A town in Fuck Off Nowhere, America has made a super interesting choice with their public art, erecting a statue immortalising the incredibly important art of the selfie – provoking responses that vary from “oh ok sure” to “THE END IS NIGH”.
Sugar Land, TX (just southwest of Houston) has had ten statues donated to them by a resident, one of which shows a dude doing the much more obnoxious, heinous act of playing an acoustic guitar public.
The statues are meant to depict the sort of shit people usually do in Sugar Land’s public areas, which I guess makes taking selfies a pretty reasonable if pretty weird choice.
People however, do not like it:
There’s a statue of 2 girls taking a selfie in SL Town Center…..hahahahahahahaha wtf has this world come to. #Ridiculous
— Mohammad Elsaadi (@_brohammad) May 27, 2016
The new statue in sugar land town center of 2 girls taking a selfie makes me really sad. If you’re going to put one, make it meaningful.
— Rachel Lee (@RachelLee1_) May 27, 2016
Others were super ready to embrace it:
THERE’S A SELFIE STATUE IN MY TOWN. pic.twitter.com/hEV0MLM04L
— ¯( ?? ??)/¯ (@Gemrick) May 28, 2016
Is it the end of society as we know it as narcissism and vanity are enshrined in gold (well, copper probably)? No. Is it a very odd looking statue? You betcha.
Source: Nine News.
Photo: Twitter / @Gemrick.
