A mural by Banksy has been defaced just 48 hours after it appeared.
But an offensive phrase has now been daubed over the street artist's design in bright pink lettering.
Perfect. Love the pink graffiti much more tbh
Banksy already defaced the wall.. this is just more of the same
If the pink graffiti turns out to be Banksy’s then you will all call him a genius. As of now it speaks far louder than the millionaire’s trite expression. Fight the machine as it were, I’m afraid Banksy is the machine
So graffiti has been defaced by graffiti big deal , there are more pressing issues to worry about like why the fcuk am i being charged £15 for fish n chips for two of us bloody outrageous
If the purpose of art is to provoke discussion rather than just look pretty, then person who 'defaced' the mural may have actually had a bigger impact than Banksy did with the original piece. Banksy's work is now fashionable, rather than controversial. 1/2
His is art the other is graffiti? Depends on your prospective I suppose...
Why? Why? Why?
You put your work in public you take that risk. I doubt he’s bothered, probably even likes it
There was plenty of wall space why deface someone else’s work?
Pink panther strikes again
Still, it turned something thought provoking into something humorous.
Lots of Graffiti is seen by people as art that is in THEIR community, then some Billy Big Bollocks comes along and purposefully defaces it to try to look big in front of their mates. We have loads of Brilliant street art in Leicester which is then ruined by ‘taggers’.
God, Banksy is so lame.
You wouldn’t get that in Port Talbot 😉
Surely he just puts his work anywhere so that’s vandalism and then someone comes and vandilises the vandal
Bankys is a vandal his work should be washed away
Some people find it hard to think conceptually and hate those that do.
I hate the human race.
Maybe it was the owner of the wall that did it?
They’re both vandals. Art or not it wasn’t his wall to draw on. Wouldn’t be happy if it was my house - now they’re gonna be inundated with people staring at it
Can you vandalise vandalism?
😢😡😢😡😢
Can't see the words. Poor journal of actions here.
So, graffiti gets graffitie'd.....
Almost every time this virtue signalling tosser draws on somebody's house this is what happens, or it gets ripped of by crowbars
Nooo
Well that's OK! Is Banksy a no go zone of establishment now? Hypernormalization at work here! Power to the graffiti artist in this case 👍😎👍
ohhh, you morons its grafitti on grafitti, which is worth more and why.
So vandalism if shows talent may be art, but not if on side of my house. Scribbles and tagging are just vandalism. Nice painting on tube are still vandalism. Street art is temporary, perhaps in parks or somewhere there should be dedicated space for people to start up
People suck
good
What's the difference between Banky's piece of graffiti artwork and the other graffiti referred to as vandalism?
Classy really classy 🥴
Vandalism has been vandalised
It annoys me the number of people saying this is double standards. You are condonimg some little pri*k ripping perspex off your wall and spray painting it.... Stop it! This is sh*t behaviour, don't encourage it!
Isn’t his work graffiti to begin with? It’s just in fashion so people don’t have a problem with it, sillyness!
So someone has put graffiti on graffiti.. who gives a fuck... anyone else putting graffiti on buildings gets hounded.. shouldn't be any different for banksy
Who cares
Can you vandalise vandalism 🤔
The person guilty of this vandalism should face the full force of the law. As should the moron who scrawled wnker in pink letters all over it.
This is the guy who shredded his own work at the point of sale....I don't think he'll be too bothered.
Isn’t it ironic. Graffiti graffitied.
I hope one day they catch the bansky group and put them all in prison for vanalism. At least ten years would put people off copying this idiot.
No great loss. Programme is shit.
Why just whY?
Kids suck.
Why tag another’s work, it’s just crude
Vandal gets vandalised... Just not fair !
Blind Carbon Copy? Nah. Bristol (or anywhere else that begins with B) Cricket Club? Nah. The letters seem to be carefully sprayed and positioned yet the heart is a horrific asymmetrical rush job with thinner lines. And nobody was watching. Not having it.
tbh Banksy needs to move along bye now anyway...
I smell jealousy 😂
So what was this all about or it didn't happen in the end. Thought it had been protected.
What is the matter with people? They can't bear to see anything lovely 😠
Another example of the new ignorant Britain.
Can you vandalize graffiti? I feel like the former is vandalised in its self...
We are raising morons no, respect for anything.
Good. I hope they destroy it.
Must be the will of the people.
So a hooligan has defaced another hooligans' scribble. Big news.
Atleast no one will be earning off someone else's work.
Tell me, how can graffiti deface graffiti......
There's a lot of scumbags out there.
Art wrecked by morons.
So people in Bristol are getting upset about vandalism being vandalised Obviously, one type of graffiti is deemed ok and another type is not Surely both are forms of FreedomOfSpeech? I’m guessing the fact one is worth £ doesn’t come into it? Banksy
That’s because he defaced a mural in Manchester.....
Who can tell the difference?
Some people just have no class
BENEFITS_NEWS Anyone with a gable end ,and lives in Bristol ,should buy some paint and wait.
