00:00Graffiti, it is a problem in every city, everywhere.
00:04Greater Victoria is no different, and it seems to be on the rise lately.
00:07Tagging. Graffiti seems to be getting out of control.
00:10They say the subculture exists on taggers impressing each other.
00:13These individuals just come by and quickly spray paint their name
00:16dozens and dozens and dozens of times.
00:20Downtown Victoria Business Association and police call it a crime.
00:24Just a needless destruction of property.
00:26It serves really no purpose, and so we'd really like to put this to an end.
00:32The city is sort of crushing graffiti, and also any sort of youth culture.
00:37It seems like graffiti isn't really allowed.
00:39The downtown core wanted to eradicate graffiti completely.
00:43Victoria is so small, the property values are going up,
00:48so there's a lot less tolerance for vandalism.
00:51You know, on the island, we're insular.
00:53We're kind of shut off from the rest of the world in a lot of ways.
00:56It's kind of cool, we're like a little bit secluded.
00:58You're the only person out at night.
01:00It's pretty obvious what you're up to know and get.
01:02Different areas had different crews.
01:03It was just like there was a crew in Oak Bay,
01:06there was a crew in Esquimalt, you know,
01:08and there was a crew, you know, in Fernwood.
01:09I don't think fights these days can compare
01:12to some of, like, the battle royals that you stop in.
01:15If anyone clipped a piece,
01:17or I'm there the next day painting it
01:19and punching them in the face.
01:21We had a wall that just went on and on and on and on.
01:26There was a couple hundred meters of really fun walls
01:29with awesome burners.
01:30Together against Graffiti Group and Esquimalt,
01:32they came through and they buffed the entire thing,
01:35and then this beige rolled in.
01:37You know, they've been dealing
01:39with an insane graffiti problem in Victoria.
01:42It's such a rich city
01:43that they're always going to put that money
01:45into, like, making those surface-level problems not appear.
01:48And then now, with this new burst, it's awesome.
01:52It's bomb, is what it is.
01:57To all the kids that want to paint on things,
01:59just go paint on things.
02:00Don't let anybody tell you how to do it properly or not.
02:03If it makes you happy, do it.
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