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August 22, 2025 (Florida)
“I would drop rainbow bombs on Orlando if the city buffed a memorial for somebody I loved,” Graffiti Legend Mattske Says About Pulse Nightclub Mural Desecration
Yesterday, the city of Orlando had a memorial crosswalk buffed of its rainbow colors, which were meant to honor the lives taken on the fateful and sinister day in June, 2016, when 49 people were killed and many more were injured by a gunman.
This has sparked a lot of contempt from the public, including family members of some of the victims of this tragedy. The city claims that this happened without their approval, from the state. “Maybe DeSantis is bitter about his little human trafficking depot slash petting zoo in the Everglades getting shut down and felt he needed to swing his little dick around to show who’s the boss in Florida. Either way, it’s really fucking petty, and people are right to be pissed off right now.”
Orlando mayor Dyer said, “While this crosswalk has been removed, our community’s commitment to honoring the 49 can never be erased.” Yet they have done nothing to restore or replace this memorial, which is what Mattske is advocating for.
As Mattske said, “The city officials can say whatever they want, and of them pretend to fight with the state or federal government, but the fact is they are either inept or full of shit. The public should be outraged at DeSantis, but they shouldn’t let Dyer off the hook so quickly, either.”
Mattske recently wrote an article called Graffiti As A First Amendment Weapon, exposing many of his secret graffiti handles, and telling many previously unpublished tales of his time in Philadelphia developing the legend that has now made him the most feared communicator since Kevin Mitnick.
Since moving to Florida last year, Mattske has successfully protested the DeSantis administration and the Trump administration in their tyrannical overreaches.
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Now that Alligator Alcatraz has been dealt several serious blows in court, and Kilmar Abrego Garcia released from criminal custody in Tennessee (ABC) – Mattske is in demand for his brand of protest which is taking the world by storm.
Mattske has vowed that if compensated fairly, he would stand up for the Pulse nightclub victims and their families with regards to the buffing of the memorial in Orlando.
“I would drop rainbow bombs on Orlando if the city buffed a memorial of somebody I loved. That is the proportional response I think, if you look at graffiti as part of your first amendment right, and something escalatory without becoming violent. Back in 2020, I learned that there were legal arguments about the BLM murals that led conservatives to say they could use public space the same way to do their own messaging. I took that to an extreme, and have defended myself in court and on the street over my graffiti protests which have accompanied some of the most effective actions in history.”
“The chalk stunt was cute, but demonstrably childish, and without long-lasting effect. It rained today in Orlando, so all that might have been washed away by now. I think that’s sad. Also, it was always kind of disrespectful to have the memorial on the ground, a crosswalk that people literally scuff up with their feet all day. Art like this is meant to be seen by as many people as possible. That’s why if they gave me some money I would make the city regret ever considering doing this.”
“A ‘bomb’ in the graffiti sense is traditionally a big piece. But we also saying things like ‘going bombing’ to mean that we are going to pepper an area with tags or pieces, and sort of take over the spot. It seems to me like a lot of people who identify as LGBTQ feel under attack by this. I understand the feeling, for sure. The thing I wish I could help them with is that bitching about it on social media and demanding the city do something still puts the government in the position of being some kind of ultimate authority. They are not that ultimate authority. We are. The People are the ultimate authority. So if they desecrate something important to us, we go use our resources and risk arrest to prove to them they can’t do it anymore. You don’t go ask the city for a new mural. You go paint one yourself and make them buff it again or win the battle and they leave it up.”
“The economics of graffiti as a protest are really interesting because inherently it creates jobs. Lawyers get money for representation, and so all the people in the court and the court itself gets fees/compensation. The people who are paid to buff the work get paid a day-rate, too. If it’s city property, there is no other damage to assess like there could be for a private business or individual. To prosecute graffiti is also not financially responsible for a lot of cases, so it tends to get pled down to small fines or community service. You have to use etch or do more than $5k in damage in one spot in order to get in real trouble. Also, my defense of unpermitted advertising and first amendment protest is compelling in most jurisdictions if you do it honestly. That means the penalty is mere inconvenience, but it can be seriously embarrassing to mayors and city council people or in this case that bloated slave trader Ron DeSantis. If it were up to me, I’d make them all pay a price.”
“Think about it, there are less than (10) colors in a rainbow, but let’s just say you need to paint about that many sections of wall that are each about 2′ x 10′ in size. That’s about 200 square feet of coverage you’d need to replace this memorial which was, sorry to say, kind of anemic in terms of artistry and meaning. An average can of spray paint might cover about 25 square feet depending on what color, what surface, etc. So you’d need maybe (2) 6-packs of average cans, costing about $8 each with free delivery. That’s less than $100 in paint. (1) day/night to do the work, and I would spread it all over the place instead of just (1) spot so that at least some of it lasts a year or two. Maybe more. Imagine what I could do with a budget of $10k, a couple of small permits from private citizens or businesses, and the support of a community who needs a fighter. If left up to the Democrats around here alone, they’re just going to whine online and beg the city for something. If you fight with me, and pay me right, I will make the culture change overnight.”
“Without knowing the whole story I don’t really want to say for sure what happened. It’s entirely possible that this memorial had some kind of decade-long permit or lease agreement that was running out. That would be normal. I actually had a lot of beef with the Mural Arts Program in Philadelphia over their dominance of public wall space and critical view of writers who disagree with them politically. But regardless, this Pulse incident was so horrific and unprecedented, it’s cruel to try to erase it from people’s minds or memory by buffing it like this. The thing I wish I could get people to understand is that the outrage they are wasting on this could be poured into something much more effective like painting the town red…orange, yellow, green, indigo, violet, pink, and every other color or shade of the rainbow. But they have to make this indelible.”
Mattske’s posts about this has gone organically viral, demonstrating that the public would eat it up if he was given a chance.
Mattske estimates that with a budget of $20,000 he would be able to make the people responsible for removing the Pulse memorial, “lose their fucking minds over the number of rainbows and reminders about this I would let loose on their city.”
The money would go to pay for Mattske’s unparalleled artistic and activist talent, travel & expenses, and potential legal defense, as well as enable him plaintiffs rights in certain cases.
“Americans are too blood-thirsty, and not paint-thirsty enough,” Mattske concludes.
