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This is another example of ppl editing a very dumb easy to understand meme into something incomprehensible to compensate for the fact that their parents did not love them enough as a child. The original photo is of a tattoo where instead of the "9" it says "LO". So basically "LOST LOVE". There is no meaning left to this edited image.
That's not a 9, that's LO at an angle
Motherfucker, I thought that was a g, but you're right. That's a terrible L O.
I'm glad I am not the only one. I thought it was a g as well.
My complaint: Why is it apparently cursive and the rest of the text isn't?
I mean this isn't the only fuckup in the tattoo. The "VE" should have fallen off to make it say "LOST". It's just a trainwreck.
But the real answer is that someone copied some OOOPs post, crapped a layer of AI over it, and reposted. See the original at the top of this thread.
Steve 9
They’re probably confused because for some reason they connected the LO while none of the other letters are touching
Wait I think the post is made with AI when looking at this one, it's not the first time I've seen a hit tweet get copied and transformed by AI to get reposted, so fucking weird man
The profile picture of the woman is absolutely horrendous. Analog horror level of scariness
Yeah I noticed too after posting my comment, even the emojis are slop, but not to the level of the pfp
It could also be "st-op"?
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Oh my god I feel like i can perfectly imagine how this happened.
Customer: "I want this tattoo with LOVE turning into LOST. I want it on the left side and huge but I want it far away from my neckline so I can hide it with a t-shirt."
Artist: "Ok, but then the VE is going to go too far and wrap around your armpit"
Customer: "Oh okay let's just do it all in reverse then"
Artist: "Okay, but that won't make any sen..."
Customer: "Yeah, it'll be perfect!"
Artist: "...okay"
Also why are the cracks on the outside of the heart?
Those are the veins that connect the heart to the body
Thanks!
I LOVE the idea of the tattoo but it’s LOST in the execution.
SExually transmitter venerean epidemic
I thought it was some STD virus name
DON'T STEVE
LOST INSIDE
Clearly it's Lost've
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The comments keep saying Steve. My first guess was stove? I'm legit lost in this one.
Lo Steve, popular guy with dwarfism.
Some idiot screwed up a lost love tattoo
There is no joke to get.
My dumb ass wondering what gve is?
Sbeve
Stove it means stove trust
6VE
I honestly don't know either,,, this is incomprehensible and incoherent
I thought the LO was lowercase G this whole time......
Others thought it was a 9...
LO looks like an effed up g
It should be STO
I was confused by the grocery bag with a G on it
For the visual learners, should have been like this.
https://www.redbubble.com/i/greeting-card/Lost-Love-by-VIBESPLACE/146686214.5MT14
Guys.... zoom in on the emojis and the profile pic
It's AI, explaining the ugly "LO", what the fuck
g StiVE
We Lost Steve!!!!!
STVEG
I Steve this subreddit.
Poorly designed and poorly carried out, that's a shame.
Lost love has turned the heart to stone
STEVE > 6VE!!
Lost've
It’s Love Lost
RIP Lo-Steve
Got that Tattoo gets worse the longer I look. 😂
Steve 9 ! I dint get it
Sbeve
Stve
love street
Lostve.
a*s
please don't ban me
So I took a look at this carefully and I think there's an artistic view that many have missed..
We all assume that the "ST" is supposed to be on the other side and "VE" is supposed to be in the position as "LO".
But when I turned my phone 90° clockwise, it spells "LOST". I could be reaching a bit but I'll give em the benefit of the doubt.
Stoive?
6VE
"Steeeeve... Steeeeeeeve... I miss him so much... sob."
"It's okay, Adam. It's okay."
'Lo Steve. 👋
LOST STEVE???
I've read the comments and the "lost" Love" etc, and I disagree.
It's grammatical errors. "St" is missing a "D"
And "VE" is meant to be "VD"
As in this chick has an STD/VD and she's proud of it.
The "G" on the side lets you know, gonorrhea is in your future if you F this chick.
/s
I read this at Steve (or Stevie) g, proclaiming love for the ex-liverpool FC captain and his slips.
What looks like a "g" for some looks like like a "9" for me. But LO and behold!
They love Steve?
It's "lost steve", and given the position (not exactly hidden) Steve might have been her son, who passed away at 9.
My god I'm fucking stupid...I've seen this before and here i am like, "wtf is 6VE?"
after being confused like many others and reading the comments to better clarify this (in personal opinion) bad tattoo, let this be a lesson in the immense importance of KERNING. It is almost as valuable as commas in legibility and phrasing/structure. 😅
Sbeve 😭
Love lost
"Steve is dead, ill never get over this!"
Lost stive
I expected a D behind the VE
Also, what's with the big ass "9"?
Lostve
Damn I thought it was being dumped after being positive for syphilis or smth
She's an illiterate millennial Liverpool fan. Loves Stevie G.
Sbeve
Wow people on here suck at explaining. Its so simple. Lost love.
I thought the G was a shopping bag...
