The 152 Facebook users whose photos a Dutch woman supposedly tattooed on her arm might not be feeling quite so special anymore. Dutch newspaper The Telegraaf reported Wednesday that the whole thing—video of which quickly turned into a Web sensation—was, in fact, a big hoax.
Rotterdam tattoo artist Dex Moelker admitted to the Telegraaf that the tattoo and video were an advertising stunt. “It is a try-out tattoo, a transfer, that washes off in a couple of days,” he said, explaining that the pictures actually took a couple of hours to apply, not 30 hours as the YouTube video claimed.
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