Worlds Worst Tattoos!!

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The world’s worst tattoo artists just found their pandemic muse.

FLuffeeTalks is back with episode #110 of his long-running World’s Worst Tattoos series, and this time the theme wrote itself. As COVID-19 spread across the globe in March 2020, so did a fresh crop of ink dedicated entirely to the virus — and Allen Buckle, the Canadian comedian behind the channel, wasted no time rounding up the worst of it for his signature deadpan takedown.

  • Episode #110 marks a specific turn in the series toward COVID-19-themed tattoos, reflecting a trend that emerged in real time as the pandemic took hold in March 2020.
  • Buckle hosts the segment in his trademark black “FLuffee” beanie, the visual signature viewers of the channel have come to associate with his reaction videos.
  • The episode is part of an ongoing playlist Buckle has built specifically around bad tattoo submissions, with #110 continuing a numbered format that stretches back over a hundred prior installments.

A Series Built on Bad Decisions

FLuffeeTalks has spent years mining the internet for tattoo disasters, turning other people’s regret into a recurring bit that now runs well past its 100th entry. The format is simple: Buckle pulls up an image, reacts in real time, and lets the tattoo’s own logic — or lack of it — do most of the comedic work. Episode #110 slots neatly into that catalogue, except the source material this time isn’t a misspelled quote or a lopsided portrait. It’s the virus itself.

Ink Born From a Pandemic

By late March 2020, COVID-19 had gone from a distant headline to the thing dominating every news cycle, and apparently some people’s trip to the tattoo parlor. Buckle’s episode catalogues the images that surfaced online showing coronavirus-themed body art — designs inspired by a health crisis that, at the time the video was published, was still in its earliest and most chaotic weeks. It’s the kind of impulsive-decision tattoo that Buckle’s series has always specialized in, except this batch has a shelf life tied directly to a global event still unfolding as the cameras rolled.

Getting a coronavirus tattoo in March 2020 is the tattoo equivalent of naming your kid after whatever’s trending — except this trend came with a body count and a curve nobody had flattened yet.

The Beanie-and-Commentary Formula

Part of what’s kept this series running past a hundred episodes is Buckle’s delivery. He’s not cruel so much as incredulous — the guy reacting the way a friend would if you texted him the photo first. That tone carries over cleanly into #110; the subject matter is heavier than the usual “why would you tattoo that” fare, but the format doesn’t change. Same beanie, same rhythm, same running commentary, just applied to ink that references mask shortages and lockdowns instead of bad puns.

The timing lines up with a broader wave of pandemic-era internet content that spiked in March 2020, as creators across YouTube scrambled to cover a story that was moving faster than almost anything else in recent memory. Some channels were tracking case counts and spikes directly, the kind of coverage InfoSearched followed in pieces like Fourth of July – 2020 – This is one of the main reasons cases in the US have spiked. Buckle’s approach is the comedic counterweight to that — the same news cycle, filtered through a guy pointing at a screen and asking “who thought this was a good idea?”

Buckle’s back catalogue makes clear he’s never been shy about mining whatever’s dominating headlines for material, in the same spirit as other InfoSearched-covered creators who turned pandemic absurdity into content, like the rundown on Celebs Who Forgot About Their Employees During The Pandemic. Episode #110 just happens to be the tattoo-shaped version of that instinct.

Buckle’s playlist keeps rolling regardless — #110 is one entry in a series that was already well past a hundred videos deep by March 2020, and there’s no sign the submissions were slowing down. If anything, a global pandemic just handed him a fresh, deeply regrettable subgenre to work through for episodes still to come.

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