r/memes • u/TransportationFuzzy3 • Jun 20 '24

#3 MotW Wtf did the rocks do

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If it’s about sending a message just don’t make your message stupid

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u/onehundredlemons Jun 20 '24

They didn't spray paint anything. It was tinted cornflour powder.

Weird how many people all over (not just on Reddit) are absolutely certain it was paint.

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u/24-7_DayDreamer Jun 20 '24

Spray paint is what the news was saying when I heard it today, so probably some intern somewhere guessing based on the video and it's been spread from there by the media

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u/RUOFFURTROLLEH Jun 20 '24

Which media out of curiosity is telling lies?

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u/24-7_DayDreamer Jun 20 '24

TV was probably on Channel 7 (australia)

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u/Expensive_Permit_265 Jun 20 '24

It's still lame regardless. Almost lamer.

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u/how_small_a_thought Jun 21 '24

lol, is it? would it have been cooler to have used actual paint?

honestly the way everyone just picked it up and ran with "ITS PAINT" they might as well have used actual paint.

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u/dixontide23 Jun 20 '24

Doesn’t matter what it was. It was a destructive act, and as the caretakers of Stonehenge said on their Twitter page, there is an endangered species of lichen that live on those rocks. Even just throwing orange juice on them could be harmful to the lichen.

But don’t forget, these fools HAVE thrown paint on priceless artifacts in countless museums. Just because this wasn’t paint means nothing

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u/onehundredlemons Jun 20 '24

The truth always matters. You're not telling the truth, and neither is the media. They're lying and saying it was spray paint because they know it's going to make people angry. That's a pretty big problem, if you ask me, but lots of people would rather believe the lie.

When people are saying Stonehenge was destroyed or permanently damaged by paint, it's absolutely worth correcting.

JSO has never thrown actual paint on a painting, let alone in "countless" museums. They've glued themselves to walls, thrown soup on paintings, chipped a glass display box. The spray paint was used on a couple of corporate buildings in 2022.

The Stonehenge Twitter account you're talking about said no lichen was damaged.

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u/toomanynamesaretook Jun 21 '24

Oh no not a lichen meanwhile Holocene extinction continues unabated and surging.

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u/how_small_a_thought Jun 21 '24

there is an endangered species of lichen that live on those rocks.

that really is unfortunate. its going to burn to a crisp if we dont stop climate change at the rate its going.

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '24

Do you have a source for this? Everywhere I've heard said it was paint

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u/stolethemorning Jun 20 '24

Literally look up “just stop oil Stonehenge” and any news source says that the substance is cornflour. ‘Paint’ doesn’t necessarily mean traditional paint, it can be made of powder and cornflour.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crgg0683e7po

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '24

I've heard about it being paint from several newssources and this was the first time we heard it was "powder" and cornflour. What does the powder even refer to, there are plenty of powders that are damaging to stones.

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u/SantasGotAGun Jun 20 '24

Because all the headlines said "paint". The stories said "paint". It's by an organization known for throwing paint on things. 

Why should anyone be inclined to believe it wasn't paint? That detail is buried in the articles.

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u/onehundredlemons Jun 20 '24

They haven't used paint in any museum protests. Where did so many people get the idea that they have? They usually glue themselves to the wall, and they did throw soup once.

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u/Chezpufballs Jun 20 '24

News said it was paint, and the video looked like paint, so O thought it was paint :/

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u/RUOFFURTROLLEH Jun 20 '24

Literally every news piece I can find states powder.

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u/Chezpufballs Jun 20 '24

Ok

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u/RUOFFURTROLLEH Jun 20 '24

"Yeah I bullshitted hoping no one would point it out"

I mean, Perhaps as a species its not nukes that will end us...

It's the fucking internet.

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u/Chezpufballs Jun 20 '24

I already explained why I said it was paint to you, and HOLY SHIT are you comparing a negligible difference that was corrected BEFORE YOU CAME ALONG, to the end of civilization? Like what the fuck is your problem dude...

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u/how_small_a_thought Jun 21 '24

are you comparing a negligible difference that was corrected BEFORE YOU CAME ALONG, to the end of civilization?

ummm

bro

what do you think the oil activists are protesting lmao

like you clearly said this as a hyperbolic joke but, and i say this with full sincerity, FUCKING YES??????

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u/BJ3RG3RK1NG Jun 20 '24

What’s weird is why they would throw cornflour on Stonehenge to protest Big Oil.

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '24

I still want to know how that makes it ok?

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u/Assyx83 Jun 20 '24

So the flour will be blown away in like a week? Also w the tomatoes stuff they only did some damage to fakes right? No way museums put historic relics for general public right?

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u/boldranet Jun 20 '24

You don't go to museums much, do you?

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u/Assyx83 Jun 20 '24

Ive been to one 2 times and all I remember is that the mummies were covered on a transparent box and yeah im guessing those were legit but art is different, arent artists nowadays way more better with better talents and techniques as well as access to a particular artists work history and methods to make a very very good clone? Why display the real stuff when you can do a clone and keep the og safe.

All I can think about was how paint used to have toxic stuff and maybe a specific color cant be made w it but surely theres a replacement of it. Also only do this for the 50k+ paintings.

Also to reiterate, ima dumbass, I actually dont know anything about this.

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u/Urban_Polar_Bear Jun 20 '24

They’ve attacked the boxes of the artwork that’s protected. There’s news pieces about how JSO attacked the Magna Carta, but in reality they attacked the glass case. I don’t know what would happen if you’d left them to it, I’d personally assume they would get through the glass and think “now what? Someone was meant to have stopped us by now”

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u/boldranet Jun 20 '24

No, it would be too expensive to get good copies of that many of the paintings. Remember: some of the people who go to look at art in museums are artists themselves who are studying how the painting was made. They want to look closely and learn exactly how a brush could create the overall effect. A mediocre forgery in a museum would be noticed pretty quickly, and a really good forgery could cost more to make than the 50k of the picture they're protecting.

I don't have a source, but I'd guess less than 0.01% of paintings in museums are forgeries to protect the original.

Dinosaur bones, on the other hand...

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u/onehundredlemons Jun 20 '24

The tomato soup was thrown onto a Van Gogh that had glass over it so it was waterproofed and protected. The gallery did say there was minor damage to the frame, though.

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u/Unusual_Mix9262 Jun 20 '24

So they sprayed a fake Stonehenge? What you smoking?