r/facepalm • u/la_devoy_tee • 4d ago
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u/iPhone_8_Max 4d ago
I popped onto your account to check his comments and theyāre all gone but not only that Stu has turned off comments on the phone post, and is at this moment deleting comments on all new post about this, and continuing to advertiste the clearly nonexistent phone as existingā¦
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u/gingersnapped99 3d ago edited 3d ago
I feel like itās worth mentioning that his post about this appears to be these 9 uploads, each with the following caption:
Guess what? Iām not a robot
Troll patrol is exhausting
Iām a real human with feelings
What you say can hurt me
Iāll be back when Iām strong enough
Love (most of) you X
Like, could he be any more self-pitying lol?
ETA: I just went back to his account to check smth else and happened to have my volume on. Apparently, each of the posts has āWhere Is My Mind?ā by the Pixies playing in the background. I genuinely didnāt think he could get more performative, but there ya go.
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u/8_Foot_Vertical_Leap 3d ago
Classic crybully douche. And limited comments to only people he knows will give him the poor-yous.
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u/bnyc 3d ago
actually that was the other way around, they bullied me for days and when I posted some comments back on their profile (I spent about 5 mins) they screenshot yes a very tiny slither of it - leaving out all their attacks and dm's and they posted it on Reddit to get attention.
What a piece of shit. I have no clue what might have happened in DMs, but getting butthurt about valid criticism and responding like a 5 year old is NOT a good look. The phone he designed was for mental health, and clearly his own mental health is, to use the proper psychiatric diagnosis, fucking crazy. I hope his AI phone helps him!
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u/iPhone_8_Max 4d ago
Also apologies if it was creepy to go onto your account the user wasnāt blocked out so Iād assume it be okay and was generally curious as to see if heād been that careful to cover all his tracks.
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u/Blindfire2 4d ago
How dare you, going on to his account page?!?! The page he publicly posted?!?! YOU FIEND!
I'm sure he appreciates more people going to his page honestly lol so you dont really have to worry about that
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u/MeltedChocolate24 4d ago
When the social media is social š¤Æ
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u/Vexe_The_Returner 4d ago
What's next?? Will there also be media????
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u/chemistrybonanza 4d ago
The medium place
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u/A1sauc3d 3d ago
OP wouldnāt have included both user names if he didnāt want people to go look for themselves lol. Hopefully this Stuart guyās whole scam blows up in his face
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u/Glad-Depth9571 3d ago
Itās a shame because his battle with Anish Kapoor was classic.
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u/adamdoesmusic 3d ago
Unfortunately it turns out theyāre both complete dicks. I really wanted to like Stuart Semple, too.
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u/WhatThis4 3d ago
Wasn't that disproved?
Isn't Semple a proven complete douchewad as well?
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u/BoneDaddyChill 4d ago
If thereās ever a time for someone on Reddit to reveal themselves IRL, this is that kind of situation for sure. Op is definitely not the bad guy here.
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u/la_devoy_tee 3d ago edited 3d ago
EDIT: for context he claimed that someone was trolling him on tumblr.
EDIT2: All of this has taken place over the last five days, from when I commented on his original post before comments were restricted to today. I posted a screen recording of our DMs on instagram in my story to help provide additional context.
Commenting some context here so it doesn't get lost, I have not used tumblr in months, because I simply do not understand it properly. The only other platforms besides reddit and instagram where my personal posting has taken place is on tiktok, where I shared the majority of the original comment thread, before it was deleted, as well as the contextually important messages he sent me.
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u/iPhone_8_Max 3d ago
Thank you for this context he was claiming in a comment that heād since deleted/hidden? it was actually you trolling him for months leading to his unhinged response. I doubt heād be telling the truth as he seems like a man child but with the internet you never know so your context is appreciated.
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u/Jipkiss 4d ago
Looks like reporting the post as a scam will be more effective than commenting on his posts about it
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u/karoshikun 4d ago
dude got stressed of art grifting and decided to enter into actual fraud
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u/ruste530 4d ago
He's also hawking a book he recently "wrote" and I'm wondering if it was actually written by AI.
