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John Kelly @mashedradish.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

I love this sign students made for an anti-vaping campaign at the middle school where I teach. I love it on its own terms, but also because it alludes to Keith Haring's 1986 "Crack is Wack" mural in NYC. The similarity in the lettering does lead me to believe the allusion may have been knowing!

A hand-made sign reading "Vaping is Wack" in colorful, block letters.

A picture of Keith Harding's original 1986 "Crack is Wack" mural. From Keith Haring Foundation: https://www.haring.com/!/art-work/108-2

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John Kelly @mashedradish.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

WACK as a slang term for "bad, inferior" spreads in the late 1970s-80s in US hip-hop. As @misterslang.bsky.social notes in his entry for it, Haring's 1986 "Crack is Wack" mural helped popularized the term. greensdictofslang.com/entry/qadx4fi

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wack, adj. — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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