New York sculptor spent $100,000 on Charlie Kirk statue no one will buy
New York sculptor spent $100,000 to make a Charlie Kirk statue no one wants to buy
Huw Swanborough558Wait.... It wasn't even commissioned?! This was someone's complete use of free will?
Comfortably Numb184He looks like he is about to release a shart.
Paul Lee128It's like the whole thing after his death was performative. Huh. Weird.
CarrieT 🗽 ⚖️ 🇺🇸 🐶 📚 🛩 🌏 🐘 🗳 ⛩️ 😆 🎶 🪙 🤷♀️123Not even his widow. 😢
Mitchell Epner93He keeps saying that he is going to install the Charlie Kirk statue in Times Square. If he tries to do that on the sidewalk or pedestrian area, he will be arrested and the statue will be confiscated. If he has a private gallery in “Times Square”, I cannot imagine where it actually is.
Jenny Lee Shee76The sculptor’s dog has some stories to tell.
Stephan Krosecz16It's honestly so ugly, and I'm not even saying that because Charlie Kirk sucks lol If I were someone who liked the guy I'd be offended looking at it
Squeaky Llama🏳️⚧️11You are telling me this shit was not commissioned, but some weirdo made it unpromoted under the impression that some kirk fan would want to buy it?!?!?!?!?!
eris raven11funniest move get some red spray paint and just paint the neck
🪐Saturn🪐Peter and Rosie kisser😍8I mean cant fully blame them Surprised the statue even lasted and no one put a hole in it (iyk iyk) lol
Mitildide, wife era7100.000, that means if me and all my followers chipped just 1 dollar each we'd be able to own the thing and then set up a contest for the funniest thing to do with it
🦈Sydney Boya🦄6I can’t get over how much the statue just does not look like the guy. Like it looks almost like a mean spirited parody of the guy because they tried to chadify him.
Reweth 🏳️⚧️🇨🇦🐦⬛6It's really astonishing the degree to which he's already been forgottennajd discarded on the right except as a rhetorical device. Rest in piss, Charlie.
Kay Orchison3“The statue is not cursed. The statue is blessed,” he said, slowly transforming into a corn cob
Van 🚐3E quem lembra q quem minimamente criticava ele na ocasião da morte, foi perseguido e acusado de coisas horríveis, perdendo emprego etc (inclusive aqui no BR)? Agora parece q a própria ext. direita largou mão e já se voltou pra outro interesse. Mas tudo muito orgânico, claro.
Debordekai Tenkaichi3Mfer looking like a PS3 Sleep Paralysis Demon
Dude spent $100k making a Charlie Kirk tribute statute and is furious that no one will buy it. Putting aside the fact that this piece of "art" looks like a blow up doll from Walmart this story warms my heart. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Ben Holt 🇨🇦14He made a Republican themed urinal and doesn't realise it.
🇨🇦Theo🇨🇦9Looks like he tried to repurpose the original Ronaldo bust.
🇨🇦 🍁9Back when he was murdered, I told my son about it. He replied "Oh, the big head-tiny face guy?".
Baja Arizona. We fight on.7I especially liked the part where he is getting messages from people saying they can't wait to urinate on it. 😜
katherinemary.bsky.social5His wife should buy it…. If she really loved him.🤷♀️
Doctor John Frink4He is in death as he was in life: worthless.
Professors and journalists are going to start getting fired for not buying the Charlie Kirk statue
Common Sense Only4As popular as the Melania movie. 🤣 Ya know, when you put something out like this and you get little to know buy in one has to figure that leaves a deserved mark.
James Horn2he needs to put a maga hat on it and drive south thru the new confederacy. he’ll be a millionaire.
Terry T2buy it and superglue horns on it.
David à Paris (feat. CJ)1Lol idiot thought the Charlie Kirk grief was a genuine outpouring of emotion and not just a far-right op.
