Philosophy Major & Existentialist Hats

Philosophy majors have a joke about themselves: a degree in philosophy qualifies you to ask why you want fries with that, a line Barry Popik's archive records in several versions. This collection is for the people that joke is about. It opens with two plain badges, PHILOSOPHY MAJOR and EXISTENTIALIST, the words people type into a search box. Then the memes arrive. ONE MUST IMAGINE SISYPHUS HAPPY is the boulder caption that ran across Twitter, Reddit, 4chan and TikTok in the early 2020s, next to formats like "They see me rollin'" and "Are you winning son?" I PULLED THE LEVER and MULTI-TRACK DRIFTING come from the trolley problem, proposed by Philippa Foot in 1967 and now, in Wikipedia's words, an Internet meme. KANT TOUCH THIS was already a philosopher t-shirt when Daily Nous rounded up philosopher clothing in 2018. The rest runs inward: I EXAMINE MY LIFE CONSTANTLY IT'S EXHAUSTING turns Socrates's unexamined life into a complaint, NOTHING MATTERS AND THAT'S KIND OF NICE is the cheerful end of the absurd, I LIKED IT BETTER IN PLATO'S CAVE is for anyone who preferred the shadows, and NIETZSCHE IS DEAD - GOD is the shirt joke on its own. Every design is custom embroidered on an unstructured dad hat, and the Sisyphus caption and the fries joke each get a second colorway.