<p>The Western Australian Police’s latest campaign had the community thinking hard about graffiti, but perhaps not in the way authorities had hoped with a cringe-inducing Goodbye Graffiti video series that ended on November 8.</p><p>The first ad, released on November 2, which went viral,</a> featured a young couple walking through Leederville, in inner Perth, while on a date. The man shared he was celebrating that he got paid after dobbing in vandals spraypainting a bus stop.</p><p>“Saving money on actors to pay rewards, I like it,” one Facebook user commented among thousands of other comments deriding the ad as cringeworthy.</p><p>On Wednesday</a> WA Police release “Graffiti 4 – Consequences”, saying: “There’s been a lot of talk about our Goodbye Graffiti videos in recent days… and that’s great! Here’s the final episode in the series, with a reminder that (unlike these videos) graffiti vandalism is a crime.”</p><p>The ad series was reminiscent of the infamous Finance Department Ad</a> released earlier in March, which featured stiff dialogue between real-life staff about projects and “paleo pear and banana bread.” As Storyful noted</a> when it was released, the “wooden conversations between the people in the video seem not like genuine banter between co-workers, instead resembling an alien species using dolls to crudely mock humans.”</p><p>The WA Police’s other video series, “Damo</a>”, was a bit more well-received. Credit: Western Australia Police Force via Storyful</p><br />
