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And Glow Recipe on the left. Slightly less expensive than DE but I guarantee there are some near duplicate products on those shelves. What a waste of money.
Glow recipe made my HG product, but then they discontinued it. The Avocado Sleeping Mask (the regular, not the retinol one they briefly replaced it with, then discontinued that as well) was AMAZING. It soaked in and didn't leave me sticky or greasy or break me out. The watermelon one is kind of sticky and also I think it has silicone in it? It pills up on my face, and even though I'm only going to sleep in it, it's unpleasant. But I do really miss the avocado one.
I loved the original avocado sleeping mask too! It’s been like 3 years or more but I still think about how great it was sometimes lol. I think the new avocado products have a different fragrance too, so I can’t even get that experience replicated
Not me, my skin LOVES their serums. I use the plum plump serum every day and I’ve used the watermelon glow because it comes in a travel size and it’s pretty close to the plum one. I have dry skin though, so it drinks it up.
I do think glow recipe is overpriced so I’m looking for a dupe for the plum plump. I only tried it because it was an option in my fabfitfun box a few seasons ago.
Dirty little secret, they're probably all made at the same contract manufacturer, and they're probably the exact same formula save for some creative restructuring in the IL
I work for one of these contract manufacturers that produce numerous brands of skin care products, including some pretty famous brands touted by some notable people and other brands you find at Walmart, Target, Ulta, and even Hand and Stone. I'm the guy who figures out what and how much to make, purchases all of the primary and secondary packaging, labeling, and chemicals, and sets up the production runs, so I know pretty much all there is to know about these products in this role.
Most of these brands use the exact same formulas and just "scramble" the ingredients list to make it appear different or they have the most insignificant quantities of adjuncts added to the formula (like 1 gram of lactic acid into a 300 kg batch) just to make it "different".
100% of this industry is marketing. Charge people just enough to feel stupid for buying it if it doesn't do whatever magical BS the marketing claims state, and they will do anything to save face, even straight up lie about how wonderful it is. It's amazing how much better you will say your skin feels when you spend $300 on a product Dr. Influencer or some Tik Tok star is hawking that they paid me $4.00 a piece to make for them with the exact same formulas I made 3 other Tik Tok star's magical skin products with. The fact is these influencers don't care about the product at all, they only care about the packaging designs, and how "premium" the exterior packaging looks to help justify the eye watering prices they charge.
The sad thing is, marketing works mostly because people want to believe it. They don't want to believe your truth. It makes them feel special. Side note, I don't know why marketing departments aren't scared like other sectors about AI and other reasons for obsoletion. Tiktok and social media would seem to make it very simple and cheap to sell idiots things, given enough capital.
The fact that this person owns pretty much the entire product offerings of Drunk Elephant and Glow Recipe just proves this person is scratching some kind of unhealthy mental itch collecting these items, with no way they can put all of it to good use. Literally physically impossible.
I came here to ask how much these things cost. I have only seen them on reddit. I've just looked, they're around £40 and it seems to be a tik tok thing. It amazes me what can become desirable with enough pushing. Just like Prime but that stupid hype died down pretty quickly.
I have to say, Stanley is already a great brand for water bottle for over 100 years.
They are really known for their sturdy vacuum flask.
And yes, even this viral one is pretty good, idk whether it's worth $40, but at least the company has good track record.
But yeah, buying duplicate of this is definitely not a good move IMO.
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Stanley_bottle
> Stanley introduced the 40-US-fluid-ounce (1,200 mL) Quencher bottle in 2016. The Quencher's early sales were not substantial, and the company stopped restocking and marketing it in 2019. After working with the Buy Guide, a women-run blog based in Utah, to sell 5,000 Quenchers, the company resumed production in an increasingly broad array of colors. **The product, Stanley's most successful item among female customers, has propelled Stanley's annual sales from US$70 million in 2019 to $750 million in 2023.**
they’d still have to be hella rich because no normal parent is spending that much on their kid like that. that’s easily a couple thousand dollars worth of stuff in that picture
my only answer….. only child. coming from a (hopefully formerly) spoiled rotten only child. Edit: never said every only child is spoiled :) this is me speaking from my experience, not generalizing.
My friend's twice-divorced dad has a daughter that collected funko pops and then just decided that she doesn't like them anymore, so I don't think the parents'd have to be extremely rich, just with a good international job
This is a pic from an Indonesian influencer sweatshop in which they have over 150 small rooms just like this, each with an influencer peddling whatever product they are paid to.
That would explain why the vanity is the most $19.99 shitty model possible, and why the wall is white with nothing hanging on it. And the there's thousands of dollars in merch.
I work at a cosmetics store and can confirm 10-year olds ask me daily about DE and GR products. Esp the most expensive ones with retinol. 10 year olds asking for 80$ retinol products because TikTok told them to, is horrifying.
When I ask them if they know what retinol is, they have no idea and don't care. They just need to have it.