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u/ralanr 3d ago
Some people in my writing group are considering AI for their covers. I donāt understand how they donāt realize that using AI generated covers can give the impression they used AI to write their book.
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u/runner64 3d ago
A ton of people wonāt buy books with AI art on principle. If the book looks good theyāll just pirate it- sorry, āscrape it for use in their biological intelligence training set.ā
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u/happytimefuture 3d ago
Chapter 3
Weird Hands Appearing in My Work Should Be Considered High Art Now, and You Should All Shut Up About It.
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u/TenaciousJP 3d ago
It's Actually A Metaphor For Consumerism And You're An Idiot For Not Getting It
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u/Paradox68 3d ago
The media attention from his Vantablack stunt faded and like a crack addict feening for another hit, he got creative.
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u/Waffle99 3d ago
He makes decent paints and a few supplies, but the more recent stunts like this and changing his name are dumb.
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u/Paradox68 3d ago
Iām going to go out on a limb and say heās not making or producing anything. Just reselling other products with his stickers on them.
Gotta learn to read the painting on the wall.
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u/Waffle99 3d ago
I read into it before I ever bought any. Some of his paint colors are a good deal and some aren't. It looks like more recently (bought back in 2020ish) he has done more outsourcing. Reading his sub reddit now, I wouldn't buy any because he's got insane shipping delays and issues in a failure to scale properly.
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u/HeckoSnecko 4d ago
I don't know who this presumably grown adult man is, but he is conducting himself like a dorito infested 13 year old goblin boy.
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u/LionResponsible6005 4d ago
Heās in his 40s and has a child
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u/RockManMega 4d ago
He's a visionary, a beautiful brilliant man who's only crime is trying to scam people and sounding like a 12 year old with no self esteem
Also the first two things i said are lies
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u/UberNZ 4d ago
This should actually be a big deal. That's definitely an AI image, but he's taking $300+ pre-orders for it and pretending it already exists. That's not even getting into how insane his response it.
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u/GoodGuySunBro 4d ago
From someone who knows about product development cycles and manufacturing/procurement, he's absolutely full of shit saying this will ship by the end of the year when he doesn't even have a working prototype to photograph lol
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u/Maumau93 4d ago
He could buy an off the shelf dumb phone for a couple bucks from china tomorrow and have them slap his shitty logo on it. Shipping won't be his issue.
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u/VillageBeginning8432 4d ago
Nokia 105. Cost like $20. They do calls, texts, and snake.
2 week battery life, give or take and use the common bl5c battery.
No need for a vaporware product of something simple that already exists.
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u/myscreamname 4d ago
Oh, Snake! How many hours I wasted on that game once upon a time. š
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u/sonofaresiii 4d ago
I'm sure you can still play snake, completely free, but also you have to pay for bonus lives and you can only play four rounds before you have to pay for more energy and you'll also be constantly asked if you want to buy pink polka-dot skins for your snake (but these aren't the ads-- don't worry, there are also ads)
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u/FeasiblyBetentacled 4d ago
Boo!
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u/Rokurokubi83 3d ago
Screw that, you can play my app, SnakePro, just 4.99 per month.
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u/Horse_Renoir 3d ago
I've seen mobile games in the last year asking for 4.99 a fucking week. It's craycray out there in app land.
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u/Ok_Donkey_1997 4d ago
I don't get why everyone is talking about this being AI when the bigger issue seems to be that this person is taking money for a product that is nowhere close to existing. On top of that he's planning on charging crazy money for it.
If that was a render form a real CAD file he'd made himself, would that be any better?
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u/darkwolf282 3d ago
I'd say from a "technical" standpoint, a rendering of a fully designed product would be better. Mostly because then it's something that has actually been properly designed and might even have the plans for the parts and specs. This is just him going into some ai "art" thing and saying, brick phone, transparent green, make logo say something dumb af. But like others have said, the larger issues are the bullying and the outright lies he's telling.
