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The subreddit r/AskReddit is a place full of interesting and thought-provoking discussions, and user u/PaLiaRoTH's post was no exception. Their question, "What tattoos scream 'I have no creativity?'" had Redditors sharing their opinions and experiences on the subject.

While some folks argued that tattoos are a personal choice and the only meaning that matters is that of the individual, others couldn't help but say that certain designs have become overdone and the lack of originality might backfire on the "wearers" in the form of regret.

Some of the top answers in the thread included pop culture references like Baby Yoda and Harley Quinn, as well as widely known phrases such as "live, laugh, love" and "only God can judge me." Overall, the post sparked a lively conversation and showcased people's diverse thoughts and tastes in body art.

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"Seems A Tad Done To Death": 30 Tattoo Designs That Scream “I Have No Creativity,” According To People Online I'm told mine has no creativity.

It's a fist-sized peach, between my upper shoulder blades. I got it for my 50th birthday, to honor the childhood nickname my Opa gave me. He's been gone 29 years, I still miss him every day.

I've been told the next one I'm getting is similarly boring. A pomegranate with 6 seeds missing and my granddaughter's name and date of birth. Her name is Korra, an epithet of Persephone meaning "Heart".

I'm OK with being "boring". My ink is for ME.

MissySedai , Yegie Report

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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes please! How did someone create a whole article just to shame other people's taste?! It's a personal choice, it doesn't harm anyone, LET PEOPLE BE HAPPY.

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"Seems A Tad Done To Death": 30 Tattoo Designs That Scream “I Have No Creativity,” According To People Online I have a dolphin on my calf because I really wanted to be a marine biologist when I was 17. I'm in the medical field and it serves no porpoise now.

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"Seems A Tad Done To Death": 30 Tattoo Designs That Scream “I Have No Creativity,” According To People Online Confederate flag. It also shows you have no tact, manners, or an education.

llcucf80 , NeonMoon Tattoos Report

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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was going to say "That could have been the flag of Norway" before I saw the stars.

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"Seems A Tad Done To Death": 30 Tattoo Designs That Scream “I Have No Creativity,” According To People Online Tribal arm symbols. What f*****g tribe are you apart of Bradley?

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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Unless you actually belong to a culture that has tribal tattoos. Otherwise don’t.

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"Seems A Tad Done To Death": 30 Tattoo Designs That Scream “I Have No Creativity,” According To People Online An ex boss had his own name in Olde English script down the inside of his forearm. I'd been working with him for months before I saw it, the conversation went as such.

'What's that?'

'A tattoo.'

'Well yeah, but what does it say?'

'Darren.'

'Why have you got your own name tattooed on you?'

'I wanted a tattoo for years, so my wife bought me one for my 40th.'

'And that's what you came up with after 40 years?'

Needless to say, I was fired soon afterwards.

bloodgutsandpunkrock , Brendan Mills Tattoos Report

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#6

"Seems A Tad Done To Death": 30 Tattoo Designs That Scream “I Have No Creativity,” According To People Online The “Never Sink “ anchor. Anchors are supposed to sink!!!

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"Seems A Tad Done To Death": 30 Tattoo Designs That Scream “I Have No Creativity,” According To People Online Anything copied from or inspired by the Joker and Harley Quinn in Suicide Squad.

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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My experience taught me that any Joker symbolism on a person (tattoo, profile pic, shirt...) means that in 90% of cases, I'll be dealing with a human equivalent of stepping on LEGO in a wet sock.

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"Seems A Tad Done To Death": 30 Tattoo Designs That Scream “I Have No Creativity,” According To People Online Probably the - - - - - - “cut here” on the neck. But I’m gonna get it anyway

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#9

"Seems A Tad Done To Death": 30 Tattoo Designs That Scream “I Have No Creativity,” According To People Online # 𝓛𝓲𝓿𝓮, 𝓛𝓪𝓾𝓰𝓱, 𝓛𝓸𝓿𝓮

Usually on a foot, ankle, or side of the torso.

EMPulseKC , Shivam Tattoos Report

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"Seems A Tad Done To Death": 30 Tattoo Designs That Scream “I Have No Creativity,” According To People Online I’m a tattoo artist, For me it’s three types of people.
1. The ones who are getting them only because it’s a current trend. They always come back wanting it covered or wanting it lasered off.
2. The ones who bring me something directly off Pinterest. And have 0 interest in letting me design it my way. I actually tell these people I’m not interested and direct them to another artist. That only happens every once in a while now.
3. Patriotic tattoos. Cornbread dudes walk in the shop wanting a battle flag and a 3% logo. I either try to talk them out of it or tell them I’m not doing it. Regardless of how much money it’d make me.
There is many more I could go on about but those 3 stick out the most. Everyone has opinions these are just mine

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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Big kudos to this tattoo artist for having [testicles] and refusing to tattoo alt-right c**p.

