Hot Topic

I've only been to Hot Topic a hand full of times. None of which were a pleasant experience.

Well, I'm an annoying fangirl myself, so I like the shirts with hot people on them. ^_~ But you're right, Hot Topic is obviously marketing to people like that. Which is smart, because it's working. I've bought many a shirt there with Johnny Depp on it, or some cute anime character. Also my favorite HP shirt was bought there. Some things might not necessarily be about that, though. Like you said you want a shirt with Zim on it...but Zim isn't the most popular character. Even guys love Gir. So they market to what's popular, that's all.

To me, Hot Topic is Abercrombie with less quality goods.

Seriously, the only time I have broken down and actually bought something from there, a Raven shirt (from Teen Titans, it's awesome), it fell apart immediately. A few weeks ago I had to stitch all the holes around the sleeves closed.

I think fangirls are awesome to some extent, but what I object to is people who become fans of something becuase they've seen it in Hot Topic. Still, who am I to judge? I just ask them a few geek-wise questions and let their true Fangirlness (or lack thereof) show for itself.

~As for a Danny Phantom shirt...hell, I'd buy it.

"Suethors"! LOL I like that!

I used to shop there all the time before they went over to the style they're at now (pop culture fan clothing). It was about 6 years ago or so, back when it was "goth and other" not "cool media and other".

But then again, I'd probably but DP accessories if they sold them there XD

In my psuedo-goth-wannabe days, Hottopic was awesome. That was also five and a half years ago when they didn't put out stupid fangirl shit. I've been in there about twice since then, and only to buy those rubber bracelets and a gift for a (stupid fangirl) friend. And that was also about a year ago.

Hottopic BREEDS stupidity. I'm sure of it. But then again fangirls are also pretty damn stupid... Although I'm ashamed to admit I once was one. v_v Now, I just exploit fangirls for their money. :D They'd buy anything. Which is why I go to conventions! To sell really bad repros of my art for way too much money, and come home with thousands. XP

Erm.. Yeah. I'm a bad person and I'm going to burn in a firey pit of hell when I die.

And I would buy a DP shirt if they sold them there. In a heartbeat. Actually, I'd probably buy a DP shirt if I liked the designs they had on the Nick.com store, but I don't. :/ If I wasn't terrified of being sued, I'd totally print off my own. Sob.

Both my Hot Topic Zim shirts have Zim on XD One has GIR too... Then again, they're not really girls shirts >>

Hot Topic is OK, but since we have none here, I've only bought a few Zim shirts. I wanted one of the Spongebob ones, but they took 'em down before I got chance.

I like Hot Topic, you've just got to know where to draw the line. :X I got a sweet Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back shirt there last summer, which I adore. It's got a cool collage of all the characters on it. :3 I just got a real cool peacoat jacket from their website about a week ago too, and I've been lusting after a lot of their HP stuff. (Man, they've got shirts with Ron and Harry on them, but no Cedric? Where is the love.)

I think I start to get angry with the store, when people walk out wearing every article of clothing from there. >_O Actually, I think it's just those retarded bondage pants that drive me insane. But my wadrobe is a nice mix of all my favorite stores: Hot Topic, Wet Seal, American Eagle, Diamond Dogs, Aeropostale, Old Navy, some sweet sweaters from JC Penny's, Anchor Blue. And I'll admit, I'm kinda vain D; But I've tried hard to get that "quirky, just rolled out of bed and put on six layers of clothing, and a perfectly worn out purse~" look. (Do you know the one?) And, after two years of experimenting and adding to my wardrobe I've finally got it down. :3

Of course, most every layer starts with a fangirly shirt. Today it was Kingsdom Hearts, yesterday a homemade Red vs. Blue shirt, the day before that another homemade DP shirt. It's fun to have fun with clothes! :D Although, I think yu might be opposing the scary fangirls. Who like, you see them wearing a shirt and are all like "neat! I like furuba too!" and then try to walk away, but then they bombard you with endless chatter about their fanfiction and original characters, and how they haven't showered in weeks... And just Uuughhg... I hate those fangirls.

Uhmm... wow. Did not mean to ramble so much. xD I think my main point was Hot Topic is okay in moderation (and none of their nasty ass pants D;).

I have a weird love/hate relationship with hot topic...sometimes they have okay stuff, but mostly it's really expensive and really poor quality.
Although I like GIR, Zim is my fav character, so I join you in being gloomy over the lack of Zim shirts for girls.
HT does spawn some eeire fangirls/boys. My friends like to get their kicks nowadays by teasing the newly born Naruto fans that have only seen whats aired on CN and think they're experts. ^.^
Those HT pants are DANGEROUS. Back in the day, like...five years ago when I was a freshman in highschool, I had a pair. I totally got stuck in an escalator because of them. ^.^