Ok, definitely more enraging than mildly infuriating, but I don't subscribe to those communities.
Beloved whale mural painted over for FIFA World Cup artwork
https://share.google/Coq7Y681rFGZClLpK
https://share.google/Coq7Y681rFGZClLpK
Ok, definitely more enraging than mildly infuriating, but I don't subscribe to those communities.
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LeapSecond@lemmy.zip · 34 pts · 100d
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.
Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 100d
even if it's not for artistic reasons... put up graffiti to cover the company garbage. if rather look as pickled sphincters on a wall, then some bullshit lies from some corrupt corporation whose CEO should be jailed for life
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 31 pts · 100d
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-sFA-1REss
Non (extra) google tracking link
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 100d
My bad. I didn't know.
galaxy_nova@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 100d
I hope it gets graffitied
gedfromgont@piefed.ca · 29 pts · 100d
With a whale
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 100d
Whale dongs seem particularly appropriate at this particular juncture.
idiomaddict@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 100d
Then those dorks will learn!
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 100d
I wouldn’t go that far. But it’s a start.
idiomaddict@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 100d
Sorry, I was just having fun with the folk etymology of dork, which isn’t actually specific to whale penises
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 100d
oh I chuckled at the dork. I'm just saying, it might take a few times for them to learn.
(and suddenly over night a new form of protest art...)
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech · 27 pts · 100d
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 alternatives did they have? You couldn't expect them to just put a temporary tarp over it or something, come on, that would have cost slightly more money!
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 that wouldn't have destroyed a piece of art.
YaksDC@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 100d
Here is a link to an article with a picture so you don't have to watch a video.
https://www.dmagazine.com/frontburner/2026/05/everything-we-know-about-the-downtown-dallas-whale-mural/
Fredselfish@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 100d
That pisses me off fuck the world cup.
backalleycoyote@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 99d
If you’d like to contact the North Texas FIFA Organizing Committee and tell them how much they and FIFA suck, their contact info is available publicly here:
https://www.dallasfwc26.com/home/our-team/
Also, when your committee looks like the Crypt Keeper’s family reunion, maybe don’t post profile pics.