With so many things seemingly wrong and unjust with modern-day society, we can sometimes feel overwhelmed, outraged, and want to rebel in some way. Well, some people protest and tell the system to go fudge itself in very creative and polite ways—by deploying forms of mild vandalism. Meanwhile, others find that gentle vandalism is the best way for them to spread some cheer where it’s needed the most.
That’s where the r/MildlyVandalised subreddit comes in. The 344k-member-strong online community documents and celebrates instances of raging against the machine in a calm, orderly, and (usually) controlled manner.
Scroll down for some funny, endearing, and (yes!) even heart-warming cases of mild vandalism. Don’t forget to upvote the photos that you enjoyed looking at the most, dear Pandas. And if you’re in the mood for some more artistic rebellion, then we cordially invite you to take a peek at Bored Panda’s previous article about the awesome r/MildlyVandalised community right over here.
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The Best Vandalism
Why spread hate, when you can make everyone's day better with kitty!!!
Hmmm, Indeed I Say
During a previous interview with my colleague, a couple of the r/MildlyVandalised subreddit’s moderators opened up a bit about the community and the content that they share.
One of the moderators, redditor DoxBox explained what lies at the core of the photos shared on their subreddit. "Mild vandalism is vandalism that is humorous but not overly damaging," they explained to Bored Panda that comedy without the damage is essential.
Mildly Dad Joke
Someone At Work Put A Seagull On The Sanitizer Dispenser
We All Shall Applaud The Jellyfish!!
First time I saw the "push button take bacon" tag on one of these around 20 years ago I spent 5 minutes laughing hysterically in a mall public restroom with people staring at me, looking at the tag and mildly chuckling. I looked like a mad woman and to make things worse I was in my barn clothes.
"Regular vandalism is costly to fix and malicious in intent. The sub is about mostly-harmless but humorous vandalism intended to make people laugh,” the moderator explained to us during an earlier interview.
Meanwhile, another moderator, redditor Awesomesprime, noted that the subreddit reacts to the news and current world events. For instance, at the time, the 2020 United States presidential elections were on pretty much everyone’s minds.
Right On Rock
His Own Realm
Merry Chrysler
"Recently, political posts have been at the top, but [they still] have to be funny and clever. Those seem to be the ones that make it the highest," they noted what was popular at the time.
"Posts do well the funnier they are, with the caveat that Reddit's usual issues do sometimes interfere. Posting the same post at different times can have different results," moderator DoxBox pointed out that some posts don’t always go viral because the timing might not be right or due to other less-than-obvious reasons.
Hot Take In The Neighborhood
An Interesting Title
sauron, the all-seeing, fire-eyed manager suffering a mid-life crisis trying to get his precious ring from some weird short kids at the office
That's One Way To Get A Van Cleaned
The subreddit has been celebrating mild and humorous vandalism all the way since October 2015. And it looks like it’ll keep going strong so long as there are rebels out there who know that using their imagination and creativity can be just as powerful (if not more so!) than vandalising property in rage.
Caution. Santa’s Crossing
Childish Response
Found This In My Camera Roll That I Took A While Back Whilst In Cambridge. Still Makes Me Chuckle
The sub’s mods note that the images people post have to be about mild vandalism, without any costly property damage. What’s more, they stress that the vandalism can’t be racist and that all the community members have to be polite to each other.
Communal Or Solitary Pooping
He Sees You When You're Speeding, He Knows When You Are Slow
He Did The Math
Meanwhile, reposts are discouraged if they’re newer than three months. What’s more, street art doesn’t actually count as vandalism. While bathroom graffiti belongs on another subreddit, namely, r/ToiletDoodles.
I’d Consider This More Art Than Vandalism. In Either Case, It’s Absolutely Outstanding. (If You’re Unfamiliar, This Is ‘Tactile Paving’ And Used To Help The Vision-Impaired Navigate Streets. This ‘Bumps’ Pattern Marks The Locations Of Pedestrian Crossings)
I'm just imagining how annoying it would be to paint around all the dots
Guess We're Not Getting Our Graffiti Removed Anymore
High-Effort Mild Vandalism In Crystal Palace Park
Bored Panda spoke to Professor Suzanne Degges-White, a Licensed Counselor and Chair at the Department of Counseling and Higher Education at Northern Illinois University about anger and its pros and cons.
