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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€“] IpsumLauren@lemmy.world 15 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Why is she being handcuffed?

[โ€“] chunes@lemmy.world 22 points 1 hour ago

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

[โ€“] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 hour ago

The US summarised perfectly.

[โ€“] J92@lemmy.world 33 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I see what you did there

[โ€“] EpeeGnome@feddit.online 101 points 4 hours 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 16 points 2 hours ago

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€“] fizzle@quokk.au 1 points 58 minutes ago

I think the cops knew exactly what was going on.

[โ€“] ComicalMayhem@lemmy.world 9 points 3 hours ago (2 children)
[โ€“] ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip 52 points 2 hours ago

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€“] CentipedeFarrier@piefed.social 9 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)