Marty Olliff1$100k’s a bit steep on a prof’s or journalist’s paycheck. I suggest the “artist” do 3-D printed miniatures of this, his magnum opus, then get admins and editors to force employees to buy them for $10 a pop.
"Furnari is left with a 6ft 4in statue of a renowned racist, which he has spent $100,000 making, and which no one wants to buy."
Sheila Q.11Thoughts and prayers to him.
Dana Houle9Reminds me of the guy who bought the cybertruck because he thought it would help him with marketing for his small business, & seemed baffled & upset to learn he had made a very big mistake.
gentleman johnny's party train6Why does he look just like the shitty ronaldo
Trekkie Bill 🖖🏻35Some modification ideas for a Charlie Kirk statue
hole friend19$100,000 Charlie Kirk futanari statue is crazy
garb11as a former salesman, install a neck fountain in this baby it'll sell for a million
Jay10The free market has decided.
It is the Winter of Our Discontent…8“In desperation, Furnari set up an online fundraising campaign, hoping to raise an initial $150,000, but potentially millions of dollars, which he said would allow him to take the statue on tour. As of Thursday, he had raised $1,400.” 😜
Aria 🔜 OffKai5god this is even funnier than i thought it would be
[nothing]4He should start over and do Lemmy instead.
That’s All Lovely4he should be forced to eat the statue
Macxi: Cutest Goat Boy4Why does he look so……. Wet. He fall in a puddle or smth?
Jeffrey M Epstein4"Why am I making the statue? The same reason why Michelangelo did the Pietà, or Michelangelo did the David, or Leonardo da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa. Why? Just to commemorate a moment, you know, a person." Among other problems here, I think those guys made sure they were gonna get paid *first*.
Arturo DiModica's ghost is going to haunt the fuck out of this guy for ruining the "Italian sculptors self-funding a bronze statue for Manhattan that nobody asked for"s undefeated record
-𝚖𝚘𝚡77any chance to say "fuck Fearless Girl" and link a thread about just how strongly this is a "fuck Fearless Girl" account oh dear lord do we fucking hate that fucking statue
Kat5It's almost a perfect representation of Charlie, just needs a hole in the throat
octocryptid 🜬3It's not even bronze, it's resin. Plastic, uninspiring trash. It says so much
Independent Teapot2Why does this statue look like it's drooling?
A. E. Fisher1Genuinely curious as to how, exactly, the artist saw this thing making "millions of dollars". Unless they were thinking of charging a fee to get a chance to piss on it, or selling water to the people standing in said line so that they'd have fuel on hand?
"Furnari, despite no one having commissioned him...said he had expected unnamed wealthy figures to donate to him...but that has not come to pass. In desperation, Furnari set up an online fundraising campaign, hoping to raise an initial $150,000...As of Thursday, he had raised $1,400." sksksksssssks
Adam Rhodes21the kicker is incredible!!! "Until then, Furnari is left with a 6ft 4in statue of a renowned racist, which he has spent $100,000 making, and which no one wants to buy. Maybe it is cursed after all." OOF
Frankie Huang 黄碧赤12Too bad this is all digital because it would be so funny to stuff a donation box with paper money Chinese folks burn for the dead
dibbydibbydum.bsky.social7If he's claiming that cost him $100k he must be way overvaluing his own time and skill because those materials look cheap as hell to fabricate.
Deb5Talk about an inflated sense of his artistic prowess. That he compared this in any way with the works of Michelangelo or DaVinci, especially also being Italian? I’m at a loss for words (mainly because I can’t stop laughing).
Simulflow (Jerrified)4He did a pretty good job of capturing the soulless eyes
Jenét Morrow4Literally, no one asked for it. 😆
Gay Bitterskeets25Nobody cared about Charlie Kirk. Racist and misogynistic losers liked the validation he gave them through bad faith, heavily-edited "debates" with unprepared freshmen. That's all they miss. Even his own wife couldn't convincingly pretend to mourn him.
