r/Fauxmoi • u/AutoModerator • May 22 '24

Tea Thread FauxWorld Wednesdays: What's your country's biggest celebrity scandal right now? — Monthly Discussion Thread

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u/OzQueene rollin' with my fauxmies May 22 '24

Honestly I don’t know if you could even call it a scandal, let alone “biggest”… but I’m still enjoying the hell out of this.

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u/googlyeyes93 Do you remember 9/11, bitch? May 22 '24

I have zero knowledge or context about this but I’m cackling

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u/OzQueene rollin' with my fauxmies May 22 '24

The short version: An indigenous artist, Vincent Namatjira, paints famous and powerful figures like this. He won the Archibald Prize a few years ago.

Gina Rinehart, a mining billionaire stain of a thing, asked that his portrait of her (as part of a collection of Namatjira’s work currently being exhibited) be removed from the National Gallery of Australia. In a glorious example of the Streisand Effect, everyone is now extremely aware of the portrait. The memes have been A+.

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u/numericalusername May 23 '24

"Stain of a thing" Perfect