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They're good cups that work well in addition to the marketing (see: woman who still had ice in her cup after her car burned down)
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I had never heard of Stanley cups until just a few days ago when I saw an article about a mother who was upset because her kid was getting made fun of at school for not having a Stanley cup. Back when I was a youth I don't recall anyone carrying around cups. We were too cool for cups.
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I read the entirety of the Pupkin webcomic back when it was one of SA's ad banners. I missed out on doing literally anything else on the internet with the time I spent on that.
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Mulaney Power Move posted:I had never heard of Stanley cups until just a few days ago when I saw an article about a mother who was upset because her kid was getting made fun of at school for not having a Stanley cup. Back when I was a youth I don't recall anyone carrying around cups. We were too cool for cups. honestly wish we'd had cups instead of pogs
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like after the popularity dies down at least you still have a cup, and apparently it's a thermos? As far as stupid fads go this may be the least stupid
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QuarkJets posted:like after the popularity dies down at least you still have a cup, and apparently it's a thermos? As far as stupid fads go this may be the least stupid Yeah at least it's a good quality product that you can use. The fooferaw will die down and the people will be left with something they can actually use. Rather than beanie babies or whatever
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There have apparently been cycles of different cup brands: Nalgene, Yeti, etc. I don't think too deeply about insulated bottles, so I wasn't even aware this was happening until very recently. That it's probably a clever marketing gimmick makes a lot of sense.
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yes i remember when nalgenes were popular. what was the gimmick? other cups cause cancer?
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:There have apparently been cycles of different cup brands: Nalgene, Yeti, etc. I don't think too deeply about insulated bottles, so I wasn't even aware this was happening until very recently. a college dormmate showed me videos of people dropping a nalgene from a 10 story building to show how indestructible they were. he repeated the experiment himself from a parking garage and it vaporized. i realize this kind of thing is extremely popular so there's something i must be missing, but i just don't get it, i've never had an issue obtaining and consuming water and i've never bought some kind of military grade permanent object to protect the water between its source and my mouth.
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Stanley cups were originally stainless steel cups marketed to blue collar manly men, but then they pivoted their advertising to women on tik tok and became a successful fad for awhile. Apparently interest is already dying off because I guess it's hard to maintain a sneakerhead style fanbase when your product is a cup.
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yeah i'm all about that cup lifestyle now
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QuarkJets posted:honestly wish we'd had cups instead of pogs If you didn't learn about rules lawyering as a kid based on playing for keeps or which slammers were allowed (no you can't use your heavy rear end WWF Undertaker slammer) you missed out
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Speaking of pogs I'm reminded of the same era where one of those traveling YoYo team shows performed an act for us in the gym in primary school and sold those and related merch afterward. Pretty much what that Simpson's bit mocked. Yes I became a YoYo kid and I was dang good at it I'll tell ya hwut
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The Moon Monster posted:it's hard to maintain a sneakerhead style fanbase when your product is a cup. Not sure why this would be, after all a sneaker is just a cup for your foot. I also bounced right off of Homestuck, it was clearly intended only for the Achewood fans who had real serious mental health poo poo going on.
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Megatokyo? Was that internet famous or does that sound familiar to anyone? I have memory that years ago it had this huge internet following and tons of people following it, but I might be mistaking it for some other online comic. I never followed it myself, so I'm kind of wondering.
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The Moon Monster posted:Stanley cups were originally stainless steel cups marketed to blue collar manly men, but then they pivoted their advertising to women on tik tok and became a successful fad for awhile. Apparently interest is already dying off because I guess it's hard to maintain a sneakerhead style fanbase when your product is a cup. There have been riots over the past week or two over limited edition Valentine's day Stanley cups
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500excf type r posted:There have been riots over the past week or two over limited edition Valentine's day Stanley cups Am I doing relationships wrong? Should I be getting into more riots?
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Grey Cat posted:Am I doing relationships wrong? Should I be getting into more riots? Yes and yes
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Grey Cat posted:Am I doing relationships wrong? Should I be getting into more riots? It is time for the Sanctuary Zones
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The Moon Monster posted:Stanley cups were originally stainless steel cups marketed to blue collar manly men, but then they pivoted their advertising to women on tik tok and became a successful fad for awhile. Apparently interest is already dying off because I guess it's hard to maintain a sneakerhead style fanbase when your product is a cup. anyone else ever feel like you're reading the last couple pages of Brave New World over and over again?
