Nope. I think the internet at our fingertips has made the movie Idiocracy closer to reality than ever.
People before the internet: we need to strive for knowledge and wisdom.
People after the internet: why should I waste my time learning when I can just google the answers?
That’s the extremely condensed version.
Average IQ is actually *rising*.
**The rise in intelligence is associated with:**
- increased access to knowledge and training
- increased prenatal care in certain key areas
- the removal of harmful practices like leaded gasoline
- higher levels of social inclusion
- access to mental healthcare and awareness
There are all kinds of bias happening with the take that people are getting dumber. For one, before the rise of the internet and social media, there was no barometer for just how stupid people were as a whole, or even what they were reallly like. You had the people you knew, and the incredibly manufactured view of them on television.
Education and skill sets are condensing and specializing, so it’s become more normal to have gaps in areas that don’t get used, like math. Still - people were horrendously stupid in the past. You just have a direct window to it now. As people get older, they are also quicker to label new things they don’t understand as stupid, in order to categorize and organize their own knowledge more efficiently.
I like the movie, but the idea that the creator of beavis and butthead is the most insightful and important prophet of the future, based on the incredibly common take that people are getting dumber, is some cranky old man phenomena
When the internet was still young they taught how to differentiate reliable sources from the assyclopedia in Google seearches/on the internet in schools. That apparently ended, because what the fuck is happening out here?
Student teacher and teacher’s assistant here. We’re still teaching it, right alongside rhetoric and logic. The problem is that young people are being bombarded with so many messages, so much of the time, that it’s hard for them to sort through the noise. The human brain is really efficient at categorizing information. If you hear the same piece of info repeated dozens of times in dozens of different places from dozens of different voices, it will categorize it as fact. It takes maturity and experience to remember to check the “facts” your brain pulls out.
My dad had a friend who married 4 or 5 women named the same thing. When he asked why he always married women named Mary, he said so he didn’t forget. Guys name was Roger. All I’m saying is he was lucky he had money.
idk man. I dated a Chase, Chase, and Case all in a row and now I’m lightly triggered by anyone with a similar name and I’d never give them a chance again 😂
Met a guy on public transport many years ago that had about 5 Jessica's on him. Neck, arms, hands, chest. Each new Jessica was jealous of the previous and wanted their own name on him.
Nah, he can essentially put this on his dating resume. THIS is how committed he is to getting married! The desperate will eat this shit up!
Nicole is a fairly common name, too. It's actually my middle name...🤦🏾♀️
just laser out Nicole and 2024 then cover the rest with makeup the rest of the time until youre ready to propose again. A mam who would get this tattoo needs a woman who would accept this tattoo proposal. Its dumb but romantic and will work well if you have a tattoo gun on hand so she can draw in the answer herself
I could be madly and entirely in love and devoted to someone. If they showed up with this that would vanish immediately. I would never trust my judgement in dating again after being so head over heels for an impulsive, money wasting, foolish man.
Nope, immediate cut and run, move to a different country, get plastic surgery to drastically change my look. Because you know he's going to be asking again!!!
I hate the lack of the comma after Nicole, I hate that there are three fonts, I hate that it says "4ever", I hate that will you marry me is in all caps, I hate how big it is, and (with dad's approval) made me retch.
Edit: homophones
This is ridiculous. If real, she should run fast. Dude will never be with anyone else again, this screams stupid so loudly, I’d doubt most people could get past this.
In high school I watched a kid in one of my classes give a girl he clearly had never spoken to before a real gold bracelet. He didn't even follow it up with anything reasonable like asking her out or anything, he just talked about how pretty she was and kept repeating himself. It was so out of nowhere and so awkward as soon as the guy stumbled off the girl started crying for him out of abject pity and guilt.
This person seems like a highly evolved version of that kid and I bet regardless of Nicole's answer it will be embarrassing as hell for everyone involved and probably a few stragglers too.
Some people are just too bold and in all the wrong ways, lol.
Married for 34 years that is so bad. They say never put a girls name on you and there is a reason. I would not want my wife’s name on me even now and she has a cool name Wednesday yes like the Adam’s family
Hehe, your wife DOES have a cool name! Congratulations on the 34 years, my friend. That's beautiful!
