“Do you think my tattoo is cool?” No, I don’t. There are no cool tattoos. “Check out my sleeve!” Oh god ew.
Tattoos themselves are stupid. Doubly so if it’s some media IP. “I put Batman on my body!” “Look at this image of Goku on my calf!” I can’t think of many things I’d want to do less than that.
There are a few narrow exceptions. Chances are yours isn’t one of them.
If you personally like tattoos, fine. I’m not saying nobody should get tattoos because I don’t like them. I’m stating my opinion that tattoos are stupid, and I am stating it here because it is probably not a popular opinion.
What’s worse, Batman or a sports logo?
Ooh one of my favourite quotes is relevant here:
“The tattoo has a profound meaning: the superficiality of modern man’s existence” – Anthony Daniels
Checks out, Anthony Daniels is full of bad takes.
i think people are majorly overdoing these and half of it at least is trash so i agree with this opinion.
I dont get why some people without tattoos seem to think their opinion about tattoos is terribly novel and important to everyone else.
You dont like tattoos? Great dont geht any. You dont have to like other peoples choices and bodys.
This was the popular opinion when I was younger, I love tattoos but they used to be uncommon and sort of countercultural.
I never imagined tattoos would gain mainstream popularity like they have. I think it’s improved the art but at the same time made them less, I dunno, cool?
I think if you’re getting tattoos to be cool you’re doing it for the wrong reason.
So many uncool people have them that they’re no longer cool.
The problem is being cool and edgy was the only positive for tattoos, and that’s no longer true.
One of the problems is the quality of art. Tattoos are permanent but they do fade and your skin does stretch and sag over time. It’s great to appreciate improved art for a few months but the rest of your life has a misshapen fading blob of ink
Then there seems to be an increasing number who just can’t stop. No that misshapen faded blob of ink discoloring your entire arm is not cool
agreed, I remember hearing a gen z punk a while back in my DIY days say, “these days it’s more punk to not have tattoos”
i remember rolling my eyes at the time but he’s kinda got a point lol
Totally hot a point
I wouldn’t get one, but I think they often look really beautiful. I’m not a fan of hodge-podge random IP characters but I’ve seen people with patterned sleeves and hands that I just want to keep looking at, they’re so interesting
I half agree.
If you’re getting IP put on, I think that’s a bad idea. I may still find it aestheticaly pleasing.
I’ve had a mind to do something similar to Adam Savage’s ruler tattoo, because there is actual utility in always being able to get a rough measure of objects. But I’d prefer to wait until I’m in my 50s for that, just so there is minimal change in size as I have it.
Haha yeah, and not on any body parts that stretch or expand
With IP tattoos there is also the chance that an IP goes bad. Like an artist or singer turning out to be a Nazi or pedophile. Or think of the people who got a Tesla tattoo when the brand was still cool.
Exactly my thought process
I don’t find tattoos attractive and usually think the person would look better without them. I find the big prominent tattoos especially ugly. I won’t get started on the neck tats.
That being said, I also think there is something profoundly cool about inking your skin permanently and using your own body as a canvas.
I don’t like them but I definitely get it.
Lol I don’t have tattoos, but I can do this for literally everything you have ever liked or enjoyed.
This is one of those “if you think something that doesn’t effect you and brings others joy is stupid, you probably need therapy”.
You do realize you’re in the “unpopular” opinon community, right?
If your opinion is literally shaming someone over their own life choices that generally don’t have any affect on their life or yours, it’s not an unpopular opinion, you’re just a piece of shit person.
An unpopular opinion should be “I think owning dogs is too much work”, not “What you do with your own body makes me judge you as a person”. An unpopular opinion is “I think Pineapple on pizza is gross” not “I don’t think trans people should exist”.
Maybe learn the difference. OP doesn’t have an “unpopular opinion”, they’re just a straight up fucking asshole.
I think people have varying opinions on what it constitutes to be an asshole.
Telling others what they can or cannot do to their own bodies, which has absolutely no impact on anyone else outside of their own personal life decisions, doesn’t have the authority to tell other people what they can or cannot do with their bodies.
Simply put.
If you think otherwise, you’re just as big of a human piece of shit as @EtnaAtsume@lemmy.world
Notice how this piece of shit person just stopped replying to comments? Probably because they have a piece of shit opinion and people are waiting for them to comment so we can rake them through the fucking mud where their shit ass opinion belongs.
Don’t fucking tell people how to live their own fucking lives. If they aren’t hurting anyone then shut the fuck up and fuck off.
Hey, you’re really good at getting me thinking!! To present myself as nonadversarially as possible, if I may I’ll spoiler some thoughts/questions below…
BUT! I really wanna have a pleasant chat about it. Good topic, respecting others. Anyway:
Tap for spoiler
Any right the OP retains to free expression on their opinion, if it’s a safe space?
Any thoughts on calling a behavior stupid in public where it may hurt a stranger’s feelings versus telling a specific person it would be wrong to participate in an activity?
