People Are Cracking Up At This Woman’s Conversation With A Client Demanding That She Create An Anti-Vax Door Sign Interview With Artist
Pushing away the tide of ignorance is something teachers have been doing ever since the dawn of time, but it’s not exclusive to teachers—every one of us is more or less responsible for ensuring that said ignorance doesn’t lead to bad things happening to good people.
And this one woman has been doing just that, albeit not necessarily through education as much as it was a clever clap-back at people perpetrating anti-vaccinationism. Is that a word? You get the point!
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Running a business is not easy as it is without clients submitting requests that clash with your morals
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Meet Lexi, an arts and crafts guru from Knoxville, Tennessee who creates everything from pictures to doormats to witty signs. And quite recently she got a request from a client named Samantha to create a very particular custom sign.
In particular, it was supposed to be one of those round signs and it should have said “welcome unvacinated [sic!] and unafraid” using a “pretty” font to be hung on the customer’s front door by Thanksgiving.
Now, while there are surely people who would have just taken the order, performed it, and would’ve been on their way, Lexi was more conscious about serving such a client. After all, doing this would have meant supporting the anti-vax cause, and that’s something Lexi did not agree with.
Lexi Rhodes of the Sleepy Owl got a request for an anti-vax sign, and that’s something she does not agree with
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You’d think a polite ‘no’ would suffice, but nope, the client just turned hella rude
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“My initial reaction to the potential client’s request was, quite literally, an eye roll,” elaborated Lexi in an interview with Bored Panda. “I immediately knew I would not make the requested sign, so my next thoughts were related to determining how to best proceed in denying her request. “
So, after Lexi politely responded, Samantha seemed to have turned somewhat hostile and said she didn’t ask for Lexi’s opinion—“i just want you to do your job like im paying you for” [sic!] For the record, she hadn’t paid yet, but that’s beside the point.
But Lexi was having none of it and she ‘maliciously complied’ by actually creating a round door sign that said what Samantha wanted it to say… and then some.
So, as a response, Lexi ‘maliciously complied’ to the request and added a little bit more to it
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And yes, she replied to the client, as you can see in the screenshot
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“I have been very vocal in regards to the hope that the COVID vaccines bring us to help end this global pandemic and my support of them. After all, I am a mother to a special-needs child (4 years old and not yet of age to be vaccinated) that relies on in-person services and I have personally experienced loss from this deadly virus, as not long before I received Samantha’s request, my grandmother died from COVID,” elaborated Lexi.
She continued: “I had been mostly silent within my business on my standpoint, but this request gave me the push I may have needed to make my stance known. I felt my initial response to her was direct and finite, so I was honestly surprised to hear back from her at all. Though this was the first request I had received to make a sign promoting anti-vaccination, this was not the first time that I have been treated poorly by a potential client. So, when she responded to my refusal in the manner in which she did, I felt I needed to be more clear in how I prefer to conduct business, which is simply making products that adhere to my ethical standards and working with clients that share a mutual respect for the process and everyone involved.”
You can check out the video here
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Overall, people online have been supportive of Lexi, despite there being some hate
So, the sign ended up saying “Welcome. We are unvac[c]inated and unafraid.” with a little asterisk at the end clarifying “and uneducated.” The design was soon slapped onto the reply message on GMail and sent to Samantha.
And, to add insult to injury, this move ended up very beneficial for Lexi’s crafts business as seen in this video where online shop purchases kept coming and coming.
“Overall, my decision to publicize the interaction on TikTok has been one of the best business decisions I have ever made,” elaborated Lexi. “Though I have received a fair amount of nasty and threatening messages and emails, I have received far more messages of support and I have so many new clients that have brought meaning into my work that I didn’t even know was missing.”
Unfortunately, the insults didn’t stop there as Lexi got a couple more letters, one from someone who’s unvaccinated, but educated, saying “your an idiot,” to which Lexi responded with “*you’re”, and another one here claiming the vaccine is not fully tested. We’ll just stop there. But these few drops of hate were nothing compared to the sea of support Lexi got from TikTok.
“I wasn’t very surprised at the amount of views the video generated [352k as of this article], as vaccination standpoints are often a trending topic on TikTok. I was, however, incredibly surprised by the response to the video, from both sides,” explained Lexi.
