Joe Rogan claims he's grown "oddly comfortable" with fans getting his face tattooed on themselves
Joe Rogan recently posted a picture of his face tattooed on someone's leg on Instagram and the 55-year-old seems to have finally gotten used to this trend.
The host of the Joe Rogan Experience podcast (JRE) and UFC color commentator began his career as a stand-up comedian back in 1988 and since then, has amassed a massive loyal fan base. Many of these hardcore fans have gotten his likeness tattooed on themselves.
In a recent post on Instagram, Rogan showed off one such tattoo of his face on someone's leg. He captioned the post:
"I’m oddly comfortable with the bizarrely huge number of people with my face permanently etched on their body. That’s something I could have never imagined would be “normal” to me, but here we are…"
This person seems to have the tattoo done by Danielle Bar and depicts Rogan lighting up with his headphones on in the studio. Soon after the post, the UFC commentator re-shared another fan's tattoo of him depicting his JRE logo with the third eye with the caption:
"As I was saying…"
Rogan himself is a fan of body ink, with two sleeve tattoos on both arms. His left arm sports a tattoo of a deity with an open third eye and a picture of the molecular structure of an element. His right arm has a depiction of a legendary Japanese samurai and the author of The Book of Five Rings, Miyamoto Musashi.
Joe Rogan used to find tattoos of him "weird"
Although Joe Rogan seems to have warmed to the idea of fans getting his face tattooed on themselves, he has not always been amused by this trend and has spoken out against it before.
In an episode of JRE (#1336) with Jay Oakerson, Luis J. Gomez, and Dave Smith, Rogan was asked about how he felt when he saw such tattoos:
"So weird, don't do that. Just stop, just stop. "
Watch Joe Rogan talk about tattoos on JRE (#1336) in the clip below:
Catch the full podcast episode of JRE #1336 here.
In an older post from May, the 55-year-old re-posted another fan's body ink featuring his face and captioned it:
"I’ve lost count of how many tattoos of me are out there, but it never stops being weird."
Joe Rogan regularly re-shares posts like these on his Instagram page as a way of thanking his hardcore supporters. A scroll through his profile gives a glimpse of his popularity and fame, with so many fans getting his face inked on them.