A woman has tattooed the profile pictures of 152 Facebook friends, illustrating that when it comes to ill-conceived body art, nothing is too extreme.
"These are not all my friends," she clarifies in the caption on the YouTube video documenting the process. "Just the people I care most about."
If the woman has 152 friends whom she cares about enough to permanently etch their faces into her skin, then she's either very fortunate or a rather poor judge of relationships.
However, the tattoo could possibly be a fake, since the video cleverly promotes the "tattoo" designer named at the end of the clip. The fact that the woman's face is never shown conveniently makes it impossible to verify if the "tattoo" still exists, and inspection of the admittedly low-resolution video reveals what appear to be the same profile image repeated in different places.
The fact that the video is the only one that "susyj1987" has posted on YouTube also suggests an unusual concern with anonymity for someone so invested in publicly viewable body art.
Of course, there is the possibility that no one wants to be known as the person who tattooed 152 Facebook profile pictures on their arm.
Despite the tattoo's incredible nature, a number of media sources have repeated the story as fact, probably because people have a proven history of indelibly printing technology-related images on their flesh.
Steven Smith, also known as "the Zune tattoo guy," arguably pioneered the practice in 2007 by getting the Zune logo and marketing copy inked into his shoulder. He later denounced Microsoft for not developing the Zune line, bought an iPod and covered the Zune logo with a large tattoo depicting then-vice president Dick Cheney as a cloven-footed devil.
In 2008, a man had a BlackBerry Storm tattooed on his calf above the words, "iPhone Sucks." More recently, rapper T-Pain incorporated the Facebook "Like" button into a tattoo on his arm.
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