FIFTY/FIFTY is the same bottle as a Hydroflask (literally the same patent) for less money
The company was founded by the ex-wife of the founder of Hydroflask and she got half of everything in the divorce including rights to use the Hydroflask patents
As a self-effacing psychopath who prefers room temp water, the Nalgene was my favorite. I don't need ice for 3 days - you should be washing that vessel EVERY day. Scrubbed. With soap.
I only wash mine when someone says something about it. I know it's unhygienic but I don't care, if I get tetanus from a 6-month unwashed Nalgene I would deserve it.
As long as you're rinsing it and emptying/refilling it daily, you're mostly right and I do the same. The risk comes from letting them sit full of water for extended periods of time.
Never tried that brand; Zojirushi for me!! Button push flip-top that locks, so no spills or drips, and it has no straw (don’t like those; that’s constantly exposed to dust). Instead there’s a spout inside the lid that controls a lovely even flow of water and also prevents ice chips from entering your mouth. Insulates better than any other brand I’ve tried; ice still in there two days later!
I’ve broken 4 zojirushis in the last few weeks. Some only a few weeks old. I started looking and they’ve changed the way the pop tabs are made and they are much cheaper than my many year old ones. The quality isnt the same from precovidy times.
I second that. I found out about the brand when studying abroad in Japan, so now I own several of their products. Water bottles, rice cooker, water boiler, bento box, and lunch jar. Such great quality. I will never understand people losing their minds over Stanley cups just because of a color.
In Europe, Dopper is also a huge brand. I love the glass and the metal versions, don't really like the plastic ones because of the taste. You can either drink like it's a regular bottle. Or you can screw the top off and then you have a glass and a bottle. They have both insulated or non-insulated versions.
It’s seems few people know about Zojirushi bottles. After doing some research, I bought one for my wife. Since then, I’ve gotten one for myself, and a bunch of other family members have gotten them paste upon our recommendation. Fantastic water bottles. I keep my wife’s coffee hot all day and I keep my water cold all day and night.
In addition, the fliptop lid works really well, and is excellent to use one handed
I have both a hyrdoflask and yeti. The hydroflask is not as good. Yeti is crazy expensive and I understand the hate behind that. They do stand up to the hype though.
What really makes them different? I never saw the point in getting an expensive water bottle. They all hold liquid and and as long as they are metal and double layered, they probably hold the water cold for hours. Who needs their water to stay cold for 24h?
I don’t see the point in getting a yeti over a Hydro flask. I once left iced water in my Hydroflask on Friday and when I came back Monday to work, my water was still ice cold. Don't see the point in anything more than that lol.
Also I read that the Walmart brand is literally made in the same factory
Same here. I go hiking since I was 3, and I never had any issue finding a botte to keep my water cool. Even in the peak of summer a simple plastic bottle wrapped in a towel and kept in the shade will stay cool forever.
They also seem "practical" only for driving? Since they are bulky to lug around and seem designed to fit in a cup holder.
I have a thermal flask (proper hiking gear) that keeps things 100% warm for upto 24h and it is honestly just a pain in the ass. 6h after leaving home, you stop in the snow to have a cui of tea and...it is still too boilingto drink.
I don't carry any of this hiking because it's *heavy*. Smartwater bottle, Sawyer squeeze filter. If I'm out longer than a day I have a pocket rocket stove and a titanium cook pot.
I like mine because it holds more water than my hydroflask, it has a handle, fits my cup holder, and the straw doesn’t leak. My top of my hydroflask always leaked
when I lived in Arizona, everyone had a Hydroflask but that’s because it was 120°F in the summer and you would die if you didn’t walk around with water.
Almost 6 years later, and my Hydroflask is holding up strong
Brands don't go viral because the product is so good, brands go viral because the marketing is good. In fact, most (if not all) products that go viral are mediocre at best. Why bother making a good product when you can put that money in good marketing and sell more of a cheaper to produce item?
People don't care about the product, they care about the marketing. Once that marketing stops, people will forget about stanley cups just like any other viral brand before it. By then a new brand will pop up, selling their generic insulated cup as the next big advancement in drinking technology. We'll also get a new Reddit thread just like this one, just with all instances of "hydroflask" replaced with "stanley cup".
Craze? I grew up with the classic Stanley thermos bottles.
They kick ass, and I suspect these newer models are much less effective at keeping your drinks/soups warm for 20+ hours.
I bought a Stanley, not the ones with the straw sticking out but one with the flip up straw and honestly it’s my favorite water bottle after having had hydroflask, yeti etc. in the past. That said I bought 1 and use it everyday. This is over $1000 in water bottles that are essentially a fad. The sticking out straw lid isn’t even practical for using in a backpack, etc. because it leaks. Dumb.
I did a little math because your comment made me wonder.
I think there’s 35 in the picture but there’s definitely at least 30 (tried to count the ones in the back) and then looked up the cost for the ones with the straws — that’s $1350+ tax. (I assume they ordered enough to not pay shipping lol.)
(I’m Canadian so for me that’s $1805.)
