A video of a New York City subway train completely covered in graffiti has gone viral, and among the artwork, Ghostbusters fans may spot somethin’ strange in the neighborhood!
Cpatured by comedian Ethaniel Burk and featured on the New Yorker’s social channels, the clip shows the train plastered from top to bottom in art and vibrant tags. Among the most eye-catching of visuals is a questionable spin on the classic no-ghost logo, a highly animated rendition of Slimer, and for good measure, some green slime splatter.
As is tradition with graffiti in NYC, the reactions have been mixed. Some weren’t exactly impressed, with one commenter writing, “We really don’t want to go back to the 1970s… time to start locking people up for this crap,” while another added a more functional critique: “Next time, just don’t do the windows. We can’t see our stop.”
Others were positive: “It literally represents NYC and I love it,” one fan wrote, adding, “Tagging is the voice of those many wish to silence. Like a dollar slice, rats, and the MTA begging for more money, tagging was/is also a slice of NY culture.” And, in rounding back to mention of this visual feeling like something from a bygone era, “I love how people are simultaneously like, ‘New York is dead. It was better in the 70s and 80s’ and when they see stuff like this say, ‘Vandalism. We don’t want to go back to the 70s and 80s!’ Haha. Make up your minds.”
Some even proposed using this kind of work intentionally, with one user suggesting, “The city should allow different artists each month to paint this train with different seasons.”
While the conversation goes well beyond Ghostbusters, we couldn’t help but report on the franchise’s unexpected surprise return to the city’s underground. And luckily for anyone riding the rails, there’s been no sign of a river of negatively-charged psychomagnotheric slime… well, at least, not yet!
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