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RapturesoftheDeep posted:I also bounced right off of Homestuck, it was clearly intended only for the Achewood fans who had real serious mental health poo poo going on. That's honestly the funny thing. Homestuck was basically intended for like the average SA user circa the mid-to-late-00s. The entire thing was steeped in the same mocking-appreciation of the worst parts of nerd culture that you'd get out of basically any front page article, but it somehow got adopted by people who earnestly loved all that poo poo.
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And its forums spawned at least k6bd, which you can buy in the form of actual books
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Anytime I see someone bring up homestuck I think about that video of the homestuck cosplayers passing around a bucket in a restaraunt and taking turns spitting into it. I'm sure the other patrons looked on in horror as 8 people spit into a bucket in public.
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ishikabibble posted:That's honestly the funny thing. Homestuck was basically intended for like the average SA user circa the mid-to-late-00s. The entire thing was steeped in the same mocking-appreciation of the worst parts of nerd culture that you'd get out of basically any front page article, but it somehow got adopted by people who earnestly loved all that poo poo. No matter what exists, there will be people to ruin it. Homestuck was okay but its hardcore fans are a bit disturbing. I finally joined (for the first time) around Katrina. I've forgotten so much, it's neat to be reminded here. Met my wife online through eHarmony, so glad I'm out of the game now, it seems like a nightmare from this distance.
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RapturesoftheDeep posted:Not sure why this would be, after all a sneaker is just a cup for your foot. The problem is the sneakerheads are already drinking out of shoes so they don't need cups.
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:There have apparently been cycles of different cup brands: Nalgene, Yeti, etc. I don't think too deeply about insulated bottles, so I wasn't even aware this was happening until very recently. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glPlCFb00Q0
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credburn posted:My experience with Vine is like... so basically the forums
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NoiseAnnoys posted:so basically something awful
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I remember hearing about some gamer drama involving a woman who reviewed games but not paying much attention, and then fast forward a few years and it’s seen as the rise of the alt right and probably the indirect cause of people storming the capitol building?
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Yeah they had concerns about the ethics of counting votes
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Achewood is the only webcomic I ever really got into. Loss is the only thing I'm familiar with re CAD and most of what I know about Homestuck concerns the terrible reputation its fanbase had. Tumblr and fan fiction in general. I might have written a few stories in school about Goku and Sonic teaming up to save the world from the Space Jam aliens or something, but that was way before I ever used the Internet. By the time I was using the web regularly, it was all about the characters having sex and sex is icky. I loved Coke Music but never played Habbo Hotel. I loved Operation Flashpoint but never played Counterstrike for some reason. I was already uncool by the time Vine came around so I've pretty much missed everything since/just before then. Those meme characters you see all over Facebook and poo poo. You know the ones, one is all shrivelled up, one is a cool guy with a beard etc. I don't know where they came from and I don't even get what they're supposed to mocking most of the time. Tbh I've never really gotten memes in general but let me tell you about the genius of classic dada.
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Jerkcity
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Hedgehog Pie posted:Those meme characters you see all over Facebook and poo poo. You know the ones, one is all shrivelled up, one is a cool guy with a beard etc. I don't know where they came from and I don't even get what they're supposed to mocking most of the time. Tbh I've never really gotten memes in general but let me tell you about the genius of classic dada. Not sure if you're referring to the same ones but what i've seen have been either old rage comic or wojak characters.
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Extra Large Marge posted:Jerkcity Hate it, always have. It's boring and stupid.
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Hedgehog Pie posted:Those meme characters you see all over Facebook and poo poo. You know the ones, one is all shrivelled up, one is a cool guy with a beard etc. I don't know where they came from and I don't even get what they're supposed to mocking most of the time. Tbh I've never really gotten memes in general but let me tell you about the genius of classic dada.
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Source of Happyness posted:Not sure if you're referring to the same ones but what i've seen have been either old rage comic or wojak characters. I just looked up wojak and yeah, that's them. Not surprised to learn that they apparently came from 4chan!
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