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Well they say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery (that mediocrity can pay to greatness). I wonder what this imposter thinks every time he looks down a
by cbanek 6y ago
Well they say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery (that mediocrity can pay to greatness). I wonder what this imposter thinks every time he looks down at the tattoos on his hands that will remind him of what he's done for quite a while, if not forever.
- ajcp 6y agoRight? Hopefully he didn't get them purely for the scam. He could genuinely like the tatts and general style of the guy. Hipster kitsch isn't even that unique.
- luckylion 6y agoThat's what I was thinking. The picture reminded me of that one story about a Hipster going after some website over an article claiming all Hipster look alike that he found used his picture without permission ... only to find out that it wasn't him. From the pictures of him and his colleague it seems that the people who study tattoos are into getting tattoos as well, I find it absolutely plausible that the guy got them separately. It's not like Letters On Fingers is such a new concept that everyone who does that copied him.
- irscott 6y agoHe had both a flower on his hand and the letters tattooed on his knuckles. Know More isn't a particularly common knuckle tattoo and to also have the same style of flower on the hand is definitely suspect. Even that type of flower as a hand tattoo isn't very common.
- luckylion 6y agoI wouldn't know how common it is, it just looked somewhat cliche to me, so I figured it wouldn't be rare. Like stickers on a mac book. Somebody should create a registry where people can lay claim to their tattoo's originality. Add blockchain, call it TATS, instant hit.
- irscott 6y agoShit, make em NFTs and make a fortune.
- ksm1717 6y agoAgreed. Given every single other (less specific) detail that was copied, yea... right the tattoos were probably a coincidence.
- glangdale 6y agoDid you read the article as well as look at the pictures? You do know that it's about someone who plagiarized another person's academic papers as, apparently, his entire output as a Master's student?
- cwkoss 6y agoIs there a company selling a database of people's tattoos scraped from social media yet?