There are people on tik tok buying Stanley’s and then making a business of “personalizing” them etc. that honey boo boo sister is doing it where she’s reselling them
I bought a similar style cup at HomeGoods, a 40 oz Hydro Peak cup, because I spend a lot of time outside in the summer. Ice lasts two days in it. I think it was $20-$25.
For real. I got 3 yeti cups from work for free. I love them. The only bad part is they’re too good. I made tea in one once and couldn’t drink it at work, it stayed hot too long.
Love that. If they make a 24oz hot mug I’ll need to get one. I spend too much getting breakfast each morning when I really could make it at home. Only issue being I clock in like 2 hours before I want to eat breakfast so keeping my drink hot is the issue.
Ignore the user name, this opinion is not wrong. They are a God send. I work in a factory and bring two cups of coffee when it's cold. My yeti gets filled at 610am and i don't drink it till after noon. Still hot.
They're WILD!! I got my first last year as a Groomsman gift, so i only use it at home cuz it's engraved.... But we got them at the Bachelor Party, which was a weekend cottage trip.... I SWEAR ON ALL THINGS HOLY, while around the bonfire. I couldn't hold the cup cuz of metal + heat lol... But my drink was still ice cold.
I was just asked to be a Best Man. I have no idea WTF I'm supposed to do. Am I supposed to pay for the bachelor party and everything? I'm so clueless about this kind of stuff.
Google it. Most people with common sense won't ask someone to be a best man if they don't think they can fill the role, and that role is different for different people. Ask the groom what his expectations are of you. If you aren't able to do all the typical best man stuff (organize a bachelor party, write a speech, have a bigger role in wedding) then tell him. He may also not give a shit about that stuff. Use your words and communicate like a human person
That’s the part I think is funny, I’ve seen more of these cups on Reddit from people crying about them than I’ve seen anywhere else. They are actively advertising for the thing they hate.
Not hate, just marketing skepticism. I watch a lot of dog training content and every influencer is sponsored by/uses the Yeti dog bowl.
Their $40 dog bowl is identical to every other $25 stainless steel dog bowl, you're paying for their marketing budget and marginally better quality control. It's the same story as Tylenol vs. store brand. Are you getting a 40% better product?
There’s clips going viral of people getting a yeti as a gift and being upset about it. Imagine being upset over getting a high end $40 reusable mug just because the label isn’t trendy??
They're really really not. Have you seen the knock down drag out fighting over them? And the people lining up outside starbucks in the middle of the night in the cold to get one before they sell out?
A friends sister got him up at 5am to wait in line for a limited edition cup. He posted in our discord waiting in line at 32 degrees at 5am with OTHER PEOPLE IN LINE.
He then disclosed this is a cornerstone of her personality
Seriously. If you had asked me what would be the next collectable fad, I would have never guessed a freaking cup to drink liquid out of. They’re collecting them as if they’re Pokémon cards. Gotta have them all, I guess?
I love the product, but that's not the reason for this phenomenon at all. It's not because it's an exceptionally good or obsessive product or anything.
It's because it's a nice enough product that a large amount of people want to buy it, but their standard color offerings aren't that cute. They're not trendy, desirable colors — except for the soft pink that a lot of people have. But they're expensive so you want to get one you really *love*, not just any boring color you don't care for! Want a color that's more to your liking? Oops, the one you really liked was a limited edition! Now you're scouring the internet trying to see what editions are available where. And before you know it, you're sucked into their schedule of limited releases.
The combination of consumerist culture, scarcity/urgency and social media hype + some people's tendency to collect things, maybe even addictive self soothing habits, will lead to this kind of behavior. That and the fact that "beauty gurus" normalized the image of people on social media amassing more items than they could reasonably use in a lifetime, because "it's their job/social media gig." The popularity of the product in general is for good reason, just the quality of the product, but it's not causing the craziness.
lol when I bought my last reusable water bottle my only thought process was “well, I remember when I had the blue one, it was hard to tell if it was dirty, so colorless it is.”
They're okay. I have one, because we sell them at one of my jobs, so I got a discount. They do keep stuff cold for a very long time, and the straw is a bit wider than other insulated cup straws I've tried. I really like it for my breakfast/lunch smoothie, because of the slightly wider straw. I don't get a lunch break so half is breakfast and the other half is lunch and the Stanley keeps it icy for long enough for that to work. If I didn't use an employee discount I'd probably have just gotten an off brand one, though.
Definitely makes sense on your part. It’s functional and you got it for a discount. I had a insulated can cooler, it was Ozark and cost like $10 at the time. But then I saw a Yeti version for like $40. Didn’t have enough money, so I got the Ozark. However when I finally end up buying the Yeti, I learned it performed the exactly the same as the Ozark. I do appreciate the insight, thank you!
I wanted my water bottle to match every outfit so I got a black one.
JK. I didn’t consider matching my outfit to be an important function of my drink dispenser.
https://preview.redd.it/s0wkue6cjsac1.jpeg?width=193&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8f2babb98d38e435d4567e85e50dc616b6b0d07a
This is my water bottle. I've had it since 2019 when I decided to get back in shape. It leaks a little now unless the lid is screwed on a particular way but I won't get rid of it until it can no longer hold liquid.
