Etsy or Anthropologie?
Is it hand made?
Or factory made?
Or factory made to look hand made?
Or is it all just the same shit at this point?
There’s only one way to find out!
Take your best guess, and click the image for the answer.
But be careful… there may be a trick question this time!
January 31, 2011 at 10:48 am
Wow, I only got one wrong this time.
It’s a damn miracle.
January 31, 2011 at 10:48 am
*gigglenort*
I got the first set right. Paperclips wrapped in gum wrappers. Does it make you smell minty fresh?
January 31, 2011 at 10:49 am
Last one looks like some form of Elvish… OH WAIT. OH DEAR GOD.
January 31, 2011 at 10:50 am
2 for 3.
I got distracted by the shiny Twilight “Change Me” ring- wishing I could order it in large to put on the baby’s wrist. Hand her off when she starts stinking up the place. Hope she comes back with sparkles.
January 31, 2011 at 10:50 am
The paperclip necklaces have almost the same description? Re-seller or ripoff?
January 31, 2011 at 10:53 am
You know, the paper/paperclip necklace looks pretty cool either way. My only beef with Anthropologie on that one is the pricing. Advantage, Etsy.
January 31, 2011 at 10:57 am
Wow! You really tricked me this time HK.
Still LOL @ #4. Good idea.
January 31, 2011 at 10:58 am
I doubt I’ll score as high when Anthropologie starts making butt plugs.
January 31, 2011 at 10:59 am
I need a drink. Mostly because I actually want the first necklace, which actually looks pretty, and detailed, and well-made, but would never pay seventy dollars for it. Let alone $140 or however much it is for that shitheap version at Anthropologie.
January 31, 2011 at 10:59 am
A $168 necklace made from the dregs of a desk drawer? White people really will buy anything…
January 31, 2011 at 11:01 am
Yeah, that “Marry me/Change me” set has been horrifying me since I first found it.
I mean, I’m not an ultra-feminist; if one of your chosen life goals is marriage I’m not fixin to hate on it.
But Marry me, Change me? Really??? It should come with a coupon for one of that asshole’s greeting cards- “Divorce Me”
May 28, 2011 at 2:50 pm
Uh, it doesn’t mean “change me” as in “change me into a different kind of person”. It means “change me into a vampire.” Which is actually a sign of wanting to be an equal, since as long as she’s human and Edward isn’t, Bella’s only source of power in the relationship is how much Edward wants her.
January 31, 2011 at 11:03 am
As the song goes “two out of three ain’t bad” I got stumped on the ring. I have an antler pipe and it’s pretty cool, so the antler bottle opener would complete my party set
January 31, 2011 at 11:04 am
Hey everybody! That Etsy seller with the book necklaces has been making more! I got mine! X-D
Thank goodness I’m not into wearing paper-wrapped paperclips or Twilight garbage, or I would be going broke fast.
January 31, 2011 at 11:04 am
My crap detection is getting better, I only missed one this time!
Any woman willing to wear a “change me” ring deserves to get married to the big spender buying their wedding rings at Hot Topic. Jeez!
January 31, 2011 at 11:05 am
P.S. I totes made one of those necklaces as a kid. I bet the ‘artist’ had the same issue of American Girl Magazine.
January 31, 2011 at 11:09 am
I hate to say you have fallen for one of the greatest pranks in the history of capitalism. The clue is in the ticker symbol of the company. Anthopologie is owned by Urban Outfit, Inc., which is listed as UOI. Which is just IOU backwards, as in I (The company) O U (the society) an enormous apology for the tons and tons of absolute crap we’ve been selling.
January 31, 2011 at 11:09 am
#15 is/itbutthurt: Apparently, brightly hued paper is $98 cheaper than brightly hued sheaths.
January 31, 2011 at 11:15 am
Sorry about my smiley addiction, I will try in the future to keep them to myself, since I just looked and it looks kinda silly even to me.
January 31, 2011 at 11:23 am
“Or is it all just the same shit at this point?”
ding ding ding ding ding!
