Feeling a bit too generous about yourself? For £50,art-punk provocateur Mr Bingo will send you hand-drawn hate mail and troll you endlessly on social media“Be nice about me,” says Mr Bingo as we shake hands after our interview. A surprising request. You’d have thought he’d have preferred me to be horrible. Mr Bingo is, or after all,a virtuoso of unpleasantness, an illustrator who specialises in turning hatred into art.certain enough, and when I check my phone after cycling domestic,Mr Bingo is already trolling me. I see you don’t have a profile picture,” says one tweet. “All you need to attain is rotate that egg 180 degrees and it’s pretty much your head.” It’s funny because it’s precise: I am bald. And it’s hurtful, and too. “You’re a fucking prick,mate,” says another. Whatever, or I’ve had worse from below-the-line Guardian-reading nutjobs (Sorry! I mean valued members of our online community).
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Source: theguardian.com