*inhales deeply* Hoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooookay. So.
You’ve all definitely heard of, or least been made aware of, the ‘RIP Taylor Smith Swift‘ mural that popped up in Melbourne’s Hosier Lane in time to catch the wake from the almighty Taylor Swift/Kim Kardashian/Kanye West dragfest that’s threatening to tear the internet asunder.
You’re also all aware that thanks to some world record-pace cease & desist work, the mural underwent a series of rapid-fire changes. Firstly, to the horrendously funny Spongebob Caveman/Harambe meme crossover, and then to the “look, that’s actually pretty damned racist” final form of Kanye West and a little Harambe wordplay. Pretty good example of taking a joke one step too far, really. Always leave the stage on the biggest laugh.
It’s all the work of street artist lushsux, who posts photos of work completed onto a very popular and active Instagram account.
Or, at least, they did until today. Because that Instagram account got thoroughly nuked at some point overnight.
The OG @lushsux account was suspended and deactivated, apparently by Instagram themselves, as lushsux has since used other social channels to ask how to get an account reactivated.
In the meantime, @lushsux2 has risen, phoenix-like, from the ashes, and has begun asking the ~hard~ questions as to who or what caused the first page to be thrown into the bin (*whip crack*).
lushsux also wondered aloud if it could possibly have had anything to do with this Hillary Clinton piece that was put up in Melbourne recently.
With the DNC currently on-going, why not suggest that this is all a big Hillary-lead conspiracy? That makes about as much sense as anything.
‘Course it could also have been that enormous and thunderously litigious pop-star that had her registered trademarks appropriated a bunch of times, as well as that light-casual racism that might have had something to do with it.
But yeah nah. It was probs Hillary, hey.
Source: Instagram.
