Creative Maze

When people gather around the proverbial fire to discuss their lives, the most common things talked about are not the most important things to society…but, rather, the least important things dominate our thoughts and words. Media has made entertainment so valuable to us that we make it part of our everyday lives. We have even gone so far as to take the things that should only be used as a distraction and turn them into funny t-shirts for us to wear. Popular culture has taken over, and it’s probably too late to ever go back.

If there is one group of celebrities that should not be listened to, it has to be musicians. Music is an art form and it takes master craftsman to create and perform it. However, there are VERY few musicians who are educated enough on the issues to intelligently discuss them, let alone guide people. This has proven to create some hilarious situations that funny t-shirts have satired very well, but why pay much attention to it at all?

Movies have to be one of the major contributors to popular culture affecting us today. Funny t-shirts are constantly being made that are based on famous movie moments, quotes, and jokes. There are people in every friend group who memorize lines from movies and throw them out in conversation, whether the line is appropriate for the situation or not. It’s become a social crutch for people who can’t think of their own jokes, so they take the easy path and find common ground in things that everyone likes.

Television is quickly taking over as the king of pop culture, and not for the right reasons. I honestly feel like we are experiencing a television renaissance with all of the excellent programming out there right now. At the same time, the reality programming is what has seemed to grab hold of the hearts and minds of people to the point of ridiculousness. Have you seen how many funny t-shirts are dedicated to “Jersey Shore?” If there is any show that should just disappear, it is most surely that one before our youth start believing that’s how people should act.

I am myself a gamer, which means that I follow video games fervently. There are more and more people like me coming out every year in support of the industry. With this emergence into the realm of popular culture, we can go online and see that funny t-shirts are springing up in support of the subject matter. If my theory of the connection between funny t-shirts and pop culture is true, then we’ll see lots more funny t-shirts coming out in the coming years.

I can only guess that this link between funny t-shirts and popular culture exists, but I can’t help but believe that the connection is real from the evidence I’ve seen. Art imitates art at this point, and people are drawn to the things they already love. God help you if this is true, but if you love Jersey Shore then you will be more into buying a shirt that features Jersey Shore than some joke that you’re a stranger to. Perhaps watching the rise of certain funny t-shirts will help us determine what shows we should be watching. I can’t be less thrilled.

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