idea of interacting with them more childish and antagonistic
Bet you like girls
Or your grandpa thought you were a lesbian
It may have also been an attempt to pre-empt the kind of tween boy bullying he knew you would begin to receive. Anything they did or said to try to hurt you, you could just recall that they're stupid, so it doesn't matter.
Or he thought it was funny. Guys usually don't think that far into things
@@billygoat2051Gender equality means believing men are capable of creditable thought.
It’s also demeaning to say that about a sticker someone grandpa got them. If I did the same to a gift your grandmother got you you’d be upset right?
The "Miss" characters are "bad/adult" versions of a childs book series call "Little Miss ..." Little Miss Bossy, Little Miss Neat, etc Little Miss Late, etc
Well everybody's seen the Little Miss/Mr Men characters XP they're still around AFAIK.
@@Roadent1241 what does aifk mean
@@enanan1300 "as far as i know" i think
i have like 50 of those books lolll
@@enanan1300 AFAIK is As Far As I Know.
Do people not use these abbreviations anymore? I know they don't know XD and XP which is alarming.
‘Boys come from the stupid factory’ goes hard
It’s gender affirming as a trans man that also comes from the stupid factory
what if we were at the stupid factory... and we were both boys 😳👉👈
So true
@@elliot_ratno because I laughed out loud 😭
proud stupid factory alumni 🫡
Out of all the shirts to not like... he chooses the least bad one.
ngl i'd prefer boycotts on overtly racist t-shirts and not slightly edgy shirts.
Yeah it says a lot about his actual politics (and the vibes of the early 2000s in general) that there was more outrage against a silly joke about boys than.... all the racism.
It is weird looking back on that time because...it wasnnot that long ago but oh my God was especially anti-asian racism SO common
Same here but you have a koishi pfp! I love touhou!!!!
You must understand that dudes who invoke “misandry!” to refer to anything but the radfem/terfy argument that the current patriarchal systems would become utopic and functional if (a white patriarchal framing the ideology is allergic to examining) women became the dominant caste replacing white men but changing literally nothing else; and instead use the term “misandry” to refer to women’s voices being heard at all, do not care about racism
the average white person didn't give a fuck about racism back then
I remember having these rabbit figurine toys that had sassy phrases like the, "boys are stupid, throw rocks at them," quote so I always assumed that's where the controversy originated
omg i remember when happy bunny was everywhere you looked
@@fatherfeline my sister had like a bunch of stuff related to it when she was in high school
@@fatherfelineI had the shirts and stickers😅
I liked happy bunny for a short time but something about it started to annoy me… I think I just saw too much of it all over.
I had the bunny shirt in blue I think 🤔
"No means no... well maybe if I'm drunk!"
Yikes.
fr. I love how there was absolutely nothing wrong with making shirt's that romantize assualt* culture. But we're gonna throw a whole feral fit over "throw rocks at boys." LIkee how can we not see that maybe there's an issue with both.. Wonder how young people, particularly, victims interpreted that shirt. It's just making a mockery out of people's traumatic experiences. Not to mention all the racist shirts.
”rape culture and racism is fine but I draw the line in bullying boys 😡😡😡😡😡“
@@starryeyes999 youtube will probably delete their comment if they say the actual word
@@starryeyes999youtube is more likely to delete comments or flag the video if you don’t censor some controversial words. It’s common knowledge. No need to be condescending towards the original reply just because they follow the yt guidelines .
@@teamili7957 Thank you. Just because youtube has a certain terms and conditions doesn't mean I'm not gonna talk about the issue 🙄
My parents bought me one of their bags for high school. It was my first year and really wanted a cool one. I picked the one that had a cute spoon and fork on it that said “spooning leads to forking” and only in later years didn’t I realise I spent my early years of highscool with an innuendo plastered all over my bag.
thats iconic lolz
LMAOOOOO
Mail me that bag please
But if women got upset about all those “I sold my sister to buy video games” shirts we’d be hysterical.
Back in middle school, I had a classmate who multiple times wore a shirt that said “cool story babe, now go make me a sandwich”. Mind you this wasn’t in 2004, this was in 2014. With how much influence Andrew Tate and the like have on the minds of young boys, maybe these shirts should make a return!
