Banksy told his followers to shoplift from the Regent Street Guess store in London after it displayed a collection that used his artwork without permission.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/1977881

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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?”

    • acastcandream@beehaw.orgEnglish
      68·
      1 year ago

      There’s a legitimate discussion to be had about whether not he should be doing that, but to compare it to a multinational corporation profiting off of clothes depicting his work without his permission is pretty disingenuous.

      This is not me saying people should go shoplift nor is it me saying that Banksy isn’t a whiner.

        • acastcandream@beehaw.orgEnglish
          28·
          1 year ago

          I’m not sure where the bad faith accusation is. You’re saying that because of the way he operates, they get to use his work without his permission on physical products they sell for profit. If this is incorrect feel free to explain what you meant.

          • cyberdecker@beehaw.orgEnglish
            4·
            1 year ago

            You made no bad faith argument here. Your response for further discussion was a great prompt and right in line with this thread but clearly they don’t want to engage.

            I really dislike this trend of responding to comments with the red badge of “bad faith argument”. It is awfully dismissive, particularly without saying why, like in this case here. Best case, they may expect that you know exactly why you are being accused of that and want to shut down bad faith arguing, but if you have no idea why, it’s really just meant to insult or harm. Ironically, accusing someone of a bad faith argument without explaining why may be considered bad faith arguing.

            Sorry you got a response like that. I thought your response was good, thoughtful and good attempt at more discussion. I agree and don’t have much to add, unfortunately, but just wanted to support your post.

    • adrian783@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      nahhhh. we know who he is, and he collaborates with local authorities to put up his art. and retains all rights to it of course.

      so he is actually very justified in feeling this way because he unironically greatly benefits from the commercial side of things.

      of course, he still wants us to think this is some counterculture shit.

        • emeralddawn45@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          11·
          1 year ago

          Yeah and the rappers that make diss tracks about each other totally hate each other too, it’s not for publicity at all, they’d really kill each other if only they had a chance. Too bad they’re too busy making millions.

            • emeralddawn45@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
              3·
              1 year ago

              He stands to gain attention and notoriety, which is why he does everything he does. As does the other street artist. If you don’t think it was a publicity stunt fine, I certainly can’t prove it was, but that’s what I believe.