Tattoos are cringe now - "not bussing fr fr on god" for any zoomers here.

[God's drunkest driver]

Tattoos have been cringe for a while now. Basically ever since they entered the mainstream and became a permanent accessory. People frequently get a tattoo to have a tattoo, with no intrinsic meaning or social bonding (such as the old wartime sailors and marines getting tattoos or genuine tribal tattoos on tribesmen) attached to it, and that turns the cringe up to maximum.

Real criminals don't get tattoos.

Shhh

Nothing is a bigger turn off than when you think you see a beautiful woman and then notice that she hasn't paid an ex-con thousands of dollars to draw dreamcatchers and dumb witch shit she saw on Pinterest all over her body. Gross. Get away from me, you abomination.

Yeah I hate seeing a beautiful woman's body spoiled by a stupid-ass doily type tattoo or some lame-o symbology or phrase.

 

[Flan Handler]

I just like privacy. No tattoos for the same reason I don’t wear clothes with labels or sayings, no political signs on the lawn, and no bumper stickers on my vehicle. I don’t want people I don’t know to have anything beyond basic info about me.

 

[retard strength]

Seeing more of those corporatehell artstyle cartoon people for big companies have tattoos. That's how you know it super sucks (tattoos and the company).

 

[Zbk3VmLfujjzjxBd43tL]

Yeah, tattoos decades ago used to mean war or prison. I don't see the point in getting a tattoo to represent your ideology when you're a young person, if at all. Because are you still going to be pro tankie in 10 years? That hammer and sickle on your shoulder is going to make you look stupid then. On the flipside, I don't get these skinhead prison gangs that get swastika tattoos, especially since you claim to support an ideology that hates tattoos.

Nazism isn't against tattoos per se. The SS required their members to get blood group tattoos, although it was meant for unconscious soldiers whose identity couldn't be confirmed (and the practice varied so not all SS men had them). And of course Himmler idolized tribal cultures and paganism which had tattoos, even though no one really knows what the tattoos we actually know of (i.e. bog bodies) mean.

I think Nazi tattoos might be the only sort that still have the connotation of being some badass you shouldn't fuck with, if only because the people crazy enough to get them are universally gang members, methheads, or absolute loons. I don't think your average internet Nazi or /pol/tard gets those types of tats to "look hard."

 

[Humbert Humbert]

Exactly why I don’t really want one anymore. When I was younger I wanted a few, but it doesn’t feel as unique or special because now every retard’s getting tattoos like candy on Halloween. It isn’t even just the whole “I want to be unique but I can’t because now everybody and their half retarded sister’s got one”, it’s also because this has led to them losing meaning overall.
To have something permanently inked onto your body, it should have significant importance to the person whose body it’s on. But a lot of the time now, they just “look cool” and that’s it.
Sorry if this doesn’t really make sense, I was rambling and can’t gather my thoughts.

 

[JustTheFaxcts]

There is the typical trashy levels of cringe where it's obvious the person doesn't respect their body. Gotta follow whatever the current trend is so you can be different, just like everyone else. But then there's the next level cringe, such as adult men sporting vtuber tattoos. They might as well just put "Please Be Kind, I Have Autism" on their foreheads, it would probably be less offputting:

 

[ToroidalBoat]

How common is it to not really like the idea of tattoos in the first place?

(any kind of permanent tattoo be it traditional or modern)

 

[Hepativore]

How common is it to not really like the idea of tattoos in the first place?

(any kind of permanent tattoo be it traditional or modern)

I always hated them, and I think the boomer generation and much of Gen X felt the same way. I think it started to change with the Millennial generation as most of my fellow Millennials in school were "wiggers" and tried so hard to be "gangsta" that I think many of them were looking to grab "street cred" any way that they could in mid-sized town suburbia.

 

[Zbk3VmLfujjzjxBd43tL]

How common is it to not really like the idea of tattoos in the first place?

(any kind of permanent tattoo be it traditional or modern)

All my boomer relatives thought they were dumb. Like my boomer dad told me when I was a kid that the only job I'd ever get if I had a tattoo was digging ditches and if I was lucky, I could work at Hot Topic. But then everyone my age thought they were cool. Like even in the years I went to a religious school, students would argue with the teachers about how the verse that says the body is the temple of God doesn't mean having a tattoo is bad. Most of the really religious "Imma be a preacher when I grow up" types there ended up getting tattoos if what I saw from Facebook back in the day or mugshots is correct.

 

[Android raptor]

How did tattoos get so popular seemingly overnight in Current Year America?

Like I said in another thread, it seems tattoos in America used to be pretty much just a biker, prisoner, and sailor thing.

White people rediscovering putting important pictures on yourself

Tattoos are a normal thing in many cultures, especially tattoos that signify something important about the person like milestones, accomplishments, etc. It's only natural that shit would come back around to mainstream whitey culture eventually.

There are plenty of shitty, trashy tattoos, but lots of people also get tattoos for significant reasons like in honor of a loved one or personal accomplishment.