@@earthangelandrogynousmind1625 exactly! all i was thinking of is isnt there way more problematic shirts aimed at women.... i rlly dont see why this was so huge lol
Lol but the thing is I’m a trans male so ovbiously I had so many girly shirts when I was younger being assigned female, anyways I had many “I sold my brother for (item)”
@@Kuntfetti nope nuh uh you dont get to be apart of this
@@sweetypuss Sit yo ahh back down, let them cook.
"the company's $20 T shirts tend toward the dark and sarcastic. They mock blondes, smokers,"
Ok pretty mild, not sure what I expecte-
"asians,"
huh
"vegetarians, prissy girls"
wait no go back a moment huh
god i was so horrified by how they just glossed over that 😭
And you know that “prissy girls” meant “shaming women I personally don’t like”
i mean? making fun of a girl just for being blonde isnt quite as bad but its a similar concept.
@@harlomints7727 theres a stark difference btw mocking hair color and mocking an entire racial group 💀 u cant compare the two
“Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick” comedic timing, dropping the “oh no” item in the middle
Makes shirts that spout anti Asian racism: 😊
Makes a shirt that makes a ‘haha boys dumb’ shirt: 😡
They are both funny asf
Both of these shirt designs are wrong
@@stupidopinion3379 They are both funny*
@@NicoEdgyare u trying to live to ur username? its not working
@@cuntycozy Do you think the shirts are unfunny?
what is it with adults’ obsession of making suggestive and sexist clothing designs for children?
Edginess? Projecting?
@@CosmicSponge2004 Projecting their sexism or pedophilia?
Babe wake up, Izzzyzzz just uploaded about something obscure from the 2000s
YIPPEEE :D
@@mossyboii-.- YIPPEEEEEEREE
HIP HIP HOORAY
YIPPITTY YAY!
HOT DIGGITY FOG HOORAY!!!
Ok but Trendy Wendy would kinda serve nowadays
The fact that her name is Wendy and her creator made a South Park rip off is kinda funny to me ngl.
Right? She's an absolute girlboss
Right?? I’d wear her?
I love her! just make her an awful yet kind-of charismatic character who's just a little too stupid to realise just how bad she is and there! perfect comedy!
17:53 I hope the term "TH-camr aplology" catches on as a figure of speech for really fake and shitty apologies, akin to "crocodile tears"
Real question: is it not already? Because all i need to hear are the phrases "TH-camr Apology" and ukelele, and I swear I'm having flashbacks to toxic gossip trains and cold, dead eyes.
there's also "notes app apology" for non-apologies clearly written on someone's phone, lacking that sense of professionalism and ownership over their mistakes
I’ll be using that from now on
wait you think that hasn’t already been a term in circulation since the mid 2010s
Hello??? Where have you been would you like a snack /gen
@@Lucifersfursona don’t worry it’s ok
"After thousands of years of being taught to protect women, they have no desire to battle or even critisize them"
Bruhhh, where and how do we even start with this one? I don't think there are enough hours in the day!
Me waking up everyday in my country watching the news channel telling about another femicide crime: 🙃
I would NEVER criticize a woman! EVER! Oh wait JK rowilling just tweeted brb.
@@juliacondensada Yet in every country in the world the homicide rate for men is far higher than for women. But yeah yeah this is the left-leaning internet; men and boys never have problems and just need to shut up right?
@@juliacondensada I mean, that's because murders against women are taken much more seriously. Men tend to make up the overwhelming majority of murder victims, at least in the US, UK, Canada, and similar western countries.
@@Raphe9000no they aren't. men are more likely to be murdered and overwhelmingly more likely to be murderers because they're more likely to be involved in violent / criminal activity, gangs, etc, and theyre more likely to respond to confrontation with violence. they're also more likely to put themselves at risk whereas women are taught from a young age to stay in groups and what areas to avoid to keep themselves safe. the reason why women being killed makes the news so often is because of the *reason* why they're killed. women are overwhelmingly more likely to be murdered because of sexism and domestic violence than men are and another woman being murdered by her boyfriend, husband, ex, etc is a bigger story because dv is such a huge problem. this is like during the blm movement how ppl would say "we'll police abuse white people too" like yeah cause police are terrible, they aren't targeting and abusing white people for being white though that's why it's not about them rn
Tbh the poke them in the eye design was more messed up, it even had slight gore. I wonder why they didn't focus on that
Because rocks are more important than gore
probably because the ‘throw rocks at them’ shirts sold more or were more popular, making them more controversial
As an Asian man I have to say I would literally pay a fortune just to get my hands on a I Speak Engrish shirt.
