Gen Zer Loves New Tattoo, Then She Realizes Something: 'What Do I Do?'

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A woman was admiring her new tattoo when she had a dawning realization—to anyone other than her, it was upside down.
The woman, 18, who did not give her name but who posts to Reddit under the username u/Lazy-Ad3123, took to the r/tattooadvice sub on May 8, where she wrote: "Got a new tattoo and I LOVE it but I just realised..."
She showed off the tattoo, a black-and-white spiral staircase on her arm, with the stairs beginning from the bottom—from her point of view, at least.
"It's upside down to people when I show it off," she wrote. "What do I do? I am in love with everything else about it. Is it that big of a deal?"
Luckily, Redditors flocked to the post—which has collected more than 12,000 upvotes—to assure the woman it was likely not an issue.
"Looking at it upside down, it still looks like a funky staircase," one commenter said, as another suggested "just point upwards when you show it off."
And as one pointed out: "Otherwise you are looking at an upside down staircase for your life. They see it once, you see it daily. You are good."
Another said the placement of the railing "makes it look like an impossible staircase. Which is kind of cool, honestly," as others compared it to a piece by Dutch graphic artist MC Escher.
Escher's Relativity artwork features a room with staircases criss-crossing in a labyrinth-like way, with figures walking on them defying the laws of gravity.
The famous piece has been referenced many times in pop culture, including 2010 film 'Inception' and 1986's 'Labyrinth' starring David Bowie, according to the BBC.
The woman's tattoo, which she took after realizing it would be upside down to others.
The woman's tattoo, which she took after realizing it would be upside down to others.
Reddit u/Lazy-Ad-3123
In a comment under her post, the woman shared her gratitude to the commenters, and wrote: "I think I just kind of forgot about angles and perspectives and it was just a shock when I realised haha. Thank you I'm overthinking."
A 2021 study found that tattoos are most common among Millennials in the United States, with 12 per cent of Millennial respondents stating they had one tattoo, and 29 per cent having multiple tattoos.
When it came to Gen X, 14 per cent had one, and 18 per cent had multiple, compared to 67 per cent who had no tattoos. With Millennials, that number dropped to 57 per cent, according to an Ipsos study of 1,016 respondents from the continental U.S., Alaska, and Hawaii.
Newsweek has contacted u/Lazy-Ad-3123 via Reddit for comment on this story.
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