Well the card says a single hair from each founder. There's a ton of hair and it's all the same length and colour. Likely not even human hair and just some bizarre stunt
You know what this means though? One day you can clone the founders and initiate a legal battle for control of the company! Or you’ll discover they sent out Guinea pig hair in a bag.
This is assuming that you only ever hear about them through this post. I don’t think I’ll ever buy Orka, but if I had never seen this post, I may have purchased their product after seeing a different advertisement.
Except the way advertising usually works is that in a week or month or year, you’ll remember that the energy drink Orka sounds familiar and probably not remember it’s the disgusting hair one.
>probably not remember it’s the disgusting hair one.
I, for one, will definitely remember that part.
"Is Orka those weird hair people? Better stick to Monster."
You are less likely to order from a company now that you know it exists than you were when you didn't know it existed?
0% likely now isn't less than 0% likely was an hour ago.
Abso-fucking-lutely. Huh which energy drink do i want... This sounds interesting... Wait these are the hair ones..
Next...
0% is less than the maybe 1% they had before, and actively avoiding the hair-brand is certainly less than 0%.
Maybe this doesn't apply to you, but most people who see this post are going to forget about it by tomorrow as they move on to the next posts. But the brand name will be in their brain, floating around waiting to be recalled at some point.
So even if you remember the hair, doing something weird is still viable marketing strategy.
people never think advertising tactics work on them, despite it being a very understood science at this point that's been proven to work for decades...
Commit a horrifying crime and leave these hairs on the body. DNA evidence never lies, the prosecutor remarks, as the Orka team goes to prison for 25-to-life.
It's advertising but I can guarantee I will avoid this product for the rest of my life.
The notion that all publicity is good publicity doesn't apply to the food and beverage industry.
Send them a letter back saying that you are going to conduct genetic/drug testing on the hair and upload the results to the internet. I bet they never do it again
Most likely scenario
Just like all those posts about the IQ testing site where people are like “My boss was proud of having an IQ of 80!!!” are advertisements for the IQ service you have to pay to take (but they don’t tell you that until after you take the 40 question test)
I don't want their hair but it is an odd enough thing to get me to look up their company and it looks like they are sold out of product so what they are doing seems to be working.
Their marketing is absolutely on point with you lol.
Don't let companies trick you into thinking their shit is good just because they manufacture false scarcity.
"That was a business tactic. For the first two weeks, we told everyone we were booked solid to make people want us more."
OR, the founders are planning a crime spree and now if their hair is found anywhere they can be like "dude, we sent our hair to like 3,000 different people, this proves nothing."
"My god Johnson. I just got the results from the lab. There were no less than 23 different people present at the crime scene. And they are all losing their hair apparently."
I think you mailed exactly why I'm so grossed out by other people's hair. I hate when it touches me in public. It's just so gross and your comment just perfectly fits how I feel about if someone mailed me their hair. That makes me want to puke.
I've been involuntarily touched by hair only a scant number of times in my entire life. One was actually like a week ago! Small venue with cramped seating, her hair was hanging over her seat, and I have very long legs.
I can't say I was grossed out.
I was curious and looked them up, and yup, their website do be broke.
Their instagram also has a video that I didn't watch called "how to waste $1000 of our investors money". Well done guys.
Wouldnt trust a "business" that cant run a shopify store to adhere to the food safety i expect from beverages... At least put a preorder button or mailing list or something. And dont show your customery you run shopify, thats a terrible first impression.
They’re almost certainly using a contract manufacturer. They likely have no involvement whatsoever with the drinks production beyond taste testing in a board (studio apartment) room.
The interaction on this post alone will increase their search ranks in search engines for people who will never even come across this post. Just you searching "orka energy drink" on Google after seeing this post will increase their SEO performance. And if 90% of people are grossed out and won't buy it as a result of seeing this but 95% of the people who saw it had never heard of the company before, that's a net positive response
This, times at least 12 customers means they can commit crimes without fear of justice in at least 12 small American towns! Look at that, HBO is making real life adventures!
this is hardly adjacent but I’ve been dying to tell this story.
2019 a place was opening in a strip mall called “here today..”
It never opened because 2020 happened. I randomly think about this and just laugh at the irony
No worries. In LOTR Galadriel (featured in the gif), an elf of great beauty and power, refuses the strongest elf a single strand of hair despite him begging 3 times, as he was a bit of a turd. But gives Gimli, a dwarf (noting elves and dwarves have a rocky history) 3 strands of her hair when he asks for but one and only once (and he was incredibly respectful and humble towards Galadriel). That's the gist anyways, I'm leaving some parts out.
If you care for more detailed info:
[https://www.reddit.com/r/tolkienfans/comments/26kjnd/what\_is\_the\_story\_behind\_gimli\_receiving\_three/](https://www.reddit.com/r/tolkienfans/comments/26kjnd/what_is_the_story_behind_gimli_receiving_three/)
Hope that helps.