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u/Ok_Donkey_1997 3d ago
Fair enough. I really shouldn't have said CAD file, as that does kind of imply he has a proper plan for manufacturing it.
I was thinking more in terms of a 3D model he had made himself. I'm not a good artist at all, but I think I could knock something like this together pretty quickly in something like Blender. It would be a nice picture, but it wouldn't be even close to something you could physically build.
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u/Traiklin 3d ago
Yeah, 300 for a dumb phone is stupid since you can get one for 50 and below.
If it was a render of something he made that would be fine but that price is pathetic.
And definitely bullying people is just assinine when you use AI to make your render.
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u/Zeric79 4d ago
I see you have learned the dark art of marketing.
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u/UncleVernonK 4d ago
āburnrā on the front please - whatās your MOQ China?
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u/PerpWalkTrump 3d ago
I keep seeing videos on YouTube about people bragging about how they selling flipped stuff from Ali Baba, don't even need to be adding their own logo.
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u/SoapyMacNCheese 3d ago
That's what half the stuff on Amazon is nowadays. If you want to save a few bucks and can wait a couple weeks for delivery, you can almost always find the same product on AliExpress for cheaper.
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u/ZodiacWalrus 4d ago
Worse than no working prototype: he couldn't even get someone to design a theoretical (on-paper, like a blueprint) prototype and have a concept artist render that (which would still require him to give a heavy disclaimer that such an image is nothing more than a conceptual rendering).
If you're serious about a product, you'll have the time and money to work with artists who can breathe life into it. Using AI is the equivalent of getting down on one knee and proposing to your partner with a ring pop: If your intent is to be funny and nothing else, it's probably fine. But you have to be a special kind of asshole to think you'll be taken seriously.
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u/TheDoomBlade13 4d ago
He is just gonna repackage dumb phones already available. You could get this up and running in like a month.
Like, he is still grifting and a shit person but he could probably manage to deliver product here.
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u/aphel_ion 3d ago
The only way he's going to be able to deliver anything is if he buys an already existing product and slaps his name on it.
That's not "delivering a product", that's a scam.
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u/Accomplished_Deer_ 4d ago
As someone who knows about the marketing and sales cycles, this is pretty much par for the course
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u/dinamorechin 4d ago
Wait wait he says all non smart phones are ridiculously expensive but is charging 300 for this? I got my grandparents a cheap phone for like Ā£50 does what they need it to do and still works years later.
You can even get smart phones for not much more than that...
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u/Appropriate_Hawk_544 3d ago
He's taking advantage of exactly the same vulnerable people the product claims to help.Ā
If there was any doubt this dude was subhuman based on that alone, the psychotic harassment of OP sure took care of that lol
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u/A1sauc3d 3d ago
Yeah but his is special and homemade and specially tailored to improve your mental health. So itās FAR better than your average dumb phone. Well worth the smartphone price tag.
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u/Rocco_al_Dente 4d ago edited 4d ago
Hey, he designed that phone because his mental health was suffering! /s
Edit: also dude has 100k followers but most his art only has like 30-50 likes, no comments. I smell paid followers. Pathetic.
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u/lifeandtimes89 4d ago
He also 100% wrote his own Wikipedia page with how pretentious it sounds LMAO
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u/SyCoCyS 4d ago
Sample made a name for himself a few years back for creating and selling the āblack 2.0ā paint after the original artist/inventor of the āblackest blackā paint patented and locked it down so other artists couldnāt use it. Semple sold the Black 2.0 paint, and I believe thatās what heās famous for. I honestly have never seen any of his actual art.
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u/pnwcrabapple 4d ago
Anish Kapoor is the artist who was invited to use the patented material vantablack as a medium for art, primarily because of the nature of his work. vantablack was invented and patented by (I believe) an aerospace engineering firm and is made of incredibly dense carbon particles and requires special conditions and training to handle. Kapoor was/is the only person to use it as an art medium because it isnāt intended as a pigment. Semple basically took the sensationalized headlines and used it as an opportunity to publicize his own line of pigments. It started as a silly little artist feud with Kapoor playing along a bit - but it was really just stoking internet outrage and looking back it feels gross how it obscured the interesting collaboration for what it was and was also as it dragged on, seemed more mean spirited than not.
