the cult of the Stanley Cup
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- It's been a minute (okay a year ish) since I have talked about a what's not a cult but feels like a cult product. But then people were SPRINTING through Targets for Stanley Cups. Reusable water cups and people are going feral over them.
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What I find ridiculous is that some people have entire collections. That defeats the purpose of having a reusable mug.
Having multiple reusable cups can just be a practical thing. I keep a spare in the boot of my car o usually have one in my backpack. I live with my family all of us are adults over a number of years you build up quite a collection. Also they are a common give away item and charity fundraising item.
it’s sort of worse, because stanleys are famously indestructible. when all of them get bored and they will need the shelf space for the next fad, these cups will be sitting in a landfill until the end of time
@@maebhryan3040 I think they mean like having 10 not just like 2 or 3
Why? The mugs still exist? They're not throwing them away, they're reusing them.
@@wwaxworkbecause when the fad goes away, people will just throw them away instead of still using them. I knew girls who had collections of hydroflasks who threw them all away because they weren’t being talked of anymore. Those same girls are now collecting Stanley’s
Apparently, I'm living under a rock because I had no idea these cups existed until yesterday. What's worse is that, in December, I did one of those angel tree things where you buy gifts for a child who probably won't get a lot of gifts. This girl was 13 and her "interest" was Stanley Cup. I assumed it meant the hockey one, so I got her a small, tabletop air hockey game. I'm now imagining the confusion that poor girl felt when she opened that gift.
Awe, are you going to get her a Stanley cup? I feel bad for her. It would be a cool valentine present.
@@hneebrn I don’t know her and I don’t have her address. It’s an anonymous gift giving thing.
@@klc7275 ok. The shelter and the group home I worked for actually got to meet the family the families or teenagers when we did it. Hopefully since you helped maybe they were able to get her the cup. lol or maybe she discovered she likes air hockey. That actually sounds really fun.
I sent this comment to my husband with the context that it was "a video about the cult of stanley cups" and he literally said he was wondering why I was sending him something about hockey. So you are truly never alone in the world 😂
I thought this was about the hockey trophy
I own a 1940s super vac cork top stanley. It has been in my family for 3 generations. Been through 2 house fires, car wrecks, and everything inbetween. Keeps coffee hot and water cold. Absolutely no complaints. Its genuinely the best piece of equipment i own and am extremely greatful for it. My grandma sewed a cross body satchels specially for it. Its my most prize possession other than my wedding ring and truck.
This makes me genuinely happy. Keep rockin. 💕
A cork top?? Didn’t know they ever had those, cool
@gateauxq4604 I know! I was confused at first too! When I got it from my dad it hadn't been used in quite a few years so I was really confused lol. I thought maybe the cork was a replacement for the original stopper, but as it turns out it WAS the original stopper. I had to have a new one fabbed out of new cork wood since the old one was a crumbly and smelled like old coffee 😂
This is precisely what these reusable products were supposed to be: sturdy and long-lasting. I love that it has become a heirloom for you.
That is honestly so amazing!! So wonderful that it is still functional and I love that you have a handmade satchel specifically for it!!
Those Stanley cup cleaning tips are really useful for about halfway through this year when I’ll find stacks of them at the thrift store for $2
well the chain thrift stores will overprice them disgustingly but yeah
As a hockey fan it took way too long to understand what the hell my co-worker was talking about.
My best friend was talking about wanting a Stanley cup and my first thought was damn, when did you get into hockey 💀
i am crying 😂
Oh I am disappointed that this isn’t about the real Stanley Cup
LOL I tried googling Stanley cup and got results on the hockey tournament, that's legit funny
I def got excited for a hockey video 😂
I think the best take I've heard about hoarding trending items like the Stanleys is that we've created a society that's lacking in a sense of community. We are lacking in 3rd places where you're allowed to just go and *be* without buying anything, and so instead we try and forge community via the commodities we buy. You're signaling to other Stanley girlies that you have something in common, maybe your rare Stanley is a conversation starter. (All of this said as someone who is rocking an off-brand 32oz metal water bottle from Amazon)
This is quite interesting, I can actually understand that given the kinds of women I know who might have some of these are very social and definitely support other women and love community, not at all loner weirdos (like me, obvz)
wow this is such an interesting point. someone send this to video essay youtubers. someone better at writing than me needs to do a deep dive on how the lack of 3rd spaces has shifted the way we find community
@@gardenvariety1there are already many videos on the topic here on TH-cam
Good point. If we could somehow bring 3rd places back (preferably free) for kids and teenagers, and heck, adults too, I think our society would be much better off. My town has a rec center called "Kids Group" that kids go to after school. It's a lifeline to those kids. They socialize, do activities and get help with their homework all for free. They get snacks and oftentimes a free dinner. And maybe most importantly, they're off their phones!
Quite a few TH-camrs have covered this! Elliot Sang’s “Nowhere to Go: The Loss of Third Places”, “The Great Places Erased by Suburbia” by Not Just Bikes, Andrewism’s “What Our Cities Are Missing”, and Madisyn Brown’s “teenagers don’t exist anymore”, among others
As a Target worker, I was there for both the Valentines and Starbucks stanley release. For the Valentines day stanleys, many people ordered the cups online before the store even opened, some people ordering 10+ of them. The stanley girlies were STARING me down from outside as I was grabbing them off the shelves. As for the starbucks stanley release, we also had people waiting in line outside the store AT 4:00 AM IN WISCONSIN WINTER to get a chance at a cup. It was insane.
'the stanley girlies were staring me down...' is hilarious
Those people ordering a ton of them are resellers
@@novaangle2183 Oh yeah, for sure, I was well aware. No one needs more than one
I just don't understand the obsession. Even if someone had several I could understand but to be this obsessed is confusing
Wow. Just wow.
This Stanley cup thing is nuts. They've been around forever. My Pawpaw, who was a farmer, always kept his coffee in a Stanley thermos because it would stay hot all day. Same for my Grandaddy, who was a master carpenter. Those cups have always been a 'working mans' cup. It's nuts seeing people go so crazy for them.
Yep! My dad was a welder and all the guys had Stanley cups. He's going to love knowing he's ✨on-trend✨😆
@donk8105 How long ago was this? Champion was a step above Russell and actually made well. The sweatshirts had gussets under the arms. I bought only one in my entire life, and it was a Dartmouth sweatshirt that cost about $50 in 1992. Considering who attended Dartmouth, that wasn't a shirt for "the poor kids." Since you trailed off with an ellipsis, I'm guessing you're probably on the older side.
Yeah tbh I know so many people with the more traditional stanley cups so I was so confused when I heard mainly little/teenage girls going crazy over them
@@briancrawford8751Being made well has never influenced teenage trends. I know Champion was at K-Mart …yes now defunct K-Mart….when I was a teen wearing Champion as opposed to trendier brands was deffo seen as if not poor kid gear, very not cool and a cheaper brand. I can’t recall price cause I actually don’t remember. Just know it was cheaper then something like Tommy Hilfigire or FuBu or the like. Yes it was dumb, but so is High School. 😂😂
My dad had the bullet one as well. It was the standard thermos for a lot of tradies. It still is.
As someone from Poland I just cannot imagine a trend of teenagers bringing huge drinking bottles to schools and NOT having a scandal when it turnes out at least a portion of these things were filled with alcohol. Like when I was in high school there were regularly people having vodka in their orange juice cartons
Now add to this energy drinks being +18. I can imagine Stanley cups filled with vodka and redbull/monster 💀
@@martynabieniok9669Ah, so homemade 4Loco? As someone who was in high school shortly after the whole 4Loco legal issues, I can definitely believe that kids would make their own.
As a Romanian I truly relate to this. I have heard stories of teens bringing alcohol in schools disguised as other types of drinks. But full blown ass alcohol seems so surreal to me. 😂
@@martynabieniok9669 oh god i keep forgetting they make them 18+ and I literally bought two today 😫
Omg same in Ukraine. I was that girl with my classmates 💀 We thought we were soooo cool lmao. I'm now 26 and COMPLETELY sober for about 7 years. What is it in East/Central Europe that makes us so unhinged _so_ early yall 😭
So...I have a Stanley that lives at my day-job desk. The ONLY reason why I got it was because a small business decorated it with the Jurassic Park logo stating "motherhood is a walk in the park" with a fun scale pattern. I didn't know it was a Stanley until AFTER I paid for it. Will I get any other Stanleys? No. Not worth it.
But one I get it, but to buy everyone that comes out!?!? Thats not sustainable. Like our cloth bags that are 33 cents that only fit a box of cereal a 2l milk and maybe 3 bananas.. then let's talk about the amount of uses it takes to become sustainable. But leaving out the amount of germs so there for need laundry soap, as well as, machine or time to hand wash them.
