TMZ’s Attempt to Mock Celebrity Tattoos Falls Short
I feel a little bit dumber every time I accidentally catch a few moments of TMZ or other celebrity-centric shows. It is as though my brain cells, one by one, commit seppuku, and I can’t say I blame them entirely. Today I visited TMZ.com for the first time because I had seen a link for a gallery of celebrity’s “Dumb Tattoos.” While I don’t favor coverage of celebrity tattoos, dumb celebrity tattoos could certainly be fun. I thought I’d be seeing a lot of bad ink, which admittedly there were a few “WTF” tattoos in the gallery. But the vast majority of the pictures were just tattoo photos, or worse: tattooless photos.
I guess this is why I don’t understand TMZ.
Sure, there were a few bad tattoos in the gallery. Everyone’s favorite whipping girl Britney has some faded looking dice on her wrist. Maybe she could fix those up when she’s done being nuts.
But on the next page they proceed to use this photo to mock Angelina Jolie’s tattoos:
I feel like I’m playing a game of “Where’s Waldo?”. What tattoo are they mocking in that picture? I don’t see it. Well…maybe that was a mistake. Certainly Angelina has tattoos - there are certainly enough pictures of them on other websites - but why use a picture featuring zero tattoos to mock someone’s tattoos? Maybe I’m missing something…perhaps those brain cells that died the last time I caught TMZ on television were the brain cells in charge of visual recognition of tattoos. Then again, it could just a fluke, a solitary mistake in their otherwise quality gallery.
No, wait, there are more invisible tattoos to mock.
A quick web search tells me that Mena Suvari has a tattoo on her back. So clearly this frontal picture is an excellent choice to mock her tattoo.
Maybe I’m not the one with the dying brain cells here.
And here’s another gem from their “bad tattoo” gallery:
Hmm. Maybe that goofy looking facial hair is really a tattoo?
I’m the last person you’d see criticizing another website on this blog because my purpose here is to talk ink, not to bash other sites. But dammit TMZ, don’t tease me by proclaiming to have a whole gallery of bad celebrity ink only to show me more generic pictures of Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp.
Ah well. Thanks for reading.
-Jenn
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