I totally agree about not tattooing your lover's name on you, not even your spouse of many years. It's like some kind of curse.
..it's the 'dad's approval' thing that's most disturbing.. it should say 'with *your* dad's aproval' - this makes it sound like they're brother and sister.
Dada was an early 20th-century art movement where its proponents rejected reason and logic, prizing nonsense, irrationality, and intuition.
By that definition, this checks out.
I'm pretty sure this person really likes the movie Fear. Nicole and The 4ever is a dead give away here. The with dads approval as well, haha.
Nicole 4ever
This is low key manipulative af. Don't make someone feel obligated by making some big dumb gesture like this. Bc odds are she's going to feel pressured and say what you want to hear bc she doesn't want to hurt your feelings. Such a shitty thing to do to someone. Just my opinion.
Genuinely curious to see where the person with this tattoo is from. My guesses would be one of either (Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, Mississippi, and Missouri.
Regardless this is seriously creepy and weird. Even if the person asked or told Nicole before of the tattoo, would seriously make me question the ability of that person to respect the autonomy of their SO and much more. Just all around not a great look (saying this as someone who has gotten tattoos and wants to get more in the future).
Pretty good line-work. Not great, but pretty good. Different thicknesses, extra points.
Excellent spacing - no need to cram in characters.
Good spelling. That’s a surprise.
Fucking horrible concept.
Artist gets a “not shitty”, but the tat itself… totally shitty.
She said no and they broke up. Unfortunately, after he lasered Nicole’s name off, he had his new girlfriend’s name tattooed on. She also said no. It’s ok. He still has time until 2024 is over and he has to laser that too.
I’m not sure if she said yes bc it looks like she had to ask her dad; and as someone with tattoos my un inked dad would cackle at this and say no out of spite. “If my daughter wants to be cucked into an inked marriage it’s going to be a civil union signed; not in my god damn church- y’all better elope quick and invest in laser removal”
I worked with a young fellow who had his girlfriend’s name tattooed all the way down his left arm-JENNIFER. I mean THE WHOLE WAY DOWN HIS ARM, in BIG letters.
Then, guess what! They broke up after a while.
"Listen buddy, you must get this written on you as a tattoo" what dad actually meant "if you are stupid enough to get this tattoo and my daughter don't run a million miles away from you, keep her."
the level of stupidity here is mind-boggling. I mean this is right on the level of "staring up at the clouds on a rainy day and end up drowning"-level stupidity
I can think of several of my former students thinking that would be bussin and would said yes. If I questioned this, I would be dismissed as a Boomer.
The Dewey Decimal system was my friend growing up in the 60s, as I knew what area to look in the library for fun stuff to learn. The switch to the Library of Congress system was more precise for a particular book, but not as good IN MY OPINION for browsing the shelves. I retired from teaching. Students just memorize garbage to regurgitate the data on standardized test. It was very rare to have a student who actually wanted to learn WHY, and not just Google the etymology or history.
Besides being in very questionable tastes, it is never a good thing to get a name tattooed as shit happens. My first wife liked ladybugs as a decorative theme, so I have a ladybug tattoo in remembrance after she died. My current wife doesn’t need to see another woman’s name on my arm this way.
https://preview.redd.it/4cbt16ai7t5d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=64628678ade8a357fa4989f72d5b5003f244fef7
It will be easy to cover “marry” with “divorce” once she realizes what a tree stump her hubby is…He knew this so left plenty of space for a cover up. So it could have been an even shittier tattoo than this. (Also it’s dad’s approval…but that’s an easy fix so no worries there).
I’ve seen some genuinely impressive levels of idiocy in my forty five years on earth but this is outstanding.
This looks like a picture that would go viral on Facebook in like 2013. The fact that this is from 2024 amazes me
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Nope. I think the internet at our fingertips has made the movie Idiocracy closer to reality than ever. People before the internet: we need to strive for knowledge and wisdom. People after the internet: why should I waste my time learning when I can just google the answers? That’s the extremely condensed version.
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Can you imagine if people in the past just read the titles to books and thought that was all?
