Mona Lisa Smeared With Cream Cake In Climate Protest As Social Media Gets Smeared In Memes

May 31st, 2022 - 11:28 AM EDT by Aidan Walker

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A photograph of the Mona Lisa, struck by a cake, and also a Tweet discussing the painter's response to the vandalism.

On Sunday, a man disguised as an old woman in a wheelchair smeared a cream cake across the Mona Lisa’s glass case on Tuesday and purportedly shouted environmentalist slogans. The world’s most famous painting was unharmed, but footage of the incident and its commentary spread rapidly across social media platforms over the weekend.


The man who assaulted the Mona Lisa has been taken to a psychiatric unit, and the cake on the protective glass case of the painting itself was easily wiped off. Many photos and videos were captured of the incident, which took place in front of a crowd at the Louvre in Paris, France.


There was much speculation over how the Mona Lisa, with her famously cryptic smile, felt about the incident. The meme below (in Spanish) imagines how the Mona Lisa, reacting like Gavin, must have watched the guy coming up to her with a cake. Some also wondered how the painter who created her must feel.


A few humorously expressed jealousy over the Mona Lisa’s "creaming."


Users online heavily criticized the culprit’s choice of venue for a climate protest, pointing out the absurdity of the entire situation.


Some expressed sardonic support of the protestor’s aims.


This creaming adds yet another chapter to the storied history of the Mona Lisa, which was famously stolen and returned in 1911, sheltered from the Nazis during the Second World War and visited by the TikTok-famous Da Vinki twins last week.




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