For transparency, I am this far into the video before I decided I
Should probably react to this like I'm literally already making a video right now
Decided to have some coffee check my subscription box and was like, dude
wait
This isn't just a henna thing
Hey everyone, it is qcknd and I wasn't I didn't know I was gonna make this video today
I didn't I was I was doing something else. I was literally doing something else one second ago and
Went into my subscriptions and I found this
And I should probably just record my reaction to it. I mean what what else would I?
Honestly, I'm supposed to it looks like laurdiy
has made a video DIY masters tattooing a real person and some background is I
love laurdiy
laurdiy has been one of my favorite youtubers for years years and
Years lar DIY was on NPR and she was talking about youtuber burnout like back in
2016 and I remember her interview like gave me validity
I was like at work or something and one of my co-workers was like I
Heard about YouTube lard did that for me?
I pretty little lures, you know, so I mean I saw the title and I was like, okay
This is me. Looking at my computer
I was like, okay, you know, it's probably like a henna thing and then there was a little teaser and
There is tattoo equipment on her table
You know, maybe I'll start this and she's making shrinky dinks and I can turn this off and go back to what I was doing
I'm scared. So this is background information
No cut here in editing what has tattoos? She has a couple tattoos
Off the top my head. I'm pretty sure she has like a DIY tattoo and like some antlers
I think I first found her channel after I made this video with like
Hacks for going back to school with t-shirts and stuff after that YouTube was like, oh he liked DIYs
I was like, yeah, I do. They're my favorite genre on YouTube
So we're gonna watch this together and when I tell you I'm scared. I'm
Just being honest so if anyone else is reacting to this, I don't know
But they might tell you that she has a predominantly young audience and that is true
She came out with some merch last year that is sold it like michaels and a see more craft store a lot of like glitter
And like tween kind of stuff even though she does a really good job, like living her own best adult life
I would say that her audience age is pretty flexible
but is
kids I
Know it's been a hot minute since we've done a DIY master. But today we are back with possibly
But craziest and probably most irresponsible
DIY master I am
Yet to film so as you can see by the title and this really terrifying tattoo gun right here. Okay, I
Really don't want to interrupt this a lot
But so far all the stuff that she has purchased you can buy off of wish
Like just dead of before my friend Kalin moved away. I was like, can we make a wish video?
Because he's an apprentice and he was like, yeah, but wish takes like six months to get to your house
so kelvins gone I am going to attempt to
learn how to
tattoo I ordered some synthetic skin because this is how the professionals practice and just
PSA we are not gonna be tattooing any human. Oh
She said she's not gonna talk to anyone
But then she does a teaser that she tattoo someone but yeah
I mean so far you can just order all that stuff online. You do not need a license when teaching me except for YouTube
I watched a bunch of YouTube videos this morning. I
Love it, you know you are gonna do anything on YouTube. But today you're learning how to tattoo
This is such good content for me because like it's the craziest crossover of my entire life
But I spent the morning learning how to put together a tattoo gun. I learned that it's held together basically by an elastic bands
I also have some little practice stencils that I'm gonna use on the transfer paper
I'm not entirely sure if it's gonna transfer over to synthetic skin the way that it normally would on regular skin. I
Mean the way her last couple videos have kind of been geared this way where she shows you a DIY
She doesn't teach you at DIY which is like, you know
We're watching HGTV not because we want to even house hunt but because we want to be entertained also
She's not showing you how to use any of these things
so if you decide to make a bad idea at least you would have to
Learn all of that stuff independently. She did say she taught herself how to use it and how she learned how to use it
But she's not telling you how to use it
So at least there's that the original tattoo gun that I so carefully built didn't end up working
So, you know, I don't trust the Amazon $35 kids that probably should have been a given
So now she's telling you also where you can buy this stuff
but it's not her job to keep you from buying it because it is widely available online and
When I was like 16 or 17 there used to be this store
We would like it was like on the top floor of a building