I want that but also with a motorcycle riding skeleton in the background
No same (but my fortune is like $5) !!
seconded. that’d go into the daily wardrobe straightaway
We seem to have collectively agreed that we all want the shirts that are trying to make fun of us, and we do not want the shirts making fun of anyone else.
white people getting offended on behalf of non-white people is the most exasperating thing ever. Also those shirts are fire.
insane how it was a silly "haha throw rocks at boyz xD" shirt that got a lot of flack not like...racist slop? god i hate so much of the 2000s
no no, the slop was fine. i remember when they sod these, a lot of people were mad. not the right people evidently, but still.
Not surprising to me. A large swath of our demographic here in the US hate anything not "standard" and by that they mean cishet white male.
Because "boys" is the only targeted group he and his mostly white male audience used to be a part of. He never was or will ever be Asian or Native, and meninists don't usually see anorexia or intoxicated rape as a problem that can affect men too unless it can be said as a gotcha in response to women talking about these issues. Most of the guys offended by the boys t-shirt would likely call women and POC overly sensitive for being anywhere near that offended by any of the other shirts. I agree that the shirt is dumb and adult humor applied to children, but have you y'all *seen* the aggressively gendered baby shirts and onesies with boomer humor quotes like "Ladies, I have arrived" or "Does this diaper make my butt look big?" printed on them? It's dumb, but pretty normalized even today.
@@rainpooper7088 omg, i completely agree! Like "Ladies Man", or "Daddy is my only boyfriend." Legit, i've seen a pink little onesise with that scrawled across it. It's creepy to me! Like we are sexualing children before they even know what any of this means. Futhermore, the alt right is always going on about how the Lgbtq+ community groom children and push their agenda. Meanwhile, they are being groomed by their own family members.
"I can excuse racism, but I draw the line at -male- animal cruelty!"
"You can excuse racism?"
I had a keychain with the "boys are stupid, throw rocks at them" slogan, complete with glittery background and lizzie mcguire font- if memory serves. Ironically as young teen when I was given that keychain, all my friends were boys. That keychain probably still exists somewhere in my childhood bedroom.
I specifically remember having this one trendy wendy notebook that i'd learn spanish in and I loved the simplistic and sassy design. i had no idea she was involved in a controversy. little did i know i'd transition to the group of people she'd throw a rock at, lol
**throws rocks gender-affirmingly**
"throws rock's at you"
@@Spady_Jorts ouch!
@@havenm6181 accidental gender affirmation!
The gender affirmation of being pelted by rocks 🥹
You'd think the glaringly racist ones should have been the controversial part, but the "throw rocks at boys" shirts that lead to nothing, was what got the big backlash? 🙃Then again racism wasn't taken very seriously at all then with all the "ironic" blackface and general Asian culture mockery then and how much that was actually defended by people.
I mean can both be bad
"I can excuse racism but I draw the line at hating boys!"
"You can excuse racism???"
@@karlo125 yeah, it's not like just because something is "worse" or as they say "there is worse things happening in the world for me to care about that" instead why can't we all just agree that we can see both things as bad and we should try to fix them both
@@lilylookittykyu3115 I geuse that why you have to be intersectional about this
True but that doesn't mean blatant sexism (against men or otherwise) is good either
19:52 Look, I know it's a reference to that "women can't drive" stereotype, but I would unironically buy the "Hot Girls Hit Curbs" t-shirt. Because I'm a hot girl, and I SUCK at driving.
also I won't lie the frog is really cute :>
I would wear a shirt to walk around with you that is like "don't worry, butch girls took their keys".
I’m not hot but my driving is… subpar at best
I would definitely want that shirt
I think that shirt in particular would do absolute numbers in the new post-ironic world. I'm not particuarly hot or a girl (anymore) and I don't know how to drive but I'd totally wear it
I really want to get that for my mom since she wreaked her car by hitting the curb 😭
I remember these. Maybe not this brand specifically, but my mom called them "attitude shirts" and would pick them out of my older cousins hand me downs so i didnt get to wear them 💀
I definitely remember them being referred to as attitude shirts too !
@@Cha0s.Bring3r maybe that was the brand idk
depending on how strict your surroundings were, your mom was either really lame or really smart
@@nohintshere both. It's both
I still have a journal from middle school with the "Boys are stupid throw rocks at them" on it. I never realized it was so controversial.
"I never realized it was so controversial."
That really speaks to your lack of empathy.