According to her, even though anger can lead to social change, it can also greatly harm us if we can’t control it or learn to let go.
Motivation Is Important
Someone With Free Time At My Local Grocery Store
Until You Proper Star Get The You Deserve
“Constant anger can lead to metabolic diseases, cardiovascular problems, and digestive issues. For some people, health concerns are the reason that they may learn to let go of anger,” she explained to Bored Panda very recently.
What'll It Be Today?
He Just Wants To Know!
you did, with your obnoxious barging in, vigorously shaking the handle trying to open it
“While being angry can lead to social change and begin to topple barriers and other aspects of injustice, we also know that anger isn't going to be the best choice to build alliances or convince others of the need for change,” the professor noted.
Is It Only Me That Sings Those Words?
Canadian Bathroom Door
We’re Only Here For A Short Time
“Finding common ground is essential in making true, collaborative change. This requires us to let go of anger, whether that is finding a way to sublimate it or overcome it, or just put it aside for the time being.
Eat It
Found At Tumby Bay, South Australia
Cause I’m Havin A Good Time, Havin A Good Time
Someone Scratched Off The 3 On This Sign
Tis The Season
I Couldn't Resist When I Saw The Pipe
This Bench In Manchester, UK
Kinda True Tho
It’s Been A Year Since I Replaced My Schools Hand-Washing Signs With These
Googly Eyes On The Belly Button Of A Women's Underwear Model In A Walmart
Won’t Somebody Think Of The Property Values!
Think Quality!
... And I Do Mean Any Reason
This Pops Up Every Few Years
I walked past here everyday and right or wrong it was constantly vandalized with something that wasn’t Godly.
He Seems Like A Really Fungi
Paper Towel Now
In The Hallway At School
The black death of the 1340s and 1350s killed an estimated 75 - 200 million. It is estimated about 30% of the worlds population at that time. With an estimated world population of 7,935,000,000 30% is 2,380,500,000. With an estimated 6.1 million deaths from covid-19, 6.1 million is about 0.25% of the way to becoming the world's deadliest pandemic. Stay in school!
Yep. You only have to go back about a century to find a much deadlier pandemic, too. The 1918 flu killed between 17-100 million people. That was 1-5.4% of the global population at the time. Covid-19 has 6.1 million recorded deaths, but estimates run as high as 24.4 million. That's still 0.1-0.3% of the global population, though. So even if you took the highest Covid estimate and the lowest flu estimate, you still have a pandemic that was over three times as deadly and there are still a handful of people alive who remember it.
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How do they rise up, rise up. I said while wearing my sprig of lilac and holding a soft boiled egg
…..:. Rise up, when your livin on your knees you rise up, tell your brother that he’s gotta rise up, tell your sister that she’s gotta rise up-
No, I think all of us except the Trump cult realize that even though the numbers are beginning to improve, the pandemic is far from over.
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Pandemics probably shouldn't be taken lightly. 1 person's death is too many. 6 million..9 million too many in an age where we can do better. When we can think of others instead of ourselves perhaps humanity can heal.
"Hang on folks I do believe Omega may be just around the corner - keep masks up!"
... when you're living on your knees you rise up tell your brother that he's gotta rise up tell your sister that she's gotta rise up...
For modern times, True. We are just getting started... Lots of pestilence and disease coming with that changing climate, sadly.
Black death was worse. And covid pandemic did not end, so who say you gonna make it?
I think this just depends on what metrics you use to quantify "worst". Strictly by number of deaths from each virus, COVID is nowhere near the worst pandemic. However, it has other features that didn't play a role in the others. In 1918, industrialization was in its infancy whereas COVID caused all areas of life to come to a halt. The supply chain breakdown alone added to the death toll because of lost access to life saving emergency services, medicines, or even food. With hospitals/clinics filled to capacity for 2 years, others in need of care cannot obtain it and have also died. A MUCH higher % of the world is part of the labor force now as opposed to a century ago. Millions are still out of work, The Great Resignation exists because COVID altered our ideas on being employed. Rates of DV/SA/CA are at historically high levels. Alcohol/drug abuse is rampant. And again, lack of access to emergency services in the last examples means more people dying. It depend how you look at it.
