Guy Gives Up His Entire Anime Collection Worth 10,000 Dollars To Fund His New Anime Tattoo Business, And Ultimately Restore His Collection

There are thousands of “follow your dreams” success stories out there. So much, in fact, that it has become a bit of a cliché in today’s world. However, despite some people being skeptical about many of them as they often involve some form of change, risk, or discomfort, it doesn’t negate the fact that they happen and that people are better off as a result.

A tattoo artist and avid anime fan, inkbypnut on Twitter, recently decided to sell his entire anime collection to finance his anime tattoo shop. He asked Twitter for some help in making it successful, and Twitter delivered.

Artist decides to follow his dream by selling 10k dollars worth of anime collectibles to buy a tattoo shop

Image credits: inkbypnut

Just a few days ago, on November 25, inkbypnut posted a tweet of him in an empty commercial space with the caption: “Hey twitter sold all my anime [stuff] to buy my first anime tattoo shop… I’m located in downtown Dallas Texas… opening day is Dec 7th, I hope this goes viral so I can start my anime collect over!”

The artist sold off quite a sizable amount of anime collectibles—to the amount of 10,000 US dollars. So far, he reinvested the money into a commercial space for his tattoo shop, as evident in a video and photos posted on his Instagram account.

The artist also filmed his new tattoo shop to be

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Since then, his post went viral, garnering nearly 40,000 retweets and over 93,000 likes in just 3 days. On top of that, a number of Twitter users reached out to help his business. From interior decoration to replenishing his anime collection to booking appointments prior to opening, people were there to support his dream.

This stroke of good luck couldn’t have come at a better time. The artist has had a rough year in which his house burned down, he had to sleep in cars, and worked his hide off to make ends meet. He is happy to announce that he will be hiring 8 artists, a piercer, and some shop hands. The shop will be called 1UP Ink.

Here are some highlights of the tattoo artist’s work

Guy Gives Up His Entire Anime Collection Worth 10,000 Dollars To Fund His New Anime Tattoo Business, And Ultimately Restore His Collection

Image credits: inkbypnut

Guy Gives Up His Entire Anime Collection Worth 10,000 Dollars To Fund His New Anime Tattoo Business, And Ultimately Restore His Collection

Image credits: inkbypnut

Guy Gives Up His Entire Anime Collection Worth 10,000 Dollars To Fund His New Anime Tattoo Business, And Ultimately Restore His Collection

Image credits: inkbypnut

Guy Gives Up His Entire Anime Collection Worth 10,000 Dollars To Fund His New Anime Tattoo Business, And Ultimately Restore His Collection

Image credits: inkbypnut

Guy Gives Up His Entire Anime Collection Worth 10,000 Dollars To Fund His New Anime Tattoo Business, And Ultimately Restore His Collection

Image credits: inkbypnut

Guy Gives Up His Entire Anime Collection Worth 10,000 Dollars To Fund His New Anime Tattoo Business, And Ultimately Restore His Collection

Image credits: inkbypnut

Guy Gives Up His Entire Anime Collection Worth 10,000 Dollars To Fund His New Anime Tattoo Business, And Ultimately Restore His Collection

Image credits: inkbypnut

Some time ago, Robertas used to spend his days watching how deep the imprint in his chair will become as he wrote for Bored Panda. Wrote about pretty much everything under and beyond the sun. Not anymore, though. He's now probably playing Gwent or hosting Dungeons and Dragons adventures for those with an inclination for chaos.

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MoArai 4 years ago

Just honestly wondering: Would tattooing a well-known anime character on a client (and making money in the process) be copyright infringement?

14points

Pseudo Puppy 4 years ago (edited)

Having studied copyright law, & having tattoos, my understanding is that it's only copyright infringment if it's a direct copy / tracing of someone else's work. If it's the tattoo artist's interpretation, no, it's not necessarily "copyright infringement". (ie yes, they can argue it in court, but it's highly highly highly unlikely to be deemed "copyright infringement", because the tattoo artist created it fully by their own hand). P.S. it also depends on how the artist markets themselves. eg if they use a recognised brand-name as part of their marketing eg "Disneyland Tattoos", then they'd be in trouble, because they're presenting themselves as being aligned with Disney. They could however, promote the fact that they can do tattoos of Disney characters..... because they're promoting their skill, not saying they're from Disney. (subtle, but important difference - and yes, all of this can be argued in court, but this is the basic premise of copyright, within this context)

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