@@AlexReynard how could you judge me so deeply based on one comment? Thats... pretty odd.
@@AlexReynard also, just because I wasn't aware of the controversy doesn't mean I agree with the message...
@@AprilBorealis You're right. As kids, we don't know better. We look at what our peers are doing and we get our morality from that. If an adult gave you that journal, a kids' reaction is usually, 'If a grownup approved of this, it must be okay.' The failure here isn't the kids, it's the adults who thought it'd be cute to sell inappropriate jokes to kids. They thought, 'Isn't it cute how little girls and boys hate each other? Let's make merch of that?' Never considering that, maybe there'd be LESS of that if it wasn't intentionally normalized.
In general, I get upset at things where, any one person's conscience might be uncomfortable with [hurtful thing], but then if everyone else says [hurtful thing] is okay, that individual conscience gets squashed down. I hate that we're like this.
2:22 why were asians thrown in this 😭
Good
@@johnnyaguirre1912 Johnny that's not very supportive.
As an example
I remember as a kid I saw a little boy crying hysterically at my school, I asked what was wrong and he pointed to a girl who was wearing that shirt 😂I think she was asked to not wear it again at school. But honestly I think she felt bad
Yeah ngl there's a lot of people in this comment section who are really over-estimating the cognitive capabilities of young children. I was a boy when this t-shirt was making the news and I just remember feeling pretty sad/uncomfortable about a t-shirt becoming popular that encouraged people to hurt me, and the fact people were defending it saying "Well no actually it's fine!" when my entire life to that point I'd always been told that you should never hit people.
It weird that if boys wear sexist shirts with woman slogans on them it would be over the news
@@spacecorgi3074exactly,like, no one should feel uncomfortable or sad and honestly i really don’t know how they thought this was a good Idea
Smh little male manipulator
@@spacecorgi3074 you are right. It is a very mean joke. I think the girl felt bad realizing how much she hurt the little boy. You don’t really think about the possible impact until it’s right infront of you
Isn’t it super fascinating that in the 2000’s pointless racism towards Asian was so common you could get away with selling shirts like these 3:13 but two decades later Japanese manga are outselling American comic books in the US and every one loves bulba tea
BULBA TEA 😭😭😭
First it was slowpoke tails now team rocket is harvesting the bulbs of bulbasaurs to make teas??
Save the Bulbasaurs
theres a very ironic pattern ive observed with a lot of racists where theyll appear to love aspects of another culture, but then also belittle the people the culture is from. an example being there were a few guy students (they all knew each other) @ my old high school who were Sooo nauseatingly immature. i'd overhear them make comments about the asian girl students, calling them all sorts of names including the c slur, but at the same time they loved reading manga and would obsess over anime girls? ??😭😭shit used to trip me & my friends out BADD LMFAO.
in a similar vein; i had lived in south virginia for a time and you can already imagine the type of people you can encounter there 😭i had lil nasties insult my appearance, such as my skin, and tell me to "go back to africa" becuase "i dont belong here," but what was funny asl to me is that some of these same people would have tans ?>?@? LIKE OKAY. what are we even doing. obviously u dont think my skin tone is _that_ ugly if u go out of ur way to make urself darker
As a kid, I had a “boys are smelly” backpack- and now I’m a lesbian so ig I took the shit to heart LMFAOO
god sassy 2000s t-shirts brought back nostalgia i didnt even know
I miss my cute BobbyJack shirts tbh
it is a bit funny that teenage boys, who notoriously make "dark humour" their entire personality in teenage years, would be so offended by a t-shirt like that lol suddenly the "dark humour" isn't funny when it's directed at you huh...
It’s funny when they joke about r@ping women but not when someone jokes about throwing rocks at boys
Some people could really do with a lesson in "don't dish out what you can't take."
Teenage boys aren't a monolith
I think it's uptight parents.