Shakespeare's Garbage
When your best friend suggested a Caesar salad instead of French fries :_(
I’m The Pizza Man
Dont Ask How I Managed To Do This
Note: this post originally had 118 images. It’s been shortened to the top 50 images based on user votes.
Pro tip - Buy a giant bag of googly eyes, and bring it with you when you go anywhere in public
I was walking at my moms senior apartment building and saw a sign for “arts and crafts” for some reason I had a “f” sticker in my pockets and changed it to “farts and crafts”😂 I was so tickled ! I hehehehehed the whole time I was doing it !
I have a nagging question now . . . is any of this legal? I've tried to do some research but I can't find much. This seems like so much fun tho :/
i would assume if it's something easily removable, like googly eyes or a sticker, it's fine. stuff like permanent marker or spray paint could get you in trouble though
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These all made me laugh so hard— this article definitely brightened my day! And the comments made it so much better :D
Some of this dont seem mild to me, referring to the circulation ones, that obstructed the sign or changed the msg, don't know USA laws on this but in my country you might get even jail for some of this, unlikely but at least big fine
I saw a crosswalk light get vandalized in my town. They turned the 'go' dude into Neo from the Matrix by tearing off the black part between the green dude's legs. Hilarious!
I was in a hospital waiting room once and saw a little drop-down shelf with an official sign that said,"please let shelf down gently" Someone had put a note underneath that read "you're a really nice shelf, I just don't think we're right for each other .."
I haven't got a picture, but one morning while going to work I happened to look down a side street and stopped in my tracks. Every street light had a different color as least the 20 that I could see. I think somebody with a great sense of humor had put plasticbags in different colours over every light. It is wonderful that someone had taken all that trouble to make bypassers smile.
THANK YOU! I just giggled my way through the afternoon. Should have seen this yesterday!
There are some funny things here - however, as a property manager, the perm marker/spray paint/defacing stuff is not amusing. Someone has to clean this up and someone has to pay for it. I would love to catch the vandal and force them to spend an hour or more spraying cleansers and scrubbing.
Thank you Borde Panda for the great day I an going have after viewing Mildly Vandalised 50 pics I'll be in stiches all day.
Pro tip - Buy a giant bag of googly eyes, and bring it with you when you go anywhere in public
I was walking at my moms senior apartment building and saw a sign for “arts and crafts” for some reason I had a “f” sticker in my pockets and changed it to “farts and crafts”😂 I was so tickled ! I hehehehehed the whole time I was doing it !
I have a nagging question now . . . is any of this legal? I've tried to do some research but I can't find much. This seems like so much fun tho :/
i would assume if it's something easily removable, like googly eyes or a sticker, it's fine. stuff like permanent marker or spray paint could get you in trouble though
Load More Replies... These all made me laugh so hard— this article definitely brightened my day! And the comments made it so much better :D
Some of this dont seem mild to me, referring to the circulation ones, that obstructed the sign or changed the msg, don't know USA laws on this but in my country you might get even jail for some of this, unlikely but at least big fine
I saw a crosswalk light get vandalized in my town. They turned the 'go' dude into Neo from the Matrix by tearing off the black part between the green dude's legs. Hilarious!
I was in a hospital waiting room once and saw a little drop-down shelf with an official sign that said,"please let shelf down gently" Someone had put a note underneath that read "you're a really nice shelf, I just don't think we're right for each other .."
I haven't got a picture, but one morning while going to work I happened to look down a side street and stopped in my tracks. Every street light had a different color as least the 20 that I could see. I think somebody with a great sense of humor had put plasticbags in different colours over every light. It is wonderful that someone had taken all that trouble to make bypassers smile.
THANK YOU! I just giggled my way through the afternoon. Should have seen this yesterday!
There are some funny things here - however, as a property manager, the perm marker/spray paint/defacing stuff is not amusing. Someone has to clean this up and someone has to pay for it. I would love to catch the vandal and force them to spend an hour or more spraying cleansers and scrubbing.
Thank you Borde Panda for the great day I an going have after viewing Mildly Vandalised 50 pics I'll be in stiches all day.
