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Accidental Renaissance

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AccidentalRenaissance is for photos that look like Renaissance paintings.

This means that they look like Renaissance art in their composition, their coloring, their saturation, the angle of the scene, the types of settings, etc.

๐Ÿ‘‰ Must be a photo. Not a meme, drawing, art, ai-generated or ai-enhanced image, screenshot, low-effort post, meta posts, video, or anything else but a photo.

๐Ÿ‘‰ Must be SFW. No gore, porn, extreme violence, blood, corpses, or similarly disturbing content. Absolutely no pornography, even if it's "tasteful".

๐Ÿ‘‰ Comments must be civil. No slurs of any kind or using words to insult, demean, harass, or abuse other individuals or groups.

๐Ÿ‘‰ The Renaissance part (not the photo itself) must be accidental to the photograph. In other words, no photos of Renaissance fairs, people dressed in medieval/Renaissance clothes, etc.

๐Ÿ‘‰ NO influencer selfies, professional photoshoots with watermarks, any type of OnlyFans-like content. We are not the place to work your side-hustle.

๐Ÿ“ธ If you know who the photographer is, give them credit in the comment section. This is the only type of self-promotion we allow.

๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿฆฏ Alt-Text for vision-impaired users in the post body or in the comments is highly encouraged. Just pretend you are describing a photo to someone on the phone.

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[โ€“] EpeeGnome@feddit.online 245 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Accidental for the cops. The photographer and Lady Liberty there knew exactly what photo they were going for, and the cops predictably gave it to them.

[โ€“] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 64 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The Asian cop looks amused. Would I be fooling myself to imagine him thinking "I have to do this so I don't get fired, but man this is going to be such a historic photo!"

[โ€“] teft@piefed.social 46 points 6 months ago

LAPD are notorious shitbags so probably not.

[โ€“] fizzle@quokk.au 13 points 6 months ago

I think the cops knew exactly what was going on.

[โ€“] J92@lemmy.world 140 points 6 months ago (2 children)
[โ€“] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 20 points 6 months ago

I see what you did there

[โ€“] FosterMolasses@leminal.space 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Is it me or are most US cops switching from handcuffs to "zipties" now? Did they run out?

What the hell is going on over there lol

[โ€“] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 9 points 6 months ago

When they want to arrest too many people they use zip ties. They still use cuffs and generally overtighten them as a form of punishment when individuals are being arrested.

[โ€“] unbanshee@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 months ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic_handcuffs

Cheap and light, and apparently around since 1965.

[โ€“] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 105 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The US summarised perfectly.

[โ€“] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 40 points 6 months ago (1 children)

She's not being roughed up enough to be 100% correct.

[โ€“] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 6 months ago

That's just because she's white under the green makeup.

[โ€“] IpsumLauren@lemmy.world 74 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Why is she being handcuffed?

[โ€“] chunes@lemmy.world 111 points 6 months ago

It's the LAPD. I'm not sure even they know the reason.

[โ€“] RaoulDuke85@piefed.social 79 points 6 months ago

She's colored.

[โ€“] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

She's foreign, obviously.

[โ€“] ComicalMayhem@lemmy.world 28 points 6 months ago (2 children)
[โ€“] ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip 149 points 6 months ago (2 children)

The lady showed up to the No Kings protest prepared to be arrested and dressed for the part, and the photographer was looking for a great shot to match it. The cops, being complete idiots, decided that they would handcuff lady liberty, never considering the context of the situation or that they are, in fact, the bad guys of the photo.

[โ€“] starlinguk@lemmy.world 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Or they knew exactly what they were doing. There are plenty of cops who just had a choice between cop or army.

[โ€“] 0x0@infosec.pub 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] 1dalm@lemmy.today 5 points 6 months ago

Do you know what she was arrested for?

Protesting on the wrong place, I imagine?

[โ€“] CentipedeFarrier@piefed.social 23 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)
[โ€“] FosterMolasses@leminal.space 17 points 6 months ago

Oh my god, yes, finally... been dying for a new AccidentalRenaissance ever since I left Reddit

[โ€“] Friendly@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

AccidentalRenaissance? Here ya go Also LAPD