lol as soon as I saw this I remembered the shirt. It was deeply repressed in the back of my mind. I think a friend of mine in elementary school had this on a shirt.
I honestly think that it would wrap back around to be ironically awesome. It's a throwback to a different era that a lot of your classmates grew up in/around - that alone would get people to at least have a good laugh about the memories of how gaming was perceived in the early 2000s.
At minimum, you would probably have a couple of people tell you it's an awesome shirt. As long as you're like, a normal, well adjusted, approachable looking person.
Before the "mountain dew and Doritos" fat gamer jokes the primary gamer stereotype was just an extension of the stock nerd stereotype - skinny, weak, nasal voice, all that changed is that instead of talking about the deep lore of issue 4296 of a comic book or why X actor was better than Y for character Z in a long running sci-fi show, he talks about epic cheat codes and secrets in video games.
How to spot a SPORTS FAN
Always carrying the latest SPORT GAME RESULTS or team magazine
Hands clenched in fist position, ready to fight fans of the other team at a MOMENT'S NOTICE
Belly grumbling from too much BEER AND CHIPS
Legs stuck in stretched position, from laying back watching sports ALL DAY
Always carrying the remote, in case an EMERGENCY SPORTS GAME needs watching
Eyes and face red, from YELLING AT THE TV ALL DAY
If you happen to see a sports fan, be sure to give them all your baseball bats and footballs (or better yet, just money so they can bet on the latest sports)
i remember seeing posts talking about how this kid's a scrub, a console peasant cause of the controller grip. That if he was a real gamer it'd be a keyboard lmao
The funny thing about these shirts is as cringe as they were, these shirts were actually a kid friendly version of the “hardcore epic gamer” mentality that actually existed in the 6th and 7th generation of gaming
This is just a shirt your Grandma would get you for Christmas at 12.
I gamed for 15 hours straight as a kid once and learned my lesson. From when I got home from school at 4 to 7 in the morning. Never again. I legitimately could not walk properly or sit without immense pain for a couple days. This picture truly resonates with that childhood memory.
i love this dumb ass image so bad, its horrible, its bad to look at, it barely makes sense, its almost unreadable, its like its for no one at all, he looks like a 12 year old who smokes crack. it fills such a stupid niche that only existed for a short time in the 2000's~ early 2010's, for GAMER EPIC MERCH!!!!!!!! that you buy for your 11 year old who plays call of duty, based off ideas formed in the 90's when the people who made it were then children, about the kids who played video games a lot.
If you count phones as a portable gaming device, then I’m afraid that won’t help you spot a gamer at all because everybody and their mother should be carrying one of those.
KNOW YOUR GAMING FIEND. YOUR LIFE MAY DEPEND ON IT!
You will not be able to see his eyes because of his blue light gaming Shades, but his knuckles will be white from inner tension and his pants will be crusted with semen from constantly jacking off between matches. He will stagger and babble when questioned. He will not respect your stats. The video game Fiend fears nothing. He will rage quit, for no reason, and use every bug and exploit at his command. BEWARE. Any player facing a suspected gaming addict should use all necessary force immediately. One Dub in time (on him) will usually save nine on you. Good luck.
Genuine advice, if your hands are stuck in the gaming position for more than a few minutes you might need a referral to a rheumatologist -looks at hands stuck in knitting position- trust me
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I can't tell if this was supposed to appeal to gamers or people who complain about video games.
It goes on a T-shirt for a mom to buy for her 10 y/o gamer kid
My brother had this shirt when we were growing up and you’re absolutely correct. Grandma bought it at Walmart and gave it to him for Christmas
Oh, I didn't even notice that the gamer in the picture had a t-shirt with a print of his own face, kinda like the Droste effect, lol
I also had this shirt growing up. I used to think it was so cool, I wanted to be one of these creatures for whatever reason.
lol as soon as I saw this I remembered the shirt. It was deeply repressed in the back of my mind. I think a friend of mine in elementary school had this on a shirt.
I remember a couple of kids in my class wearing this shirt at the time
Can confirm. Now as a collage kid, I wonder if anyone would say anything if I wore it to a lecture?
I honestly think that it would wrap back around to be ironically awesome. It's a throwback to a different era that a lot of your classmates grew up in/around - that alone would get people to at least have a good laugh about the memories of how gaming was perceived in the early 2000s.
