Great vid on what's been going on in NC
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Ha! I was just about to post the Mike Benz interview from his show!
Unrelated, I don’t understand why everyone has tattoos now.
Just 20 years ago, only a handful of people would have them, and they were mostly small.
Now they’re everywhere, and lots of people, even people who attend church regularly, cover their entire arms and necks and faces and torsos and legs with them.
My best guess is that some portion of this massive uptick is a system of marking who owns them, somehow, but then a lot of seemingly decent people have a lot of tattoos now, too. There is definitely no pragmatic benefit to it - it costs money and makes us more easily identifiable.
I just don’t understand it at all. Not meant as offense to anyone who has partaken, just earnest bewildered confusion.
Fashion and the need to look cool?
Some, for sure.
Years ago, it was very common for parents to say “if your friends all jumped off a bridge, would you do it?” It was even on TV shows.
Later on, some of my friends actually did jump off a bridge. I didn’t, which was doubly great because on top of being stupid, it also turned out to be illegal.
Then after that…
https://files.catbox.moe/8i0np5.jpeg
And now here we are.
I could understand if some segment of the population did it, but it’s so widespread, and some people take it so far, it’s just unbelievable. In just 20 years, I wouldn’t be surprised if untattooed have gone from 90+% of the population to under 40%.
Edit: according to city-data it’s gone from about 10% to about 30-40% among people under 50, but with a lot more tattoos on those who have them.
I just don’t understand what drove that, but there is a lot I don’t understand these days…