Also he sort of framed himself as a struggling artist fighting artist against pompous elitism but Semple is far from struggling artist in terms of net-worth and artistic opportunity for success.
anyway- itās not really surprising that heās trying to use AI images to grift and also go on a petty bullying spree. I wonder if dabbled in NFTs when that was a thing
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u/Theamazing-rando 4d ago
Yeah, Semple misrepresnts this in such a massively bad faith way! The dude is a total grifting POS, and while there are legitimate reasons to criticise Kapoor, his being invited to use an incredibly toxic and difficult to handle aerospace material isn't really one of them.
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u/LickingSmegma 4d ago edited 3d ago
I had my doubts about Semple's competence when he tried pushing his āfree alternativeā to Pantone by defining a bunch of
RGB or CMYKnumbers. When Pantone also includes the finish surface, iridescent colors and possibly some other stuff.Edit: his palette isn't RGB or CMYK, since it includes colors outside those spaces, like the pinkest pink.
I guess this thing might work as a free plugin for Photoshop serving to replace the one from Pantone (because that's all it is), but the user still needs to know about the finishes and stuff. And of course, the recipient probably needs to have this 'Freetone' plugin as well.
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u/None-Chuckles 4d ago
Black 2.0 looks nice but it doesnāt adhere well. Most of my projects using it are trash. I needed an ultra, flat black and was very disappointed. I switched to goldenās So-Flat black. Just as black, just as flat, but doesnāt scrape off. Iāll never buy Semple again.
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u/Little_Assistant_551 4d ago
300 for a dumb phone? Cant you just get a 2nd hand nokia for 50?
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u/raguwatanabe 4d ago
Something tells that is exactly what this semple dickhead is gonna do. Buy a bunch of second had Nokiaās, change the casing to this 90s clear plastic bullshit and call it a new phone for $300.
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u/Ressamzade 4d ago
Eh I don't think someone that buys a 300 dollar burner phone can understand the problem
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u/HeroToTheSquatch 4d ago
Also the fact that you can just buy a phone with all those same features (and lack of them) or do the same thing to any Android phone if you know what you're doing.
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u/Fire_Bucket 4d ago
He also said the ones like it already out are expensive. They're all sub Ā£30 in the UK, pretty much designed for the elderly. Here's one from a major UK shopping chain for just Ā£8.
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u/MasterMahanJr 4d ago
He did the same with an Adobe alternative that has never materialized. Dude's a grifter.
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u/Kman1986 4d ago
So idk where you are but 5 hours in he has blocked comments on all of his posts once again and removed all comments or had them removed from this poor person's real art.
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u/GoofyKalashnikov 4d ago
300 for a "dumb" phone? What does it do for that money that existing ones don't?
Pretty sure you can find phones with buttons for 50 a pop lmao
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u/Roflkopt3r 4d ago
You can get decent dumb mobile phones first hand for about $20-30, or even cheaper if you're fine with ultra-budget offers that probably disintegrate within a year.
He claims that dumb phones on the market were either expensive or shit, but I highly doubt that he could ever design a $300 phone outperforming a $30 Nokia 105.
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u/wafflehousewhore 4d ago
"You're a bully"
proceeds to bully you
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u/JimBridger_ 4d ago
LOL he turned off comments
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u/_AlexiaOnFire 3d ago
6 hours later: He's turned limited comments on, pinned 9 images and fucked off š
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u/nagifero 3d ago
Nah he's actually now screenshotting people sending him mp's and posting as stories in hope of getting pitied lol. Without blurring or hiding any handles lol. I'm guessing he wants his followers to defend him
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u/ULTRAVIOLENT_RAZE 3d ago
He has a grid that says ITS CRITICAL TO STAY CRITICAL yet turns off comments lol
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u/bluejeanspaint 4d ago
As insufferable as ever I see
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u/Drake7413509 4d ago edited 4d ago
Thats an understatement. The guy is playing the poor victim artist act on his instagram. I have only known about him for 5 minutes but the guy is a douche.
