I’m afraid to say this out loud, but I’ve always wondered why there’s an unwritten social contract that taggers don’t tag cars. Ignoring that it would be the absolute worst… like, why don’t they?
Which is to say, I wonder what the first taggable consumer vehicle will be — and why will it be the Cybertruck
@cabel I have no meaningful data to back this up, but I have thought about it in the past and decided that cars feel like individual property…like something the taggers themselves could own—unlike buildings, trains, etc., which feel like institutional property.
@agiletortoise@cabel Taggers have figured out that if they leave the functional info uncovered on a freight train car, the owner won’t bother painting over the graffiti. I’ve seen some pretty cool art roll by while waiting at a railroad crossing
@cabel In all the interviews I've read with taggers—and I've read a fair amount, since I've been fascinated with graffiti for a while—the reason given is (1) a lot of them recognize that it would be a despicable thing to do, and (2) tagging things like cars/personal residences/churches etc would trigger public outrage and more attention from law enforcement.
(Some freight train vandals put masking tape over important info—car ID, safety decals—prior to painting, for similar reasons.)
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