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all the tramp stamps and terrible back tattoos from early 2000s?

i see more aging hipsters than ever with sleeves and they seem to keep adding, so i wonder if this is "genre" specific.

You get a tramp stamp because your drunk friends decided it was a good idea. You get a sleeve when you've thought about it for a while, and budgeted for a $1500+ expenditure. I think it's a different mindset.

The only people I know who got a sleeve lazered off did it because they wanted to replace it, not because they wanted to be ink free.

Tattoos come and go in fads, and it's weird how some people will insist their quirky line tattoo is an ephemeral trend

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