I correctly guessed that the third one was made from some kind of bone, meaning it was probably Etsy. I was disappointed, however, when it wasn’t “Ol’ Aunt Edna’s vulvular ridge that Doc Cullen removed after ‘the accident’,” or “a vintage piece from my Unca JimBob’s Li’l Chop Shop O’ Horrors.”
January 31, 2011 at 11:24 am
Shit! Why didn’t someone tell me I could wrap paper clips in paper and make $70-170 from it? I would’ve been filching office supplies for YEARS.
January 31, 2011 at 11:25 am
I love the song used on that first ring. If I had sixty bucks to blow on a ring I’d probably never wear, it’s be mine!
January 31, 2011 at 11:29 am
At first, I thought the paperclip necklace as actually a toenail clipper necklace. I was thinking, “Wow, that thing must be really heavy….” Doh!
January 31, 2011 at 11:31 am
I would’ve been filching office supplies for YEARS.
That’s what stopped you?
January 31, 2011 at 11:34 am
Did anyone else MAKE the paperclip necklaces when they were kids?? I saw it and was like, wtf, those things suck to wear! So yeah, FTR for all of you – the damn clips get tangled in your hair. LFMF.
January 31, 2011 at 11:34 am
For my eyes, it all started to just fuse together into one big megabucket of useless crap.
January 31, 2011 at 11:34 am
Note to Hot Topic: Have some made that say “Gag me,” and you’ve got yourself a sale.
January 31, 2011 at 11:35 am
“Tiny bits of office supplies wrapped in brightly hued paper take flight right under your nose.”
….during a really good office party or after a looong session of xeroxing documents.
January 31, 2011 at 11:58 am
I look at this and I just think that no matter where or by who it’s done, shit is, and remains, shit.
January 31, 2011 at 12:12 pm
“Tiny bits of office supplies wrapped in brightly hued paper take flight right under your nose.”
@#27 — that’s the kind of office party where some vigorous, rustling movement gets you discovered doing some “handcrafting” on a co-worker in the co-op potato bin.
January 31, 2011 at 12:29 pm
The paperclip thing looks like it was made by a first grader and dont get me started on the antler shit!!!
@13 TheSheep I got me another book necklace!!! I just love them!!! http://www.etsy.com/shop/JanDaJewelry
January 31, 2011 at 12:36 pm
Is anyone else brought to tears by that last ring and how its sold as a set?
I threw up a bit (a lot) in my mouth.
January 31, 2011 at 1:34 pm
The paper clip necklace girl’s shop has only been open since the 22nd. She’s a fuckery trailblazer.
January 31, 2011 at 2:03 pm
Oh I am impressed. Same crap different stores and you get to pay twice as much at the corporate version. Hope they are at least using the Etsy sellers as suppliers. It is good to hire the untalented.
January 31, 2011 at 2:28 pm
It’s like the chicken and the egg thing. Which came first, the crap from Etsy or the crap from Anthropologie?
At least chickens provide things that are more useful than this shit.
January 31, 2011 at 3:22 pm
Maybe the ring is for someone who is a ‘big baby’ and wants to be diapered.
We in Australia have a phrase, ‘Same shit, different bucket.’, which would seem apposite.
January 31, 2011 at 3:25 pm
Paper clips. Check
Colored duct tape. Check
Etsy account. Check
Now why am I not a millionaire?
Oh yeah. I have a conscience.
January 31, 2011 at 3:57 pm
I really hate when I see something on here and I actually like it. I would never wear the paper clip necklace… but it doesn’t really look that awful. But, what are people really thinking when they price these things? I mean… I’d charge 5 bucks for the paper clip necklace, tops.
Also, there are twilight ring sets? really? I… don’t know what to say. What does the change me thing mean? Is it supposed to be romantic?
January 31, 2011 at 3:58 pm
In all seriousness, why oh why are those necklaces so expensive?! Paperclips? really?! I just bought myself a really nice 4 string pearl and quartz necklace at Helzbergs for less than this mess of paperclip chaos. This is just sick and strange.
January 31, 2011 at 3:59 pm
“Each one will be as different as the deer that shed them”
…after I shot it bloody dead with my huntin’ rifle.