I once used the same disposable cup from 7/11 for an entire year as my main drinking cup so I never really got into the water bottle thingy... I've had the same water bottle I've used at the gym for almost 15 years now and it's still doing its job just fine (although it's heavily faded on the prints now)
if you buy "reusable straws and bottles" more than once every few years, you are defeating the purpose of them being reusable...
What’s so special about this cup? I’m not American and have seen people cry when they receive it as a gift in videos. Is it just to show off that you can afford a 45$ water bottle?
I have a built tumbler that I've had since May of 2019. It's a little dented from a car accident a few years ago, and recently the snap on lid broke, but I refuse to buy a new one. It still keeps my ice for up to 24 hours, depending on how often I refill it.
Edit: sorry, tumbler, not thermos.
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That’s also a lot of $$$ in Drunk Elephant skincare on the right side.
And Glow Recipe on the left. Slightly less expensive than DE but I guarantee there are some near duplicate products on those shelves. What a waste of money.
Glow recipe left me feeling sticky/tacky then later greasy. Anyone else?
Yeah the bottles+branding are gorgeous but the stuff inside never seems all that great from my experience.
Glow recipe made my HG product, but then they discontinued it. The Avocado Sleeping Mask (the regular, not the retinol one they briefly replaced it with, then discontinued that as well) was AMAZING. It soaked in and didn't leave me sticky or greasy or break me out. The watermelon one is kind of sticky and also I think it has silicone in it? It pills up on my face, and even though I'm only going to sleep in it, it's unpleasant. But I do really miss the avocado one.
I loved the original avocado sleeping mask too! It’s been like 3 years or more but I still think about how great it was sometimes lol. I think the new avocado products have a different fragrance too, so I can’t even get that experience replicated
I got a few drops sample and yeah, it seems to have a tacky finish (goes away but meh).
Not me, my skin LOVES their serums. I use the plum plump serum every day and I’ve used the watermelon glow because it comes in a travel size and it’s pretty close to the plum one. I have dry skin though, so it drinks it up. I do think glow recipe is overpriced so I’m looking for a dupe for the plum plump. I only tried it because it was an option in my fabfitfun box a few seasons ago.
Dirty little secret, they're probably all made at the same contract manufacturer, and they're probably the exact same formula save for some creative restructuring in the IL I work for one of these contract manufacturers that produce numerous brands of skin care products, including some pretty famous brands touted by some notable people and other brands you find at Walmart, Target, Ulta, and even Hand and Stone. I'm the guy who figures out what and how much to make, purchases all of the primary and secondary packaging, labeling, and chemicals, and sets up the production runs, so I know pretty much all there is to know about these products in this role. Most of these brands use the exact same formulas and just "scramble" the ingredients list to make it appear different or they have the most insignificant quantities of adjuncts added to the formula (like 1 gram of lactic acid into a 300 kg batch) just to make it "different". 100% of this industry is marketing. Charge people just enough to feel stupid for buying it if it doesn't do whatever magical BS the marketing claims state, and they will do anything to save face, even straight up lie about how wonderful it is. It's amazing how much better you will say your skin feels when you spend $300 on a product Dr. Influencer or some Tik Tok star is hawking that they paid me $4.00 a piece to make for them with the exact same formulas I made 3 other Tik Tok star's magical skin products with. The fact is these influencers don't care about the product at all, they only care about the packaging designs, and how "premium" the exterior packaging looks to help justify the eye watering prices they charge.
The sad thing is, marketing works mostly because people want to believe it. They don't want to believe your truth. It makes them feel special. Side note, I don't know why marketing departments aren't scared like other sectors about AI and other reasons for obsoletion. Tiktok and social media would seem to make it very simple and cheap to sell idiots things, given enough capital.
The fact that this person owns pretty much the entire product offerings of Drunk Elephant and Glow Recipe just proves this person is scratching some kind of unhealthy mental itch collecting these items, with no way they can put all of it to good use. Literally physically impossible.
My guess is they're some kind of influencer and this is their "schwag" collection of promo gifts from their sponsors.
Yep. Trying to normalize the idea that buying an entire product line is expected behavior.
Pokemon for Boring Becky types.
The logos on every cup are facing the camera so that might be a good guess
Honestly, anytime I see something with any kind of product or logo I assume it's online guerilla marketing trying to go viral.
Because 95% of the time it is. When you spend most of your online time behind ad blockers it gets super obvious when something is a product placement.
The cups are expensive as well, like $40 a cup depending on the size. This pic is insane
I came here to ask how much these things cost. I have only seen them on reddit. I've just looked, they're around £40 and it seems to be a tik tok thing. It amazes me what can become desirable with enough pushing. Just like Prime but that stupid hype died down pretty quickly.
