


universe are in the works for the streaming service. So far, in addition to The Clone Wars, Disney has confirmed that a new Star Wars series, an unspecified live-action Marvel show, and an animated series set in the Monsters, Inc. At Comic-Con, it was announced that Disney is reviving the beloved animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars for the streaming service, which got us thinking about other classic (and modern) properties under Disney's umbrella that are ripe for a reboot or resurrection. In wading through this grassroots effort, I came across a simple test of the phenomenon - which, unsurprisingly, ended up being sold online as a shirt a few moments after the tweet in question went live.In the fall of 2019, Disney will reportedly launch their new streaming service with a variety of new shows and movies designed to capitalize on some of the studio's most iconic and enduring properties. This has become a well-known fact among the art community on Twitter, and this new meme puts the theory to the test. Typically, the marketplace will grab text from the tweet to construct search engine-friendly links that eager fans might look for. These artists have discovered that if a piece of posted artwork gets a specific set of replies on Twitter such as “I want this on a shirt” - and if the shirt doesn’t exist on the artist’s own online shop - bots designed by aggregating retailers will download the image and upload it to their own online stores within minutes. The idea of the meme is to test how bots use social media to swipe designs from artists to sell on companies’ own marketplaces, and to apply pressure to their businesses using outside forces. However, the artists aren’t eager to promote original designs.

This week on Twitter, a handful of artists have been asking their followers to tweet replies to their designs, requesting a flood of comments specifically saying, “ I want this on a shirt!”Įach of these threads has garnered hundreds of comments from seemingly enthusiastic fans clamoring for prints of new artwork.
