This is the second time today I've Turkey spelled this way. First time was on a travel programme on TV. They didn't call Italy Italia, so why this? Did I miss something?
I don't remember the details now, but a few years ago, Turkiye was big in the news because something bad was happening there. Maybe some kind of humanitarian crisis or something, I really don't remember. But at that time, there was this mass consensus that seemed to come out of nowhere and everywhere at once that we should be spelling the name of the country the way the Turkish people do, and so the media and lots of people switched over to this spelling.
How should I know? I'm not the boss of country names. I was just telling that other poster what I remembered of why people started doing it for Turkiye.
I went through the last two pages of posts (ordered by "active"), and you're right. There were maybe four good ones, and two noteworthy for extreme cringe, the rest was all boring or stupid.
I'm 83% sure it's fake. The alignment of the letters is all perfectly even, when the shirt isn't. But it looks like some shadow gradient effect was applied to try to match the shirt.
I feel like they started with a real image and asked ai to clean it up, and add the shirt text, leading to things like the svedka's V having the bottom cut off, and the camel logo looking all wavy.
I don't think it's AI generated.
It just looks like a low-res image of a guy buying alcohol, that someone stole to make an admittedly fantastic joke of a shirt.
It certainly is, I would have used a different version of a "stick up the ass shirt" to convey my contempt for people who can't joke, had I used Abominable Intelligence to generate it.
51 Comments
artifex@piefed.social · 115 pts · 143d
It’s like a shitpost on a shirt. You have absolutely no idea where this guy’s values lie (or if he has any). It’s perfect.
Klear@quokk.au · 58 pts · 143d
He values alcohol.
SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social · 12 pts · 142d
And not raning out of it.
VitoRobles@lemmy.today · 10 pts · 142d
I never met a person who shitposts in reality who was tolerable in any way
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 142d
Regrettably, the author of the image doesn't value the correct pronunciation of ‘Iran’.
Hadriscus@jlai.lu · 3 pts · 142d
Personally I've never met a person who shitposts in reality
smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works · 52 pts · 143d
Now he's between Iraq and a hard place.
Godric@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 143d
Anyone Hungary for country puns? No? We should probably quit them cold Turkiye
smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works · 26 pts · 143d
Kenya stop already??
DrinkMonkey@lemmy.ca · 12 pts · 142d
Pretty Laos-y way to ask…
BigBananaDealer@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 142d
mexico
DamienGramatacus@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 142d
UK hun?
MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 142d
This is the second time today I've Turkey spelled this way. First time was on a travel programme on TV. They didn't call Italy Italia, so why this? Did I miss something?
HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 142d
They got annoyed that the name was used for a bird as well so they changed it internationally to the way they write it themselves.
Kernal64@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 142d
I don't remember the details now, but a few years ago, Turkiye was big in the news because something bad was happening there. Maybe some kind of humanitarian crisis or something, I really don't remember. But at that time, there was this mass consensus that seemed to come out of nowhere and everywhere at once that we should be spelling the name of the country the way the Turkish people do, and so the media and lots of people switched over to this spelling.
MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 142d
Ok thanks. I'm amazed it passed me by.
DisgruntledGorillaGang@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 141d
So why aren't we doing it for every other country? Why just Turkey?
Kernal64@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 141d
How should I know? I'm not the boss of country names. I was just telling that other poster what I remembered of why people started doing it for Turkiye.
DisgruntledGorillaGang@reddthat.com · -1 pts · 141d
Why are you getting snarky? It's an open forum. People are allowed to pose questions. If you don't have an answer, just don't reply.
Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de · 25 pts · 142d
This one is less "Shirts That Go Hard", and more "Shirts That Go Stupid".
glimse@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 142d
Feel like that described the majority of shirts posted to communities like this lol
Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 142d
I went through the last two pages of posts (ordered by "active"), and you're right. There were maybe four good ones, and two noteworthy for extreme cringe, the rest was all boring or stupid.
hansolo@lemmy.today · -1 pts · 142d
I always assume the Facebook ads with the bad mock-up of shit like this wouldn't even turn out half this good.
Steve@communick.news · 18 pts · 143d
I'm 83% sure it's fake. The alignment of the letters is all perfectly even, when the shirt isn't. But it looks like some shadow gradient effect was applied to try to match the shirt.
Jackusflackus@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 143d
Standard common occurrence in apparel
Klear@quokk.au · 11 pts · 143d
Relevant xkcd
Steve@communick.news · 1 pts · 142d
But it breaks rule 4
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 141d
Looks like it might be simply gimped rather than AIed.
Steve@communick.news · 2 pts · 141d
Yah, I don't think it's AI at all.
Fake doesn't mean AI.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 141d
Yeah, didn't intend to imply that's what you meant, just commenting that it's a rare fake these days.
axexrx@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 141d
The bottle labels on the bottles looks weirdly half AI
Steve@communick.news · 1 pts · 141d
I don't think so. It just seems like they started with a low-res image. Other details are too good for AI.
axexrx@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 141d
I feel like they started with a real image and asked ai to clean it up, and add the shirt text, leading to things like the svedka's V having the bottom cut off, and the camel logo looking all wavy.
Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 141d
Zoom in on the top left of the screen, there's weird AI-like artifacting in the Camel text and the price tags to the left
Steve@communick.news · 2 pts · 141d
I don't think it's AI generated.
It just looks like a low-res image of a guy buying alcohol, that someone stole to make an admittedly fantastic joke of a shirt.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 142d
Damn. I can't unsee that it isn't looking correct, now. Lame
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 142d
Title: How to get religious radicals on both sides to murder you
kSPvhmTOlwvMd7Y7E@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 142d
I dont get it
IEatDaFeesh@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 142d
You have to mispronounce Iran to get it.
Jax@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 142d
Technically you need to mispronounce both
jqubed@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 143d
I recognize those tequila bottles in the top right!
axexrx@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 141d
Espolon?
jqubed@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 141d
It’s one I like for making margaritas
wuphysics87@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 141d
Oman
cockmushroom@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 141d
It's posts like these that make me wish we had downvotes here.
Godric@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 141d
Is this more your speed?
stringere@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 141d
I love that shirt. Is it real?
M0oP0o@mander.xyz · 3 pts · 141d
It could be, there are alot worse out there already.
Be the screen printer you want to be.
stringere@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 140d
Time to dust off my skills making Obey giant shirts in my 20s.
Godric@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 141d
It certainly is, I would have used a different version of a "stick up the ass shirt" to convey my contempt for people who can't joke, had I used Abominable Intelligence to generate it.
stringere@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 140d
How have I not seen Abominable Intelligence until now? I love it, made me think of Artifactual Intelligence.
Ja7sh_The_Donkey@piefed.social · 1 pts · 143d