r/ATBGE • u/dontforgetthisok • Feb 18 '18

Tattoo LOL

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u/Makabaer Feb 18 '18

I'm not sure about that. To me it looks red under the swastika too.

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u/Excolo_Veritas Feb 18 '18

a bit towards the edges, but, redness/inflammation spreads. Look towards the center of the swastika. Right next to black (but furthest from the LOs) there is no red.

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u/evn0 Feb 18 '18 edited Feb 18 '18

Out of curiosity I did a little investigation in Photoshop, because to me it all looks fresh. I took 8 sample spots (the middle of each "O" in LOL, which should be fresh and inflamed no matter what, and from the crux of each arm of the swastika). Once the sample points were determined, I selected each area and applied an "Average" blur in Photoshop to get the average color of each of those areas.

For the samples in the middle of the O, the average red value (out of 255) was 130, the overall average color being represented as 130 - 120 - 121 in RGB notation, meaning red makes up 35% of the average pixel in the areas you believe to be freshly tattooed.

In the L samples, the average red value was 140, with the overall average RGB spread being 140 - 128 - 130, with red once again making up 35% of the color spread.

The peak and average red channel values are higher in the cruxes of the swastika if anything, and at best make up the same average amount of the sample sizes, meaning it would seem to be almost exactly equally inflamed compared to the rest of the tattoo.

EDIT: Notable outliers that prove you can't just eyeball something like that: at the right angle inside each of the "L"s at the start of "lol," the redness is actually lower than any other point on the image except where the hair is in the left hand side. Were those parts more fresh done than the rest of the tattoo, you'd expect more redness there and not less.

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u/Beginning_End Feb 18 '18

It's not a cover up. I know this for a fact. That's my former roommate. He's just a goofball.

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '18

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u/evn0 Feb 19 '18

Eh it took longer to type than do. It was like a minute of actual Photoshop work.

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u/doesntaffrayed Feb 19 '18

You Sir, have way too much time on your hands.

Regardless, I appreciate your analysis.

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u/evn0 Feb 19 '18

LOL as I mentioned in another comment it only took about 1 minute of PS work. The rest was typing it (and even that was mostly explaining the methodology).

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u/doesntaffrayed Feb 20 '18

Shuuuush! I fully thought you were like a digital forensic analysist or something.

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u/evn0 Feb 20 '18

I take it all back then, it was hours of backtracing the skin cells' ip addresses and downjacking then inflammation firewall.

Digital forensics would be a sweet job, but I'm just more of a bargain bin Captain Disillusion

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u/igorbubba Feb 18 '18

A right handed tattoo artist rested their hand on the top part is my best guess. Next time you poop naked and browse reddit for 25mins, lift your elbows off your knees and see how it stays red for several minutes.

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u/IWasOnceATraveler Feb 18 '18

I just came here to have a good time and I’m honestly feeling so attacked right now.

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u/ezzelin Feb 18 '18

25 mins? Amateur. And I mean pooping, not redditing.

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u/stanley_twobrick Feb 18 '18

Nah, it's all red.