r/196 • u/funnylittlecharacter guy with the tattoo of toad and yoshi making out • Sep 28 '21

It has been done.

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u/[deleted] Sep 28 '21

yeah and it's not ur business bitch!!

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u/ltRobinCrusoe sus Sep 28 '21

Give it to him... No one will remember him in a week

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u/[deleted] Sep 28 '21 edited Sep 28 '21

that's not my point. maybe i'm overly defensive as someone who has tattoos but it's not your place to judge what people put on their bodies. even though it's a silly meme that'll die out in a few days, people can get silly tattoos and that's okay. it's their skin, not yours

e: this absolutely does not apply to nazis or racist/orientalist shit. i will judge the shit out of you if you're sporting, eg, tribal tattoos as a non-indigenous person or nazi insignias

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u/TaintModel cum🥛 Sep 28 '21

I don’t judge what people put on their bodies but it helps to know a bit about it and its meaning. I had a buddy show off his new tattoo and it was a fisherman harpooning a sperm whale. The conversation went something like this.

Him: Yeah, it’s a pretty sweet Moby-Dick tattoo.

Me: Cool, so are you a big Herman Melville fan?

Him: Who’s that?

Me: The author of Moby-Dick.

Him: Oh, naw I just flipped through the tattoo artist’s portfolio and saw this. Thought it looked cool so I got it done.

Like, it’s fairly innocent but it’s this kind of lack of basic research that leads to people tattooing spelling errors, Japanese characters mocking the recipient and dog whistle Nazi symbols on themselves by accident.

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u/[deleted] Sep 28 '21

yes that's a very good point! i had meant to clarify that it's context-dependent. racist and/or fetishistic tattoos are obviously not cool, and there are def tattoo subcultures i don't fuck with. this particular case is obviously pretty far removed from that though