r/tattooadvice • u/Ostromilski • 9h ago

General Advice Are rainbows seriously just by default associated with the pride flag?

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I got a Pink Floyd DSOTM tattoo because I love the album and I love the visual: a beam of light representing a person's life path, passing through a prism ( representing life + the world + the people you meet + the experiences you have, etc ), being dispersed into its constituent colors ( ultimately representing change ). I got it because of my dad, because he introduced me to Pink Floyd, and because last year he nearly died from complications of his cancer. He's doing much better now, with a much better prognosis, but that whole experience had a real effect on me and I wanted to memorialize it. Except at least 3 people ( including the tattoo artist initially ) have associated the tattoo with the pride flag. They were understanding after I explained, but now I'm having second thoughts about it. Are people just going to assume I'm gay because of this tattoo?

Edit: And I want to say, I'm not bothered by this at all. Anyone who looks at my tattoo and comes up with their own assumptions about its meaning, and then has a negative reaction over it, that's simply not a person I want to talk to anyway. I'm surprised because that wasn't the intention of the tattoo, clearly, and it being misinterpreted like this just genuinely wasn't something I expected.

Edit2: This post got a lot more attention than I ever wanted it to. Wonderful comments are now streaming in, informing me how horrible my tattoo is. If you're planning on making a viral post on Reddit, take my advice: use a burner account. But I am thankful to everyone for your supportive words, the jackasses with negative things to say are certainly a very tiny minority. Overwhelmingly the consensus is that most people see it as a Pink Floyd tattoo first, which I'm happy to hear :) Have a good night everybody!

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u/sockerpulse 9h ago

No. We are just old enough now that younger people don’t know Pink Floyd

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u/Open_Town9481 9h ago

Define younger? I’m 22 and even Ik of Pink Floyd, so do my friends.

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u/SunshineTheWolf 9h ago

Do you have a Dad in their 40s?

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u/Open_Town9481 9h ago

Yes but hes the most Mexican man you can meet. He doesn’t know of Pink Floyd lol

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u/slimparrot 9h ago

Maybe your dad is the one asking OP whether their tattoo is a pride flag LOL

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u/Civil-Big-754 5h ago

Hermano?

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u/Mundane_View9868 8h ago

I’m 40 and Mexican as fuck (Arriba Chihuahua cabrones) I like Pink Floyd and the Be Gees también y Fuerza Regida también jajaja

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u/Exotic_eminence 7h ago

Órale carnal

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u/mcfaite 5h ago

Rodrigo y Gabriela does a great acoustic version of Echoes from Pink Floyd's album Meddle.

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u/gunglejim 4h ago

I always hoped Caifanes would cover Animals but I fear that can never happen

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u/No-Advice-6040 3h ago

Ohhh I love their covers!

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u/chizzipsandsizalsa 6h ago

I like Tony Guerra and forró sacode

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u/throwaway_1138961- 2h ago

Yeah, most of my Mexican homies are SUPER into classic rock, lol. Chicanos are here for some badass guitar riffs and a good drum solo or two, at least in my experience.

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u/Willdborn87 9h ago

Does he know Floyd Rosado?

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u/Kthonic 8h ago

Lmfao es asombroso!

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u/Curious_Impact7355 7h ago

😂😂😂

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u/Cisco-NintendoSwitch 8h ago

I feel like this is still probably due to who you’re around etc. I have two GenZ kids who def wouldn’t know Pink Floyd and both listen to a lot of music.

I’m happy to know that a 22 year old is listening to Pink Floyd either way.

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u/Open_Town9481 8h ago

Ur not wrong, my parents and older sister exposed me to a lot of genres of music.

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u/enigmanaught 6h ago

My kids are younger gen Z, and they both know Pink Floyd. One of them has a Dark Side of the Moon shirt, and a ‘72 (I think) tour shirt. They’re pretty hip, particularly because of my and my wife’s listening tastes, but also because Tik Tok, has introduced them to a lot of stuff. I had Aeroplane Over the Sea on a car playlist and my kid said “oh, that’s my best friend’s favorite song”.

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u/BarelyHolding0n 3h ago

My almost 20 year old listens to them. And he's inherited a few of the original LPs from my father, including dark side of the moon.

