Man, this post was anti-graffiti all along? I thought it was a "rad, someone tagged 'DPRK' here" type of post. Disappointment in this website never ends 
Probably some teenagers going on a tagging spree, can't do much about it 
anti graffiti is so funny i know it's pretty low stakes not a heinous opinion or anything but enjoying seeing this thread filter out the total dweebs on here
Yeah, me too. I didn't post this to be anti graffiti but it's funny to see how many people think I did.
Lol sorry, are you anti graffiti? On the bear site? Its one of the most basic forms of resistance against the concept of private property there is! Street art is often the expression of the creative who lacks the tools, resources, and space to be creative. Its a form of radical reclamation in the face of the enclosure of public spaces. It is the art of the oppressed and marginalized. Hobos created entire forms of language expressed through graffiti to communicate to other travelers if places where hostile or safe, if they had food or would provide lodging.
It is proletarian through and through!
I'm not against street art, I think it's really cool. I'm mostly just wondering what will happen next and keeping my favourite bears updated on what the taggers do and what the city does in relation to these DPRK tags.
i dont think they're against it, look at the last post, they just posted because of the DPRK tag
Why is street art in quotes then? Seems to imply it's not art.
so you and other anti graffiti people in this thread type on here all day about wanting a revolution, taking breaks inbetween to scratch your ass and then not wash your hands before putting them back on the keyboard, but cant handle something as innocuous as street art from someone who is probably a teenager? seriously, how are you going to do anything meaningful in the overthrow of capitalism if this gets you riled enough to post about it?
if you knew anything about the history of street art you would understand why people do it. im not a street artist but i am inclined to defend them because i belong to the marginalized groups that started it
I'm not trying to be anti graffiti here! I don't always understand it, but I do think it can be interesting to see, and to see what gets left alone and what gets "dealt with". I'm mostly just curious what'll happen next in the saga, and keeping you bears updated because you liked the last post.
Tagging the ugliest most obnoxious monstrosities in our urban environments is a perfectly good form of artistic expression. Making those monstrosities stand out more for the ugliness they are by making them even uglier is a good way to highlight them.
A nice object doesn't attract tags.
Absolutely. I don't think I've seen a single dumpster in this city without at least one tag on it. They're garbage receptacles, sure, but do they have to be so ugly?
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