Steveweiser
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Post by Steveweiser on Oct 27, 2019 5:10:10 GMT -5
Incredibly brave move from Jordan Myles. Hope management respond the right way, but I fear they won't.
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Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on Oct 27, 2019 5:30:01 GMT -5
Oh wow, now that I actually see what’s probably getting him upset, I REALLY hope they didn’t do so intentionally. Considering they banged out about 30 of these shirts in an afternoon, I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt, but that should be pulled and redesigned post haste to get rid of the entire minstrel show vibe. EDIT: I can’t find this particular design on either their main shop site or their custom shirts site. They do have a shirt for him on the custom site but it’s a different design, so it must have already been pulled or never went for sale to start with... customtees.wwe.com/products/jordan-myles-unisex-t-shirt?_pos=1&_sid=3470b5168&_ss=r
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Post by realist on Oct 27, 2019 5:37:29 GMT -5
I knew something like this would eventually happen when they made Hulk Hogan the lead t-shirt designer.
Seriously, though, do the talent have any say in their merch. I feel like this all could have been avoided if someone had just shown him the shirt and said, "Well, what do you think?"
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Post by Final Countdown Jones on Oct 27, 2019 5:37:38 GMT -5
Absolutely wild that this got past any draft phase, and the idea that talent don't get to peek in at their merch before it goes live is even more confusing and frightening. They rushed a whole f***load of NXT stuff with absolute trash designs for when they debuted on USA, but hell if this isn't why maybe trying to cram thirty no-effort designs in a hurry isn't the smartest thing to do. Definitely going to go with stupidity over malice here because no f***ing way the people who greenlit this thought "Let's put this shirt out just to see if we get slammed for it", but it does seem like the rushed, hasty side effect of all the shit building up around their merch problems for a while.
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Oct 27, 2019 5:39:02 GMT -5
Good to see they learned nothing since the rising sun Hideo shirt that maybe they should check first in case there might be concerns over what a shirt represents.
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Post by Hurbster on Oct 27, 2019 5:42:23 GMT -5
WTF ?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2019 5:45:42 GMT -5
Woooooow. At best it's completely shit, at worst yikes.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2019 5:45:44 GMT -5
Oh wow, now that I actually see what’s probably getting him upset, I REALLY hope they didn’t do so intentionally. Considering they banged out about 30 of these shirts in an afternoon, I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt, but that should be pulled and redesigned post haste to get rid of the entire minstrel show vibe. EDIT: I can’t find this particular design on either their main shop site or their custom shirts site. They do have a shirt for him on the custom site but it’s a different design, so it must have already been pulled or never went for sale to start with... customtees.wwe.com/products/jordan-myles-unisex-t-shirt?_pos=1&_sid=3470b5168&_ss=rApparently they realized the problem and got rid of it last month, but the design still shouldn’t have existed. I get that they wanted to do something that highlights his smile because my man does smile a lot, but someone somewhere on the chain should have recognized what that looks like.
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Spider2024
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Post by Spider2024 on Oct 27, 2019 5:51:38 GMT -5
The only time that a smile has been very much NOT contagious.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2019 5:54:54 GMT -5
Yeah, he’s not going to get outright released but he’ll end up in the being sent home and never used until his deal ends spot.
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4TheGlory
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Post by 4TheGlory on Oct 27, 2019 5:55:53 GMT -5
If they pulled this a month ago, why is he bringing it up now? I am confused
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Post by clifford on Oct 27, 2019 6:06:58 GMT -5
Woooahhhhh, holy shit HOW does that design get approved? Oh my god
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Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on Oct 27, 2019 6:08:05 GMT -5
If they pulled this a month ago, why is he bringing it up now? I am confused That’s what I thought at first. I was like “How did he not point this out a month ago when the shirt was released?”. And also, how did we here on this board or anyone else in the online wrestling fanbase not notice? I know there was a decent-sized thread on here about these shirts, so someone would have picked up on this if it went to sale. There’s no wrong time to be angry about this, but it’s still a bit strange nonetheless.
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mcstoklasa
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Post by mcstoklasa on Oct 27, 2019 6:08:54 GMT -5
I don't understand what's wrong with it, can someone explain
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Post by mattyy on Oct 27, 2019 6:12:33 GMT -5
I don't understand what's wrong with it, can someone explain It looks like blackface.
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Post by mcstoklasa on Oct 27, 2019 6:14:59 GMT -5
I don't understand what's wrong with it, can someone explain It looks like blackface. Ah ok thanks
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2019 6:21:19 GMT -5
How the hell did this even make it into production wtf...
I'm so proud and glad he's saying something. f*** a job. Get this known.
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Post by héad.casé on Oct 27, 2019 6:28:51 GMT -5
I too think it’s a bit weird that he’s complaining about this now when the shirt was pulled a month ago, but still - how did that design even get green lit? You’re telling me no one in WWE’s marketing department saw a problem with this before it went up on the site?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2019 6:34:35 GMT -5
Reminds me of those mocca kisses which had a far worse real name and Fazer's liquorice (which had a black dude with huge lips) when I was a child. I think they took off those packages at the start of 2000's. It's been almost 20 years and WWE thinks that's a good way of marketing in these days... Never change, WWE!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2019 6:38:36 GMT -5
Took me a while to see it.
Just wow.
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