At minimum, you would probably have a couple of people tell you it's an awesome shirt. As long as you're like, a normal, well adjusted, approachable looking person.
Now I gotta find one in men's sizes
Vouch
I...think my friend HAD this on a tshirt, ages ago.
Or something eerily similar
So that's why he's wearing this exact same shirt
both and neither
Is your profile image femtanyl but like a photo taken of your screen with a camera?
No, thats an actual thing that was done for a thumbnail
This looks like a poster they would sell at a novelty store and that parents would buy their kids thinking it was cool
Bottom text makes me think it’s an appeal
Prime r/banvideogames shitpost
God that just gave me flashbacks to all the T-shirt that looked like this that popped up in middle school.
My grandma bought this exact T-shirt for me for Christmas when I was in high school. I accidentally lost it before school started back again.
Ohhh nooooo
how could this happen
KEEP CALM
and
GAME ON
🎮🎮🎮
I distinctly remember seeing this at walmart. It was cringe even back then.
“I paused my game to be here”💔
I am a gamer, not because I have no life, but because I choose to have many. 😎
This used to be on children’s t-shirts in 2013
That recently? I was going to guess 1993
was guessing more 2003
It’s come back every 10 years like Pennywise
True, I spotted the shirt and bought it in 2023, I recently saw it try to escape so I bought it a hamster cage. His name is Kevin by the way
I'm gonna say naughts as well. I was a kid in the 2000s and absolutely wore shit like this.
might’ve been both idk. I just remember seeing this art style around a lot when I was in school then.
This is definitely a boomer or Gen X artist who enjoyed “why can’t I click book” memes so you aren’t wrong
HANDS
STUCK in GAMING POSITION
weeks of unfinished
HOMEWORK!
DROOLING
at the thought of beating
ANOTHER GAME!
SORE
EYES
from so much
gaming and lack
of sleep.
GROWLING STOMACH
from never stopping to
EAT
LEGS
stuck in
SITTING POSITION
SORE THUMBS
from contantly pressing controller buttons
Idk this is pretty funny because of how over-the-top and absurd it is. Like seeing someone's Grandad at a wedding wearing a ahegao tshirt.
You can even say that this is some sort of... Comedy Heaven?
lmao
This is just what I look like IRL
same here
i still own this shirt
The kind of shirt your distant relative who only knows you like games gets you for Christmas back in the day.
I can't wrap my head around a gamer stereotype with out him being obese
pretty sure gamers back in the day were associated with teenagers and/or stoners, both of which are notoriously skinny
Before the "mountain dew and Doritos" fat gamer jokes the primary gamer stereotype was just an extension of the stock nerd stereotype - skinny, weak, nasal voice, all that changed is that instead of talking about the deep lore of issue 4296 of a comic book or why X actor was better than Y for character Z in a long running sci-fi show, he talks about epic cheat codes and secrets in video games.
It's kinda make sense to me
They just spend too much time playing rather than eating
Must have been before the southpark episode
literally not being bothered to eat:
This isn’t r/ComedyCemetery or even r/ComedyArchaeology, this is straight up r/ComedyPreBigBang
me
The typa shi mfs put on the cover of extremely sour candy
And it's not even that sour
Strangely nostalgic.
Why is he wearing a shirt of himself?
And that shirt is wearing another one of himself?!
man drawing a painting of him drawing a painting of him drawing a painting of him drawing a painting
These shirts were peak in elementary school
Right. I had so many of them lol.
This is a work of art not sure why its here
I remember a time when "make gamers look gross as shit" was a legit marketing tactic by basically everyone msrketing to gamers.
Gun to head, i doubt any of them could reasonably explain their logic without just saying "it was a different time".
Because young boys think being gross is hilarious and video games were marketed almost exclusively to young boys in the 90s-00s.
ts peak what are you on about
We all know a kid who used to wear these shirts and now he either is in prison or has a criminal record.
I haven't seen this since middle school
This is obscure r/boomershumor I would say
Id wear this on a shirt
So would half of my fourth grade classmates back in the day
Mans is a fifth grader who time travelled from 2005
Ima see if my wife can print this on a shirt ill update you
is this from the 90's or smthn??