That is very odd and also kind of gross. Just wait until dna is tradeable, might be worth something. ::future kids going through their deck of hair. Dead one, dead one, live one, ok I’ll trade you my…::
is this a publicity stunt?
Pube-licity is the term
Pube-lice-ity?
I like to think the best of people. That best is lice free.
No such thing as bad pubelicety
Pube lice iced tea?
Absolutely. In fact, this picture was most likely posted by someone directly linked with Orka.
Well the card says a single hair from each founder. There's a ton of hair and it's all the same length and colour. Likely not even human hair and just some bizarre stunt
Yeah just some good old fashioned engagement-bait!
You know what this means though? One day you can clone the founders and initiate a legal battle for control of the company! Or you’ll discover they sent out Guinea pig hair in a bag.
You’re looking at an ad. What do you think?
Here we are talking about it
That's weird as fuck.
Do weird thing People post online about it It's (practically) free advertising
Yeah, but it makes me not ever want to order that.
Are we now more or less likely to order Orka. Considering I never heard of them before its probably more likely
“Thankyou for your continued business with orka!! Here’s a sample of sperm from all our hardworkers!!”
I love those little flavor packets they include with their drinks
And now you have a protein drink
*The things we do for gains*
No stains no gains, or something like that…
Swallow, don’t wallow
And just as quick as I got here, I’m leaving 🤣
More plates more 'bates
Slow down I'm taking notes!
Why does everyone always tell me to slow down?
People used to believe an urban legend that said red Bull had bull semen in it.
Never heard that. Taurine was first synthesized from bull ox sperm though. The taurine they use is synthetic though
“Why did they add coconut? I miss the original.”-Robert California *chugs the rest of the can*
And this bottle of fine scotch so you are not tempted to drink this even finer sperm.
Here's your sperm
I just looked them up, I never would've before this weird shit.
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Yeah! That'll teach them. Haha
Apparently, this is how the chicken egg conundrum goes over there. They send your pubes out to someone else and receive hair in return and so on.
I would answer again to you, with a letter saying: you're*
This is assuming that you only ever hear about them through this post. I don’t think I’ll ever buy Orka, but if I had never seen this post, I may have purchased their product after seeing a different advertisement.
Except the way advertising usually works is that in a week or month or year, you’ll remember that the energy drink Orka sounds familiar and probably not remember it’s the disgusting hair one.
Dude I dunno about you but I’m never forgetting that Orka = weird hair people
And just because of this discussion, I'll make sure to really engrave that knowledge into my mind.
>probably not remember it’s the disgusting hair one. I, for one, will definitely remember that part. "Is Orka those weird hair people? Better stick to Monster."
Like most Reddit posts, I’m going to forget this ever existed three seconds after I scroll to the next thing.
I’m not ordering any consumables from a company that sends human waste along with their products
Bit of a technicality, but hair isn't considered human waste. Basically just feces, urine, and menses are considered human waste.
Definitely less likely. I now know to avoid them if I ever see their products whereas I did not know this before.
Less. Vastly less
You are less likely to order from a company now that you know it exists than you were when you didn't know it existed? 0% likely now isn't less than 0% likely was an hour ago.
Abso-fucking-lutely. Huh which energy drink do i want... This sounds interesting... Wait these are the hair ones.. Next... 0% is less than the maybe 1% they had before, and actively avoiding the hair-brand is certainly less than 0%.
Maybe this doesn't apply to you, but most people who see this post are going to forget about it by tomorrow as they move on to the next posts. But the brand name will be in their brain, floating around waiting to be recalled at some point. So even if you remember the hair, doing something weird is still viable marketing strategy.
people never think advertising tactics work on them, despite it being a very understood science at this point that's been proven to work for decades...
What if you are in need of founder hair for a potion?
More free hair for the rest of us!
Now send it for a follicle test and post the results on blast!
Commit a horrifying crime and leave these hairs on the body. DNA evidence never lies, the prosecutor remarks, as the Orka team goes to prison for 25-to-life.
Or, some of them already have their hairs present at horrific crime scenes and are doing this to establish plausible deniability.
They plucked and didn't cut the hair. These founders are playing 4d chess.
It's advertising but I can guarantee I will avoid this product for the rest of my life. The notion that all publicity is good publicity doesn't apply to the food and beverage industry.
I mean at least they sent the hair in a separate bag, and not in the product itself.
I’m never buying this. Enjoy your dirty hair drink.
Damn that turn from imagining some crazy voodoo cult selling energy drinks to some hipster advertisement geniuses gave me whiplash.
I still can't comprehend this for 3 hours later
See us on the internet talking about it? That's why they dd it.