Wait I want that!!!! Haha
@NotVille_ all 2 videos...sure
that cup sounds like the absolute definition of amazeballs holy moly
That's not just a cup, that's now a family heirloom
I'm just surprised so many people don't know you need to regularly wash your reusable water bottles. I've gotten lazy before and not done it for like a week, but I never let it get too nasty. YOU GOTTA CLEAN ALL THE PARTS OF YOUR BOTTLES YALL. ESPECIALLY IF IT HAS A STRAW OR OTHER DRINKING MECHANISM.
Especially if they’re mixing all kinds of syrup or powders into their water too!
I think a big problem is that people don't realize that these things come apart.
literally 😫 also why i love hydroflask- their straw caps come apart completely for ease of cleaning
This is precisely why I hate water bottles with straws or anything like that. They’re a pain to clean! Just a regular old water bottle is far easier for me
It really shouldn't be such an issue, especially as one of the big pros of a Stanley cup is that it's dishwasher safe. Throw the stuff in your dishwasher, wash the straw, and you're good to go.
The cultification of water bottles is kind of interesting to me. I’m 30 now, so I remember the Nalgene craze when I was in high school, then it was Yetis, then Hydroflasks and now Stanley’s. I’m sure there’s some I’m missing
Edit (1.31.2024) wow thank you for all the likes! 🫶🏻
wrong lol. its the fact they THEY are missing the point that its a fad lol. youre the smart one
the yetis are amazing, I got one for christmas 4 years ago and its been with me everywhere. I dont see a need to buy another water bottle until this one gets lost bc I don think I could possibly destroy it.
yeah I have 2 takeya water bottles and they’re really good I’ve dropped them tons of times and my friend took my bottle and hit it against the library floor and it still didn’t dent lol
Those Swell water bottles were the first water bottle trend I remember from when I was in school
@@rileyemel9913I like them too but mine actually broke after a year (idk how) it doesn’t insulate a cold drink and gets sweaty on the outside..
I have a Stanley and its great! That being said, it works so well that I genuinely don't understand why anyone would need more than one. It's a good quality cup, you genuinely only need one unless you wanna have one at work and one at home or something. I get that they have all of these cute colors that make people want to collect them, but there is NO NEED to overconsume a REUSABLE water bottle.
THIS. it’s-like- they’re supposed to be utilitarian. that is the appeal of reusable products especially Stanley ones- it’s about lasting a lifetime. as soon as you start buying one for every outfit, it is the opposite of utilitarian 😭
@@unfortunatelyiamsaneIf it helps any some of us wear one color so could do both the things.
@NotVille_ Why reply on the same thread copying my comment word for word? That's incredibly weird
Yes! I am in nursing school and the Stanley is so cute and handy for my long days, but I don’t understand having 10 of them or attacking Targets for them.
Ah thank you
It's quite common for children to believe that having random items make them the "cool kid" at school. How adult people can have the same obsession is still so weird for me.
Some people never graduate from High School.
Alexa play Spinebreaker by BTS
Adult children
"Keeping up with the Joneses" is a phrase for a reason. It’s not a new phenomenon
Social media is brainwashing that dissolves the psychological age barriers unfortunately. I do like aesthetics though as an artsy person, but you gotta be very VERY careful about overconsumption.
The weird thing to me is that people were going ferel over a red/pink cup. Like THATS the Valentine’s collection? Not even some cute patterns? No hearts or roses? Really? I'd understand the hype more if that was the case
i just googled it. they're not even red&pink cups, it is 1 red cup and 1 pink cup. That's insane. I really thought Stanley was making cute designs for their cups or something but nah they're actually just plain colours ?
I KNOW, THEY AINT EVEN CUTE???
Stanley actually has some slightly nicer laser-engraved pattern ones on their actual site and had one late last year that was in a similar red color (idk if it's still available or not).🤷
Other than the color, it's just basic...
The thing I find most ironic with the hype about Stanleys is that they’re impractically big. I can’t even tell you how many times I’ve seen college students have to carry their Stanley cups with their bare hands walking across campus in the middle of winter simply because the damn thing doesn’t fit in their bag. Risking frostbite for a cup is INSANE
THIS IS EXACTLY why I don't freaking understand nor want one! They're too bulky!!!! I carry a backpack everywhere and thermos bottles are much better for me. I heard the Stanley cups still spill and honestly I drink water as much a day as anyone does with a Stanley cup. Plus, a lot of people need to be washing that cup everyday or two. Not three or a week. Do people not care about still water and bacteria and mildew? Eff that noise!
Before I even realized it's an online trend , I saw a girl with one of these and thought, holy shit that looks so impractical and goofy. I don't know how people could be bothered lugging these around.
I personally think they’re ugly, and look like most other water cups I don’t understand the hype at all 😭 (no shame if you like them, but it’s still too much to literally FIGHT for them at stores imo….)
I mean we have body builders and gym rats carrying full on jugs to college.
@@MADEbySOULthat I can partially understand. if you are super active it makes sense you need more water. but most people don't need that much water.
The REAL problem is that the second these cups are no longer “trendy”, these girls won’t be caught dead using them anymore. They’ll sit in their cabinet and buy the newest model of whatever despite their claims that “Stanley is the only cup that makes my water sooooo good”.
I did wonder how long before I'll see these cups in Goodwill
Ikr I was hit with the hydro flask trend but when Stanley became the thing to have I was like “ I’m not gonna fall for this s*** again”
@@anthonyvenable3048i think the Stanley trend is so much worse than the hydroflask because stanleys have such a distinct (ugly in my opinion) design. Hydro flask design is very simple and inoffensive. And way more practical in my public transport using opinion. Like the logo isn’t big and the shape is just normal and they are nice block colors. Like when I see someone with a hydroflask I think cool and get jealous of their cold water or I don’t even notice it’s different from any other bottle, even after the trend. I think Stanley’s will not be the same.
You just described iPhones lol
Nalgene, Sigg, Yeti, S'well, Hydro flask, Stanley. 🎵 It's the ciiiiircle of life 🎵
It was my 9yo daughters first time saving up for a high dollar item. She hustled too, helped the neighbor. I am very proud of her.
I definitely tried to talk her out of it, because it's a trend and I feel like she'll leave it somewhere, but she hasn't let it out of her hand in the last 3 months.
So maybe it's teaching her some responsibility.
I just refill plastic water bottles - but I should stop doing that. ❤
Hopefully she’ll have that cup forever. It’s a great feeling to save up for something as a kid you really really wanted and finally buy it. Even if she doesn’t use it for years, it’s still a nostalgic thing to have. The cup should last forever too.
My mom donated and threw out so much stuff of mine when I was in college, and I wish I’d been able to save some really nostalgic stuff of mine.
As someone who was still a tween during the Hydroflask craze, yeah. She probably is just going to leave it somewhere. 😂 But it is a good lesson to learn to choose utility over trend. One day when I’m older, I think I’ll understand that more, too.
Refilling a plastic water bottle isn't good for you because those micro plastics are just breaking down constantly, they're more of a one time use only, so maybe the Stanley cup is the better option.
Refilling plastic bottles you already had to buy for one reason or another is a good thing! Reusing that bottle does far better than "recycling" it / putting it in the recycling bin and hoping it doesn't just go to the dump . Just avoid buying new ones as much as possible, and if you have non left to reuse, buy a washable bottle
@@chaoticneutralsheepwe have micro plastics flowing through our bodies already. If she’s reusing plastic bottles I think that’s a good thing.
If I ever feel compelled to run through a store for literally anything, someone better slap me lmfao
sure thing, but im holding an exception for medical supplies, bathroom runs, and safe methods of birth control/protection
Other than a few exceptions
IDK, I've had some health issues that had me running to the pharmacy section and that was necessary and beneficial for everyone involved.
Only to grab the last box of pancake mix on the empty shelves in the zombie apocalypse.
I stood in line one time back in the day for zhu zhu pets for my kid. It’s an experience I’ll never repeat unless it’s for a necessity item. I’ve only done black Friday as an adult once. And that’s because I was on holiday at a beach town by a mall. Because it was mostly by a retirement town that place was empty and it was really nice. I guess the thing I’m really guilty of is half off day at goodwill. That was pre covid and pre resellers when the good goodwill stuff used to be in the stores and not online.
Valentine's Day being materialistic and making people feel bad is tradition at this point.
This. Valentine's day is cute when you're in elementary school but as an adult it's just another weird "holiday".
@@1800MDGAFnah I think it’s cute if you’re in love and you get flowers and chocolate. But for me it’s not about spending tonnes of money , it’s about the thought.
Isn’t that every holiday though
@radstoditches I don't celebrate it but I love hearts and pinks so it's my favorite time of year to grab a bunch of heart themes
if you look at its history the woman who pushed for its creation regretted it almost immediately due to the over commercialization of it
I teach middle school in a town where in the same class I have kids that live in multi million dollar mansions and kids who sleep in cars. The rich kids show up after winter break showing off Stanley's, everything from Sephora, and new $700 shoes (true story, and he wore them to PE class) and the kids from lower income families just have to watch. We had an angel tree in our office for those kids, not a single parent bought for it, it was all supplied by staff. It hurts to see people with so much care so little.
