ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝Sep 5, 2023

Banksy Encourages Fans to Shoplift From Guess Since Company 'Helped Themselves to My Artwork Without Asking’

https://feddit.uk/post/2038944

Banksy Encourages Fans to Shoplift From Guess Since Company 'Helped Themselves to My Artwork Without Asking’ - Feddit UK

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/1977881 [https://slrpnk.net/post/1977881] > Excerpt: > > >Banksy isn’t happy with Guess’ latest collaboration. > > > >The legendary anonymous graffiti artist had a directive for his followers on Friday, encouraging them—possibly tongue in cheek, possibly not—to visit the Regent Street Guess store in London and steal the brand’s new collection that features his artwork. > > > >“Attention all shoplifters. Please go to Guess on Regents Street. They’ve helped themselves to my artwork without asking, how can it be wrong for you to do the same to their clothes?” >

Show threadSchwim DandySep 5, 2023
His celebrity status depends on hyperbolic rhetoric like this. If he had handled it the way normal people do, through courts, he’d be damaging his mystique. The sheep that think he’s the bee’s knees slurp this bullshit up.
Show threadsexy_peach
So? Is he wrong?
Sep 5, 2023 at 6:20pmWeb
Show threadSchwim DandySep 5, 2023
I can’t say legally since I’m not a lawyer but I don’t think much of people who suggest you do (crime) because (crime) occurred. I consider it a low-end mentality to view that as a resolution or justice of some kind.
Show threadsexy_peachSep 5, 2023
I don’t think that it’s a resolution or justice, I think it’s funny ^^
Show threadSchwim DandySep 5, 2023
Not as funny as the fact that a person adept at using stencils to paint on other people’s property getting upset someone used his stenciling on their property, IMHO.
Show threadsexy_peachSep 5, 2023
I support people painting on gray walls in cities!
Show threadSchwim DandySep 5, 2023
As I support a company’s right to use the likeness of illegal graffiti on their clothing.
Show threadsexy_peachSep 5, 2023
fair
Show threadAngrilyEatingMuffinsSep 5, 2023
So you’re a bootlicker? A fascist? You honestly prioritize corporate profits over public art? Fuck you.
Show threadSchwim DandySep 5, 2023

Fuck you.

Ok.

Show threadBlake [he/him]Sep 5, 2023
Well that escalated quickly
Show threadMane25Sep 5, 2023
I support it if it’s what the people want.
Show threadcantstopthesignalSep 5, 2023
Or maybe the ultimate troll artist, is fucking trolling. Perhaps making a joke about stealing their stuff because they stole his.
Show threadSchwim DandySep 5, 2023
Perhaps. He’s super-clever like that.
Show threadAngrilyEatingMuffinsSep 5, 2023

Imagine obliquely calling someone basic when you had to have their point explained

Jesus Christ you are a moron.

Show threadSchwim DandySep 5, 2023

Jesus Christ you are a moron.

Ok.

Show threadAngrilyEatingMuffinsSep 5, 2023
Yep, quacks like a Nazi.
Show threadSchwim DandySep 5, 2023

a Nazi.

Ok.

Show threadTexas_HangoverSep 6, 2023
The motherfucker is a stooge of the system man! Probably got more lawyers than John Gotti lol.
Show threadPrataiSep 5, 2023
Yes.
Show threadVantSep 5, 2023

Also, in his book Wall and Piece, Banksy said “copyright is for losers” and the public was morally and legally free to reproduce and use any public copyright works.

I mean, according to his own words, I guess?

smh.com.au/…/copyright-is-for-losers-how-did-bank…

‘Copyright is for losers’: How did Banksy’s brash claim backfire?

A quick guide to why Banksy lost the trademark for four of his most famous works.

The Sydney Morning Herald
Show threadTheDankHoldSep 5, 2023
Corporations don’t deserve that right. His stance on this is directly related to corporate abuse of the system. Nuance is difficult though so I understand why it’s easy for you to feel like you made a good point.
Show threadacastcandreamSep 7, 2023
Just ignore them man. It’s cool to hate Banksy even it means simping for Guess.