hey everybody my name is qcknd and welcome back to my channel today we are
going to be talking about the tattoos in the Netflix documentary series Tiger
King so if you haven't heard of tiger King you're probably not social distant
thing Tiger king is a documentary series that came out on Netflix I think in the
last two weeks if you go on Netflix it says number one on it which is a nice
cool feature and apparently has raked in almost as many views as a Shane Dawson
documentary series the tiger King series has blown up in pop culture and love the
series or hate it or absolutely hate it this series has leached into pop culture
so much I think Patrick Starr has a tiger King makeup tutorial
obviously this documentary is very popular and I gave it the old peek and I
noticed that there's a lot of tattoos going on in this documentary so today
we're going to be talking about the tattoos of tiger King the documentary
to attend to shop without a care at all I said darling I'll be taking a tribal
tiger from the wall
alligators porcupines rattle snakes and bees every single tattoo is a story of
my family
you don't really love me love me miss append across your chest
so one my uncle kind of requested this video which has been cool but two what
really drove me to making this video was this quote that I found from one of the
directors she was asked about why Joe Finley is seeing shirtless so much in
the documentary and she said I think he was very proud of his tattoos that's a
big part of that particular culture so I asked myself what is the culture is it
zookeepers because other characters throughout this series are not tattooed
so I thought what culture are we talking about here people who live in trailers
so I thought I would explore this culture for myself and see exactly what
we are talking about here and go through the characters and talk about their
tattoos and what that culture might just be if it's not just like so going
through this series and getting very familiar with the cast in order to make
this video there are a couple key players that are not visibly tattooed at
all striking off our theory that it is the zookeeper culture that gets them
tattooed we see villain duck until wow I really forgot her name it's like the
only thing people are saying I love the tiger King has an IMDB so Carol Baskin
has no visible tattoos to my knowledge I looked up as many
pictures of her as I could possibly figure out and it seems that she is just
someone who dresses eccentric Lee and maybe has a lower back tattoo but I
could not find any images of this as well as villain Jeff Lowe if you're not
familiar with the series Jeff Lowe comes in and is listed only as businessman and
I guess pumps money back into the zoo but takes ownership of it in the process
Jeff lo does not have any tattoos but he is someone who reminds me of somebody
who would own a tattoo shop you know what I mean who would own it can't
tattoo doesn't have tattoos but they own the tattoo shop businessman so Jeff Lowe
no tattoos couple tattoo shops maybe a Mississippi and then Joshua dial if you
watch this series you probably related Joshua the most because he seemed the
most level-headed in this entire documentary personally when Josh was
thrown into the scene I was like that's my boy and then there's some characters
that I never get a good chance to see their tattoos like saff appears to be
tattooed and the guy the like hitman guy I don't to mention him so first we're
going to go into my favorite tattooed boy of the series and it is John rank II
so you could say that John has no tattoos but he kind of has that feel so
I want to talk about him a little bit and kind of explore his character
mostly because I wish he was my dad so John rank II gets into this terrible
accident which leaves him without his legs the zoo is kind of this place that
attracts a lot of people in different walks of their life so when you're
introduced to his character you're like yeah the guy without legs I mean what
else you gonna throw at me but he's actually very sweet when I looked into
his story he was actually visiting the zoo a lot and because of his frequent
visits to the zoo to like pet bears and experience these animals up close in
person Joe exotic actually asks him to become a
part of the zoo so John has these ill prosthetic legs that are I would say
painted in a tattoo style he has like a scary clown and a tiger and every single
person I will describe has a tiger tattoo is that the culture with this
later when he leaves the zoo he gets into race cars and he keeps this like
psychedelic clown motif going on so I think he's just the guy who never really
got tattoos and then had the opportunity to have custom painted prosthetics and
was like give me tattoo sleeve prosthetics so in the series jog zonic
has two husbands which through some research I found out that it was not a
legal marriage I don't know if that's true most of the research out there is
like very horrible websites that have like 90 pop-ups when you click on them
and it's completely like mind-numbing to pull any research from them
but in that alleged husband not real husband but Joe's second husband in the
documentary lightly I will talk about him because I do feel like his story's
pretty tragic no spoilers he has two tattoos one giant
tattoo of a tiger and one tribal sleeve tribal is a huge thing on this zoo you
see him really early on without any tattoos and then eventually he gets a
very similar tattoos to Joe Finley who I'd love to talk about so Joe family has
the illah set of tattoos on the whole show and he is our culture inspired diva
who comes in hot with the character of the show where you're like okay do I
hate you and that's the whole that's the whole series if you love feeling that
way that's the whole series so you tend to empathize with any of the characters
who are just not horrible and Joe might be one of them
Joe talks about driving Tigers over state lines to legally sell them as just