 

[WhoIsSutterKane]

no tattoos, no piercings, no covid shots...my semen should be worth a small fortune

 

[Onni Kalsarikännit]

In my youth I went to a metal festival and got completely shitfaced. I met a guy who was a tattoo artist and he had his tattoo stuff with him. So I got from a completely shitfaced guy while being completely shitfaced a tattoo on the sole of one of my feet that said "I'm not dead I just smell" including a missspelling.
It's nearly completely blurred nowadays.

Shit hurt as fuck the next day.
Don't get tattoos on the sole of your feet. It sucks.

 

[Sergeant Major Buzzkill]

All my boomer relatives thought they were dumb. Like my boomer dad told me when I was a kid that the only job I'd ever get if I had a tattoo was digging ditches and if I was lucky, I could work at Hot Topic. But then everyone my age thought they were cool. Like even in the years I went to a religious school, students would argue with the teachers about how the verse that says the body is the temple of God doesn't mean having a tattoo is bad. Most of the really religious "Imma be a preacher when I grow up" types there ended up getting tattoos if what I saw from Facebook back in the day or mugshots is correct.

Lol someone tried to convince me recently that the Bible doesn’t “necessarily” forbids getting a tattoo and showed me a picture of their pastor with a tattoo like that’ll make me agree with them

 

[Pissmaster]

Bad tattoos are some of my favorite funny internet pictures, because there's just no rock bottom to how bad they can get.

Vidya tattoos are always cringe:



Objectively bad ones are some of the funniest things on the planet, because someone has to walk around with that or pay the price of a nice used car to get it lasered off:



And then you've got horror tattoos:

Spoiler: A nude Asian woman from behind, sporting a full-body tattoo of an anime girl with octopus arms and a gigantic penis with giant testicles

Spoiler: Steve-O from Jackass with a tattoo of himself raping a baby. He later got it changed to an ostrich, and much later had it removed.

As horrifying as that last one is, Steve-O actually recovered and has been very up front about how insane all of that was. He's talked about it in detail publicly.

 

[Tren Shapiro]

White people rediscovering putting important pictures on yourself

Tattoos are a normal thing in many cultures, especially tattoos that signify something important about the person like milestones, accomplishments, etc. It's only natural that shit would come back around to mainstream whitey culture eventually.

There are plenty of shitty, trashy tattoos, but lots of people also get tattoos for significant reasons like in honor of a loved one or personal accomplishment.

Why do ink niggers always talk about tattoos like they're on the History Channel trying to explain some ancient forgotten technology to boomers?
We know what tattoos are. We see them all day, every day. We know the kinds of tattoos people get and all the super interesting stories behind them. They're all retarded. Some of them are gay as well.

 

[Shart Attack]

Never liked tattoos of any kind.. They've always been trashy or cringe to me. I'm of the opinion the human body is a completed work of art, not a blank canvas.

Plus I just get a weird, unpleasant feeling when I look at them. They make my skin crawl. I've always wondered if I'm just neurotic, or if my primitive monkey brain is hardwired by evolution to think of tattoos the same way it would think of any other large patch of skin discoloration, i.e. as a sign of disease.

 

[Onni Kalsarikännit]

Bad tattoos are some of my favorite funny internet pictures, because there's just no rock bottom to how bad they can get.

-> bad tattoos thread

 

[Onni Kalsarikännit]

This is a thread about how tattoos are cringe, so I posted some cringe tattoos.

Legit. I just linked the thread in case you haven't seen it and would want to enjoy more shitty tattoos.

 

[Scolopendra Dramatica]

Tattooist here; our clientele has always been 90% cringe. For all the reasons discussed.

It's a great career, you spend hours upon hours chatting to one form of nutter or another and then you spend your down time swapping stories with your coworkers. Half of my lolcows visit me, happily part with their gossip and pay me for the pleasure.

Sure, some are desperately annoying borderline fuckwits, but it's ofset by getting to spend my time gently hurting 'em.

As for is it over, honestly it's only got busier and busier over the last few years. As long as there's people looking to prove something and no coming of age rituals in wider society then I'll always be in work. And there's more shallow people looking to prove themselves than ever. Certain styles drop in and out of fashion over the years though.

 

[Neo-Nazi Rich Evans]

All other Tattoos are cringe, besides the ones guys in the Pacific theater got during World War II. Those are also okay, though for the guys that got those Tattoos while away at war, they themselves thought they were cringe once they got home from war and were a few years older.

My grandfather had like anchors and shit tattooed on his forearms because he was in the navy in WWII, and he was only 15 when he joined up. For the rest of his adult life, he mostly wore long-sleeved shirts to cover them up, because of the outlaw stigma against Tattoos.

when it comes to military tattoos i think it is fine if you got one during service in a war. guys who join the army during peacetime and work some desk job getting a military tattoo thinking it is cool or badass are just faggots.

Unless it's part of your tribal culture, you were in the military or in prison, you have no business having tattoos if you're older than 15.

There will never be a good tribal tattoo, but something that brings back memory or sense of belonging, like an emblem or a symbol can actually look kinda nice.

while tribal tattoos dont look good i think they are fine if you are an actual member of a tribe living with your tribe in the jungle or whatever. it's a symbol of being part of that tribe or whatever. seeing a white person in suburban america with a maori tattoo is just cringe as can be.