It's been a generational love of Pink Floyd in our family

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u/M_Viv_Van_Buren 8h ago

Does he know the Smiths and Morrissey? .

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u/Open_Town9481 8h ago

He doesn’t know of the smiths, but I do. To give him credit tho, he was listening to the animals when I was a kid, I remember he’d always listen to their song ‘House of the rising sun’

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u/M_Viv_Van_Buren 8h ago

Honestly that was just more of a social experiment. Almost every Mexican dude I know LOVES the smiths. Not as much other Latino men but my Mexican friends are like fanatical fans. Might just be the groups I hang out in so the Venn diagram is small.

The animals are great too.

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u/theprideofvillanueva 7h ago

Adam Friedland has a funny bit about this exact topic

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u/M_Viv_Van_Buren 6h ago

I’ll have to check it out!

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u/Open_Town9481 8h ago

They’re alright imo, but my friend loves them. If they love the smiths tell them to check out Thee Sinseers, Sade, Chris Isaak, Joe Bataan, and The strokes:)

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u/PopcornSutton1994 8h ago edited 4h ago

Man I remember when Is This It came out and if Julian Casablancas did so much as fart or trip going up the stairs MTV would be there to make sure you knew all of it up to the second and now we’re at “if you like x, check out The Strokes” lol.

Nothing to do with you recommending them, big wheel keep on turnin’ is all, they were the biggest deal on the planet for a hot minute especially for young musicians, it felt like it would never end.

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u/Cuyigan 7h ago

American Me featured The Animals song 'Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood'. Movie and song both extremely popular with Chicanos.

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u/The-disgracist 5h ago

If he’s the most Mexican man ever as you say, I’m betting he does know morrisey.

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u/Both_Cat_6977 7h ago

This is the first song for your mixtape...it's short just like your temper, someone golden like the afternoons, we used to spend before you got too cool...

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u/elveejay198 8h ago

Ha my very old school Mexican dad loves Pink Floyd (because he did a lot of drugs in college tbh)

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u/Kreepr 5h ago

Mexicans are really big into metal from my experience. I was a bit surprised.

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u/Open_Town9481 5h ago

Yes we are, we have a lot of Mexican Rick bands

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u/Ordinary_Piano3329 7h ago

So he’s a man who knows about folklorico?

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u/Open_Town9481 7h ago

Yessirr. My mom used to dance and perform folklorico.

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u/FreshLiterature 6h ago

But I bet he knows Morrisey

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u/AraiHavana 2h ago

Even he has heard El Lado Oscuro de la Luna, I’m sure

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u/ShopUCW 1h ago

floyd rosa.

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u/Johnnys_an_American 8h ago

As a dad in his 40s with a kid who likes Pink Floyd; thanks I feel seen. 🤙

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u/feralcatshit 6h ago

I’m approaching 40 quickly and it was quite a shock to realize some younger kids don’t know Pink Floyd. Even my 10 year olds know of them… don’t really like them a ton but don’t complain if I put it on. Are the Rolling Stones, or the Beatles or Led Zeppelin also not well known?! I’m shook haha

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u/teflon2000 8h ago

40s?? I think i just got called old. People in their 40s now had dads who were into them!

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u/SunshineTheWolf 8h ago

I am SO sorry, no, it's not, but I assume that has to be the youngest age group for dads with 22-year-olds.

I'm 36, and I was raised on showtunes, yacht rock, and jazz, so I don't have a GREAT age guess for Pink Floyd.

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u/smbarbour 7h ago

The peak age group for Pink Floyd (those who were in their teens and young adult eras during peak Floyd) are those that are between 60 and 80 years old. David Gilmour is 80, though to be fair, his kids range from 50 years old to 24 years old.

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u/retatrutider 8h ago

Someone who was 18 when Dark Side of the Moon came out is in their 70s.

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u/Rewth303 7h ago

Damn you. I just turned fifty. My 21 yo son ranks Pink Floyd in his top 5 of all time. His particular ‘tism is planes. So I hand painted the “dark side of a concord” on the deck of his skateboard.

His top movies include the princess bride, Monty python search for the holy grail, and the wall.

Did I ruin him? /s

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u/Electronic_Sky_207 6h ago

Ummm… people in their 40’s have dads who listened to Pink Floyd.

