Lol the right has basically forgotten about him already
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And that’s basically it!
This artists just needs to get good at marketing.
If he made it into a guerilla piece in some park and then "someone" shot it in the neck, pouring red paint on it, and then he "complained" about it to the press
....then it would be worth a lot
if it was a fountain someone would have bought it
Sergio Furnari, originally from Italy, had hoped the statue of the deceased far-right activist, which he intends to display in Times Square, would raise “millions” of dollars. Instead, he said he has been inundated by messages from people saying they intend to urinate on the sculpture.
To add injury to insult, Furnari recently broke his foot working on the statue, after tripping over a roll of tape in his studio.
“Is it cursed? Maybe. I don’t know,” he told the Guardian.
If given the chance I would love to urinate on it
The amount of time it took me to realize that didn't say "Futanari"...
😐
Should have made it a fountain with the hole coming out of the neck

Is this AI?
It’s slop, yes
I'm pretty sure that's people's plan...
Instead, he said he has been inundated by messages from people saying they intend to urinate on the sculpture.
If you get the right angle, the splashback could be pretty realistic...
Don't give him ideas, somebody might actually buy the Charlie Kirk fountain.
The ultimate manneken piss
... Damn, if I had $100k to spare (and a drill) I might genuinely add that fountain to my yard.
The artist spent $100k, they thought it would sell for millions.
oh I wasn't gonna pay this wankstain for that godawful sculpt, I was just gonna make my own. Maybe I could 3D print a little desktop one...
A 9mm drillbit could turn it into a peephole
It's a decent likeness, but somehow not quite creepy enough.
I wouldn't pay money or travel to see it, but if I happened to walk by it and I was sure of not catching a charge, I'd probably be willing to stop and piss on it.
His weird body is the creepy part of this statue. It looks like his body is underwater and you’re viewing it from above the surface in the way that makes it look squashed.
Ah. I looked at the second picture in the article.
Torso is too short.
I'd still be willing to piss on it.
Edit: Looking at it again, I still think the creepiest part about it is it looks like Charlie Kirk.
Let's make a freedom statue for a fascist because why not?
It's missing that neck...scratch.
Wonderful likeness. I know I might seriously injure myself if I were to punch it in the face… But I still want to punch it in the face.
Labeling fascist culture war ghouls "activists" may literally be correct but I refuse to consider them so. They are not activists as we colloquially consider them. They are agitators, stochastic terrorists and our media has been laundering their awful slop for far too long.
Have fun in hell Charlie you scumbag.
Charlie Kirk was an “activist” in the same way that Horst Wessel was an “activist” - which is to say that the regime picked him up as a mascot after he got ganked, so the regime could get some blood on their flag and say “look what they did to my boy 😭”.
The guardians out here doing their best to help a Kirk fan sell his shit
Gotta find something to pad between articles from JK Rowling about how Dumbledore would happily murder Trans people and some Reform UK slimeball insisting Ukraine refugees were stealing all the NHS money.
Really takes off from the headline...
Sergio Furnari, originally from Italy, had hoped the statue of the deceased far-right activist, which he intends to display in Times Square, would raise “millions” of dollars. Instead, he said he has been inundated by messages from people saying they intend to urinate on the sculpture.
To add injury to insult, Furnari recently broke his foot working on the statue, after tripping over a roll of tape in his studio.
“Is it cursed? Maybe. I don’t know,” he told the Guardian.
RIP Luis Jimenez, sculptor of “Blucifer”.
Instead, he said he has been inundated by messages from people saying they intend to urinate on the sculpture.
Stick it in a pay toilet and you can still make your money back.
Make a Trump statue as well and you'd have the start of a pay toilet sculpture garden. World's first!
But it comes with a free frogurt!
What sculptor has $100,000 to piss away???
If it included labour, all of them who want to make it
It looks like dogshit. And that's before you even consider the fact that it looks like Charlie Kirk.
It’s got the Ronaldo statue vibes.
Maybe take the commission, THEN do the work next time. What a dumb ass.
I didn't like the guy okay. But honestly at this point some of the shit the right has done to him seems really disrespectful.
Like way beyond a leftist saying "charlie kirk was a racist, misogynistic grifter"
Like what they do is well beyond discussing traits.
It's almost like they taxidermy-ed him (or whatever the word is) to roll him around to sell cheap shit to people who never knew who he was until he died.
This statue. His wife's behavior. The "pregnancy" . TPU
It's all so deranged.
I don't agree with his profession but let's be a little honest. It was a grift. He likely didn't believe half the shit he said. But that's all he will ever be known for.
Kinda sad.
But also this "artist" sounds like a grifter themselves. Just thought they could do a cash grab.
"I wasn’t a fan of Charlie,” he said. “Like one thing that I couldn’t stand about him while he was alive [was] when he was talking about Palestine. [Kirk would say]: ‘Oh no, Palestine doesn’t exist.’ I thought: ‘Well, this guy must be out of his mind.’”
He likely didn’t believe half the shit he said. But that’s all he will ever be known for.
You really underestimate fascists, don't you?
Well I mean , that's how most people in my circle remember him.
The 30% of magas definitely think of him as prophet or something.
I think he was a harmful hatemongerer and I am glad he is dead.
But I agree about how off-putting it is for so many people to continue profiting off his death. They are scavengers milking a corpse for all they can. It's not about respecting the person he was, it's about shamelessly exploiting him for their own gain.
Yeah maybe "disrespectful" wasn't quite what I meant. Your description is more with how I was thinking.
The pure greed. Using a man's death for personal gain at that scale.
*Man who created a cursed statue*: "This statue is definately not cursed"
This totally reads like an Onion article too.
He'd have been in the money if he'd just cranked that shit out a few months earlier.
His mistake was trying to make something that looked good, rather than churning slop you could push on a bunch of dipshits with more money than sense.
Bro is cashing in a little too late on a man who's been dead for almost a year. He should have taken a lesson from Erika Kirk on how quickly to get on the grift train.
Sorry Mr. Futanari, you missed out.
Ehh. You know, that because of this article, some trump peon will hear about this, and actually pay the guy for the statue with public money, right?
What would I do with an extra $100,000? I am sure I can come up with all sorts of ideas.
Easy. Bottom surgery and rent for a year and a motorcycle
That seems like a reasonable one. I would probably put nearly all of it towards my housing so that I can clear my mortgage debt more quickly. Maybe set aside a portion to pay off credit cards.