Cubs and stuff like that and you're like Dan that's awful but I did also see an
interview with Joe where he talks about fulfilling a lot of people's dying wish
of petting a tiger or like chilling with a wolf and he said that fulfilling these
dying wishes didn't make it to the Netflix documentary but he thought it
was really important because it was a big part of his like overarching
development into the man he is today let's talk about Joe's tattoos so Joe
has one of the illest set of tattoos in the show and it starts off really with
this Burt Grimm tiger tattoo Bertram is a legend in traditional tattooing which
is the tattoos I primarily wear so immediately when I solved the first
interview with Joe and his confessional I noticed right away that he had this
Burt Grimm flash tattoo so sick I'm like does this guy know his stuff but I don't
know whose tattooing the people on this zoo I don't know if they know somebody I
don't know the proximity of the zoo near City I'm confused but I would say
these tattoos are done well enough with some exceptions but they're all really
dark and bold and I assume that in the beating Sun everybody is like topless
with no sunscreen so the tattoos are still there
so John Finley drunk I can't believe I finally got the man's name right
so John Finley has a bunch of tattoos for Joe exotic so Joe exotic himself
does wear some tattoos of his partners but Joe has for Joe exotic tattoos he
has one on his chest he has a rope around his arm that says for my husband
he has that tattoo that you see at the finale of this series that he's getting
covered up and he has one more because in my notes I said four so all of John
fillings tattoos for the most part except for a really sick Tapout tattoo
or animal-related he has a panther what looks to be a gorilla an alligator a few
tigers and then eventually the series closes with him getting a bull tattoo he
also has a fullback tattoo and maybe some tattoos on his legs and in the
final parts of the series you see him with a woman at a tattoo parlor getting
his cover-up and he is not flinching at all personally when I saw the cover-up I
thought this is bad this is a bad tattoo so hopefully it's unfinished because the
cover-up tattoo doesn't really cover up anything although John himself seems
pretty relieved so really with your cover-ups as long as you feel better I
think that that's okay I really can't make out this tattoo across his chest
but it has a little butterfly in the middle which I like to think was his
very first tattoo which shows a little softness that I'm interested in
my first tattoo a little butterfly let's move on to Joe exotic he is the tattooed
star of the series and the most chaotic gays ooh keeper I have ever heard of so
Joe exotic is this character who started years
years ago being influenced by a neighbor who was allowing him to interact with
his big cats I feel like I just meet people who love animals to this Joe
exotic degree they usually wear the like big animal shirts you know what I mean
and they like in theory love animals but maybe don't know what's best for them
I feel like that DRI describes jokes on it but Joe exotic for the most part only
has animal tattoos way more animal tattoos than me and not only that but
Joe exotics look is very exotic I would say Joe exotic in the series is much
more closed than John Finley however when you do get a glimpse of his tattoos
you're like hold on so Joe exotic has a portrait on his arm which is supposed to
be of his brother and it was his brothers dream to also start the zoo
wait wait so actually I'm mistaken now that I am much more familiar with the
cast Joe exotic has a tattoo on his neck that says Dylan Dylan is actually his
newest husband continuing on Joe exotic has a peacock tattoo he has a tiger
tattoo across his chest and he's interesting bullet holes in the
documentary they talk about how Joe exotic was buying bullets literally
everyday from Walmart I don't know what they represent a bullet hole sticker on
a car funny this I'm just not sure what it's all about Joe also has a ton of
tribal tattoos and although they may have deeper meaning I'm going to assume
that he's getting tribal tattoos for the sake of being tattooed nothing wrong
with that so because of this I think that he just wants them to take up space
and represent some sort of decorative element to his tattoo habits and from
what I can see he has a lot I'm sorry for using the same four pictures of Joe
exotic over and over again just some of the pictures of him online he has self
copyrighted and I'm scared to touch those
he also has these big black tattoos that I thought were maybe bones but I'm
really really not sure I don't know what these are from far away they kind of add
some sort of interest visual interest to the man you know from a couple yards
away you're like what is that kind of cool but are they bones boomerang in
comparison to John Finley Joe exotic does not have as many tattoos but my
professional analysis is that he does get more sentimental tattoos though I am
curious about his Dylan forever tattoo on his neck maybe he knew his time as a
free man was coming to a close and quickly got this tattoo for the husband
he was leaving behind as he went to jail over all the tattoos in this documentary
series excited me and I was happy to see them although every person in this
documentary series is a scoundrel it was cool to feel a little ounce of
representation apparently in the tattoo culture that is a grained in this
wildlife documentary no
I'm so cold why do people get Tapout tattoos anyway
thank you guys so much for tuning in especially if you hate Tiger Qing thank
you for coming in here and listening to another ten seconds of it I'm sure you
are completely maxed at your limit but I thought we would explore this tattoo
culture that is so important that the directors asked John Finley to shoot his
confessional without a shirt thank you guys I'm judge first I'm here
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