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Kim_Jong_The_Illest_ t1_j66hfxy wrote

Reply to comment by AhbabaOooMaoMao in I’m in Puerto Rico. Just saw a ‘VEO’ graffiti. by gdradio

Well, there are variations. Sometimes there is a dot inside the O; sometimes there is an H at the end. Usually someone who tags or bombs does it in a fairly consistent way. Styles evolve and such, but a whole letter is a big difference; the dot is something distinctive. As someone who used to do graffiti and had lots of friends who did it (i don’t partake any more but still am way too into it), it strikes me as something a single artist wouldn’t do (the variations, that is).

Then there is the VO bomb thats around that often doesn’t have a VEO tag with it. I do think that is a singular person bc the style is distinct and there isn’t variation. But the VEO tag, my gut tells me it’s more than one person.

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AhbabaOooMaoMao t1_j66hxtu wrote

That's interesting. So you think Veoh, VO, and Veo, are three separate tags for three separate taggers, with the third one possibly being like a crew or a meme or something?

I had assumed Veoh, VO, and Veo, was just variation of one tagger, for style, mood, and perhaps, I always thought, time. Figured it must be cool to have a nickname you can spell these different ways.

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Kim_Jong_The_Illest_ t1_j66imd3 wrote

The VO bomb i believe is one person because it is so distinctive and has so little variation. But the other two, i believe is some mix of a small crew, and, like you said, copy cats and such—people spreading it. That’s just a gut feeling, but the variations make it seem like it’s not the work of one person.

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AhbabaOooMaoMao t1_j66xmr6 wrote

Well I'll keep my eyes peeled for some of these details. Good teamwork. Maybe one of these days I'll FOIA the DOT and see what they have.

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nikedude t1_j6cq4sj wrote

My guess is it's 4 people. Names probably start with V, E, O, H. Depending on who is working together on the tag, that's the variation they use. So V, E, and O go out and do a tag, they use VEO (if O does the spray, maybe adds the dot in the middle). Idk, just my $0.02

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