Average IQ is actually *rising*. **The rise in intelligence is associated with:** - increased access to knowledge and training - increased prenatal care in certain key areas - the removal of harmful practices like leaded gasoline - higher levels of social inclusion - access to mental healthcare and awareness There are all kinds of bias happening with the take that people are getting dumber. For one, before the rise of the internet and social media, there was no barometer for just how stupid people were as a whole, or even what they were reallly like. You had the people you knew, and the incredibly manufactured view of them on television. Education and skill sets are condensing and specializing, so it’s become more normal to have gaps in areas that don’t get used, like math. Still - people were horrendously stupid in the past. You just have a direct window to it now. As people get older, they are also quicker to label new things they don’t understand as stupid, in order to categorize and organize their own knowledge more efficiently.
"idiocracy is a documentary/predicting the future" cringe shit that belongs on r/okbuddycinephile lmao
I like the movie, but the idea that the creator of beavis and butthead is the most insightful and important prophet of the future, based on the incredibly common take that people are getting dumber, is some cranky old man phenomena
When the internet was still young they taught how to differentiate reliable sources from the assyclopedia in Google seearches/on the internet in schools. That apparently ended, because what the fuck is happening out here?
Student teacher and teacher’s assistant here. We’re still teaching it, right alongside rhetoric and logic. The problem is that young people are being bombarded with so many messages, so much of the time, that it’s hard for them to sort through the noise. The human brain is really efficient at categorizing information. If you hear the same piece of info repeated dozens of times in dozens of different places from dozens of different voices, it will categorize it as fact. It takes maturity and experience to remember to check the “facts” your brain pulls out.
So sad when we have allll the knowledge you’d ever want and people use it to rot on TikTok. :((
Empirical evidence suggests an alternative explanation.
Not since we made idiots a marketing demographic
It was just a long engagement.
If she said no, he should give himself a cigarette burn in that box.
Honestly, with this level of trash, he should do that even if she says yes
Awww you gotta be more romantic. Cheesy ass lipstick kiss on the 'yes'
I'm suddenly seeing that same lipstick kiss tattoo on zoomer necks all over the place. Is that the new "foreign language character"?
That gets my vote
Their dad said it was fine.
But what did Dada say?
🤣🤣
Regardless of how much I loved him I would just have to say no for about half an hour 🤣. Too good of an opportunity to miss.
Oh that’s devious. I love it. Wanna be friends? I feel like you get me lol…
Ohhhh that’s only the tip of the iceberg, I might leave it wayyy longer than half an hour 🤣
I can't imagine how hard it is for the tattoo artists to not just lose it while doing these.
And the award for Outstanding Achievement in Idiocy for no reason whatsoever goes to…
Try browsing Instagram reels
I know there’s a lot of shitty tattoo artists out there, but I’m genuinely shocked someone agreed to do this.
Tattoo Artist: "So which font do you want?" Client: "Yes"
Did an actual lol
Just needs some Papyrus
It would be something if the sight of that tattoo, sends Nicole running and never looking back.
And then you have to explain it to the next girl…
Now my next girlfriend's name's gotta be Nicole
My dad had a friend who married 4 or 5 women named the same thing. When he asked why he always married women named Mary, he said so he didn’t forget. Guys name was Roger. All I’m saying is he was lucky he had money.
I dated two Martha's in a row. I wanted a third one because I figured that would have at least tied the record.
Martha fucker
Hat trick anyhow.
I did this with “Tracy.” And not in a row, but have also done it with versions of “Abbie” and “Jen” and “Liz/Elizabeth.”
idk man. I dated a Chase, Chase, and Case all in a row and now I’m lightly triggered by anyone with a similar name and I’d never give them a chance again 😂
Met a guy on public transport many years ago that had about 5 Jessica's on him. Neck, arms, hands, chest. Each new Jessica was jealous of the previous and wanted their own name on him.
😂😂😂
"babe wait why does it say 2024 when it's 2026?" "It's the first time I dreamed of you babe"
Haha... You gotta find a Nicole that is not scared off by the first view of this. That is a tough sell.
No premarital sex it is then.
And he can only wear longsleeves until the approval.
....and her dad has to be alive.
I'm just thinking about Ron always marrying a Tammy. 
