Getting a tattoo is a big decision, but one man's choice has gained viral attention online this week after his bad tattoo was shared online.
In a post on Saturday on Reddit's r/funny subreddit, user u/traatraa shared the bad tattoo picture with the caption: So my nephew got a tattoo...
With more than 51, 000 upvotes and thousands of comments, the unfortunate ink has prompted internet users to share their thoughts and stories of tattoos gone wrong.
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Thought to resemble a wolf, one commenter reacted to the ink and wrote: It's so bad that it's kind of cool, while another Redditor said: Hard lessons learned hard I guess.
The picture of the tattoo that has wowed the internet after gaining viral attention on Reddit. The teen hopes to get the tattoo covered up in the future. traatraa/Reddit
In a later comment, the poster shared that their 18-year-old nephew would not tell them where he got it done—suspecting that he let a friend do the tattoo. Luckily, the poster shared that the teenager could see the funny side of the unfortunate tattoo and plans on getting it covered up. He said he walked out and didn't pay... I don't blame him, wrote the poster.
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: He does have plans to get it covered up but is not sure with what just yet. He is very fond of wolves and that was his intention with this tattoo but unfortunately it did not turn out exactly how he planned obviously.
According to recent surveys published by the Statista Research Department, tattoos in the United States are most common among millennials with 41 percent reporting having one or more tattoos. This is in comparison to just 13 percent of baby boomers who are inked up.
When it comes to deciding on the right tattoo artist, there are a number of important steps you can take: from getting a positive recommendation from a friend to checking reviews and ensuring you choose a clean, well-lit, and legitimate tattoo parlor.
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Not going to lie, I'd rock it just to make people laugh, said one commenter on the viral post. Another Redditor wrote: Don't let him cover it! In ten years' time when he has a full sleeve, he'll look back on this as a special gem. A reminder of that youthful spontaneity.
I hope he can get it covered up, said one commenter who claimed to be a tattoo artist: That is an awful lot of dark over an awful lot of his arm. I would have a hard time with that. But another commenter who also said they were an artist offered some reassurance: I'm a tattooist and could fix that, any competent artist could.
The teen's aunt has leapt to his assistance and even step up a GoFundMe to help him get the artwork covered. He is hoping a GoFundMe will allow him to cover up the tattoo sooner than later, she explained.The ignorant tattoo style gives us an answer for how to cope with an uncertain future – embracing casual, meaningless and bad body art
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“Bad tattoos are a trend, ” Bijan , 22-year-old human sketchbook and TikToker, says thoughtfully, the black text inked into his eyelids flickering as he blinks. Dyed blue locks curl over the side of his trucker hat, and his cat darts up the window, clattering the blinds in his Jacksonville apartment. Bijan, kindhearted and soft-spoken, is tatted from head to toe. His legs, in particular, are filled with scraggly lines and pockets of colour. Untouched real estate is scarce, but he’s not worried about running out of room.
Unlike the detailed ink work of intricate sleeves you might find on bikers or pro-soccer players that require hours, if not days, in the tattoo parlour, Bijan will complete a tattoo session in the time it takes him to put up the TikTok video. His patchwork collection of nearly 400 tattoos (including a stick figure rendition of Fez from HBO’s
Grungy text reading “favourite tattoo” and the 100 per cent emoji) make it look like his extremities are collaged with the doodles from a stoner’s math notebook. It begs the question – why would anyone want a “bad” tattoo, let alone 400 of them?
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Bijan was in rehab, had 20 followers on Instagram, and wasn’t on TikTok at all when he had the idea for “365 Days of Tattoos, ” a series for which he would tattoo himself daily and document the journey on TikTok. The series gained attention immediately, pushing Bijan’s work to millions of people who would then engage in fiery debates about the quality, purpose and value of his tattoos.
Some looked at Bijan’s sketchbook skin – an informal hodgepodge of scribbles, text, line work and unshaded sketches – and found his style absent of artistry and craftsmanship. “The professional tattooers call it ’scratchers, ’” Bijan says, with a laugh, “but that feels, like… low-key offensive.” The other names given to the emerging style are “sketch style, ” “ignorant, ” and “bad tattoos.”
, explains that generational shifts in tattoo style and what those tattoos represent is natural, even expected, and that “you can now see a split between Millennials and Gen Z.” The divide is palpable, especially on TikTok. Through the use of the video stitch feature, users are able to interact with – and more specifically, diss, roast and heckle – other content by splicing someone else’s video with their own commentary. Bijan stitches over a video in which the user is deciphering the meaning behind her leafy tattoo (spoiler alert: buds and flowers correlate with life chapters). The camera cuts to his feet: “These R My Toes, ” the tattoo reads beneath jagged arrows. The message is clear: it’s no longer cool to take yourself too seriously. This can be seen in the lack of precision in this style that “has a punkish feel to it, ” explains Barron, and a “DIY quality.”
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Public criticism of tattoos on social media illuminates the generational attitudes at war with one another. Millennials find Gen Z’s informality to be sloppy and denigrating, hollow in meaning. Gen Z finds the Millennial obsession with allegorical symbols overearnest and played out. “I feel like the older people are getting upset, ” Bijan says, smiling. “But nice tattoos get kind of boring.”
TikTok is a manic trend-setting machine capitalising on irony. Whether it’s this year’s Ketamine chic or 2020’s E-Girls and Boys, shock value, “bad” aesthetics and, more importantly, humour are used to mirror the precarious existence of young adulthood. But clothes can be taken off, septum rings removed and hair stripped of its bilious colour. Permanent ink pushes trend culture to its limits, inking a generation’s blasé view of life onto skin forever.
When Bijan posted his first video, he deleted it after 30 minutes, nervous about the public’s reaction. But within a week, he had over a thousand followers and what he calls “a tiny cult following” that acted both as hype-man and protector – checking in daily for the tattoo vlog and defending him from any haters. “Seeing people want to have my back gave me confidence in myself, ” Bijan admits. @Bijan888 now has half a million followers on TikTok.
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Bijan is the first to admit that the series is purposefully attention-grabbing. “Honestly, it was for the followers.” Even though he would have tattooed himself with or without an audience, the series was done with the intentional purpose of gaining followers and connecting with a larger community by utilising what he calls the “shock factor.” “It’s cool to do performance art. Like David Blaine type shit – I always thought that was cool, ” Bijan says. For young people, the lines between production and reality are blurred, and visibility is a requisite of expression. In the same way that an Instagram post of the night out is as much a component of the experience as the event itself, the public performance of the tattoo is as elemental as the design of it, or, often, why they got it in the first place.
During the early days of Bijan’s sobriety, he says the simplicity of the daily ritual gave him a “weird purpose of accomplishing something and not feeling like a loser that day.” The practice of tattooing became a habit for both Bijan and his followers. “It distracts me from whatever I’m thinking about, and I just have to focus on that moment, ” Bijan explains. “It’s very therapeutic.” TikTok creator Noah Brady AKA @pworddestroyer69 and an online pal of Bijan, is continuing the series in his friend’s stead. Over Instagram DMs, Bijan sent me eight other users that are doing the same.
Psychologist Dr Joseph Pierre explains that for young tattoo artists, “showing off their tattoos to a wide audience on social media is where skin art becomes performance art.” While there may be changing tattoo trends, the motivation for tattooing seems timeless – tattoos as a mode of self-expression, adornment and act of agency. “Tattoos are an expression of solidarity, ” says Dr. Barron, citing subcultures that used tattoos as visual signals. For instance,
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