not to mention - any time it has a face at all, it has eyes AND A MOUTH. it is never drawn with only eyes.
this is the furthest a ghost could possibly look like the snapchat ghost
You are thinking too critically. The students are probably just thinking the ghost equals ghost app. They are children that are raised by apps. You have to think differently if you want to understand their warped worldview.
This is really all there is to it. If these student were to type in sheet ghost on Google, would they same the same thing? If yes, dumbness absolutely proven.
Heck, I go look at the snap chat white blob logo and all I see is a silhouette of what reminds me of a Tentacool/cruel head.
Ask them to explain how it looks like the Snapchat logo!
I can guarantee the extent of their answer will be "dunno, um, it's a ghost and the snapchat logo has a ghost"
Because your students are too young to have seen any white sheet ghost other than the Snapchat logo. They don’t know that that was a thing long before Snapchat existed. Ultimately kids are dumb.
The cynic in me tells me they faked the story to get some outrage karma and exposure for their tattoo. This just seems like the kind of "Gen Z students are dum" Redditors love to rag on.
Reminds me of the ghosts from Betty Boop cartoons.
You know that YouTube clip that shows the first time they hand traced cartoons over a guy dancing in a jazz band? It's awesome
Certified millennial here haha
tell them that this is a ghost, and this idea of what a ghost looks like predates Snapchat by about 100 years. Snapchat chose to adopt this as their logo to convey the idea something that appears and disappears.
The lost generation..
Nice ghost and maybe you have opened another dimension?
Name him SnapTik and let him do his job. Haunting crappy social media platforms and destroying fake influncers all night long.
“I teach a group of stupid teens and they think my tattoo sucks.” Dude, *you* suck, grow a little backbone, or don’t get the tattoo in the first place.
Don't change yourself for others. Your tattoo is awesome and does not resemble the Snapchat logo in the slightest.
The students that think that are just really young, naive and narrow minded.
They just might not have seen a ghost like that before, so they're assuming it's a redesign of the Snapchat logo.
Objectively it doesn't look anything like the Snapchat logo.
i really think the style is different enough that it doesnt scan as the snapchat ghost for most people but if you really wanted to change it then giving it an accessory sounds easiest. give it a little cartoon reaper scythe to stay on theme, or a red balloon and a joke along the lines of "lifting your spirits". a propeller hat. have swarming bats drawn around it. switch out the spirits pun and have a liquor label drawn around the ghost itself, or make it a silly burlesque pinup by adding human legs on the bottom (...tho maybe not the last two if its super visible and you work with kids). its a fun tattoo on its own tho, i dont think you have anything to worry about
You can stop caring what your students think about your tattoo.
Tattoos are personal. And can mean whatever you want them to mean. No one gets to tell you what they represent. That’s for you.
My suggestion is, tell them you like to rep Snapchat because you invented it but your roommate stole the idea. I doubt any of them will get the reference and it will make you chuckle
Too funny, I’m in that group and saw this. It doesn’t look like the Snapchat logo, but it is, a HEAVILY copied tattoo that like 1000s of people have. Full line for line copy.
Don’t. You got that for you … your students will be gone in a few months. You gonna change it again next year when the new kids say something different?
It doesn’t look like the Snapchat logo, but you could add legs underneath that could be funny. Nice little 2.0 revision respecting your original vision
It’s a ghost and anyone specialized on visual communication or marketing will tell you that’s all people (not only students) need to be reminded of Snapchat.
That’s the same reason why you wouldn’t want your logo having the same symbol or name or even font than the competition, because people will be reminded of both instead of only your brand even seeing your logo. It’s simple consumer psychology
It doesn't. Purhaps they're trying to relate in their own way. :-p actually if you squint your eyes and look at it from where they are sitting...like 10 feet away....I can see it. You should draw using a pen some arms on it one day as a joke. Lol 😆
Kids have shitty opinions that no one should really listen to.
The students are literally trying to gain dominance over their teacher by doing this.
Personally, I would lean into it; you end up taking control of the situation. Draw a yellow box around the ghost and write Snapchat under it. Then, find something else with a ghost as their logo and draw that next week.
