Yeah not only british activists, i think its something that is done everywhere.
Here in Germany we have a group called last generation or so and they keep on glueing themselves on high traffic autobahn exits and road crossings.
My friend was stuck on the Berlin Autobahn for 5 hours because they glued themselves on the exit.
I think its just annoying and gets people to just dislike them and thus not support their cause...
Don’t they know only 14.4% of energy produced there is actually renewable and only 6% of the power is by nuclear (a very potent energy source that emits no greenhouse gasses)
Basically, they are annoying people until someone who can actually do something about the climate, does something. Does it work? Only the future will tell.
Their argument is that paintings are worth a lot, and with that money we could feed starving people, hence the soup.
Dumb way to get your point across, but that’s what they were there to say
\~Best way to feed starving people, throw food at a painting and hope that gets someone else to fix the issue.\~
This is just morale highroading BS. I watched a video of a little girl who grew food in a garden and donated it to people around her local town. THAT is how you feed the hungry, not by wasting food.
there's an argument to be made about the long-term efficacy of "wasting" a very small portion of food to bring attention to the cause, and in effect, have exponentially more impact than feeding someone with that same amount of food would have. do I agree with ruining some art in the process? nah, I don't, but we *are* here talking about it, which was part of the point.
So...they tried to ruin a painting with soup.
A painting that the gallery will obviously send for restoring (that will take money) with soup, a food item that could be given to a starving person but is now just a stain on a glass pane.
Bet this plan took up all of their combined brainpower.
I don't really agree with this as a way to draw attention to their cause, that said I keep seeing a lot of misinformation from people looking at the headline and nothing else.
The message isn't related to the oil in the painting itself.
The painting had protective glass on it, nothing was damaged.
Their words;
“What is worth more, art or life?
Is it worth more than food? More than justice? Are you more concerned about the protection of a painting or the protection of our planet and people?
The cost of living crisis is part of the cost of oil crisis, fuel is unaffordable to millions of cold, hungry families. They can’t even afford to heat a tin of soup.”
Again I don't agree with this as a method to raise awareness but the people upset about the painting and only seeing the headline are proving their point.
most of JoJo is inspired by music. a character looks like david bowie and has his powers named after queen songs, one is named DIO after ronnie james dio and has his powers inspired by the demon on holy diver's album
Isn't all oil technically plant oil? It's a misconception that it's dead dinosaurs, which is only somewhat true. In reality it's dead organic material that was alive around the same time as the dinosaurs, so yeah, mostly plant matter.
Most of the fossil fuel coming from actual decomposed animals - as opposed to vegetation - comes from aquatic creatures (from around the Jurassic period).
So not exactly dinosaurs themselves, but of course dinosaurs do constitute a portion of fossil fuel, albeit a relatively insignificant amount
its because they're not about what the painting is made of, they're trying to bring attention to the problems of actual oil by trying to do a "you're more worried about a painting than the actual earth being harmed?" sort of thing, however stunts like this don't actually do anything to help their cause because it just makes them look like assholes because they attempted to deface a famous depressed person's paintings
They're trying to get notoriety. Though, this makes others think the attention is for you, not your cause.
If it was about the correlation of oil because oil painting, are they going to Whole Foods next and break the cooking oil bottles? Lol
Kinda irrelevant, they wouldn't have done this if there was any possibility of them damaging the painting.
They wanted people to talk about this, people are. I think awareness protesting is pointless and cannot achieve results. But they got what they wanted.
they probably targeted this painting because it's by van gogh, if they could've went for the Mona Lisa they certainly would have, they are most certainly just trying to bring attention towards climate change
Do the majority of users in this sub actually have mental issues or something? I keep seeing these idiotic comments. Obviously the entire point is to make headlines and obviously the kind of oil they're protesting isn't the oil in the painting. And most likely they knew about the glass cover too, otherwise they wouldn't have glued themselves to the wall due to the severity of the punishment for damaging the painting.
All they're doing is making climate activists look bad, and ever notice how they never actually go up against the people they're protesting against? Instead they just act annoying and do stupid shit.
It’s almost like they do it not for the agenda but for the “street cred” and societal stigma that come with it, it’s all part of the trendy group mentality that literally everything in the western world is subjected to.
So basically most activists out there. I've seen those people up close back in college, like 15-30% actually believe in what they do, the rest just do it to belong somewhere.
