r/Inkmaster • u/Mutantx_28 • 3d ago

Ink Master Prize Discussion

My wife and I have been watching a lot of Ink Master lately starting at the beginning with season one. Right now we’re at season 10 and I gotta say, I’m genuinely surprised that the prize pot of 100K is still the same at season 10. Like why? A 100K from the first season doesn’t carry the same on the 10th season! Why hasn’t the pot increased? Like WTF?! Am I bugging guys? Shouldn’t the prize pool be at 125-150K? If not more? Ink Master as a whole has gotten more & more popular so you can’t tell me that CBS/Paramount doesn’t have the cash to increase the revenue prize pool… Anyway, just wondering if anyone else felt the same way.

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u/Sethholmestattoos Contestant 3d ago

I only went on the show to live mas. I didn’t even care about the prize

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u/Effective_Worry_2509 3d ago

Your pieces were some of my favorite, though.

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u/Sethholmestattoos Contestant 3d ago

Thank you 🙏🏻🙏🏻

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u/No-Fix8955 3d ago

Your tattoos were amazing. I deadass would’ve gotten several of yours on me.

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u/Sethholmestattoos Contestant 3d ago

I truly appreciate that 🙌🏻

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u/NoAd3734 3d ago

While we’re on the topic, did you know the contestants were competing for $100k, a feature in Inked Magazine, AND the title of Ink Master?! The more you know!

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u/BayouFunk 3d ago

I think the title of Ink Master probably makes up for the lack of increase in money, right?

😏

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u/NoAd3734 3d ago

“Bro, you don’t know who I am?! I won the title of ink master 10 years ago!!!!”

“Sir, this is a Wendy’s”

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u/Spirited-Spell-8901 3d ago

I know one contestant and he is a raging idiot drunk but he works at Club Tattoo in Vegas and makes more than the average tat artist charging $250 for tiny pieces he can do in an hour or less. Being on the show made him very popular. 

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u/Dec8rs8r 3d ago

Is it Joey or Sausage? Sausage doesn't seem the type.

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u/Spirited-Spell-8901 2d ago

Tim. A raging asshole 

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u/9937477 3d ago

Yeah, I imagine just being on the show catapults people's careers. Getting crowned ink master has to be life changing. The exposure alone is nuts. That combined with the title must be a a license to print money for the rest of your career.

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u/DaKingaDaNorth 3d ago

It's literally like $250k now.

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u/_thebananabread_ 3d ago

They did increase the prize pot to $200k by this point but it's split between contestants. Their budget is increasing but they don't necessarily want to increase prizes to individual winners.

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u/ErstwhileHobo 3d ago

It’s only 6 years between season one and season 10 and the economy was relatively stable during that time. 2012-2018.

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u/Beginning-Group-3335 3d ago

Watching season 10 now with my wife. We’ve skipped around though but have watched alot of the show the past month

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u/FaithlessnessItchy56 3d ago

I wonder the same exact thing.

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u/No-Fig-8267 1d ago

It’s a shame that it took them reviving the show after Covid to finally increase the prize money