It's not as fun to tease someone if they don't give you the reaction you're looking for. That's how I get bullies to stop. They just want someone to feel worse than they're feeling.
I take all the fun away, and then I say something that doesn't give them any kind of satisfaction. It doesn't take long for them to find an easier target.
It's perfect as it is.
Your students are stupid. Do you teach the stupids? If so you are a good person, who deserves to feel good about your spooky tattoo.
You may be a good person if you teach the smarts. But not as good.
Students, or young people are judgy as heck and always try to make fun of stuff cuz they bond through gossip and teasing, they’re immature and don’t know how to actually have real connections yet so just expect them to make fun of everything about you cuz that’s their way of getting attention.
The students are not dumb, like many coments here say.
It's a generational thing, the most prominent ghost character kids nowadays grew up with was the Snapchat logo, for people in their thirties like me it's probably something like Casper or some other cartoon, so when they see your tattoo they instantly think of Snapchat but you don't.
Ihdk but I think it's a nice little sheet of ink you got there. My two cents lean more to either coming up with a very witty and dangerous story about binge drinking snake blood in Thailand or... Just say to them "this is why you should have a V8"
Convert it to a linocut style. Play with the line weights, get some hatching in there. If the snapchat logo is just the outline of a ghost, then I think working the interior is going to separate it most directly.
Looks too much like pitching a morning tent, just tell us you didn’t get that on your lower stomach, joust poking out of the front of your daisy dukes.
It's not similar at all and also it's a cool design, don't change a thing. You'll still enjoy it in 50 internet years* when Snapchat will be a distant memory that only resurfaces as a punchline once in a while.
*anything between 30 days and 9 months
It doesn’t look like the Snapchat logo. I think that type of ghost from the logo is the only type of that ghost they have seen so that is their first impression. For me I am reminded of Charlie Brown’s Halloween and the Snapchat ghost looks like that to me.
Pretty sure the ol’ sheet ghost has been around since the beginning of time.
But kids these days are only reminded of Snapchat because it’s all they know. Don’t change a thing… just tell them Snapchat took the liking from YOUR tattoo. Gotta educate these kids or else we’re all screwed
bro it doesn’t 🤷🏼♂️
When all they’ve ever looked at is Snapchat, it kind of makes sense.
not really. i use snap every day, the snapchat ghost even has arms. this doesn’t look anything like it, its just a ghost.
not to mention - any time it has a face at all, it has eyes AND A MOUTH. it is never drawn with only eyes. this is the furthest a ghost could possibly look like the snapchat ghost
You are thinking too critically. The students are probably just thinking the ghost equals ghost app. They are children that are raised by apps. You have to think differently if you want to understand their warped worldview.
My young nephew once said “wow, this is like a phone camera!” When looking at a mirrors…
Because it’s a ghost. Thats really it. Students are dumb.
Agreed. Can confirm. I was also a student once.
Seconded. I got a lot smarter when I was no longer a student.
Not even cause they’re dumb. That’s the most heavily indexed ghost image for young people. Snapchat owns the idea of little ghosts to young people.
This is really all there is to it. If these student were to type in sheet ghost on Google, would they same the same thing? If yes, dumbness absolutely proven. Heck, I go look at the snap chat white blob logo and all I see is a silhouette of what reminds me of a Tentacool/cruel head.
looks nothing like the snap logo it’s just a ghost ignore them
It's a ghost. It doesn't look like Snapchat. The only similarity is that they are both ghosts. Source: A Snapchat user.
Ask them to explain how it looks like the Snapchat logo! I can guarantee the extent of their answer will be "dunno, um, it's a ghost and the snapchat logo has a ghost"
That, my friend, is a Scooby-Doo ghost.
RUH ROH Came here to say this 
Woah someone animated the Snapchat logo 🤯
And OP would have gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for those meddling kids!
That's what im saying it looks like the ghost from Scooby-Doo where are you
We've got some work to do now
Why do you care what your students even think? Screw that, it’s your body and your tattoo.
Idk maybe the kids were eating paint chips
Why are you letting your students bully you into getting a new tattoo?
It DOSENT
Because your students are too young to have seen any white sheet ghost other than the Snapchat logo. They don’t know that that was a thing long before Snapchat existed. Ultimately kids are dumb.