@@XwX1001 real
my mum bought me that boys are stupid throw rocks at them book when we were on holiday in 06, presumably because it was small and light, and it was my most prized possession, i loved it. i still have it to this day because of the insane sentimental value it holds
@@ItsBetterOnline if the profile picture is you you do look like someone who would throw rocks at a small child because of there gender
When I was little I had a bunch of It's Happy Bunny merch, from shirts to notebooks and stickers, and they all had similar sassy/off-color phrases and jokes lol. The early 2000s was a wild time
God yes, when I was an 'edgy' child in the 00s I loved that little shit, this video just brought those memories crashing back
Oh my god that brings me back, I had a pencil case with Happy Bunny printed on the side when I was in 6th grade! Iirc it said “I think you’re funny... looking” or something like that
I absolutely lived in my ‘cute but psycho’ Happy Bunny hoodie as a kid 💀I was so obsessed with that Gloomy Bear/Happy Tree Friends/im so crazy lolrandomXD era as a kid and honestly still very much enjoy now as an adult, but that particular design probably isn’t one I’d get a reprint of now
does anyone else love seeing izzy’s new outfits every video they’re literally so creative 😭😭
OK but I just heard "everybody's so creative"
Right??? How do they manage to look so good in every single video, like 😭😭😭
They're part of the reason I got into wearing brightly colored eyeshadow. It's become one of my "things" and I love it.
Oh wait, does Izzy go by they/them?
@@onionbubs386 I believe they goes by They/She, but mostly They. In one post one their Instagram they said they feel uncomfortable with people calling they Queen/Girl etc
Damn that throw rocks at boys thing was on EVERYTHING. pencil cases, notebooks, mugs, everythingggggg
Oh. My god. When I was 10 I went to Hawaii with my family and there was a David & Goliath store I went to and loved. It was mostly ‘Trendy Wendy’ (just found out her name lol) and I got a decent amount of school stuff so I still have a notebook with her on it. I have never been able to find the name of the brand or anything about it ever since and I’ve looked many times. Thank you so much 😮💨
The phrase “boys are stupid, throw rocks at them” sounds like a post-ironydeath shitpost phrase that would make numbers. At the very least id laugh at it, and I’m pretty sure my flavor blend of neurodivergency isn’t unique to me alone!
Joke or not, it's still sexist.
no literally i want that shirt now and i’m a trans man 💀 if it wasn’t linked to a company that made horribly racist shirts against asian people i’d 100% buy one
what does being neurodivergent have to do with finding the shirt funny 😭
@@tallemajas it’s just this type of humor is popular among neurodivergent people, nothing else to look into lol
It’s like an iykyk sorta thing
As an Asian American, I wonder if the reason as to why the really racist shirts didn’t get as addressed in the public eye is because racism towards Asians in white america is kinda seen as “acceptable”.
Faux Asian accents, China man jokes, and racist t shirts kinda just… happen and when I try to explain why they make me feel uncomfortable to my white people I know it’s definitely a bit of an argument. I think there’s a sentiment that you “can’t” be racist towards Asians in America. I’m not really sure why, but it’s just something I’ve noticed. I’ve had to explain to people my age why you shouldn’t call actual humans “oriental”.
The response usually isn’t embarrassment or “Oh shit ok”. It’s usually more “Well, the orient refers to the west,” or “Well Asian people call themselves that”. Well I’m Asian and I’m telling you I don’t :/
"The orient refers to the west" (i think you meant the east btw) "ok so do we call everyone from australia "southerners" now since they're in the southern hemisphere?"
I think the fact a lot of Asians helped build the railroads plays a part, besides "Taking our jobs" The press literally talked about them like they were machines.
Because unsurprisingly, immigrants will break their backs trying to secure a place. And then came the "Chinese" Exclusion Act, it's all beyond messed up
@@PhoebeTheFairy56 yeah you right, mb
Also the people who claim anti-Asian racism can’t exist because “Asians are actually the racial majority in the world”… Yikes.
"ayyyy I'm a Chinese man!"- Tomska doing a better American accent than the 'American Man' voice
This whole shebang reminds me of a popular taunt when i was growing up. "Boys go to jupiter to get more stupider girls go to mars to be superstars"
i always just heard "girls go to college to get more knowledge" ... man if i knew i could've gone to mars AND become a superstar i would've stayed a girl /silly
I remember this. The teacher tried to get us to replace it with "boy go to jupiter to get more jelly" 💀
For me in elementary it was always "Girls go to college to get more knowledge, boys go to Jupiter to get more stupider.
