I wonder if Banksy anticipated the effort to remove it, and used a more tenacious paint to provide the base before adding the detail, so that it would do this when removal was attempted.
I did wonder that too. It was great before but now it’s a masterpiece.
Even before he was famous and people valued his work, he’d put down primer and undercoat, which is very rare for graffiti. Primer is stickier than regular paint, so would be harder to remove. It persisting might just be a nice side effect of a habit rather than something done consciously, but even if he had thought about it, it’s not like he could do much better than his usual approach if he wanted to intentionally make a painting particularly hard to remove.
Did they really leave it like that?
I watched the video and the lad applying the paint remover and scrubbing it was getting (gently) heckled quite a bit so understandably decided “yeah not my job” and fucked off after a while.
I’ve seen this game before!
Paint the same mural above that one and see if the scrub that, too!
They are dumbasses could have raised enough money to renovate the whole damn building if they sold it.
