Unpopular Opinion

Fuck it, you used the community correctly. Have my upvote you damn prude.

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

I have full sleeves and a chest piece. I get them for myself and my own story. They mean something to me. I don't care what you think about them.

Having said that you used the community correctly. But I not agree with you. Tattoos can be stupid and pointless to the user as well. They can just be there and it's impulsive and they want to tell a story.

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.

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

Personally I have nothing against tattoos—you don't have to be an artist to appreciate art—I simply cannot think of any design or text I like so much that I want it displayed permanently on my skin.

Also I do not have the pain tolerance nor the nerves to sit still while I get stabbed hundreds (thousands?) of times a second. I hate needles with a burning passion; I can barely handle getting my blood drawn.

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

Many tattoos are stupid. And that's kinda cool

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.

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.

I'm someone with no tattoos, that really loves other peoples' tattoos. I'm just very indecisive personally, but I think they're really cool.

Unpopular opinion on your opinion:

Stupid implies lack of thought on consequences or bad logic, which I don't think applies to tattoos as they are (for the most part) an aesthetic personal choice.

Cool though? Yeah sure, that is a vague and subjective term.

So no, most (not all) tattoos are not stupid.

I'm glad that this is an unpopular opinion now

You're entitled to your opinion, popular or otherwise. My tattoos are all original artwork designed by an artist I collaborated with and I love them. In my opinion, they also serve as an excellent litmus test when interacting with folks, they help me filter out the unaligned more readily.

This is indeed an unpopular opinion.

I made my living as a graphic designer for over twenty years. Drawing pretty pictures. Here's my problem, I enjoy the process, but don't care about the results after I'm done. I'm like this with everything I make. Once I call a thing "finished", I never want to see it again, it's immediately boring to me. It's the doing that matters, not the having. I'm not a collector.

So, I don't want tattoos. I'd hate it the minute it was finished.

I always say "Never do anything to your body that is permanent". I don't like them either.

Tattoos are kinda dumb. They are also kinda rad. I'm heavily covered. Personally I enjoy bothering people who hold the old view that only criminals, seaman, bikers, drug dealers or whores have them. Don't get me wrong, I am some of those things but its fun as hell working in a profession where I end up interacting with company owners, ceos and lawyers. It blows their minds.

I won't use the word "stupid", but I don't care for them, either.

That's why I don't have any, so, no problem.

Small, memorial tattoos are fine. Also, I have respect for the commitment of a full body, integrated tattoo. If it's not just a random collection of separate tats, added wherever whenever, but something planned from the start, and carried out systematically to cover the entire body, I can't disparage that sort of commitment, and I'm impressed. I still wouldn't do it, and don't care for how it looks, though.

I wouldn't say stupid, but I wish people would try to justify them so much, nobody need a drawing on their body as a reminder of something.

Just admit the vanity and narcissism.

I think this should be about your own body and not others. I’m not sure why you care so much about what other people are doing to their own skin. This doesn’t seem like “looking at tattoos makes my skin crawl” this is more of a judgement on others’ actions than an opinion on tattoos. You seem to be horrified by “cringe” things - just let people be happy and I think this “opinion” will disappear.

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.

I've seen many tattoos that are stupid, but I've seen also artistically beautiful ones (different styles), or ones that remember a loved one who has passed away. Those aren't stupid.

Slapping Goku or Batman on your body can be stupid, but plenty of people gain inspiration from those figures, to improve their own life, so even there you can find exceptions.

I'm completely tattooless (the small piece of stone that has lodged itself under my skin, that looks like a tiny dark blotch doesn't count), but have been thinking of getting Huginn and Muninn tattood on my arms, but I tend to forget within a week, so maybe not).

I both fully agree and disagree. While there are several tattoos I would like to have gotten in my life, I've never been able to justify the cost. Monitary cost or time cost. I do have one tattoo and it is my wedding ring. I do not wear jewelry and work with my hands. Now some may argue thats stupid for different reasons but it remains my only tattoo.

A friend once drew me a tattoo to get, and that would have been cheaper to have traced on to me, but after many years, I find I'm just as happy to have that piece of art my friend made hanging on my wall.

I love seeing other people's tattoos, particularly when it's someone's art and not yanked from media as you said or just tattoos for the sake of tattoos.

My wife has a number and they all mean something to her individually and look great. My brother has a few that all have meaning to him, and they mostly look terrible, but are still original art.

Its just such a long history and wide range of tattoos and reasons for having them i find it hard to put a blanket statment like " tattoos are stupid" on them. On the other hand i feel "tattoos are stupid for me" completely accurate and reasonable.

I'd never get a tattoo but I can't blame people for wanting to feel special and unique.

Yeah, imagine liking art and letting someone use your body as a canvas for art. Then imagine needing your validation for it.

This is certainly an unpopular opinion. Yikes.

I agree I don't like them either