If you often find yourself in the middle of a flaming desire to rage against the machine and respect for authority, don't worry. There's nothing wrong with you. Duality is an integral part of human nature. There are more hooligans like you. And they meet on the subreddit r/MildlyVandalised to share their public opinion.
The online community calls itself a place to share street art pictures and videos (or whatever) of mild vandalism that is either funny, mindful or thought-provoking (or whatever). Such a beautiful description, isn't it? Plain and simple, not at all prolix.
From rewriting Wikipedia pages to "modifying" public signs and other unique artworks, continue scrolling and check out what this nexus between conformity and rebellion has to offer!
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Wholesomely Vandalized
"Vandalism to me is basically anger,” Dr. Jeffery Chase, a licensed clinical psychologist and psychology professor at Radford University in Radford, Va., said. "It can be displacement — displacement in the technical sense is that [vandals] wish to do something against a more threatening object or individual, so they vent their anger on something safer."
I Don’t Want To Get Political But I Saw This And Either Way, It’s Funny
Most of us petty that. Mild vandalism, on the other hand, clearly isn't fueled by anger. I would say the main force that drives it is creativity. And even if some of these acts are directed against someone, they aren't executed with the intention to ridicule or hurt the addressee. Rather, to tease them. The fact that mild vandalism is innocent, I think, is the appeal of it. It's what draws those hundreds of thousands of people to join the Reddit community. Mild vandalism is connecting people instead of dividing them, and it's awesome.
Oink Oink
One of the moderators of the subreddit, DoxBox, also shares this opinion. "Mild vandalism is vandalism that is humorous but not overly damaging," they told Bored Panda. "Regular vandalism is costly to fix and malicious in intent. The sub is about mostly-harmless but humorous vandalism intended to make people laugh."
His colleague, fellow moderator awesomesprime, pointed out that important urgent matters get represented in the subreddit, too. Like, the presidential election. "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 said.
A Realtor You Can Depend On
"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," DoxBox added, explaining the main differences on why some pics go viral and some don't.
Muslem Madlads On The Loose
Vandalism Vandalised
Some Fitting Tape Over The Sign
No We Won’t
Ooh ~ this one is timely for me. My guy, with a pretty healthy lifestyle, was told he has very high cholesterol by his dr. Apparently 75% of cholesterol numbers are genetics. If I didn't bug his A** to get a flu shot & a check up...who knows?
Just A Piece Of Tape And A Sharpie
State supreme court judges can only be voted out by the people on a Presidential Election & Most people are so distracted focusing on the guy who wants the job for 4 years they miss the ones in for life
Haven't Read That One Yet
Idk If This Counts
That’s A Good Idea
Damn Fabric Worshippers
Genius Level 100
Some Pretty Intense Vandalism In The Laundry Room, But Rules Are Meant To Be Broken
It’s Not Wrong
The Goggles Do Nothing
Saw This More Accurate Vandalism A Couple Days Ago
Jedi Wisdom
Marge Tree
Smashed Window Becomes Public Art At North Vancouver Gallery
Tis The Season
I’d Totally Vote For This Guy
Ah, KFC
Someone Changed The Covers Of Trump Jr.’s Book At Barnes & Noble
Just Do It
Old Lady On A Brick Wall
Victim Approved
I like when people can laugh about stuff like this, instead of getting mad.
This Is Patric
...how? The balls on the person who did this have to have weighted them down while climbing. And to do this in Russia? Wow!
Yeah J O H N Do Your Work
PP Pothole
It’s Got My Vote
Bill Posters Is Innocent!
All Hail Kitty
Made Me Laugh
As for Dove - they might until they decide they don't want to buy products from companies that still test on animals just to be able to sell to the Chinese market where animal testing is apparently required...
Sorry What
This Political Sign
Jeff thinks he's important. Jeff has no sense of humour. Don't be Jeff.
Well, He Tried
Found One In The Wild!
Ah Yes, Neandertallica
No
I just burst into laughter and tears in the train. Now people look funny at me.
I Found This In A Burger King Bathroom
Eat Them All
Does This Count?
Someone Taped This Stop Walking Light In S.C.
British Vandalism At Its Finest
This Highway Sign
Just when I forgot how immature my sense of humour is, this came along.
The End
An Australian Classic
My Eye!
Someone Around Here Thinks They're Pretty Funny...
I Agree With Them
Agreed
Mathemanarchy
Would be lost on 99.9% of the general public. However, if I walked past it, I would take a photo and try and figure it out at home (like I'm sure others might do). Therefore, I would've gained some knowledge of high-end math. So yes, very clever.
Boys Went Around School Slapping Up Printed Pics Of Mr Bean In Random Places, This Was The Only One To Survive The Cleanup
Cause I'm Having A Good Time, Having A Good Time
Who’s Church Is This...
In the Redwall books there's a "Saint Ninian's Church", but later on it turns out Ninian was a lazy jerk who sat on his bum while his wife did all the building. She was so annoyed with him she put a sign over the door saying "THIS AIN'T NINIAN'S" but some of the letters fell off over time and people got the wrong idea.
G’oh!
I Don’t See It
Oh Canada
Fire Alarm In My Local Hospital
An Interesting Warning
This Hospital Hand Sanitizer Modification
This Traffic Sign
Well, It's All True...
Just when all the greedy bahstads thought they could slip under the radar with doing away with Net Neutrality, CoVid Punched them in the face bc you can't virtually teach without free internet. Once in a blue moon, you get to see Karma in action & it's a Beautiful Thing.
Damn Kids
Filbert & Mason, SF
Didn’t Realize It Was Fake Until I Started Clapping At A Water Fountain
Statue Of Selena In Corpus Christi, TX
I Love The One Person That Put An X On That One...
Found This In My School Library
I'm sorry but i don't think anybody in my generation is dumb enough to think that books need to be "turned on." Why are some people under the impression that we're clueless to anything that exists outside of screens?
Watermark_irl
Getty tried to cash $120 from an artist for the use of one of their stockphoto's. In return the artist slammed a $1billion lawsuit in a in copyright complaint. The artist Carol Highsmith donated her images to the Library of Congress for free public use. Getty was charging her fees for the use of her own work. It seems that Getty copyrights a lot of pictures that are released in the public domain and charges people for the use of them. Lesson to be learned: Check your pictures before paying copyright fees to Getty.
Mildly Vandalised UK
We have to make sure those Disabled Bager Kings have a place to park too.
Moustache
They Have A Purpose Now!
I bought my wife a couple rolls of those stickers last year. She was exceptionally happy.
Urinal
These Two Stop Signs In My Neighborhood
If Only
Twerking construction workers would make waiting for flaggers significantly more bearable.
What Is This, A Car Park For Ants?
I Found A Samsung Smart Fridge And...
Please Donate
A Sign I Saw On My Walk Today
The Holy Trinity
Poor Dan
I Was Cruising Down The Ice Cream Isle At Walmart And Started Laughing And Snorting To Myself
Break And Push
Seen While Shopping The Other Day. I Thought It Would Be Appropriate
Absolutely Love This One. Columbus, Ohio
In the New Orleans French Quarter we have a properly vandalized One Way sign that now says Gone Gay and points to a gay bar.