Phineas20My honest advice here would be to ask Matt Shaw if he wants it
Kait Richardson 🥔14This is like the sculptor is a peasant trying to shame some noble into taking responsibility for a bastard child
mayonnaise rudeboy13this is gonna be a killer reaction image
Homeless ♿⚧️ Please Help ๑ï𓆑5The statue no one wants to buy, but a lot of us would pee on
Fr Chase 🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁4above everything else, it's wild to me that the guardian can call Kirk a bigot and a racist when there were people about to be lynched for that 10 months ago
little miss no name3What this artist failed to understand is that these people never actually cared about CK, they cared about the fake outrage they could weaponize. That's their whole thing.
D.C.: the Dungeon Mom (Commissions Closed)2I mean, I also keep expecting unnamed wealthy figures to donate to me, but I make things people actually want so I don't know what this guy was thinking
LEGO Allan Houston2In a way, this is incredibly impressive. He's found a grift that MAGA won't fall for.
scott dagostino2I love this story so much, I’m practically giddy 😃
So, he's down 100,000$, broke his ankle, people are inundating him with messages about how they can't wait to piss on the statue, his fundraising efforts crashed at 1400$ and none of the rich far right figures he was clearly catering to cared? Sometimes the universe whispers. Sometimes it shouts.
Jonathan Dresner8Michelangelo and Leonardo were contractors, not speculators: all that work was bought by someone before they even started.
Sevoris (he/him)2When that freedom of speech hits that freedom of association (and two useful fools who are no longer useful)
Mando8Michelangelo made the Pietà because French cardinal Jean Bilhères de Lagraulas commissioned him to
Sargoth (discursively endogenous feliform)3In agile project management, there is a principle to not undertake a big elaborate expensive time.consuming project before asking the customer whether they have any interest at all in seeing it done It pains me to say that, in this respect, the scrums do have a point
He keeps saying that he is going to install the Charlie Kirk statue in Times Square. If he tries to do that on the sidewalk or pedestrian area, he will be arrested and the statue will be confiscated. If he has a private gallery in “Times Square”, I cannot imagine where it actually is.
Mark Shore80"he spent $100,000 on steel, resin and labor [...] as of Thursday, he had raised $1,400." and he did *not* spend $100K on this... it's a fitting tribute to Kirk and his empty legacy that even other grifters trying to cash in on his death are going hungry
Kait Richardson 🥔12It’s neat how all their capitalism property rules are really just “guidelines” when it comes to them.
Julie - TrexPushups3If it gets confiscated I would love for it to be melted down.
Harry Pujols2I have seen some temporary public art in Times Square loaned by artists. The problem is the sanitation costs of cleaning up the urine that would collect around it.
Ed "Abolish ICE” Costanza1He sounds like someone out of touch with reality.
The Charlie Kirk statue thing is even funnier when you find out that nobody commissioned the artist to make that and that he’s stuck with it and also he broke his foot while making it
Ayo31But at least he’s not a fan of Charlie Kirk! So he broke his foot and went broke financially making a statue of a man who he doesn’t even like
Dave-o-topia4They really REALLY do not understand they are unpopular
The Pumpkin Dipshit3my favorite thing about him is how he entirely lacks the courage of his convictions "Listen I didn't even agree with the guy I just thought I could sell the statue" sure bro. Deffo. We all believe u bud.
Joey P1When you don't understand American politics but try to get in on a grift anyway
Objoekenobi1Did he break his foot kicking the statue in the nuts? That is a natural reaction.
Antigone1If he‘d done a Trump statue, it would’ve ended up at the Reflecting Pool, bought&paid by taxpayers 😬.
