Ben Affleck, if you haven’t heard, has a very large, colorful back tattoo. It appears to show a phoenix rising from the ashes. And people on Twitter are mocking it with glee.
Ben Affleck’s back tattoo looks like it was ALSO directed by Zack Snyder pic.twitter.com/Nz3wK0bNZ7
— Chase Mitchell (@ChaseMit) March 19, 2018
Ben Affleck’s back tattoo is like if Lisa Frank had a darker childhood. pic.twitter.com/JPCZeZUDlb
— Karen Howell (@karenehowell) March 18, 2018
https://twitter.com/JensenClan88/status/975821133063663616
https://twitter.com/TaraAriano/status/976158729006559232
Affleck’s tattoo first made a public appearance in a paparazzi photo at the end of 2015, and Vanity Fair reported that the photographer who shot it made around $32,000, as it was the first public image ever of the tattoo. Affleck then claimed the back tattoo was fake and made for a film role.
But recent photos of Affleck on a beach in Hawaii show that the actor’s tattoo is still there more than two years later. It seems pretty real.
Twitter was more than happy to call out Affleck on his previous comment about the tattoo being “fake.”
https://twitter.com/RafiDAngelo/status/975400075949150208
Mostly, though, people tried to wrap their heads around the tattoo itself. It takes up Affleck’s entire back.
Sarah Jessica Parker liking this Instagram post about Ben Affleck’s awful back tattoo is the funniest thing I have seen in 2018. pic.twitter.com/OIFNnlZSfv
— Eva Palmer (@Eva_Palmer) March 18, 2018
Don’t mock Ben Affleck’s phoenix tattoo. It symbolises how he has risen from the ashes, reborn as a guy with a tattoo that sucks
— pixelatedboat aka “mr tweets” (@pixelatedboat) March 18, 2018
https://twitter.com/markhoppus/status/975866932296470528
I’ve been following the Ben Affleck back tattoo drama more closely than the Mueller investigation.
— Sophia Benoit (@1followernodad) March 18, 2018
Someone even incorporated Affleck’s back tattoo into another celeb meme, surmising that what Jennifer Garner realized at the Oscars could have been related to the phoenix body art.
When you realize the back tattoo is real and Ben Affleck was lying when he said it was for a movie. 😲 pic.twitter.com/gsRk9cJGqB
— Anthony Dominic (@alloveranthony) March 18, 2018
Now it all makes sense.
