As someone from LA County, it’s so bizarre seeing these otherwise attractive, white social media influencer guys nowadays getting the stupid knuckle-number tattoos. That’s what some ugly mug of a gang member would get, in, like, Compton or something. There’s no “deeper” meaning it has, other than you being stupid enough to emulate gang members, and in the form of paying to have your body ruined. I’d literally feel scared to sleep with a guy who had those cause I’d assume he had a criminal past.
It’s like that older trend of normal guys ruining their teeth with grills cause all the rappers and pimps were doing it back in the day.