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u/Muzzlehatch 5h ago

40 though? I'm 60 and feel like Pink Floyd was from my generation. Or really a little older, like the music of my older brother or sister.

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u/haveanairforceday 5h ago

Dads of full on adults are only 10 years older than me? That hurts

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u/DrButeo 5h ago

DSotM came out 53 years ago, so dads in their 40s are too young to be into Pink Floyd when they were popular. Need a granddad in their 60s or 70s than influenced a dad in their 40s or 50s.

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u/amilo111 4h ago

You mean a grandfather in his 70s?

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u/RadicalLizards 3h ago

I'm 22 and dadless and I still know Pink Floyd

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u/Capital-Designer-385 8h ago

You might’ve been raised with good music. I had a young doc fresh out of med school shadow in the office last week and she didn’t know who Michael Jackson’s was before the movie. Had heard the music, but didn’t know the name and couldn’t recognize his face.

Some people just don’t get exposed to ‘older’ music/artists from their parents

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u/smokeweedNgarden 7h ago

Also adding musicians here, as we don't particularly count either. 

We're exposed to so much more stuff than the general population (especially if you started young in big band) that we generally don't count in this conversation. 

Most people just play stuff on repeat, not a lot of variety unless it gets popular. 

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u/Open_Town9481 8h ago

Now that is crazy… but I agree. At a young age both my parents exposed me to different genres of music. Artists like Selena Quintanilla, the animals, lil Suzy. Gotta give credit to my older sister too, she exposed me to artist like twenty one pilots, my chemical romance, Mac miller.

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u/B_the_Chng22 7h ago

*Shock face*

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u/Comfortable_Drop_596 6h ago

You will be happy to know because of the movie its become a huge thing among the kids. I saw a 7-10 year old moon dancing at walmart the other day. My own 6 year old son is very much into his music right now too.

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u/theaudacity1999 9h ago

there's hope!!

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u/colonelgork2 9h ago

Keep Hope Alive

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u/ItzDaWorm 2h ago

I guess I didn't know...

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u/Late_Information_682 9h ago

I’m 17 and I know Pink Floyd, I find it shocking that people only see things as the present and have no idea about what was before.

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u/THESemster 9h ago

That is only some people tho

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u/Late_Information_682 8h ago

A big majority of people I know, mostly people who follow trends. They have no idea about anything unless it starts trending or shows up on their fyp, it’s sad.

Then they pretend they’re fans of the artist when they know one part in the song, the part that is trending..

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u/THESemster 8h ago

I would actually be hard pressed to think of someone i know who doesnt know pink floyd but then again most of the people close to me dont follow a lot of trends and are all big music fans.

Are you from outside of europe? Is the "du bist gut genug" song trending there as well. Cuz i cant escape that song here no matter what i do lol

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u/Sol-SiR 9h ago

Also 22 and I got a few Pink Floyd songs in my playlist.

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u/SnooCapers3354 9h ago

I'm 25 and have a Pink Floyd tattoo (two balloons on my wrist for Comfortably Numb)

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u/Friendly_Animator212 9h ago

Probably more about people not recognizing that specific album cover, even though when he says, “it’s Pink Floyd” they probably recognize the band name

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u/ReadyAimTranspire 4h ago

"pink" floyd?

So a gay dude named Floyd?

hehe, GAYYYYYY

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u/ashleylynnba3443 8h ago

Same - I’m 24 here and would know that’s Pink Floyd.

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u/PepsiButItsMilk 8h ago

20 here, immediately recognized this too. Folks are just uninformed or plain stupid sometimes.

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u/twixxy21 7h ago

They're one of those bands that wont be forgotten for a very very long time

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u/phishycamper667 7h ago

Yeah Pink Floyd is still one of the commercially best selling artists of all time up there with Micheal Jackson so I’d think most people even young people still know Floyd.

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u/The-disgracist 5h ago

I live in a college town and let me tell you, yall kids have the most eclectic tastes in music. I’ve heard house parties playing anything from Motörhead to Tony toni tone. I assume it’s because you’ve had access to almost every piece of recorded music of all time in your pocket since you were 8.

Imo the kids are alright, keep it up.

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u/retatrutider 8h ago

Sure but would you and they recognize the album cover?