That's disgusting that the rich parents won't help out their community...
As someone who is in college and remembers the original craze of Hydroflasks, seeing the rise in Stanley cups is insane. I cannot stress enough how many, predominately white girls, have these cups. I cannot count the amount of times I’ve walked through my dining hall only to see entire tables of girls with these cups. It’s absolutely baffling how popular these got so fast with so many of my peers.
the craze surprises me too as someone who grew up w a stanley thermos for hiking i rly never considered it could be a trend lmao j seemed like a practical hiking tool
What's funny is I worked at a grocery store right before they were popular, and they gave me a giant lime colored hydroflask for free because no one wanted it 😂
I mean we could say the same thing for tables full of black girls with fingernails that are so long I don't understand how they wipe their behinds.... Different Strokes for different folks
i do yoga and before christams there was maybe 1 stanley cup per class. after christmas, i think every other person in class now has a stanley it’s crazy how fast they grew in popularity 😭
Its the constant seeking of an identity. They're making products their personality.
The wild thing was seeing people try to resell the valentines Stanley cups for $200+
What’s even more wild is people buy them for that much 😅
@@MikaylaRae86 what’s actually wilder is I’m looking on eBay and some valentines ones are going for $4,000 to $10,000😀
@@eddiethewhale3268that's normal ebay shenanigans. There was a pencil listed for one million dollars once.
I think resellers are also a big reason why people are rushing out to get things, not just Stanley cups. Reselling is basically a job now for a lot of people and that means they get up early so they can resell something for 3x the price or even more. So theres resellers rushing and people trying to beat the resellers. It's really common within any hobby community right now unfortunately.
The reselling is the thing I cannot stand, artificially inflates the market and means normal people, acting rationally to purchase something can’t. So then you create this hysteria and people paying 4x the price. Like the TikTok’s of people just shopping in tjmaxx reselling shit? It’s really sick. Is your time and energy REALLY worth that Hello Kitty Mug you’re going to pay $30 for?
the type of reselling you're describing is called "scalping"
@donk8105 i would say scalping is a little bit different since with scalping theres a scarcity and rarity involved (like buying concert tickets when there's limited seating)
but yeah def weirdo behavior, and for a fucking cup 😭😭
Hydroflasks hit several checkmarks for people at the time: it was environmentally friendly, it promoted hydration as self care, and everyone wants a bottle that does a good job at keeping drinks hot or cold. High schoolers, office workers, construction workers- people from all walks of life had one. So it kinda became the universal water bottle for a while.
My daughter brought back a hydro flask from the US in 2019 and I love using it. It holds a good amount and keeps the water so cold for a long time on a hot day. Especially good as we are in the middle of our summer here. I don’t own a Stanley cup. I have enough cups/travel mugs/water bottles now, without buying another one.
Every year to two years there’s a trendy water bottle that drops. Years ago it was Nalgene or Camelbak, then Yeti or Hydroflask… Now it’s Stanley
Hydro flasks aren’t cool anymore?!!?!
I still use hydro flask
I have had my hydro flask since 2013ish, and it still have the stickers from my camp counselor days on it.
The Stanley Cup craze reminds me of how in American Psycho (the novel specifically) Patrick Bateman and the other yuppies obsess over the "right" bottled water to drink, there are multiple pages dedicated to a conversation about bottled water that Bateman has with one of his coworkers, where the guy is almost driven to tears because he just can't understand the hype around *the* bottled water everyone drinks.
Now let's see Paul Allen's Stanley cup
i remember a tumblr post that essentially said that those clean girl/it girl tiktokers are so much more like patrick bateman than those 15 yr old "sigma" boys will ever be
Funny enough the author was a woman too
Most of the time, you'll find that people doing the "lining up/running through store" thing aren't enthusiasts; they're opportunistic profiteers, trying to corner as much stock for quick resale as they can. This explains a lot of the worst behavior as well; as those people are largely nasty pieces of work.
this is a great point i think. i also believe that the videos of people going crazy over trying to get hoards of them does something to manufacture more hype
We’ll put! This is something I’ve been wondering about. Especially those who fill up their trolleys with the stuff
I was a department manager at Target for 5 years. Everything you said is absolutely correct. My department included audio visual. Game/ console and music releases were a living nightmare and the sheer abuse scarred me for life, let alone what I witnessed.
Someone I know was just gifted one of these cups, and she's been explaining to absolutely everyone, unprompted, any time she makes eye contract with someone who hasn't heard yet, that she's embarrassed to be seen with it because of the trend but it's a gift and her old mug broke.
See this is kind of just as embarrassing as the people who are desperate to buy 20 of these 😂
"It's a mug, bruh"
😂😂😂
lol if you like it you like it! That’s not a bad thing. Sometimes things are popular because they are good or they hit a spot for people. It’s okay to like or dislike something popular as long as that’s what you feel. if you automatically like/dislike something because it’s popular then that’s where the behavior gets scary to me because you are letting the crowd dictate your life in one way or another.
When I was a kid, Stanley was the brand my dad and his 3rd shift worker buddies at Dekka battery used. They took hot soup to work in the winter because the factories got really cold, and the thermoses kept the soup hot until their lunch break. In fact he had basically the same one as the one shown in the "big stanley" tiktok you showed.
Watching mostly rich women buy up something I have, for my whole life, associated with blue collar working dads and people who go camping, in such troves has been this insane whiplash feeling. It's bizarre to me, and I cannot wrap my head around how insane it is that these people have collections of these things.
My boyfriend told me a funny story about his dad's old leaky Stanley thermos that he'd bring to school (about 25 years ago) it was kind of leaky and he didn't know it and he thought at first his mom already put the soup in the bowl for him and it became a funny story he likes to tell people. The thermos was already 20-30 years old so it just leaking a little was a testament to how well those things held up. But he admitted the thermos kept soup warm like nothing else so as long as it was kept upright, things were fine.
@GraniteStateVictoria yep. My dad's I'm pretty sure he got when he was in boy scouts in the 70s, he at least had it for a long long time before my earliest memories of it (probably around 2006?) And even after all that time it kept soup hot until he was ready for it. That's what gets me about these collections people have of stanley products now- they're literally meant to last lifetimes. You can literally pass a functional stanley down to your grandkids and they can probably someday hand it down to theirs with no quality drop. Stanley is a great brand, but it's always been the brand you buy knowing you won't need to replace it for a long time if literally ever.
@@odyssey_eight I should ask my boyfriend if he still has it. If so, it's probably an antique at this point (he's 38, which means the thermos is probably over 50 years old) and he could probably fetch tons of money for it on eBay if he no longer wants it (just from the name alone).
@GraniteStateVictoria honestly lmfao, and If he's gonna sell now is probably the time. I worked at a camping store for a while around Christmas and literally ANYTHING with the brand name on it we couldn't keep on the shelves even at the stores inflated prices 🥴
@@odyssey_eight Haha yes, I think I'm gonna talk him into it. I'll laugh if he sells it for $10,000 and the buyer thinks they got an "amazing deal".
The fungal infection story is horrifying because those can go sooo badly. I live in a big city, one of our hospitals receives clients from all around if they need more help than a rural hospital can provide. A kid came in with multiple organ failure because out where they lived they got a respiratory infection, their doctor gave them antibiotics and steroids, the antibiotics did nothing while the steroids increased their blood sugar, feeding the mold. The hospital I was at eventually did a exploratory laparoscopy to visualize the extent of the kids infection, they were literally filled with mold. The kid did not survive.
💔💔 oof, what a horrible way to exit this world. My heart goes out to that kiddo. 😢
That is absolutely tragic.
my god. that is so terrifying. this poor child's family.
this is my reminder to clean my hydro flask😅
That is why, conceptually, the Last of Us is so terrifying. Fungi don't fuck around.
I was genuinely disappointed when my mom put a Stanley cup on her Christmas list after buying 10+ other reusable cups in the last few months for 4 people in the house.
And what’s hilarious is she literally admitted to only wanting it because everyone else had one. My disappointment was immeasurable.
"Mom, I'm not mad.... I'm disappointed" 😂
I have a few! I got this bright pink one it’s an ice flow one, I have a purple one as well. And a few of the tumblers. I seen the recent one that came out the holidays. it was a light purple, almost lavender color, could’ve been a light purple with a pink hue. I was drooling over that cup. I had to tell myself no! You don’t not need it, why do I need it, what’s wrong with my other cups, and all I can say was, I like the color, and I don’t have that color. I felt so stupid by getting over excited over a cup, and having this feeling of anxiety on how much I felt like I needed it. After that I was like nope! I need a break. This is getting sad.