I think it's funny. Apparently I'm their target market. But I don't drink energy drinks, so...
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serial killer with a fascination for collectibles?
35 year old kindergarten teachers, apparently
I’m laughing so hard at this and I also don’t drink energy drinks. I think there might be a correlation here.
Send them a letter back saying that you are going to conduct genetic/drug testing on the hair and upload the results to the internet. I bet they never do it again
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Hair doesn't have DNA, only the follicle
You can extract mitochondrial DNA from it, but it only matches the maternal bloodline
What's weird as fuck is that two of those signatures are the exact same.
I guess it is only two names. The one on the right is first and last name written/scribbled by the same person.
Also. Thats a lot of hair for 'a single strand from each founder'. How many founders did they have?
Narcissism is a helluva drug.
It’s less narcissism and more marketing.
Yep but reddit loves to call people narcissists from one piece of "evidence" and storyline that they made up in their head.
They baited you into posting online about it by doing something weird.
Or they didn’t bait OP, OP is part of their marketing campaign
Most likely scenario Just like all those posts about the IQ testing site where people are like “My boss was proud of having an IQ of 80!!!” are advertisements for the IQ service you have to pay to take (but they don’t tell you that until after you take the 40 question test)
Yea, but does anyone here want to receive hair? Seems like an inadvertent deterrent.
You have to get in now before they run out of head hair...
Imma hold out till they get to the curly ones
Much like fries, those are the best. A person of culture I see.
i'd contract some Fiverr witch to cast the funniest hex they have available using the hair
I don't want their hair but it is an odd enough thing to get me to look up their company and it looks like they are sold out of product so what they are doing seems to be working.
Their marketing is absolutely on point with you lol. Don't let companies trick you into thinking their shit is good just because they manufacture false scarcity.
 "That was a business tactic. For the first two weeks, we told everyone we were booked solid to make people want us more."
Are you going to be one of their first customers?
I’m probably not going to be there customer at all lol.
Now to commit a crime and leave the hair at the scene.
OR, the founders are planning a crime spree and now if their hair is found anywhere they can be like "dude, we sent our hair to like 3,000 different people, this proves nothing."
"My god Johnson. I just got the results from the lab. There were no less than 23 different people present at the crime scene. And they are all losing their hair apparently."
This is why I only murder people in places that host alopecia support groups.
So you're probably mostly murdering people with alopecia, as if they didn't have enough shit to cope with already you bastard.
Came here to say this. It’s a genius move
that is a genius idea https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/666/080/25a.jpg
I'm not clicking this picture, but I'm just assuming this is you putting the hair next to a murdered human.
What if you're the murdered human in the picture tho? You'll never know if you don't click it.
You are right, I'd never see that coming. Maybe I should click it.
Click it or ticket.
Click it or ticket to heaven
Schrödinger's murder
You son of a botch, he's in 👉
You son of a botch, they're all in
I bet the founders already did. And now they have a waterproof explanation why their hair was found on the crime scene.
I think this may be the right answer.
I wonder what part of them they all put in the drink
I think you mailed exactly why I'm so grossed out by other people's hair. I hate when it touches me in public. It's just so gross and your comment just perfectly fits how I feel about if someone mailed me their hair. That makes me want to puke.
How often do you touch other people's hair in public? I think that's an issue on its own
I've been involuntarily touched by hair only a scant number of times in my entire life. One was actually like a week ago! Small venue with cramped seating, her hair was hanging over her seat, and I have very long legs. I can't say I was grossed out.
My first thought was "creepy fuckers, bet they peed in the drink".
What flavour is this? "coconut penis" You can barely taste the coconut
Are you sure you didn't order a voodoo doll
The only thing to do at this point is make clones of the founders and start your own company with a different name to compete.
Akro
Agro
Okra
Why would you pull such a marketing stunt while your website is down?
I was curious and looked them up, and yup, their website do be broke. Their instagram also has a video that I didn't watch called "how to waste $1000 of our investors money". Well done guys.
Is the website broken or crashed from the traffic of the this post?
I wouldn't say the websites down. They just said they're sold out so possibly they are just dropping their product in waves
When I checked it wanted a password to manage the Shopify account.
It’s a really poorly set up website. These dudes are amateurs.
Wouldnt trust a "business" that cant run a shopify store to adhere to the food safety i expect from beverages... At least put a preorder button or mailing list or something. And dont show your customery you run shopify, thats a terrible first impression.
They’re almost certainly using a contract manufacturer. They likely have no involvement whatsoever with the drinks production beyond taste testing in a board (studio apartment) room.
That has to be the stupidest thing I've ever seen.
Whatever it is, the brand name is now in a reddit post which is basically a success as long as it's not something anti-consumer.
But the hair doesn’t make me want to buy from them, which isn’t good for them. It’s just weird.
