No love for Banksy

Maybe he meant FLCL?

Who's Bansky?

Toronto is just filled with haters. Even just posting this photo is stroking this FLC guys wang.

toronto is hater capital, it's sad.

Banksy is faux culture at it's best.

nobody seems to really get the point of graffiti...FLC is doing what ALL graffiti artists do...Banksy laughs at all of you who would elevate what he does above where it truly exists and belongs. Guess why it's a rat? Because you all don't get that you are oblivious test subjects in an ironic social commentary/experiment. Toronto people aren't so much haters as they are just stupid.

Toronto kind of chuckles at you for making sweeping generalizations (based on blog comments) calling <i>entire cities</i> stupid.

Everyone throws a bitch fit whenever Banksy gets tagged over... and they just need to get over it. He's a street artist, he puts his stuff out on the street. If it gets cleaned or sprayed over that's part of the medium he has chosen to work with. It wasn't meant to be framed and preserved so that future generations would one day know the greatness that was Banksy.

Given FLC, be it crew or writer is nothing compared to Banksy in terms of worldwide notoriety. But that's how they want to write, and if they're shit they'll get written over themselves and the circle starts all over again.

I agree with scouser_33. Grafitti has a short lifetime and more than anyone, artists know that. I suspect FLC is using the fame of Bansky to get attention. After all, here we are talking about them on the internet. I just think it's too easy.

I accept that graffiti is evanescent. And I understand that Banksy isn't everyone's cup of tea. But all that FLC has done here is splatter his or her bile over something that some of us, at least, found interesting and pleasurable. Why has FLC done this? For no defensible reason. For an expression of ego.

fight fire with fire. to everyone complaining that something good/interesting has been painted over, paint over FLC's shitty tag yourself with something better. it's street art - it's vandalism that is going to get vandalized, like it or not. best accept it and move on, or one-up the hater.