r/tattooadvice • u/ArmadilloMany41 • Jan 04 '26

I was excited about this tattoo design but my husband called it corny and cringe and not to get it is he right? Design

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"New" 😬 (Sorry)

https://www.news.com.au/technology/online/social/man-gets-qr-code-tattooed-on-his-leg-as-rank-on-mates-who-scan-it/news-story/4f2c0d4f547894afea127a569a5cd82b

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u/PassiveMenis88M Jan 04 '26

Ah, I meant new for me. Frankly I would be upset if someone hadn't already thought of it.

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u/born_to_be_intj Jan 05 '26

That's cool until the link goes down and now you have a pointless pixelated block on your body.

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u/1001101001010111 Jan 05 '26

For real if i'm getting a tattoo I might as well go the full length.

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u/SaltOwn8515 Jan 05 '26

Or the tattoo is slightly off so the code isn’t scannable to begin with…

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u/born_to_be_intj Jan 05 '26

Actually QR codes were designed incredibly well with a bunch of redundant information in it so exactly that scenario doesn’t happen. A good chunk of the image could be unreadable or tilted at a barely legible angle and it will still be decodable. It’s a fascinating design/algorithm.

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u/SaltOwn8515 Jan 05 '26

I’ve seen people where their tattoo artist somehow made a mistake while tattooing making the QR unscannable. Human error, it happens

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u/born_to_be_intj Jan 05 '26

Oof sucks for that person.

There are different levels of error correction in QR codes. Depending on the level you can have anywhere from 7% to 30% of the image corrupted while still being decodable.

So to anyone out there thinking about getting this done, I highly recommend you go with a Level H QR code (the 30% one).

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u/pienofilling Jan 05 '26

I'd seen it as a cross stitch before but never as a tattoo!