Needless to say, the business was booming afterwards and Lexi was greeted with an inbox full of requests after this little clap-back
“Most surprising was the amount of people that had taken time from their day to stop what they were doing to send me an email or message to express their support and share their stories and simply spread their kindness. In the beginning, it was quite overwhelming, as I had never received so many emails and orders at one time before. I struggled to prioritize and respond to everyone but, once I laid out a clear path forward, I’ve managed quite well and have enjoyed the new opportunities and learning experiences this has offered me.”
You can check out the video and read the comments here, and you can also check out Lexi’s store, where she has all of the ‘no to anti-vax’ designs on sale. But before you run off to the other side of the internet, tell us your thoughts on this in the comment section below!
I actually think it’s really important for uneducated, selfish, and generally offensive anti vaxers to be reminded that they bear no relevance whatsoever in a caring, educated society.
I have a natural immunity to the flu. Medical test says so. I have TWO autoimmune diseases and do not intend to activate the one by chancing the guinea pig shot will cause any number of serious side effects. I already have cardiac issues do not need another. More people have gotten the flu from the vaccine and died from it. The government is lying when they say they died from covid NO they died because of the shot.
Well Lis, you are a pretty gigantic idiot. Who are you to judge that every single person follow protocol that you swallowed when they have personally not? I did get the vax, moderna, but people like you who think everyone has to think like you, they have to weigh the info and MUST come to YOUR conclusion are everything that regular non self aggrandizing people hate. You suck. You could be wrong and you. are. an. idiot. And everything that is wrong with this country.
Okay, why is this one person representative of everything that is wrong with this country? And if you’re saying that one person who has decided on a certain opinion and thinks that everyone else should have that opinion too must be wrong and hateful, what does that do to you? You’ve decided on a certain opinion (that no one can say that their opinion is right), and you’re saying that your opinion is right. Now, maybe you are right, or maybe Lis is. But either way, there seems to be a flaw in this logic. Everyone has opinions and things they believe to be true, and if you believe something to be true, then you must also believe that things that contradict that are false. Of course people are going to say that other people are wrong, that’s what they believe. An opinion is one of the very few things that humans are actually entitled to by virtue of existing, Lis isn’t hurting anyone, they’re just stating their opinion. As are you.
You're right. Sorry to Lis for me being a jerk
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If you're vaccinated why do you care whether or not they are? Oh yeah, the vaccines don't work...so again, why do you care that they aren't vaccinated since they don't work?
Not being 100% effective is not the same as being 0% effective. And since it's less effective in immunocompromised people (like the seller's child, even if they were old enough) those people are all safer if the virus can't spread as well through the whole community.
Amen. The vaccine is more effective when more people are vaccinated. Some people due to medical conditions chemo treatments & organ transplant recipients can’t get vaccinated. We need to step up and protect those people.
They DO work, you half-baked potato. Have you ever wondered what life would have been like if you had gotten enough oxygen at birth?
I wonder if gooberpeas, who by the way keeps posting trumptard stuff on boredpanda, has ever had measles, mumps, rubella, polio, or smallpox. I am guessing not. I wonder why. Hmmm. Pity that gooberpeas is happy to use SCIENCE when using a phone or laptop or airplane but not when it comes to medicine. I wonder if gooberpeas gets antibiotics for bronchitis or whether s/he/they think that antibiotics is also infused with devil666 juice?
Get vaxxed, chicken 💩.
The unvaccinated are currently dying in our hospitals. Other people can't get surgeries they desperately need. Accident victims don't have place in icu, because every single bed is reserved to these selfish "I'm not afraid anything but vaccines and science" morons. I just heard a woman in our company lost her husband to covid and she is also on sick leave because of covid. It kind of hits home but I don't know if I'm more sad or angry. They both were in high risk, over 50 and obese and not vaccinated.
"The trash takes itself out".
These people are just a study in contradiction. I want to tell you all about how bad vaccines are but I do not want to hear about how safe they are. I want body autonomy but definitely will tell a pregnant woman what to do with hers. It must be exhausting to be them.
