Top 10 Pop Culture T-Shirts of 2016
Dec 27, 2016 — Day of the Shirt collects daily and weekly t-shirt sales from across the Internet and aggregates them all in one place. We dug into our activity stats to find the most popular pop culture t-shirts of this year. No click bait or listicles. Just shirts. Here they are.
Top T-Shirts of 2016
10. Overnight Party by Once Upon a Tee: huddled around their gaming setup and snacks, the women of Overwatch have a slumber party.
9. In Memoriam by Graja at Threadless: a spoiler for Game of Thrones, though by now we expect everyone to die. George R. R. Martin himself said he’d directed 2016.
8. Pokehouse by Naolito at Pop-Up Tee: this Pokémon Go + Peanuts mashup evokes the feeling of capturing Zubats and Squirtles all day.
7. Computer Repair Patch by WeirdNeighbor at Tee11: a classic tee with the emblem from the USA Network show Mr. Robot.
6. Feminist Agenda T-Shirt by Karen Hallion at TeePublic: the past, present, and future is female. We’d like to take a moment here to remember Carrie Fischer, portrayed on the shirt as Princess Leia.
5. Delete your account by 6 Dollar Shirts: no sentence captures 2016 more.
4. Villains Shadows by Jalopdesign at Pop-Up Tee: Batman villain t-shirts are more popular than Batman.
3. Team Mystic by Once Upon a Tee: this was one of the first Pokémon Go designs we saw, and this design continues to beat out Valor and Instinct in popularity.
2. Founding Chargers by Tom Galla at Blipshift: we were surprised to find this Benjamin Franklin + car intake and exhaust cycle mashup to be so popular.
1. Turnabout Christmas by Nina Matsumoto at The Yetee: bookending our list with another video game theme, this Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney holiday sweatshirt is the most popular design of 2016.
Top Collection
T-shirt packs and collections are becoming more and more popular, so this year we decided to separate them from the single designs featured above. By far we found the most popular collection to be TeeFury’s Strong Females Collection.
Honorable Mention
2016 Dumpster Fire by 6 Dollar Shirts didn’t win 2016 based on our stats, but this design sure captured the experience for us. That’s why it’s displayed at top of this post.
A New Hope (for 2017)
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Favorite and bookmark your favorite designs
Dec 6, 2016 — Today I’m really excited to officially announce a new feature for users of Day of the Shirt: Favorites. Favoriting allows you to bookmark designs, ensuring you can’t lose track of them even when their sale ends and they drop off our front page.
Any t-shirt design featured on Day of the Shirt can be added to your collection of favorites. Click the ☆-star on the design to favorite that t-shirt. Visiting your Account page will show all designs you’ve favorited, even if they’re no longer for sale. This feature is available for users who have registered and signed into their account.
I built the Favorites feature to help me save the designs I love for later. I’ll also sometimes get messages from users of Day of the Shirt searching for a design they saw last week but dropped off our front page. The ability to favorite and bookmark a t-shirt sale makes that experience better.
– Ben
Updates to t-shirt merchant filters/customization
Sep 13, 2016 — I made it easier to decide what merchants to filter from the front page of Day of the Shirt. The list of merchants to show/hide now includes each merchant’s location, price and shipping information.
You can change visibility settings by clicking on your Username in the top navigation, clicking Account settings in the dropdown, then clicking the Merchant visibility tab. Or by visiting this link.
Going forward, I received a lot of feedback and interest for deeper category/thematic filtering and the ability to bookmark/favorite designs for later. I’m working on that now 👌
I also added a new Frequently Asked Questions page, too.
Announcing personal accounts and t-shirt sale visibility settings
Aug 21, 2016 — Accounts let you personalize the merchants and t-shirt sales you see on Day of the Shirt.
Day of the Shirt now allows you to create a personal account on our website. By signing up for an account and signing in, you can choose which t-shirt websites you see on the front page.
More than 50 daily and weekly t-shirt sale websites are listed on Day of the Shirt. With an account you can now track only the sales that interest you. Not every t-shirt sale is for everyone: the merchant may not ship to your country, or their price may be more than you’re willing to pay, or you just don’t need another Doctor Who t-shirt, ever.
By creating an account you can select the t-shirt sales you want to see and uncheck the sales you don’t. Then, anytime you’re logged into your account you’ll see the t-shirt sales that interest you.
To personalize your front page, start by clicking Sign up, completing the new account form and confirming your email address. Then visit your Account settings and click Merchant visibility. You’ll see a list of all the merchants we feature; you can uncheck any merchants you want to hide and click the Save merchant settings button. Done! Anytime you close your browser or open our website on another device, you’ll need to Sign in to your account again.
We’ve been beta-testing the new feature with great results. One of our visitors wrote “So I just signed up, got my confirmation e-mail quickly; all of that was a breeze, and the checklist to hide stuff is super simple.” Another visitor simply said “I love the feature.”
Create an account right now on Day of the Shirt and begin customizing your list of daily t-shirt sales.
– Ben
P.S. We ❤️ your feedback! Have ideas for how to improve this feature or further personalize your account? Please let us know. Tweet us at @dayoftheshirt or email us at [email protected].
Discover trending designs and other t-shirt insights
Jul 10, 2016 — When we changed the default sorting of t-shirts last month, we asked for feedback and ideas for further refinement. One suggestion we received:
Sort by popularity (of t-shirt, not its website)
… and we did it: you can now sort the designs on the front page of Day of the Shirt by which t-shirt designs are trending right now.
Then we went a step farther to create a new page that digs deeper into t-shirt stats. It’s called “Insights” and analyzes the activity around each designs and t-shirt sales we share:
- Today’s trending shirts: the same algorithm as used on our front page, this weights recent activity more heavily than older activity. We used a similar algorithm to Reddit.
- Most popular shirts of the last 7 days: The most popular shirt for each of the previous 7 days
- Popular merchants last week: Aggregating activity across a merchant, this ranks merchants by the popularity of their designs. The arrows next to it shows how the merchant moved up or down in the rankings versus the previous week.
- All time most popular shirts: These shirts are the all-time most popular designs and sales shared on Day of the Shirt.
It’s been a lot of fun digging into the data and creating interesting analyses. If you have any feedback or ideas for further discovering great t-shirt sales, let us know! Email us at [email protected] or tweet us at @dayoftheshirt.