January 31, 2011 at 5:20 pm
I’m confused. I thought Etsy was for more “unique” items not Hot Topic -like mass produced crap.
January 31, 2011 at 5:22 pm
The backgrounds in the antler photographs seem far too similar. All I can discern is that bullshit creators enjoy the taste in bench top decor (faux concrete??). But of course, this is hardly surprising…
January 31, 2011 at 5:33 pm
I’m not playing this game again. I refuse to admit I might not be able to recognize where shit was sold.
January 31, 2011 at 5:33 pm
@ #30 whywhywhynot:
Mine just arrived in the mail and I love it! I’m keeping an eye out for one for my friend.
I’m going to have to open a darn store on Etsy just to pay for my Etsy habit…
January 31, 2011 at 6:50 pm
Over $150 for a necklace made of goddamn paperclips. I’m in the wrong business.
#38: She changes the backgrounds in order to make the game more challenging (yes, I just noticed that myself). Click through to see the antler in its natural habitat.
January 31, 2011 at 6:50 pm
I got the fifth one.And I knew the last one had to be mass-produced, with “Summit Entertainment” on the inside.Although it could’ve just been another Chinese reseller.
I’ve been reading so much lately, I should probably get one of those book necklaces.Think it’d be too obvious if I got one for my librarian sister-in-law?
January 31, 2011 at 6:59 pm
I got them all wrong but the first one, I don’t know if I should be happy or sad. And honestly, on the first one, who the hell would pay that kind of money for that?!
January 31, 2011 at 7:20 pm
If someone I was dating ever bought me Twilight rings, I’d punch him in the nuts just to make sure he still had a pair.
January 31, 2011 at 7:29 pm
Estrella, if you don’t want Twilight rings, quit dating fourteen year old boys.
January 31, 2011 at 7:40 pm
“Handcrafted from a shed reindeer antler, this piece brings to mind deep, dark forests and arctic tundra.”
And scratching my butthole after cracking an Alaskan Amber.
January 31, 2011 at 8:50 pm
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January 31, 2011 at 9:38 pm
It’s not love until the interior is engraved with “summit entertainment”
January 31, 2011 at 9:49 pm
The Marry Me/Change Me ring set is for the ‘adult baby’ set, right? Just to let your significant other what he/she is in for???
I mean, that’s the only way it makes sense…right?
January 31, 2011 at 10:01 pm
Twilight wedding ring set? Really? Well, now we can see how long “I will love you every moment, forever” really lasts.
January 31, 2011 at 11:09 pm
I want me a set o’ them Twilight rings. Thonk yer man upside the head with one o’ them, it’ll get his attention. “Change me,” will ya? Huh.
February 1, 2011 at 9:41 am
A little embarrassed that I recognized the Twilight font on those rings.
February 1, 2011 at 9:52 am
I feel the same about Twilight as I do Justin Bieber, it is understandable, and even acceptable for a teenage girl to go nuts about it, it is NOT however appropriate for a mature woman to do this…
http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/?p=12891
February 1, 2011 at 10:10 am
Twilight needs to die in a fire.
I bought a cool pair of itty bitty book earrings from theanimalrescuesite.com and love them
February 1, 2011 at 12:49 pm
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February 1, 2011 at 2:39 pm
And as my mama always used to say: Shit is as Shit does!
That is some real wicked trickery, HK… all covered in awesome sauce!
February 1, 2011 at 6:22 pm
So glad that my boyfriend has skinnier fingers than me.
February 2, 2011 at 3:33 pm
so i could make tons of money by randomly guleing/sewing/combining random things i find in the parking lot/snowbanks at my work place!
February 2, 2011 at 7:08 pm
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February 2, 2011 at 9:38 pm
I had to register an account solely to admit that I nearly threw up when I clicked the link for the last one.
February 3, 2011 at 9:38 pm
Here is a fun contest: thumbs down whichever one you hate more:
February 3, 2011 at 9:38 pm
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February 3, 2011 at 9:38 pm
Hitler