Meaningless TATTOOS

"Meaningless TATTOOS" is the 91st video in the MillenniaThinker series, following "FEMBOYS".

## Plot

Simp is at a party and runs into two old friends, a girl and a Zoomer. Simp notices a new tattoo on the girl's arm, and after some talking about it, the girl suggests that Simp get the exact same tattoo so they can "look cool together". Simp hesitates, asking the girl if the tattoo has meaning to her, but the girl says to get it anyways and add his own meaning to it. They are then interrupted by a man who says, "Do not do this" to Simp, saying, "If you want to look like a bunch of clowns, go ahead". Zoomer spars verbally with this man but is silenced by him after the man uses Zoomer's tattoo to mock him. The girl, upset, engages with the man, asking him why he thinks their tattoos are stupid, to which the man replies that they "are only permanent decorations to lie to your friends that you are a one of a kind person with an interesting past". He then correctly guesses the type of girl she is (based on her reaction) and says that there is nothing special or different about her, a girl who is like everyone else and is just trying to get attention. The girl, with no counterargument, notices that he has a tattoo, and demands him to show it to them. The man sits in silence, and the girl, growing impatient, berates and makes fun of him for criticizing their meaningless tattoos while seemingly sporting one himself. The man asks her to go away, and the girl insists on him showing them the tattoo.

While the girl continues, the man sinks into his own thoughts, and he has a flashback to a war zone. A man with long fingernails, a dirtied military uniform, and a black cloud obscuring his face waves at a camera (held by the Tattoo man, who is recording with bloodied hands) and holds up a severed head. More military soldiers with clouded faces are shown firing at something (possibly humans) while the first soldier continues to wave. The buildings around them are then shown to be set on fire while the soldiers relax and have a smoke, while the Tattoo man, with sunken and tearful eyes, contemplates the sight. The scene changes again to a dark warehouse room, with the Tattoo man facing the first soldier, who is surrounded by other soldiers pointing guns and who has a young girl in a bloody white dress at the soldiers kneeling at his feet. The man is pointing a shotgun at her while making a thumbs-up gesture. A short time jump is displayed in the same setting, and now all the soldiers are dead, bleeding on the floor. Tattoo man stares at the bodies in front of him while the girl (now behind him) points a gun, the same shotgun the soldier held, at him with shaking hands, while Tattoo man himself holds a bloodied knife in his hand. Tattoo man looks at her and notices that the clothing around her pelvic area is extremely dark with blood, and blood is shown dripping down her thighs. Tattoo man looks at her in the face again, and raises his arm as the girl fires the gun at him.

Back in the present day, Simp's female friend continues to ask Tattoo man what his tattoo means. Raising a cigarette and taking a smoke, Tattoo man replies, "You wouldn't get it".

The ending quote reads, "Sometimes it's better to withdraw than to ravage your leftovers".

## Analysis

Easily MillenniaThinker's darkest video by a long shot, the video takes an abrupt turn in the middle and explores topics seldom discussed in the series. The conversation that Tattoo man and the girl have seems asinine at first, one can't help but wonder why the Tattoo man is so triggered by Simp and his friends throwing around the idea of getting tattooed. After all, to most, when they think of tattoos, they think of decorative ones, ones that are about art and appearance. However, to Tattoo man, tattoos hold symbolic value on the skin that show off who you are underneath it. No one is wrong in this situation, both views are valid and equally so.

However, Tattoo man could be rubbed the wrong way because his tattoo holds a very dark past, and now he wishes others could see why tattoos should only be symbolic and not decorative. It is unknown who the soldiers shown in the flashback are, but it is clear Tattoo man was either forced to join their ranks, joined as an undercover soldier, or willingly joined and later regretted it. Regardless of the case, his tattoo and its explicit meaning remain unknown, but it is clear that the events showed in the flashback hold some significance to the tattoo, explaining his sentiment toward the group.

Additionally, Zoomer has a tattoo of a Wolfsangel on his neck. This symbol was used by the Nazi Party in many of their infantry divisions. A brief trend on Tik-Tok had Gen Z users tattooing the symbol (without knowing the meaning) on their bodies as a symbol of unity within their generation. Tattoo man could know the symbol himself, which explains why he so confidently ridiculed the group: he knows that Zoomer only got the tattoo due to an online trend, and he sees Zoomer as quite an idiot by sporting a symbol used by Nazis.

The ending quote does not seem to be pertaining to the topic of tattoos, rather, it seems to tie into Tattoo man's time in the war zone. The quote could point out that Tattoo man would have had an easier time coping with his experinces in the war had he left it instead of trying to stick it out.

Something else worth thinking about is the scene with the young girl in the flashback. It remains unclear how the soldiers were killed, how the first soldier was disarmed, how the girl ended up with the gun in her hands and behind Tattoo man, and why Tattoo man was holding a bloody knife. Tattoo man either somehow managed to disarm all soldiers with only a knife, or aided the girl in disarming them, or watched as the girl disarmed them herself. The first two outcomes explain the bloody knife and the girl having the gun, but they don't explain why she decides to shoot him (fear of him could have made the girl confused and scared after watching him slay the men by himself, but if he aided her in the attack, then this explanation is not valid). The third scenario explains why she shot him but is not very likely since the small and wounded girl could not possibly have killed armed soldiers by herself, and it does not explain the used knife in Tattoo man's hands.

## Tie-Ins

* The concept of this video was mentioned way back in "SIMP Meets His FATHER In Prison", where D. Simpson speaks with his son Simp about how all Simp's generation knows is how to adorn their bodies with "useless tattoos". Simp counters that his fathers generation did the same, but his father replies that their tattoos mean something. "SIMP Meets His FATHER In Prison" happens after this video, for Simp does not yet have the tattoo of the cheetah in this video.
* Tattoo man appears in "VIRGIN with RAGE", telling off Nathan for staring at him, after speaking to someone on the phone about, "doing this in person, not over the phone".

## Trivia

* The ending of the video is highly reminiscent to end of the movie Joker (2019), where the character of Arthur Fleck smokes a cigarette and laughs at a joke, but when asked to explain what is so funny by his psychiatrist, he replies, "You wouldn't get it".
* The armed soldiers are implied to be demons due to their skin texture/dirty brown color, their fingernails, and the clouds hiding their faces to hide the fact that they are not human, both literally and figuratively.