@@carolyns4519 LMAOO
Damn, the kids at my school only went to Mars to get candy bars. I didn't know we could become superstars there too 😭
7:21 they do all the time with all the "I hate my sister" shirts I saw growing up
Tbh I feel that statement is gender-neutral. Kids just fight w siblings lol
@@embrixcandray6073 There's not half as many made "for girls" about brothers. I've also never seen one "for boys" about a brother, or that uses the word sibling instead.
when i was 7, i had a shirt that said "I like girls and sausage rolls". Im from the UK so for anyone wondering, a sausage roll is a very popular pastry wrapped sausage (of course) and its crazy how popular it is in british culture, Greggs especially (A pastry chain in the UK) to the point that there is a WHOLE clothing line for Greggs... its crazy.
as a fellow "Bri'ish lad" I like sausage rolls more than girls
This is so interesting to me because I remember there being SO many little boy shirts that had similar sentiments "Video games good sister bad" obviously as a kid I wasn't aware if any big public controversies existed around these shirts. If I saw a "boys are stupid throw rocks at them" shirt as a kid I would totally want one to sort of "level the playing field"
Please never stop making videos- without you I wouldn't have half the useless and obscure internet knowledge I do now. I need more to satisfy the brain tingles.
Omg same. I love my little obscure 2000s facts that I can just pull out in a random conversation
I read this as please stop making videos.
I need my meds.
When I think of a life where Izzy never told me about garfield eats, it sounds like a terrifying existence
I’ve been sick for a few days, and the phrase ‘boys are stupid, throw rocks at them’ sent me into a coughing fit that almost took me out
Ok but like, the artstyle is like a cross between Powerpuff Girls and South Park, and I’m absolutely all for it 😭 💕
Oh yeah, that was the only part that seemed like they nailed. We should steal the characters and just print our own slogans.
this dosen't have much to do with the video's topic, but i love your chucky pfp lmao
Kinda reminds me of that old Nicktoon, Making Fiends.
@@XwX1001MAKING FIENDS MENTION!!!
"girls are weirdos but they smell pretty" goes hard
holyyyy shit i remember those terrible racist anti-asian shirts. i can't believe people were more angry about the rock throwing shirt
Me too...
I don't remember anything about the company, the products, or the character Trendy Wendy, but I definitely remember my best friend from high school saying, "Boys are stupid, throw rocks at them." There were so many sarcastic t-shirts they all kind of blend together. I do remember Happy Bunny pretty well.
I remember Happy Bunny more than Trendy Wendy.
I doesn't surprise me that during that time the more concerning t-shirts (like the heavily racist ones and the one with "except when I'm drunk") weren't the ones to recieve backlash. It may only have happened in my circle, but I remember the 2000s being really mean-spirited, in the sense that unlike nowadays corcerning yourself about certain subjects like consent and mental health made people call you exaggerated or too sensitive. Only a person who is already controversial during that time would've made people notice other problematic stuff. That's why this story disappoints me but doesn't surprise me either. It was two decades ago but the contrasting differences to what's considered sensitive nowadays make me loose a little hope
I take it more as a sign of progress, personally. Most of us KNOW this stuff isn't good now, and the majority of peoples' reactions are gonna be a similar amount of discomfort or disgust, and those whose reactions are anything else are seen as in the wrong. What was once seen as just "edgy" is now seen for what it actually is: gross and insensitive attempts at humor under the guise of dark comedy.
If anyone wants a GOOD version of The Blah Girls, just watch Teen Girl Squad from Homestar Runner. It's a similar premise but executed infinitely better by actually smart and funny people.
Wave'o babies
ARROWED!!!
Ow! My unsolicited replies to two-weeks old comments!
I haven’t thought about David and Goliath for a long time! Unlocked a core memory here! I used to have a t-shirt which I adored which said “Come to the dark side we have cookies” 😅 going to the store was so much fun but everything was too expensive when I was a child
Me, a young teen boy in the 00's: *sees girl wearing the shirt* "Ha. Funny shirt."
I'd love to see a video on Happy Bunny, some of the slogans remind me of them
Same!
As a teen I bought myself shirt that said "Daddy's Girl" on it because i love my father 💀
I'm sorry that i laughed
What? 💀
Awwwwwwwwwwwwwww, that is so sweet and innocent!
"But you see, we NEED rich people cuz it trickles down" doesnt hold water when your average rich person is investing in detached-from-reality, anti human nonsense like ai and nfts
(It doesnt hold water regardless, just an extra kick in the nads)
9:47 "Boys come from the stupid factory"
Don't we?
New band name: "Stupid Factory."
On Jupiter?
@@jvgreendarmok aligns with Mars
@@jvgreendarmokOn Venus
I’m from England and I had that “boys are stupid throw rocks at them” on a CD case! On the other side it said “boys belong behind bars”. I still have it 😂
omg speaking of 2000s shirts izzzyyyyyy i used to have a shirt just like yours when i was little! mine was purple and the butterfly had a bluish purple tinsel glitter. it was my favorite shirt!! so glad to see that style come around again!!