I remember seeing this when I was in school at least 20 years ago
That’s the shit people had on their shirts back in first grade
What are you talking about? This is 2010s humor, and you're calling it bad
You may not like it but this is what peak male performance look like.
How to spot a SPORTS FAN Always carrying the latest SPORT GAME RESULTS or team magazine Hands clenched in fist position, ready to fight fans of the other team at a MOMENT'S NOTICE Belly grumbling from too much BEER AND CHIPS Legs stuck in stretched position, from laying back watching sports ALL DAY Always carrying the remote, in case an EMERGENCY SPORTS GAME needs watching Eyes and face red, from YELLING AT THE TV ALL DAY If you happen to see a sports fan, be sure to give them all your baseball bats and footballs (or better yet, just money so they can bet on the latest sports)
I unironically love the art style
Do you think at some point in history they made something similar but for book worms?
I used to have this shirt in middle school lmao
This shirt is at least twenty years old, I haven’t seen one in ages
I actually really fucking dig the artstyle, even if the content is silly
Okay no wait as a gamer, I can see it. Particularly that bottom text.
HANDS STUCK in the GOONING POSITION
SORE
EYES
From so much gooning and lack of goon
Ur funny
How old is this? Lol
i had this exact shirt in like second grade
The back and eyes point is valid. everything else is anti-gamer propaganda.
Just so yall know, this is how I look irl.
This looks like it's 25 years old or something
I haven't seen this shirt in AGES
My little brother had that T-shirt when he was younger.... back in 2010 ish I think
I'm saving this image
Mucho texto
I remember this! my uncle got me this shirt and I thought the art style was scary af so I never wore it HAHAHAHA
i remember seeing posts talking about how this kid's a scrub, a console peasant cause of the controller grip. That if he was a real gamer it'd be a keyboard lmao
This is what people who say story in games dont matter look like.
looks like the cover to a book called "101 totally rancid and disgusting facts about the average gamers body!!!!!!!!" and its by E.W Farttickler
It looks old af bro. Give it a break
It genuinely infuriates me how the stereotype for video games in wider popular culture is outdated by like 30 years
no its still kinda funny. This is no different than the "Game eat sleep repeat" decal on t-shirts today.
Honestly its just sensory overload; theres soooo much text that it makes it hard to read it without zooming in.
Ok but this went hard back in 2nd grade
Oh shit, I need to step up my game!
Pun intended.
AH, yes I remember always carrying around the latest Toy Ads when I was a kid.
I paused my game for this!
This looks like something that would have been funny in the 90’s or early 00’s
You're right because I definitely wore something like this in 2006 as a kid.
I had alot of similar shirts when I was little that were hand-me-downs, but because I thought they looked like shit, they were my "barn shirts" lol
Literally me
He's wearing the shirt. It's infinitely recursive.
How to spot a seizure
No, this is how to spot a fucking crackhead.
Oh hey it's me
Think this is parody
Is that a gamer or a fentanyl addict
unironically this is how I see gamers debating about old gaming online
The funny thing about these shirts is as cringe as they were, these shirts were actually a kid friendly version of the “hardcore epic gamer” mentality that actually existed in the 6th and 7th generation of gaming
As a gamer, this is, this is a sight, that's for sure.
This is just a shirt your Grandma would get you for Christmas at 12.
I gamed for 15 hours straight as a kid once and learned my lesson. From when I got home from school at 4 to 7 in the morning. Never again. I legitimately could not walk properly or sit without immense pain for a couple days. This picture truly resonates with that childhood memory.
I'm an avid t-shirt collector and this is very middle schooler from 2010-2012 core
This was my fave shirt as a kid
I swear I’ve seen this before
The fact I wanted shirts like that as a kid
90s Sega ads be like
my brother had this exact shirt i think when he was 12 LMAO
I like the detail of him wearing the shirt.
There where so many t shirts like this in walmart when i was a kid
This is tuff
Tuff backin 2014
now draw him recieving treatment for his addiction and developing healthy coping mechanisms
Lol idk this is kinda fuckin hilarious to me lol
I was gonna make a joke about wearing this shirt while doing everything it says for the bit but the guy himself is already wearing his own shirt
i love this dumb ass image so bad, its horrible, its bad to look at, it barely makes sense, its almost unreadable, its like its for no one at all, he looks like a 12 year old who smokes crack. it fills such a stupid niche that only existed for a short time in the 2000's~ early 2010's, for GAMER EPIC MERCH!!!!!!!! that you buy for your 11 year old who plays call of duty, based off ideas formed in the 90's when the people who made it were then children, about the kids who played video games a lot.
