“Do you think my tattoo is cool?” No, I don’t. There are no cool tattoos. “Check out my sleeve!” Oh god ew.
Tattoos themselves are stupid. Doubly so if it’s some media IP. “I put Batman on my body!” “Look at this image of Goku on my calf!” I can’t think of many things I’d want to do less than that.
There are a few narrow exceptions. Chances are yours isn’t one of them.
If you personally like tattoos, fine. I’m not saying nobody should get tattoos because I don’t like them. I’m stating my opinion that tattoos are stupid, and I am stating it here because it is probably not a popular opinion.
Wait… I disagree completely but it’s correctly posted in unpopular opinions. Fine… Take my up vote.
There are bad tattoos but I love most of them. I don’t have any yet, but my wife and I are talking about getting our first.
The way you wrote the last sentence implies to me you and your wife are planning to intentionally get bad tattoo stamps soon. I love the idea.
Lol, well hopefully they’re not bad. But I see how I wrote that.
When we see someone with a tattoo we really like we ask who did it and they’re either very far away, dead, or so busy we’d need to get on a multi year waiting list. But as soon as we find an artist we really like where those aren’t true we’ll get the tattoo we want.
Finding a good artist is so difficult. I have a bunch of tattoos in like 4 different intentional styles. So even though I have a handful of artists I trust, it’s even hard to pick out of them which style to go with. Most artists can tattoo anything, but you can tell when it’s someone preferred style of art.
For sure! I’m also particular about their line quality. That’s the struggle, a ton of amazing artists but for some reason it’s hard to find artists who have great inking quality.
My wife had that problem when she got a paw print tattoo when one of our cats passed. She’s hoping now that’s she’s been a previous client she can get in easier in the future
I’ll cross my toes for her that it works out!
I love these. Some people have children’s drawings or just fun amateurish designs. It’s a whole style!
Lol changed my for same reason
Right! 🤣
For the record I totally agree. But if one of my friends just gotta tattoo im gonna pretend to be excited for them. What else are you sposed to do when someone just got permanent artwork etched on themselves?
I’d be excited for them not their tat.
Right? It not being for you or not fitting your tastes does not mean that their happiness about it can’t make you happy and excited for them. Like my brother-in-law was a punter in the NFL for a couple seasons. My wife and her mother knew absolutely nothing about football and didn’t care for the game. But they both learned enough to appreciate specifically what a punter does and attended many of his games to support him. There is a big difference between loving what someone loves and loving them.
I thought your reply would end with them tattooing a football or something hahahaa
Right? How hard is it to put yourself into someone else’s shoes just enough to realize that they can enjoy something you wouldn’t enjoy yourself. And that’s so you need to be happy for them.
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As a tattoo? Now that’s commitment.
Then get a tattoo of them on yourself!
Gets a tattoo of wife with a tattoo
Reminds me of a guy I know who got his wedding date as a tattoo. Now divorced.
You could act like my mother did and be a stuck up judgy old lady about it. “Well I certainly hope you won’t regret it one day, people prefer leaders not trend followers”
Mind you I got my first tattoo at 38 and had been thinking about it for years. Which is why the only people that like my mother are newly born or nearly dead.
Edit: thanks flying_sheep
I hope you mean “newly born or nearly dead”
I had a couple of friends who were drunk as shit one night and they decided they needed to go out and get matching sperries logo tattoos immediately.
They asked me for a ride to a tattoo shop and I told them no and to stop being dumbasses. They basically called me a lame anti-tattoo prude and then took a cab to the place and got the tattoos.
The next morning they were hungover and blamed me for the tattoos cause I shouldn’t have let them go, I should have tried harder to stop them. Fuckin A…
Any self respecting tattoo artist would refuse to tattoo a drunk.
It’s practically required for them to refuse because of how alcohol thins the blood. No tattoo artist wants to take risks with a free bleeder.
Yeah I think the first one turned them down and they had to get a second cab to take them to another. They were bitching about that when they got back, another reason why I was such a bad friend because they had to pay for an extra cab to be idiots…
These people do not sound like your friends. I hope that “had” in the first post’s first sentence is literal.
Yeah, I haven’t seen them in years
Right, like if they found this “really cool” tacky lamp they were excited about. I’ll be happy they foind something that excites them, regardless of my personal opinion
I’ve always said to myself “I’ll get a tattoo when I can think of something that I’ll still think is cool when I’m 70”
Ain’t got a tattoo.
My brother has our family coat of arms as his only tattoo, I think that’s reasonably timelessly cool.
I got WIDE LOAD tattooed in black metal font on the backs of my thighs
Ngl I might steal that lmao. That’s great
Go for it, haha! And thanks! :)
If my family has a coat of arms, no one ever told me.
You can literally just make one up, its not like theres some offical process.
And do something cool, like Utah raptors shooting lasers from their eyes.
Until some right-wing fascist group appropriates it.
This was always my thought. Recently, I’ve been considering various anti-fascist logos since that’s something that will never change (and if it does, then I should just kill myself at that point)
Once I’m 70 if I don’t still believe the important things I’ve believed for the last 20 years, then I’d deserve having them tattooed as reminders that I used to get it.