(Hel)lo Steve
thank god for the comments i had no idea what was going on. first i thought it was Steve and the piece to the side was the E that was ripped out but then it didn’t look like an E. then i was like ok so it’s steve and the piece to the side was a tongue but why is there a G on it?? maybe it’s 9? Thank you commenters for including the reference meme and explaining i literally almost had a stroke lol 😂
The halves are definitely the wrong way around...
but apart from that, it's also a pretty shitty tattoo. It looks like a pill thats been separated.
Im getting this on my face.
I thought it was "lost love"... the world may never know
My dumb ass read "Lo" as "Б" lmao
St Valentine? I mean it's look like chocolate.
The tattoo is dumber than you're giving it credit for, that's why you're struggling.
The fallen half is the wrong way round.
"LO" should be up on the left. "ST" should've sat where "VE" is,
Spelling "lost" with the ve fallen.
What is the g tho
Its supposed to be "LO" Just shitty
Yooooooo lmao I didn't know it could get worse ty
So, trying my best to be devil’s advocate here:
THERE ARE TWO sections of the heart that say “LO” one is red. One is grey, and layered BEHIND the red half.
That is why the “ST” is grey. It is from this person’s SECOND & grey heart! I thought it was a shadow at first, but the completed heart has no shadow, and there’s a hard line that wouldn’t be there if the whole thing was intended to be a shadow. There’s a second “LO” that we don’t see.
They just flipped the grey “ST” to fit the red half. So it really should look more like “TZ” since we’re seeing it from behind. But that’s definitely two full hearts we’re looking at. Not 3/2 of one.
Edit: to be clear, with this theory, it’s still so wrong no matter what. Because the “T” would never be closer to the center of the heart than the “S” period.
What on earth are you talking about
Simple: There’s two hearts there. A grey one that says “LOtƧ” and a red one that says “LOVE”
Ahh I see it now. It’s like those magic eye puzzles
It's kinda worse than that. Image search love lost tattoo and you will see what the original is meant to look like. Then someone did a copy where they got the lettering backwards so instead of lo st with ve broken off you get lo broken off and st ve. Now with this tattoo (which i hope is fake) you have a very bad copy of the incorrect copy. So bad the lo looks like a g.
So it's a copy of a copy of a copy with each one worse than before. Again I really hope this one is fake.
I think it's just a really bad breakup that she chose to commemorate by tattooing her ex on her shoulder
fuck…. I had to have a stroke to make the tattoo make sense… but you helped walk me through it, thank you
I’m gonna get a mended heart tattoo with “ST/ROKE” now
lol
Oh my fucking god I fucking this fucking tattoo everything about this sentence made me so indescribably angry at this tattoo fuck
I was literally wondering what 6 VE could mean and replaced with St VE
Designer failed at basic perspective, but his problem seems to be deeper than just that
Whys is the LO on a papper bag?
It is "L O" not a g, even though it totally looks like a G
G UNIT!
Idk why but this actually made me laugh out loud 🤣
that's LO
I thought it was a shitty 6, turns out it's just LO but sideways.
That is the part that gets me the most, why are the LO connected but the VE aren't? Why switch fonts like that?
Same brother...
Small G = little gangster
Steve is a little gangster
You don’t know gsteve?
That's the number 9
Damnit now I can't unsee that!
r/theletterG
It’s Stevie G ?
LO(ST)EVE
LOST STEVE
We lost a real one today. Gonna miss ya Steve
Jesus Christ... Hold my hand and take me, i can't stand this.
It's so stupid, i really can't fathom this to be real. Wtf.
Thanks for the explanation, i was really trying hard to understand this.
I actually think it's going for Stone once the other part of Love clears away. Like the heart turns to stone when love is gone. I could be wrong, but that's my best guess.
I thought the same thing
I'm still having a hard time grasping this... maybe it's the gin...
Imagine a heart that says LOVE on it.
The heart breaks, splits down the middle, separating the LO and VE.
The VE falls to the ground, revealing ST behind it. Now the heart reads LOST.
That's how it should look - the heart reading LOST with the broken VE piece fallen off. So it would kind of read Lost Love or imply that they've lost their love,.or they're lost without love, or something - basically that they're heartbroken. But someone totally fucked up the tattoo.
Edit - Some examples of how it should look -
Example 1.
Example 2.
So, what you’re saying is, there is no love lost in this picture. (For real your explanation helped lol)
Yeah, yeah, the other dude explained it, Steve's out of the picture, I get it 😅.
The g is actualy an L and an O. Its horribly drawn. The LO fell down and now left to right its spells LOST
So it was LOVE and now its LOST with the VE dangling in the background.
LOVE LOST
(rubs face...)
I'm sorry, but I had to try REALLY REALLY HARD to see an L and an O there...
There's the original photo somewhere further down in the thread which clearly sets it out to be an L O. Apparently this image was edited to have the lines joined. I don't know why.
but who is lostve
Oh so the tattoo equivalent of sbeve.
Yeah, but…. Who the fuck is Steve in all this?
No way lmfao okay. I literally read it as ST(stay) VE (positive)
Wow lmao
Steve must have broken her heart
…oh my god. How did neither she nor the tattoo artist realize this?
I interpreted it at a shitty attempt to write "lost love"
wow, thank fuck you’re here! i don’t think i would have figured that out.