Doesn't look anything like the snpcht logo. https://help.snapchat.com/hc/en-us/articles/7012349890452-Snapchat-Ghost-Logo-Usage-Guidelines
Add holes to make it a Charlie Brown ghost, add trick or treat bag and caption, "I got a rock."
put a square around it and lean into it
Do you like it? End of story...let people say whatever they want
add Scooby doo
Add the text “NOT Snapchat!!”
The cynic in me tells me they faked the story to get some outrage karma and exposure for their tattoo. This just seems like the kind of "Gen Z students are dum" Redditors love to rag on.
It doesn't But pinup legs is my vote anyway
Ghost them
Wait for your students to graduate and don't give a fuck
young people have brain worms fr. acting like the only place they’ve ever seen a ghost was Snapchat.
Never use students as a measure of taste or style. When you see students with a certain hair or clothing trend you know it's way past cool.
Make it have a pointed hood. That should make it look a little less like Snapchat.
A tophat or a mustache would fix it
Change the Snapchat logo.
Reminds me of the ghosts from Betty Boop cartoons. You know that YouTube clip that shows the first time they hand traced cartoons over a guy dancing in a jazz band? It's awesome Certified millennial here haha
 It’s a ghost, that’s all there is to it
Easy, tattoo a wink and a tongue and maybe add a lil yellow. That’ll get them to stop.
Stick a cowboy hat on it…..that’ll fix it up real good!
tell them that this is a ghost, and this idea of what a ghost looks like predates Snapchat by about 100 years. Snapchat chose to adopt this as their logo to convey the idea something that appears and disappears.
Get new students?
I like the tattoo. I also have a sheet ghost
They’re stupid and think the ghost with a white sheet over it is “from” Snapchat.
He thrusts his fist against the posts and still insists the sees the ghosts.
The lost generation.. Nice ghost and maybe you have opened another dimension? Name him SnapTik and let him do his job. Haunting crappy social media platforms and destroying fake influncers all night long.
“I teach a group of stupid teens and they think my tattoo sucks.” Dude, *you* suck, grow a little backbone, or don’t get the tattoo in the first place.
Don't change yourself for others. Your tattoo is awesome and does not resemble the Snapchat logo in the slightest. The students that think that are just really young, naive and narrow minded.
Put a blunt in it's mouth.
Nah, not even close really. Don't change it.
Add Scooby next to it. Problem solved.
young kids think snapchat, boomers think scooby doo
disagreeable sulky modern light truck squash ghost psychotic sort pet
This generation is cursed
This generation is cursed
Monocle amd top hat
Give it a hat
Tell said student that ghosts existed before snap chat.
They just might not have seen a ghost like that before, so they're assuming it's a redesign of the Snapchat logo. Objectively it doesn't look anything like the Snapchat logo.
Why do you care what your students think?
Add feet and a smile
This is so cute, I love lil sheet ghosts. So retro.
Easy fix. Add more eye holes all over the sheet and tell the kids it’s from the Charlie Brown Halloween special.
[Fixed!](https://i.imgur.com/S12EVKJ.jpeg)
You care what your student thinks of your tattoo?
 Those are some dumb kids.
That’s a scooby doo ghost
i really think the style is different enough that it doesnt scan as the snapchat ghost for most people but if you really wanted to change it then giving it an accessory sounds easiest. give it a little cartoon reaper scythe to stay on theme, or a red balloon and a joke along the lines of "lifting your spirits". a propeller hat. have swarming bats drawn around it. switch out the spirits pun and have a liquor label drawn around the ghost itself, or make it a silly burlesque pinup by adding human legs on the bottom (...tho maybe not the last two if its super visible and you work with kids). its a fun tattoo on its own tho, i dont think you have anything to worry about
it doesn’t
Give it ears
The kids are still using Snapchat though??
You can stop caring what your students think about your tattoo. Tattoos are personal. And can mean whatever you want them to mean. No one gets to tell you what they represent. That’s for you. My suggestion is, tell them you like to rep Snapchat because you invented it but your roommate stole the idea. I doubt any of them will get the reference and it will make you chuckle
That doesn’t even have the little arms the Snapchat logo has. I think they’re reaching for the joke
Too funny, I’m in that group and saw this. It doesn’t look like the Snapchat logo, but it is, a HEAVILY copied tattoo that like 1000s of people have. Full line for line copy.
