“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.
Lol changed my for same reason
Right! 🤣
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?
Yes, there are a lot of idiots in this world.
Sure, anytime someone posts theirs online looking for praise or validation.
You and I have very different definitions of the words “actually”, “heard”, and “say”. You’re projecting.
OP’s response makes perfect sense. It looks to me like you’re playing the semantics game to dunk on them because you don’t like their opinion, though.
I didn’t say I don’t like their opinion, I’m entirely indifferent to their opinion. You can check if you want, votes are public if your tech-savvy enough to find them (I’m not or I’d link). I don’t even have tattoos, but other people having them doesn’t affect me in any way. The sentence was in quotes, so I asked if they had “actually heard someone say” that statement and they equivocated. 🤷♂️ I thought the question was pretty explicit in what it was asking, but they still managed to answer a different question.
I just don’t get why you’d constrain your question like that when “Do you think my tattoo is cool?” could be implied in the interaction because, like you said, people don’t talk like that. But people do mean it when they’re fishing for compliments. So you’re unnecessarily asking them to justify what could be interpreted a different way without conflict in meaning just like OP said. That’s what looks to me like you’re attempting some gotcha question after being given a reasonable answer.
I didn’t constrain my question, that implies I had a different question that I changed. I asked the question I was interested in hearing an answer to. Op chose not to answer that question, so I speculated as to why that was. I was honestly curious if they had heard someone say the thing they put in quotes. That’s all. Arguably every social media post is just someone seeking validation, so that non-answer “example” rang extra hollow for me. Especially when my question was so unambiguous.
@EtnaAtsume@lemmy.world is posting here literally looking for validation. They’re looking for likeminded people who share their unpopular opinion. They are literally acting against themselves which makes this whole post, and themselves, even more ridiculous.
Sorry, but I don’t see it.
Op can link to validation-seeking tattoo post so we can see it in full context
And yet you think anyone here cares about your dumbass opinion for praise or validation about bitching like a fucking child about how someone else views their own body.
Fuck it, you used the community correctly. Have my upvote you damn prude.
When cops have full sleeve tattoos, they’re no longer edgey and cool. They’re the status quo. My 46 year old gastroenterologist has two on each of her wrists. Those of you with tattoos, I regret to inform you: you are the prudes now.
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
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 love this. My 12.5 y/o dog recently passed, and I’m still trying to think of something I can get tattood to appropriately honor him. It will be my first tattoo.
Additionally, my wife and I would love to travel, and I’ve had an idea (independently, but later I learned it’s hardly original), to have a sleeve of some consistent geometric shape, hex, or triangles probably, and find a local artist in each place we go to fill one of the spots with something they determine represents the area.
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.
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
This I have never understood. Why get a tattoo as some kind of reward or reminder of going through though times? My brother did so as well. I sorta get but then also I don’t get it.
Different people are different
As someone with 0 tattoos but who wants tattoos, I think the bar for those kinds of tats is if the moments you’re signifying through the tattoo have truly defined or been a significant part of your life. I think even though we all change, it’s fine to acknowledge what’s happened in our past in an artistic manner on our bodies. For instance, I learned English playing Zelda & other video games, I’ve played them for decades, so I would consider a tattoo of Nintendo IP, even though I want nothing more than for the entire company to spontaneously combust. My love for the Zelda IP is bigger than my hate for Nintendo, and I have no qualms holding both feelings at once. Such hatred, at least for me, stems from them butchering our childhood memories, after all.
The style of the tattoo might be harder to nail for me, because sure I might want a Legend of Zelda tattoo or something, but I could make something classy and timeless or I could make the worst recreation of AI marketing hallucination content imaginable and regret the ink as it gets injected into me. If I have no taste, I could very quickly regret my tattoo… And that’s why I still have no tats. I’ve seen how I make bases & houses in video games, I don’t trust my artistic choices.
Then fuckit, save the money and print a screenshot of this conversation to put on the wall ;)
I can totally make something up!
Something bad happens to you & you expect It have a subconscious impact on you for the rest of your life, mainly in a negative way. So you go get the tattoo to have a visual reminder that at the end of it all, you were able to overcome. So you have a physical thing to try to help your mental health as a way to offset the intangible ongoing mental impact.