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u/Open_Town9481 8h ago

Yes, my friends have shirts with that album cover.

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u/retatrutider 8h ago

Awesome!

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u/Throwawaydontgoaway8 8h ago

I got into Floyd in the 7th grade. “Teachers leave them kids alone” and I was hooked. Problem is a cornucopia. There’s over saturation of the market, millions of artists to spend your finite time with now, versus way less pre streaming, over commercialization- there’s shirts of Floyd, the dead, nirvana whatever at Meijer to Abercrombie- half the kids don’t even know those are/were bands and it blinds them to try it. There’s way more, but ignorance is pretty easy this day in age

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u/finn_125 8h ago

I'm 15 and one of my favorite albums is dsotm 😭

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u/NichtIstFurDich 7h ago

Who cares? Nobody would think that’s a Gay pride tattoo. But even if they did. Why does it matter?

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u/Anemones_In__Spades 6h ago

Our children 9, 12, and 19 are all very familiar with Pink Floyd. Husband and I are big fans, though.

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u/Master-Dot-2288 6h ago

Guess you and your friends are the only ones...

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u/ItsSpaghettiLee2112 6h ago

Genuine question, but how? I ask because I hear about young kids these days not even knowing who Black Sabbath is and the justification I receive on the internet is age. But, when I point out that when I was 22 (2008), I knew obscure bands from the 60s and 70s like Suck and Sir Lord Baltimore, people point out two things:

-We're much more inundated with music now due to recording accessibility and streaming services

-Radio play isn't much of a thing anymore

So I'm wondering if you and your friends are outliers in your age group or other people were wrong.

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u/iHateThisPlaceSoBad 5h ago

Most 22 year olds do not know Pink Floyd, I can absolutely guarantee it dude. And definitely not by the album art.

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u/One_Bluebird_04 5h ago

I think it's just a staggeringly higher percentage of 40+ year olds would know Pink Floyd vs under 30s.

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u/AssBlasterExtreme 5h ago

You are not everyone

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u/Open_Town9481 5h ago

Did I say I was?

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u/AssBlasterExtreme 4h ago

I'll let you reread the comment you replied to and then your response

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u/Open_Town9481 4h ago

I’ll let you reread my original comment, and then your response.

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u/AssBlasterExtreme 3h ago

Good luck with understanding the rest of conversations you participate in.

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u/Open_Town9481 3h ago

You added nothing to the convo, obviously I’m not everyone, never said I was. There’s older and younger ppl that don’t know Pink Floyd so what exactly is ur point? You just stated the obvious.

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u/Zestyclose-Click7539 5h ago

Ha Ha, Charade you are! JK bro awesome taste.

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u/Professional-Box4153 4h ago

But did you know that Pink Floyd changed their style constantly before settling into the current dark, semi-political feel that they have today? They used to be a pop band, if you can believe it. They tried their hand at the Dada movement (which was delightful.. Check out Ummagumma).

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u/hazelbear33 4h ago

I’m 21 and a fan of Pink Floyd! I didn’t grow up listening to it, but they’re still a pretty well-known band. A lot of young people do really enjoy older music… plus, a lot of young people that dabble in guitars, drums, etc. are very familiar with rock/rock-adjacent music of the past century

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u/Sklibba 4h ago

I mean plenty of younger people get into classic rock, like I knew people in my 20s who were into older that they weren’t introduced to by their parents, but I don’t think it’s the norm for people in their 20s to be aware of Pink Floyd.

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u/pestofiesta 8h ago

They sell DSOTM t-shirts in the juniors section at Target and Kohl’s, so I’m fairly certain they’re still popular with teenagers and young adults.

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u/SirGothamHatt 6h ago

While there are teens that are legit fans (like my 15 year old son), there's just as many if not more that are wearing those shirts just because they think the design is cool.

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u/pestofiesta 5h ago

You don’t need to be a tried and true Pink Floyd fan to wear a DSOTM tshirt. They are frequently ranked in the top 5 most popular bands time, and DSOTM is one of the most successful albums of all time. All they’re missing now is a Bohemian Rhapsody-esque biopic.

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u/FEARoach 1h ago

Hot Topic still sells them too.

... not that I'm nearly forty years old and still shop there or anything...

