First off, I grew up around the groups that had 99% of the tattoos, bikers, military, pagans, and cons (ex-cons).
Tats used to mean something, they were something of a serious business. Nowadays, every teenager and his boyfriend has one, and most of them suck. Really badly. I'm all for a great piece of art, or a dedication, a momento of something REAL, but most tats I see are trifling garbage. Cliched tramp stamps, stupid barb wire wraps, flowers on girls feet, and I won't even start talking about how pathetic most of the "art" is. For God's sake, if you're going to ink up, get a real artist, not some meff addict who can draw comics real good when he's not in county.
The power and the point of the tat has been ruined by dumb ass American sheeple. I used to be amazed and enthralled by the art and the stories that went with tats (8 years for robbery, a dead friend, a military unit) and now it's almost all BS like "me and my girls all got these butterflies during Spring Break 2005 cuz we were like, really fucked up".
Is nothing sacred? Am I a jerk? Am I the only one who sees this? Discuss.
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