#140: The art of pandering - by Haley Nahman - Maybe Baby
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On "Everything Everywhere All at Once" and its critics
There is a particular brand of street art in Brooklyn that annoys me. The tags are short, cliché phrases, and they’re all around my neighborhood—things like “YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL” or “YOU’RE STRONGER THAN YOU THINK YOU ARE,” stenciled in an extremely clockable font, popular with millennial brands. Something about these tags feels hollow to me, and patronizing, as if someone were cheering me on for simply walking to the grocery store. I’ve wondered at various times if my distaste for them is valid or curmudgeonly. If someone else finds them, who am I to say they’re cheap? It wasn’t until I saw a…
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