I’ve always wanted to talk about how weird it was scrolling through reddit and then suddenly seeing myself on the front page. I was banned from reddit for talking about politics (I am anti trump) on the air force reddit so I wasn’t even able to comment on a post about me.

For some backstory, I was returning from a Halloween cruise and it was the only clean shirt I had left (I was planning on wearing it during the cruise as there were no children allowed on the cruise and with the theme I thought it would get a few laughs or at least start a conversation). I never did though and doing laundry on a cruise was quite expensive (I think 50 dollars per load or something like that). I tried to hide the shirt as best I could throughout the day as I do think it was slightly inappropriate to wear in a public setting.

For the record, I love all the comments roasting me and I laughed all fucking day reading them!

Anyways, I have always wanted to publicly talk about this and in my search for reddit alternatives I found lemmy so here we are. Thank you for coming to my ted talk.

Proof: https://i.imgur.com/rd9DPO8.jpeg

Reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/1pl680g/seen_in_miami_airport_gate_area/

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    Peak airport energy: minding your business, reading a book, accidentally becoming internet famous 😅

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    have you talked to any goth lady after that, and do you have any intention on dating one? i think you have the courage and confidence to do so. you got this, dominic. we believe in you. seriously!

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      Im moving back home to ohio soon so im trying not to fall in love with anyone until then.

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    SPOILER: It’s the sleeping dude.

    Just kidding!! Welcome to Lemmy.

    Haven’t read all the comments here but I hope some are of welcome. This is a safe space for lovers of goth tiddies.

    804 upvotes is epic in this land so all I can say is there’s your welcome.

    I feel dirty any time I lose my spine and peek back at a favorite Reddit sub or two. It’s so gross now.

    I’m still figuring this place out myself.

    It’s a journey. Again: welcome.

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    They did not take a photo of you, they took a photo of that t-shirt. LOL

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    So… you sound like a nice dude, so just so you know, there are people in the goth subculture that do not appreciate that joke (and its translations). For different reasons, but the majority find it fetishizing and sexist. I opened saying you look like a nice dude because I don’t think that’s your intention, or the intention of most here commenting, but that’s how many goth people feel and… well, in case you really want to meet goth people, that might be actually causing the opposite effect (that is, your shirt driving them off).

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    Why do dudes that fetishize “”“goth”“” girls all look exactly like you would expect them to.

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        I mean none of the alternative people I know are into being fetishized like that. In fact they absolutely hate it.

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          Having a preference isn’t automatically fetishizing people and there’s a world of difference between the two. I have a preference for big boobs but I didn’t even consider pursuing my now ex until i overheard her having a heart to heart with a troubled friend I was very close too.

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              So we’re not allowed to be attracted to large breasted goth women? Are they condemned to live lonely lives since no ones allowed to be into them?

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                Bro stop being obtuse. Just have some common decency for fuck sake and Stop fetishizing people.

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                  If going for well read people with a sense of ethics that I can easily converse with is fetishizing people then it’s alot more positive term than you make it sound. Maybe more people should fetishize each other.

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          Maybe not but I know a bass player who’s style is basically that dude minus the t-shirt and he’s been in a very happy relationship with a goth girl for years now.

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    I hate this “culture” (?) of recording/photographing strangers and posting them online, but on the other hand this is sooo funny. I’m sorry it happened to you lmao.

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      It’s absolutely invasive and (almost always, even though people think they could remedy this with a simple sign) against the law in Europe.

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    you could’ve just worn it inside out….
    that said, me too buddy… except i just want a little tiddy goth gf….
    honestly tiddy size doesn’t matter to me much, i feel like there’s too much focus big tiddy goth gf’s and the rest of the goth gf world is being ignored….
    #allGothGFsAreAwesome

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    So Reddit banned you and is now profiting having your picture on their homepage? I would do a takedown request.

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    LPT. When being forced to wear shirts with questionable graphics, turn them inside out.

    Not 100% guaranteed but better than ending up on Reddit.

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      Or just don’t give a fuck.

      Story time: I had to give a presentation on a group project at university. I was wearing a shirt with a fist silhouette on it, which you could have mistaken as a symbol of a political movement, had there not been the text “nothing says I love you quite like fisting”. Over lunch I had to go home, ~6km, on a bicycle, in the summer, on short notice, because of the plumber being in the house. So I was sweating like fuck and changed shirts. For some reason our team got summoned up to the front again later and my shirt read “I have 5 stars on youporn” with five stars over it. This was in front of 5 professors, ~10 post docs and university employees and ~80 students. On my way out from the cafeteria I greeted the hot blonde from engineering, who looked like she could be an adult content actress, and she laughed the cutest snort-laugh in a shockingly deep voice I’ve ever heard. Most of the profs “loved” me by the way; three of them competed over getting me into their projects and supervising my master thesis.

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        I greeted the hot blonde from engineering, who looked like she could be an adult content actress

        Not the complement you think it is.

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          It wasn’t really meant as a compliment. She usually looked like she was coming straight from the set of a porn movie. But I think, like me, she wasn’t giving a fuck either. She was good at what she did and the right hand of the head of the engineering faculty. Don’t judge a book by its cover, I guess?