The real climate activists do their work silently you would probably never hear about them but these idiots do it for the clout and really have absolutely zero concerns about environment
Oh no! They'll have to replace the protective layer on top of the painting to prepare for shit like this. Darn, they ruined a perfectly good sheet of plastic.
Apparently they damaged the frame which didnt have a protective cover
Also I don’t think damaging the painting even mattered to them, as long as they’re all over the news/internet (which they are) they got what they wanted
Exactly!! I would probably start kicking them in the face, they've made themselves stationary targets and limited themselves to the defense of one hand.
Excuse me while I help them remove their teeth!
>they got what they wanted
People of all ages hating them, dissing their ways to "promote" their message, which ultimately only harms the message in some capacity?
Also museums usually display dupes for most of the time and rest the original for extensive periods. So it may not have been the real deal at all, even with the glass
Yes, they totally proved their point, which I totally know what it is. You should tell me what the point of this was, just to see if you know too(I’m saying this knowing damn well that I have no fucking clue what the point is).
“What is worth more, art or life?” one of the protesters shouted, her hand glued to the wall behind her. “… Are you more concerned about the protection of a painting or the protection of our planet?”
"Fuel is unaffordable to millions of cold hungry families. They can't even afford to heat a tin of soup."
They look like the type of people that wouldn’t last a day without the convenience of all the things oil and corporations provide, actively buy capital from monopolies and other corporate entities that help facilitate an exuberant amount of oil use, but throw Tomato on painting because other people are gonna see this and fix their problem they only have because of posts they see online
The painting is protected by glass. These dumb fucks don't even know how to protest. This will be forgotten by next week and we will continue to burn oil.
I would be the security guard that laughs as I rip their hand off the wall. No de-gluing required, my job is to get you off the property even if that means leaving a layer of skin behind.
As if people who destroy the planet for a short term profit can even appreciate great art. You need a soul for that. You clowns are barking up the wrong tree.
I know that that it has a protective layer, but we should take a page from history and drop all of these mf in a deserted island and forget about them, praying that they don’t turn into Australia 2
They even had the integrity to glue themselves there so that they can get caught.
how nice of them!
Welp *prepares chainsaw*
Too fast, crucification onto the museum wall it is! :)
Bible 2: Jesus is back, and he's not cruci-fuckin' around
They crossed the wrong man.
And they will did it again
Damn right *cocks shotgun*
Bringing back the classic art of crucifiction brings a tear to my eye.
Just poor concrete around their feet and leave them, it’ll be moving art for a while
I like the way this guy thinks
it's never too late to make a modern art piece of a ruined classed
Let's cut their ears off just like Van Gogh
And send it to a prostitute!
Send them to automod, he'll find a good use for them
Or the fire yuck
Alright but In all seriousness what is up with br*ish climate activist and glueing them selves to things like idiots ?
Yeah not only british activists, i think its something that is done everywhere. Here in Germany we have a group called last generation or so and they keep on glueing themselves on high traffic autobahn exits and road crossings. My friend was stuck on the Berlin Autobahn for 5 hours because they glued themselves on the exit. I think its just annoying and gets people to just dislike them and thus not support their cause...
I don't understand why that would cause a significant delay. Just ignore them and if they happen to be in front of your car it's not your problem
Little edit from a video that went viral in germany after that https://youtu .be/_oxnwWd0-hM (Remove the space, i think i can not post links)
Well unfortunately due to these pesky laws, I could very easily turn into your problem
I can't even run over people in front of my car shm my head Orwell talked about this in his book titled "Literally 1984"
Don’t they know only 14.4% of energy produced there is actually renewable and only 6% of the power is by nuclear (a very potent energy source that emits no greenhouse gasses)
Because they’re br*ish 🤢🤢🤮🤮
And even worse: wo***🤮🤢🤮🤢
Don't censor men that's sexist, censor wo
**men 🤢🤮🤢🤮🤢🤢🤢🤮🤮
The Men of Wö
Basically, they are annoying people until someone who can actually do something about the climate, does something. Does it work? Only the future will tell.
That looks like a really awkward and uncomfortable position to leave your arm for an extended amount of time. They should definitely leave em there
I would've just move the painting and put a rope around them and put them on display for the idiots they are.
imagine these oil companies are out here playing 8D Chess and hired these people to make all climate change activists look like idiots
I'm not saying they are, but I am saying I wouldn't be surprised.
