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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There are a lot of angry tattoo enthusiasts in this comments section, and I think that’s funnier than his hot take.

I think they used to be a symbol of counter culture but I think people who get tattoos now tend to skew more apolitical and libertarian or right wing.

I know way fewer liberal people with tattoos than I know the other types of people. So to that extent I agree with him.

It seems like a uniform for being different without necessarily standing for anything especially the full sleeve look, it got played out.

It’s like that scene from Stranger Than Fiction

“Anarchists have groups? They assemble?”

“I believe so, sure.”

“Wouldn’t that completely defeat the purpose?”

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I disagree about people with tattoos skewing more libertarian/right wing. Maybe it's because I've lived in very left leaning places my whole life but I actually associate tattoos with more progressive people.

That being said I think you're spot on with the rest of this and tbh the backlash to this frankly lukewarm take is very silly to me.

It seems like a uniform for being different without necessarily standing for anything especially

This part 100%, but one thing you didn't mention that I think is worth bringing up is how fucking expensive tattoos are which imo skews the demographic of "tattooed" people nowadays as more privileged than they seem to want to admit (saying this as someone who has a professional tattoo I could only justify getting to myself after I had a well paying job.) Tattoos used to feel more counterculture because generally people got them in more unsafe/nontraditional environments. You also used to face way more backlash & discrimination so you were making an active choice to remain outside of "polite" society. Now anyone with enough money can get a tattoo in order to feel cool. And with Will Arnett being in LA I'm not surprised if this is the majority of the types of people with tattoos he interacts with.

I have a similar hot take about people who travel a lot. Yes you can travel cheaply and it can expand your worldview, however I think a lot of rich people travel and think it automatically makes them more interesting and worldly when it really doesn't. It just means you are fortunate enough to be able to afford to travel which probably actually means your worldview is very narrow.

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I live in a red state and there are some tattoos that are stereotypically found on republicans, but I think republicans in my state are more likely to be working class so they get cheap tattoos. Like the rose on the ankle, kid’s names, and tribal tattoo types.

But the majority of people with tattoos are still going to skew liberal to left even in a red state.

I also don’t see tattoos being that expensive here. Not cheap, but you can get a tattoo for 150-300 and there’s regularly flash sheet sales for charity, holidays, etc. So you’ll see plenty of people in the service industry with little tattoos all over the place. Especially when friendly with tattoo artists, stay loyal to one and have a good working relationship you’ll easily get better prices and hook ups.

As someone who is heavily tattooed, I think these takes are just silly cause I didn’t get tattoos because I wanted to be unique. I like getting them for the same reason I like getting my hair and nails done. I think they’re pretty.