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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 think there's something important in stupid, goofy etc aspects of life
Many tattoos are stupid. And that's kinda cool
It absolutely horrifies me that people will walk into a tattoo parlor not even knowing what they want to get, and walk out again with a new tattoo. Like, they don't even care what it is. I've known people to just get a pattern out of a gumball machine, like it was a temporary tattoo. Fucks my shit right up to think about that.
You know what’s stupid is people against vaccines having tattoos
This is certainly an unpopular opinion. Yikes.
I have a couple and I'd say they're meaningful but also it's someone else's body. You don't get to decide what they do with it or whether or not you think it's meaningful.
“Do you think my tattoo is cool?” No, I don’t. There are no cool tattoos.
This is borderline "I don't like art".
I mean, you do you, but it's definitely a bad take.
I know people who use tattoos as a way of permanently recording who they were at a given point in their life, because we all change over time. I can understand that perspective, but it's also exactly why I don't want one.
Every time I've looked back on myself 10 years later, I've thought about what a dumbass that person was. I wouldn't have wanted that idiot picking a tattoo for me.
10 years from now, I'll look back on the imbecile I am today and be relieved I didn't get any ink.
This is indeed an unpopular opinion.
I'll agree with you on the media tattoos thing, but after that things get difficult
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.
I made my living as a graphic designer for over twenty years. Drawing pretty pictures. Here's my problem, I enjoy the process, but don't care about the results after I'm done. I'm like this with everything I make. Once I call a thing "finished", I never want to see it again, it's immediately boring to me. It's the doing that matters, not the having. I'm not a collector.
So, I don't want tattoos. I'd hate it the minute it was finished.
Have you ever drawn for fun?
I can relate to this if you solely did client work but did you never do any personal projects? I really enjoy printing my own stuff.
I'm glad that this is an unpopular opinion now
I don't think this is an unpopular opinion. I think it's barely an opinion by the narrowest and most technical definition of what an opinion even is.
Your opinion is just stupid. I'm not saying you shouldn't have it or that it isn't valid. If you personally like your opinion, that's fine. I'm just saying that, in my opinion, your opinion is stupid.
"Do you think your opinion is cool?" No, I don't. You don't have some cool, edgy opinion. It's just, "Wahhhh, I don't like tattoos because I've arbitrarily decided not to, and I stick to it because it makes me feel special and unique compared to the majority."
Dude, not liking something for entirely subjective reasons isn't really an opinion, it's a preference.
An opinion would be, "I don't think anyone should get tattoos because..." followed by actual reasons. I'd still think you're wrong, but at least that would carry more weight than simply whining about something you've personally decided not to like.
Most of what you just said is nonsense.
I won't use the word "stupid", but I don't care for them, either.
That's why I don't have any, so, no problem.
Small, memorial tattoos are fine. Also, I have respect for the commitment of a full body, integrated tattoo. If it's not just a random collection of separate tats, added wherever whenever, but something planned from the start, and carried out systematically to cover the entire body, I can't disparage that sort of commitment, and I'm impressed. I still wouldn't do it, and don't care for how it looks, though.