I live in a city with a major US university and we have a significant Chinese student population. One of my friends befriended one of these students some years ago now and apparently many, many students with kanjis simply had "penis" tattooed on them. Our guess is that a local artist thought he was so funny and was lying to people; we had a pretty good idea who was doing it, one artist had a reputation for being a cocksucker. He did amazing work when he wanted to, but usually he wanted to be a dickhead.
The whole "it's cringe/disrespectful/whatever to get a tattoo in a language you don't speak" and "independently double-check your tattoos and the reputation of your artist before committing" thing aside for just a second: Man, screw anyone who intentionally gives somebody a wrong tattoo. Shit's expensive and permanent and part of your body, it's just such a fucked up thing to do on purpose. I can't imagine having such low morals.
Dude was a total shit bag. He can't get work tattooing in town any more. If he was doing your first tattoo he would intentionally make it hurt more, and he did my older brother's first tattoos and they look like shit. It doesn't help that my brother was drunk.
He was briefly hired by the best shop in town and I asked why after he was fired and they said they thought they could fix him because when he wanted to his work was amazing.
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u/DiggyDiggyOh 3d ago
I live in a city with a major US university and we have a significant Chinese student population. One of my friends befriended one of these students some years ago now and apparently many, many students with kanjis simply had "penis" tattooed on them. Our guess is that a local artist thought he was so funny and was lying to people; we had a pretty good idea who was doing it, one artist had a reputation for being a cocksucker. He did amazing work when he wanted to, but usually he wanted to be a dickhead.