Vandalism got vandalised. Oh no.
Who’s to say what is art and what isn’t? I personally found more enjoyment from the pink graffiti.
graffiti defaced with graffiti? is there no honour among vandals?
You can't vadalise graffiti.
I did think earlier that if one appeared on my wall I would want to cover it in perspex to protect it
So graffiti was added to
Graffitied over the graffiti
Ffs this is why the banksy at the barbican installed glass panels 😡
That's part of the culture.
Why
What hype, what crass twaddle. What a shame?
Has Banksy defaced it?
nice
Very sad world 😥 Some people have no idea about any form of art 🤯😡
Is this not art too.
The bastards .
Aw...pulease!
🤔 is see two opinions on the wall
ChelseaBridgeWh Surely theres a code of conduct between artists defacing other artists work ?
Art meets Art.
You want to go to Lisbon, where Graffiti, is accepted as an expression of art.... It works there,,,
Brexit Britain
Graffiti on graffiti, oh dear, never mind
One vandal’s vandalism has been vandalised by another vandal.
How sad. This world is really going down the toilet
It’s all art.
If he can graffiti so can they …
Biggest news out ...oh my goodness, is this the best that the BBC can do? This am, it was Storm Dennis, football and not much else. Nothing on the cabinet reshuffle, nothing on job losses, nothing on Brexit. Mouths already firmly sewn up.
You mean 48 hours after Banksy defaced a wall that doesn’t belong to him...get your facts straight BBC😑
Quelled supriś
Yes graffiti attracts more graffiti. Banksy will understand that.
A brave and stunning social commentary to a brave and stunning social commentary? Life doesn’t get much more ironic than this.
Should all be painted over graffiti is not art it's defacing buildings if he is so good why hide his identity I ask
val_tigress I wonder what the graffiti said .
Visigoths!
How lovely of them to do that...they will go far in their lives.
Somehow I think...he'd...approve?
Man defaces house belonging to someone else, people don’t care. Someone else defaces house and that mans graffiti people up in arms.... 🤷♂️
Might be worth double now getting two artist's instead of one
It is almost as if he defaced a wall.
There really are some sad shits out there.
Surely Banksy is technically graffiti, so it can't be defaced.
Lmao at these commenters that say it's ok because it's graffiti too.. it's just vandalism pure and simple.. no thought or intelligence behind it..just some neanderthal trying to be big an clever
Both are defacing this said wall surely .....
Vandalism or art - who knows ( who fecking cares )
rclarke91 people are twats
Good, he's a vandal.
When a wall is vandalised it opens up the floodgates. Banksy
Society 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
why you not showing us the full picture? I want to see it
Knew it would happen, no respect for anything
Lol some will see it as art .. just ok how the heart is not symectric look at the wonderful curve etc etc . 😂😂😂😂
Stupid people all around
You know it's graffiti, don't you. Whether Banksy, did it or someone else....... and how do you know he didn't deface his own graffiti. 🙄
''SPIT'' 😉
Who cares it looks like shit
Appropriate really..
That’s why we can’t have nice things
Such is the nature of graffiti, eh? The people commenting on this like someone has drawn a moustache on the Mona Lisa clearly don't get the irony.
Good! Overrated graffiti artist
Pranksy defaced Banksy, then Banksy comes to d..deface...... That would be fantasy
So some one put graffiti on top of other graffiti.
Wanksy’s piece of illegal wall stencilling gets graffitied? 🤷♂️ Not really news, is it?
It is why abroad, they call us the scum of Europe ...
He started it
So many grumpy people and insults under BBC tweets this is ridiculous
Wow. How sad.
Ironic, poetic and 100% predictable. The polar extremes of street art.
Good. Graffiti is shit, all forms
Was vandalism when he put it there So what’s the difference
bANkSy'S bE sTrOnG Be bEaUtIFuL Be YoU.
Bingo
An act of criminal damage has been sprayed. That's all.
We are fortunate to have a talented artist in this country who goes out of their way to bring much needed light, laughter & smiles on people's faces & his natural gift is treated with absolute disrespect. What is this country coming to? Where have all our values gone? Appalling!
Or was it improved?
Maybe the 'vandalism' was also by Banksy as a reaction against the monetisation of art as a social standing rather than the aesthetic appreciation. Perhaps there is no art. Just marketing. Discuss. Bollocks
Maybe that rise its value...the world is insane...and as far i know... Banksy himself could do that.
Pearls before swine.
Just having a guess here but was the offending word “wankers?”
Someone must know who did this, and I hope they got a heavy fine.
So some one stencils on a wall and you call it art? It’s just fu*king stencilled. It’s like the emperor’s new clothes fable. Just like the fashion industry, the “art industry” preys on the gullible.
