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<p>When a friend copies your style, we all know you&#39;re supposed to take it as a compliment. But let&#39;s be real, it can be annoying.</p><p>One woman <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/ebo6w2/aita_for_recommending_the_worst_tattoo_artist_i/">recently asked the judge and jury of Reddit</a> whether she was an a-hole for the way she handled a copying pal: by allowing her to scar her body with a terrible attempt at a tattoo. Yikes.</p><h2>It all started when the woman and her husband got matching anniversary tattoos that they designed together.</h2><p>&quot;We got matching ones for our anniversary,&quot; she wrote. &quot;It is super personal.&quot;</p><p>She showed the ink to her friends and saw one acquaintance taking a little too much interest in the design:</p><blockquote> <p>As I was showing it off to my friends, I notice one girl in our group (who I&rsquo;m not super close to) was really into it. She even took a picture of it which I thought was strange but I let it slide. Let&rsquo;s call this girl Sarah.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>She then heard &quot;through the grapevine&quot; that Sarah, a tattoo virgin, was telling people she wanted to copy the ink:</h2><blockquote> <p>Honestly I suspected this. She told a couple of friends of mine the design, and for some reason, didn&rsquo;t think that they would tell me. But here comes the crazy part, she comes to me and asks me for a recommendation for an artist. She specifically wanted one that wasn&rsquo;t too expensive.</p> </blockquote><h2>So our heroine decided to do something diabolical.</h2><blockquote> <p>I asked her what she was going to get. She was really coy with me and told me that she had not finished thinking about it yet. So I recommend the worst tattoo &ldquo;artist&rdquo; I know, let&rsquo;s call him Bubba.</p> </blockquote><h2>&quot;Bubba&quot; is no bueno.</h2><blockquote> <p>I&rsquo;ve gotten two &ldquo;joke&rdquo; tattoos from Bubba, one is terrible and blown out ,but it&rsquo;s okay because it&rsquo;s that duck or rabbit optical illusion. The other one I have had covered up. He works at subway during the day and gives tattoos from his garage.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>I knew she wouldn&rsquo;t do her proper research and check him out, and she didn&rsquo;t. She went and got her cheap tattoo from Bubba, and it is f*cked. up.</p> </blockquote><h2>The &quot;friend&quot; got the tattoo and it turned out just as terribly as expected.</h2><blockquote> <p>It&rsquo;s already blown out, the lines aren&rsquo;t straight, and may be infected. My husband and I are howling about this, but a few friends of mine think what I did was really messed up. She&rsquo;ll be ok, she&rsquo;ll just have a really really shitty version of my tattoo. I think it&rsquo;s what she deserves. So let me know reddit, [am I the a-hole]?</p> </blockquote><h2>Everyone pretty much agrees that she&#39;s an a-hole.</h2><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/ebo6w2/aita_for_recommending_the_worst_tattoo_artist_i/fb68kk2/">lh123456789</a> wrote:</p><blockquote> <p>You are a huge a**hole for knowingly referring her to someone who you knew would do bad job. Your husband sounds like an a**hole too, so you guys are a good match for one another.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>And<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/ebo6w2/aita_for_recommending_the_worst_tattoo_artist_i/fb6su69/"> jayne_snow </a>added that their gloating over the safety of the tat is especially gross:</p><blockquote> <p>Especially laughing at how it might be infected. All just because the woman had THE AUDACITY to like her tattoo, but perhaps lacks the formal education in tattoo etiquette apparently required to ask OP&rsquo;s permission and recommendations to have a similar one.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>Maybe OP has a personal problem with her. It seems like she was maybe scared to admit to OP that she admired it, intimidated by OP perhaps. YTA, OP. Maybe next time someone expresses admiration for your art you&rsquo;ll accept a compliment instead of hoping she gets gangrene. We were all new once.</p> </blockquote><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/ebo6w2/aita_for_recommending_the_worst_tattoo_artist_i/fb68hm2/">MyDogsAreRealCute</a> wrote:</p><blockquote> <p>Everyone sucks here. You&rsquo;re a grown adult. You could&rsquo;ve just told her you had a problem with her copying your tattoo.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>But some can&#39;t help but find humor and a twisted kind of justice in the situation.</h2><p>&quot;I completely agree,&quot; wrote <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/ebo6w2/aita_for_recommending_the_worst_tattoo_artist_i/fb6ofda/">Paul_Castro</a>. &quot;However, I am laughing my own a** off at this.&quot;</p><p>And <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/ebo6w2/aita_for_recommending_the_worst_tattoo_artist_i/fb6ufh3/">BiohackedGamer</a> argues at least some of the fault lies with the copier for not 1. copying and 2. doing research:</p><blockquote> <p>The person already knew it was wrong, OP telling them it was wrong wouldn&#39;t have given her any new info. OP is still TA, and morally shouldn&#39;t have recommended Bubba as a good artist, but communication wouldn&#39;t have deterred the person from getting the tattoo, though the slightest amount of research into the tattoo artist might have dissuaded her from at getting a horrible one.</p> </blockquote><p>Still, as <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/ebo6w2/aita_for_recommending_the_worst_tattoo_artist_i/fb6g6jh/">agentredsquirrel</a> points out, the woman could&#39;ve done the right thing and educated the copier about how rude it is to imitate someone else&#39;s design.</p><blockquote> <p>So &ldquo;Sarah&rdquo; has no tattoos that you know of &mdash; do you know if she was aware that it&rsquo;s rude to steal someone else&rsquo;s artwork? A lot of people who have never gotten tattoos or researched tattooing as a thing don&rsquo;t really get that original artwork is expensive and/or personal.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>Everyone on the Internet with the same feather/bird/infinity symbol/shittily drawn Chinese character &mdash; the tattoos a lot of people are exposed to &mdash; aren&rsquo;t exactly precious about their &ldquo;unique&rdquo; designs, so maybe she didn&rsquo;t realize how much more yours meant to you. And yeah, that&rsquo;s her problem, and she should have done her research, but it&rsquo;s possible she was just ignorant and you sure didn&rsquo;t do anything to help. YTA, so&rsquo;s your husband.</p> </blockquote><h2>Either way, we&#39;ve all learned a valuable lesson: don&#39;t let Bubba from Subway do your first tattoo.</h2><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

Woman asks if she's wrong to recommend awful tattoo artist to friend.

