Ben Shapiro's Daily Wire Tries To Steal From Indie Artist, Lands In Dumpster Fire
Stealing is bad you guys.
On Friday, The Daily Wire — Ben Shapiro's home for cranky old men who whine a lot about how unfair it is that no one will let them win the culture war — excitedly announced the debut of "Dumpy the Democrat Dumpster Fire," featured on a brand new t-shirt guaranteed to make all of the liberal hipsters at the coffee shop go "Gee willikers! I guess Republicans are a lot more with it than we thought! Maybe we should reconsider Ben Shapiro's latest hot take on why poor people are stupid!" Oh boy, the libs were going to be so totally owned.
Of course, instead of actually creating the design for the t-shirt themselves or hiring someone to do so, they just went ahead and stole the design from actual artist Truck Torrence, stuck a little "D" on it for "Democrats" and then tried to sell the t-shirt on Amazon.
And they would have gotten away with it too! If, you know, people hadn't noticed. Which is a thing they're pretty much guaranteed to do when you very obviously steal something from someone, post it publicly on Twitter and try to sell it.
@realDailyWire I'd appreciate any signal boosting I can get with this. It's completely disheartening, overwhelming… https: //t.co/mgSm5hQ6Fc
— 100% Soft • ᴗ • (@100% Soft • ᴗ •) 1566014617.0
Now that's just rude. And completely unsurprising.
Thankfully, after both the Torrence and a whole lot of other people alerted Amazon to the art theft, the t-shirt was taken down from their site.
Update: Amazon has taken down the product listing, however @realDailyWire has yet to respond to anything or take do… https://t.co/Dd589G3HAJ
— 100% Soft • ᴗ • (@100% Soft • ᴗ •) 1566056061.0
Maybe next time they'll be smart and steal something from a conservative artist who wouldn't mind. Like Jon McNaughton or...um... Jon McNaughton .
Torrence's actual art — which is super cool — is available for purchase at the 100% Soft shop. You can even buy a cute little dumpster fire guy t-shirt there if you like, although I personally will be going with the one that says "Dead Inside."
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Yeah. They're never going to be the cool kids who hang out in the art room, so they have to steal drawings.
This is just another example of privilege in action. We saw it, we wants it, we'll take it. Screw whatever Little Person did the creative work - even if that 'little person' is the Rolling Stones - they should be honored that the Lords saw fit to utilize their humble offerings. After all, its not like theft of labor is a new concept for those on the right..