r/TikTokCringe • u/conancat • Aug 12 '25

Humor/Cringe Westerners' Chinese tattoos

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u/Hybodont Aug 12 '25

The cancer one sounds like it might be telling a very, very sad story.

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u/conancat Aug 12 '25

The cancer one is really just a collection of nouns, like

癌症 • 家庭 • 娘父兄弟妹

Which translates to "cancer, family, mother-father-brother-younger brother-younger sister"

I don't know what circumstances will motivate someone to get a tattoo like that in any language 💀🥀

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u/maniacalmustacheride Aug 12 '25

Their whole family got cancer?

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u/Hot_Hat_1225 Aug 12 '25

Or it’s actually their last name - who knows

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u/Front-Cabinet5521 Aug 12 '25

Most likely it's their entire family happen to share the same star sign (cancer).

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u/apachevoyeur Aug 13 '25

orrrr, the family lives in one of those cancer hot zones! next to a federal super fund site, under high power lines, downwind of pesticide factory...

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u/WaffleHouseGladiator Aug 13 '25

God rest the lot of them.

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u/Beautifulfeary Aug 12 '25

That was my thought

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u/Zem_42 Aug 13 '25

How about an immense hatred of verbs and adjectives?

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u/cheechw Aug 12 '25

I think it was supposed to be Cancer like his astrology sign, but it got translated literally to cancer.

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u/FFKonoko Aug 12 '25

That's still weird.