Stupid

Long story short: money laundering and subversion of the arts.

This is why the rich needs to be taxed. Letting people die in poverty is a tragedy. Repubs and evangelicals apparently love it.

The "meaning of art" in this gilded age is money laundering, 100%.

The better banana.

Yeah, that's GOTTA be money laundering.

I wish, I have that kind of money to buy a banana lol

I wonder if he’s interested in turd on a sidewalk. Smile

Dang! I've got one of these at home but now I think it's a forgery because it only cost 25 cents on ebay

We're so cooked.

We?

World has gone crazy- art? I don’t think so.

These are the nuts buying golden sneakers and trump bibles.

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I have a very good replica of that piece in my house. It costs me 25¢ every few days.

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Don't people have important issues to care about?

Just think about the irony of what the $6M could have done for childhood hunger.

This makes me so mad. What a waste. How many people, animals, or charities could have been helped with that money?

People are dying

Only money laundering can explain it

Obvious money laundering. I have an Apple that I have duct taped to a cardboard box for sale. True art piece $4.5 million obo.

Are you gonna eat that?

I don't understand how this is art. It seems like the bar for "art" is getting lower and lower.

Think how many “bananas” and other food items could be bought for $6.24 million and given to those in need…

Proof positive that some people do have too much money

And no brains

Pathetic

I just bought 1/2 dozen bananas I’m rich 🤑 😂😂😂😂

How does a billionaire preserve the banana from rotting without disturbing the art piece? Why not buy a banana at a fruit stand and duct tape it to the wall instead, then replace it before it turns black and draws flies?

It's obscene that this level of inequality happens in society.

So frickin stupid, really

Art may be subjective, but this is trash.

At this point it’s a collectible just because it is the original “banana” art.

Did Elonia Musk Trump buy it to hang in the White House? 🤣🤣🤣

High Art!

People go crazy for a large amount of money for a ridiculous piece of art but wealthy people give far larger sums every year to politicians for political theatre.

How great is this banana supposed to be? Does it never go rotten?

I’ve got a banana and some duct tape, get your cheque book ready! 🙃

Art is a vital memetic organism that spreads between hosts.

Is it the same 5 year old banana?

No, it must be replaced regularly. Don't you understand anything about art? 😉

Never mind the debate about the meaning of art. What about the ethics of spending $6.24M on this so-called art? Someone clearly has more money than he knows what to do with it (or, rather, more money than he deserves).

I would have thought it would have rotted by now.

Came over here to say money laundering. Someone not only beat me to it, a LOT of you beat me to it. I’m proud and fond of my Bluesky cohort.

Do they change out the banana at intervals?

Money laundering?

A fool and his money are soon parted.

Money laundering 🤔

The only explanation

Not a bad profit from a $4.38 investment.

A perfect example of just how crazy modern "art" really is. Don't forget that art critics once mistook the work of a chimpanzee for that of an emerging art genius! hoaxes.org/archive/perm...

I was so young when they taped this banana

I’m the whole world has gone bananas

Look up "The Fountain" by Duchamp. This isn't the first time art ruffled feathers. :P

It is money laundering. Investigate this

Oh no!

It makes me think of the commercial for the prescription to straight the curved "carrot". 🥕

Bentcarrot.com what a stupid web name for a serious condition. Makes me giggle every time I see it and surely that isn’t the intent.