traditional bullshit tattoo culture for fools

i don't understand the whole hype on traditional flash sailor jerry tattoo's. in my eyes it looks like juvenile. it looks like something my 12 year old niece drew when she was 9 but with straighter lines. its a celebration in mediocrity. its not really all that good. the lines are straight, the colors are…..colors, theres little to no shadow, and if there is it's laughable at best. 

  to me, its not different than people who still wear the mullet and talk about how great van halen was back in the day. the era is over and its stupid looking now, let it go, evolve. i don't see it as a valid art form in the same way i don't look at stills of old cartoons as a valid art form. its a relic, a film still of a time past. its nostalgic and antiquated. it looks so goddamn stupid to me. theres a reason there is only one mona lisa, there's a reason they save relics, because when you carbon copy it over and over again it looses its value. the same applies to this tattoo hype. its not special anymore, its been done and over bloated to a point where it is worthy of no more than an eye roll and a pat on the head. 

  i got out of the tattoo game years ago because i saw it heading in this direction and i wanted no part in it. i was tattooing out of my house since the age of 15. i was tattooing when you were riding the school bus, so don't brush me off as someone who just "doesn't get it". there's nothing to get, its stupid, and you have bad taste, thats all this is. you are a pawn, a sheep, and you wouldn't know good taste if it was in your mouth. 

  these people that cover their bodies with this shit just look like assholes. its not different, to me, than the football jock who wears jerseys like he's part of the teem and has a mouth guard for no reason. you're a dick head, accept it, move on. you're a clown. 

  what impresses me is tattoo's that are so in depth in color and texture and depth that it actually looks like a painting and you can't believe its actually on someones skin and was only done with a tattoo machine and a needle. thats impressive, thats art. that is worthy of praise. 

stop. celebrating. mediocrity. 

you morons.