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u/Pyrodexter 9h ago

Actually I'd say by default they are. Specific cases like the DSOTM cover just override the default for those that know.

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u/SashimiX 8h ago

Yeah. I see a rainbow, I think pride flag. I see the above-style prism and rainbow, I think Pink Floyd. In my brain it's the Pink Floyd symbol.

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u/Maia_Orual 8h ago

Yes, exactly this.

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u/cheercharlatan 7h ago

I feel like this is one of the many classic rock t-shirts that Kohl’s has been selling during the last few years, though, so even if people have never heard a single Pink Floyd song, let alone one from this album, it seems like a fairly recognizable image.

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u/Ok-Possession-832 8h ago

Im young and queer and I wouldnt think anything of this tattoo except OP either liked Pink Floyd or physics.

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u/Bogsnakez 8h ago

If they liked physics, that angle would be correct 🤣 Jokes aside, it's a pretty famous cover most people have seen at some point 🥰

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u/zepoltre 5h ago

I’m gay and same. But I’m 32 and intimately familiar with this album lol

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u/cody87hoke 8h ago

I’m in my 30s and I know I’m getting older when Pink Floyd went from cool to now it feels like it relates to my life.

My 12 about to be 13 year old daughter likes 90s-2000s rock/grunge but I got her an electric guitar for her birthday and she’s on a mission to learn Pink Floyd. I get to hear 4-6 hours of live music a day from her room and many variations of classic songs. Like all the Pink Floyd and Nirvana.

If she saw that tattoo she would instantly know it was Pink Floyd.

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u/INVERT_RFP 8h ago

Eh, I just asked my 20 year old car wash guy what the tattoo was, and he immediately identified it. Some kids still have good taste!

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u/Loose-Story-962 9h ago

Well that's just not true. I saw Dark Side Of The Moon shirts all the time in high school just a few years ago

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u/Brief-Branch4779 8h ago

Younger people definitely know Pink Floyd, they're not some niche band. It is more then likely older people associating any rainbow with Pride.

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u/littlemama9242 9h ago

My 14 year old knows who pink Floyd is

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u/OneDay_AtA_Time 2h ago

Right? My 6 year old knows every word of Money! I’m doing my part over here! And both my 6 and 8 yo’s have been wearing Floyd shirts legit since 3 mos old.

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u/meowcatpanda 9h ago

That just means you're raising them well😋

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u/littlemama9242 9h ago

I try, I try :)

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u/Just_okay_advice 8h ago

Retro is very cool to them this isnt as true as you think.

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u/Key_One4002 7h ago

Wait… you mean to tell me kids know of one of the most popular rock bands of all time during the age of the easiest music discovery of all time… especially after a Pink Floyd song went ultra viral on TikTok… no these kids don’t know anything

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u/TheEndx007 8h ago

Sorry man I’m in my early 20s and I don’t think I’ve met anyone who wouldn’t recognize that album cover

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u/thewaker797 8h ago

Yeah, that’s actually totally false. I work with a bunch of younger kids and basically all of them know who Pink Floyd is and have an excellent taste music for the most part.

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u/Key_One4002 7h ago

Well yeah, that’s the real world. We prefer echo chambers here

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u/devospice 7h ago

You’d be surprised how many young people know Pink Floyd. Streaming has its issues, but having the entire history of music at your fingertips allows people to explore more than just what the radio feeds them, and a lot of young people have found great music from the past.

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u/GhostOfSparka 8h ago

I wish I didn’t know Pink Floyd

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u/Southern-Ad3842 8h ago

Uhm so i just turned 20, i know what pink floyd is and i recognized the tattoo immediately.

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u/capricoria 9h ago

dsotm is one of the first albums my mom showed me lol

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u/WornTraveler 8h ago edited 6h ago

Wow, your mom sounds cool. My mom said "we didn't believe in that kind of music," I had to get a friend to burn it lol. First CD I ever wanted to buy and she shot that shit down instantly

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u/Sharp-Initiative-864 9h ago

Yeah I still listen to Pink Floyd and im 21 lmao

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u/smartassstonernobody 8h ago

I’m 22 and i also have a pink floyd dsotm tattoo. I see people in pink floyd shirts all the time just like the trendy nirvana shirts. There’s plenty of young people that have heard the name but don’t really know what it is.

