Alright, let me spill the beans on this whole Danny Aarons tattoo idea. It’s a bit of a mad story, really, and something I actually spent a decent amount of time mulling over, believe it or not. It wasn’t like I woke up one day and just decided, “Yeah, a YouTuber tattoo, that’s the one!” Nah, it was more of a slow burn, mixed with a bit of late-night FIFA binging and probably too much caffeine.
My Brush with “Permanent Fandom”
So, picture this: I was deep, and I mean deep, into the FIFA scene a while back. Danny Aarons was pretty much on my screen daily. His energy, the pack openings, the rage – it was proper entertaining stuff. You know how it is, you start feeling like you sort of know these online personalities. Anyway, I was chatting with a few mates, and we were all just buzzing about content creators we followed.
One night, after a particularly epic stream of his, the idea just sort of popped into my head. It wasn’t even a serious thought at first, more like a fleeting “Haha, imagine getting a Danny Aarons tattoo.” But then, it sort of… stuck. My brain, for some reason, decided to latch onto this. I started thinking, “Well, what would it even be?” I wasn’t about to get his face plastered on me, no way. That’s a bit too much, even for a laugh.
I actually spent a few evenings, pencil in hand, sketching out some truly terrible ideas. Seriously, they were awful. I thought about his logo, maybe a catchphrase like “GET IN!” – but then you’re walking around with that on you. I even considered a really small, obscure reference that only true fans would get. My thought process was all over the place. I looked at some of his merch designs, trying to see if anything could be adapted into something subtle.
Then came the “should I, shouldn’t I” phase. This dragged on for weeks.
- On one hand, it felt like a bit of a rebellious, funny thing to do. A story to tell, right?
- On the other hand, it’s permanent. Like, forever permanent. What if he stops making videos? What if I stop watching FIFA? What if he says something daft one day? All these thoughts were swirling around.
I talked to my mate Dave about it – he’s got a few tattoos himself. He just laughed and said, “Mate, if you have to think about it this much, maybe it’s not the one.” And he was probably right. He told me about one of his own tattoo regrets, something he got on a whim when he was younger, and how it’s now just a blurry reminder of a questionable decision.
So, what happened in the end? Well, I didn’t go through with it. Shocker, I know! The more I thought about it, the more I realized it was more about the idea of doing something a bit wild than actually wanting that specific tattoo. I eventually channeled that energy into something else – I think I started learning to cook properly around that time, which was probably a better use of my time and skin!
But that whole experience, that “practice” of deeply considering a tattoo, going through the design ideas, weighing the pros and cons, it actually taught me a lot about commitment and, well, common sense. It’s funny how a silly idea about a YouTuber can lead to a bit of self-reflection. So yeah, no Danny Aarons tattoo for me, but definitely a story to tell about the one that almost was.