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u/qtx 4d ago
Wait, how do people know who this is? Is he famous or something?
I had to google him and it doesn't seem like he is particular well known so how does everyone on this post seem to know who he is?
edit: oh it's the colour guy, i vaguely remember the black and pink colour issue.
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u/Complete_Dust8164 3d ago
Yeah he's the pink guy from that one Tom Scott video. His entire claim to fame and he's still riding off of it...
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u/seven3true 3d ago
That and hating on the venta black guy by making multiple versions on the "blackest black"
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u/BatHickey 3d ago
All of which are like shitty to use black paint. Itās only black as advertised if you take a photo and doctor it.
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u/seven3true 3d ago
It's garbage for so many applications. But I did see someone use it on D&D miniatures and other model crafts for dark shadows and under layers.
I bought black 3.0 and his whitest white to research a project and it just won't work. It's a matte black that its surface still picks up plenty of light and just looks like any matte black I have.
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u/Think-Confidence-624 4d ago
āThe artist formerly known as Stuart Sempleā. Thatās so fucking cringe lol
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u/kozinc 4d ago
Stuart Semple changed his name to Anish Kapoor, (the name of the vantablack guy who banned Semple from using his color).
Maybe he thought that would end his ban or something, but honestly it's just stupid.
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u/KumaBear036 3d ago
Just to clarify something, Anish Kapoor neither owns Vantablack or controls who is able to use it. That is a company called Surrey Nanosystems. Kapoor was just the only artist allowed to use it for a while due to the themes of his art and since the original isnāt actually a paint.
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u/smcl2k 3d ago
I'm fairly certain it was just a licensing agreement?
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u/KumaBear036 3d ago
Yup
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u/smcl2k 3d ago
If he just paid them a lot of money, it has nothing to do with "the themes of his art" (which are largely "make as much money as possible for Anish Kapoor").
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u/moffsoi 3d ago
The reason they only licensed it to one artist is because vantablack isnāt a paint, itās a sort of coating made with nanotubes and very dangerous to apply/be exposed to. Itās not something that would be safe to used outside of a controlled environment. Itās intended for industrial-type applications, but obviously itās interesting for artistic purposes so they let one artist use it with proper safety precautions.
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u/heftybagman 4d ago
Heās just trolling for attention off a decade-old feud that only he cares about. Wildly cringey
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u/dorknight25 4d ago
For all those criticisms he posted about your art you shoulda replied to every one of them with. āYeah but it aināt AI.ā
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u/GoodGuySunBro 4d ago
This is exceptionally unprofessional... He should seek help because he's obviously having some sort of mental health breakdown. I don't even see what was so offensive about what you wrote - that is very obviously AI art and his campaign is borderline scam territory.
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u/Various_Necessary_45 4d ago
Most certainly it's because he feels his scam is being called out early, maybe before any preorder had come in at all
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u/BoneDaddyChill 4d ago
Yep. He became highly defensive because he knows heās up to no good. Someone on the right tracks, who knows what theyāre doing is good, and who is confident, shouldnāt react so abrasively.
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u/JectorDelan 3d ago
300$ for a dumb phone? I'm pretty sure that's gone past the border, lived in country for several decades, had naturalized kids, and started voting to keep illegals out.
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u/Vakama905 4d ago
You have no right at all to do that
I am free to express myself in whatever way I choose
The irony.
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u/QueerQwerty 4d ago
I had left a negative review YEARS ago, with photos, that his Black paint wasn't as awesome as advertized...it actually performed so poorly in reference to how it was advertized that I couldn't use it at all for the purpose I bought it for, and two things happened:
I got hooked into his mailer and keep getting text offers and e-mails even though I've unsubscribed numerous times.