Banksy is just a vandal. If this appeared on the side of MY house I'd be getting the police to trace his Instagram account and charge him for the damage.
what absolute idiots.....shame on them
Sooo what
I’m sure he wouldn’t mind if you asked him, graffiti is graffiti and painting over graffiti with graffiti is part of the culture — I’m pretty sure he hates it when people cover it in plastic or rip it off and sell it
lol
in pink the same colours as the one in manchester by the guy who says he knows banksy
Banksy is welcome anytime to pop to mine & do his artwork on my wall
No doubt the owner of the wall would've sold it off anyway. Check his neighbours for signs of pink paint on hands
Why is his graffiti considered art yet the guy who spray painted over it “defacing”. What makes one more important or not illegal over the other?
What’s wrong with people
The whole point about Banksy is that should not care anyway, unless of course he has gone mainstream and considers himself to no longer be 'graffiti' style.
I ❤️Banksy, but his work is out there for others to do with it what they will. I wish Banksy would come back to New Orleans. Banksy has also inspired my son - I even pitch in for the cost of his paint when I can.
Vandalized vandalism
Graffiti vandalism vandalised! What a hoot! 😎
It’s all graffiti
Innit! ...
Wow! The gammons are out in force on this one!
trojan1963 IronyBomb 💥
So you are saying, someone has defaced a defacing.. 🤔
but isnt banksys 'artwork' a defacing of other peoples property anyway?
How can you vandalise vandalism?
Headline news 'Act of defacement, of vandals defacement of building!'. Why is this even news, Banksy is a criminal simple. Glorifying his act of vandalism with artistic praise, demonstrates why most elites have no real conative connection to most people.
Did Banksy ask the owners permission before painting on the side of the house? I doubt he did. Criminal damage v art. Had this not been done by Banksy the home owner no doubt would have contacted police wanting something done about it. It’s a Banksy so its ok.
So when he defaces a wall, it's art but when someone else does it, it's vandalism? Double standards much?
Oh, the irony....
Just what did you expect to happen?
Me thinks the vandalism that is graffiti should be made a ‘serious’ crime, punishable by a very long bout of community service..... cleaning up the country ! Convicted for two offences 5 years?
Well what do you expect You teach disrespect in your attitudes to anything British. So, presumably in your WOKE world, the work of a presumed white etc etc person has no value ? So impressionable people follow the BBC and vandalize it.
Wee pricks, bring back the birch.
Was always going to happen, idiots can’t leave anything alone
Gets me no one sees him...no matter what time you do it always someone around..world of mobile fones🤔...bansky
Not surprised! If people will kill others and plant bombs, this is to be expected!
Defaced? - Its graffiti!
Defaced wall further defaced
Wow. Whoever did that must be the coolest guy ever.
Nobody cares. Banksy probably doesn’t even care.
Some might say the defacement is the artwork...
What I want to know is this .... how did the house owner 'wake up' one day to find this graffiti appeared on the side of his house overnight? Did no one see Banksy painting it in the hours darkness? All sounds a bit suspect to me.
Not defaced - just new art
Cabbages. And dead budgies.
What's the difference between what 'Banksy' does FBC's what they did? Its both vandalism.
wouldn't be surprised if the man himself had done it
👀
Well done. Enough with this Banksy nonsense
You say defaced, I say added to.
Is this a reflection on Bristol or of youth in general.
There are some massive wankers out there
Vandal
Why? Stupidity.
Good
Have you blamed Brexiteers yet? Or the far right?
Why is his vandalism art and theirs defacing? Both look rubbish to me.
Probably increased its value. I'd say £15 worth of improvement.
Graffiti been graffitied 🤷🏻♂️
Someone put graffiti on the graffiti? 🤣 DefundTheBBC
Trash deservedly treated as trash
As he doesn't get permission either, then his so called art is also vandalism.
Looks like art to me
Good! He just a vandal, albeit a talented one. Puzzles me that we suddenly decided its ok for him to just do what he wants, yet people are fined for dropping ciggarettes....🙄
Graffiti begats graffiti
Should have guarded it 24/7
Why is one piece of graffiti artwork whilst the other is vandalism ?
Sorry to read this!
The UK doesn’t deserve artists like banksy. I honestly despair for the future of this country
Good. That wall is covered with mound and needs a fresh coat topto bottom
One mans art is another mans scrawl.
hitler despised piccaso
Legitimate question - does he receive permission before moving ahead with his “art”?
Graffiti art being 'vandalised' by more graffiti? 😱 What has the world come to?!
Banksy probably did it.
Aren't they both grafitti on a wall, depends on the viewer.
More cutting edge news. This is why I follow BBC news, its always the first with the news that matters.
Irony...can anyone truly complain?
Some would say he defaced a wall. Its street art. If he wanted it to stay there for ever he would paint on canvas.
Welcome to Boris' golden age of Brexit Britain.
Banksy defaces house
Philistines.!!! 🤔😮😬
The BBC: 'Oh the horror'
Peals before swine
Who cares. Graffiti on graffiti. It’s evolutionary street art.
An act of Vandalism was vandalized? Interesting.
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