@@vanessasampayan4587 i feel you, seeing hte shiny new thing and drooling over it! its not cups for me, but sanrio stuff.... so what i do is make a list of things i want to buy, wait a week (or a month if its bigger) and see if i really do still want it. even then i might go, eh i dont really need it and tell myself to let it go. but i definitely feel that! if i didnt budget and monitor myself id spend all my money lol
I read somewhere that the reason it got so big was Stanley hired the same PR company that Crocs to go big and they had similar effects.
They basically give it to influencers and make it go viral
Im guessing that campaign started right before christmas?
now THAT'S an interesting tidbit
This and the Mormons cus the huge soda and flavored water culture cus they can't drink Alcohol. Watertok is mostly just Mormon women from what I heard. Absorb amounts of sugar in those syrups no thanks.
not having tiktok and not having friends who are into these trends means i wasn't even aware of stanley cups as an item until i started seeing viral tweets about people going insane over them. it's fascinating how trends like this can become so prevalent but if you don't occupy the right corners of the internet you won't know about any of it lol
I had thought this was a viral marketing stunt at first. The cups aren't even a cute design. It was Black Friday for water-tokers. 😂
THIS!!!!!
same… i only hear about trends like this through commentary here and on instagram somewhat after the fact. not having tiktok can definitely make you feel like you’re in an entirely different world socially lol
me too! the first time i've even heard of this brand was because of the whole watertok thing (and because of commentary youtubers lol)
Same. I literally had no clue Stanley cups were a trendy thing until this whole Valentine's debacle.
When being a consumer is your most defining personality trait then the hot item is your new heroin.
this
👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Yeah, it’s honestly so sad
As an NHL fan, you have no idea how confused I was when this first came out. I thought a bunch of little girls were getting into hockey and were getting mini Stanley Cups for Christmas. Oh, how I was wrong hahaha
Exactly!!!
I heard about the Target Valentines Stanley Cups and was interested because I thought it would be something cute to buy my husband for Valentine’s Day. So much Valentines stuff is feminine, and we have gone to the hockey museum in Toronto and saw the real Stanley cups. I was so disappointed.
Dude, same
same lmaooo
I thought that too, when they first got popular.
I have to admit, I bought myself a Stanley cup for Christmas. I did discover the Stanley through social media, but its popularity is not the reason behind my purchase. I drink an insane amount of water on a daily basis, and I found myself having to refill my other cups many times throughout the day. For someone who works from home, it's really convenient begin able to drink continuously from one cup instead of going to the kitchen a dozen times and refilling throughout the day.
Same I kept trying cheaper versions but they didn’t workout
S A M E instead of filling up my water bottle 8 times a day I fill up my Stanley like 3-4 and I'm set! It keeps my drinks cold and it's huge without being super cumbersome!!
Exactly. I’m someone that when I buy something I want the most quality version, and while Stanley is super trendy it’s also been around for decades and does have the quality behind it versus just hype. I really don’t care if it’s cool or not, I just care that I saw it and I I liked it, so I bought it. Social media was just a means of getting it in my radar.
I'm skeptical that you actually drink that much water.
And that’s fine. But It is ridiculous though seeing there are other cups that hold just as much water for under half the price of a Stanley.
If my Stanley cup isn't a 130 year old rose bowl made of Sheffield silver given to me by THE Lord Stanley of Preston then I'm not interested.
NY Rangers, 2024 Stanley Cup Champions, agree
A-friggin-men
@@tispre Yeeees! It's been 30 years too long! They're due (I think I've said that every year since 2001 🤣).
I work at Target and we got soooo much drama from guests because we refused to sell them more than 2. We wouldn’t sell them online, either. They were still gone in 10 minutes.
You’re fighting the good fight against scalpers lol
I bet that was so annoying. My store didn't get them thankfully, but I spent the entire day disappointing people in store and on the phone. It was the end of the world for sure 🤣
I love telling customers no when they ask for something stupid/against the rules XD
Just so you know they just make several accounts with different names and cards so...yeah they are getting more than whatever any limit is everywhere. They're are even videos about it...they also get someone else to go into the store for them so the limit is actually pointless. It's what people have always done for everything 🤷🏾♀️
Just let them buy them all and be done with it in one transaction
The biggest thing that concerns me is how younger kids are obsessed with them as well. I was a counselor for an overnight week camp for sixth graders and their teacher specifically told them to not bring their stanly cups and bring an actual water bottle because we were in the woods and I still saw like 10 or so kids with them.
Their parents probably made them take them. Also it’s not the worst thing to be obsessed with.
Kids have always wanted the “adult thing”. It’s silly and harmless
The instruction was "bring a real bottle, not a Stanley cup." Having met 6th graders, I can guarantee that instruction never made it to the parents ears so the cup girlies could get away with bring their clout bottle @@saiikik2727
yeah stanley cups are NOT made for active sports like that it WILL leak... and just in general, this whole craze is just teaching kids from a young age to value consumerism and trend cycles like this. same vibe as all the drunk elephant 10 year olds going around right now. if you want to be a cool kid you basically HAVE to have what the tiktok girlies are using.
What do you mean an actual water bottle
I have thermos autism and you're right when you bring up the former audience of Stanley. Their 1.5 qt vacuum flask (which used to come with a lunchbox) was a symbol of the working class for a long time, as well as people with hardcore outdoor interests. Love those thangs.
thermos autism... elaborate ( im autistic too)
@@hamflavoredlipbalm6077 one of my major Special Interests is the humble vacuum flask ("Thermos," much like Kleenex or Band-Aids, is a brand name now used to refer to the whole product category, so I'll use them interchangeably). For personal context I'm not some 50-yr-old stuck in the "good ol days" of mass manufacturing, I'm 21 and I just really like thermoses. Vacuum flasks changed the way we eat, in the sense that before every break room had a fridge and a microwave, you would carry in hot or cold food in a personal thermos. It has obvious usage for people who work outside or in workshops and for outdoorsmen, but it was popular with anyone on the go: imagine if all of a sudden, you didn't have to worry about the cost of a hot meal on a long car trip because you've got a whole container of piping hot chili in the trunk? They've been available to consumers since about the 1910s, starting with the Thermos company and expanding with brands like Aladdin (which eventually bought and became Stanley). One cool thing about old thermoses from any brand is that while the outer flask might have been made of metal and/or plastic, the inside flask was _glass_ which is actually still the most efficient material for holding heat. And if it broke, which they often did, the bottom of the Thermos would screw off, and you could buy a replacement inner lining. You could also replace the cup-lids that went on top, and the little piece that screws into the opening of the bottle. Nowadays, you can't repair them at all, so you'd more than likely throw the whole thing away and buy a new one (part of the Planned Obsolescence problem in modern manufacturing...).
The Stanley 1.5qt has, to me, an iconic silhouette, as it's quite large, has a handle on the side, and a sloped metal cup-lid that sits on top. Like I mentioned above, they originally came with a long, rectangular lunchbox with an arched lid that you would actually clip the Thermos up into, and then could put your other lunch foods in the other compartment! It was just as popular to keep a big thermos of coffee and pour it out a cup at a time as it was to keep soup or another hot meal inside. Smaller thermos and lunchbox bundles have long been popular with kids at school, and over the years have come printed with every obscure property you can think of (I had a bob the builder lunchbox & thermos growing up, until I dropped the plastic cup lid on a very cold day and it shattered. It was probably from the 90s).
Because these products originally exploded in popularity in the 1950s, there are lots of extremely goofy retro designs from all of the ensuing decades. I have a big goofy "unbreakable" Thermos from the 80s but someday I'm gonna get one of the hideously iconic ones from the 60s/70s, like wood grain or red and black flannel.
So, the Thermos has shaped American history for over a century, and as someone who keeps an eye on vintage Stanley flasks on eBay or what-have-you, it's wild to me to see modern Stanley tumblers come cropping up for about quadruple the price.
ANYWAYS if you read this far I'm going to share with you that this hyperfixation started when I got really into Sniper from TF2 and in a fanfic I was reading he was in the habit of packing up a thermos of coffee every day before going onto the battlefield and I was like hmm. I should look up what vintage thermoses look like, and the rest is history.
Your main hyper interest.
@@rabbithistoriann no i know! my special interest is music- i just never heard of thermoses as a special interest, that kicks ass
@@rabbithistoriann believe it or not, I'd say my main hyperfixation is online flash games, particularly in the point-and-click/puzzle/room escape genres, from around 2005 through flash support being discontinued in 2020. And marvel comics, especially the X-Men. Thermoses are a more recent thing for me ;)
I remember when the Hydroflask craze was going on, everyone had one regardless of their personal style, subculture, etc. It didn't matter if someone was preppy, goth, "country", or anything else - Hydroflasks seemed to be universally popular with everyone, girls and guys alike. But now I work at the same university I attended and it's only the sorority girls who are carrying Stanleys. It almost seems like an initiation thing.
dang miranda sounds like you never matured past age 19. we should go scooby-doo those "country" girls to find out if they hazing and snitch to the authorities
that's really interesting for me bc in my country the stanley cups became an item mostly cherished by the preppy kids for some reason ?