Completely. My favourite contradiction...’we are unafraid....oh, except for vaccines, science, 5G, anything non binary, history, microchips, liberalism, having my gun taken away, body autonomy, universal healthcare......’
brain, logical thinking, actual research..
you forgot the scary muslims. Super scary. Less dangerous than toasters, but. You know. Scary enough to warrant multi-trillion dollar invasions.
Here's the truth you need to learn about the modern-day right wing: THEY DO NOT CARE ABOUT CONSISTENCY. The over-arching question is: "Does this benefit me right now?" If the answer is YES, they go ahead. If the answer is NO they reject it. It doesn't matter if it contradicts something they said yesterday or even five minutes ago. We keep looking for logic and deriding their inconsistency but they don't care, and in fact they ARE consistent - to the thing I just outlined. 100% self-centered, all the time.
This could be a description of their lord and saviour Trump! 100% accurate too.
Those people are kicking sanity's ass in the war to take back reason.
That's a good point. It's not about the truth, it's about tribalism.
If they actually thought about everything enough to exhaust them they'd have to see how contradictory their beliefs are right? No abortion but give us the freedom to do what we want with our bodies! They all just repeat the same misinformation. Facebook is literally their news source. I'm vaccinated because I care about my community. I've wear a face mask anyway because the activation people who trust a medication engineered for HORSES is safer for them than the medicine that has been scrutinized and tested and researched by not only the FDA but the CDC and WHO. Covid will keep changing, getting more deadly, and these people will say "told you the vaccine doesn't work, it's science." Selfish.
I was told I should watch the kyle ridden house trial by those same people before offering a openion about the judge (I had) and was told that by someone who didn't watch the trial themselves.
The ironic thing is that these people who are unvaccinated and screaming about their rights and how they're being persecuted are the same people who refuse to make a wedding cake for a gay couple or support anything outside of "normal" because "it's against their beliefs and morals." But if they're denied services because it's against our beliefs, God forbid!!
right? EXACTLY. You can't fix stupid people, but damn I wish we could stop them from breeding lol
queue Covid - the stupid fix. Darwin himself couldn't have planned it better.
I'd agree but the trouble is they deliberately cough on other people to prove that they have freeedumb.
I think you stubbled on the answer to your question. Been saying the same thing. Places like Florida and Georgia on track to fix itself.
Not even “against our beliefs.” It isn’t just a belief, it’s a fact / reality with supporting evidence and proof.
Under the terms of the wedding cake, you are a hypocritical piece of s**t .
I actually think it’s really important for uneducated, selfish, and generally offensive anti vaxers to be reminded that they bear no relevance whatsoever in a caring, educated society.
I have a natural immunity to the flu. Medical test says so. I have TWO autoimmune diseases and do not intend to activate the one by chancing the guinea pig shot will cause any number of serious side effects. I already have cardiac issues do not need another. More people have gotten the flu from the vaccine and died from it. The government is lying when they say they died from covid NO they died because of the shot.
Well Lis, you are a pretty gigantic idiot. Who are you to judge that every single person follow protocol that you swallowed when they have personally not? I did get the vax, moderna, but people like you who think everyone has to think like you, they have to weigh the info and MUST come to YOUR conclusion are everything that regular non self aggrandizing people hate. You suck. You could be wrong and you. are. an. idiot. And everything that is wrong with this country.
Okay, why is this one person representative of everything that is wrong with this country? And if you’re saying that one person who has decided on a certain opinion and thinks that everyone else should have that opinion too must be wrong and hateful, what does that do to you? You’ve decided on a certain opinion (that no one can say that their opinion is right), and you’re saying that your opinion is right. Now, maybe you are right, or maybe Lis is. But either way, there seems to be a flaw in this logic. Everyone has opinions and things they believe to be true, and if you believe something to be true, then you must also believe that things that contradict that are false. Of course people are going to say that other people are wrong, that’s what they believe. An opinion is one of the very few things that humans are actually entitled to by virtue of existing, Lis isn’t hurting anyone, they’re just stating their opinion. As are you.
You're right. Sorry to Lis for me being a jerk
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If you're vaccinated why do you care whether or not they are? Oh yeah, the vaccines don't work...so again, why do you care that they aren't vaccinated since they don't work?
