Come On: Someone Just Spray-Painted ‘Gamers Rule’ On The Taj Mahal And, While We Generally Agree, It’s Pretty Messed Up To Deface A Cultural Landmark

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Gamers, ever since our founding, we have prided ourselves on advancing the position that video games are great. We are not neutral on this subject, nor have we allowed ourselves to ever falter in letting the world know that games and the people who play them are awesome. Yet, a recent incident in Agra, India has forced our hand. Earlier this morning, someone spray-painted “GAMERS RULE” across the entire front of the Taj Mahal, and while we generally agree with this sentiment, we have to stand up to say it’s a pretty messed up thing to deface a landmark with this much cultural value.\n

Gamers, ever since our founding, we have prided ourselves on advancing the position that video games are great. We are not neutral on this subject, nor have we allowed ourselves to ever falter in letting the world know that games and the people who play them are awesome. Yet, a recent incident in Agra, India has forced our hand.

Look, you know us. We fervently believe that gamers rule, and we understand why the graffiti’s author would get the irrepressible feeling that more people should know this. But this is a UNESCO heritage site with nearly 400 years of history we’re talking about. The message scrawled onto it could be anything and we would still condemn it. If someone had spray-painted “game are bad” over its famous Mughal architecture, we would immediately issue a statement decrying this sentiment.

Nonetheless, there had to have been a better way to express this feeling than scrawling it across Emperor Shah Jahan’s tomb to his wife Mumtaz Mahal. As a thought experiment, consider what it would be like if someone broke into your house overnight and keyed “Stephen King Is Great” into your Xbox, PS4, or Switch. Would you like that? Of course not. No one has the right to deface your most beloved object. And that’s exactly what the curators and devotees of the Taj Mahal are feeling now.

 

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It's completely fake , just a photoshopped

...check out THE DONALD WOZ 'ERE in blood-red across the front of the White House; nobuddy duz k'now how it got thar...

STOP DUDE

always make sure to go into the website so they get money

...Millennials looking for attention. Victims. How about the men and women that have lost their limbs that DONT claim to be victims. SPOILED.

Disrespectful.

Well that's a completely fake.. if you zoom in you can clearly see the paint is overlapping over the people ..well also the size of structure is so huge that it would take around a week to complete this thing..😪😪

Lol wonder how many people fell for this .

Photoshop antifa hodlum cling ons.

F for the people who missed the pun 🤣🤣🤣

Dont know why people are jealous of others beautiful things, and they are so happy to see get it spoilt. Jalkukde kahi ke....

Fake

Quit posting this fake crap

Lol! I'm from there It not real you dumbasses!

That was comissioned by Mongol rulers for a Persian queen and the genius indian artisans that built it with their hands and designs were blinded (and killed) by Shah Jahan the Mongol ruler.

lmao OGN

I did it and I'm sorry.

I’ve been there years ago, this construction is the greatest

The 'come on' at the beginning of the article title just makes this post 12 times better

IkenDorfGaming

Fake

Wtf!!

It's just a graveyard, nothing else.

ME I DID IT

Go check it out what do you have to lose? funny

Ok

dont tell anyone but the taj mahal was built by slaves. ssssshhh it might just get torn down

I saw this and didn't realise it was form the onion. For ten seconds my mind was blown.

Non sense

ZhugeEX Is this true ?

busted

FAKE

Wait did this really happen

we did it boys

vikasboliwal 😂🤣🤣

This isn't true.

Everyone who thinks this is real🤡🤡🤡

bruh

Fuck g**ers

This is fake news, gamers might rule but not that much.

So Elon Musk has liked a fake news. The level to which fake news are spreading as propaganda nowadays is mind boggling. Also the level of influence.

GAMERS RISE UP

🎥

it photoshopped.

King

rishankdubruwal

Photoshop

The proof! Giants exist!

Gamers rule!

Im Indian and if someone AcTuaLLy did this , the government would legit want heads for this

It's not a cultural landmark it's a symbol personal ambition and making 20000 people disabled by cutting there hands brutalism

PIB_India Hi, can you guys confirm if this news is true?

