
Sad Etsy Boyfriends
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About
Sad Etsy Boyfriends is a single topic blog featuring photographs of men wearing hand-knit clothes and accessories that are found on the online retailer Etsy.
Origin
On March 10th, 2011, the blog “Sad Etsy Boyfriends” was launched on Tumblr[2] with several photographs of men wearing hand-knit beanie caps taken from Etsy product pages (shown below).



Spread
Throughout March, the Tumblr blog was featured on the Internet news site Urlesque,[1] the women’s interest blog Jezebel[4] and the pop culture blog The Frisky,[7] as well as on Reddit's /r/TwoXChromosomes,[3] where it gained over 220 up votes and 25 comments prior to being archived. In October 2013, more than two years after the initial coverage, Sad Etsy Boyfriends saw a major resurgence when the viral content site BuzzFeed[5] highlighted several photos of “Sad Etsy Dogs” (shown below). Throughout that week in October, the blog was mentioned on the fashion blog Racked[6] as the “Tumblr of the Day," followed by the Internet news sites Laughing Squid,[8] The Daily Dot,[9] and the news aggregation site Digg.[10]



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External References
[1] Urlesque – 20 Sad Etsy Boyfriends
[2] Tumblr – Sad Etsy Boyfriends
[3] Reddit – Sad Etsy Boyfriends
[4] Jezebel – Sad Boyfriends Forced to Model for Etsy
[5] BuzzFeed – Sad Etsy Dogs
[6] Racked – Tumblr of the Day – Sad Etsy Boyfriends
[7] The Frisky – The Saddest Sad Etsy Boyfriend
[8] Laughing Squid – Sad Etsy Boyfriends
[9] The Daily Dot – Sad Etsy Boyfriends is the dark side of homemade crafts
[10] Digg – Sad Etsy Boyfriends
[11] BuzzFeed – Sad Etsy Boyfriends Who Need Our Help
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Top Comments
Pronghorn
Oct 21, 2013 at 05:04PM EDT
Costas Ford
Oct 23, 2013 at 03:12AM EDT