I’m at a loss for words:
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I can’t believe this. 
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I need to glue a stick to a wall and put it in a museum I could use 6 million dollars
Well that’s a kick in the teeth
Probably won’t earn that kinda money in a whole lifetime of work everyday
Kind devalues the work most people do
Completely idiotic
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The uber rich have to fill their empty lives somehow
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Some people spend money attempting to buy goods and services that they think may lead to a longer life. It seems to me that the person who bought that duct-taped banana bought a little fame.
I will duct tape my balls to the wall for 6.2m
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Maybe it ws just a joke / flex for the rich people in the auction. Like they don’t even care about 6 million cause they’re so rich. If it’s a real banana it will be a rotten piece of art very soon I guess.
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It certainly has our panties in a twist.
I will duct tape my own ‘banana’ to a wall for 6 million.
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I wish it was a banana shake duct taped to the wall cuz I want one
Mmm, money laundering at its finest.
Yay!
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The buyer is planning on eating the artwork! 
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That banana will rot and disintegrate (not to mention stink) pretty quickly. The buyer will watch their investment disappear–quite literally.
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The buyer has an official “authorization” from the artist to eat the banana, then replace it with another banana. The buyer can do this as many times as they want.
A few years ago, at Miami’s Art Basil (art auction) a performance artist ate the banana to the shock of onlookers. The banana artist had to go to a supermarket to buy another banana.
I’m familiar with the art world having lived in NYC in the late 1980s. Keith Haring, a graffiti artist (and someone I knew), was dying of AIDS. There was an Auction for Action (an art auction to raise money for AIDS research) in 1989 at Cooper Union (a school). I submitted a crayon drawing called Death to Homophobia. My art was next to famous artists such as Peter Max and Robert Rauschenberg. Madonna even had her bustier for auction. It was a silent auction, so bids were written on paper. I was told my crayon drawing was sold, and all proceeds went to raise money for AIDS research. I sometimes wonder if my crayon drawing is hanging on a wall in a mansion.
The reason the banana sold for so much money was due to two billionaires who didn’t want to back down. This is the same reason that Basquiat’s Skull painting sold for over $100M.
I don’t understand how you can be a billionaire spending that much on a banana and a piece of tape
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I feel like a lifetime supply of replacement bananas should have been included in the purchase price. 
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Because rich does not equal common sense? 
If you have $10B, and you spend $6.2M on a banana, you’re spending about 6 cents for the banana (if I did the math correctly).