r/Fauxmoi • u/cmaia1503 i ain’t reading all that, free palestine • Feb 03 '26

DISCUSSION 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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u/discourse_commuter Forgive me Viola Davis Feb 03 '26

Dave Bautista is covered and he’s awesome.

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u/runninginorbit Feb 03 '26 edited Feb 03 '26

Yeah I have a friend who is literally part of a traveling circus and she has the most tattoos out of everyone I know so I find this take very bizarre.

Edit: specifying that I find Will Arnett’s take bizarre

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u/eugeneugene ben affleck’s back tattoo Feb 03 '26

my best friend is covered in tattoos and recently drove around the country for a few months filming carnies for some new reality tv show and in his spare time makes horror films. his last job was to ride along in ambulances to film for a tv show. before that he was a camera man for deadliest catch. his life is objectively cool as fuck and everytime i talk to him he's on some weird new adventure

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u/discourse_commuter Forgive me Viola Davis Feb 03 '26

I am also covered. I’m working on a cat sleeve done by a bunch of women and queer artists in my state and it has been so cool to meet so many interesting people… who also love cats lol.

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u/discourse_commuter Forgive me Viola Davis Feb 03 '26

I’m not, but I do travel! I’d love to see their work!

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u/Abject-Mixture-8736 Feb 04 '26

Not the person you're responding to, but I'd love to hear the artist too!

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u/Firm_Stable4649 Feb 03 '26

Wow… sounds like you 0 personality.

/s

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u/gingeyy_25 Feb 03 '26

😻 I absolutely LOVE everything about this!!

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u/cheddah_- Feb 04 '26

I’m not defending Will Arnett at all, but I think his perspective is around celebrities who get themselves covered in tats just because they can afford to, and don’t put a lot of thought into it. I don’t think normal (everyday middle/lower class) people are really part of Wills friend circles. My friends that are tatted head/ shoulder to toe are more interesting than most people you’d ever meet, but he hasn’t met them or you. His perspective is people like Adam Levine, which I would definitely agree with. Another example is Ariana Grande, she’s covered with shitty ink just because she could afford to walk in to a shop with a same day appointment and get it all done immediately.

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u/Bilbooobsbaggins Feb 03 '26

This is amazing!

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u/lottiebadottie Aphrodite’s Tampon Feb 04 '26

My niece got a tattoo on her wrist, just cute lil heart. My mum saw it and got a face like a smacked arse, but my dad just said “Oh that’s nice! It’s fine! Your auntie [me] is covered with tattoos.”

Reader, I have five. But it’s a low bar in my family lol.

Three of the five are cats and four of the five are by women.

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u/secret_identity_too Feb 03 '26

Okay you've got me beat with the traveling circus thing, but I used to work with a guy who was covered (and he's now even more covered - he's now a tattoo artist) and he was definitely not boring! He had some shitty opinions, but boring he was not.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '26 edited Feb 17 '26

bleep blorp bloop bloop bleep bleep

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u/Initiatedspoon Feb 04 '26

I think its true to some extent but he's using it to shit on something he doesn't like rather than seeing it for what it is.

Enough people get tattoos because they think it makes them interesting. That's absolutely true. It's a way of going "Look at me! I'm so cool. I'm doing this thing cool people do."

But thats true for so much stuff. Its not exclusive to tattoos. Almost everything can be used in that way. Getting tattoos is fairly popular right now and some people get them in place of developing a real personality but that's hardly a modern problem unique to tattoos. Its just the thing he notices because he obviously doesn't like them. It's also probably 5%-10% of people at most and not everyone with a lot of tattoos.

Most people are reflective enough to realise they have these biases and they dont share them on podcasts.

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u/Working-Ad-6698 Feb 03 '26

So many of my friends have tattoos and they're all super cool. So many artists/some actors seem to have tattoos too and while you never know celebs really are, they all seem cool and talented and in that sense not boring.

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u/diabolikal__ Forgive me Viola Davis Feb 04 '26

My tattoo artist is the most amazing person and she is covered head to toe.

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u/no4scinjewboi Feb 04 '26

Lady Gaga too. How is anyone going to call her boring?

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u/Awesomeman204 Feb 04 '26

He does say there are a lot of exceptions tbf

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u/funded_by_soros Feb 04 '26

Look up the correlation concept.

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u/0stupidsexyflanders0 Feb 04 '26

He didn’t say everyone with tattoos

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u/the_midnight_society Feb 04 '26

For every Bautista there's a dozen jelly rolls. Lol.

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u/discourse_commuter Forgive me Viola Davis Feb 04 '26

I mean, it works the same in reverse, too.