Tattoos used to mean rebellion, identity, counterculture.
Then the mainstream got their hands on them — and boom, tattoo saturation.
Now? Society’s put down the tattoo machines and picked up the lasers to undo the culture they commodified.
Yippee!
Let’s explore how tattoos went from outsider art to “I’ll just get it lasered off before the wedding,” shall we?
link to videos exploring purity & conservatism culture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utzQL43EdpY&t=570s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smw06SDtZuM&t=254s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Rs6W31iZNQ&t=35s
feel free to follow me @CalDoesLife on instagram & tiktok
Then the mainstream got their hands on them — and boom, tattoo saturation.
Now? Society’s put down the tattoo machines and picked up the lasers to undo the culture they commodified.
Yippee!
Let’s explore how tattoos went from outsider art to “I’ll just get it lasered off before the wedding,” shall we?
link to videos exploring purity & conservatism culture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utzQL43EdpY&t=570s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smw06SDtZuM&t=254s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Rs6W31iZNQ&t=35s
feel free to follow me @CalDoesLife on instagram & tiktok
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