My T-Shirt Got Auto-Deplatformed

I launched an older T-shit design on TeeSpring over the weekend:

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Minutes after I shared it on social media, it disappeared, with no option for me to re-launch.

So today (Monday) I emailed TeeSpring, and they replied:

There can be many things that may have caused your listing to be taken down. I’m unable to provide any insight about your listing being disabled, but I’ve forwarded your case over to our Trust & Safety Team for review. They’ll get back to you as soon as they can.

Good ol’ Trust & Safety. Yes indeed I can only guess why I was swiftly bumped off of yet another platform. However they did fix it:

It appears the listing in question was falsely removed by our image filtering system. We apologize for the error, and we have un-suspended your listing. This listing will appear in your dashboard in an ended state.

You can now relaunch your listing at any time from your dashboard.

So I have re-launched it. Let’s see how long it lasts this time.
https://teespring.com/melissa-bee

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Author: Nina Paley

Animator. Director. Artist. Scapegoat.

8 thoughts on “My T-Shirt Got Auto-Deplatformed”

  1. Well, the T-Shirt is untrustable, as Exodus is iconographically unreliable. Or no, it’s unsafe, as feminine breasts are violent. Could those flowers be opium poppies? Honey allergy? Give us anything to go on here Trust & Safety!

    Most likely a social-media follower reported it. A lone tragic figure, and so angry, needed to vent zhirs’s wrath upon a shirt. And it worked, almost! Oh savor life’s first momentary victory. And take that, you apparel vendor you? It’s Teespring’s right to go broke wokely defending our shirt-safe trust, but they un-suspended it, so fair play to Teespring doing the right thing. They need to prevent abuse of their reporting system, or vendor harassment and product suspensions will cost them sales. Requiring a login to report, and banning malicious users would do it.

    Kali Boop coffee mugs?! And Migraine Flags with some aura torn off. Cool store. Merchandising for the win.

  2. loved sita sings the blues and this land is mine, i pray to see a Palestine free of Zionist Occupation soon, but the way you broach queer issues has completely disheartened me. it seems mean-spirited, almost vengeful, and while i can no doubt assume something/someone hurt you in a way that lead to this spite manifest, i can’t really bring myself to think of your writings on the matter as anything more than the ramblings of somebody that wishes to fight a war where none is needed. i pray better times approach you and your wonderful art. i pray better thoughts, and happier feelings, can define this “transgender” issue in your heart in some way or another. until then, i just want you to know that reading your words hurt and disappointed because i’ve been looking up to you ever since my big sister told me about this great movie where hindu mythology is juxtaposed with oldies and a story of someone who only wanted to be loved. bless you nina, but i can never bless your words. signed: a guy on hormones.

  3. I think Teespring *is* going broke, as their quality of service has greatly deteriorated (orders can take over a month to arrive and they’re getting slow at paying creators too). You can see lots of complaints in the r/teespring subreddit, along with their customer service department’s attempt at damage control by telling everybody to private-message them with order details so they can check the status. (My own order, not for one of Nina’s shirts but one from another site’s Teespring-backed online store, seems to finally be on the way after over a month, with tracking info saying it’ll probably arrive Friday, so maybe there’s some hope.)

  4. Hello Nina,
    Like yourself, I am a velonaut (of sorts), but in need of some assistance with maintenance. It is more than I can handle on my own, right now. I live just north of Chicago and would like to contact the gentleman from Wisconsin who helped you, but I don’t have a FB account. Would you be able to provide me with his contact information? Please advise and thank-you .
    Brian

  5. Nina, I’m a huge fan of your work. Would it be possible to purchase stickers from your Apocalypse project? I’d love some of the Lamb!

  6. Off topic 🙂
    First of all a big thank you, i hope you remember this weirdo who claimed the marching frogs look more dangerous.
    I do not leave out any occasion where i can post your movies or your blog, that’s all a freerider can offer.

    It really seams to be miseralble for you, i only hope ppl can find consense again that is something i like to reach and you only reach it with debating.

    Greetings from Switzerland.

  7. Nina!

    There’s no advice or pity coming from my message; so please read it.

    As it happens, I like what I’ve seen in your work. Blah, blah, blah: blah, blah. Hmph!

    Here’s what I was looking for in your offered attire: Standard Fruit-O-The-Loom Pocket Tees.

    I love a good pocket as much as humanly possible, within social reason, of course.

    Please design and offer such items and get back to me so that I could pick up a couple or three.

    Who knows! They might become a good seller!

    Sincerely,

    Mic

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