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This is something I've seen a lot in Berlin. On the surface it looks like Anti Yuppie graffiti - anyone can see that. Graffiti by people who hate yuppies.
But I have my suspicions. Could it be that the culprits are the yuppies themselves? Is it possible that this angry brigade wishing to cleanse Berlin of all yuppiness are in fact none other than the yuppies they claim to hate?
My theory then, is that this is nothing more than some sort of urban "exterior design" sport enjoyed by genuine yuppies who are disappointed that the vibrant and slightly dodgy inner city areas they moved to have started to look too tidy and well, normal. Gotta keep up appearances! Gotta keep the place looking "urban"! Undercover urban yuppie activists - that's it.
Here's a favourite of mine. Near a car park in Prenzlauer Berg.
One or two yuppie-type cars there, clearly driven by the yuppies responsible for this very "authentic" urban scrawl.
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And the person responsible for this one is clearly someone used to writing a lot of CHEQUES.
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Here's rather half-hearted attempt in Kreuzberg, written with Tipp-Ex, from the office dear!
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A nice little stencil number with made up language.
So LAST YEAR, so YUPPIE!
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I think I'm onto something.
4 comments:
I think "Yuppies Fuck Off" is a new and upcoming fashion label making and selling designer lingerie for yuppie wives. Through these guerilla advertisement policy they are trying to attract the well off clientele that recently moved into the refurbished houses in Prenzlauer berg, Mitte or Kreuzberg.
"You've become very bored with your yuppie friends? Your husband is at work all day and too tired for sex when he comes home at ten? Why not spice up your life with a sexy guerilla underwear brand that smells like class war, street cred and grafitti???"
It's true! It's true!
Thorsten, you are a man of great insight and intelligence.
And also hilarious.
PS: Do they come in navy blue?
Yes - and if it's not true I think we should make them knickers! It'd be a success and we'd be rich and buy an expensive car and lofts in those terrible townhouses..Yes they come in navy blue too and you can come in them!
We could actually make them from my old underwear and spraypaint slogans onto them...also with variations on the yuppie theme: "Assis go home" or "Hartz Sex".
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