Honestly through the last ten years I have become inundated with “reusable” cups. They are a pain to store, and through the years over half of them can never be found at the same time as their lid. I am very over it. Now we have four Thermaflask brand ones we use when out working in the yard in summer, I pretty much tossed the rest.
One exactly one. I own exactly one camelbak and its perfectly fine to use since 2012. Added a insulated mug during Covid times in 2020 and that is it. Now I have these and they are great. Once you exit the random manufactured consumerism it becomes comical.
Any person needs exactly zero thermos cups. Are you thirsty? Drink a glass of water. Need coffee? A litre of fluid if it was actually coffee would most likely make you ill. You drink a cup in several minutes and you go along your business. No need to drag it around with you.
@@123batina while this is technically true, my father and later my brothers worked construction. Each morning they would pack their lunch box , including a thermos of coffee. Many work sites have no place for food and beverage. I have to assume schools no longer have water fountains. But overall the abundance of insulated drinking vessels is completely out of control. And instead of parents and teachers shutting down the whole bullying thing harshly, they just cave and buy.
I have 4 Yeti cups and kept it to only four. I use yeti cups at work and at home. My hands are weak from continuous surgeries. So if I drop it who cares, it’s tough enough 😂 and they’re not truly leakproof.
It's not even slightly surprising that the guy who managed to somehow make Crocs "cool" was the one able to turn this water vessel into an unhinged viral trend.
I do hope no one blames him for the absolute frenzy and unhinged behavior. He is an excellent marketing manager. I wouldn't mind working for this man even though I fucking hate corporate.
And in the process making millions of children not accustomed to wearing regular shoes and socks. It will come back to bite them later when they continue these bad habits and start having foot issues. Crocs do not secure will to the foot, lack lateral support and the friction from that movement causes calluses. I would never let my son wear those outside a pool or beach setting.
I find all iterations of cups & flasks at thrift stores. When I bring a new one home, my millennial daughter tells me it is a desirable brand… 5 years ago!
Back in 2019, I got a Starbucks tumbler at Goodwill for like $1.99 and had some printing on the side and I didn't think much of it because I just needed a tumbler for my commute in the mornings. But when I read the printing, it said that I was entitled to one free coffee once a day If I presented that tumbler, and the end date was three months away from when I bought the thing, So I had free Starbucks for three months for the purchase price of $1.99. And that tumbler was originally a $60 special edition thing that they were doing, And someone just donated it to Goodwill. Probably like a gift or something that somebody just didn't end up wanting.
Just wait until summer; you'll be able to buy two for a dollar at Goodwill or ARC. Stanley cups are notorious for leaking and anyone with some creative capabilities could easily purchase any color and paint it pink Temu and ebay knock-off sellers will be rolling them out anyday now IMHO
Too old to care.. but I also have used Stanley products since I was a kid in the 80s. They keep soup/coffee hot and water cold.. what else could you ask for?
I've never had a leaky Stanley. But I stopped buying Stanley when they got trendy with color schemes, began making ceramic double insulated heatsinks, and lowering thier heat retention ratings in general. Might as well just buy a yeti...
My grandfather has been drinking coffee out of one those giant green Stanleys my whole life. It was absolutely baffling seeing them all the sudden become a trend because that was just the coffee thermos to me for my entire life.
lol my great grandfather worked in construction like 70 years ago. He died like 20 years ago but he used one his whole life and we looked into the history but kinda realized that it’s the same one
My dad had one of those, he probably got it in the 50s or 60s. I wish I still had it. Not because of the recent craze, I just like that old mid century style but my parents kept very little from that era.
The nail in the coffin for the trend is probably the Target/Starbucks collab. It turned the people leading the trend into a joke to be mocked by the rest of the internet. Most people won't see fighting in target for a slightly different red colored cup from the one they already own as a 'cool' thing.
I get this on a gut level, and I *wish* it was true, but counterpoint: Beanie Babies. I think this has slightly more time left, because the limited-edition colors mean that the next popular "it" beverage container can still be their product. And I just... don't think that the average person who makes their purchases based on Tiktok fashion thinks the fighting over stuff is as cringe as we do? If anything, I think a lot of young-to-middle-age-adult women crave things to compete for that are relatively low-stakes and achievable. Weird level of overlap between the people I know who are into this kind of thing and the ones who were super invested in their ACNH turnip prices in 2020.