As a hockey player and hockey fan, the Stanley cup craze has been very confusing for me 😂. Hearing about randos online with “their Stanley cup”, thinking they were a hockey player, then realizing what was actually happening…I can’t keep up lol.
Literally me when I heard about this craze.😂
as someone who grew up with a Hockey dad, I too was confused at first to see a bunch of women youtubers I followed talking about the stanley cup until I actually watched a video. lol.
Me too!! I know nothing about hockey, I still think they are talking about the competition every time. I am not on tiktok I guess.
I heard the google term is now about the cup over hockey.
I feel better now, I'm glad I checked the comments
“The idea that there are certain products you can buy that make you better than other people” I think this really explains my disdain because the reasoning behind trendy purchases are so obvious. Some people on tiktok are more concerned with looking wealthier, cosplaying as something else, that they’re losing all sense of individuality and identity.
As a man with a stanley i bought it because my wife who is a nurse had one for work, which she bought because of other nurses at work. I like that it fits in my cup holder and that it matches the color suit i wore on my wedding day.
my wife and I have 3 stanley’s total (i have 1 she has 2)
they are most definitely our emotional support water cups 😂
Just wanna say it’s really cute that you specified it matches your wedding suit love that for you
“If someone falls down help them up”. Getting a Stanley cup officially needs mosh pit rules.
What really kills me about this is while there are these folks sprinting for CUPS, all the isles of actual life essentials (detergent, deodorant, shampoo, baby formula etc.) are locked up and impossible to access cause you need a staff to unlock it. Like we truly live in a hellscape.
Gosh idk where you live but where I live on the west coast I’ve never seen any essentials locked up, just electronics and pet medication
@@thylionheart i also live on the west coast, and i work at a retail/grocery store and they recently just implemented locked doors on a lot of the skincare, baby formula, lego sets and i think a couple of other things. i heard that other places have locked up basic necessities like detergent like the original comment said, and i've seen this happen in other grocery/retail stores like fred meyer and target. i think the it depends on the area you live in and the theft statistics
@@thylionheart I'm a West Coaster as well, and a lot of necessities are locked up over here. Vitamins, baby formula, razors, and a bunch of personal hygiene items.
I get your point but what is the correlation
I live in NYC upper east side & I have never seen anything locked up in Target here. But in Miami FL area I saw stuff locked up
I can't believe you didn't even talk about the girl who LAMINATED her cup paper wrap to put it back on so now 'it won't get ruined'. Good vid
I won’t touch a reusable water bottle unless it’s easily put in the dishwasher. I’m not pulling apart a bunch of little rubber bits to clean my bottle by hand, I’ll never feel like it’s clean.
I have a 1 L glass bottle (from a local supermarket) with a washable thermo-sleeve, great for teas in winter and cold drinks in summer AND easy to clean both by hand and in the dishwasher
See that’s the reason I have issues with the idea of having more than 2 or so. The idea of having to keep track of, clean, and store that many just makes me tired! I collect a lot of things but they don’t need cleaning or else they would poison me
I was actually gifted a Stanley for Christmas from my boss at work. I don’t understand the hype, because it is extremely heavy when full, and I can’t bear to reach over in the middle of the night to get a sip of water cuz the weight of it wakes me up completely and then i cant fall back asleep.💀 I usually only use mine for my coffee addiction and thats it. And I can’t understand the over consumption of a cup, which was made to cut down waste.
I think they're impractical as well
I have a hydro flask with straw, in which I could use and not worry about spilling
Even though, hydro flask has their verdion
Give it away
This! It only makes sense if you drive or don't have to carry your things. I live in a walkable city and carrying around a giant hydroflask full of water is so heavy and it doesn't fit anywhere!
screaming because i bought my gen z employee a stanley cup as a joint birthday/first work anniversary gift. she had said she wanted one but refused to buy it with her own money. so guess it worked 😂 (she loves it and uses it everyday)
I have the Stanley thermos, like the green one for soup. I think I bought it 10 years ago. It’s pretty great. Now THAT is a cup worth buying.
as an Oregonian, the obsession over camping gear is hilarious to me
I saw someone say “first carhart and now Stanley’s these girls wanna be welders so bad” but all I could think was these girls wanna go camping!
That and camouflage
I’m a now ex-Oregonian but oh my god same. It’s so damn funny. I do get Hydros, I have one myself and knew some people in uni who had theirs go through farming equipment and come out intact (albeit very dented lol) but I also don’t understand why it’s trendy beyond that… like it’s a water bottle
as a fellow oregonian i agree lol
It's also a Texas thing since hunting is big here
Not just an Oregon thing
“I fully believe in side quests to live a healthy and fulfilled life in adulthood” is now my life’s motto
I think what's weird about this for me is the fact that growing up, Stanley cups were the ones you bought when you couldn't afford a Yeti/Hydroflask. It was a cheaper way to get a decent tumbler without having to pay the price of the bigger/more popular name brand. And now Stanley has become the exact thing the other brands were. I feeeel like there'd a conversation to be had about the co-opting of brands/trends/etc. that were accessible to lower-income folk by people of influence/rich people, causing the poorer ones to be pushed out of the one thing that they had access to, but God knows I'm not smart enough to start that. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I thought about that exactly too when I watched the video, thinking hey isn't that the cup that was like a cheaper hydroflask? Pretty sure I would see them at Marshall's too. But what you said rings true for other inexpensive/affordable things that go viral. Thus making them unattainable for the people who couldn't afford the more expensive option.
It's like when Champion was like $5 in Wal-Mart and you got teased wearing it to basketball practice because it wasn't Under Armour or Nike.
Well... you can still get a cup like this for 10 Dollar if jou want. Stanley produces in China richtig now and this means the brand is literally worthless. Get a noname-cup and it might be a Stanley without the logo. 😂
I originally bought a Stanley cup due to the hype on TikTok, but even if the hype died down I would still continue to use it. It’s helped me increase my daily water intake in a more convenient way (the large size definitely helps). That being said, I still think the amount of hype and social status attributed to these cups is rather absurd. At the end of the day, it’s just a water bottle.
Same!! Got one last Christmas since I needed a new insulated cup to have with me during my long production days. Holds a shit ton of water and I loveeee crispy cold water. Still use it every single day and it’s as good as the day I got it, keeps me hydrated AF since I procrastinate on refills. Fits in my car cup holders and I loveee the handle.
Not gonna lie though, as a 30 y/o girlie who doesn’t love over the top mainstream consumerism/brand name hype… starting to feel a liiiiittle embarrassed to be seen with it outside my house lols - “oh you have the coooool cup, huh?!” lol whatever, finding it hard to give any fucks - I love my cup, okay?! Haha
I bought a knock-off from a decent brand and keep it on my desk at work. It does help with my intake of water, but my goodness it is not at all convenient to take out and about.
You can still just get a really good reusable cup for half the price. Stanley cups are like buying designer brand… you’re paying for a logo and a status symbol. Seems silly to me.
former camp counselor here! still use my scratched up nalgene from like 2016. my rule of thumb for water containment vessels is that if it’s too expensive to cover in stickers, I don’t need it
former camp counselor with gwen campcamp as their icon, very fitting!
Amanda: I've never seen people go this crazy over a cup
All the Finnish people: You've clearly never heard of the *Moomin* mugs...
Just found out, there's a Moomin mug insurance you can get.😳
Atleast the moomin are cute
i’ll look that up when i finnish this video
As a recent immigrant to Finland I'm just very happy to see someone talking about my new country 😅.
They are also all the rage in Iceland
57 yr old farmer we always had Stanly thermos and when them travel cups came out we bought a couple to take on the tractors with us, to see people going wild over a cup made for farmers and truckers is very funny. It's a cup a great cup but just a cup.
I used to work at a starbucks back in 2020 and the same craze was going on with our pride collection one year bc of color changing cups. Its so silly having to tell adults no you can't have all 17 of them, like the selfishness is just insane. I can say i own more than one reusable cup, i think 4 or five, some for hot drinks specifically, but at some point I know they'll be donated or recycled before I get a new one, I don't get having THAT many
I literally loled 😂
“No, Barbara. You can’t buy our entire stock.”
I worked at shoppers drug mart during the wii craze. We had like 3 wiis that came in. Not only did one person try to buy all 3 (we refused to sell him all 3), but I apparently have ruined so many kid's Christmases because I could magically build a wii in the mythical back room.
I can understand a video game craze more than a reusable cup craze though.
My wife asked me if I knew about women always having a stanley cup walking around. I asked why are women so into hockey? She explained it to me and now we count how many stanleys we see whenever we go to places. There is always at least 1
This will be my new hobby-Stanley spotting. Lol
There actually is a professional women’s hockey league now. Maybe Stanley should partner with them!
