seriously. nothing more annoying than eye-catchy advertisement while walking on the street, disrupting your inner peace.

    • daw@feddit.org
      24·
      4 days ago

      This would legit be one of the biggest wins against climate change and capitalism alike

    • Zarobi@aussie.zoneEnglish
      18·
      4 days ago

      Changing songs on your phone during grid lock traffic jam? Illegal, irresponsible, how could you?! What if you were distracted while driving?

      Meanwhile gigantic bright flashing animated billboards are everywhere on the highway. Oh that? That’s just business.

    • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
      15·
      4 days ago

      This has been my evolution as well.

      • graffiti is wrong

      • graffiti is fine. Free expression is important.

      • graffiti is fine, but don’t suck at it

      • grrgyle@slrpnk.net
        8·
        3 days ago

        Yeah, I’ve had almost exactly the same evolution except I’ve added a fourth point

        • the sloppiest graffiti is better than the classiest ad

        I don’t have to like every tag, but I basically appreciate them all. I’m just happy to see actual people expressing themselves in my spaces instead of just brands. Unless we’re talking about a hateful symbol I don’t even mind someone from just writing “skeazy” on a mailbox in one swipe. Thanks for giving me a break from the ads, Skeazy.

      • felsiq@piefed.zipEnglish
        12·
        3 days ago

        Another bit of nuance: where is hugely important. Graffiti on a random building or overpass? Go ham. On something natural or historically important? Absolutely shit thing to do

        • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldEnglish
          91·
          3 days ago

          I especially like graffiti on rail cars, it makes it a lot more interesting when I’m sitting at a rail crossing waiting for the train to go by. It’s usually top-quality work and who gives a fuck what rail cars look like anyway?

  • Courtney (she/her/they) @lemmy.blahaj.zone
    16·
    4 days ago

    Change the simple tag to a mural, but it’s being done with spray paint cans by someone in a hoodie and it’s perfect.

    <personal anecdote about a cop being a bastard >

    I once was grounded as a teenager for calling a cop that went to church with my parents a coward for pulling a gun on a teenager who was tagging an alley wall. His defence was “the kid could have used it as a weapon and thrown it at me” which just made me laugh while saying he’s a whiny piece of shit if he’s thinking a teenager wielding a spray can is a threat deserving of pulling a gun. And that was when I would say was my “republican Christian good boy” phase.

  • grrgyle@slrpnk.net
    5·
    3 days ago

    I actually like that the graffiti in this is just a simple tag rather than a full mural or a more complicated piece that conforms to our conception of “art.”

    I would argue that it’s just barely stepping out of the ideology of who is allowed to express themselves in public to condone only “good” graffiti.

    The real liberation is imho letting even “bad” artists express themselves, even if all they’re saying is “I was here.”

  • Jankatarch@lemmy.world
    4·
    4 days ago

    I especially love the ones they put on road so you can gst distracted by them when first learning how to drive.

  • Spooge@lemmy.world
    415·
    4 days ago

    While billboards are unsightly, business signage within municipal code is perfectly reasonable in my opinion. I don’t agree with vandalizing owned/inhabited businesses though. Likely hardworking little guys can receive tickets for not cleaning it up. Don’t paint shit that isn’t yours.

    Their egregious wrongs don’t make a small wrong right.