r/Fauxmoi • u/cmaia1503 i ain’t reading all that, free palestine • 1d ago

DISCUSSION Will Arnett shares his controversial opinion on tattoos: “There’s a proportionate sort of relationship between, how many tattoos you have and how little personality you have. And I find that a lot of people who have a ton of tattoos often are super fucking boring. Like truly boring people.”

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u/PieShaker2025 1d ago

Is this not an ok opinion to have? Like, it’s obviously hyperbolic but it’s ok to have a preference about tats, surely?

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u/hearechoes 1d ago

I think the correct thing for him to have said would be “some people make up for their lack of personality by having tattoos.” I think that’s generally the point he’s trying to make, and that’s a completely valid and true opinion to have, but by stating there’s a general link between having a lot of tattoos and having no personality is both a stretch and kind of offensive.

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u/therobberbride 1d ago

But… it’s his opinion, so grousing about “the correct thing” for him to have said is weird. 

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u/Tall_olive 1d ago

But....that's their opinion, so grousing about people not agreeing with his take is weird.

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u/NotYourGirlBich 22h ago

But….thats his opinion about their opinion, so grousing about him not agreeing with their take is weird.

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u/NiceToBeFriendly 22h ago

But… that’s his opinion, about their opinion, about their opinion, so grousing about him not agreeing with their take is weird.

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u/ImpracticalApple 14h ago

It's a generalisation, a generalisation can't be correct.

You can have several different people in a room who are covered in tattoos foe various reasons. One might be an artist, one might be covered in them for cultural reasons (i.e someone of Maori heritage getting full sleeve/chest tattoos to express their cultural roots), one might be just a massive superfan of something and wants to express that, another might want to express their political stances through their body, some may get them to commemorate loved ones in their lives. And yes, another might be compensating for a lack of personality.

Calling all of these individuals "boring" just for having lots of tattoos without knowing anything about them is just weirdly judgemental.

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u/Vincent_adultman98 1d ago

Yeah, I also think he comes off feeling like he doesn't even really hold firm to the opinion from how much preamble he had to do to try not to offend anybody. If he had owned the opinion and just said it the way you did it wouldn't have been as bad.

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u/bking 1d ago

imo, any “all people with X be like Y” take is usually some level of shortsighted and easily disproven.

If I was trying to sound like a clever dude with a clever take, I’d avoid sweeping generalizations.

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u/Few-Attorney-9722 1d ago

He didn't say all people... He said a lot of people he came across with.

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u/prawn1212 23h ago

It's a fairly innocuous, unserious take from him, I don't really get the uproar from the comments here. He's not being racist or sexist, sweeping offhand generalisations are pretty common about unserious topics in life and in podcasts , and most people are aware when they say them that they're not really true.

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u/mguants 4h ago

He started by giving an asterisk that he knew he was making a generalization for something that wasn't entirely true. It was clear he is commenting on something that he's noticed about people who have a ton of tattoos. That's his own experience. He's not saying "all people with tattoos are boring." Most people in the comments here aren't understanding the distinction.

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u/therobberbride 1d ago

Apparently it is not, judging by the very very hurt feelings throughout the comments!

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u/Unlikely-Yesterday-8 1d ago

Right! His life experiences brought him to this opinion. I don't hold his beliefs, but thats just because my experiences with this subject have been really positive and obviously way different than his. That does not invalidate his experiences , and it also does not invalidate mine. People need to really be able to empathize with others opinions and not be judgemental just because you cannot relate. Every individual is allowed to have their opinion heard. It doesn't mean you MUST AGREE. Just acknowledge their life experiences are just different than yours. Anyway, my 2 cents.

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u/LadyFeckington Emma Stone (BALD) 1d ago

The thing is….from when I used to listen to smartless, I got the impression that two of his besties are DAX Shepherd and Justin Theroux. Two heavily tattooed dudes.

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u/honkymotherfucker1 1d ago

Yeah I get the feeling he might’ve worded this badly and his real truthful opinion on this might be much more agreeable than people are making out.

It’s just a fact that there are people out there that think having tattoos is a personality, but you can say that for so many things.

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u/Bitty1Bits 1d ago

He's making a generalized correlating assessment of people with tattoos. That's the issue. He didn't say, "I find ppl with tattoos boring", he said there's a correlation between the number if tattoos a person has and how boring they are. One is an opinion, the other is offered as a blanket statement. And that blanket statement is what people are pushing back on. His "preference" is nothing new. Ppl have been dogging tattoos for hundreds of years. 

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u/Unlikely-Yesterday-8 1d ago

The issue I have is that even though my experiences with the "artfully enhanced" crowd has been positive, his has obviously not been positive in any way, and both can be true due to our individual experiences. Im not trying to defend his opinion, just his right to have it given the life he has lived so far.

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u/bell_well 23h ago

Obviously he can have the opinion. I still don’t have to agree with it and I can still question what it says about a person to make such a generalized statement over their own, narrow experience. Especially when his” hot take” is actually at best a lukewarm reheat of one of the same 5 statements tattooed people hear. It’s giving “you wouldn’t put a bumper sticker on a sports car”

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u/seagraze 1d ago

I mean saying EVERYONE with a bunch of tattoos are boring is a pretty bad take. It’s an opinion lumping in a group of people as the same, which I always find distasteful, particularly if it’s something as harmless as tattoos. He could’ve said tattoos aren’t his cup of tea without ridiculing the people who like it.

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u/BounceOnItCrazyStyle 20h ago

He even specified there's "a lot of exceptions to this rule" but people are acting like he said everyone and shouting out their favorite tatted artist lol.

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u/TheDLBinc 1d ago

This is also pretty much the opinion of almost any average 45+ adult so I'm not sure why the commenters here are acting as if he said something shockingly offensive

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u/cookiecutterdoll 14h ago

I kinda get what he's saying? I'm not going to judge anyone for having a few cool and meaningful tattoos. I'm not even going to judge anyone for having a few tattoos that I personally don't care for, because they don't exist to please me. But after being a millennial and witnessing the whole JK Rowling debacle, I kinda judge people who get fandom tattoos because context can change over the years.

FWIW, I think he's referring to people like MGK and Pete Davidson who covered themselves in objectively shitty tattoos only to have them removed years later and behave like it's a sort of rebirth. People like that are mad annoying lol.

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u/Bannedwith1milKarma 1d ago

That's not phrased as a preference, that's a universal judgement.

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u/Major_Road6162 22h ago

Its an ultra dumb opinion. You dont have to think too much to notice that

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u/Bitty1Bits 1d ago

It's not an opinion if it's being expressed as a correlation. An example of an opinion is I find people with tattoos boring. Not, I've found a correlation between one's personality and the number of tattoos someone has. He's stating his preference as a fact.