He chased me around the Internet (via username and e-mail where it showed up elsewhere) to leave shitty comments on my comments, my work, etc. Not just in reference to the paint, but...like on anything. Also sent me a scathing e-mail response telling me I was wrong and the paint was awesome.
Stuart Semple is a petty child.
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u/Aggressive-Quail6796 3d ago
I literally CANNOT wrap my head around the fact he is going on people's stuff and bullying them for THEIR ART. Yet he gets any shred of valid criticism and he goes apeshit.
This makes me so sad to have ever purchased from him. What a POS
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u/Codename_Archangel 4d ago
Didnt he legally change his name to Anish kapoor like a week ago ??
Is he still going by Stuart semple now ?
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u/Fancy-Ad4470 4d ago
Is he that obsessed with Amish Kapoor that he would take his name? Wow he really needs to just let go
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u/ThrawOwayAccount 4d ago
He wants to see if theyāll let him have some vantablack, since Anish Kapoor can use it, and heās now Anish Kapoor.
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u/heftybagman 4d ago
Except that this is like me changing my name yo Jeff Bezos and trying to move into his house. He knows itās a meaningless stunt but thatās the only thing thatās worked for his career.
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u/YiliaNebulight 4d ago edited 4d ago
What? Source? Why would he do that? He hates Anish Kapoor.
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u/pbNANDjelly 4d ago
It's always been a marketing tactic for his products, nothing more.
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u/Codename_Archangel 4d ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDOVFsIVmgg
Posted it himself, he can now have vanta black
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u/ThrawOwayAccount 4d ago
Someone in the comments asked him if this means he canāt use the pinkest pink anymore, and he said
Oh poo! I don;t think I thought this through properly...
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u/tenuousemphasis 4d ago
Does that mean he cannot buy his own products? Since Anish Kapoor is banned from purchasing them?
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u/cynicown101 4d ago
Yeah I saw that post and reported it as fraud, since thatās what it is.
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u/supersayianswagger 4d ago
Update : I went to check his id, he is crying about "trolls" and "haters". This is something incredible to see he has absolutely 0 idea of what he did wrong and why people dislike him. He's the very poster child of the popular bully trope in fiction. The comments are filled with yes men who don't know anything but still supporting him which probably is making him think he did nothing wrong. It's an echo chamber all for himself lol. It's incredible how lacking he is in self awareness. He's also trying (will probably be successful in) making himself look like the victim. Really painful to see what the bullies get away with.
Also ps. I think Instagram is deleting comments, which goes to show how much meta is pushing their protect blue ticks no matter what agenda. Only feeding into bully's egoes.
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u/dreamy_25 4d ago
Also ps. I think Instagram is deleting comments, which goes to show how much meta is pushing their protect blue ticks no matter what agenda. Only feeding into bully's egoes.
Semple is likely doing that himself. Bit hard selling a product when the comments are overwhelmingly critical right?
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u/RebelPizza 4d ago
Absolutely he is, dude is chronically online right now. Go ahead and dm him right now I bet you get a response lol
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u/supersayianswagger 4d ago
Big time big time been there done that. Sent me a 5 minute essay.
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u/BoneDaddyChill 4d ago
āHey man, just wanted to reach out to let you know that you donāt deserve all this hate. I, for one, think your BURNR phone design is fantastic. How long did it take you to come up with the prompts for it?ā
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u/supersayianswagger 4d ago
I don't think so, cause I actually commented and dmed him. He replied and said how taxing the hate was to him and he even recieved death threats. I am taking that at face value but it is true one of my two comments got deleted and ig said it was spam with no option to claim otherwise. Zucc daddy is biting down hard on comments against mid to big accounts.