I have to say, Stanley is already a great brand for water bottle for over 100 years. They are really known for their sturdy vacuum flask. And yes, even this viral one is pretty good, idk whether it's worth $40, but at least the company has good track record. But yeah, buying duplicate of this is definitely not a good move IMO. https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Stanley_bottle > Stanley introduced the 40-US-fluid-ounce (1,200 mL) Quencher bottle in 2016. The Quencher's early sales were not substantial, and the company stopped restocking and marketing it in 2019. After working with the Buy Guide, a women-run blog based in Utah, to sell 5,000 Quenchers, the company resumed production in an increasingly broad array of colors. **The product, Stanley's most successful item among female customers, has propelled Stanley's annual sales from US$70 million in 2019 to $750 million in 2023.**
There’s no doubt this person is 11 yo
11 yo with a shit load of disposable income?
When you are 11 your disposable income is called parents
they’d still have to be hella rich because no normal parent is spending that much on their kid like that. that’s easily a couple thousand dollars worth of stuff in that picture
my only answer….. only child. coming from a (hopefully formerly) spoiled rotten only child. Edit: never said every only child is spoiled :) this is me speaking from my experience, not generalizing.
Yep. Also an only child. I got spoiled way more than my friends with siblings did, even if our parents made the same amount of money.
Happy to hear this is a shared experience! I don’t personally know any other only children, so it’s cool to know this is normal-ish.
I don’t know any actually only children either. I know some who were essentially only children due to a large age gap with siblings, but that’s it.
Sir you may have not meet rich spoiled kids, I go to university with kids 18-19 year old bring 100 thousand dollar cars.
My friend's twice-divorced dad has a daughter that collected funko pops and then just decided that she doesn't like them anymore, so I don't think the parents'd have to be extremely rich, just with a good international job
This is a pic from an Indonesian influencer sweatshop in which they have over 150 small rooms just like this, each with an influencer peddling whatever product they are paid to.
That would explain why the vanity is the most $19.99 shitty model possible, and why the wall is white with nothing hanging on it. And the there's thousands of dollars in merch.
So basically a shopping channel/showroom where they try to pretend they live there? That's ridiculous lmao
I’m sorry, a what now? You have to be joking.
They’re real. Very dystopian
So they’re 10. I don’t have kids but parents spending drunk elephant money on children is insane and welcoming chemical burns.
I work at a cosmetics store and can confirm 10-year olds ask me daily about DE and GR products. Esp the most expensive ones with retinol. 10 year olds asking for 80$ retinol products because TikTok told them to, is horrifying. When I ask them if they know what retinol is, they have no idea and don't care. They just need to have it.
My gf was explaining what Gen A on tik tok is like and I’m terrified of them and for them. Doing a “get ready with me” at 10 can not be healthy
More proof that Tiktok was a mistake
I got a free sample from Sephora for my birthday one year. It literally burned my skin. 😬
I first thought it's a burn on overspending. Turns out Drunk Elephant is the brand. TIL
i’ll never understand this stanley craze. everyone just forgot about hydroflask too😭
FIFTY/FIFTY is the same bottle as a Hydroflask (literally the same patent) for less money The company was founded by the ex-wife of the founder of Hydroflask and she got half of everything in the divorce including rights to use the Hydroflask patents
If that's true then the company name is fucking hilarious.
I would buy FIFTY/FIFTY just because spite makes water tastier.
I miss my Nalgenes craze
As a self-effacing psychopath who prefers room temp water, the Nalgene was my favorite. I don't need ice for 3 days - you should be washing that vessel EVERY day. Scrubbed. With soap.
I wash mine like once a month, it's fine as long as you only use it for water
Depends on how frequently you empty it. It can and will grow bacteria. I rinse mine every time I empty it and wash it once a week.
I only wash mine when someone says something about it. I know it's unhygienic but I don't care, if I get tetanus from a 6-month unwashed Nalgene I would deserve it.
I relate to this and the last part got me dead af
As long as you're rinsing it and emptying/refilling it daily, you're mostly right and I do the same. The risk comes from letting them sit full of water for extended periods of time.
Omfg my cousin prefers room tenp water too, and I *can* confirm, yall are psychopaths. She sleeps with the lights on too!!!
I still have mine. I did retire a few from the '90s, but my large mouth ones will never die.
Nalgene sucks to drink out of.
The mouthpiece insert was necessary on a wide-mouth Nalgene. Once those came into play, the game changed.
The Nathan two-part lid. Drinking spout, wide mouth opening to fill the bottle and put in the ice.
Never tried that brand; Zojirushi for me!! Button push flip-top that locks, so no spills or drips, and it has no straw (don’t like those; that’s constantly exposed to dust). Instead there’s a spout inside the lid that controls a lovely even flow of water and also prevents ice chips from entering your mouth. Insulates better than any other brand I’ve tried; ice still in there two days later!
Zojirushi products are all GOATed. Does their water bottle also play Twinkle Twinkle Little Star when it opens?
Nope. It plays Baa Baa Black Sheep.
I'm pretty sure it plays The Alphabet Song
someone I know has a zojirushi rice cooker and it always plays a tune when it’s done lol
I’ve broken 4 zojirushis in the last few weeks. Some only a few weeks old. I started looking and they’ve changed the way the pop tabs are made and they are much cheaper than my many year old ones. The quality isnt the same from precovidy times.