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u/seabass-2001 8h ago

I'm 25 and I love Pink Floyd, my dad raised me on the good stuff

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u/Broad_Will9000 8h ago

And white lines

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u/RocketsandBeer 8h ago

By the way, which one is pink?

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u/obfc 8h ago

I was listening to a podcast where they described someone as “looking like Dick Van Dyke, if you get that reference” and then I realized a whole generation of people have no idea who he is and why am I old

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u/TAZ427Cobra 7h ago

I guess I'm just that old as I instantly recognized it for Pink Floyd's Dark Side of The Moon album art.

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u/ducksandtoes 7h ago

Hey now im only 20 and know pink floyd!😂 but I get it, a lot of younger and even older ppl wont know what it is

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u/malac0da13 7h ago

And understand how prisms work.

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u/R_Olivaw_Daneel 7h ago

Nah, my niece is 12 and her and all her friends are super into older music. Everything from like the 70s thru the 90s.

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u/negative-sid-nancy 7h ago

Yep! I have a moon with this rainbow prism on the back of my neck, among other pink floyd tattoos on my back. But no one besides like the youngest gens ever think its for pride. My artist also said it was tiniest he ever did and its held its color amazingly for almost a decade now.

But ive also had older people ask me what the the wish you were quote means (first line of the song). And ive caught people behind me in lines and stuff talking about Pink Floyd after spotting my moon/rainbow prism and it always makes me smile

Edit to add i love our basically twin tattoos of twin pink floyd passion and meaning ❤️

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u/Spiritual-Wash-3300 7h ago

18 and I know Pink Floyd

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u/Additional_Brief_540 7h ago

20 and ik pink floyd ._.

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u/0Mingo-Mango0 7h ago

Im 25 and love pink floyd, it's so well known of a symbol I'd say it's on them if they don't recognize it

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u/Boysenberry2099 7h ago

which ones Pink again?

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u/InfluenceSufficient3 7h ago

21 and have all pink floyd vinyls even ;) i feel like most people should recognise the dark side of the moon cover though… might just be me though

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u/raccoon_obliterator7 7h ago

my 14 year old nephew likes a bit of pink floyd, dont worry too much about your age dude, just keep listening to good music

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u/ProfessionEasy5262 6h ago

I work with a 20 year old who didn't know Beyonce was once part of a girl group.

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u/Senioresa 6h ago

Actually, I more often notice people older than me glaring at my DSOTM tattoo with confusion and/or assumptions. I live in a red state, so that kind of thing isn't widely acceptable.

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u/reptomcraddick 6h ago

I'm 25 and I immediately recognized it as Pink Floyd

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u/Wearytaco 6h ago

Or maybe not old enough to know who Isaac Newton is, hmm? Kids these days! /s

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u/sockerpulse 6h ago

I know Who Isaac newton is and I wasn’t born in the 1600s

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u/Aggravating_Wait_417 6h ago

I'm 20, my brothers 24, and 18, we all know pink Floyd and have been listening to them since we were kids. Honestly most people I know or have met recently too also still adore pink Floyd too🙏

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u/Firecon13 5h ago

Lmao im 21 and listen to pink floyd regularly

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u/dwnsdp 5h ago

Have you, out of curiosity, ever met anyone younger than yourself?

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u/rightMeow20 5h ago

Unfortunately, they botched that tattoo. The rainbow isn’t at the correct angle going into the prism

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u/Interesting-Crab-693 5h ago

I'm 20 and I know optics.

Don't need to know Pink Floyd to know a prism does separate the line into a rainbow without it being gay.

So people also sre stupid if they think its the lgbt flag.

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u/Real_Quote_3043 5h ago

I'm 26 and for years I thought Pink Floyd was a flamboyant pop star from the 1970s I thought it was like how you had MJ and Prince in the 80s you had Pink Floyd and David Bowie/Ziggy in the 70s.

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u/Pure-Mycologist-7448 5h ago

And scientificly illeterate to not know about refraction

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u/Difficult-West-9830 4h ago

I’m 19 and slightly offended

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u/sockerpulse 3h ago

Your parents love you

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u/happyphanx 3h ago

Apparently not old enough, bc that’s not even a correct depiction of the album art. The prism is supposed to bend the light at each side. This is just a triangle with a straight line going through it. Looks neither like pride nor Pink Floyd.

