Thread by @Kairo_Anatomika

So there’s this one tattoo design that’s pretty popular.
A wolf face on one side and a skull on the other side.

I love this tattoo design because the message behind it is just so unintentionally GREAT....🧵

Because... it’s not actually a wolf skull. It’s a raccoon skull.

Yes, all these are ALL Raccoon Skulls.

Wolves are chase predators. They identify a target, and then tag team chase it until it gets tired and then tear it apart.

They have wide cheekbones to anchor large powerful jaw muscles so they can hang on to huge struggling prey animals like bison.

Raccoons are omnivores
They take whatever comes their way and make the best of it.

Life is all resourcefulness and luck, and they have a bunch of different teeth types to handle different situations.

In and of itself, this is a fun design, but the combo of outer wolf and inner raccoon makes this design truly brillant.

IT'S THE ULTIMATE IMPOSTER SYNDROME TATTOO

Majestic, Confident, Badass Apex Predators on the outside. No obstacle too big, no mountain too high. UNAFRAID.

Bumbling around, making the best of life as it comes on the inside.
Does anyone REALLY and TRULY know what they're doing?

I love it... it's so HONEST and REAL

But wait there’s something else..... If you look carefully at all these raccoon skulls, they all seem to have this one tooth missing.

Which means that they’re all based on the same individual skull.....

Somewhere out there, is a raccoon skull with one incisor missing that has served as the reference for all these designs.

Oh wait...here it is.

It’s from Pinterest. Somebody took a raccoon skull and labeled it “Wolf Skull”.

Raccoon skulls DO look better than wolf skulls from the front, and the compounding popularity from multiple searches has pushed it to the top of Google search for “Wolf Skull Front View”

A piece of misinformation can easily be accepted as fact if it looks appealing enough.

So this is it then....
The skull that launched thousands of unintentionally great tattoos.

It's still being used in tattoos all the time. Take a look at on instagram to see how many you can spot instagram.com/explore/tags/w…