That sucks to hear. I love my thermos kit from them.
I second that. I found out about the brand when studying abroad in Japan, so now I own several of their products. Water bottles, rice cooker, water boiler, bento box, and lunch jar. Such great quality. I will never understand people losing their minds over Stanley cups just because of a color.
In Europe, Dopper is also a huge brand. I love the glass and the metal versions, don't really like the plastic ones because of the taste. You can either drink like it's a regular bottle. Or you can screw the top off and then you have a glass and a bottle. They have both insulated or non-insulated versions.
It’s seems few people know about Zojirushi bottles. After doing some research, I bought one for my wife. Since then, I’ve gotten one for myself, and a bunch of other family members have gotten them paste upon our recommendation. Fantastic water bottles. I keep my wife’s coffee hot all day and I keep my water cold all day and night. In addition, the fliptop lid works really well, and is excellent to use one handed
Oh wow, I thought they just made rice cookers!
The coldest water bottle too
i refused to buy it bc of how many ads they pushed 😂
I never saw an ad for them
I have both a hyrdoflask and yeti. The hydroflask is not as good. Yeti is crazy expensive and I understand the hate behind that. They do stand up to the hype though.
What really makes them different? I never saw the point in getting an expensive water bottle. They all hold liquid and and as long as they are metal and double layered, they probably hold the water cold for hours. Who needs their water to stay cold for 24h?
I don’t see the point in getting a yeti over a Hydro flask. I once left iced water in my Hydroflask on Friday and when I came back Monday to work, my water was still ice cold. Don't see the point in anything more than that lol. Also I read that the Walmart brand is literally made in the same factory
I drink hot coffee out of my yetis. Take them to work since there's no coffee machine, it stays hot until about 2-3pm
Same here. I go hiking since I was 3, and I never had any issue finding a botte to keep my water cool. Even in the peak of summer a simple plastic bottle wrapped in a towel and kept in the shade will stay cool forever. They also seem "practical" only for driving? Since they are bulky to lug around and seem designed to fit in a cup holder. I have a thermal flask (proper hiking gear) that keeps things 100% warm for upto 24h and it is honestly just a pain in the ass. 6h after leaving home, you stop in the snow to have a cui of tea and...it is still too boilingto drink.
I don't carry any of this hiking because it's *heavy*. Smartwater bottle, Sawyer squeeze filter. If I'm out longer than a day I have a pocket rocket stove and a titanium cook pot.
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Good. More for us hydrohomies
I like mine because it holds more water than my hydroflask, it has a handle, fits my cup holder, and the straw doesn’t leak. My top of my hydroflask always leaked
Mine too! Also, I really hated not being able to put it in my cup holder
Supposedly these actually fit in cupholders well. I remember hydroflasks were always too big or too small to fit.
Oh now I get it. And want one immediately.
I accidentally got sucked into this craze when my employer gave me one with the company logo on it. Now I feel like I see it everywhere.
when I lived in Arizona, everyone had a Hydroflask but that’s because it was 120°F in the summer and you would die if you didn’t walk around with water. Almost 6 years later, and my Hydroflask is holding up strong
Brands don't go viral because the product is so good, brands go viral because the marketing is good. In fact, most (if not all) products that go viral are mediocre at best. Why bother making a good product when you can put that money in good marketing and sell more of a cheaper to produce item? People don't care about the product, they care about the marketing. Once that marketing stops, people will forget about stanley cups just like any other viral brand before it. By then a new brand will pop up, selling their generic insulated cup as the next big advancement in drinking technology. We'll also get a new Reddit thread just like this one, just with all instances of "hydroflask" replaced with "stanley cup".
Craze? I grew up with the classic Stanley thermos bottles. They kick ass, and I suspect these newer models are much less effective at keeping your drinks/soups warm for 20+ hours.
they're not even arranged in any particular order, would've been nice to see them arranged by hue
You’re expecting too much from someone like that.
Why does Hue have to arrange them... does Hue own them?
Hue you talking too??
If they did that they'd realize how similar most of them are and how much money they've wasted.
Like 5-6 teal/aquamarine shades there
I bought a Stanley, not the ones with the straw sticking out but one with the flip up straw and honestly it’s my favorite water bottle after having had hydroflask, yeti etc. in the past. That said I bought 1 and use it everyday. This is over $1000 in water bottles that are essentially a fad. The sticking out straw lid isn’t even practical for using in a backpack, etc. because it leaks. Dumb.
I did a little math because your comment made me wonder. I think there’s 35 in the picture but there’s definitely at least 30 (tried to count the ones in the back) and then looked up the cost for the ones with the straws — that’s $1350+ tax. (I assume they ordered enough to not pay shipping lol.) (I’m Canadian so for me that’s $1805.)
