WE DON'T WANT TO KNOW BANKSY'S IDENTITY
STOP INVESTIGATING BANKSY FFS
INVESTIGATE LITERALLY EVERYTHING ELSE
WE DON'T WANT TO KNOW BANKSY'S IDENTITY
STOP INVESTIGATING BANKSY FFS
INVESTIGATE LITERALLY EVERYTHING ELSE

Attached: 1 image Now it's all starting to make sense.
@evan Seconded! Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes! Banksy's identity is Not The Point!
We're gawping at the spirit of his art. Not a name.
Shame on you Reuters!
Looking for a Mastodon instance which has a policy of No Banksy Reveals.
Meanwhile ejecting from view any account transgressing.
They seek him here
They seek him there
Those journos seek him everywhere
@evan I'm Brian and so's my wife
edit: huh. that might actually be closer to the truth than i thought. his work is mostly stencils. he's probably multiple people by now.
If they’re asking, I’m Banksy, you’re Banksy, my neighbor is Banksy, the stray cat in my garden is also Banksy.
I mean, I’m definitely not, but you might well be!
Who knows these things.
Edit: I just want a little mystery left in my life. Some whimsy. So I chose to believe that it can be anybody. Darn the spoilsports.
Back in the day before we had social media, my main interest was poking right wingers, fascists and conspiracy idiots on forums. It was then that I had a string of spartacus@ email accounts for fun. And having illuminatus@ was good fun too.
@evan Maybe they have a big team working on Epstein or Netanyahu or something, with big secrets...
Though, likely not.
Banksy is not in the Epstein files.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_named_in_the_Epstein_files
…
But we know who is!
"The New York Times identified more than 5,300 files containing over 38,000 references to […] and related terms in the January 2026 release."
@evan this is a real flex.. but people in the arts community know who he is. If you don't know, you're not in the right circles.

(and yes, revealing it is stupid)
@evan I'm glad these valiant truth-seekers have gotten the guy who spray paints hopeful symbolism on walls sorted.
I assume they will now shift their keen investigative minds to reporting about Palantir's sales process. Or whatever. This is going to be great!
@evan The president of the United States has been credibly accused of raping children. There are mountains of evidence to support these claims. But the press doesn't seem to have the time to really dig into it.
Identifying the subversive ... that they can work on for YEARS.
I haven't read a single article, I've just seen headlines.
I'm going to live in willful ignorance on this as long as I can.