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.

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!

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

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

For a whole someone was tagging "c-word' city" all over my town and it was kinda fucking awesome, pretty certain it was meant as a positive thing based on the fonts and exclamation marks. I at least took it that way, gave me municipal pride.

I'm curious why this bothers you. Personally I don't tag nor do I particularly enjoy this particular art. But tagging a dumpster brings the artists joy and doesn't actually harm anyone, so from my perspective why should anyone care?

Wow do you hate the DPRK

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

notices the pro-tagging vs anti-tagging struggle session but choosing to ignore it because there's nothing inherently good or bad about tagging

Everyone except the person who did the DPRK tag should be jailed for vandalism while the DPRK tagger should be promoted to municipal muralist whose main job is tagging every single dumpster with DPRK and other iconography related to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

I love what my city did in a rough part of town that was being completely taken over by this type of ugly street tags.

On a big wall that was constantly attacked they hired an artist to create a huge mural, it's absolutely beautiful and it represents the community that lives there.

It's been there for like 15 years and it's intact. No one touched it, no one vandalized it.