I am gaming all over the place raaahhh!!
This would be so tuff when I was 8 💔
I remember seeing this in a local video game store back in like 2012.
“Always carrying portable gaming device”
If you count phones as a portable gaming device, then I’m afraid that won’t help you spot a gamer at all because everybody and their mother should be carrying one of those.
All this does is make me feel nostalgic
i saw this exact shirt in kohls many times
Console pleb.
yo this goes hard as fuck
Is anyone else just struggling to read the font or is it just me?
Unsettling, scary, strange
Ai could never make anything close to art, let alone a true masterpiece such as this
I read it all in the epic advertisement voice
I have this shirt, its my favorite shirt
My favorite merchandise and media is "gaming created by someone who doesn't understand the medium"
Two dead giveaways among many are any time the terms point or level are used as if it is 1983
KNOW YOUR GAMING FIEND. YOUR LIFE MAY DEPEND ON IT! You will not be able to see his eyes because of his blue light gaming Shades, but his knuckles will be white from inner tension and his pants will be crusted with semen from constantly jacking off between matches. He will stagger and babble when questioned. He will not respect your stats. The video game Fiend fears nothing. He will rage quit, for no reason, and use every bug and exploit at his command. BEWARE. Any player facing a suspected gaming addict should use all necessary force immediately. One Dub in time (on him) will usually save nine on you. Good luck.
~Hunter S. Thompson
wearing his own merch
I need This shirt but for it 2 say “GOONER”
I remember seeing this shit at Walmart
op tripping this fire
Genuine advice, if your hands are stuck in the gaming position for more than a few minutes you might need a referral to a rheumatologist -looks at hands stuck in knitting position- trust me
God I remember these shirts from elementary school
This is so unfunny that it goes back around to being funny again
Sick artstyle tho
Me and my brother both got this shirt for Christmas
uhm.
i used to know a kid with this shirt
r/Gamingcirclejerk
Wth am i looking at?
Gamers don’t die they just evolve into mason 6 7
Walmart circa 2004
How to spot a gamer (according to boomers)
That's awesome
I totally forgot about this shirt. What a blast from the past.
Oh my God this fucking RULES fuck yeah
Old school slander
"When you play, you play with Hitler!" Type shit
Nah this goes hard
I cackled
Oh god I remember those obnoxious shirts in Walmart growing up, do they still make them?
Never really cared much for those "gamer" shirts, except for the "Just one more level one..." on repeat down the shirt with a control on the bottom.
This seems like that one visitor merchant that sells games in Look Outside, lol.
Kinda shit you get on a birthday card from your grandparents when you’re like 11
I’d wear this ironically
This shit went hard in 2001
IDK it feels like it has some old school charm no?
Same energy as those 1800s racist caricatures in newspapers. Gamers truly are the most oppressed minority…. 😿
You can’t even say “Gamers, rise up!” Anymore.
this so cringe i think im in r/comedyhell
Why is he thin and it says growling from never stopping to eat.
Ngl this is so freaking old that I'm starting to reach the age where I can see the view, I'd wear that on a t-shirt
I used to always want to these shirts when I was in primary school 😭
Just one more LEVEL... Just one more LEVEL...
How to spot a GOONER:
Always carrying the latest GOONING MAGAZINE
LEGS STUCK in GOONING POSITION
Sore EYES from so much gooning and lack of sleep
Always saying: JUST one more PORN VID… JUST one more PORN VID
DROOLING at the thought of beating HIS MEAT
Hands stuck in GOONING POSITION ready to goon at ANYTIME!!
If you happen to spot a GOONER, the best thing to do is: GIVE HIM ALL YOUR PORN! (or money for NEW PORN is good too)
you can't lie this was tuff in 5th grade
This was the hardest tee I owned as an 8 year old
Holy 2006 Batman
Figures a g*mer would get offended by this
This design hit middle school boys c. 2002-2009 harder than opioids hit rural America.