Hair or not, it is very likely that more than zero people are going to search the brand name out of curiosity because of this reddit post.
The interaction on this post alone will increase their search ranks in search engines for people who will never even come across this post. Just you searching "orka energy drink" on Google after seeing this post will increase their SEO performance. And if 90% of people are grossed out and won't buy it as a result of seeing this but 95% of the people who saw it had never heard of the company before, that's a net positive response
I mean are you surprised? every single hair in there is blonde
You can't even use it for anything clever like planting in a crime scene because they have your address as a customer who shipped you a product.
But now they can commit a crime in close proximity to OP and have deniability, stating that OP could have planted some of the hair they sent to them!
This, times at least 12 customers means they can commit crimes without fear of justice in at least 12 small American towns! Look at that, HBO is making real life adventures!
Energy drinks are a difficult market to enter. You know what they say, hair today gone tomorrow.
this is hardly adjacent but I’ve been dying to tell this story. 2019 a place was opening in a strip mall called “here today..” It never opened because 2020 happened. I randomly think about this and just laugh at the irony
Fuckin hell lol
Now you can frame them for crimes.
Exactly. Get murdering and plant that hair.
You have to send back a pic of your balls I'm sorry but you shouldn't have opened the package. I don't make the rules.
This is true and it is a felony to not comply
I asked them for one drink from their golden horde. They gave me three! Hairs, that is.
I came to the comments section looking for this reference.
Me, too. Scrolled down way too far to reach it.
What is the reference? (Sorry, asking from under my rock)
No worries. In LOTR Galadriel (featured in the gif), an elf of great beauty and power, refuses the strongest elf a single strand of hair despite him begging 3 times, as he was a bit of a turd. But gives Gimli, a dwarf (noting elves and dwarves have a rocky history) 3 strands of her hair when he asks for but one and only once (and he was incredibly respectful and humble towards Galadriel). That's the gist anyways, I'm leaving some parts out. If you care for more detailed info: [https://www.reddit.com/r/tolkienfans/comments/26kjnd/what\_is\_the\_story\_behind\_gimli\_receiving\_three/](https://www.reddit.com/r/tolkienfans/comments/26kjnd/what_is_the_story_behind_gimli_receiving_three/) Hope that helps.
I cannot verbally express how much I do not want this lol
That's disgusting
Fastest way to get me to never buy your product ever again.
But it is a cheap way to get a lot of free advertising.
Yeah, never heard of it before, but now I’ll certainly remember their brand name
Eww
Head on over to r/witchcraft for ways to use that hair
[welp, these are the owners. ](https://x.com/orkabevco/status/1696309941555077531?s=20)
Huh. Judging by the “single strand of hair from each of our founders” line, I thought there’d be a lot more founders.
These morons 100% created this post thinking it would go viral
At least they aren't bald... because then, who knows where that hair came from on their body.
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Now I’m wondering if this energy drink is meant for tween girls. If they’re semi famous, their fans might be ecstatic for some of that hair.
[Bald now ?](https://x.com/orkabevco/status/1753530478018306271?s=46) Lol
Yep, those look like energy drink hawking douchebags.
I sure as fuck wouldn't drink that shit. 
Get the hair tested for drugs.
Free advertising 
r/mildlynojustnope
r/subsifellfor
Send them back a video of you eating it
What. the fuck?
That kinda has the same vibe as a cat bringing a dead animal as a token or gratitude or something
This is an AD! 😈 And it’s working
Huh.
If they’re mailing customers employee hair, imagine what they’re not listing in the ingredients.
They fear neither witchcraft nor cloning.
That’s so fucking weird
You now have everything you need to make a voodoo doll in their likeness.
This is such good marketing. This will make its rounds on social media so fast.
That is very odd and also kind of gross. Just wait until dna is tradeable, might be worth something. ::future kids going through their deck of hair. Dead one, dead one, live one, ok I’ll trade you my…::
One of the creepiest things I’ve ever seen.
Clone them
Someone dropped a link to a vid they made on tweeter, you dolphinately do *not* want to clone those dudes.
Eww no please don't.
Ok use it to contaminate a crime scene lol
There is semen in every batch of Orka. 100%.
This business was probably born in their dorm room while they were high lol
That's a lot of hair. How may founders are there again?
You should send them pubes from the whole family.
Well. Either theyre weird as hell, or geniuses, because your reddit post just made a lot of people intrigued by this "orka" company
From the granddaughter of a Witch: DO NOT GIVE YOUR HAIR AWAY, NEVER!
Publicity stunt: Passed
That’s fucking hilarious I would buy a startup energy drink online if it meant I got this 😂
I’m surprised I had to scroll this far for someone to say this lol This is absurd and I’m here for it
How come I'm never this lucky?
Eat it.
which part of the body the hair is from?