http://www.imaginaryfriendfinder.com was a joke domain I registered. Then I installed Vanilla on it for grins...it's sitting there, just waiting for some idiots...I mean, fine, fine people to take it over. I'm sure someone will deface it soon.
Incidentally, it's running on PHP5. Neat.
I think the rips on Threadless are a bit unfair. What's wrong with a little entrepreneurial money-making venture? If you don't think the payoff is worth it, don't submit your designs there.
It's true there is a vast quantity of crap submissions these days, but in general I think they do a very good job of picking good ones to print. I rarely take time to score submissions anymore, even. But additions like photo submissions and blog entries for each shirt seem like good additions to make it more community based than it used to be (when it was score submissions... and maybe talk about them a teeny bit in the little tiny forum).
In any case, I still love about 50% of the shirts they churn out, and that's the measure of success, is it not? If only my wallet (and wardrobe) could handle buying all of the ones I like...
I just feel they are taking advantage of artists. It's reasonably clear that they are artists themselves. When I do prints for artists I make sure they get a healthy cut back. It's hard to succeed in the world of art and everyone needs to help each other out.
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