The baby mohawk hat gained some fans today from an unlikely source…
I had to write about this. It’s just the bees knees (or some other word/phrase for that which is ‘awesome’ since i use that word too much)…
So, I start the work day off the usual way: check email & onto studying up on my Google Analytics data (for those that don’t run a website, thats just a tool that tells you how many people visit your site and where they found you & a million other bits of data). This morning I find a small stream of traffic coming from a site called ‘ugly crap’ or something to that effect. The shock! The rage! The instant spewing of words that typically come out of your mouth when you feel you’ve been insulted…
Naturally, on over to said site I go. Lo & behold this livejournal blogger (thats where said site is hosted- not a stand alone website) has ripped the thumbnail size pic from my site and pasted it onto their critique blog for all to throw darts at. Below the picture are a few sentences that basically say “this creation sucks”, after that - its up for review by the readers. Comment time. Oh boy.
The item up for ridicule? The Baby Mohawk hat from my shop.
I know, I know, calm down - you are right to be shocked, we all know this hat kicks ass - but the funny part is coming…
Scrolling down to read the comments was like hearing “just kidding” after the opening line “you’re gonna be sooooo mad at me when I tell you this but…”. I believe the author of the blog had 2 people out of about 40 commenters agreeing with them. (Like i said, it was only a small stream of traffic coming from the mini-site.) The rest of the commenters expressed their love for the hat in various hilarious ways. Oh, and I did a little reply posting myself, couldn’t help it.
You can’t please them all, nor do you need or want to exhaust yourself trying to. It’s not the author’s opinion that bothered me in the first place. I guess what bothers me was the “i don’t like this, it sucks. make fun of it” theme of this blog. I get it- you, the blog author have taste. You will demonstrate this by publicly criticizing products &/or berating the creators of products that you would never buy. There’s lots of mileage to get out of that theme.
Here’s the thing, I (like most people) like people with taste, but I like those people only when they come equipped with class. The artist/designer/kick ass lady/mom/PERSON that creates these has children. She has other responsibilities to tend to. She carves out time to create, by hand, something for children to have fun with. The funniest part of their failed snarky blog post is that most of the defenders of the mohawk on the blog post said they didn’t have (and some said they didn’t like) children at all, they just liked the product and took a sec out of their day to say so.
To close this up, I just want to say - keep it up creators of potentially “ugly crap”. You create. Others just critique, but then again whats that old saying??? Those that can’t create criticize? Oh, thats not a saying? Well it should be. I would rather carry an array of authentic creative products vs your typical mass produced, Hanah Montana endorsed, ‘Made in Taiwan By Underpaid Factory Workers’ sticker toting selection of products you can find anywhere.
So… blog post fail! (not mine.theirs.oh you got that? just making sure).
If you want to see it just google ‘ugly crap mohawk’ and you’ll find it. no need to give away links 
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