I used to have a poster of the "boys are stupid throw rocks at them" poster up in my room, yet i am boys!
My mum still has a drinks glass with that design I got as a kid.
My sister passed down a "boys are stupid throw rocks at them" shirt and I still have it. I've worn it out and to sleep before. I still find it kinda funny but of course nothing beyond being satire
Omg, this unlocked a memory for me! I remember trendy wendy stuff being at hot topic when i was a kid and seeing that "throw rocks at them" design on shirts.
See, this is one of the many reasons why I like your videos -- they're not only entertaining but they also unlock memories about things I had forgotten LOL
I had no idea these were a thing but I do remember a t-shirt trend among boys in like 2004/2005 that were these pink shirts that would always say something along the lines of “Real Men Wear Pink” or “Tough Guys Wear Pink”. The 2000s were truly a wild west of stereotypically gendered things…
My husband’s mom got him a shirt that's neon pink and it says "Don't Laugh, This is Your Girlfriend's Shirt" 💀
This reminds me of something I went through in middle school that is honestly so stupid that it feels like something I made up. On my first day of middle school, I wore one of those Happy Bunny shirts that said, "I'll try being nicer if you try being smarter." Apparently, one of the cheerleaders in my class block somehow took offense to my shirt and made it her life goal to absolutely ruin my life. She befriended me, himg out with the group of friends I ate lunch with, and then slowly poisoned the water by spreading rumors about me and talking behind my back. By the end of the year, I was a social pariah with no friends, and it was bad enough that no one wanted to be my friend the next year either.
👏Over 👏a 👏Happy 👏Bunny 👏Shirt! 👏
Bro, cancel culture today has nothing on how we treated each other in the early 2000s. We all just kind of low-key hated everyone while picking who this week's Villian was. Glad we've evolved since then, even if it's just by a smidge.
Jesus Christ, man, middle schoolers are monsters.
Butcher: oi eugie, we gotta kill omelanda
M.M’s shirt the next scene: 19:09
Doesn't he usually wear band/rapper shirts? I don't recall any of them being in particularly poor taste save for the dead prez one when they were literally in a safety bunker protecting a presidential nominee.
It's funny how a design about throwing rocks at boys was where people draw the line!
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You always give me information in the weirdest things and I love every minute of it
This controversy is so fucking funny cuz every boy in the 2000s owned at least 5 shirts talking about selling/killing/maiming his sister
I was surprised you didn't bring up the art theft! This guy was an infamous art thief (and probably still is.) I remember there was a big thread comparing his "designs" with all the shit he had traced.
I used to have a “Who Farted?” t-shirt as a kid. Was always a conversation starter.
When I tell you that I looked up the Blah girls about 72 hours ago because U randomly remembered them, please believe me. I can’t believe you made a video at the exact moment I remembered them. That is so strange and awesome!
I don’t remember the shirts but I remember having a ‘Boys Are Stupid Throw Rocks At Them’ book and was absolutely obsessed with it as a tween for whatever reason (the hyperfixations really choose you)
Is that Usagi or am I just reading too much into that pfp?
@@spellcraft7988 Nope it is, I've had it for years now
The two shirts of elementary school:
"Boys are stupid throw rocks at them"
and
"I sold my sister for video games"
omg, I've always wondered what people meant when they talked about Goldman Sachs!
4:00 OH MY GOD I HAD A BOOK WITH THAT CHARACTER AS A TWEEN
It was literally called "Boys Are Stupid Throw Rocks At Them" oh my god the memories are flooding back what the hell
EDIT: 9:23 OMG THERE IT IS THAT'S THE BOOK I HAD
EDIT 2: 20:36 After this and seeing the comments, JUST HOW POPULAR WAS THAT BOOK?
@@CaitlinKoi it’s honestly kind of concerning not just how many people had this book but how many people have like a strong emotional attachment to it
Nothing like Izzzyzzz bringing up something from my unconscious
You know when i clicked on the video i thought "yeah anti boy/girl shirts are not very good", but the fact that THIS caused controversy but not literal racism, or a shirt about sexual assault??? Like, huh? And the fact that the topic was "bashing boys and non existing violence" and not like the whole... Thing? Including girls are stupid products? Huh??
when i was really young i was in the mall with my mother and she found a pin on the ground that said "boys are stupid, throw rocks at them" and i remember how delighted she was, and how she loved it for like a decade.
i think the shirt is not a good message for kids, i think we should teach that any sexism is bad obviously. but also i think its worth mentioning that if a boy wore a "girls are stupid, throw rocks at them" shirt, there WOULD be a difference since little boys are genuinely likely to throw rocks at little girls (happened to me LOL) but growing up it hasnt really happened the other way around, because a girl would get into so much more trouble over it than a boy would.
