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A couple who found a piece of paper with a strange message not only picked it up, but kept it for years and even got it framed.
Austin, 31, and her partner, Zack, 34, have a wall in their home dedicated to the weird and wonderful finds they've discovered in their life together.
"It changes about every other year," Austin told Newsweek. "Some of the pieces have stories or are at least from local artists. Just little things we come across that make us happy!"
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One of these pieces is a scrap of paper found on the street just after they had moved to Chicago in 2022, which Austin recently shared to Reddit via her account u/Affectionate-Dog2291. In a post to r/FoundPaper on March 11, Austin showed a blue piece of post-it note paper with the words, in all-caps: "DESTROY WITH MOUTH."
The paper had been framed, and was seen hanging upon the wall of their home, as she wrote: "Found by our [apartment] in Chicago and we loved it so much, we framed it."
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She explained to Newsweek they found the "sticky note when we were living in Chicago in 2022. I have no idea why we kept it.
"I think we were struggling to adapt to a new city— [we] had just moved from Boston—in a post-Covid world, and were finding and creating whatever happiness we could for ourselves."
Reddit users loved it, awarding the post more than 3,500 upvotes, as one joked "destroy with mouth" was the "motto of Pac-Man."
"Now this is art," another declared, as someone agreed it: "beats the hell out of Live Laugh Love."
"I hope the people that left it see this," one commenter said, as one user praised Austin and Zack: "This is fantastic, doing things that are this niche extra for decor is exactly my style and attitude towards life."
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While Austin and Zack added this particular piece to their collection for free, the global online art market was worth around $10.8 billion in 2022, according to Statista*.* A study showed Instagram is the preferred online channel for art buyers worldwide, with seven in 10 naming the Meta-owned site, compared to just 12 percent mentioning Facebook, and less than 5 percent preferring TikTok.
However, many consumers prefer getting their art in person, as a survey found only 12 percent of respondents declared online sales channels were their preferred way to buy art.
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