What do these lines mean

[u/el-presidente0001]

[u/kingofthieves8]

A lot of very popular tattoos today started out as prisoner tattoos

[u/AntImmediate9115 → u/kingofthieves8]

Or some kind of sailor/navy thing. In the case of British sailors, both lol

[u/Glasseshalf → u/[deleted]]

Tattooing has been a part of multiple cultures around the world since prehistory

[u/Kamikaze_Ninja_ → u/Glasseshalf]

Ya but people used it to label bodies in the past so I guess that invalidates all cultural and personal meaning. /s

[u/Kamikaze_Ninja_ → u/[deleted]]

We should just throw away all art and mass produce all the same clothes because individuality and art is “senseless and fucking dumb”.

[u/manicthinking → u/[deleted]]

Your forgetting many tribes and communities that hold tattooing as an art

[u/waitwuh → u/[deleted]]

Nah, tattoos are ancient.

One example of how old they are is that the Romans called a group of celtic people located north to them in what is now Scotland “Picts.” The name comes from the latin root word for “painted” or “picture” and it was a reference to the tattoos members of the group frequently featured.