Last year I noticed the trendification of drinkware and also began to think about getting something similiar. Rather than buy anything from these massive brands, I supported a local business and bought a tumbler from a small shop at a convention and it perfectly fits me. Not only do I carry around a (horror themed) tumbler that suites my style and stands out from others, but I know my money went to directly support and make an impact on someone.
I got a custom Beetlejuice tumbler from a local seller to celebrate my new job about 3 years back, and it's been my mainstay. My friend got a Ghostface one to match. It's nice, it does what it's supposed to, and it's nice to be able to say "Yeah I got this from so-and-so. She even makes ones that glow in the dark!" It came out almost 20 bucks cheaper than the average Stanley. Sometimes I wonder if it people just want a really cool travel mug and don't realize tons of people do customs, so they buy 10 different colors instead.
Minor irony of this for me is that I bought a Hydroflask when I was in college. At the time they WERE a small, local company for me. Look at them now lol
I won mine in a raffle last Christmas, and I am only NOW finding out how to properly clean the damn thing. Thank you for saving me from toxic mold, Swell.
Honestly, if it wasn't for the people overconsuming these cups by buying multiples and buying from starbucks, I feel like this trend is pretty harmless. Some people are irate over people buying a cup, the anger feels misplaced tbh. Like genuinely who cares people. I bought a hydroflask during the tiktok hype and I loveeee it I still use it everyday.
(I am NOT defending the over consumption and buying from starbucks though you don't need more than 1 reusable water bottle)
I think a lot of people are rightfully mad that people are buying the Stanley x Starbucks cups since Starbucks is known to support Israel, and there is a boycott going on against Starbucks. At least that’s what I’m annoyed about, personally, not the cup itself but rather the morality behind it.
@@faeriegloss665 oh ya no i 100% agree with the starbucks stuff, people losing their morals for a cup is not cute.
But like i saw videos of CHILDREN opening them for christmas and the comments were full of adults just insulting them to no end. That to me is too much
i’ll add the starbucks part to my OG comment that’s a good point
i don’t think anyone is irate over A cup, this whole discourse is about the people camping out and having she
ves full of stanleys.
nobody bats an eye if someone has one cup and it’s a stanley
@@cashmerenerd you obviously have read any comments sections on tik tok or twitter
@@cashmerenerd i disagree almost every single comment section on tik tok and twitter under videos of children receiving these cups for christmas is overwhelmingly negative
Until someone asked me for it at work once, I thought they were purely industrial cups that like handymen bought or something
They used to be a popular brand amongst labourers and such for their thermal flasks
@@xXSPADEGGmy grandpa used the same Stanly thermos for his coffee for like 50 years when he’d drive his mail route
I have a set of 4 for camping that my mom bought in the 90s. Those things have been dropped in a bear bag, dropped in water, kicked, tossed in frustration. Still work like new.
The washing thing is wild to me. At the summer camp I work at, we literally have to restrict the types of water bottles that teens bring on our backpacking trips because kids will try to bring literally the most impossible to sterilize waterbottles of all time and i have to tell them that they will literally get giardia. Thats why im a nalgene girly becausr they are so easy to clean
Tbf one time i got bacterial pneumonia from a moldy nalgene 😭 twas horrid
@@loganlloyd6930 i mean, you still have to wash them 💀 it's just easier to clean a bottle that is essentially just a big ol' cylinder compared to other water bottles that have those rubber gaskets you have to remove
I can totally understand being selective about water bottles when working with teens & it’s awesome your summer camp at least cares enough to save the kids from poisoning themselves. But man for grown adults, if you somehow don’t realize you need to take apart & wash each part of a water bottle I kind of feel like that’s your own fault 😂
I love that my Stanley keeps water and ice cold for so long, fits in cup holders, and has an ergonomic handle. I also like that my dad who passed out and was admitted to the ER last year for dehydration loves carrying his Stanley around and it helped his hydration. However I did buy it because I was persuaded on Tik Tok. Not because I wanted to “be cool” but it just looked like a good product. Although I use my simple modern more because it’s more leak proof
I'm so baffled by this. As someone who has had a Stanley Cup for about a year and very much does enjoy it, I do not understand the desire at all to just...hoard a trove of them. It's a good cup! you don't need more than one!
Edited to answer amanda's question! I do like the cup. I had been gifted other water bottles in the past that never quite worked. Either they were too bulky to carry around or stash in a cup holder (especially if they didn't have a handle), didn't stay cold, or were a pain to drink out of. I'm someone who--not really sure the psychology of this but haven't found a brain hack around it--if I'm going to regularly drink water I really, REALLY need a straw. If it doesn't have one I just sort of...don't. I set out to find one to buy for myself finally and based on what I was able to find at the time, the Stanley cup seemed like the highest quality option that ticked all the boxes: handle for easy carry, straw, stays cold, big but fits in a standard cup holder. I just have the one and have been using it almost every single day for a year now. (Don't worry it gets plenty of washing too). My need for a straw basically rules out any cup ever being fully leak proof, so that doesn't bother me. I also don't TikTok! So TikTok definitely didn't make me buy it haha
Small caveat that I went for the smaller, 30oz, option rather than the big 40oz. Once I saw it in person the 40oz just seemed like a little too much to carry. The 30oz is very similar in style just smaller.
everything you said is exactly how i feel about mine (but i just got mine for christmas lol) -
mine just has a nj devils sticker bc i like hockey and i think its hilarious
in addition to your cups, if you have a water fountain for your pets, clean the pump! like disassemble the pump and scrub everything. the brand our cats' fountain is from sells a cleaning kit, but i didnt bother buying it bc we have the skinny brushes for metal straws and it worked perfectly. CLEAN YOUR FOUNTAIN PUMPS
My theory is that after the '08 recession people became weary of spending money on collections of "frivolous" things, but still want to. So instead they deceive themselves that it's okay to spend money because they're buying things that are "useful" and "lasting" but are actually just buying collectibles in an adulting cosplay.
Something very fascinating to me is how Stanley has been trending with different products in different countries according to specific cultural aspects. In the US it's that tall, 40oz tumbler cup with a handle and a straw, that people will use to carry their beverages on a daily basis... That one seems more focused on a "productivity" kind of mindset, where you HAVE to have your drinks handy at all times because you can't bother to go refill it every 30 minutes as you work or study.
While here in Brazil it's the 16oz "beer pint" type of cup, that people will take to more social gatherings, whether it's to keep their drinks cool at a barbecue cookout, or at the beach. I've seen people even take them to the night club! It started a few years ago and now pretty much EVERYONE here has one of these, haha. It all started because someone found out that you can keep your beer cold for over 8 HOURS in those cups. And that's true, I can attest to that... but like... Why would I need my beer to last for that long? lol. I don't know ANYONE who will take longer than 20 minutes to finish a glass of beer, but go off I guess.
I still own my Hydroflask to this day and it still serves me its purpose very well... I just use it for water, though. That's the only thing I drink out of it, that I need to carry with me up and down throughout the day. I guess I don't reflect the majority of the audience since I don't like coffee, but as of now I don't see any reason to retire my good ol Hydroflask. It's still doing the job for me. 💁♀
I love this comment and agree so much. I have an animal crossing themed thermos style bottle from Controller Gear that was like $20 and it's worked so well for me. It's compact enough I can put it in any size backpack. I don't need any of these expensive items to be happy. Had some friends try and convince me to get a Stanley and then I saw the price and I laughed. The black mold part too like many of these people will buy for the trend and never care to learn anything about it. Even I knew that to take all the little parts out. I cannot stand the smell of mildew in any way. I am fine with my "shitty" thermos I don't care it's cute 💅🏽
People drinking moldy water kills me 😭 I remember when people weren’t even washing the reusable bottles and mugs and were surprised they were growing mold! Like how do y’all not taste something funky.
I like to think that the mold adds the perfect amount of flavor and distinguishes the water in my bottle better than other water.
/s I wash my bottle
I was a barista you wouldn't believe what cups people have handed me. No ma''am I'm not here to scrub the cup you left in your car for a f-cking month.
if anyone who drinks anything with sugar in it, in a bottle, you smell something funky after the first day of not washing it. It's such a noticeable smell I just couldn't go more than a day without washing it
Growing up this was a reason why I actually wasn’t really allowed to get many reusable cups.
I won’t lie I’m kinda lazy in this department but in my defense my go-to bottle is mostly glass which I don’t think grows mold very well iirc. Probably should clean the top more often though.
I was JUST talking to my co-worker about how ridiculous the obsession is. My “knock off” holds water just as good as the real thing.
The day after Christmas I saw a lot of my younger cousins who are all girls under the age of 14. Almost all of them had gotten a Stanley for Christmas. Their cups were decked out in accessories, all of them had tops on the straws, charms, and fanny packs. They were literally too big for their hands. I understand getting a cup, but the sheer amount of accessories for them will never make sense to me.