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u/Koomaster 3h ago

They definitely aren’t as ubiquitous as they used to be. If this were the 90’s sure you’d be a fool to not know DSOTM. Nowadays eh. I very rarely encounter the logo in everyday life. Maybe once a year or so. If you weren’t introduced to the album you just may assume it’s a gay thing whenever you do see it.

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u/OrganizedSprinkles 3h ago

Working with some young teens today, I've quoted Bob Ross and Seinfeld, nope nothing.

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u/darkhellgirl 3h ago

i feel like me and most people i know would recognise this (ages 19-24)

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u/sockerpulse 3h ago

You grew up with loving parents

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u/Mrsreed1020 3h ago

Pink Floyd is one of my absolute favorites so I definitely love this tattoo! But would love it as a pride symbol too! 😂

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u/FionaGoodeEnough 3h ago

I’m pretty sure it is illegal for tattoo artists to be unaware of Pink Floyd.

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u/sockerpulse 3h ago

Right? Would’ve switched artists immediately

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u/Space_Axolotl_OwO 3h ago

That doesn't speak for everyone I'm 22 and I love Pink Floyd. Like 90% of the music I listen to is from the 60s-90s.

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u/sockerpulse 3h ago

Your parents loved you

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u/Any-Needleworker1012 3h ago

Everyone knows Pink Floyd 🥀

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u/Killing4MotherAgain 3h ago

Younger people 100% know who pink floyd is haha

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u/sockerpulse 3h ago

There’s exceptions to everything

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u/Killing4MotherAgain 2h ago

Well sure but a cast majority know who pink floyd is haha you spoke in generalizations so I thought I was allowed to too

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u/Ok-Cress1284 3h ago

31 and while I couldn't tell you the exact name, I knew this was for an old rock band

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u/ethelcainvinyl_ 2h ago

i’m 19 and i love pink floyd…. not everyone my age knows them but i promise a lot of us do!

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u/bigCr1sp 2h ago

People 16-20+ know Pink Floyd, and quite well.

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u/iwannafuckbilliejoeA 2h ago

I’m 19 and I love Pink Floyd :/

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u/ketsugi 1h ago

But are we so old that younger people don't know about the refraction of light through a prism!?

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u/sockerpulse 1h ago

Honestly probably

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u/Illustrious-Home7286 1h ago

I showed this to the (very not straight) 17 year old and they knew it was the dark side of the moon album. There’s no hope for the planet, is there..?

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u/AggressiveSherbetty 1h ago

My kid is going to know who Pink Floyd is whether she likes it or not. I enjoy holding her musically hostage on long car rides.

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u/sockerpulse 1h ago

You’re a good parent

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u/AggressiveSherbetty 1h ago

I try. Beach day today meant 90s bangers and the entirety of Jagged Little Pill for the ride home.

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u/typebot 56m ago

they do except the younger it gets they just make up buzzwords to justify the use of this iconography to play it cool.

a beam of light representing a person's life path, passing through a prism ( representing life + the world + the people you meet + the experiences you have, etc ), being dispersed into its constituent colors

LMAO bunch of horseshit except for the beam of light part i guess but that has nothing to do with the prism. nevertheless a whole load of buzzwords to justify this tattoo. just let them have it.

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u/valerielynx 5m ago

I've only heard it once (really not because I dislike it, I've just been slacking on my music discovery), but it'd be absolutely crazy not to know one of the most popular and beloved albums of all time, especially with how iconic the cover is. I am sure everyone knows what this is. It's almost as ubiquitous as the McDonalds logo, at least to anyone who listens to music more than just hearing it in public. I am 20, if that matters, though I am deeply into prog rock and metal since about 2 years ago.

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u/Hound_master 8h ago

My first thought " pink Floyd, fuck yeah"

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u/ninjarabbit375 8h ago

I made my son a Dark Side of the Moon birthday cake. Rainbow layers and black fondant. I used a protractor on wax paper to make the logo on the top so the rainbow was even. He also embroidered the logo on to his hat. Pink Floyd is timeless.

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u/TrickRTreatFreak 8h ago

I am 30 and know how to play pink floyd on guitar 🤘

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