Hilariously Bad Messi World Cup Kiss Tattoo Meme

This is a two-panel side-by-side comparison meme. The left panel displays the iconic original photograph of professional footballer Lionel Messi wearing his Argentina national team #10 jersey, kissing the golden FIFA World Cup trophy after leading Argentina to win the 2022 Qatar World Cup. The right panel shows a very poorly executed fan tattoo that attempts to replicate this exact photo: the golden World Cup trophy is rendered as a gray, veiny, explicitly phallic-looking object, making the scene of Messi kissing it look unintentionally obscene and absurd, which is the core joke of the meme.

This meme was first posted as an RSS feed entry on the Reddit r/Meme subreddit with the original title 'Wtf messi 😭🙏'. It went viral for mocking the extremely low quality of a fan's commemorative tattoo of Messi's famous World Cup victory moment, leaning into the accidental suggestive visual created by the bad tattoo art. It later spread across multiple social media platforms as a popular joke about bad tattoo fails and unintended suggestive artwork.