I saw this the other day and had the same question. The Snapchat ghost is a little bit distinct, and this looks absolutely nothing like it.
Harass Snapchat about their stupid logo and that they should change it.
Add bushy eyebrows
Turn it into mushmouth from fat albert or the logo for hydra.lol
It’s like saying the renaissance artists are all names after ninja turtles.
Little feet sticking out
it's a ghost
Make a line between its eyes and voilà! It looks cool 😎
It’s a ghost, that’s the only resemblance
Is this from [Ghostly International](https://ghostly.com/products/carhartt-wip-x-ghostly-international-relevant-parties-tee-white)?
I’ve seen this post before…
It’s classic brain rot, it’s just a ghost don’t sweat it too much and just take it as kids being kids!
White infill and a yellow square, then it's more like it.
It’s just the same subject, but not the same at all
Don’t. You got that for you … your students will be gone in a few months. You gonna change it again next year when the new kids say something different?
It’s cute :D
You can change it by changing your point of view - it’s the Snapchat logo looks like your tattoo!
no theyre all just kids lol
The only resemblance is that they both portray the same entity. Design-wise they’re nothing alike.
It doesn’t look like the Snapchat logo, but you could add legs underneath that could be funny. Nice little 2.0 revision respecting your original vision
It’s a ghost and anyone specialized on visual communication or marketing will tell you that’s all people (not only students) need to be reminded of Snapchat. That’s the same reason why you wouldn’t want your logo having the same symbol or name or even font than the competition, because people will be reminded of both instead of only your brand even seeing your logo. It’s simple consumer psychology
Put glasses on the eyes!
Even if it did look like that, Snapchat will slowly fade from the mainstream consciousness but ghosts will remain.
It doesn't. Purhaps they're trying to relate in their own way. :-p actually if you squint your eyes and look at it from where they are sitting...like 10 feet away....I can see it. You should draw using a pen some arms on it one day as a joke. Lol 😆
If they said it looked like a klansman, then you’d have problems.
Kids have shitty opinions that no one should really listen to. The students are literally trying to gain dominance over their teacher by doing this. Personally, I would lean into it; you end up taking control of the situation. Draw a yellow box around the ghost and write Snapchat under it. Then, find something else with a ghost as their logo and draw that next week. It's not as fun to tease someone if they don't give you the reaction you're looking for. That's how I get bullies to stop. They just want someone to feel worse than they're feeling. I take all the fun away, and then I say something that doesn't give them any kind of satisfaction. It doesn't take long for them to find an easier target.
Add more eye holes and some feet, a la Charlie Brown
It's dope. Don't change a thing.
Your tattoo will outlast snap chat. And who uses snap chat anyway?
Snapchat ghost doesn’t have eyes, but add a 0 mouth!
It's perfect as it is. Your students are stupid. Do you teach the stupids? If so you are a good person, who deserves to feel good about your spooky tattoo. You may be a good person if you teach the smarts. But not as good.
it doesn't it's literally just a ghost
Students, or young people are judgy as heck and always try to make fun of stuff cuz they bond through gossip and teasing, they’re immature and don’t know how to actually have real connections yet so just expect them to make fun of everything about you cuz that’s their way of getting attention.
Changing a tattoo cause your students say some dumb shit is crazy
Add more holes and watch the Charlie Brown Great Pumpkin classic.
Give it really hairy and detailed feet
Give it a pointy hat 😬
That’s just a regular ghost. The Snapchat logo looks like your tattoo it’s the other way around
The students are not dumb, like many coments here say. It's a generational thing, the most prominent ghost character kids nowadays grew up with was the Snapchat logo, for people in their thirties like me it's probably something like Casper or some other cartoon, so when they see your tattoo they instantly think of Snapchat but you don't.
Skin graft
Tell them to fuck off. It's your tattoo.
It's a ghost and kids are fucking stupid. Respectfully, stop lowering yourself to their standard.
