“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.

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    I would extend this to all images on people. Graphic t-shirts, hats, logos, text on booty shorts, jewelry

    Why does everyone need to be a walking billboard? Why must we cover everything with “art”? Why do we need to constantly be broadcasting messages to everyone who looks at us?

    I get that people are excited about these things, and I never want to make anyone feel bad about having tattoos or wearing clothes they like. But personally i west plain clothes, mostly solid colors and the occasional stripes, nothing busier than plaid. I took thr dealership stickers and manufacturers logos off my car.

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      it’s suppose to tell strangers about who you are

      Like, if you like a band, you wear the shirt. Then when somebody else who likes the band sees you in that shirt they can be like, “Awesome, what’s your favorite song”. You guys get to talk, maybe you make a friend

      But then a bunch of people decided it would be cool to wear those shirts even if they don’t actually like the band or the TV show or whatever that’s on the shirt… but other people who were fans were like, “Awesome, what’s your favorite song”… but the idiot wearing the shirt couldn’t answer the question because they don’t actually like the band or TV show or whatever and instead of thinking to themselves, “maybe I shouldn’t pretend to be a fan of something I’m not” instead decided to push this bullshit narrative that it’s wrong for other people to ask them about their shirt

      So now people walk around advertising shit they don’t like because the world is full of stupid people who make stupid rules that other people stupid people follow to prove how open-minded and non-judgemental they are

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        I don’t care whether you genuinely like it or not. I don’t particularly care if its a mutual interest or not. I don’t really like having unnecessary stimulation in my fiekr of vision.

        If I want to talk to people about a band I like, I’ll go find an online community or go to a concert, not talk to random strangers wearing relevant t-shirts.

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      Same here. On the other hand, I would like that someone stroke conversation with me because of some decoration I have on me.

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      because you’re boring and weird if you don’t, that’s the reason.

      I wear a lot of plain solid color clothes, and have so most of my life. All I get is endless shit for it for being ‘boring’.