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Yeah, making it even less effective.
The whole point of protests like that is to gather attention in order to spread the message, and it worked. I would guess that this will not become as big of a story. Just using this post as an example: it was posted 2 days ago, but it only has 54 upvotes, 8 comments, and I'm only hearing about i now. Meanwhile, the protest with the works of art spread like wildfire.
You seem to be happy about maybe getting the attention of 1 billionaire, but will this really achieve? She can afford to get it cleaned pretty easy and quick, and it will barely register as a blip on her radar. It has no real effect on her, and no one else will care or even hear about it. How will this change or save the world?
You need the masses on your side to actually change things, but to do that you first need to get their attention and make them aware of the scale and reality of the problem. As "pretty" and "clean" as this might be, it will most likely achieve absolutely nothing.
I would say it had the opposite effect. They got attention, but it was 100% negative. At best, people were ambivalent toward it. At worst, it hurt their cause because people rightfully recognized how fucking stupid it was.
Attempting to deface valuable art (that has absolutely nothing to do with climate change) in order to try to change policy surrounding climate change, does not win anyone to your side.
You need data to support this claim. I've seen positive comments to this situation, including myself.
It was slight hyperbole to make a point. Every person I spoke to about it felt very negatively about it.
I'm not the only one:
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2022/10/vermeer-glue-soup-climate-protest-outrage/671904/
https://time.com/6233983/van-gogh-art-climate-protest-survey/
https://www.npr.org/2022/10/28/1131912007/climate-activists-have-been-attacking-artworks-recently-but-how-effective-is-thi
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/soup-vs-art-climate-change-protesters-lose-1.6655497