AnotherMadHatter comments on Celebrating *hwat* now?

[–] AnotherMadHatter@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago (4 children)

I feel there should be a distinction between graffiti - which is artistic, and tagging - which is just spamming your initials repeatedly along a surface, making it look like shit.

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[–] blarghly@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (1 child)

This seems like the same thing, except you like one and not the other.

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[–] Notyou@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 months ago

There's nothing wrong with preferring the more professional version of something over the cheap version. Like enjoying an escort instead of picking up a hooker.

But yeah it's like the same thing.

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[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 months ago

Good tagging is art though. A tag back in the day was either well executed with a distinct style, or the next guy covered it up.

Besides, tagging was sorta rarely just initials. Wasn't exactly unheard of, but your tag was typically a thing of its own.

And yeah, there's a lot of overlap between graffiti as art and graffiti as vandalism, but the people that made a hobby, then art form, out of it weren't just scrawling initials.

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[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

I like when places look lived in rather than sterile.

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