Cups are cups! There are so many hyper-consumers around these days that even plastic cups can be status symbols, and items that create envy and jealousy.
My dad had this green Stanley thermos that had been dented and used for decades and still kept his coffee hot at work that he literally took on all his camping trips. I have no idea how old it was, and he probably still has it to this day.
" we played with fire, knives and guns when I was a kid .Do you know what happened?? "" The dumb kids didn't make it . When the cashier at cvs can't make eye contact Put the blame right where it belongs .... Helicoptering parenting and participation trophies
@@sebastienmonette6659 haha true, just reminded me of a coworker at a hardware store I used to work at who brought a 2 liter of MTt dew and kept his thermos full of it everyday for years until he lost his leg beneath the knee
We still have 3 of those. One was in a car accident early 80s, has a small dent, works great and still take it with me on projects now that dad left it to me.
@@bryangoggins2055 Well, Mtn Dew has 46g of sugar per 360mL and a bunch of other stuff (around 256g per 2L or 1 and 1/3 cups or 12% sugar per volume). Sweet tea with anything near that amount of sugar would not taste very good.
@@dewilew2137 there are some funny videos about it by a youtuber called "imactuallylayze" but the gist of it is, is that one barriatric patient who had gastric bypass influenced other ladies to flavor their water with sugar free tourani and stuff. but then they took it too far and started adding in 3 powdered drink sticks, 6 pumps of syrup and even gummy worms and making disgusting combinations like cupcake water and still calling it "flavored water", when its really fruit punch or a witches' potion at that point
I loved being a homeschooled kid for many reasons, one of which being that I got to live my life completely oblivious to those stupid trends. I never got bullied for not having Current Thing. Although, I did want a fidget spinner when those things were cool, but only because I actually did fidget a lot and those things were really fun when you’re a little kid. I also wanted them after they were cool, but it just never panned out for me.
I’m a hairstylist and I work with a small group of stylists who always have the latest thing. I’m usually slow to catch up but I finally got a hydro flask (not full price). Right after Christmas, all these stylists (ALL of them) show up to the salon with Stanley cups. 😂 I can’t keep up.
The scary thing is how random these influencers from the buy guide choose the product and manage to convince so many people. No testing etc., just you buy we make money.
this is literally what happened during Covid. federal government paid hundreds of news organisations to advertise the shots as part of a comprehensive media campaign and Health Canada brought on 14 online influencers via the marketing firm Mr. & Mrs. Jones.
My mom still gets my dad yetis because they don’t dent or start smelling nearly as quickly as other cups might. He’s not a gentle guy to his water vessels, I guess
I got a yeti from my orchestra teacher as a senior gift (all the seniors in the class got one) and I think its great. If Ive got one insulated bottle, there's not really a need to have any more unless it breaks or I lose it. And Yetis are pretty sturdy lol.
Stanley cups are a natural evolution of what happens years after expensive products come out like the yeti cup. Eventually people get tired that the yeti cup is so expensive so they make a less cool brand cool, so that they can now be cool but spend less money. This happens with brands all the time.
I've been using the same Yeti for over 15 years. I don't care if it's in or out of style it keeps my coffee hot for hours and whatever I paid for it, I've gotten my money's worth.
And here I am using my 10+ year old Contigo from Costco mostly. IIRC, it was around $20CAD two Contigos back in the day. Much smaller though, but easy to refill so that's fine.
I’ve got Stanley camping gear and absolutely nothing compares to their quality. That includes my ridiculously expensive pots and pans from Williams Sonoma. The Stanley pots can be used on an induction stove, in an oven, and on an open fire and they are dishwasher safe. Everything fits into the largest pot including a cutting board, trivets, lids, cooking utensils, a smaller pot and a frying pan so they only need a tiny space for storage. There’s a diagram on the inside of the lid to show the stacking order so it all fits into the large pot. Best gear ever. It’s a little weird to see them become wildly popular because of pink cups, but whatever works.
The Stanley thermos has been a staple of blue-collar workers for a while. It's a solid, quality product. Not sure about pastels, but I do know that when lunch rolled around, my chicken soup was still too hot to eat and I had to blow on it, thanks to a Stanley Thermos.