& how could we share an opinion if we feel smoking is bad - anyway to do it without telling people what they can do to their own bodies? Or should we not offer opinions on smoking because it’s too paternalistic, telling them how to live their lives?
Also e.g. racists are poopy but for stuff we choose (apply ink to skin) are the haters necessarily not just big giant haters but actually BAD PEOPLE? (suggestion I guess is “Notice how this giant HATER stopped replying …” but hypothetically in a different thread “See how this low-life racist clown stopped replying” would not earn a comment from me … which I’m now reflecting on, maybe I should diss actions not people… I digress)
Try looking at the last paragraph of my post one more time. I’m not making any moral judgments on people who get tattoos, I’m saying that I don’t like tattoos, and that if you want to get one, fine. I just won’t think they’re cool or badass or anything like that. I will think that they’re stupid. Not that the person is stupid, but that the tattoos are stupid.
If you’re looking for ad hominem, invective, and hate, you may want to look at your own comment.
By saying they’re stupid you are morally judging them.
You are inherently saying it was a waste of time and/or money i.e. that OP was stupid when they chose to get them.
In reality the answer is that you’re stupid for spending time and effort thinking that people with tattoos made stupid choices, rather then going, cool nice flare and enjoying something a little different from the usual plain jane button up look.
Again, this is not an opinion. This is conservative small mindedness in shutting down stuff different from what youre used to, that doesn’t effect you. Reflexive and defensive negativity is something you feel, but it’s not an opinion.
Try looking at the last paragraph of my post one more time. I’m not making any moral judgments on people who get tattoos, I’m saying that I don’t like tattoos, and that if you want to get one, fine. I just won’t think they’re cool or badass or anything like that. I will think that they’re stupid. Not that the person is stupid, but that the tattoos are stupid.
Seriously? You think people here are stupid? Your comment came blatantly off as telling people who get tattoos are stupid. That tattoos are stupid, people who get them are stupid, and that nothing about them are “cool”, according to you. You don’t own anyone else. You don’t get to dictate or gate-keep what is ‘cool’ to someone else. You don’t get to tell someone else how they are allowed to feel about themselves and how they should use their own body.
Yet you seem to be self-righteous enough to think that you do have that authority. You think you have the authority to tell others how they should feel or what they should do with their own bodies. And I have dozens of others in this comment chain hopefully (but clearly not) gotten it through your egotistical skull that you’re not the ruler over other people’s bodies.
Clearly we’re all wrong but also right. We clearly misjudged that you have the internal ability to understand why your ‘opinion’ is so toxic, while also being right that you’re just an asshole of a person.
I think you’re just reading a lot of things in my words that simply aren’t there. I’m not positioning myself as some kind of arbiter of anything, I am stating my own singular opinion, not making a sweeping judgment or declaration.
Finally someone put it into words.
There is having an opinion and then there is being a dick. OP is leaning heavily towards the latter with their post.
Right!
“If you dont like it, dont look.”
There’s a phrase that’s been around a while - “don’t yuck someone else’s yum”… just because you don’t like it doesn’t mean that others can’t like it.
And so opinions were discovered.
This “opinion” was discovered a long time ago: https://youtu.be/cR2KrJTvJgQ
Yeah, well, you know, that’s just, like, your opinion, man!
What’s the list of acceptable tattoos? I’ll bet mine isn’t on there, but it should be
Downvote for popular opinion
Like we still live in a society where having visible tattoos will bar you from having customer facing roles because of the prevailing mentality against tattoos. That sounds like “tattoos are bad” is still very much a popular opinion.
Yeah, imagine liking art and letting someone use your body as a canvas for art. Then imagine needing your validation for it.
Art I don’t like is bad art, upvoted that’s definitely an unpopular take
There are loads of bad art tattoos out there by third rate tattoo artists.
I would say fewer than 1/1000 tattoos make me stop and think “oh that’s beautiful.” Most I see are so ugly I feel bad for the person, knowing I would regret it if I had their tattoos.
The problem is that most tattoos are bad.
Yeah, this post is either “I don’t like tattoos”, which is very much a popular opinion among a certain segment of the population, or “I don’t like art when it’s on a body”, which is a weird take on art.
Was gonna downvote but then saw the community so I guess I’ll upvote it? People want to etch something onto themselves permanently, I think that is pretty cool a person likes something so much they want to mark themselves with it. Some of the things people get tattooed tho, not so much lol.
In this community - doesn’t upvote means it’s a unpopular opinion?
And downvote if it’s a common/popular opinion?
So your voting is correct!
My unpopular opinion is that just because an opinion is technically unpopular doesn’t mean it should be upvoted. I think if an opinion is reasonably well thought out and has more than just “personal opinion” vibes to it. Like, if you could reasonably argue your opinion and potentially sway them, its a good unpopular opinion.
“I dont like them therefore they’re bad” does not fall in this for me. This is a bad unpopular opinion.
