GRAFITTI: What's the logic by those who do it?

[altec]

Makes our walls so dirty looking and makes us look so uncivilized in the eyes of tourists. For those who put grafitti on our street walls, street gates, bathroom doors and urinal walls, who are these people who do it? How old are they? Why do they do it? What does it mean? What do they get out of it? Is it a frat thing?

[empy]

if you're talking about a frat or gang doing it, it's usually done to mark territory for the benefit of rival gangs.

[CVT]

Territorial, ad and self-expression, I think...

3707:seesaw:

[VtEC]

freedom of the press???because they really love to write

i think that is more on ads and territorial to signify their presence.

[Isuzoom]

Sickos walang magawa sa buhay...KSP

[pajerokid]

A sad expression of teenage angst. :mad: i feel for you pare!

[diesoline]

we have a graffiti problem in baguio too. graffiti here is caused by local iterations of the bloods/crips LA streetgangs -- a so 90's concept if you ask me.

the streetgangs here has become a major issue, graffiti has become a problem and several deaths have been reported. i hope the city's recent imposition of a curfew on juveniles will lessen the problem.

[ghosthunter]

Makes our walls so dirty looking and makes us look so uncivilized in the eyes of tourists. For those who put grafitti on our street walls, street gates, bathroom doors and urinal walls, who are these people who do it? How old are they? Why do they do it? What does it mean? What do they get out of it? Is it a frat thing?

The local graffiti are marks of territory of neighborhood gangs. Like dogs marking their territory and boundaries.

[altec]

when the owner or the government repaints the wall, di tumatagal, meron na naman. At least most of them knows how to respect walls that have art paintings on it, di nila sinusulatan. Yung mga sinusulat ng kung anu-ano sa banyo, di naman yun marking the territory ng mga taga frat, yun ba ang walang matinong magawa sa buhay? Writings like the one you are holding is the future of the country.

[niky]

It's marking territory. It's just like pissing on something, a way of showing that you were there.

Same with vandalism... a pathetic, silent scream of rage, to tell the world "F**k you all! I was here!"

Poverty, illiteracy (or idiocy, take your pick) and the lack of better outlets of self-expression = vandalism and grafitti (your standard dirt slogans and tags, mind you... not the artistic ones).