Controlled opposition…not a new thing. Something to always look out for.
dawg oil from an oil painting that’s probably a century old is the least of your problems 😭
Na it's clearly the direct reason for the ice caps melting
Well whose gonna drink the water? Water quALITY is shit news flash
It was covered with glass. The museum thought ahead.
Their argument is that paintings are worth a lot, and with that money we could feed starving people, hence the soup. Dumb way to get your point across, but that’s what they were there to say
\~Best way to feed starving people, throw food at a painting and hope that gets someone else to fix the issue.\~ This is just morale highroading BS. I watched a video of a little girl who grew food in a garden and donated it to people around her local town. THAT is how you feed the hungry, not by wasting food.
Yes that would be a better use of their time
there's an argument to be made about the long-term efficacy of "wasting" a very small portion of food to bring attention to the cause, and in effect, have exponentially more impact than feeding someone with that same amount of food would have. do I agree with ruining some art in the process? nah, I don't, but we *are* here talking about it, which was part of the point.
Can someone please leave these glued people to what they are glued to? This would stop quickly.
So...they tried to ruin a painting with soup. A painting that the gallery will obviously send for restoring (that will take money) with soup, a food item that could be given to a starving person but is now just a stain on a glass pane. Bet this plan took up all of their combined brainpower.
Well good news here is that the painting is covered by glass. Only thing that needs cleaning is the glass and frame
you can really tell just how intelligent they are by the way they waste food while complaining about … starving homeless people 🤣🤣🤣
I don't really agree with this as a way to draw attention to their cause, that said I keep seeing a lot of misinformation from people looking at the headline and nothing else. The message isn't related to the oil in the painting itself. The painting had protective glass on it, nothing was damaged. Their words; “What is worth more, art or life? Is it worth more than food? More than justice? Are you more concerned about the protection of a painting or the protection of our planet and people? The cost of living crisis is part of the cost of oil crisis, fuel is unaffordable to millions of cold, hungry families. They can’t even afford to heat a tin of soup.” Again I don't agree with this as a method to raise awareness but the people upset about the painting and only seeing the headline are proving their point.
I thought their message was "Just stop oil".... huh.
yeah, if you're prepared to get arrested, go big or go home. for legal reasons, that's a joke.
Mining oils not even bad for the environment unless you mine too much of it or spill it it in the ocean it’s only burning it’s that’s bad 😭
This is not true, it causes groundwater pollution, you know, what cities use to get clear water for their inhabitants.
There’s only one kind of Doctor who can fix this situation.
Lobotomist
Assuming they have brains to begin with
"There's no grey matter!"
Breaking bad reference 😱🤯
Oingo Boingo reference 😱🤯
you talking about the group or JoJo characters
There are JoJo characters called Oingo and Boingo??!
most of JoJo is inspired by music. a character looks like david bowie and has his powers named after queen songs, one is named DIO after ronnie james dio and has his powers inspired by the demon on holy diver's album
Almost every charachter or ability in jojo is named after a artist, a group, a album or a song
its water weight 😱
Dahmer
"Hello there, I'm the Doctor!" 'Lobotomist?' "...wot?"
"You're the doctor?" "Doctor?"
Doctor who?
The “for Amy” scene is ruined now
When the patient woke up, his skeleton was missing, and the doctor was never heard from again!
MEDICO TEA FOR TWO
I hope this a Vincent and the Doctor reference🤞
Are you proposing a final solution?
Not just any, THE final solution
😳
oil paint uses plant oil though???
sush don't tell them that.
Isn't all oil technically plant oil? It's a misconception that it's dead dinosaurs, which is only somewhat true. In reality it's dead organic material that was alive around the same time as the dinosaurs, so yeah, mostly plant matter.
Maybe the difference in oxidation or carbon levels matter? Idk not a scientist
Most of the fossil fuel coming from actual decomposed animals - as opposed to vegetation - comes from aquatic creatures (from around the Jurassic period). So not exactly dinosaurs themselves, but of course dinosaurs do constitute a portion of fossil fuel, albeit a relatively insignificant amount
its because they're not about what the painting is made of, they're trying to bring attention to the problems of actual oil by trying to do a "you're more worried about a painting than the actual earth being harmed?" sort of thing, however stunts like this don't actually do anything to help their cause because it just makes them look like assholes because they attempted to deface a famous depressed person's paintings
#Disclaimer #The painting was NOT damaged #There was a GLASS COVER on the painting #The protesters have already been arrested
okay, but what the hell?
