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There's a brilliant round-up on Urlesque today of photos of sad men modeling products on Etsy. "This has to be a common phenomenon, right? A free-spirited crochet queen forcing her boyfriend to model her handicrafts on Etsy?" The writer points out that most of the guys pictured are wearing handcrafted beanies. "Can a man be happy wearing a crocheted beanie?" So many existential questions, so little time.
· Sad Etsy Boyfriends [Urlesque]