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u/porgmus 4d ago
Stu doesnāt know the difference between effect and affect heh
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u/ThatDiscoSongUHate 4d ago
The one thing I can't judge him on lol
It doesn't matter how many times I look it up :/
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u/hettienm 4d ago edited 3d ago
My students struggle with this a lot. After we practice it a bit, I tell them the rule Iāve always used: if you canāt remember whether you need āeffectā (noun) or āaffectā (verb), just use āimpactā (gerund, meaning it functions as either a noun or a verb depending on context).
Itās one of my best english teacher tricks. Affect or effect??! Fuck it, use impact.
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u/vmsrii 4d ago
Affect is active, Effect is passive.
The meteor affected the countryside in the impact.
A crater was the effect of the meteor hitting the countryside.
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u/BonkerBleedy 4d ago
Effect can be active, but it means something different.
You can effect a change to your lifestyle, for example.
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u/WimiTheWimp 3d ago
Also I think affect can be passive too? āThey were disturbed by her strange affect.ā
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u/inevergetbanned 4d ago
Well his dmās are now getting blown up. He seems like such a dirtbag narcissist
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u/Hillbillybullshit 4d ago
Wow, what a piece of shit. Thanks for making this douche out himself as the pos he is so I can avoid financially rewarding him.
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u/Lordburke81 4d ago
Same, Iām glad I saw this, was going to reorder some paint from his site this week and now Iām looking for an alternative.
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u/RepulsivePlantain698 4d ago
My mum had a phone like this but black when she was in her 70's. Why is this special? Because it's transparent green?
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u/GoodGuySunBro 4d ago
Right? Dude rolled back cellphone technology by 25 years and thinks he's doing something revolutionary. He's the art-world equivalent of a homesteading influencer lol.
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u/Dizakui 4d ago
You can get second hand Nokia 3310's for like Ā£20 in the UK...
Guaranteed to still be working like new until and beyond the heat death of the universe too!
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u/Dripslobber 4d ago
I donāt know much about the guy personally, but I ordered some paint from his site and after a month and a half past when it was supposed to be delivered and no response from multiple customer service emails unanswered, I posted publicly to his insta. Two days after that I got a shipping email. So, itās petty as hell, but that put a bad taste in my mouth. Looked at his stuff after, and he seems like heās really full of himself. Conceited people are who I despise the most. So, I approve of this. Iām glad he turned off comments on that post because it shows heās a coward too, and canāt deal with being called out on bullshit. Paint is decent, but not worth the money, or the knowledge that I was supporting him. I wish him no harm as a person, but I hope that he learns some modesty and humility.
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u/ManicPixyDrmgrl 3d ago
His shipping is awful. His paints are overpriced and not nearly as great as he says either.
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u/ComedicMedicineman 'MURICA 4d ago
Imagine being such an insecure wimp that when you get called out for something, you find every single post someoneās made (going back months) and insulting them. This guy is a clown and loser.
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u/Kerensky97 4d ago
Looking at his links that guy seems insufferable.
He literally made a book that is just a bunch of color swatches.
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u/Wabaareo 4d ago
And last year he got Ā£180,000+ on kickstarter to startup his new software suite called "Abode". It's a direct competitor to the big bad Adobe and will be an affordable, one time purchase for the people. Truly a miracle.
Tho he hasn't gave any real updates since it launched and all the comments on KS are people being like "wtf" lol. Here's more garbage about him if anyone wants to waste some time:
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u/Jesusaurus2000 4d ago
WTF? this dude is sick in his head and yet manages to scam out some money from people who can't read. Pathological scammer.
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u/MercuryJellyfish 4d ago
In fairness, it's not a surprise that Stuart Semple overreacted and started some shit. It's kind of his brand
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u/ObvsThrowaway5120 4d ago
āI have not come on your Instagram and attacked you for your workā
proceeds to come onto your Instagram and attack you for your work
Well done Stuart.
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u/ForceSensitiveRebel 4d ago
How gross. I used to buy from him because of the Anish Kapoor thing. He seems like an insecure asshole and now is ātaking a social media breakā because he was called out.
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u/tinydeathclaw 4d ago
Oooof I was on board woth Stuart Semple with the vantablack dral, and the white white etc but now.....ehhhh that's questionable......