This thought actually made me think about getting a new tattoo (I have a music related one, but nothing political)
That’s a really cool way of thinking about it they I hadn’t considered.
My brother has our family coat of arms as his only tattoo, I think that’s reasonably timelessly cool.
My only tattoo is a matching tattoo all my siblings got. I never seriously wanted one, but at least it means something. I might expand on it when I have my own kids
I’m in a similar situation except reversed. I have several I know I’m gonna get but I’ve just been too poor my whole life to get one.
I hope that turns around then and you can get them one day!
This is my case. If I’d have had the money I’d be nearly covered.
That is exactly the point. Have you ever seen someone wearing a long forgotten bands logo? Or a brand gone shitty? Imagine those idiots who got themselves a Tesla logo tattooed before Musk made it into a Swasticar…
It’s be a cold day in hell that’d I’d wear a tee shirt with a brand let alone tattoo one on me.
Lol I don’t have tattoos, but I can do this for literally everything you have ever liked or enjoyed.
This is one of those “if you think something that doesn’t effect you and brings others joy is stupid, you probably need therapy”.
And so opinions were discovered.
This “opinion” was discovered a long time ago: https://youtu.be/cR2KrJTvJgQ
Yeah, well, you know, that’s just, like, your opinion, man!
There’s a phrase that’s been around a while - “don’t yuck someone else’s yum”… just because you don’t like it doesn’t mean that others can’t like it.
You do realize you’re in the “unpopular” opinon community, right?
If your opinion is literally shaming someone over their own life choices that generally don’t have any affect on their life or yours, it’s not an unpopular opinion, you’re just a piece of shit person.
An unpopular opinion should be “I think owning dogs is too much work”, not “What you do with your own body makes me judge you as a person”. An unpopular opinion is “I think Pineapple on pizza is gross” not “I don’t think trans people should exist”.
Maybe learn the difference. OP doesn’t have an “unpopular opinion”, they’re just a straight up fucking asshole.
Finally someone put it into words.
There is having an opinion and then there is being a dick. OP is leaning heavily towards the latter with their post.
I think people have varying opinions on what it constitutes to be an asshole.
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Hey, you’re really good at getting me thinking!! To present myself as nonadversarially as possible, if I may I’ll spoiler some thoughts/questions below…
BUT! I really wanna have a pleasant chat about it. Good topic, respecting others. Anyway:
Tap for spoiler
Any right the OP retains to free expression on their opinion, if it’s a safe space?
Any thoughts on calling a behavior stupid in public where it may hurt a stranger’s feelings versus telling a specific person it would be wrong to participate in an activity?
& how could we share an opinion if we feel smoking is bad - anyway to do it without telling people what they can do to their own bodies? Or should we not offer opinions on smoking because it’s too paternalistic, telling them how to live their lives?
Also e.g. racists are poopy but for stuff we choose (apply ink to skin) are the haters necessarily not just big giant haters but actually BAD PEOPLE? (suggestion I guess is “Notice how this giant HATER stopped replying …” but hypothetically in a different thread “See how this low-life racist clown stopped replying” would not earn a comment from me … which I’m now reflecting on, maybe I should diss actions not people… I digress)
Try looking at the last paragraph of my post one more time. I’m not making any moral judgments on people who get tattoos, I’m saying that I don’t like tattoos, and that if you want to get one, fine. I just won’t think they’re cool or badass or anything like that. I will think that they’re stupid. Not that the person is stupid, but that the tattoos are stupid.
If you’re looking for ad hominem, invective, and hate, you may want to look at your own comment.
By saying they’re stupid you are morally judging them.
You are inherently saying it was a waste of time and/or money i.e. that OP was stupid when they chose to get them.
In reality the answer is that you’re stupid for spending time and effort thinking that people with tattoos made stupid choices, rather then going, cool nice flare and enjoying something a little different from the usual plain jane button up look.
Again, this is not an opinion. This is conservative small mindedness in shutting down stuff different from what youre used to, that doesn’t effect you. Reflexive and defensive negativity is something you feel, but it’s not an opinion.
Try looking at the last paragraph of my post one more time. I’m not making any moral judgments on people who get tattoos, I’m saying that I don’t like tattoos, and that if you want to get one, fine. I just won’t think they’re cool or badass or anything like that. I will think that they’re stupid. Not that the person is stupid, but that the tattoos are stupid.
Seriously? You think people here are stupid? Your comment came blatantly off as telling people who get tattoos are stupid. That tattoos are stupid, people who get them are stupid, and that nothing about them are “cool”, according to you. You don’t own anyone else. You don’t get to dictate or gate-keep what is ‘cool’ to someone else. You don’t get to tell someone else how they are allowed to feel about themselves and how they should use their own body.
Yet you seem to be self-righteous enough to think that you do have that authority. You think you have the authority to tell others how they should feel or what they should do with their own bodies. And I have dozens of others in this comment chain hopefully (but clearly not) gotten it through your egotistical skull that you’re not the ruler over other people’s bodies.