That’s really sad to me. They’re just cups 😅. Whatever happened to being a kid
That’s adorable. At least it’s harmless.
honestly makes sense to me. its like having cell phone charms when i was in high school. being that age means you like to Decorate and Accessorize!
@@FabiolaRVelathem accessorising it IS being a kid haha
It’s a doll they can drink out of.
I found out I was pregnant February of 2023. I had bad all day sickness from 7 weeks to about 20 weeks. The only thing that helped my situation and made me feel better was super cold water. I’ve drank out of mason jars my whole life but I can’t take a mason jar in the car. So, I switched from a mason jar to a Stanley and this is how I chose. Whatever reusable cup I bought had to meet this criteria - it had to be able to fit in a car cup holder and it had to be 32 oz or more as I was trying to drink over 100 oz a day. Color didn’t matter too much and yeah it’s clunky as hell but I swear it got me thru the nausea and throwing up.
Thank you for explaining the craze around Stanleys. I work at Target and didn't know anything about them until I walked into work and saw a line of people crowding the front doors 😭 Every time they drop it's super stressful and people are very rude when I tell them we ran out/don't have any. Not to mention the shoplifting. I usually don't understand trends but this is next level ridiculous.
oh my god I work at target too, one day I was pushing them out on the floor (in the middle of the day) and I kid you not I had an audience of girls and women watching me open each box 😭 the cups were gone as soon as I put them on the shelf 💀
the SECOND I started seeing those insane videos of people fighting over the cups in Target, I thought "ooooh I can't wait to watch Swell's video about this"
I’m old enough to remember when Nalgene was THE waterbottle. It’s insane to me that waterbottle brands have become this big of a thing
I bought my first Nalgene recently and I love it! I sacrifice insulation for the fact that it can survive being dropped on my work’s concrete floors without denting the way stainless steel bottles did for me before. I sing the Nalgene praises daily lol
Fun fact: Nalgene primarily produces labware!
But when everyone started stealing bottles from the labs, nalgene found its second niche.
I actually have a nalgene but from my lab and thus sporting a very different look (square, screwcap). Just gotta love the materials.
And YET the plastic bottles are still filling the landfills.
I remember when it was Nalgene vs Camelbak for a time. Did you know that if your Nalgene lid breaks, the company will send you a replacement? Those things are wild.
Lol, when she was saying hydroflask, i was like im pretty sure there was a predecessor.😂
Hi! Just want to say that your video helped me out with the loss of my tumbler recently! It's not a Stanley cup (it's just a sakura print tumbler lol) but I bought it with my own money and took really good care of it. Last Sunday my mom usedit without my permission and it came back with the paint chipped in a lot of places and it's dented in a couple of spots. It's absolutely wrecked now, which made me really upset, but watching your video helped me see that maybe what got me attached to it was the social currency of the thing (because it was limited edition, etc etc) and it's helped me detach a little from the thing. Thank you!
Aw, 😢 I'm sorry to hear that, I think you being upset is understandable and not just because of the cups perceived value! I would be mad if my objects got dented or chipped as well, regardless of its price
I got one recently and what sold me was definitely the size. None of my other drinking flasks were even half the capacity. That and the straw/sippy cup design gives a good balance between preventing spills while also being super easy to drink. It’s a good happy medium between a full water bottle and a normal cup. Plus the ice lasts all night. What more could you want?
Edit: I also agree that having one is enough. My dad has a Stanley thermos from the 80’s so I better make mine last at least half that long or he’s going to judge me
A reasonable price
I want one because if the capacity and handle. It's bigger than my current bottle and my current bottle is a pain to clean (I like sipping on milk tea throughout the day and it has a lot of unreachable places that milk hides) and a yeti I had was uncomfy to hold because it was too big for my hand. I just want one in a cute color and a little charm on the handle because I like cute things.
It's literally only 40 oz. You can get gallon sized water bottles online for half the price. Companies have been making insulated 32 and 44 oz bottles with straws for ages. Either you didn't bither look, or you're a slave to the hype.
sorry my stanley does not prevent any spills, it actually spills more than other cups i have when i drop/ knock them over😭
@@kristalgic1534why would I go out of my way to find something else when the current tumbler works just fine? Honestly the idea of going out to find a non Stanley just because people online turn into piss-babies about it seems more trend chasing. Being slavishly against current trends is just as mindless as following them if you ask me.
Regarding the cleaning: I watched a lot of moms make this mistake in the 90’s with sippy cups. Anything with mechanics, or rubber stuff in the lid, needs to be fully disassembled to clean. And it needs done often.
I use very simple travel mugs for my coffee, because life is too short for all the nonsense.
I know, right? Those Stanley mugs also come with instructions on how to disassemble and clean the lid. Does anybody read them? Probably not.
this is why i use a basic water bottle. life's way too short to be assembling a 97 step water bottle
That's why I love my plain, jane Yeti. I can throw the base and lid (after removing the seal) in the dishwasher and clean the seal by hand. No mold.
I am currently a high school senior. Last summer, I was babysitting a nine year old girl (yes, NINE) and she bragging to me about all of the Stanley cups she and her mom had. Then she asked me how many I had, because every teenage girl has Stanley cups, right? Well… no. I don’t have any, let alone several. The couple of water bottles I already have work just fine
oh my god fr though i feel bad for the little girls that got drifted into these sort of useless trends, including the drunk elephant girls 😭
I understand the getting super into certain items and trends, what I don't understand is why these grown adults are spending money on expensive shit for their kids
In Depth Review:
My boyfriend, the sweetheart he is, worked at Target a few months back and remembered I said I was going to have to get a new water bottle soon because my one and only Thermoflask started leaking from the bottom. On his break one day he bought me the "Target exclusive" light pink color, because I like pink and he got an employee discount. I never said I wanted a Stanley, and honestly after seeing the craze I actually never wanted to get one, I had just planned to replace my cheap Thermoflask. When he got home he washed it and filled it with water for me to surprise me (which meant it couldn't be returned anymore). I was very grateful regardless, and after having it a few months, I get why people like it on a basic level.The thing I like most is how much liquid it can hold, because I have always drank a lot of ice water by choice, it's literally my favorite drink. Besides that though, I honestly don't think its practical.
Pros:
-The bottom is smaller for cupholders
-it's 40oz which means refilling it less
-The straw makes it easier to just take a sip rather than having to open a lid
-Keeps it cold for an extended amount of time.
Cons:
- It is my "at home" cup because traveling with a big tall cup with a straw that sticks out in the cupholder is annoying, bulky, and in the way.
-I can't take it out and move it out of the way to the seat because if it tips over or is knocked over, water leaks everywhere; it has to be upright.
-I can't carry it around campus in my backpack, I have to carry it in my hands.
-The straw is exposed unless I pay more money for accessories to cover it which just adds to the high price.
-It cost $45 which is crazy, my thermoflask was given to me for free and I used it everyday for 6 years before it finally broke.
-Bigger equals heavier, especially when it is full.
-Most people following this craze have more than one. You really do only need one. Just get one in your favorite color and you'll be good for years.
-Takes more time and effort to properly clean it, as opposed to a screw top bottle
-The straw is plastic; seems sturdy, but it can easliy break. If you use this cup long enough as intended you will probably have to replace the straw at least once.
-Handle seems sturdy, but I have seen many people's break off, so there is potential for that. It is also somewhat slippery to hold without the handle.
Overall, it's nice for what it is, but overpriced, overhyped, and leaves room for broken parts that may need to be replaced if used for a long period of time. Would I ever buy another one? No. Would I have ever bought this for myself? Also no. I think there's much better out there. Yes, let people enjoy what they want, but for day to day function there are much better and cheaper options to consider. In a couple of years though, it won't matter anyway because just like squishmallows and all other fast cycled trends, they will soon be at your local second hand store, or half off on Mercari and Facebook Market place because people are trying to sell them to get some cash back to purchase the next water bottle trend. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I got a reusable metal bottle from a thrift store for $2, it squeaks horrifically when you open it but works great lol. Never had a leak despite giving it multiple dents, easy to clean, has a cute flower print, and keeps my water cool even after biking in 104° weather and going to the grocery, also it fits in my bike's bottle holder. Highly recommend checking thrift stores for a metal bottle if you want a nice adventure cup and don't have one:D
I also have a metal cup I got from some shoe store lol. The ice lasts like half a day or so it's pretty dang great. It's easy to clean too cause it's just 2 parts, lid and cup. Works really nice.
You're biking in 104° weather? Absolute madwoman. You deserve any drinking apparatus you see fit for that crazy behavior, lol
Lol i like changing the name from travel cup to "adventure" cup!
@ville__ what is with these comments? Ready to Glare gets them too. Reported, AGAIN
Happened to be in Target on a day they got these shipped in, nearly got run over. Glad you did a video on this!
Oh my gosh that sounds like an EXPERIENCE
I've had a Stanley for maybe a year and a half but didn't know even then there was trend going on with them. my mom showed it to me. I bought one cuz it's perfect for my commute and they had nice colors to choose from. Now...with the craziness, I have retired my Stanley, went back to my Hydro Flask...I cannot be caught dead with a Stanley in public due to severe secondhand embarrassment.
