{"id":154527,"date":"2019-08-07T20:52:27","date_gmt":"2019-08-07T12:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/featured\/-1799003\/"},"modified":"2019-08-07T20:52:27","modified_gmt":"2019-08-07T12:52:27","slug":"emoji-house-feud-turns-calif-neighborhood-pink-with-rage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/08\/07\/emoji-house-feud-turns-calif-neighborhood-pink-with-rage\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Emoji House\u2019 Feud Turns Calif. Neighborhood Pink With Rage"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Emoji House (via JP Cordero\/Easy Reader News)<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

War broke out in Manhattan Beach, Calif., early this month when one resident opted to repaint her duplex.<\/span><\/p>\n

Amidst a sea of tans, whites, and grays, the two-level house on 39th Street stands out in vivid pink\u2014complete with two massive, mocking emojis.<\/span><\/p>\n

On the second story, a smiley face has been drawn with comically large eyelashes, googly eyes, and lolling tongue. Below it sits the “shut up” icon, featuring the same cross-eyed look and pronounced lashes, but with a zipper for lips.<\/span><\/p>\n

Homeowner Kathryn Kidd calls the property “my happy house,” and told Easy Reader News<\/a> that she wanted to add a little cheer to the neighborhood.<\/span><\/p>\n

The locals, meanwhile, call it retribution.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kidd reportedly purchased the property as a rental last year. After initially housing long-term rentals in both units, she decided to shift to short-term lettings\u2014which were made illegal in Manhattan Beach four years ago<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Tipped off by residents, a city inspector in May fined Kidd $4,000.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I did a four-day short-term rental and got fined $4,000,” she said. “Now I only do long-term rentals. I didn’t realize it was illegal.”<\/span><\/p>\n

The dispute didn’t end there, though.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Emoji House, as seen from Susan Wieland’s balcony (via JP Cordero\/Easy Reader News)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Susan Wieland, the neighbor who reported Kidd, believes the emoji art\u2014drawn, Easy Reader News said, as if to look directly at Wieland’s house\u2014is a targeted attack on her.<\/span><\/p>\n

Before leaving for a work trip in June, Wieland had eyelash extensions put on. When she returned home from her travels, the new paint job was staring her in the long-lashed face.<\/span><\/p>\n

“My heart sank. What has this come to?” she said. “It just took my breath away.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Wieland pulled down the shades in her house that night, and has not opened them since.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I can’t look outside,” she continued. “I feel like I’m being bullied, frankly, by her. That word keeps coming up to me: she’s a bully, and she feels she is entitled. She just wants to make things uncomfortable for us.”<\/span><\/p>\n

“The artist is kind of a friend of mine,” Kidd said of Z the Art, who posted a photo of the painted house on Instagram in May, with the hashtags #TheEmojiHouse and #eyelashextensions.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Instead of everybody being so gloomy, always so depressed, always in other people’s business, I just wanted to send a message to be happy, be colorful, be positive, and enjoy,” she said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Any resemblance to Wieland, Kidd claims, was unintentional.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I’m not trying to offend anybody,” she told<\/a> the <\/span>Los Angeles Times<\/span><\/i>. “I did it for the purpose of being happy, being positive, and I think it’s cute and quirky and kind of funny, and certainly was a time for the emoji.”<\/span><\/p>\n

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