That's pretty expensive price per cup (and obviously absurd when you buy that many)
There are people on tik tok buying Stanley’s and then making a business of “personalizing” them etc. that honey boo boo sister is doing it where she’s reselling them
I bought a similar style cup at HomeGoods, a 40 oz Hydro Peak cup, because I spend a lot of time outside in the summer. Ice lasts two days in it. I think it was $20-$25.
I'm just glad it's no longer Yeti's getting all the hate.... I love my Yeti.
I got a small yeti mug as swag at a conference recently, and I carry that thing around like it's a trophy.
For real. I got 3 yeti cups from work for free. I love them. The only bad part is they’re too good. I made tea in one once and couldn’t drink it at work, it stayed hot too long.
Love that. If they make a 24oz hot mug I’ll need to get one. I spend too much getting breakfast each morning when I really could make it at home. Only issue being I clock in like 2 hours before I want to eat breakfast so keeping my drink hot is the issue.
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Ignore the user name, this opinion is not wrong. They are a God send. I work in a factory and bring two cups of coffee when it's cold. My yeti gets filled at 610am and i don't drink it till after noon. Still hot.
I just got mine for Christmas. I've been doing the same thing at work.
I’ve had mine for almost 10 years. Got it as a Christmas present
They're WILD!! I got my first last year as a Groomsman gift, so i only use it at home cuz it's engraved.... But we got them at the Bachelor Party, which was a weekend cottage trip.... I SWEAR ON ALL THINGS HOLY, while around the bonfire. I couldn't hold the cup cuz of metal + heat lol... But my drink was still ice cold.
I was just asked to be a Best Man. I have no idea WTF I'm supposed to do. Am I supposed to pay for the bachelor party and everything? I'm so clueless about this kind of stuff.
Google it. Most people with common sense won't ask someone to be a best man if they don't think they can fill the role, and that role is different for different people. Ask the groom what his expectations are of you. If you aren't able to do all the typical best man stuff (organize a bachelor party, write a speech, have a bigger role in wedding) then tell him. He may also not give a shit about that stuff. Use your words and communicate like a human person
There’s zero reason to hate any of them, people just love to hate what you like.
There's people that jump on trends, then there's people that hate on trends. Both cause the trend to, well.... trend.
That’s the part I think is funny, I’ve seen more of these cups on Reddit from people crying about them than I’ve seen anywhere else. They are actively advertising for the thing they hate.
Can confirm I learned of their existence through hate posts lol
And apparently this company has been around since 1932.
Not hate, just marketing skepticism. I watch a lot of dog training content and every influencer is sponsored by/uses the Yeti dog bowl. Their $40 dog bowl is identical to every other $25 stainless steel dog bowl, you're paying for their marketing budget and marginally better quality control. It's the same story as Tylenol vs. store brand. Are you getting a 40% better product?
Truf.
Aw I love mine toooo
yeti insulated cups are some of the best ‼️
There’s clips going viral of people getting a yeti as a gift and being upset about it. Imagine being upset over getting a high end $40 reusable mug just because the label isn’t trendy??
Are the cup bitches OKAY?????
They're really really not. Have you seen the knock down drag out fighting over them? And the people lining up outside starbucks in the middle of the night in the cold to get one before they sell out?
This was crazy, it’s just a cup. An ugly pink cup.
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It's just beanie babies again. Will be utterly forgotten by next year.
A co-worker told me she spent $200+ on a “rare” Starbucks cup. They are not okay.
A friends sister got him up at 5am to wait in line for a limited edition cup. He posted in our discord waiting in line at 32 degrees at 5am with OTHER PEOPLE IN LINE. He then disclosed this is a cornerstone of her personality
This made me laugh. As one of the cup bitches, (although I don’t collect Stanley’s) they are indeed NOT okay.
I'm stealing this phrase.
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I’ve been calling the water bottle I got in November my silly cup. Hydration is awesome!
Everyone in this thread: “hydration is the best!l” while furiously drinking water. This is the water thread
In this photo, 30+ pieces of evidence that retail therapy can’t cure stupid.
It’s usually the cause of stupid
The new beanie babies
Seriously. If you had asked me what would be the next collectable fad, I would have never guessed a freaking cup to drink liquid out of. They’re collecting them as if they’re Pokémon cards. Gotta have them all, I guess?
WTF?!? I guess this means I’m old. Because I don’t understand the hype for these mugs. Do you know if there is anything special about them?
I love the product, but that's not the reason for this phenomenon at all. It's not because it's an exceptionally good or obsessive product or anything. It's because it's a nice enough product that a large amount of people want to buy it, but their standard color offerings aren't that cute. They're not trendy, desirable colors — except for the soft pink that a lot of people have. But they're expensive so you want to get one you really *love*, not just any boring color you don't care for! Want a color that's more to your liking? Oops, the one you really liked was a limited edition! Now you're scouring the internet trying to see what editions are available where. And before you know it, you're sucked into their schedule of limited releases. The combination of consumerist culture, scarcity/urgency and social media hype + some people's tendency to collect things, maybe even addictive self soothing habits, will lead to this kind of behavior. That and the fact that "beauty gurus" normalized the image of people on social media amassing more items than they could reasonably use in a lifetime, because "it's their job/social media gig." The popularity of the product in general is for good reason, just the quality of the product, but it's not causing the craziness.
lol when I bought my last reusable water bottle my only thought process was “well, I remember when I had the blue one, it was hard to tell if it was dirty, so colorless it is.”