@@everythingponyalmost all insulted thermoses and water bottles have lead soder. you have to drill a hole through the bottom or sand off the bottom of the cup to reach the lead
@@mavowar72 I still wouldn't buy a new one though I'm sure a ton of suckers would. I've had the same Stanley cup for 30 years that I took from my dad when I was in high school lol those old green ones last forever.
It reminds me of the swatch watch trend in the 80's. People found out the watchbands could be swapped out-- it was so fun to mix and match colors and trade with your friends.
Close to 20 years ago I bought an Aladdin Stanley A-943B, 16 oz vacuum bottle with the “IT WILL NOT BREAK” motto, and what looks like a 1967 manufacturing date making it 56 years old (00167) at a thrift store. No cup, bad stopper, a variety of dents and dings, and most of the green paint gone, but it had the magic words on the bottom, “Made in U.S.A.” It still held vacuum, so I went on the Stanley site, ordered a new “pour-through” stopper, and a new cup. Then I went to Ace Hardware, bought a “rattle-can” of KRYLON Hammered Bronze enamel and dressed the old girl up. It is the perfect companion to my 16-oz Kleen Kanteen travel mug (that, incidentally, is absolutely spill-proof when properly burped and closed) and it allows me to re-charge my hot drink on the go. Water temp is still a scalding 145’F after 8 hours in sub-zero cold last week. Last year I picked up a glossy black 32-oz Stanley A-944DH “Made in the U.S.A” in the fall of 1994, at a yard sale, practically brand new, sporting a silver “MARS Integrated Site Team” logo that was a team award for an off-shore oil platform maintenance group. Now THIS is NOT a “girly cup!” Last year
Well, my old Aladdin did break when it fell off a dozer and landed on a large stone. The outside didn't take much damage, but the inner container didn't survive the impact.
I got a Yeti coffee cup for Christmas when they were the “hot” commodity a decade ago. It’s holding up pretty well. I’m in construction so it’s seen some rough times. Like last summer it sat in my extended cab under the seat the whole season. The little bit of coffee that was in there was still hot when I found it around October. Score!
@@smelltheglove2038 I've got three Yeti mugs and I love them. They are far superior in design to the Stanley mug, as the center of gravity is lower and they are less likely to fall over. A spill on my desk could destroy a $7,200 laptop and that just isn't acceptable, so the Stanley mug goes unused.
One good thing about the Stanley cups, is that the workers don't leave empty Evian bottles in every nook and cranny of my shop, like those Evian bottles.
I really felt the videos reflecting on Stanley’s were kind of overdone but I gave yours a try and wow I’m glad I did. Summarized it pretty perfectly, now I know what’s going on and don’t need to redownload TikTok. Nice job
As someone whose only exposure to Stanley cups was as a drab, but functional, camping accessory, this really satisfied my curiosity over the rebranding and hype.
For some reason YT suggested this and my first reaction was "wtf, I don't watch ice hockey at all" followed by "I thought the Stanley Cup is later in the year" and then I realised that it's about a mug.
Me too. I’ve got my dad’s old Stanley thermos that he used when he was a contractor for years. I’m an electrician myself, so it’s been in the field for 50 years or so and still works great.
I agree. I just heard about “Stanley cups” a few days ago from a news story about hundreds of Target employees being “promoted to guest” ie fired for buying Stanly cups from their stores; apparently many were not aware of a policy that associates could not buy Stanly cups or actually did not violate policies but were unfairly fired. This might make a video topic on its own. I was confused and thought that this all had to do with some sports thing. Now that I know the context I’m looking for a similar cup myself; but in under the Aladdin brand name ( still Stanley) and in Aladdin green.
It's a lot like Fjallraven backpacks back in the day... you would see them everywhere (atleast in the Netherlands) and their quality is amazing so they can be used for decades. People got rid of them quickly, i still use them everyday 😂 If the quality is worth the price, then please use it after the hype is over😢
@@elainestokes2787fjallraven sells strap covers to prevent that issue afaik. i have the mini one and have been carrying it around for about a year now so i can’t speak on that problem with the biggest bags but it’s definitely the roomiest bag i’ve carried. i could carry around mine and a friends 32 oz hydro flasks in it and still have room. that said charging extra for strap padding is ridiculous given the price of the kankens
I have recently bought one (also in the Netherlands) because my Eastpack died after 15 years and love it :) really good quality.. but I do see quite a lot of people still using them luckily - love it when people keep using good quality stuff when the hype is over. So good for you :D
I've been using Contigo cups for years and they work great. I still have old green Stanley thermos that's been passed down for generations and it's amazing.
