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Good news, everyone! Now you can try out wearing koi fish on your body before getting them permanently inked into your tender flesh!

It happens to everyone. You want a tattoo because all the cool kids have them, but you don’t really know what to get. And then you think, “Hey, Koi fish tattoos are popular. That barista with the ring in her nose down at the coffee shop has one, anyway. I should get one of those.” And then you do a little research on the Internet and find that Koi swimming upstream sorta-kinda represents overcoming great adversity, which immediately reminds you of the time your Xbox got the Red Ring of Death. Oh yeah, dude. You’re getting a Koi Fish.

But before you let some guy in a rockabilly shirt carve up your bicep with his needles, maybe you oughta think about trying on the Koi for size with this t-shirt. Wear around, show it off, and see if the barista smiles when you tell her how hard it was not being able to play Call of Duty for the three days it took you to buy a new video game console. If it works out, fantastic! And if you don’t like it, at least you can take the shirt off, you know?

Wear this shirt: when you want to inspire your pet goldfish.

Don’t wear this shirt: as you attempt to liberate the fish swimming in the local Asian buffet’s fountain. You’ll look suspicious.

This shirt tells the world: “Just keep swimming.”

We call this color: This Is A T-Shirt/It Has A White Coloring/The Jealous Crane Dies

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