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Bogus Ad for 'Vegan' Dog Poop Fertilizer Leads to Anti-Hipster Blog

 An anonymous group is promoting #GTFOBK to start a conversation on social media about gentrification in Brooklyn.
An anonymous group is promoting #GTFOBK to start a conversation on social media about gentrification in Brooklyn.
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Someone in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens is trying to turn a pile of “vegan” dog poop into a conversation about gentrification.

Only in Brooklyn, right?

Local resident Zoe Nora spotted this sign advertising “artisanal urban fertilizer” made of poop from a “vegan dog” on a post at Lincoln Road and Ocean Avenue in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens over the weekend.

"Mainstream fertilizers are not organic!" the sign warned.

But the site listed for more information, fertilizebk.tumblr.com, had a very different message.

“You’ve got to be sh--ting me," the post read. "We really need to start talking about what’s going on in our borough before people actually start selling artisinial [sic] dog sh-t."

From there, the site directs readers to "GTFOBK.nyc," which stands for "Get the F--k Outta Brooklyn" and encourages Brooklynites to “talk about the future of Brooklyn” with the hashtag #GTFOBK.

“To the guy on the train drinking out of a mason jar #gtfobk” one tweet on the site read.

“Overheard in #Bushwick: ‘I'm getting a tattoo on 4/20 because that just happens to be the anniversary of my spirit journey’ #gtfobk” read another.

"Take a moment to mourn the neighborhoods we've lost to gentrification," reads a photo showing Williamsburg, Bushwick, Carroll Gardens, Crown Heights, Bedford-Stuyvesant and most of the northern half of the borough covered in shades of black, red and orange.

The #GTFOBK group — whoever they are — published a video on a canceled $25,000 Kickstarter campaign last month featuring workers at a pizza shop telling “hipster” customers to “get the f--k out of Brooklyn.”

An inquiry to the group by email was not immediately returned.