It probably isn't as blurry in a mirror as it is in a flip phone video from 2015.

I also wanted to buy an Iron Cross necklace, but my mother wouldn't let me. I didn't know what it meant... Cause I was like 10 at the time. How old was he to not know what a Totenkopf is?

I'm still not sure I'd recognize it, especially not without the backing shield. Sure, you can say that's just on me, but there's so many symbols and references that lead back to nazis that I can't imagine I'll know them all. I'd counter that by asking if you'd think anything deep about seeing a Medusa tattoo.

Also, people get meaningless tattoos all the time, especially once you get over your first one's novelty. You liked it that day. No one is sentimental about their cartoon toaster. No one put meaning into every single element of their full sleeves. Right now there's a trend of just getting 20 pieces of flash, not far from the generalized traditional designs from the 1950s

I too think the picture is uselessly bad, and that's key to another part of the story in the comments. Basically an unnamed associate seemed to be in the same boat of not knowing what it was and the man himself described it by name.

Now he didn't explicitly say it was a Nazi symbol, but he allegedly used the specific German word for it instead of saying it's some skull and crossbones.