I mean, there very much were plenty of boys shirts that were about hating their sister/girls in general, and similar sentiments were present on pretty much any kid show with a boy protagonist. Seeing as that was the vast majority of cartoons back then, it didn’t exactly leave a great taste in my mouth as a girl watching them as a kid.
I mean if people stopped raising their sons to think violence is acceptable, especially towards women, then boys wouldn't be more inclined towards it
My experience is the opposite; it was much worse to be bullied by a girl because the teachers did not care. Boys were considered to be the troublesome and problematic ones, and a boy telling on a girl for bullying him was just being a crybaby.
@tearoses9940 there was always a lot of "boys only" phrasing but i cant recall anything actually suggesting violence on the level of the throwing rocks shirt
@Raphe9000 its bad both ways, its not worse either way. girls in my elementary school would get put on the same "plans" just for being talkative that boys got put on for being genuinely violent. boys would never get punished properly because it was seen as something that was unavoidable and part of their nature, and thats the same reason boys were expected to just "suck it up" whenever it happened to them.
i want the "boys are stupid trow rocks at them" shirt tbh lollll
I remember the David and Goliath shirts well, they were everywhere. Everyone at my school wanted 'spooning leads to forking' with a cute cartoon spoon and fork on it
My mum said I wasn't allowed lol
I should really save this video for when I’m bored at work tomorrow ….. oh nooooo …… already started watchiiiiinngg
This is absolutely WILD. I vividly remember D&G, Happy Bunny, and similar graphic tee companies because my parents wouldn’t let me wear them. They kept claiming the shirts would “encourage me to be mean”, but they had no problem buying me a notebook for school that had a joke about slapping your friends in the face… The 2000s were an odd time, that’s for sure.
i hate how the exact same company was putting down women, asian people, and indigenous people, but as soon as they put down boys, THAT’S where people drew the line and it became a big controversy. like, i don’t think the throw rocks at boys shirt is a good shirt nor do i think the message is good, but the lack of controversy for all the other stuff reeks of misogyny and racism. it seems pretty clear to me why this is the shirt everyone was up in arms about :/
People, especially men, love to mock everyone until someone mocks them.
Great video!! Gonna have to watch it later tho, busy throwing rocks at boys rn
As a guy rocks are my weakness plssss dont throw it at me
The Rock? I'll like that
As a man I can confirm I do indeed come from the stupid factory
*throws rocks at you*
man i cant find any rocks
lulz rawr
I didn't know "South Park for girls" would be just, Powerpuff Girls, but lame 😔👊
“South Park for girls” would just be regular South Park
Oh man, this is giving me flashbacks to those t-shirts with bunnies on them and phrases like "cute but psycho"
Happy Bunny
This is wild to me as someone who was obsessed with David & Goliath in the early 2010s. Every weird girl tween at that time knew about the “Come to the dark side, we have cookies” t shirt - I had one, another than said “come to the dork side, we have video games” and a plethora of “quirky” stuff. I still wear some of it as pjs! I remember wondering where it had gone in recent years but had no idea about the brands past. They did a good job, at least in the UK, of distancing themselves from it and just being seen as off-beat. I feel bad about dropping so much money on a brand that still makes offensive stuff, even if I didn’t know until now!
That's the thing. Todd did for clothing what Eminem did for rap, and that was having a penchant for controversy. But by the mid 2010s, D&G was steering more towards 'kawaii' designs that, while they still maintained a sense of quirky postmodern humour, it was a far cry from the halcyon days of being ultra-edgy to the point that it exploited stereotypes. Cakes With Faces is similar to the later, less-controversial cutesy D&G designs, but does not have the same baggage, and has designs that are even properly inspired by Japan and their kawaii scene.
Okay, I'm using "meninist" now lmao
Haven’t heard of him but as soon as I saw him I just knew I JUST KNEW he was a “men’s activist” aka mysogonyst with a few extra words
They look like when icarly did that animated segment where Sam ate Freddie’s arm