I also hate 99% of grafittis because most are just a big autofellatio, wasting even more space than tags but equally pointless. I don't give a shit what's your stupid nickname, draw/write something cool you idiot.

  • ckm [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Look into the grafitti tagged NYC trains of the 70s — grafitti used to be one of the 5 elements of hiphop and was a way for the people to express themselves (see The Message by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five). I'm not saying that what you're seeing now is the same thing, but grafitti can serve a purpose

          • Marsala [they/them]
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            4 years ago

            The rebellion is obviously targeted at the authoritarian state which claims the right to decide how everything looks. Huge fucking billboards everywhere? Sure, why not, it makes someone money so it's cool. A bombing is a claim to the public space. It's anarchist - pieces can be crossed at any time, but they are not. Because writers have rules everyone agrees on, without police enforcing them. Get a load of graffiti culture, it's fucking amazing. Except the very problematic machismo tho

    • RNAi [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Yeah, probably the central problem is that graffitis culture is kinda "foreign" to my city, imported from yank pop culture.

      As I said, the graffiters I know are bougies.