we would walk up the wooden sweaty stairs and go upstairs and see that they sold tattoo equipment and
tobacco pipes and wicker furniture
so this stuff has always kind of like
been available
But anyway, I got this really cute pink one honestly, like if I'm gonna take up being a tattoo artist
Which I'm not that was a joke. That was like a hundred percent. I joke the thing is though
I wanted to make this video. Like I said that two seconds ago like I wanted to get wish stuff
The same video so I'm not mad I am thoroughly entertained
Should not be this accessible. This is peak audience retention right here like that. There's definitely still like this is not okay
Guys again, I just want to be super clear that we're not tattooing any human bodies today
And I like the disclaimers
But then she nullifies the disclaimers and like me. I love it
I'm filming right now, but you'll never believe this crossover. Do you feel like this was made for me? Yeah
I love lettuce on my paper magazine. Oh
god, oh
I watched a few videos and people were using theater and if I found that just
Waterworks that I've never had somebody put a stencil on me with deodorant, but I've had like people do stencil
Bone, okay
not bad enough to work with
I feel like practicing on this is gonna get real old and I'm gonna just try and recruit somebody for some skin. I
Actually love those guys as we keep doing this like not that I didn't again have respect for tattoo artists
But like oh my god, they should charge billions of dollars. Like this is a crazy skill that I will never have
Okay, we can work with that
I don't know why I'm eating class like oh we're unplugged rent like there's nothing real about this piece of plastic here
So, I mean you don't really need to keep it sterile the gloves protect her from the needle as well
I'm going in on real skin and we're gonna do like a freckle. I've got a new needle sterilize new ink gloves
We've got alcohol prep pads. It's I've never been tattooed with an alcohol prep pad
So at least in Pennsylvania, you need to take blood-borne pathogen
Tests and earn a certification in order to tattoo people and I think in this case
I don't know about the alcohol pads thing, but I have been tattooed on with like a sewing needle and a pen
So like also that there's like a little opening right here. I think that's the most gentle
We're doing this, oh my god, what are we doing right now? Oh, is this the Le version of sticking folks in your bedroom?
I am stressed out for these kids. Oh god, I'm scared. I'm scared. I'm scared of
You enjoy your peace of laurdiy original artwork
Okay, so I've only been scrolling for like two seconds, but all the comments are really really supportive of her mostly people
Asking her for other videos or to make phone cases and none of it. Really?
reflects any sort of risk or
Distaste that might come with an older audience
so I think you know
She made this video with very little risk. No one is very upset that she made this video. I
would get tattooed by her of course, but the thing about that is um, and I think it's kind of
relatively harmless
She's doing it to her friends
And that's something that people
Do and I do think it's kind of interesting that in this series where she tries to teach herself something and then master it
Tattooing was something that came up. I mean it would be
ignorant to say that
Younger people aren't becoming more and more interested in tattoos and getting tattooed younger and younger and they're getting better
Tattoos younger and younger and there are shows dedicated tattoos. There's me
influencers
I'm trying to pull myself back and be like well
What are the consequences of a video like this and I mean from my own personal experience?
I never made a video on how to stick and poke just because I didn't want to be responsible for
anyone getting hurt and that's just something that I
Decided on my own just because I thought about that risk. I've shared my stick and pokes and videos
I've done like a stick and poke tour and I talk about them, you know pretty openly and blase
So there is that but I never sat here and taught you guys how to do it
And then I made the video about tattoos that sometimes we think aren't permanent, but they are so, you know
Her buddy could be like, oh, it's just whatever this tattoo might not even stick and it will and that's sort of some risk
I would associate with this video that tattoos are permanent and
you know, maybe it's in her description box that tattoos are permanent, but that would be my only
Warning in this video and probably from her perspective people should know that tattoos are permanent
This is peak content from me. People are getting tattooed younger and younger, and that's just what it is Here
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