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THE COVERUP FALLOUT
A Barrie tattoo stencil goes awry, sparking accusations of review deletion, social media sleuthing, and a coverup that leaves readers tracing the truth.
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A tattoo stencil in Barrie, Ontario, was supposed to become one thing. Instead, it became the kind of miss that sent a niece back to square one, and, according to a Reddit post, left the studio reporting reviews to get them deleted.
The post opened bluntly: "Tattoo stencil vs reality. No they didn't own up." It named the shop as Ninja Cyborg Studio in Barrie, Ontario, Canada, and said the problem was not just the tattoo itself, but what happened after. "No they didn't own up. Instead reported reviews to have thm deleted," the poster wrote.
The thread came from a suggestion on r/barrie, and at first there was confusion about who the review belonged to. In the first edit, the poster clarified: "It's my niece."
That detail changed the shape of the story. The poster said they had shared a link to the niece's review, only to run into confusion because the review had been deleted. According to the post, the issue had happened in September, and the shop had been given time to make it right. "They didn't do" that, the poster said.
The review itself, the poster said, was posted yesterday and then shared in the thread. Behind the scenes, the tattoo was already on its way to being fixed elsewhere. "It's been covered up," the poster wrote. "By another artist at another shop, she has one more sitting left and is happy with the final outcome."
As commenters dug through the thread, the poster said "some good Reddit detectives" found the coverup link. In a second edit, the poster added that the coverup artist had given permission to post it, and that they did not want to share anyone's social media without consent. "The coverup artist gave me permission to post a link," the poster wrote. "There's before and afters."
Then came Edit 3: the poster said they had been asked for the review itself and had provided a link to it in the comments.
So the paper trail in the post was simple enough. A tattoo in Barrie did not match the stencil. The shop was given a chance to fix it after September, but the poster said nothing was done. The review was posted, then deleted. The tattoo was later covered up by another artist at another shop, with one sitting left. And the thread, built around screenshots, links, and edits, kept circling back to the same line: the studio did not own up.