Why does everyone's tattoo have to symbolise something these days ?

Why does everyone's tattoo have to symbolise something these days ,

Look I have nothing against tattoo' s symbolising something I totally get it ,

but what I have a problem with is when someone gets something because it looks cool and then makes up...

something for it to symbolise , why cant people just say I got it because I wanted to ,because it looked cool , whats so wrong with just wanting a tattoo because you like tattoos ,

I have a 4 tattos and the only one I got to repersent something was my daughters name , the others I got because I like tattoos , I just wish more people could admit that ,

I blame miami ink .

So... this isn't a real question huh?

Its prob more of an opinion than a question but still

I got a tattoo of two flags. an italian and german flag because.. well im italian and german. I got them because thats never going to change no matter how old I am. However if I get a cartoon character like tweety bird (like my older co worker) I wont know if ill like tweety when im 50. So I think because get things that symbol something important rather than just something that looks cool because their opinion might change .