Red Bull enthusiast gets energy drink barcode tattoo -- and it works!
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This Red Bull drinker clearly has energy to burn.
A Swiss woman’s intense passion for the popular energy drink has gone viral after she reportedly got the can’s barcode tattooed on her skin.
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Amazingly, the barcode works at self-checkout, according to a video of her using this functioning body art. The clip has racked up more than 7.9 million views on TikTok.
“I was thinking about getting a barcode tattoo for some time,” the woman named Dew, told Jam Press of her Red Bull-inspired ink job, per the New York Post.
The content creator — who goes by @mycringe.s–t on social media — was initially thinking of getting a tattoo of “broccoli or something silly,” but then opted for Red Bull after “thinking energy.”
The woman reportedly spent the equivalent of more than $600 on the ink, which features the barcode being chomped by a worm.
“I then added the worm which is chomping it up, based on a little drawing my sister did,” Dew said of the body art, which evokes the barcode-themed skull tattoo from the “Hitman” games.
The Swiss miss was astonished that the barcode was functional. Even her tattoo artist was skeptical.
“I knew it possibly couldn’t work as my artist was very open about it,” the content creator said. “I tried the next day at work and it did, I was so excited about it.”
In the clip, Dew can be seen taking her tattoo for a test run by scanning the code at a self-checkout.
The scanner goes off, prompting the woman to cheer and point at the screen, where it shows she’s been charged for one 250 ml can of Red Bull.
“For everyone wondering if my Red Bull barcode works, yes it does,” Dew said in the caption to an Instagram repost of the video.
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Viewers were impressed.
“Well that’s my next tattoo design sorted,” said one, while another wrote, “OMG THIS IS GENIUS!”
Even Red Bull Germany was wowed, calling the feat “Inkcredible.”
However, some critics raised a reasonable question.
“What she gonna do when the barcode changes,” asked one, to which the Red Bull fan replied, “not care.”
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