A funny thing happens when you leave a forum unattended for a few months/years. The sickest most depraved sons of bitches on the Internets go fill it with disgusting material. While attempting to clean my forum, and ban the 400 or so bastards that had joined for no good reason,  I stumbled across a spam post that made me sick. One of these sick pricks had posted links and images of poor innocent young girls in very inappropriate outfits and poses. Several in fact.  Not technically kiddie porn, but you’d have to be a sick bastard to think these were sexy.

So I had to delete the whole board. Yes the whole damn thing. It seemed like the easiest thing to do really. I managed to salvage most of the forum, but what a pain in the ass.

The funny thing is that this site started out with the purest of intentions. To build a community that is not under the watchful eye of our POD suppliers. One of the things that drives me crazy about sponsored forums on POD sites is that the management is always lurking around. Sure they answer questions, but if I want to tell people that Spreadshirt or Cafepress sucks balls then I should be able to without fear of repercussion by the management. Don’t get me wrong, there are a fair number of people on spreadshirt’s forum  that wine and complain about stupid things like threadcount, and color variances between shirts and screen (it’s called color management, look it up).  But I wanted a place where people could argue who is the best. BTW Wordans does suck balls.

I also wanted to showcase people that were doing what I was doing, and doing it as well or better than me. Case in point GritFX.com (shameless plug, they’re running a tee giveaway right now). Now I have no affiliation with GritFX. In fact I wish I did, I bet you Manz is hot, but the reality is I liked their stuff. I wished I was more like them. The only thing stopping me I guess is that I am an anti-social bastard with talentless friends, and I’m not Australian. I truly admire the guys behind college humor, my facebook friend Trev who runs Canadaka.ca, and even the 12 year old bastard on the spreadshirt forums who keeps showing off the X-Box he bought with the money he made selling absolutely horrible t-shirt designs. These people are like me, a hint of talent, lack of fear, ability to learn the ins and outs of things and industrious enough to pursue a source of income on the highly competitive Internets.

But then the pedophiles came. They came and molested my sweet innocent little site. They took my heartfelt attempt to reach out to our community, and tainted it. Tainted it with the filthy depraved shit that is going to ruin the internet for everybody. If I had the time, I would seek these pricks out and castrate them, slowly, with a dull rock, and then take pictures of it, and then post them on somebody elses completely unrelated forum, and then the sick depraved people who get off on that sort of thing could get their jollies off of my picset of pedophile castration.  But the reality is that I can’t do anything about it. Although, a funny thing happened as I was fantasizing about sawing off a guys wiener. I got inspired to resurrect this site. To throw it in rehab, get it off the junk and start typing away nonsense again.

I don’t really care if anybodies listening anymore. I think it will be fun to document my struggle with POD. The SEO troubles, the times that my site is perfect until I open it in a different browser, all the same shit us small time guys face.  Because somewhere out there is somebody who has a hint of talent, and a desire to make some money on the internet. He’ll read my posts, browse my forums, and then make himself a little money.

At the very least Manz from Gritfx tells me my post I did on them gets them traffic. At the end of the day that’s all us POD site owners are after. More traffic. Because more traffic = more money. So if I get her traffic it’s all worth it, cuz in my mind she looks just like Isla Fisher. And Isla Fisher is the hottest human being on earth. How can you be into kids when a woman like this exists:

Isla Fisher....Hottest Woman Alive

Cheers,

Shawn