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What else do people draw on gradient.horse?

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Re: What else do people draw on gradient.horse?

#23

    > the obvious desire for transgressive expression by drawing dicks and slurs
this truly is fascinating, that the common denominator of any anonymous, open space for creative expression seems to always be large amounts of doodled dicks... Are there any studies on this?

Re: What else do people draw on gradient.horse?

#25

> the obvious desire for transgressive expression by drawing dicks and slurs this truly is fascinating, that the common denominator of any anonymous, open space for creative expression seems to always be large amounts of doodled dicks... Are there any studies on this?

not exactly, but there are quotes and aphorisms

https://medium.com/luminasticity/90-crap-48e4c79419a9

"In every time and environment that humans found they could make art by drawing on some surface there has always been one fellow in the community who found he could let people know what a big dick he had by making a rendering available for everybody else in his distribution channel

This base level of dick drawings to other artistic forms represent the minimal level of crap in all aesthetic production."

Re: What else do people draw on gradient.horse?

#26

> the obvious desire for transgressive expression by drawing dicks and slurs this truly is fascinating, that the common denominator of any anonymous, open space for creative expression seems to always be large amounts of doodled dicks... Are there any studies on this?

I've seen it mentioned somewhere this is known as TTD - Time To Dick - as the amount of time elapsed between releasing a drawing tool in the open and someone using it to draw a dick.

Re: What else do people draw on gradient.horse?

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> the obvious desire for transgressive expression by drawing dicks and slurs this truly is fascinating, that the common denominator of any anonymous, open space for creative expression seems to always be large amounts of doodled dicks... Are there any studies on this?

I've seen it mentioned somewhere this is known as TTD - Time To Dick - as the amount of time elapsed between releasing a drawing tool in the open and someone using it to draw a dick.

corollary: the mean TTD is inversely proportional to the amount of anonymity granted by the medium

Re: What else do people draw on gradient.horse?

#29

> the obvious desire for transgressive expression by drawing dicks and slurs this truly is fascinating, that the common denominator of any anonymous, open space for creative expression seems to always be large amounts of doodled dicks... Are there any studies on this?

I love that dicks are a feature of graffiti even going to ancient times. Pompeii's walls are covered with dicks.

Re: What else do people draw on gradient.horse?

#30

> the obvious desire for transgressive expression by drawing dicks and slurs this truly is fascinating, that the common denominator of any anonymous, open space for creative expression seems to always be large amounts of doodled dicks... Are there any studies on this?

I have a feeling that being transgressive is universal, but the form of expression is cultural, with independent convergence to some common patterns.

For instance, in Romania I've noticed that the slang term for penis is written far more frequently than a crude drawing of it. I've also seen probably more drawn breasts than dicks as well.

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