You can follow  @TraceMaster:disqus on instagram if you’d like to damage your eyes with examples of biting. I have been a custom tattoo artist in Japan for the better part of a decade and seeing custom work being bitten is heartbreaking – especially for one’s client. Even worse is broadcasting it to the impressionable soft-headed American public so they begin to think it’s acceptable… 

It basically takes money out of the pockets of hard working artists and puts it into the cocaine/stripper fund of entertainment corp-o’s.

Both of these shows are complete and utter travesties… setting the bar lower than Honey Boo Boo must’ve taken work, but they’ve managed it. 

To say nothing of the fact that it’s rare for an episode to go by where at least one of the tattoos isn’t stolen from some other tattoo artist’s gallery… They even show clips of them browsing other people’s tattoos in Google Images — not just for “inspiration”, but often for outright tracing. I know a lot of artists who’ve been incredibly upset to see their work copied (usually badly) and presented as “original creations” on the show…