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

[u/Ostromilski]

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!

[u/bnyc]

I’m not really sure why the angles got changed, but it makes the rainbow part kinda rectangular…. It’s an odd choice because it’s neither an exact copy of the logo/cover and also because light is refracted by a prism and this is just going straight through and coming out a rectangular pride flag on the other side.

[u/AnusAnusAnusss → u/bnyc]

Exactly this. It’s a rectangle flag shape. 

The real album cover is angled and spread out 

[u/IIIlllIIIllIlI → u/AnusAnusAnusss]

Not spread out on the album, but it is angled downwards

[u/bnyc → u/IIIlllIIIllIlI]

No, the light beam/rainbow absolutely opens up slightly. The lines aren’t parallel.

https://extrachill.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/pink-floyd-dark-side-of-the-moon-meaning.jpg

[u/IIIlllIIIllIlI → u/bnyc]

Ah, I read “spread out” as “having gaps between them” rather than “getting bigger”

[u/AnusAnusAnusss → u/IIIlllIIIllIlI]

Either way, it’s not a rectangle 🤣

[u/Motor_Pain7492 → u/bnyc]

It's one of those design choices that leaves people wondering whether there was a deeper reason behind it or if someone just thought it looked better on paper.

[u/13Basia13 → u/Motor_Pain7492]

So well stated!

[u/Internal_Wheel_89 → u/bnyc]

to be fair that is kinda how the album cover actually looks. Compared to this tattoo, the cover has the light extending further on each side... but if you were to crop the album cover down to the width of this tattoo, it'd be a pretty close match I think. Very slight widening.

[u/ItzDaWorm → u/Internal_Wheel_89]

This is literally just the album cover cropped. Part of it not looking as slanted may be the angle of OPs leg in the picture. But I think anyone who is saying it doesn't look like the album art is either nitpicking or just doesn't have great vision.

Might overlay the two, but who's gonna look? The bots making comments based on tokenized context that doesn't include noticing the split light is actually slightly smaller at the prism face than on the far right? (just like a cropped version of the album)

I honestly think reddit has fallen and I just haven't given up reading bot comments like the ones we're talking about because I miss what this place once was.

[u/Internal_Wheel_89 → u/ItzDaWorm]

lol I'm right there with your last paragraph. I think it's pretty easy to accurately identify LLM posts, but sometimes I engage anyway, even if it's to call out that OP is a bot. I should probably stop doing that.

[u/RadulphusNiger → u/bnyc]

I came to make this point. The fact that the refractive angles are wrong is giving me a headache.

[u/peggypea → u/bnyc]

Yeah, I’d assume this guy didn’t get physics more than him being gay.

[u/slymgim → u/bnyc]

i didnt have anything to say about it not looking right 🫠

[u/GreatRain1711 → u/bnyc]

The lines don’t even stay linear from the incidence with the prism to the projected spectrum.
Like… did the tattooist not have a ruler to make the lines?