Graffiti Artist Gets Meta By Adding 'Moustache' To Subway Posters

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) - Someone's got a meta sense of humor, man.

We don't know whodunnit, but somebody has been adding a new twist to the handlebar moustache.

Graffiti on posters featuring women at the Houston Street and 23rd Street stations along the #1 line have been defaced with the word "moustache."

You can see where the "moustache" has been added: right under their noses.

Whoever has been adding it uses a distinctive, stylish script, evoking the handlebar moustache. There are curls on the M and E of the graffiti.

That's not all: one tagged up poster shows a woman in profile. The graffiti artist therefore worked with his (or her) canvas, and simply wrote "stache."

We're not sure why this tagger has it in for women. None of the posters depicting men (an ad for "Fast Five," for example) were marked up.

However, this would-be Da Vinci seems to have been flummoxed a little by Tyler Perry, who as Madea was gifted the Moustache.

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We think whoever the artist is may have been inspired by Daffy Duck.

What do you think of the graffiti? Harmless humor or bad precedent? Sound off in our comments section.