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Updates:

9 / 12: KTCW is now available on search engines and Fourthwall! 

Strange Zazzle Happenings...

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Back in December, I checked my stores in preparation for my website launch, and noticed that a  LOT of my Zazzle item listings are missing!! 😨 Were the materials out of stock? Where they no longer offering these items?  I searched my e-mail for all the newsletters Zazzle sent me and couldn't find anything about site changes that could have caused this. I also looked for notifications from Zazzle but only found the ones telling me my products had been posted for sale back in 2023. I then went digging around on the web to see what could have caused this strange occurrence to happen and if anyone else came across the same issue. This lead me to Zazzle's community forums where someone posted a topic about their items missing during the year I stopped uploading designs. They noted that there were changes to the collection rules...could this possibly have something to do with my situation? I checked out the page on how this feature works but couldn't find anything that I ma...

Why I Took My Shirt Listings Down (Most of Them, Anyway)

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If you've looked at my print-on-demand shops, you may have noticed that most of the shirt options are unavailable. Why is that? Well...most of my designs include my KTCW logo and I had lowered the opacity of this layer to make it more transparent. This was done because I wanted to make it less distracting to the rest of the design, but I didn't consider how that would transfer to a shirt...😬 Here's how Teepublic printed my "You Can Be Seal-ious" Sad Seal  design to a shirt. (color was altered a bit to reduce glare, will provide a better screen-to-print comparison in the future) A lot of it looks pretty good. But when you takes a closer at the logo... It's completely blurry and unreadable. 😭 It's supposed to look a little more like this: I want to let people know who made these designs but I can't sell any clothing with the logo looking like that! There's no point. I'm going to have to go back to the original files and figure out a better ...