When Tats and and piercings became something pop-culture and vapid celebrities did along side frat boys & sorority girls something like this was predictable. It's the ordinary response from a counter-culture to the cultural absorption of their culture; respond with something even more extreme and shocking. So stupid and unplesant is sort of the point, tats and multiple piercings used to be regarded the same way.
The past cannot be changed. The future is yet within your power.