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> a comparison between his tattoos and his imposters There is nothing very special or original about his tattoos. Just about everyone has tattoos that look lik
by brandonmenc 6y ago
> a comparison between his tattoos and his imposters
There is nothing very special or original about his tattoos. Just about everyone has tattoos that look like this nowadays. Anyone can walk in and select these out of a flash book.
This is like complaining that someone is wearing the same t-shirt.
Yes, I realize the imposter is mimicking other aspects of his personality, but I see a dozen copies of this guy walking around every day.
- anoncake 6y agoWhere do you live that just about everyone has a hand tattoo with some sort of rose and the word "more" on the knuckles?
- soylentgraham 6y agoMoredore
- brandonmenc 6y agoAny major city? These are trends. It's like asking where do you live where just about everyone is wearing a Nike shirt. Do an image search for "more knuckle tattoo" and "hand rose tattoo" you'll see tons.
- zck 6y agoThe tattoos weren't a coincidence. The imposter was specifically impersonating him. The imposter went so far as to get the _same exact words_ tattooed on both hands. The dedication to impersonating Dr. Lodder is why it's concerning. The imposter wasn't just submitting Lodder's work as his own; he _permanently altered his body_ to appear more like Lodder.
- luckylion 6y ago> The imposter wasn't just submitting Lodder's work as his own; he _permanently altered his body_ to appear more like Lodder. That might be a coincidence though. He didn't submit only Lodder's work & bio, but also that of others in tattoo studies. From the article: We discovered he’d also taken magazine articles I’d written and added footnotes to them, stolen catalogue essays I’d authored, and taken other people’s work from old books and paraphrased it. He might steal work from everyone but because Hipsters All Look The Same, Matt Lodder feels like that guy is copying his personality when they've just read the same magazines and books and then selected the same tattoos out of the catalogue.
- glangdale 6y agoI'm enjoying the comments from people who have read a couple of comments here on HN and looked at the pictures in the original article and come to hold forth on how "it's probably just a coincidence". They're apparently so excited that they can slag off an academic for having tattoos that are, in their minds, Not All That, that they are excusing themselves from the difficult work of reading TFA. "Yes, I realize the imposter is mimicking other aspects of his personality" ... like, umm, copying vast tracts of his academic work?
- brandonmenc 6y agoI read the article. I agree that there is a creepy imposter after this guy. I was only commenting on his tattoos, which are unoriginal and a dime a dozen. The imposter getting those same tattoos is - in this day and age - equivalent to having an identical wardrobe. Yes, in addition to the actually bizarre and creepy copying of the academic work.
- glangdale 6y agoIt's interesting the extent to which people are so moved to pontificate about "how unoriginal someone's tattoos are' to the extent that they can no longer draw common sense inferences about the world. Yes, the "similarity' of the tattoos is just a completely unconnected coincidence to the weird academic stalking and no-one could possibly see any kind of link between the two.
- slightwinder 6y agoThere is a difference between similar and same. Yes, they are not Special or original by themself. But the combination of this specific words and motiv makes them special enough to be unique to the point that there might have been originally only one person in the world with them.