Tattoo artist roasted for ‘demon-like' image of client's baby: ‘I'm sorry you lost your dog bro'
Terrible tattoos are timeless, but as of late, it seems like more and more inked-up individuals are taking to the Internet to share their strange, questionable and sometimes even trashy tattoos.
Between Gen-Z's recent revival of the tramp stamp and a Swiss woman's viral $600 Red Bull barcode tattoo, social media users seem to agree that they could go a while without seeing another mega-viral miss in the tattoo department.
Unfortunately for the aforementioned members of the public, Cairo-based tattoo artist Thomas Tattoos proved to be the latest object of ink-based ridicule after he posted a video to his Instagram account, @ink_by_thomas, presenting his latest piece.
The piece was presumably intended to be a portrait of the client's daughter, but commenters saw more resemblance between the final product and Gollum from 'The Lord of the Rings' — a demon and the fictitious ogre, Shrek, were also popular comparisons.
Evidently, the visually offensive tattoo struck a nerve with social media users who stumbled across the video, which now has over 31 million views and thousands of comments — and shockingly, they're practically all negative.
'What days are you closed?' asked one commenter, while another like-minded inquired: 'Ayoo, do you accept walkouts?'
'Your wife must have a tattoo removal business…. I see what you're doing now,' replied a commenter under another video on the artist's page.
Some users speculated that maybe, just maybe, the tattoo wasn't that bad, and the baby just happened to be… unpleasant looking.
'Prayers for the baby if it looks like that,' offered one sympathetic scroller. 'Well, it's not nice to say… But not all kids are pretty and cute,' said another.
Meanwhile, another slightly more suspicious individual said, 'I gotta see the reference picture.'
Ask and you shall receive, apparently.
Shortly after comments like this rolled in, Thomas Tattoos shared a post of the original stencil design side-by-side with the finished piece.
'I don't have an appointment, but I would like to cancel anyway,' replied one aggrieved commenter after seeing the stencil.
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Unfortunately for Thomas Tattoos, commenters found the tattoo even more outrageous after seeing the original portrait of the baby, Tallin.
'Bro doesn't have customers, he has victims,' joked one reply.
'You sell vouchers?' asked one malicious user, 'My ex is gonna get one for a big piece.'
As many commenters noted, typically, tattooists specialize in one or at most, a few art styles. Judging from other content on the artist's page, he does everything from traditional to fine line to portraits to geometric cyber sigilism tattoos.
Despite the firestorm of fury on behalf of the customer that followed the viral video, Thomas Tattoos doesn't seem to have taken the commenters' negativity to heart.
The ink master is still keeping followers and haters alike up to date on all of his latest work on his Instagram account, and shows no signs of slowing down — he's even done another baby portrait!
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