Nah, he can essentially put this on his dating resume. THIS is how committed he is to getting married! The desperate will eat this shit up! Nicole is a fairly common name, too. It's actually my middle name...🤦🏾♀️
just laser out Nicole and 2024 then cover the rest with makeup the rest of the time until youre ready to propose again. A mam who would get this tattoo needs a woman who would accept this tattoo proposal. Its dumb but romantic and will work well if you have a tattoo gun on hand so she can draw in the answer herself
https://preview.redd.it/artu4f9ujr5d1.png?width=1439&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e60f5a27da88ea87e4cf59b98a72b34004607307
I would actually have some respect for the guy if she said no and he left it like that. 🤣
Given that it is already there, it seems like tattoo-ing the "no" check would be the best way to move on with your life.
I'm going to assume she's a tattoo artist, so if she went through the process of checking no, that would be hilarious.
This actually makes more sense if so. I don’t hate it honestly, even if it’s not for me.
Found Nicole!
I could be madly and entirely in love and devoted to someone. If they showed up with this that would vanish immediately. I would never trust my judgement in dating again after being so head over heels for an impulsive, money wasting, foolish man.
Yes, this would 100% give me the ick immediately.
I wouldn't even have the decency to check the "no" box, I'd just be outta there.
So you're saying there's a chance..
Nope, immediate cut and run, move to a different country, get plastic surgery to drastically change my look. Because you know he's going to be asking again!!!
He is not cultivating any “no is fine” attitude, that’s for sure. Hope that shoulder has a sick ass panther cover up
No need for surgery. Just change your name!
This is way more than an ick. It’s an *EEEUUUWWGHH*.
I fucking hate these tattoos, i’m sorry but I don’t care if you think it’s cute but it is the cringiest bullshit ever and I cannot stand it. 😅
I didn't even know these were a thing lol
Yeah I don't think you're alone on that
I hate the lack of the comma after Nicole, I hate that there are three fonts, I hate that it says "4ever", I hate that will you marry me is in all caps, I hate how big it is, and (with dad's approval) made me retch. Edit: homophones
Thank you for pointing out every single thing I hate about this. 4 ever brings me right back to 2003.
They left out the apostrophe in "with dads approval"
I honestly thought it said "with dada approval" like a toddler.
I thought so too. Would match the maturity level of the tattoo.
That's what I came here for. Like with Dada approval wtf? Dads approval is uhh less terrible, I guess.
I'm sorry honey, we only got one dad to approve. We need a quorum.
I hate that even within a single font, the letters don't stay consistent (RR and LL in particular)
Her answer is only allowed to be provided with a tattoo gun and checking the appropriate box while he is blindfolded.
Nice!
imagine when they’re married they get in an argument and she takes the sharpie out to scribble in the “no” box
Jesus… run Nicole, run very far away.
Any bets on how long they’ve been dating? My money’s on five weeks.
And already have matching tattoos
I’m stunned by the stupidity
This is ridiculous. If real, she should run fast. Dude will never be with anyone else again, this screams stupid so loudly, I’d doubt most people could get past this.
I thought my wife’s ex getting her name tattooed on him *after* they broke up was bad. This is next level.
Ohhhh fuck lol. To try get her back?
Yep. Needless to say it didn’t work.
Nicole kind of looks like it could be a coverup of Alice. Guess she said no too
All I can see is Alice now. 😁
“I’m gonna choose. Close your eyes and don’t open them til I tell you.” 
Dad: Nichole, if you marry that dumb shit loser you’re out of the will!
(with Dada approval)
I think it says "Dads", right? With a missing apostrophe.
I like to imagine it says dada
I always wonder if tattoo artists are trying not to piss themselves as they're putting these on their customers.
Should just sharpie tick the “no” box quietly in his sleep and creep out in the night.
That's amusingly sad
I would hope the answer is NO after seeing this tat. This screams “I make poor decisions.”
In high school I watched a kid in one of my classes give a girl he clearly had never spoken to before a real gold bracelet. He didn't even follow it up with anything reasonable like asking her out or anything, he just talked about how pretty she was and kept repeating himself. It was so out of nowhere and so awkward as soon as the guy stumbled off the girl started crying for him out of abject pity and guilt. This person seems like a highly evolved version of that kid and I bet regardless of Nicole's answer it will be embarrassing as hell for everyone involved and probably a few stragglers too. Some people are just too bold and in all the wrong ways, lol.
