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My favorite comment on this statue, Charlie Kirk has become what he hates most, a person of color.
It looks like Russell Peters.
People are cheap, man
Or people don't like nazis, it's a mystery!
It's so funny to see a grifter crash out like that. Ah we need more of this. Legit thinking of edging grifters into unsustainable businesses might be the highest return meme of this decade.
I heard the main reason people didn't want to buy this is that it isn't 100 feet high. If he made a 100-foot-high one in gold, Elon Musk told me he'd pay billions for it.
It's also just objectively a horrible statue. The body proportions are just awful. You can tell he's spent 90 percent of his time and effort on the head and just draped the body in baggy clothing to hide his work.
Hey, give the man a break. It may be a terrible, ugly sculpture of a nasty, hateful man but he only wants a few million dollars for it. It probably took him days to make!
I think what he meant is nazis are cheap.
The rich ones can spend money on elections that buys them power, but they absolutely will not waste their money on statues.
Other nazis are really really cheap.
The ones with money know Charlie was a pawn and isn't useful to them anymore.
This is the funniest article:
In desperation, Furnari set up an online fundraising campaign, hoping to raise an initial $150,000, but potentially millions of dollars, which he said would allow him to take the statue on tour. As of Thursday, he had raised $1,400.
And then he goes on:
“Things financially are a total, absolute nightmare. It’s like wow. People are cheap, man. You know, people talk, talk – I know lots of people out there, and everybody’s so cheap. You know, like, it’s disgusting how cheap they are.”
He also compares himself to Michelangelo
Maybe he meant Michaelangelo the ninja turtle.
Too much time has passed for him to make money on the Kirk grift. Gotta ride that corpse before everyone else riding it wears it down to dust.
Maybe he's hoping this article will get enough people making fun of him that our disrespect will catch the right's attention and paying him millions will be owning the libs. There might be money in that grift, still.
Yeah, Erika beat everyone to that.
, but man, people are strange out there,” he said.
Errr...we didn't spend 100k on an ugly statue of a racist piece of shit. So who's the strange one here?
Create a problem in the stupidest way possible. Blame everyone but yourself.
The MAGA playbook.
Maybe if he sold tickets to shoot at it?
"Try to hit Charlie" 25 dollars / shot at 100m.
he spent $100,000 on steel, resin and labor
So the real cost was probably a few grand in materials, at most, and he’s no doubt saying his time is worth $1000/hour or more.
It was a grift all along, especially wanting to display it in a place that just elected a “democratic socialist” mayor, one of the biggest Democrat strongholds.
Sounds like an oversupply problem.
Did they not check what the demand for fugly Charlie Kirk statues was prior to starting?
It was manufactured outrage over some podcaster who got shot. It's not surprising that there are no buyers, they never cared.
Summary: Artist tried to cash in on a person's death only to find that the hateful people that were supposed to like the hateful person dont actually care about him one way or the other ... and everyone with sense actually hates the guy.
Shoulda made it a fountain, woulda sold in a hot minute.
Edit oh HELL NO "far right activist"?? What's the matter, did shit flinging troglodyte have too many syllables ?
A New York sculptor has been left furious after spending $100,000 of his own money to build a lifesize statue of Charlie Kirk, only to find that no one wants to buy it.
What sculptor has 100k of their own money?
If they make it like one of those virgin mary miracle statues where it shoots blood out its neck once a day this shit will sell in a second.
There is no way that this thing consumed material worth $100k. It's a steel wire frame with an outer shell coated in resin, and spray painted.
This grifter is trying to leverage the coverage and hopes to raise some money by artificially inflating the price beforehand so that piece of crap is deemed to be worth anything.
Alternate title "racist moron wastes 100,000 dumping trash in times square"
“Things financially are a total, absolute nightmare. It’s like wow. People are cheap, man. You know, people talk, talk – I know lots of people out there, and everybody’s so cheap. You know, like, it’s disgusting how cheap they are.”
The whole article is filled with gems like this and the exact right length for this sort of human interest piece about someone who is just trash.
During a cost of living crisis this guy drops 100k+ on something no one asked for and complains that people are cheap.
I get that people do own statues, but who exactly did he think was going to buy this? Anyone stupid enough to like this either in content or execution is too stupid to have the money to spend on it. Anyone rich enough to afford it could spend their money on things they actually like and don't just pretend to. Not that intelligence and wealth appear to have anything to do with each other at this point, but this guy clearly doesn't understand the way things work.
He must be true MAGA, since he instantly blames everyone else for his own idiotic life decisions. I bet he spends the rest of his time preaching to people about responsibility.
it's extremely shoddily made due to blatant inaccuracies.
obviously this statue needs a LOT more work to have any worthwhile representation of charlie kirk.
first of all, it's missing the very important actively gushing neck hole.
second of all, he looks lucid and composed instead of convulsing due to sudden loss of oxygenated blood pressure in his brain.
i don't think anyone will buy it until these glaring issues are amended.
So grifter is furious that he couldn’t monetise far right? Fucking good riddance then. He could have donated that money to a charity instead trying to make easy bucks.
Didn't think his scam through. He needed MAGA to front him the money for making it, then not have it sell. No one who 'venerates' Kirk would actually put their own money on the line for him.
Well, if he adds the bullet hole to the throat he may have better luck.
Would inserting a tube and turning it into a fountain be in bad taste?
Going by the man himself's beliefs, no. “I can’t stand the word empathy, actually. I think empathy is a made-up, new-age term that…does a lot of damage.”
100k? That cost 100k? The likeness is not bad (which is not helping the appeal), but just speaking artistically nothing else about that statue is even acceptable, particularly for 100k.
It looks like a pole frame with newspaper padding for the body, an actual t shirt and jeans drapped over that body that has so much glue saturated into them to harden them that they look like they are soaking wet, literal stickers for the "FREEDOM" letters on the shirt, an actual microphone prop shoved into a mannequin hand bolted on the end of the arm pole, actual shoes on the feet, multiple colors of metallic spray paint, and a thick clear coat sealant. Like $200-300 dollars in materials for the entire body, tops. How did you spend 100k on this? Did you pay a 100k licensing fee for use of his likeness or something? This feels like a tax write-off scam or something. What a fucking waste of money, regardless.
Man discovers that the attention span in the modern world is measured in minutes, not years.
His previous works included a statue of the Hawk Tuah girl and a large labubu doll. Both still available.
How come this git is still in the news? He was not someone of any importance, not domestically and definitely not internationally.
He could make it into a fountain. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
We're probably going to end up buying this thing with our tax dollars aren't we?
Until then, Furnari is left with a 6ft 4in statue of a renowned racist, which he has spent $100,000 making, and which no one wants to buy.
The shade lmfao
Hey guys, wanna buy my Hitler statue? I've spent $100k on it and I'm so proud of it.
Jesus that's one fucked up statue. Did dude ever take an anatomy class? That's worse than that statue of the soccer player that looks melted.
This was supposed to be a statue of Lucille Ball for her hometown. They call it Scary Lucy.
