Unless it’s a service animal, I don’t like when dogs are in public buildings. Tired of trying to buy food at the grocery store but having to dodge dogs and avoid stepping over their leashes. This anger is mostly directed at their owners as I’m skittish around dogs I don’t know.
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Seriously, tags are a sign an area is alive. The sterility of some (especially suburban) places gives off a really eerie vibe. Paid street art doesn't help either.
Paid street art can be cool, like if its a mural that represents the neighborhood or town or some kind of local accomplishment. What really stinks tho is how even one of the small shitty suburbs just a couple towns over has one of those butterfly wing instagram bait paintings on their main street and it just feels out of place because the main street isnt particularly walkable! Its like on the side of a bridge ffs. Just stupid
Peak graffiti is when there's a consensus about where it goes and it's not just tags. When I lived in Okinawa I was by the sea wall, and while that island (and Japan more generally) is pretty much graffiti-free the sea wall itself is a massive exception. People tagged their names and stuff of course, but there was a lot of pop art, and the best thing was that the wall changed over time as old stuff was painted over and new things were added. It wasn't strictly legal but it was understood that nobody would bother you if you walked up to a section of the wall with spray cans and templates.
That's what I think of when I think of graffiti, just throwing some words on a wall is lame any way you slice it.