Clearly we’re all wrong but also right. We clearly misjudged that you have the internal ability to understand why your ‘opinion’ is so toxic, while also being right that you’re just an asshole of a person.
I think you’re just reading a lot of things in my words that simply aren’t there. I’m not positioning myself as some kind of arbiter of anything, I am stating my own singular opinion, not making a sweeping judgment or declaration.
Right!
“If you dont like it, dont look.”
“Do you think my tattoo is cool?”
Have you actually heard someone say this? Someone that wasn’t a child at a fair?
Fuck it, you used the community correctly. Have my upvote you damn prude.
You know what’s stupid is people against vaccines having tattoos
This was the popular opinion when I was younger, I love tattoos but they used to be uncommon and sort of countercultural.
I never imagined tattoos would gain mainstream popularity like they have. I think it’s improved the art but at the same time made them less, I dunno, cool?
agreed, I remember hearing a gen z punk a while back in my DIY days say, “these days it’s more punk to not have tattoos”
i remember rolling my eyes at the time but he’s kinda got a point lol
Totally hot a point
I think if you’re getting tattoos to be cool you’re doing it for the wrong reason.
“cool” is subjective to the individual. If the only reason you thought it was “cool” is because it was taboo then you never really liked them to begin with, you just liked the idea of being rebellious.
So many uncool people have them that they’re no longer cool.
The problem is being cool and edgy was the only positive for tattoos, and that’s no longer true.
One of the problems is the quality of art. Tattoos are permanent but they do fade and your skin does stretch and sag over time. It’s great to appreciate improved art for a few months but the rest of your life has a misshapen fading blob of ink
Then there seems to be an increasing number who just can’t stop. No that misshapen faded blob of ink discoloring your entire arm is not cool
Was gonna downvote but then saw the community so I guess I’ll upvote it? People want to etch something onto themselves permanently, I think that is pretty cool a person likes something so much they want to mark themselves with it. Some of the things people get tattooed tho, not so much lol.
In this community - doesn’t upvote means it’s a unpopular opinion?
And downvote if it’s a common/popular opinion?
So your voting is correct!
My unpopular opinion is that just because an opinion is technically unpopular doesn’t mean it should be upvoted. I think if an opinion is reasonably well thought out and has more than just “personal opinion” vibes to it. Like, if you could reasonably argue your opinion and potentially sway them, its a good unpopular opinion.
“I dont like them therefore they’re bad” does not fall in this for me. This is a bad unpopular opinion.
My cat died last year. 3 days before he went, he managed to playfully scratch my arm while we were engaged in some “ohhhhhh I’m gonna get’cha” hand play. I had a tattoo artist simply trace the scratch before it healed. If that’s not an exception then you and I are very different people.
Met a scientist that worked at NASA. He didn’t like tatoos either, but made a pact that if they launched their satellite project, they would all get tattoos of it. I don’t like tattoos at all but I can respect that.
Doubly so if it’s some media IP. “I put Batman on my body!” "Look at this image of Goku on my calf
That shit is super fucking cringey. You’re literally dedicating your body to be a walking advertisement… As someone with multiple tattoos, I side eye these so hard. Obviously you’re allowed to get whatever tf you want wherever you want, but choosing any IP speaks to your immaturity and lack of personality. Just weird parasocial hail cooperate nonsense.
Oh god and the people who get celebrity faces?! 🤮
The person I know with a bat tat got it because he felt the comics were an important part of his life, got him through tough times
Your judgement isn’t always right
Well, I just cancelled my triforce tattoo appointment 😭
Hey you know what would be kind of sick actually? To get the time portal from Skyward Sword.
I mean I wouldn’t get it personally, because I could never commit to permanent marks on my body. I can barely commit to hanging a painting on my walls because I know those holes will stay there if I want to take the painting down.
Still though, you should do it. 😎
I had a coworker-friend that got a bunch of tattoos in quick succession
First they got the rebel and imperial logo tattoos on each forearm and then a short while later got the kingdom hearts key and something else ip themed (I can’t remember the details from a decade ago). I joked they’d have to start paying Disney royalties at that point
lol I have three media IP tattoos: LittleBigPlanet, Halo Reach, and Outer Wilds. Don’t really like Microsoft or Bungie at this point, but when I look at my Halo Reach one, I think of the game where I met one of my greatest friends, which then allowed me to meet all the other great people I’ve met so far. People I talk to everyday. Game changed my life, and I don’t even like Halo Reach that much. It’s different for everybody. I saw someone with a monster energy tattoo and thought the same thing you do, like why tf would you get an energy drink branded on you. But of course, everyone values different things and something insignificant to me could be life-changing for them.
I’m someone with no tattoos, that really loves other peoples’ tattoos. I’m just very indecisive personally, but I think they’re really cool.
Maybe tattoos as a concept are bad (stabbing ink into your skin semi-permanently, that is), but the artistry and skill that can go into them is insanely respectable. Coming from someone who probably will never get a tattoo, I love seeing creative tattoos executed well.
For example: The humble pistol shrimp
I don’t yuck other people’s yums, which is, strangely, often also an unpopular opinion.