(PERSONALLY pretty sure I’d rather keep bad vibes off my skin)
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.
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. 😎
Shit, appointment back on!
😅 oh god what have I done, I hope you like it! Send pics!
That would be so cool… if you ever find a portal to Hyrule.
Ocarina of Time was the first game I completed as a kid. Have a lot of memories of talking through puzzles with my Dad who told me about the Zelda on NES. I’ve played basically all Zelda game since then.
But I do get it and it’s your body so your choice alone. Don’t let an internet person to talk you in or out of anything. Telling people who don’t like your tattoos to fuck off is a normal part of having them. If it makes you happy that’s all that matters.
Having said all that, I do stand by my comment. I think that is a cringey immature idea. Even on a more practical level, you don’t know what Nintendo will do in the future, do you really want to see a brand advertising logo on your body if they do something to piss you off? Lawsuits against those who use emulators and starting a patent war with Palworld? Idk…
I do have a friend who met a politician who agreed with his core beliefs back in the day. They went on a bender and ended up getting matching tattoos. Fast forward to today, and the politician did a 180, as many of them do, and went into the deep end. I joked with my friend about his tattoo, and his response was “I am getting it laser removed, and if that doesn’t work, I’ll take it off with a cheese grater”.
So, I really do get what you mean.
I don’t yuck other people’s yums, which is, strangely, often also an unpopular opinion.
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
pistol shrimp sounds like something AI generated ngl
I realized just now that that picture looks completely fake because nothing in the background makes sense lol
It’s a screenshot from a ColdOnes video where they got randomly selected tattoos. Not ai generated, I promise!
Shrimp pistol? As in little penis?
Nicely drawn, but very strange tattoo to get.
I think as in like a pistol shrimp. The animal.
The snap from the pistol shrimp is so powerful, that the sound produced rivals that of sperm and beluga whales
TIL! Thanks stranger!
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.
I really loved the Lostprophets in high school. Advocated for Last Summer to be the class song during graduation. I was set on getting a tattoo when I turned 18 later that year… Never got around to it and thank fuck I didn’t get it. I’ve been terrified of getting a tattoo ever since.
You know… I know how you feel, since I am the same way, but honestly I admire that people get that kind of thing. Of course you won’t always like what you’re into at any given time, but it’s like a memento of the time you were! Kind of a mosaic of your history.
A memento is all well and good but the lead singer turned out to be a pedophile.
Ah haha I’m not familiar. Wait is it Jared Leto or something? Anyway, you can always get a cover up :)
He’s dead now. Got shanked in prison.
Hope the jury nullifies his killers’ charges. Not that they seem like great people on their own, but they made the world a better place when they took that piece of shit out of it.
They’re as cool as income tax and as edgy as a t-shirt from Uniqlo.
Now, show me something you drew and maybe I’ll be impressed.
Most cool tattoos aren’t “off the rack”. People work with their tattoo artist on the concept. There’s revisions and edits. The customer usually comes up with the concept, but leave the art to the artist.
I’m getting a new tat from a new artist (my old one retired because he almost died from a heart infection) on the 18th and I’m so excited for it. It’s gonna be the first part of a sleeve of legendary women. This one is Medusa. The artist asked for some inspo pics and I sent her some but I have no idea what her design will be until the 18th. Her shop does design reveals and revisions on the day of the appointment which just has me more hyped
Yeah I feel like the haters are basing it all on tattoos of weed leaves and some generic text like ‘LOYALTY’. If you go to a proper artist to get your vision commissioned, it’s no different than commissioning an artist to paint on canvas. You’re just wearing the medium.
That also doesn’t meant there aren’t insufferable people with really nice tattoos, but to say “all tattoos are stupid” is like saying “all paintings are stupid”.
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.
It’s all about perspective. It’s hard to see how much of a fool you are in the moment and those tattoos can be the important reminder you need that you were, and always will be, the dumbass that you are right now.
“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 have full sleeves and a chest piece. I get them for myself and my own story. They mean something to me. I don’t care what you think about them.
Having said that you used the community correctly. But I not agree with you. Tattoos can be stupid and pointless to the user as well. They can just be there and it’s impulsive and they want to tell a story.