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"Seems A Tad Done To Death": 30 Tattoo Designs That Scream “I Have No Creativity,” According To People Online My friend once told me got a tattoo. We live in Tennessee so I jokingly said “is it a skull with a rebel flag that says don’t tread on me somewhere?” He lifted his sleeve to show me and said “yes it is”

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#14

"Seems A Tad Done To Death": 30 Tattoo Designs That Scream “I Have No Creativity,” According To People Online While I am creative, the tattoos I chose were drawings from my daughter and my son, 1 each. I'll always carry a piece of my children with me. :)

DUDEDIGGL3R , L320Y Report

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"Seems A Tad Done To Death": 30 Tattoo Designs That Scream “I Have No Creativity,” According To People Online Ill-behaved fuckwits with Bible verse tattoos. Typically the most racist, self-absorbed, intolerant c***s on the planet

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"Seems A Tad Done To Death": 30 Tattoo Designs That Scream “I Have No Creativity,” According To People Online The Council Cabbage. The owners always insist it’s meant to be a rose.

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#17

"Seems A Tad Done To Death": 30 Tattoo Designs That Scream “I Have No Creativity,” According To People Online Monster energy drink logo

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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

what a sad life you must live if you decide that's what you want as a tattoo o.O

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"Seems A Tad Done To Death": 30 Tattoo Designs That Scream “I Have No Creativity,” According To People Online I knew a girl who got “throw me to the wolfs and I will come back leading the pack” in massive writing on her thigh... wolfs.

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"Seems A Tad Done To Death": 30 Tattoo Designs That Scream “I Have No Creativity,” According To People Online Anything in Hebrew. I know I'll get a lot of s**t for this but as a raised conservative Jew it makes no sense. Jews aren't supposed to get tattooed per biblical beliefs, then Hitler and the SS solidified that by branding and tattooing 6 million of us as identification.

It's kind of an insult to injury thing in my eyes. I'm not against peoples rights to tattooing, I just find Hebrew tattoos yelling "look at me" im either that Jewish or hey I really like this old testament looking s**t. Kind of like Sanskrit, can you actually read any of that Angelina Jolie?

Who_Gives_A_ , SmashMetal Report

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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

one of my forebears was killed in the camps and I have a tattoo of his prisoner number to commemorate.

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"Seems A Tad Done To Death": 30 Tattoo Designs That Scream “I Have No Creativity,” According To People Online The lion, clock or rose tattoo for UK boys half of the population has it. I’m all for your body body your rules but cmon man put at least an ounce of creativity into it

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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is the first really good tattoo of a lion I've seen though.

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"Seems A Tad Done To Death": 30 Tattoo Designs That Scream “I Have No Creativity,” According To People Online Walk around the PNW for about 10 minutes and take a shot every time you see a pine tree on someone's forearm, you'll be dead by minute 9 I promise


Edit: Minute 2 if you walk by a college or one of the military bases

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"Seems A Tad Done To Death": 30 Tattoo Designs That Scream “I Have No Creativity,” According To People Online Getting your own name tattooed on you

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"Seems A Tad Done To Death": 30 Tattoo Designs That Scream “I Have No Creativity,” According To People Online Remember the mustache tattoos that everyone was getting on the side of their fingers?

What happened to those people?

CHUNKY_BLOODY_QUEEFS , mykeuk Report

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"Seems A Tad Done To Death": 30 Tattoo Designs That Scream “I Have No Creativity,” According To People Online No Regerts

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"Seems A Tad Done To Death": 30 Tattoo Designs That Scream “I Have No Creativity,” According To People Online Elvish script tattoos are very very common in New Zealand...
We REALLY got into Lord of the Rings as a nation.

darylkakariki , hulksehalka Report

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"Seems A Tad Done To Death": 30 Tattoo Designs That Scream “I Have No Creativity,” According To People Online I'm a tattoo artist and if I have to do an infinity tattoo one more time...... DX

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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Now...I am one of those people that have an infinity tattoo but I got mine because my terminally ill daughter wanted to get matching tattoos and that is what she picked. So hopefully....I can be exempt.

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"Seems A Tad Done To Death": 30 Tattoo Designs That Scream “I Have No Creativity,” According To People Online Star on the foot, names on your neck, chinese lettering that probably says "chicken noodle soup" even though you asked for "live laugh love" or some s**t.

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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

... I always get reminded of that dude that wanted "Asian Girl Lover" and got tattooed "Foreign Pervert" instead. Serves him right, very likely, and is just hilarious. Never got the reasoning behind having something written on me in a language I cannot read or write or speak or understand, and that isn't even extinct yet - that may be a different case, because nobody will read "pervertere peregrino" in the language they actually speak, but then again ... why even use a language, a thing meant to transmit thought, that I am not able to use, but could learn, and somehow decided not to? Why? What's the reason that this is better than just using english, german, french, ...?

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"Seems A Tad Done To Death": 30 Tattoo Designs That Scream “I Have No Creativity,” According To People Online Looking through the comments to get tattoo ideas.

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"Seems A Tad Done To Death": 30 Tattoo Designs That Scream “I Have No Creativity,” According To People Online Every man from Essex that wears those dumb a*s tight tops and trousers has a sleeve that has a melting clock. So mysterious

Uglyassbaldassbaby , YellowBuggie Report

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"Seems A Tad Done To Death": 30 Tattoo Designs That Scream “I Have No Creativity,” According To People Online I have 2 flying birds on my ankle lol I feel like I belong to this category…

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