This should be a new spray paint on warzone

Here from India: it's not real but would be pretty cool if it was 😛😂

Sure some of don’t understand what the pic means 😂😂😂, no one in India would dear try it. But in America they claim freedom to destroy

So much spray paint!

They Will Never Succeed in theirs bulshit aims 🖐️ rss_ghunda_modi

Good one, but fake😄

How come India doesn’t know?

Do the Great Wall next!

Like who the hell put Taj Mahal on Gamers Rule monument?

I'd like to see the spray can that size!

Awa za

Who cares! It's a building shut da fk up

Fake news

Lolll... As an indian I am shocked that people are believing this.. Even ELON has liked this post

GOOD

BuiltWithSwag I can't even

It's a fake news 🙏

That's a lot of spray paint that would take a lot of effort. How did they even get up that high?

The thing is that people are gonna believe it's real😂

This isn't true. It is photoshopped you Fools!!!!

I know it's bad Spray Painting, but imagine how many cans and f paint used up.

3 months late for April fool.

AltNews zoo_bear AltNewsHindi free_thinker Please debunk this fake news.

zoo_bear please bust this fake news.

Lol people thinking this is real.

A minute of silence for those who really think Taj Mahal was Spray Painted!

This really isn't funny in my opinion. Gamers already get far too much negative press as it is, whether its in regards to sex, drugs, violence or something else. All this is, is fodder for some nutjob to point at in his or her case against the medium.

Shah Jahan was a gamer himself.

C'mon gamers, a dude made that for his dead waifu. Not cool!

Wait what? 🙄

is this for real ? 😂

Y'all must don't know what onion news is! Still think it's real? 😂😂😂😂😂😂

gamers rise up

Tagging the Taj is truly inspired. And so is whoever thought of that one.

Looks photoshopped to me

Moron Musk elonmusk spreading Fake news

I love it

FAKE !

It’s just hard to believe someone could do that and not get noticed and you can kinda see the imperfections in the photo shop

This may be photoshop but it’s prob real

Fake!

AskAnshul is this real?

𝕻𝖑𝖊𝖆𝖘𝖊 𝖛𝖊𝖗𝖎𝖋𝖞 𝖞𝖔𝖚𝖗 𝖗𝖊𝖕𝖔𝖗𝖙 𝖔𝖓 𝖙𝖍𝖊 '𝕻𝖆𝖎𝖓𝖙 𝖘𝖕𝖗𝖆𝖞 𝖎𝖓𝖈𝖎𝖉𝖊𝖓𝖙 𝖔𝖓 𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝕿𝖆𝖏 𝕸𝖆𝖍𝖆𝖑' 𝖇𝖊𝖈𝖆𝖚𝖘𝖊 𝖆𝖘 𝖆 𝖗𝖊𝖘𝖎𝖉𝖊𝖓𝖙 𝖔𝖋 𝕴𝖓𝖉𝖎𝖆 𝖎𝖙'𝖘 𝖓𝖔𝖙 𝖎𝖓 𝖔𝖚𝖗 𝖐𝖓𝖔𝖜𝖑𝖊𝖉𝖌𝖊...

Lol

Don’t spread fake news !

Well actually you'd be surprised these days

Gamers..go cry to your mama eh..

Taj Mahal pic shopped

Fake news.

its so cringe, that people actually don't see that this is obviously photoshopped. YIKES

DoctorGiovanna420- “For You” Freestyle

That’s not a gamer

Candy Crush rules

Don't give bhakts ideas.

I don't know how he reached nearly to the top of entrance. After all its taj Mahal and is no smaller than a Skyscraper. It must have took weeks

Fucking Sony ruining the Taj Mahal just to push sales of ps5.....

I m ri8 now in agra 😅 . Where do u get ur news from ? Stop spreading rumors .

*Graffiti Artist spray paints Taj Mahal* Old People: “ViDeO GaMeS ArE BaD”

agrapolice tourismgoi

Gamer Lives Matter

no way this is real

There is no such case in India. The Taj Mahal is the enduring symbol of love and every Indian is proud of her. IDK how do you got 11.5M followers for spreading false news!

