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by jonnybgood 675 days ago
Yes, and I have yet to meet another New Yorker who finds it appealing. Apparently, from what I've gathered, tourists love it. I guess that's how it works: tourists take pictures of the graffiti, spread it over social media, artist writes the same corny words on an object you can put in your home, profit.
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I’m a less happy having been made aware of 7soulsdeep. It’s so fundamentally commercial in nature that it’s quite different from what graffiti used to be. Clearly street artists have been monetizing using social media for a while but this is both hyper cringe yet more successful than I’ve seen before.