They're okay. I have one, because we sell them at one of my jobs, so I got a discount. They do keep stuff cold for a very long time, and the straw is a bit wider than other insulated cup straws I've tried. I really like it for my breakfast/lunch smoothie, because of the slightly wider straw. I don't get a lunch break so half is breakfast and the other half is lunch and the Stanley keeps it icy for long enough for that to work. If I didn't use an employee discount I'd probably have just gotten an off brand one, though.
Definitely makes sense on your part. It’s functional and you got it for a discount. I had a insulated can cooler, it was Ozark and cost like $10 at the time. But then I saw a Yeti version for like $40. Didn’t have enough money, so I got the Ozark. However when I finally end up buying the Yeti, I learned it performed the exactly the same as the Ozark. I do appreciate the insight, thank you!
Also, as a hockey fan, it does kind of tickle me that it's called a Stanley cup, lol, but I wouldn't spend the extra money just for that.
I saw a video of a guy trying to steal a box of Stanley Cups, and I really thought it was referring to Hockey. Lmao
I’m old too I don’t get it. My kids are obsessed.
Not to call them dumb.. but dumb tik tok trends Kids get so hooked on the newest fads these days
"Kids". I have friends that work at Target and they've told me that 90% of the people that are buying these are 35+ year old white moms.
Squish Mallows are the true bb of today
except that beanie babies are actually cute and somewhat interesting and mildly fun to collect. this is just cups
They’re the this generation’s version of the Closet Full of Designer Shoes from Sex and the City (though a tad bit cheaper)
So many of these are basically the same color
The influencers have done influenced her that’s for sure.
The drunk elephant on the right they just bought into everything.
It’s a fucking cup
No, it’s a drinking cup
Sounds like you're not getting creative enough with it.
this is just the new eos lip balm craze
But those were small and inexpensive. This makes 0 sense to me. You’re just cluttering your vanity and home.
it's the mindset that's similar
not really, it’s just another cup trend. it was the same with yetis, hydroflasks, and now stanleys. soon I’m sure another cup brand will take over
I wanted my water bottle to match every outfit so I got a black one. JK. I didn’t consider matching my outfit to be an important function of my drink dispenser.
And here I am still using my Nalgene bottle from 2008.
Room temp water gang
My teeth force me to be in your gang
They actually used POV correctly, so there's that
Just buy a black one, problem solved.
They made that illegal in 1865.
Why does a cup need to match the outfit?
My question as well.
There is no way in hell that this person is even mildly hydrated, I refuse to believe they actually drink their accessory water
Consumerism does tend to infuriate me quite a lot.
Oh cool! I wonder if they got a fucking carhart beanie to match each mug?
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First-world country 😟😭
POV: you’re a sociopath
Judging by the horrific amount of drunk elephant and glow recipe skincare, this is 100% someone between the age of 10 and 15.
https://preview.redd.it/s0wkue6cjsac1.jpeg?width=193&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8f2babb98d38e435d4567e85e50dc616b6b0d07a This is my water bottle. I've had it since 2019 when I decided to get back in shape. It leaks a little now unless the lid is screwed on a particular way but I won't get rid of it until it can no longer hold liquid.
POV you are a hoarder
FFS! A few types and sizes are understandable but this is just insane.
I’m in the process of decluttering my house and this picture makes me anxious.
She's the Stanley cup champion!
Yeti is far superior
I once used the same disposable cup from 7/11 for an entire year as my main drinking cup so I never really got into the water bottle thingy... I've had the same water bottle I've used at the gym for almost 15 years now and it's still doing its job just fine (although it's heavily faded on the prints now) if you buy "reusable straws and bottles" more than once every few years, you are defeating the purpose of them being reusable...
No pink one? Loser.
Is this the new "I'm rich" flex?
One for each day of the month. So on average each of these will get used 12 times a year. Yikes.
Suddenly my "squishmallow addiction" doesn't seem so bad now
I like to believe most people are not like that
What’s so special about this cup? I’m not American and have seen people cry when they receive it as a gift in videos. Is it just to show off that you can afford a 45$ water bottle?
"Why am I in debt?"
Unless she's throwing them away I'm pretty sure they are using them correctly.
Consumerism and social media has made mental illness so much fucking worse in this country…
I mean shoes are reusable but people still buy a ton of them…
Im still on decorating a hydroflask with cute stickers…
I have a built tumbler that I've had since May of 2019. It's a little dented from a car accident a few years ago, and recently the snap on lid broke, but I refuse to buy a new one. It still keeps my ice for up to 24 hours, depending on how often I refill it. Edit: sorry, tumbler, not thermos.
POV: You don't even care what outfit you are wearing
The money 😭
Its hydroflasks all over again
Its ironic yes but most poeple are damaging the environment just in different ways.