Kaitlyn shirts on WWE Shop

[Cronant]

Guys don't get the unicorn.

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This might be the first shirt to have 0 sales.

[BigWill]

I like the first one, though I don't think it really suits Kaitlyn. She getting a new military gimmick or something?

The second looks like they took a bunch of ideas, and just through them together randomly.

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Aug 5, 2013 15:20:51 GMT -5 @bootytime said:

This might be the first shirt to have 0 sales.

That made me laugh way harder than it should have.

[Richard]

My multiple design theory was correct (thankfully), and they turned out better than I thought they would. Not bad.

I'm not really feeling this whole "8th Militia" stuff though, but I guess it could be worse.

[Pushed to the Moon]

What is the "8th Militia" exactly?

[babyfootball]

You know, this is one of those things I really don't understand that WWE does sometimes. I like Kaitlyn. She's pretty enough, isn't a charisma void and despite her still being green has improved to the point where she's among WWE's better Diva workers (though we all know that really doesn't say too much, it's worth noting because at one point not all that long ago she was stinking up the joint as bad as anyone). They made her champion, which, again, really means next to nothing these days and to me hasn't since they introduced the Divas Championship in the first place. The angles mean nothing, the fans don't care and the belt has taken a back seat since the Bellas returned (which is so funny that they're these huge stars now when in their previous run, the fans cared nearly as little about them as they did anybody on the Divas roster at the time) and Total Divas started coming to fruition.

And yet, they give her a shirt? That they must expect to sell at least a little, right? Why else would they make it?

I understand that screen-printing a few hundred shirts for an organization like WWE isn't exactly a budget-buster but, for as much shit as WWE takes and has taken for 30 years for its questionable marketing decisions, how does something like this get a green light? How many people do they realistically think will buy a Kaitlyn shirt, at this point in time? Can, with all the success as a company WWE has had and the remarkable entity it has grown into, they still be at times so delusional about little things like this?

Sometimes, I think a lot of the negative reports about the creative and marketing departments as well as Vince himself are over-exaggerated and played up a bit by the company itself for show, things like this really, really make me wonder...

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I FEEL VERY STRONGLY ABOUT THIS T-SHIRT.

Personally, I like the fact that the divas are finally getting some shirts again.

[Abdullah]

Aug 5, 2013 15:46:26 GMT -5 babyfootball said:

You know, this is one of those things I really don't understand that WWE does sometimes. I like Kaitlyn. She's pretty enough, isn't a charisma void and despite her still being green has improved to the point where she's among WWE's better Diva workers (though we all know that really doesn't say too much, it's worth noting because at one point not all that long ago she was stinking up the joint as bad as anyone). They made her champion, which, again, really means next to nothing these days and to me hasn't since they introduced the Divas Championship in the first place. The angles mean nothing, the fans don't care and the belt has taken a back seat since the Bellas returned (which is so funny that they're these huge stars now when in their previous run, the fans cared nearly as little about them as they did anybody on the Divas roster at the time) and Total Divas started coming to fruition.

And yet, they give her a shirt? That they must expect to sell at least a little, right? Why else would they make it?

I understand that screen-printing a few hundred shirts for an organization like WWE isn't exactly a budget-buster but, for as much shit as WWE takes and has taken for 30 years for its questionable marketing decisions, how does something like this get a green light? How many people do they realistically think will buy a Kaitlyn shirt, at this point in time? Can, with all the success as a company WWE has had and the remarkable entity it has grown into, they still be at times so delusional about little things like this?

Sometimes, I think a lot of the negative reports about the creative and marketing departments as well as Vince himself are over-exaggerated and played up a bit by the company itself for show, things like this really, really make me wonder...

The AJ/Kaitlyn feud is more important than the Bellas to this point.

But... no, I don't agree with this. It seems like you're singling out a Diva. Are PTP, Cesaro, or Brodus Clay really all that relevant? Not really. But they have shirts, too!

[Savage Gambino]

Aug 5, 2013 15:42:43 GMT -5 Pushed to the Moon said:

What is the "8th Militia" exactly?

The strangest non sequitur attached to someone's merchandise since JoMo's "We're Gonna Eat Your Lunch" shirt.

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Aug 5, 2013 15:42:43 GMT -5 Pushed to the Moon said:

What is the "8th Militia" exactly?

Kaitlyn's a huge fan of the first Civilization game yet lacks the patience to get past the initial era. When she loads up dosbox she regularly makes the new player mistake of just building militia units and trying to take opponents cities straight away. By the time she has made 8, someone takes her capital, usually Gandhi, who just happens to be a nefarious bastard on Civ games.

[BlackoutCreature]

Aug 5, 2013 15:42:43 GMT -5 Pushed to the Moon said:

What is the "8th Militia" exactly?

My assumption is that it has something to do with Kaitlyn being phonetically equivalent to "K8lyn" and them combining it with the Sonya Blade alt-costume ring gear she occasionally wears to get the "militia" part? I don't know, it feels like a pretty huge stretch.

[Lancers]

Aug 5, 2013 15:20:51 GMT -5 @bootytime said:

This might be the first shirt to have 0 sales.

I'm sure somebody in love with Kaitlyn will buy one and tweet her a photo of him wearing the shirt standing in front of a bedroom wall filled with pictures of her doing random things like picking up laundry or walking into a convenience store from a certain distance of approximately 500 feet.

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Aug 5, 2013 15:20:51 GMT -5 @bootytime said:

This might be the first shirt to have 0 sales.

I dunno. Can it sell worse than "Dibiase Posse"?

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To be fair, at least they didn't make a T-shirt with her semi-exposed cleavage on it......

[The Man They Call Asher]

Read this as "Kaitlyn shits on WWE Shop"

[Brother Nero....Wolfe]

Aug 5, 2013 15:55:44 GMT -5 Savage Gambino said:

Aug 5, 2013 15:42:43 GMT -5 Pushed to the Moon said:

What is the "8th Militia" exactly?

The strangest non sequitur attached to someone's merchandise since JoMo's "We're Gonna Eat Your Lunch" shirt.

JoMo's EAT YOUR LUNCH slogan at least lent itself to a sketch where Zack Ryder's dad was going around eating everybody's lunch because he had bought that shirt. Unless we get Kaitlyn riding an army of unicorns to raw I think Jomo's shirt wins.

[CH Punk]

Aug 5, 2013 16:22:16 GMT -5 @fsinfan said:

Aug 5, 2013 15:20:51 GMT -5 @bootytime said:

This might be the first shirt to have 0 sales.

I dunno. Can it sell worse than "Dibiase Posse"?

Or that Chavo shirt.

[________ has left the building]

Aug 5, 2013 16:30:44 GMT -5 The Man They Call Asher said:

Read this as "Kaitlyn shits on WWE Shop"

Your sig must had thought the same thing.

[Young Game]

Aug 5, 2013 16:23:10 GMT -5 @knapp said:

To be fair, at least they didn't make a T-shirt with her semi-exposed cleavage on it......

If they ever made a shirt that was a screen-printing of Kaitlyn from the neck down...yeah, I'd probably wear it.