I got one for my wife. I just got lucky that they restocked while I was walking by the display in target. She loves it! She also has two but only because my grandmother got her one for Christmas. I don’t get the hype but it made her smile real big so I don’t care about much else🤷🏾♂️
I bought my second Stanley over TWO YEARS ago because I wanted one to use while the other was dirty. Literally from sheer laziness. The only reason I bought the first one is because someone recommended it to me 3-4 years ago. They are my only two insulated cups I own and I’m v proud of that.
In school we were NEVER allowed water bottles and good luck getting a bathroom break 😂 no wonder we’re all permanently dehydrated though…
Wait wait why weren't you allowed a water bottle?? Schools in Singapore require kids to bring one to school and to have it re-filled throughout the day.
@@kyris66 Canadian here. In elementary school in the 90s, there was a strict "no food or drinks" policy in classrooms (aside from lunch time). Water fountain trips were scheduled, one in the morning and one in the afternoon, and each child was allowed 3 seconds to drink before returning to class. In high school, some teachers allowed water in class but others didnt. Learning as an adult how many "sick" feelings were just dehydration is wild. I wish I could do school over again while hydrated. It'd probably make a big difference.
@dylnpickl846 What? But why??? Everyone needs to be hydrated. 😢
Yeah that’s legitimately a human rights violation. I absolutely hate how kids are being treated in society.
@@kyris66 As far as I can tell, it is due to two false assumptions. The first is assuming children must be controlled to be behaved. This assumption allows adults to remove percieved "risks or distractions" from the classroom "for the children", including basic needs apparently. The second is a "slippery slope" or "all or nothing" mentality, which comes into play when exceptions are made to the rules. I have had teachers say to me, "Well if you get to have water, he will want his juice, and she will want her soda, and then we'll have a real problem". Either no one gets to have water, or everyone gets to do whatever they want, there is apparently no middle ground for these people.
What's funny is everyone points to the cup with the ice still in it after the car fire, but nearly all Stanleys will do the same. I have a thermos that's exactly like the one the lady is cryying over. It will keep coffee hot for 2 days it's from the 70s. That's why I like it. The craze over that cup in particular is 100% for the aesthetic and clout.
For someone who has always either observed or participated in cup trends: when I was in elementary school, it was Swell cups (loved them but the mouth was too small for ice cubes). Then in middle and high school, it was Hydroflasks (I LOVE my Hydroflask and I have been using the same bottle for 4-ish years) or Yeti cups (wasn’t interested in a Yeti because it was basically the same as my Hydroflask which works fine). And now it is Stanley Cups (I have finally grown into realizing I don’t need a new brand of cup for every trend and have stuck to my Hydroflask). The only reason I can see why I would replace my still functional Hydroflask is because of the Stanley cup’s ability to stay cold for days. While my Hydroflash keeps things cold, it is older and isn’t keeping things as cold anymore but I doubt I am replacing it for a Stanley cup because I have an ego and I refuse to follow trends.
I'm with you on Hydoflask. I got my first one at Whole Foods about 8months ago. It was the 16 oz coffee flask. Thing worked so well I ordered 1 more and haven't needed another since. I work in a restaurant so refilling with ice water all day is no problem. It does go with me everywhere, but at 58 I know better than to follow fads.
not even rae dunn girls were this feral, this is a whole new level
They literally were, go rewatch the video lol
they were i fear
They are probably the same group of people. 😂
Swell I need you to make a whole video on the 12 year old girls and their Sephora hauls/using drunk elephant/how these young girls are doing full faces of makeup and there’s no longer a “tween” phase 😭 I’d love to hear your opinions on this
I'm glad you brought up Hydroflasks. They were a defining part of the VSCO Girl fashion aesthetic. Once that faded, metal water bottles/ hydroflasks stayed popular because they were more durable and could be customized with stickers etc. Even my sister had one with a bunch of vinyl stickers. Before these, people were half-murdering each other for Black Friday deals, Tickle me Elmos, etc. Is it overblown hype? Absolutely. But it will keep going so long as social pressure exists. The Stanley's are just the newest "thing," and the company has had a stupid amount of success and is riding off it. People go nuts when something has a limited edition color.
I was given one of the the 30 oz tumblers as holiday gift, along with the pour over coffee cup (I'd actually expressed interest in that since it's easier than my French press to clean). I love the pour-over coffee as I don't own or have space for an electric drip machine. I probably wouldn't have bought the tumbler myself, but it's helped hydrate tbh. I struggle remembering when I"m busy doing things like chores. I have ADHD type tendencies and will simply forget for hours at a time, or forget and gulp too much at once and spill/choke. Having an oversized cup that holds temperature while also having an easy-access straw I can bend over and use while passing the counter has been working great. It also so far hasn't easily fallen over due to its weight when filled. I've tried multiple plastic or even aluminum tumblers that have cracked or dented beyond use after dropping them on kitchen tile floors. So, I am enjoying my Stanley but don't have the need for a second. Might be nice to have been able to pick a "cuter" color, but I'm fine with the one I have.
Also FYI a lot of the Water Tok trend started with people who were coming out of a bariatric surgery that gave them water nausea. All the flavors were originally options to convince their bodies to drink any water at all - it just went trendy.
I feel like beige moms and VSCO girls fused together and now we have the Stanley Obsession
My mom FOUGHT for our Cabbage Patch dolls in the 80s
Saaame with the ADHD. The only reason I got a Hydroflask was because my plastic reusable bottle broke and having a bottle that’s hard to break and can be covered in fun stickers has helped me remember to hydrate so much.
@@LotusDecember Yep! My normal "drag around everywhere" bottle is one of the big Nalgene brand ones, and I got a silicone strawfor inside it. I have a tile kitchen floor that I tend to drop things on. More traditional aluminum/plastic reusable bottles get their cap/lid broken or get dented up so bad they won't stand upright anymore. I'm a walking disaster zone lol. 🤷
That plastic ring gasket should be cleaned too! Even treated water on a PWS Public Water System should not let water sit in closed containers without cleaning in between. I work in the water industry.
Oh thank god. I’ve been trying to figure out what was going on with these cups for WEEKS. I’ve been seeing people desperately search for them online and then seeing other people selling them for hundreds of dollars. Boggles the mind
The bottle you have is a Nalgene and they have a lifetime guarantee where if the bottle breaks and you send proof, they'll replace it for free in the closest matching color. I have a couple, I mainly use them for when I go amusement parks nowadays.
okay highkey, i bought a hydroflask cause it keeps my water cold at my desk but it’s like 4 POUNDS when it’s full. I ended up buying a nalgene to keep in my backpack and it’s SO MUCH lighter while holding the same amount of water. nalgene ftw
I didn't know about their policy! Thats good to know
I got a Stanley cup for free at a college event. Literally haven't used it, it's collecting dust in a corner. For me, it's just not as portable, easy to store, or easy to clean as the cheaper, smaller bottle that i use daily.
The trendification of water bottles runs SO deep, it's crazy. I was in high school from 2009-2013 and you were a certified loser if you didn't have a Camelbak water bottle sitting on your desk in class.
I work at Target. I remember coming into work the day the Stanley cups released at six in the morning, in forty degree weather, while it was pouring rain outside and wondering why there was a line of people at the door. When I asked my coworkers about it, they mentioned that people had been waiting outside since 3am for Stanley cups. A few days ago when they restocked them, my coworkers had to break up a scuffle. I promise you, the Stanley cups are not worth making the lives of the Target employees miserable. We do not get paid enough to deal with this.
@ville__ you have one video 😂
@@terejosh13 Just report their BS
I find it so weird why someone would buy so many stanleys when usually the point of buying these kinds of cups is to be more environmentally friendly or having one good cup you keep using instead of just having so many, I get that they want to have collections but it feels so icky seeing the insane number of stanleys some people have
I have a friend who I would describe as terminally trendy, as in whenever something is popular she gets in on it: North face jackets, Nike shorts, Stanley cups, Hydroflask, those coolers everyone wanted, etc. and then once the popularity drops off she's selling them or donating them. I don't get it but I guess if she's happy and it makes her feel like she fits in, then whatever.
Is she happy though? I've always wondered if people who constantly feel the need to fit in are actually happy. I hope they are. I hope your friend is.
im so glad im not on tiktok wtf, these kinds of trends just give me such a dreadful feeling. but watching these and being baffled at em can be so entertaining, which is why i like your videos because of how in depth and throughly-researched you try to make em. thank you for another good video :)
also, thank god i watched this, i also had no idea i could remove the silicone stopper and ring from my owala bottle?? thank god it was only a bit gross (only hard water it seems, somehow. ive had and used it for a year.) its horrifying that i dont remember it having an instruction for that on the label though?? maybe i just missed it but jfc...