Hello! I thought I'd just share this brief story.
I have the R18 shirt you made back in 2018, the one that had the gold foil stuff on it. I happened to be wearing it on a day when I had to do stuff that involved interacting with an older lady working as a secretary. She noticed the shirt, said it looked nice because it looked "like Pokemon", and even pointed it out to her co-workers. Luckily, I didn't have to try to explain the real meaning behind the art.
Also, thanks for showing me Cohost back when they first opened up to the public!
so fun story on my end about that shirt:
that was a very limited edition thing done in collaboration with teespring, as in they reached out to me specifically because of how well my girlpla design sold to say "hey we're trying out a special kind of printing, do you want to give it a go?" of course i said yes but design-wise i was drawing blanks so i inspired myself from the 18+ signs I saw after returning from my trip in Japan.
The thing is that they didn't know? I tried explaining to them what the idea was because I was like "are you sure you guys wanna promote this" and after a couple back and forth of being like "no this is in reference to the sex industry" I ended up getting a sort of vague "we don't really get it but the design is cute!" kinda response. I wanted to clarify because I knew they were against explicitly adult content and there's no porn there or anything but it's like.... beyond suggestive right? It's just The Sign.
Maybe it's not really getting away with murder but I do think it's funny still that they were like hmmm okay sure! at the idea