I don’t know if any of you guys remember Regretsy, back from when the internet was new Etsy was still young. One amazing person on the internet called it “DIY” meats “WTF” and that’s exactly what it was: all the crazy shit you never expected people would actually make. My favorite thing I ever saw on Regretsy was a unicorn statue on a bed of grass — realistically, a newborn lamb skin stuffed and shaped into a horrific horse-adjacent shape with a horn attached to its forehead, curled up like a little white demon on a bed of astroturf.
And this holiday season as I was looking up horse gifts, once again I encountered DIY (or sometimes machines-IY) meets WTF. Have they ever SEEN a horse?!
What gait is this? What is going on with its face? Its hind legs? Can it even stand up straight?!
Also in the: wtf is this gait category
Although that second one also fulfills the “this might not actually be a horse” category.
I can only assume that this next charm was made by the same people who painted on caves approximately 14,000 years ago in France.
Then there is, of course, the down-right terrifying…
Why anyone would want to iron this onto their shirt is utterly beyond me.
This pony was taught how to booty tooch by Tyra.
And this one is actually pretty solid, until you get to the ears…
Those widdle eaws….
Normally I would feel a little bad making fun of handcrafted items in public, but I’m pretty sure all of these are made by machines, so I have no regret. Plus, there’s still plenty of really awesome stuff on Etsy that isn’t weirdly unrealistic/distorted/scary.
Like this. Which is actually kinda badass.
omg booty tooch pony XD
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I used to LOVE regretsy!
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Booty tooch literally had me LOL’ing 😉
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Aw, I miss that era of the Internet. You know, when we were all just laughing at ridiculous things on Etsy and Pinterest and YouTube. Before thinkpieces on the meaning of Starbucks cups. RIP, fun internet. 😦
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lololol booty tooch
although I find that skull scary, and I feel like it would bring ghosts into my house. Although a horse ghost might be kind of cool…
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ahh regretsy… brings back memories lol. also, to be fair, i have pictures of isabel doing each and every one of those ‘gaits’ as demonstrated by those pendants lol. she be speshul
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Totally digging the carved skull. Totally terrified by the iron on horse creature.
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I kind of LOVE that skull!
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+1 for the reference to the paintings at Lascaux!
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Haha!!
Have you seen the greeting cards that the saddle is literally on backwards? I think they needed a little more R&D lol
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Oh goodness I need to see those LOL
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Hahaha! Best post! I think I might have one of those charms.
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I agree that the horses are “artistic.” I have two nice comments: 1. They tried. 2. Their work is better than what I can do.
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Holy shit, the stuffed lamb thing is pretty gross.
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