Chris O’Dowd’s shirt from the pilot episode of “The IT Crowd”. RTFM is widely known in Internet culture as “read the f*@&ing manual”. It’s super old (we’re talking early 20th century US military), yet still widely used. It’s an expression of the frustration that goes along with saying “is it turned it on?” or asking other painfully obvious questions while troubleshooting. Ironically,
This shirt uses RTFM together with an image of Chairman Mao holding the “little red book”. The red book literally embodies the core elements of Communism.
RTFM stands on its own and could probably be the only image on the shirt, but together with Chairman Mao and the little red book, it’s even wittier.