"Sergio Furnari, originally from Italy, had hoped the statue of the deceased far-right activist, which he intends to display in Times Square, would raise 'millions' of dollars. Instead, he said he has been inundated by messages from people saying they intend to urinate on the sculpture." 🤭
Benjamin Dreyer12"And she's always on about men following her, I don't know what she thinks they're going to do to her. Vomit on her, Basil says."
nina sabak5"'The statue is not cursed. The statue is blessed,' he said, in spite of all available evidence."
Mike Rhone2I can’t stop laughing. A+ work, everyone.
Jaynie’s Got a Bun2I promise you, New Yorkers, who famously will avoid Times Square at all costs, will fulfill this promise
kw1I'm so confused. Why did he think people would send him money? I know artists are notoriously bad at business but his plan here--"I'll build this thing no one asked for and then randos will give me millions of dollars just because"--seems pretty insane.
Todd Goldman (DrJen Adjacent)1Except Thomas Kinkade, famous for peeing on Winnie the Pooh statue at Disneyland, is already dead.
Sergio Furnari said he thought the lifesize sculpture – which no one commissioned – would raise ‘millions’ of dollars
“Things financially are a total, absolute nightmare. It’s like wow. People are cheap, man. You know, people talk, talk – I know lots of people out there, and everybody’s so cheap. You know, like, it’s disgusting how cheap they are.” I lol after reading this. He should take it to Florida.
“I was thinking that it was going to resonate with the world, with whoever, but man, people are strange out there,” he said. “Meaning like, nobody is really coming up with support, especially financial support. So far I’ve spent all my money on this.” Well deserved loss.
His Future 2nd Wife2He got the value proposition all wrong. He should’ve charged $1 per person and made the statue a port o potty. He’d have made $100k a day in Times Square.
Nope211I hope Mr. Furnari is stuck with that stupid statue and never gets more money out of it than he put into it. He only really seems to have made it for the money no matter how he tries to justify creating this homage to a racist POS. We see through his greedy intentions. Fuck off Furnari. 🤨
The Village Idiots1Raise millions of $$$ for who? You? You got suckered into how much love grifters actually had for him.
given everybody wants to piss on it and nobody wants to buy it, why doesn't he pay for photo-ops to piss on charlie kirk? it could even be livestreamed, with people sponsoring it, and half of the proceeds could go to charities of groups he attacked respond to market forces you colossal moron!
BouleRonde4Now I wanna be livestreamed pissing on it, I could even pay for that
Rory🏳️⚧️🍉2i wonder what kind of patina decades of piss would make on bronze
Red Comet1He could try auctioning it to shooting ranges, there might be a few interested.
Gal Dagon1Snickering at "livestreamed." Well done.
gengarro1further proof that capitalism is a fake ideology
Okay, so I kind of love the Charlie Kirk statue now.
퓨̸크̸ Games 'n Junk - Puke8I wanted to get millions of dollars, but instead I got millions of piss. A tale as old as time 😔
Mari the Deer 🦌🖥️3new unisex bathroom just dropped!
Gabe1“It’s cursed?” Yes, sure, the whole premisse is cursed.
secretly a cat asleep on a keyboard1Most expensive, impractical toilet since Bloody Stupid Johnson.
MAGA's complete and total failure to make Charlie Kirk a martyr is convincing evidence that it does not have the juice. These people so badly wanted him to be their George Floyd, and it's becoming increasingly obvious that literally nobody cares.
Jonathon M. Floyd13This is what happens when your political movement has no values at all beyond complaining about, and attacking others for, its grievances. MAGA doesn't have some grand, inspiring social project around which it can unite and for which it can make Charlie Kirk a patron saint.
Joe Friday I'm In Love4I mean, George Floyd was an Everyman type, just a guy going about his business who was murdered for nothing. Kirk was an influencer, a class of person regarded as not fully human.
Jesse Harris3THEY don't even care. The only time Chuck comes up is if he can be used as a weapon. Otherwise he's entirely forgotten within the MAGAsphere.
The Monarch Diaries1InB4 Trump puts this in the fuckin rose garden