What is that rule of gamers i’ve never heard about?

Another victory for the gamers!

It is so deep than many missed the point

It’s sad that gamers are the most oppressed groot in society I’m glad they’re taking a stance even if we need to destroy some weird old building now people will reconize gamers as an big social group. To all epic gamers out there: eat ass smoke grass and rise up

Satire emulating reality

Truly a sad day, why would gamers do this to such a beautiful building? This is NOT how you get a message across

Gamer Lives Matter. Also, The Onion, I weep for you, I fear 2020 will put you out of work. Reality is now more unbelievable than your satire.

that's pretty epic actually

Shopped. Both words are spelled right.

i got groped in there when i was 12

Gamers lives matter

omg why would they do this

FalKoopa_ yeh kya ho raha hai? XD

Deface? I thought that’s what the Taj Mahal stood for

ANTIFA!

OpIndia_com is gonna run this as real news and then try to convince that they're doing anything related to journalism.

Crazy

Fangamer How could you?!

whats this got to do with tea in china?

Yogi Adityanath is culpable

I thought destroying historically / culturally important sites was the new thing to do? From confederate, to democrat statues even a statue of a black former slave who died fighting to save his kind. Then there’s Lincoln who freed the slave not to mention the churches burnt!

YEAR_2123 GAMERS RISE UP!!!!!!!!!!!

GamerPres2020 as the first gamer president, what is your stance?

Do they have a video game where people move or deface Confederate statues ?

ChristineEliaz You wanna talk about defacing? Now that's defacing👇

It’s amazing the size of the spray can needed to do that 😂

GAMERS RISE UP!

It was me.. sorry.

is this like an 'equal' take against people taking down statues of slavers. 'two sides to every story' is american PR propaganda to let themselves sell whatever to the fucking public n actually give nothing up. I hate americains fr 👎🏻👎🏻

Somebody’s gonna blame it on BLM. 🤣

As an Indian I have no problem with it.

I love gamers! They're easy to sneak up on.

I’m just glad those protesters didn’t pull it down

Looks like they used the new 'rattle can' drone. 😒

Trump is probably telling Modi to look into Antifa as we speak.

'we generally agree'? have you MET a gamer?

but they be ruling doe

lol The Onion is racing to get ahead of 2020 at warp speed, and it's not fast enough

This is from The Onion, people. It’s satire.

gamer’s rise up

Maybe I should've actually taken the low pay to go work for the onion as a graphics artist or they should pay for talent LOL

JordanUhl I think we need to ask Gandhi what he thinks of this

Wait you guys think this is real? I agree gamers rule but no one spray painted that on the Taj Mahal.

'Failed Trump Casino' sounds better...

The Taj Mahal is a monument to the imperialist Mughal colonizers. The defacement stays.

🦶🐢 heh, gamers

The fact that vandals were able to pull this off is a shameful act, but also a marvel of engineering that is a feat rivaling the Taj itself. Or at least the casino version in Vegas. The design of the 75 foot can of spray paint alone defies explanation.

JordanUhl Lol

Now it looks better though

Well.. atleast they dint go 'white power!' on that pristine marble. That prolly would have been too on the nose😋

Our leaders and Police have defaced and violated us in the worst ways possible. This ain't nothing when compared to that shit

Haha, Taj MaPWNED.

life is a game and it's got overwhelmingly negative reviews on steam

DougB8116

“1337 Mahal”

It looks like trump had access to a sharpie again.

charles_kinbote The BJP’s Fortnite team are some sick individuals

gameing time

Funny thing is you will barly hear this reported because every outlet has there own agenda. Thats how things are now and folks are wakin up

DefundThePolice I'm here for my baby, and I’m here for George, because I want justice for him. Roxie Washington, George Floyd's girlfriend. Justice will achieved only by endurance. Sundays of Justice is just starting

I can already see the boomers using this to shit on video games

Dang, why would they even do a thing like that? Who puts the Taj Mahal where the Gamers Rule wall is?

Maybe whoever lives there did it. I mean it's their house they should be able to have it like they want.

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