Beloved whale mural painted over for FIFA World Cup artwork

Submitted ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world⁩

Ok, definitely more enraging than mildly irritating, but I don’t subscribe to those communities.

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LeapSecond@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
And this is why graffiti is not bad. If companies get to alter public spaces with their ads to make money, then people should be able to alter public spaces for artistic reasons.

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fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-sFA-1REss

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- Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  My bad. I didn’t know.
  
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galaxy_nova@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I hope it gets graffitied

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- gedfromgont@piefed.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  With a whale
  
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  - FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Whale dongs seem particularly appropriate at this particular juncture.
    
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scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Think of the poor corporations, there are so few places to advertise on!

I mean in a downtown core, where else do you advertise? Billboards? Other walls? Street signs? Busses? Storefronts? Paint on the street itself?

What they’re supposed to be content with just those few thousand options?

What a sad dystopian thing, to decide that a mural that’s brought joy is somehow less important than your temporary ad, and worse than that, that there were so many other places it could have gone.

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