To me, the weirdest / funniest example of this is “Superdry”.

First of all, the name comes from alcoholic drinks without a residual sweetness. That is a ridiculous name to use for something that’s mostly made out of water. But, a lot of food-related words are odd. But, then you apply it to a clothing brand, where “dry” has a different and much more normal meaning. It sounds like it should be a brand of special wet-weather gear.

As for the Japanese-style characters on it, the British founders of the clothing brand collected a lot of random packaging from things in Tokyo, and then slapped mangled versions of it on American-style clothing. Of course, it never sold well in Japan because they actually knew what he random text actually meant. It’s like the famous “Engrish” text that you sometimes see people in Asia wearing.

So, people were wearing a premium to wear clothing that had very basic styling, featured huge company logos, and nonsense faux-Japanese characters.

I love how YouTube ads piss off you incels to the point where you have multiple ad blockers installed

Are there people who do this???

I’ve never owned a branded piece of clothing in my life aside from a Roots sweatshirt when I was a teenager, when that was a Big Deal, and I don’t understand why an adult would.

This pisses me off so hard, I refuse to buy apparel that has anything more than a logo on it. I am giving you my money for your design, I’m not paying you to be a walking billboard I’m paying you to have clothing on my body. It’s becoming increasingly harder nowadays to buy clothing that doesn’t have a quarter of the item taken up by some sort of brand name on it it’s ugly as shit and annoying

I’ve recently had to forgo my favorite style because you can no longer find it without having it plastered with brand or logo, it’s just a simple pair of sweatpants with a racing stripe down the side it does not need a brand name that takes quarter of the leg