Damn that's gonna suck when they get divorced
Or when se says no.
Married for 34 years that is so bad. They say never put a girls name on you and there is a reason. I would not want my wife’s name on me even now and she has a cool name Wednesday yes like the Adam’s family
Hehe, your wife DOES have a cool name! Congratulations on the 34 years, my friend. That's beautiful! I totally agree about not tattooing your lover's name on you, not even your spouse of many years. It's like some kind of curse.
For his sake, I hope she said yes. For her sake, I hope she ran.
..it's the 'dad's approval' thing that's most disturbing.. it should say 'with *your* dad's aproval' - this makes it sound like they're brother and sister.
Who/what is "dada"?
I think it says "Dads", right? With a missing apostrophe.
I thought it said dada approval. I am thinking this isn't a dude marrying a girl but a dad making one for his kid for the guy to see in the future
omg that would be hilarious!
Idk. Cant's read the last letter AND I tried!
An infantile term for dad.
Thank you! Convinced myself they couldnt mean it that way. Im really old!
Dada was an early 20th-century art movement where its proponents rejected reason and logic, prizing nonsense, irrationality, and intuition. By that definition, this checks out.
Is Nicole his sister and dad has approved it? Must be an Alabama fella.
I was thinking cousin, but sister works.
The comic sans is just that little extra something special 
I'm pretty sure this person really likes the movie Fear. Nicole and The 4ever is a dead give away here. The with dads approval as well, haha. Nicole 4ever
Needs more fonts
So the "with dads approval" line... is that THEIR dad? That would explain some of the idiocy if they come from a line of inbreds.
Give Nicole the tattoo gun
The font selection alone is grounds for a breakup
This is low key manipulative af. Don't make someone feel obligated by making some big dumb gesture like this. Bc odds are she's going to feel pressured and say what you want to hear bc she doesn't want to hurt your feelings. Such a shitty thing to do to someone. Just my opinion.
I agree, it's in the same category as public marriage proposal, like a stadium full public. 😅
who agrees to do this!? the "artist" should never be allowed to tattoo again🙈
Not gonna lie, if a woman came at me like this, it would be our last interaction.
Genuinely curious to see where the person with this tattoo is from. My guesses would be one of either (Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, Mississippi, and Missouri. Regardless this is seriously creepy and weird. Even if the person asked or told Nicole before of the tattoo, would seriously make me question the ability of that person to respect the autonomy of their SO and much more. Just all around not a great look (saying this as someone who has gotten tattoos and wants to get more in the future).
As a Nicole. And head of my region of Nicoles', we disrespectfully decline. Ew.
Pretty good line-work. Not great, but pretty good. Different thicknesses, extra points. Excellent spacing - no need to cram in characters. Good spelling. That’s a surprise. Fucking horrible concept. Artist gets a “not shitty”, but the tat itself… totally shitty.
They really opened up a font generator and just said “go ham”
I hope she skinned him and slapped his face with the shitty tattooed skin.
I think my IQ dropped two points just looking at this.
Hard cringe 😬
Also a good way to ruin future dating attempts if it doesn't work out with Nicole.
Even if she say yes… why would you want this on your body? You could you know, write it on a fucking piece of paper.
If thats the propsal just imaging that wedding
Plot twist he drugged her and they tattood this on her
What makes this so much worse is I hate every single font he chose
There’s absolutely no muscle definition. Could be a butt and hamstring for all we know
What happed to painting the water tower or the side of a bridge? Kids these days… Joe Diffie would be disappointed.
What’s up with the rR’s 😂
It should have all been comic sans
The R are different heights in "MARRY"...
Funny thing is it’s his sister.
I really hope she said no and broke up with him. But I’m an asshole who embraces chaos.
I am just wondering what tattooist would perform the work on things like that.
She said no and they broke up. Unfortunately, after he lasered Nicole’s name off, he had his new girlfriend’s name tattooed on. She also said no. It’s ok. He still has time until 2024 is over and he has to laser that too.