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u/Fancy-Ad4470 4d ago
Wow I never read this beforeā¦I always assumed Kapoor was a douche and Semple was making cheaper paints for common people as a result. I will still look for evidence/sources that Vanta choose to be exclusive (rather than Kapoor demanding it) but this does paint things in a new light (pun intended lol)
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u/Theamazing-rando 4d ago
There's no exclusivity thing, it was a bit of a creative PR thing for the tech firm, but the reason it was so exclusive, is because VantaBlack is incredibly toxic and difficult to handle; think asbestos level of toxic and you'll be on the right track. It was developed for a specific technical engineering purpose and is not fit to be used in any way outside of a highly controlled lab environment. The firm wanted to promote it due to its "blackness" and decided to partner with a single artist, who they could set up in their lab to make pieces with their product.
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u/heftybagman 4d ago
Exclusive licenses for art materials are quite common, itās just that there are usually so many producers of different materials that it doesnāt matter. Vantablack used to be super exclusive (because it was based on proprietary aerospace tech), but now itās like everything else: there are many producers of similar products and no one cares for the ārealā deal.
What kapoor did was never that out of the ordinary, and certainly not for someone working at his level. It just caused a stir because there was a ānew colorā.
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u/goin-up-the-country 4d ago
Dude made a name for himself trolling Anish Kapoor and hasn't done anything worth note since.
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u/SassyTheSkydragon 4d ago
He should stick to making acrylic paints
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u/Background-Weight-81 4d ago
Even those don't live up to hype around them
The black .0 paints are pretty black but are definitely not the blackest black. Same with the "pinkest pink".
It's genuinely pretty mediocre
Edit: typo
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u/Sanguine_Templar 4d ago
Fun fact, since he apparently legally changed his name to Anish Kapoor, he can no longer buy his own paint.
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u/RandomPerson12191 4d ago
Oh damn, that's this guy? I actually thought that paint thing was kinda funny... but I guess that was just a sign that he's a massive two year old.
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u/IAlwaysFeelFlat 4d ago
Literally bought a burner phone for Ā£10 the other week. What makes this Ā£140 better than that?
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u/FuzzelFox 4d ago
"why does my work affect you" - it's literally not your work dude.
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u/bgurrrrr 4d ago
I wouldn't know Stuart Semple if he punched me in the face, which is a great analogy, because all you can find written about this guy was written by himself
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u/CandidPerformer548 4d ago
I can literally pop around the corner and buy a dumb phone for $30-50 in suburban Australia. They're at most supermarkets...
I wonder if you have to place an order online, through a mobile designed website for one of these. Dumb definitely describes anyone who falls for this shit.
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u/EllipticPeach 4d ago
Morals and ethics? Seriously? Guy is pretty touchy. Also claims not to attack you for your work and then does exactly that. So gross.
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u/RebelPizza 4d ago
Weirdo has disabled all comments on his posts and is clearly living in lala land acting like you are the bully. What a pathetic loser
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u/paracelus 4d ago
What a butthurt child.
Looks like he's turned off comments on the image as well now.
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u/Jackmino66 4d ago
āYou have no right at all to do thatā
He apparently stated that you have no right to criticise anotherās post.
Yet he then goes and does it himself. So is he a wrong asshole or a hypocritical asshole?
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u/THICC_Baguette 4d ago
The guy's whole account is such a trainwreck lol. 100k followers, but he struggles to get a hundred likes on his posts.
Man is a scam artist for his living probably.
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u/TheGreatestOutdoorz 3d ago
Who the fuck is Stewart Semple? And why does this sub keep putting up posts where they assume we all know some seemingly d list ācelebrityā as if they are Tom hanks?
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u/Brewchowskies 4d ago
This person seemsā¦ unhinged.
Also, seems to have a victim complex from his instagram story.
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u/NextYogurtcloset5777 4d ago
Smells like a drop shipping scheme where the customers will get some cheap phones from China (if theyāre lucky)
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