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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.

๐Ÿค˜ Created by the former mod team of r/AccidentalRenaissance

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[โ€“] EpeeGnome@feddit.online 239 points 2 days 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 62 points 2 days 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 45 points 2 days ago

LAPD are notorious shitbags so probably not.

[โ€“] fizzle@quokk.au 13 points 2 days ago

I think the cops knew exactly what was going on.

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

[โ€“] J92@lemmy.world 137 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I see what you did there

[โ€“] FosterMolasses@leminal.space 3 points 1 day 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 8 points 1 day 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.

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

Cheap and light, and apparently around since 1965.

[โ€“] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 103 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The US summarised perfectly.

[โ€“] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 39 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

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

[โ€“] IpsumLauren@lemmy.world 74 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Why is she being handcuffed?

[โ€“] RaoulDuke85@piefed.social 79 points 2 days ago

She's colored.

[โ€“] chunes@lemmy.world 108 points 2 days ago

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

She's foreign, obviously.

[โ€“] Friendly@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

AccidentalRenaissance? Here ya go Also LAPD

[โ€“] ComicalMayhem@lemmy.world 27 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[โ€“] ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip 146 points 2 days 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 2 days 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 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[โ€“] Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[โ€“] 1dalm@lemmy.today 5 points 1 day ago

Do you know what she was arrested for?

Protesting on the wrong place, I imagine?

[โ€“] CentipedeFarrier@piefed.social 23 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)