Asklemmy

I wouldn't say it's exactly creative, but a common useful application of qrcodes is for communicating wifi network names and passwords. If you use a GNU/Linux distro with NetworkManager, wifi-qr is a nice tool which can not only scan but also generate these phone-compatible wifi qrcodes for any saved wifi network your computer knows about. On debian-based distros, just apt install wifi-qr and run the wifi-qr command and you'll get a qr code right there in your terminal which you can scan with a phone.

edit: actually NetworkManager's commandline tool generates the QR codes itself, so you only need wifi-qr if you want to scan them. Just run nmcli dev wifi show.

Always thought it would be rad to make a sheet of BitTorrent Magnet Links with the top 10 most popular movies.

I'd call it The Pirate Paper. Not everyone has unlimited data or a good client on their phone.

i unfortunately don't have the link on hand, but i once saw this video of a pentesting team doing data exfiltration with qr codes. they converted the file to base64, split it into chunks that would be easy to scan on a phone, converted the base64 to a qr code, and took a video with their phone to reassemble later.

The most creative use I've personally come up with, is to create a QR code for Croc codes when i want to transfer some files to my phone. I know that I could just use a USB cable, but I'm on Artix have procrastinated looking into how to do that.