The part about tattoos i find really stupid is the artist. Like how the fuck does someone pay for a tattoo then they can’t be filmed because it is still owned by the artist.

You provide opinion. You don’t provide reason. I disregard opinion.

I used to want tattoos. Thought I’d be covered from head to toe. Then my brothers started getting tattoos and I realized two things.

1. Good tattoos are really expensive. I’m not talking about full sleeves or back pieces. I mean sticker sized hand or arm pieces are even expensive. You want color? Price goes up. You want something that will look good in five years? Price goes up. You want anything that’s a challenge or creative for the artist to do? The price goes up. Sure you can get cheap little tattoos for $100, but then its a shit tattoo that someone with little experience or a drug habit has to do. (My brothers used to throw tattoo parties for a local junkie to make $50 to $100 a pop off of underaged kids. That dude would make a killing.)

2. Most tattoo ideas are not original or good. Both my brothers got full arms of junk that’s all meaningless platitudes and shitty sticker tattoos. Oh you got a skull. A flower. Some filigree to surround your tramp stamp. Even my own idea which was a snake wrapped around a guitar would have looked like shit after a while.

All this is coming from a tattoo fan. I’ve seen a lot of good work. A lot of cool art. That’s rare. That requires a lot of money, and an excellent artist. Those shops are so few and far between. You have to hope the artist has an opening. You have to have a minimum $1000 for anything with thought and color. After a while I just gave up the idea of getting one and decided to appreciate them from afar.

You know what’s stupid is people against vaccines having tattoos

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

Mine was never inked to be “cool,” and I think it falls under one of your “exceptions.”

It’s on my chest, and is always covered. I choose a design that’s tied between something close to my mother who passed when I was young, and the Japanese art of Kintsugi (repairing broken ceramics with gold to reflect beauty in imperfection.) It exists as a reminder to myself when looking in the mirror at home - I can and will be better despite all of the damage, and that I will continue to build myself into the person that I want to be.

Tattoos are art, and beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Sometimes art is a little more personal too, and not always created to be shared with the world.

So many ugly and uninspired tattoos is my opinion. Get a tattoo whatever, be like everyone else but feel special. Get a spider web on your elbow or maybe a cute lille flower on your tricep. So original, so you.

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.

“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 think there’s something important in stupid, goofy etc aspects of life

Many tattoos are stupid. And that’s kinda cool

This is indeed an unpopular opinion.

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.

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.

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.

This is certainly an unpopular opinion. Yikes.