Earlier this week, a graffiti artist tagged a large Grand Theft Auto 6 mural located in New York City. Reactions to the tag have been mostly negative, with many fans claiming the artist has ruined the mural.

Back in early October, Rockstar Games hired some artists to paint a GTA 6 mural in Brooklyn. The artwork is massive and features both Jason and Lucia. It took about a week to create the mural, and fans tracked its progress and celebrated its completion. For a lot of GTA fans, this mural represented a big step in Rockstar’s marketing push for GTA 6. So a lot of them aren’t taking the news well that a graffiti artist named Jelous has tagged the spot and documented it online.

Sometime late Tuesday night, Jelous quietly and sneakily sprayed a basic black-and-white logo featuring his name onto the bottom half of the large GTA 6 mural in NYC. The artist then posted their tag on Instagram, where it has quickly become one of their most popular posts. Many of the comments are, as you’d expect, upset about the tagging of the mural. “Ruined,” said one Instagram user. “Not cool,” replied another. There were also people defending Jelous, arguing that this is just a big advertisement and is fair game for a tag.

Over on Reddit, the news has been received even more poorly by GTA fans, with some calling it vandalism and others suggesting that if you’re going to tag over cool artwork, you should at least add something more exciting and not as basic.

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