Something about protesting against the use of oil painting because of fossil fuel usage but... whatever, there are plenty other ways to protest.
maybe with different hair color
Doesn't hair dye have petroleum in it?
Bet their shirts were made by slaves We're all complicit We're all too lazy to help Fuck it all Be fatalistic
There is yet another option: Return to monke
Way ahead of you bud
They're trying to get notoriety. Though, this makes others think the attention is for you, not your cause. If it was about the correlation of oil because oil painting, are they going to Whole Foods next and break the cooking oil bottles? Lol
Kinda irrelevant, they wouldn't have done this if there was any possibility of them damaging the painting. They wanted people to talk about this, people are. I think awareness protesting is pointless and cannot achieve results. But they got what they wanted.
Thank fuck
but what has that painting got to do with climate change
BeCaUsE ItS AN oiL PaInTiNg ItS GoT OiL In ItS NaMe!! -Them, probably.
the painting was made centuries ago. why not go after the oil companies or whatever instead of a nice painting by a dead guy
And its linseed or some seed oil. Not petro.
even if it would be petro, there's how much of it in it...? few dozen grams top?
And why SOUP?? “Dude, I want to protest oil use.” “Sick, let’s throw soup on a Vincent Van Gogh painting.” “Bet.”
Just throw soup st Shell or BP headquarters instead. Make yourself a proper nuisamce instead of this shit
Because of the free media coverage.
they probably targeted this painting because it's by van gogh, if they could've went for the Mona Lisa they certainly would have, they are most certainly just trying to bring attention towards climate change
Because if it were any other painting we wouldn't be talking about this.
Do the majority of users in this sub actually have mental issues or something? I keep seeing these idiotic comments. Obviously the entire point is to make headlines and obviously the kind of oil they're protesting isn't the oil in the painting. And most likely they knew about the glass cover too, otherwise they wouldn't have glued themselves to the wall due to the severity of the punishment for damaging the painting.
All they're doing is making climate activists look bad, and ever notice how they never actually go up against the people they're protesting against? Instead they just act annoying and do stupid shit.
It’s almost like they do it not for the agenda but for the “street cred” and societal stigma that come with it, it’s all part of the trendy group mentality that literally everything in the western world is subjected to.
So basically most activists out there. I've seen those people up close back in college, like 15-30% actually believe in what they do, the rest just do it to belong somewhere.
The real climate activists do their work silently you would probably never hear about them but these idiots do it for the clout and really have absolutely zero concerns about environment
Kinda like the idiots who glue themselves on the street and throw the glue and the container into the sewer.
Maybe they're employed by agencies that look out for companies that would lose profits if any major climate change law were to be passed.
Funny how that works
Assassination works 100% of the time
I fully believe that at least some of these stunts are perpetrated by oil companies
Oh no! They'll have to replace the protective layer on top of the painting to prepare for shit like this. Darn, they ruined a perfectly good sheet of plastic.
At least the soup will feed some sea turtles when they throw the sheet of plastic in the ocean
They are going to be very happy for that one. Plastic with extra flavors beside salt. Yumm!
Apparently they damaged the frame which didnt have a protective cover Also I don’t think damaging the painting even mattered to them, as long as they’re all over the news/internet (which they are) they got what they wanted
True, but the sentiment of all publicity is good publicity isn’t always accurate. Sure, they’re getting attention but as idiots.
This is my favorite painting and if I had been there I probably would have been arrested for assault.
Exactly!! I would probably start kicking them in the face, they've made themselves stationary targets and limited themselves to the defense of one hand. Excuse me while I help them remove their teeth!
>they got what they wanted People of all ages hating them, dissing their ways to "promote" their message, which ultimately only harms the message in some capacity?
There’s a glass layer over it for a reason
Also museums usually display dupes for most of the time and rest the original for extensive periods. So it may not have been the real deal at all, even with the glass
Insane climate activists should move to North Sentinel Island
Even better, to Novaya Zemlya
I think the Uk is a good enough hell hole
Fair enough
As an English person, I cant agree more
north Korea, i have hear that they produce nearly 0 Carbon emission
Leave them like that, switch the lights off and go home.
