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[–] [email protected] -3 points 10 months ago

It sucks that this unflattering portrait is put in a museum and my unflattering portrait of the whore who turned me down isn't in one.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Stay humble, bitch.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Even if you want to be mad at her for being rich and being part of the oligopoly that is creating suffering and impending environmental doom, can you blame her for requesting the portrait be taken down? It's really unflattering and doesn't look that much like her. She didn't demand it, she asked. No one likes being humiliated, and that portrait probably made her feel terrible. There's nothing wrong with making a request, most people in her position would do the same.

She should create a foundation to called "The Institute for Reduced World Suffering" and make the charter bylaws include her picture on anything sent out, any website, any marketing material, and her photo must be on any material generated by the organization, and it can only be 1 type of picture that she chooses, then she should have an artist do a really flattering picture of her that makes her look nice. In the Institute's first year, she should offer 10 10,000 grants to those who study reduced world suffering and in announcing the grants opportunity she could include her picture in the advertisements. She could let anyone apply and she chooses the winners. She could turn a strange situation into something wonderful if she wants.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Okay, I don't mean to be rude, but fucking what

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

if only i had written "stay humble, bitch" the people of lemmy would like me 😭

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Surely there's a billboard near her home that they can put that on?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

no sense of humour, so sad.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago

She'd have done better claiming, "It doesn't even look like me‽ Kind of a shit artist imo, if we're all just being honest."

Apparently, there's no going back from the Streisand effect. And now, here we all are, looking at her actual gremlin face... understanding that the painting is somehow true. She should have let it go

[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago

This is the image.

wantja Arts/Vincent Namatjira/Copyright Agency/Getty Images

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

As Australia's only Barbi-llionaire, I vote to replace her portrait with a funny portrait of me in the exhibition instead.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 33 points 10 months ago

I will never not appreciate the Streisand effect.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Best of luck. Get back under your bridge! Shoo!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I think it's funny how on .ml I can't call this woman a bitch, but I can say I want to cut off her head and eat her liver.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

It's because no one's actually going to cut off her head, so it's okay to fantasize about it. If it becomes common to call her a bitch it could impact her reputation and cause people to take her less seriously, which would make it harder for her to get good terms in business negotiations, affecting her bottom line. .ml is a tool of the oligarchy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

ml is a tool of the oligarchy.

All social media is, or becomes it very quickly. Controlling the narrative is a vital strategic asset.

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