When a friend copies your style, we all know you&#39;re supposed to take it as a compliment. But let&#39;s be real, it can be annoying.One woman recently asked the judge and jury of Reddit whether she was an a-hole for the way she handled a copying pal: by allowing her to scar her body with a terrible attempt at a tattoo. Yikes.It all started when the woman and her husband got matching anniversary tattoos that they designed together.&quot;We got matching ones for our anniversary,&quot; she wrote. &quot;It is super personal.&quot;She showed the ink to her friends and saw one acquaintance taking a little too much interest in the design: As I was showing it off to my friends, I notice one girl in our group (who I&rsquo;m not super close to) was really into it. She even took a picture of it which I thought was strange but I let it slide. Let&rsquo;s call this girl Sarah. She then heard &quot;through the grapevine&quot; that Sarah, a tattoo virgin, was telling people she wanted to copy the ink: Honestly I suspected this. She told a couple of friends of mine the design, and for some reason, didn&rsquo;t think that they would tell me. But here comes the crazy part, she comes to me and asks me for a recommendation for an artist. She specifically wanted one that wasn&rsquo;t too expensive. So our heroine decided to do something diabolical. I asked her what she was going to get. She was really coy with me and told me that she had not finished thinking about it yet. So I recommend the worst tattoo &ldquo;artist&rdquo; I know, let&rsquo;s call him Bubba. &quot;Bubba&quot; is no bueno. I&rsquo;ve gotten two &ldquo;joke&rdquo; tattoos from Bubba, one is terrible and blown out ,but it&rsquo;s okay because it&rsquo;s that duck or rabbit optical illusion. The other one I have had covered up. He works at subway during the day and gives tattoos from his garage.  I knew she wouldn&rsquo;t do her proper research and check him out, and she didn&rsquo;t. She went and got her cheap tattoo from Bubba, and it is f*cked. up. The &quot;friend&quot; got the tattoo and it turned out just as terribly as expected. It&rsquo;s already blown out, the lines aren&rsquo;t straight, and may be infected. My husband and I are howling about this, but a few friends of mine think what I did was really messed up. She&rsquo;ll be ok, she&rsquo;ll just have a really really shitty version of my tattoo. I think it&rsquo;s what she deserves. So let me know reddit, [am I the a-hole]? Everyone pretty much agrees that she&#39;s an a-hole.lh123456789 wrote: You are a huge a**hole for knowingly referring her to someone who you knew would do bad job. Your husband sounds like an a**hole too, so you guys are a good match for one another. And jayne_snow added that their gloating over the safety of the tat is especially gross: Especially laughing at how it might be infected. All just because the woman had THE AUDACITY to like her tattoo, but perhaps lacks the formal education in tattoo etiquette apparently required to ask OP&rsquo;s permission and recommendations to have a similar one.  Maybe OP has a personal problem with her. It seems like she was maybe scared to admit to OP that she admired it, intimidated by OP perhaps. YTA, OP. Maybe next time someone expresses admiration for your art you&rsquo;ll accept a compliment instead of hoping she gets gangrene. We were all new once. MyDogsAreRealCute wrote: Everyone sucks here. You&rsquo;re a grown adult. You could&rsquo;ve just told her you had a problem with her copying your tattoo. But some can&#39;t help but find humor and a twisted kind of justice in the situation.&quot;I completely agree,&quot; wrote Paul_Castro. &quot;However, I am laughing my own a** off at this.&quot;And BiohackedGamer argues at least some of the fault lies with the copier for not 1. copying and 2. doing research: The person already knew it was wrong, OP telling them it was wrong wouldn&#39;t have given her any new info. OP is still TA, and morally shouldn&#39;t have recommended Bubba as a good artist, but communication wouldn&#39;t have deterred the person from getting the tattoo, though the slightest amount of research into the tattoo artist might have dissuaded her from at getting a horrible one. Still, as agentredsquirrel points out, the woman could&#39;ve done the right thing and educated the copier about how rude it is to imitate someone else&#39;s design. So &ldquo;Sarah&rdquo; has no tattoos that you know of &mdash; do you know if she was aware that it&rsquo;s rude to steal someone else&rsquo;s artwork? A lot of people who have never gotten tattoos or researched tattooing as a thing don&rsquo;t really get that original artwork is expensive and/or personal.  Everyone on the Internet with the same feather/bird/infinity symbol/shittily drawn Chinese character &mdash; the tattoos a lot of people are exposed to &mdash; aren&rsquo;t exactly precious about their &ldquo;unique&rdquo; designs, so maybe she didn&rsquo;t realize how much more yours meant to you. And yeah, that&rsquo;s her problem, and she should have done her research, but it&rsquo;s possible she was just ignorant and you sure didn&rsquo;t do anything to help. YTA, so&rsquo;s your husband. Either way, we&#39;ve all learned a valuable lesson: don&#39;t let Bubba from Subway do your first tattoo.

When a friend copies your style, we all know you&#39;re supposed to take it as a compliment. But let&#39;s be real, it can be annoying.  One woman recently asked the judge and jury of Reddit whether she was an a-hole for the way she...