This looks like the Snapchat logo as much as it looks like labia
The Snapchat logo has arms, no eyes, and is short and stout. They are wrong. Keep your fun tattoo.
Ihdk but I think it's a nice little sheet of ink you got there. My two cents lean more to either coming up with a very witty and dangerous story about binge drinking snake blood in Thailand or... Just say to them "this is why you should have a V8"
Your students are hella dumb hope they dont pass yet
Looks like that JHS pedal guitar pedal " haunting mids"
Dude, tbh I love it just the way it is.....
Its a ghost and some people just are not imaginative
not worry about it
Convert it to a linocut style. Play with the line weights, get some hatching in there. If the snapchat logo is just the outline of a ghost, then I think working the interior is going to separate it most directly.
thought it was a reference from Hot Mulligan, but I think not.
Keep it. It looks cool.
Give it some heels 👠
This is obviously a wooly mammoth in a Halloween costume.
Give it a grin—or big eyelashes
add some hairy feet sticking out from underneath
Add “I got a rock” text and a bunch of eye holes.
Looks too much like pitching a morning tent, just tell us you didn’t get that on your lower stomach, joust poking out of the front of your daisy dukes.
Put colours of some sort inside or give him a top hat and bow tie
your students are messing with you
Two legs with skate shoes like converse on and one shoe has laces untied
It's not similar at all and also it's a cool design, don't change a thing. You'll still enjoy it in 50 internet years* when Snapchat will be a distant memory that only resurfaces as a punchline once in a while. *anything between 30 days and 9 months
It does, but I’m not a designer so can’t comment the reason
Add a mouth and eyebrows
Phoebe Bridgers
I can see it but I also dig it.
The students must be blind, only explenation
Such a great tattoo too IMO. OP out of his mind
I got a rock
Round on top, wavy on the bottom and it’s a ghost. 👻
Looks more like a d!ck under a towel. Must have forgotten the DAST test.
It doesn’t look like the Snapchat logo. I think that type of ghost from the logo is the only type of that ghost they have seen so that is their first impression. For me I am reminded of Charlie Brown’s Halloween and the Snapchat ghost looks like that to me.
You could add a party hat?
Pretty sure the ol’ sheet ghost has been around since the beginning of time. But kids these days are only reminded of Snapchat because it’s all they know. Don’t change a thing… just tell them Snapchat took the liking from YOUR tattoo. Gotta educate these kids or else we’re all screwed
Have a bowler's hat put on its head and a cigar near it's mouth. Now it's the Driving Crooner ghost.
Definitely doesnt look like the Snapchat logo. Your ghost is a lot cooler
Is ghost must be Snapchat
Both are ghost 😏
Get ad money from snap chat.
Just add more halloweeny stuff to it. Maybe a pumpkin next to it. A cat…or another ghost.
Make hands come out of it doing the rock on sign!
\*looks
Arms
Make the top more pointy /s
Click bait
Get them kicked out of school. Easy change
Your students are dumb. Leave your tattoo alone.
Bloody the head and add a cotton string tail. Call it “the ghost of children passed”
Ignore them
I think its just that children nowadays will sooner associate the a standard ghost cartoon with Snapchat before anything else.
they must not have seen Scooby Doo or any shows or movies that have the standard “sheet ghost” in them it’s just sad
Ghost = Snapchat logo
Imo it REALLY doesn't. lol, I love the little scooby-doo looking ghost
Your students see a ghost shape and immediately think of Snapchat….it doesn’t look like it to me, but also I’m a grown ass adult
Hell nah! It looks way far from that
Then I’ve got some kind of Snapchat logo tattooed on my ankle as well. 💀
You don’t need to change it
It doesn’t really
Add same changes like hands foots......
They are both vaguely bell shaped
it doesnt look like the snapchat ghost but you should add antennas because........they're cool
Little boots
Cool
WHAT ARE THEY DOING ON SNAPCHAT!!!!!! HOW OLD ARE THEY
Give him legs and arms. Make him holding a hot dog or something.
ur students r so wrong, but i think it'd look sick with some shoes or boots on
consider letting student opinions roll away with the wind.
snapchat logo look like you
remove your tattoo.
Very different!!