#this whole discourse seems like it's just punching at fanmerch artists because they're a target in range
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why are we having fanmerch manufacturing discourse now
#man speaking as someone who has both ordered fanmerch for myself and who hand makes my fanmerch#this whole discourse seems like it's just punching at fanmerch artists because they're a target in range#rather than actually trying to have conversations about manufacturing and systems of production#like to warp a phrase from a post on here it feels like someone's trying to solve fast fashion by getting rid of all clothes#+ frankly going for purely handmade homemade stuff ain't a grand magic solution either#because that's just kicking the manufacturing and production problems down a step to the materials used to make the product#like me sewing and assembling my plush dolls myself ain't magically inherently more ethical#because the felt and thread and stuffing and so on i use is Also gonna be made in chinese factories#this ain't to say people shouldn't research chinese labor laws and factories#or that they shouldn't try to look into alternatives or cook up ethical ways of manufacturing stuff#it's more just i don't think it's helpful to punch on fanmerch artists about it#specifically BECAUSE these problems are just so much bigger than fanmerch production#i do think also it'd be helpful for like. for someone to actually Talk To some workers at these factories.#like that just feels like a critical POV to have in this conversation
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