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x00z ,
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15 years ago I did a school paper on the pros of psychoactive drugs, including a presentation in front of my class.

Nowadays I’d have to make a public YouTube video to stop the hate I’d receive. Or at least get kicked out of class.

Nobody really cared about stuff that wasn’t affecting them.

21Cabbage ,

Well that got the most genuine laugh of anything I’ve seen today. We should do more shenanigans at these events.

LemmyTryThisOut ,

A piece he described as a “creepy sex dungeon” was removed before judging last year.

Yeah, so this isn’t this guy’s first time pushing the envelope with the miniatures art.

Duamerthrax ,

He should do That Pool next year.

burrito ,

Pool’s closed.

Pandantic ,
@Pandantic@midwest.social avatar

Poling added that “the guys” who may have been dragged to look at the miniature displays “got to enjoy a build that was meant specifically for them, in an area they might not otherwise be entertained.”

I mean… he isn’t wrong…

Hazmatastic ,

The sweat stain on the couch got me

downpunxx ,

so much fucking win

aramis87 ,

Did they somehow not see the camera blatantly on the desk, feeding an image to the monitor, directly of the couch? Did they not see the butt imprint on the couch? Even if they didn't recognize the set it was based on, it was pretty blatant.

Fester ,

There’s a little clapperboard on it that says “The Casting Couch”

zero_spelled_with_an_ecks ,

Article says it wasn’t there at judging.

Fester ,

Well I only opened the article to see the aforementioned buttcheek indents

dantheclamman OP ,
@dantheclamman@lemmy.world avatar

Well, it might have been judged by elderly Kentuckians who haven’t seen porn since it was shot on film, if ever. So I don’t find it surprising they went “Wow, super detailed couch! Give this guy a prize!”

toiletobserver ,

I would have assumed the Stanley parable.

Then Stanley spread his cheeks and waited…

BlucifersVeinyAnus ,

Yeah… that’s fair actually, it really is pretty hard to ‘fake casting couch’ your relatives

Chozo ,

The cheek prints on the cushion are an excellent touch.

The state fair are a bunch of turds. Art is meant to provoke.

Fisk400 ,

The cheek prints makes me think the judges knew exactly what was happening here since they looked at it closely enough to give it an award. More likely is that some karen made a stink and they removed it to avoid the hassle.

southsamurai ,
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If they actually removed it, and didn’t have anything in the rules about topicality or humor, they suck and should be ridiculed

FiniteBanjo ,

He got to keep his ribbons, he wasn’t disqualified or anything and his other miniatures stayed up.

Some things can be expected not to work as a display in public.

PM_ME_YOUR_ZOD_RUNES ,

Only people who know would know. I don’t see the problem.

FiniteBanjo , (edited )

Somebody saw a problem and got it removed. Personally, I couldn’t care less because the creator really should have seen this coming, at least as well as they saw them coming.

fmstrat ,

You… could… care less?

The_Helmet_Stays_On ,

Awww he does care. Even if it’s only a little.

FiniteBanjo ,

Sorry, I do a lot of typos these days

Too much phone scrolling

southsamurai ,
@southsamurai@sh.itjust.works avatar

Eh, we have nude statues in public places, paintings too. Like, not in museums, in the open.

This model isn’t even nsfw at all, it just references the subject of pornography, with one specific “genre” that’s exemplified by a brand.

But, hey, they didn’t penalize the maker, so it’s all good to me :)

FiniteBanjo ,

If you take a statue of a Naiad and have it stuck in a basement window or on it’s knees gesturing with a cupped hand, or even with just torn pantyhose and handcuffs, you’re probably going to get a lot of complaints.

There is tasteful and agreeable and it’s a very blurry line into inappropriate but the line is there.

southsamurai ,
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But are we obligated to submit to arbitrary judgements of appropriateness? And everything you described is arbitrary. I don’t disagree people would whinge, (and I know this is diverging from the subject a little, but I believe it’s still related), but how is that an obligation to bow to them?

Tasteful and agreeable are inherently subjective, and that makes them impossible to delineate in any universally equitable manner.

Personally, I don’t even recognize the majority as being a metric to determine what is and isn’t tasteful or agreeable.

I also reject the idea that something being sexual is inherently without taste or agreeableness, even when it verges into the pornographic. It comes down to “who says so?”

Who makes that moral decision for everyone else, and why should they be able to?

FiniteBanjo ,

But are we obligated to submit to arbitrary judgements of appropriateness?

Yes. The public entity as a whole agrees on what is appropriate and what is not. If you don’t like being a part of the public, then you’ve got every right to leave.

An event official for a state run organization at the fair made this call, likely after consulting with others and hearing complaints.

FlightyPenguin ,
@FlightyPenguin@lemmy.world avatar

They at least let him keep his prize, though.

FlashMobOfOne ,
@FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world avatar

That’s objectively hilarious.

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