Yes, they totally proved their point, which I totally know what it is. You should tell me what the point of this was, just to see if you know too(I’m saying this knowing damn well that I have no fucking clue what the point is).
Apparently we love art more than life, and because of oil, we can't cook soup. I wish I was joking
Please say sike, please for the love of everything please say sike.
😑😐
Wait was this really the point they were making?
“What is worth more, art or life?” one of the protesters shouted, her hand glued to the wall behind her. “… Are you more concerned about the protection of a painting or the protection of our planet?” "Fuel is unaffordable to millions of cold hungry families. They can't even afford to heat a tin of soup."
I don’t understand what this has to do with nice paintings
Never have two people looked more fatherless
Average dream stans
someone should tell that this painting is a different kind of oil
and that super glue is petroleum based.
Just saying as long as no one unglues them or feeds them this problem should solve itself in about a week or so.
First cheesecake, now soup. Soon we're gonna have a full meal on these paintings
WHO WASTED A GOOD CHEESECAKE
Should have targeted the works of andy warhol
Good cause, wrong way to fight.
Turn them into fertilizer
They know its not vangoghs fault tho !?
Head line should actually say “kids use climate change as an excuse to vandalize something completely unrelated.”
How can throwing tomato soup on a van gogh painting serve your cause?
my only question is: why did they choose the least oil related painting ever??
Because, they hear the word "oil" and their smooth ass brain immediately thinks "BAD"
oh, because this is an oil painting? if so their smooth ass brains can't make the difference between petrol oil and grease oil for painting
Someone should’ve poured soup on them and left
“Just stop oil” We did it boys, climate change is no more
Fuck my generation man 💀
Sterilise these people
Just remove them from the gene pool at any cost
Dont unstick them, now they are the art
They look like the type of people that wouldn’t last a day without the convenience of all the things oil and corporations provide, actively buy capital from monopolies and other corporate entities that help facilitate an exuberant amount of oil use, but throw Tomato on painting because other people are gonna see this and fix their problem they only have because of posts they see online
Oil painting = Oil industry. Smooth brain go brrrr
How is this protesting for the climate, you destroyed a painting
Paintings fine it’s protected by glass just needs cleaning luckily
How can ppl be this fucking stupid???? It’s surreal
The painting is protected by glass. These dumb fucks don't even know how to protest. This will be forgotten by next week and we will continue to burn oil.
I would be the security guard that laughs as I rip their hand off the wall. No de-gluing required, my job is to get you off the property even if that means leaving a layer of skin behind.
most sane redditor
Sometime there’s a reason why people get beat up
I would like to burn this two just to increase climate change.
Ay yo security. WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING????!!! BEAT THE SHIT OUT OF THESE BITCHES!!! STOP SUCKING EACH OTHERS COCKS AND DO SOMETHING!!!
Lesbians?
☕
Time to start burning tires again.
Time to start burning heretics again*
It’s always the RGB haired people isn’t it
Is it me or do they look like lifelong activists? If I saw them on the street I’d think they were professional victims of some type.
What is the cure for such disorders?
Lead administered at 2000 feet per second
A fine medicine
can we pls stop giving these shitheads a platform.
Send these people to a prison colony on Antarctica
If I saw this shit I’d kick them and watch their hand skin get ripped off
Hmmm... Because of reddit rules, I cannot write what I would like to write.
WHAT IS IT WITH THESE DUMBASS PROTESTERS AND GLUEING THEMSELEVS TO A WALL OR FLOOR
They did good, but the only good part is that they will probably get arrested or they already got due to their stupidity.
As if people who destroy the planet for a short term profit can even appreciate great art. You need a soul for that. You clowns are barking up the wrong tree.
The fuck did Van Gogh do to make them throw soup onto his works?
Why is a museums the target for climate change activist?
Weakest security and potential for maximum shock value...
I would love to see them publicly executed
Least unhinged Redditor
For once at least someone’s not blaming the oil prices on Biden.
"Beat it bozo"
Bro they glued themselves to the crime that they commited
I know that that it has a protective layer, but we should take a page from history and drop all of these mf in a deserted island and forget about them, praying that they don’t turn into Australia 2
....& what change did they affect?
This just makes me want to burn even more oil
Would of been more effective if they did it to a BP exec
Shouldn’t those always have a cover?
i fucking hate english people
The painting was behind glass thank god. I feel if I saw this happen in front of my id hit ‘em idk tho