Not being 100% effective is not the same as being 0% effective. And since it's less effective in immunocompromised people (like the seller's child, even if they were old enough) those people are all safer if the virus can't spread as well through the whole community.
Amen. The vaccine is more effective when more people are vaccinated. Some people due to medical conditions chemo treatments & organ transplant recipients can’t get vaccinated. We need to step up and protect those people.
They DO work, you half-baked potato. Have you ever wondered what life would have been like if you had gotten enough oxygen at birth?
I wonder if gooberpeas, who by the way keeps posting trumptard stuff on boredpanda, has ever had measles, mumps, rubella, polio, or smallpox. I am guessing not. I wonder why. Hmmm. Pity that gooberpeas is happy to use SCIENCE when using a phone or laptop or airplane but not when it comes to medicine. I wonder if gooberpeas gets antibiotics for bronchitis or whether s/he/they think that antibiotics is also infused with devil666 juice?
Get vaxxed, chicken 💩.
The unvaccinated are currently dying in our hospitals. Other people can't get surgeries they desperately need. Accident victims don't have place in icu, because every single bed is reserved to these selfish "I'm not afraid anything but vaccines and science" morons. I just heard a woman in our company lost her husband to covid and she is also on sick leave because of covid. It kind of hits home but I don't know if I'm more sad or angry. They both were in high risk, over 50 and obese and not vaccinated.
"The trash takes itself out".
These people are just a study in contradiction. I want to tell you all about how bad vaccines are but I do not want to hear about how safe they are. I want body autonomy but definitely will tell a pregnant woman what to do with hers. It must be exhausting to be them.
Completely. My favourite contradiction...’we are unafraid....oh, except for vaccines, science, 5G, anything non binary, history, microchips, liberalism, having my gun taken away, body autonomy, universal healthcare......’
brain, logical thinking, actual research..
you forgot the scary muslims. Super scary. Less dangerous than toasters, but. You know. Scary enough to warrant multi-trillion dollar invasions.
Here's the truth you need to learn about the modern-day right wing: THEY DO NOT CARE ABOUT CONSISTENCY. The over-arching question is: "Does this benefit me right now?" If the answer is YES, they go ahead. If the answer is NO they reject it. It doesn't matter if it contradicts something they said yesterday or even five minutes ago. We keep looking for logic and deriding their inconsistency but they don't care, and in fact they ARE consistent - to the thing I just outlined. 100% self-centered, all the time.
This could be a description of their lord and saviour Trump! 100% accurate too.
Those people are kicking sanity's ass in the war to take back reason.
That's a good point. It's not about the truth, it's about tribalism.
If they actually thought about everything enough to exhaust them they'd have to see how contradictory their beliefs are right? No abortion but give us the freedom to do what we want with our bodies! They all just repeat the same misinformation. Facebook is literally their news source. I'm vaccinated because I care about my community. I've wear a face mask anyway because the activation people who trust a medication engineered for HORSES is safer for them than the medicine that has been scrutinized and tested and researched by not only the FDA but the CDC and WHO. Covid will keep changing, getting more deadly, and these people will say "told you the vaccine doesn't work, it's science." Selfish.
I was told I should watch the kyle ridden house trial by those same people before offering a openion about the judge (I had) and was told that by someone who didn't watch the trial themselves.
The ironic thing is that these people who are unvaccinated and screaming about their rights and how they're being persecuted are the same people who refuse to make a wedding cake for a gay couple or support anything outside of "normal" because "it's against their beliefs and morals." But if they're denied services because it's against our beliefs, God forbid!!
right? EXACTLY. You can't fix stupid people, but damn I wish we could stop them from breeding lol
queue Covid - the stupid fix. Darwin himself couldn't have planned it better.
I'd agree but the trouble is they deliberately cough on other people to prove that they have freeedumb.
I think you stubbled on the answer to your question. Been saying the same thing. Places like Florida and Georgia on track to fix itself.
Not even “against our beliefs.” It isn’t just a belief, it’s a fact / reality with supporting evidence and proof.
Under the terms of the wedding cake, you are a hypocritical piece of s**t .