24 BARCODE TATTOO

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MAN PAYS WITH HIS FOREARM, THANKS TO A BARCODE TATTOO

A Taiwanese man has been getting a lot of attention on social media after getting a payment app barcode permanently tattooed on his forearm.

The unnamed man recently took to the Taiwanese social media platform Dcard to share his barcode tattoo, which, incidentally, really works. He had been considering to get a tattoo for a while, but he wanted something special, not the typical things most people get.

One day, while thinking about how annoying it is to constantly have to pull out his smartphone to pay for stuff, it hit him: why not get a functional tattoo to solve that problem? Thus, he had a tattoo artist ink his payment app barcode onto his forearm so that he would not have to use his phone anymore.

Now, that kind of tattoo seems simple enough, but as others have pointed out: if the tattoo artist makes one of the bars too thick or too thin or if one of the gaps between them is a bit wider than those in the actual barcode, it will not work as intended.

However, in this case, the tattoo artist did a bang-up job. The man shared several videos of himself using the forearm tattoo to pay for things at convenience stores and gas stations without a hitch. He admitted that people sometimes stare at him, shocked that his tattoo actually works, but he has had no problem paying with it so far.

Although his tattoo has gotten a lot of attention, he advises those considering a similar tattoo to think twice. The risk of getting the barcode wrong is significant, and he himself has no idea whether the tattoo will work in the future or what kind of maintenance it will require.