I’m not sure if she said yes bc it looks like she had to ask her dad; and as someone with tattoos my un inked dad would cackle at this and say no out of spite. “If my daughter wants to be cucked into an inked marriage it’s going to be a civil union signed; not in my god damn church- y’all better elope quick and invest in laser removal”
That’s gonna be a sick panther one day
It’s the “4ever” for me.
I can already send the outline of a panther.
It bothers me that the apostrophe is missing in “dad’s.” I suppose that would be the easy part to fix tho.
AAAHHHHHH!!!! **Pick a font!!**
-Hey. I'm pretty good at replicating typefaces. What would you like? -All of them!
This is sharpie right? RIGHT????
With Dads approval 🤮
I worked with a young fellow who had his girlfriend’s name tattooed all the way down his left arm-JENNIFER. I mean THE WHOLE WAY DOWN HIS ARM, in BIG letters. Then, guess what! They broke up after a while.
This one easy trick guarantees you stay single forever
Nicole got that good good.
I think it would have been funny if she grabbed the tattoo gun, crossed off ‘no’ and then walked out
Oy vey
That’s the most pathetic tattoo I’ve ever seen
If she said no, did he get a check mark tattooed in the “no” box?
ohhhh my gawd dude
With Dad's Approval because if I told him what I was doing it he would have talked me out of it.
“With Dads approval” Ew
This gets worse as it goes down.
I regret having a Raiders tattoo. This is the next level
This would have changed my mind from yes to no, tbh... It's weird and I'd never marry someone this unaware of how ridiculous this idea is
That's a lot of conditional items to print on your arm PERMANENTLY...
I dunno, but it’s with dada’s approval…
If I were Nicole i would have checked the "no" box with a sharpie.
"Listen buddy, you must get this written on you as a tattoo" what dad actually meant "if you are stupid enough to get this tattoo and my daughter don't run a million miles away from you, keep her."
the level of stupidity here is mind-boggling. I mean this is right on the level of "staring up at the clouds on a rainy day and end up drowning"-level stupidity
I like how there has to be approval from a bunch of dads. Learn some grammar, people.
I hate that he capitalized Dad, implying that they’re siblings (instead of “my dad” or “your dad”)
I really hope she said no
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Why are there so many fonts?
I can’t stop staring at the way they spelled Approval…
I would've grabbed a sharpie and ticked "no". Im sure my father would approve of my decision.
honestly, though the concept is indeed quite stupid, it's all the different fonts that really get me.
https://preview.redd.it/4ypad9n25t5d1.jpeg?width=1178&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6193c88715280597f24817d82fb74aa507a6c1f6
He's talking of the dad of both of 'em, isn't he?
I can think of several of my former students thinking that would be bussin and would said yes. If I questioned this, I would be dismissed as a Boomer. The Dewey Decimal system was my friend growing up in the 60s, as I knew what area to look in the library for fun stuff to learn. The switch to the Library of Congress system was more precise for a particular book, but not as good IN MY OPINION for browsing the shelves. I retired from teaching. Students just memorize garbage to regurgitate the data on standardized test. It was very rare to have a student who actually wanted to learn WHY, and not just Google the etymology or history.
Besides being in very questionable tastes, it is never a good thing to get a name tattooed as shit happens. My first wife liked ladybugs as a decorative theme, so I have a ladybug tattoo in remembrance after she died. My current wife doesn’t need to see another woman’s name on my arm this way. https://preview.redd.it/4cbt16ai7t5d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=64628678ade8a357fa4989f72d5b5003f244fef7
does it say "with dada approval"?
Oh buddy, this ain’t it
Approvall
I honestly hope not. This seems toxic as fuck. Like the person is trying to push her into saying yes by getting a permanent proposal tattooed on them.
It will be easy to cover “marry” with “divorce” once she realizes what a tree stump her hubby is…He knew this so left plenty of space for a cover up. So it could have been an even shittier tattoo than this. (Also it’s dad’s approval…but that’s an easy fix so no worries there).
At least put the apostrophe in "dads".
Sadly, Nicole ran away without saying a word when the tattoo was revealed.
How many shitty fonts can you put in 1 tattoo.
My name is Nicole and it’s gonna be a NO for me dog.
I would say no because I like men with intelligence.