Hank's giraffe-love t-shirt: pre-order at DFTBA.com (2010)
project history · status: last documented in 2017 · last event: milestone (2017-09-01)
Hank's tweeted drawing of giraffe love became a t-shirt on pre-order at DFTBA.com in October 2010; within ten days it was the best-selling shirt in DFTBA Records history, and in 2017 a new Giraffe Love shirt designed by Ming Doyle came out.
Part of: John's giraffe-love bit ('people love giraffes who love giraffes')
Parts: John asks Nerdfighters to pre-order Hank's giraffe-love t-shirt before pre-orders close (2010)
Told alongside: Hank and John ask viewers to buy the new DFTBA shirts, including the Giant Squid of Anger shirt (November 2010)
About: Giraffe love shirt, DFTBA Records
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010-10-19 (said on 2010-10-18, implied) | launched | John announces Hank's giraffe-love design, first tweeted by Hank, is now a t-shirt on pre-order at DFTBA.com. | Giraffe Sex: A Terrifying Introduction to Nature at Work (and Play) 00:00:33 |
| 2010-10-29 | milestone | Hank says the giraffe love shirt is officially the best-selling shirt in DFTBA Records history. | Hank Has Questions 00:02:58 |
| 2010-11-26 | milestone | Hank announces a Black Friday DFTBA Records sale on new shirts (giraffe love, two DFTBA University shirts, the Giant Squid of Anger shirt by Nerdfighter Vondell Swain) and old favorites. | p4a, Space Pasta, and Giant Squids of Anger 00:03:04 |
| 2013-01-11 | looked back | When people tell him Target stole his giraffe-love design, Hank says it didn't: a designer had the same idea, giraffes making hearts with their necks, and he is all for artists making a living. | On the Ownership of Ideas 00:00:37 |
| 2017-09-01 | milestone | Hank shows the new giraffe-love shirt designed by Ming Doyle, which he likes, available at DFTBA.com. | What Everyone Gets Wrong About Global Warming 00:03:26 |
Dates are upload dates, which set the order. Where the speaker gives a different recording date in the video, it is added as "said on YYYY-MM-DD, implied" (derived from the date said in the video).
What is said about it
6 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2010-10-19 (said on 2010-10-18, implied) · Giraffe Sex: A Terrifying Introduction to Nature at Work (and Play) — announcement: The description says giraffe-love shirt pre-orders stay open for two more weeks and the shirts ship in the first week of November. — video description
- 2010-10-19 (said on 2010-10-18, implied) · Giraffe Sex: A Terrifying Introduction to Nature at Work (and Play) — John says Hank's illustration of giraffe love may be adorable, but it belies the truth: giraffe mating is profoundly non-romantic. — 00:00:38
- 2010-10-19 (said on 2010-10-18, implied) · Giraffe Sex: A Terrifying Introduction to Nature at Work (and Play) — John says Hank's shirt isn't a lie, just an oversimplification, and jokes he will use it to tell Henry baby giraffes come from the heart between necking giraffes. (playful) — 00:03:09
- 2010-10-22 · Making Adorable Music — ask: John tells Nerdfighters there is only one week left to pre-order Hank's shirt celebrating giraffes who love giraffes, with the link in the doobly-doo. — 00:02:04
- 2010-10-29 · Hank Has Questions — Hank: Among his questions Hank wonders whether non-Nerdfighters would wear the giraffe love shirt if it were sold at Target or Hot Topic. (playful) — 00:00:00
- 2010-10-29 · Hank Has Questions — ask: Hank says today is the last day to pre-order the giraffe love shirt. — 00:02:58