A WOMAN has tattooed a QR code on her arm that plays Rick Astley’s Never Gonna Give You Up on repeat.

Sailor Jupiter wanted to ‘top’ her friends by getting the ultimate 'Rickroll' in the form of a permanent inking on her right arm, which when scanned leads to the 1987 hit.

Rickrolling is an internet meme involving the unexpected appearance of the music video for the Newton-le-Willows artist’s song.

It involves a disguised link which leads to the music video, and when victims click on it, the music video loads and they have been 'Rickrolled'.

Sailor, a 25-year-old ‘content creator’ from Las Vegas, in the US state of Nevada, said: “My QR code is my top favourite. It gets asked about the most.

“In my friendship group we Rickroll each other. I wanted to top everyone.

“Random people ask if they can scan my arm, I get DJs to scan my arm in the club – everybody is obsessed with it.”

Sailor got her first tattoo aged 18 and was ‘instantly hooked’. Now, she has 97 inkings on her body, including Freddie Mercury and a face tattoo of an olive branch and spider.

The QR code plays Never Gonna Give You Up by Rick Astley. Picture: SWNS

The QR code plays Never Gonna Give You Up by Rick Astley. Picture: SWNS

She decided to get her QR code tattoo, which took four hours to complete and cost $250, in June 2022 to one up her friends on the Rickroll joke.

“Most of the time, somebody walking by goes ‘wow that’s so cool can I scan it?’. Then they burst out laughing when it plays,” she continued.

“It has to be exactly precise. No QR code lasts forever. QR codes sometimes change, sometimes they don’t exist anymore. So far this one still works.”

Sailor believes her inkings are a ‘timeline’ of her life – such as a flower tattoo covering a scar on her chest following an emergency surgery to remove cysts.

She said: "I got a face tattoo after I met a girl at Starbucks with one and thought 'wow that is beautiful'. I absolutely love it.”

Sailor says she gets called ‘abnormal’ for inking herself in tattoos but added: “Who wants to be normal? Normal is boring.

“I’m going to have fun with life. I don’t want to live my life with any regrets.”