[RightWhale]

The acceptance of tattoo art helps remove former stigma

Sounds good. Not that tattooing is good, but that acceptance will remove the stigma. Kind of Heideggerian, make visible by being useless.

[Wallace T.]

The growth industry in the 2010s and the 2020s will be tattoo removal, as the tattoos that were attractive when these people were young will be less so as flab replaces muscle and gravity takes hold on flesh. Unlike the hippies of the 1960s, who merely had to shave, bathe, and get a haircut if they wanted to enter the mainstream, the "normalizing" of today's tattooed types will be an expensive and perhaps painful endeavor.