When my old Walmart fake yeti needed replacing bc it was all scratched up on the bottom, I bought a Stanley. It’s my only one. But I will say it kept ice for two days. It’s a good cup, and while it’s huge (I got the 40oz) I really like it. Besides that, it’s JUST a cup. The idea of owning 5 let alone 50 of these gives me heartburn. There is no need.
P.S.S. THANK YOU - for explaining this whole bizarre Stanley Cup phenomenon --- which saved me hours of research or interest in EVER purchasing yet another trendy object (no thank you!). I've always been of the mind-set "If everyone is doing something - I'll do the opposite!". 🤓
Oh, this is just the Yeti Cup craze all over again. By the end of highschool everyone had one, the ones who were into arts and crafts started painting, vinyl wrapping, all that jazz with em. My mother has a collection of the thinner tumblers with so many designs on em. Edit: just an example, she gave my father a thin RTIC cup with a Coors light wrap, and she got one with a Fireball motif. And i think she got the Quencher original just this Christmas with a Houston Astros wrap.
Loved this video because it’s not just talking down about women’s interests. Women’s shopping habits DRIVE the economy in so many ways. I don’t even want a Stanley because I like my hydroflask knockoff, but I think part of the downfall is that now they’re becoming “cringey” ever since those target videos came out. Becoming cringe is the death of a trend expanding into new demographics. If you didn’t have one, you probably won’t get one because you don’t want to be associated with that crowd who went nuts for a pink cup. At least, that’s how I feel at this point 😅
@@chrishirecat maybe. But I have super narrow feet, I couldn't keep them on if I wanted to wear them. The first time, I saw a friend in them I asked why he was wearing gardening shoes out in public 😅
Women make up half the population, I would surely hope and expect for their shopping habits to drive the economy proportionally. It's unfortunate that so much of it is driven by trends, though.
I’ve watched a few videos on this cup recently and this is the first that went this far into detail, great job. I wanted to add I have two coworkers that had a Stanley cup they purchased early 2023 and after this viral valentines release they say they almost don’t even want to use it anymore. I think the stigma of the ppl camping and waiting in line for a “cup” simultaneously hurt and helped Stanley.
yeah, coincidentally my stanley cup lid broke the same day of the drop i think cause some kid ran into it, and im somewhat glad. i feel embarrassed cause i have the same cup as the cup people going feral at target for.
I got the 32 oz classic looking green hammertone Stanley/Aladdin thermos a few years before this craziness started. Use it for hot tea most of the time when on the job and the cup-cap so that the liquid cools off quickly enough for me to drink it. Never had a problem with it, never had to worry about losing it because it was so tall. No leakage worries. Well made. Never bought one of the newer Stanley cups or bottles for cold drinks with a straw. Got plenty of other cups and steel bottles for the same purpose. Never paid more than $15 for any of 'em. Hell, I think my only Stanley thermos cost just a bit more than that, too. Can't believe the amount of money someone will drop for even a theoretically indestructible mug.
People don't always realize this but the container you drink out of has a flavor of its own. Pour the same liquid into a plastic, a glass, a metal, and a paper container and drink out of them and you will notice a different taste.
yes, though both glass and stainless steel are flavourless. on those, the only trace flavours are going to be residues of previous contents or detergents. dishwashers in particular tend tonot rinse very thoroughly, and instead the detergent is made to make a thin dried film of still visibly dirty dishwater invisible. any aroma there is in paper, plastic, or paint on drinking vessels is going to leech out or gas off much more when hot, and since you'll most likely mostly smell whatever there is rather than tasting it, shi°°y paint on the outside could also be perceptible especially with hot drinks (unless the thing really is well insulated).
@@Ass_of_Amalek I never thought the flavor was leaching into the liquid I always thought it was literally your tongue touching the metal or touching the plastic that was in parting the flavor.
True. I have one coffee mug that is about 18oz. made by Contigo i think. Its great because its stailness steel, not large, doesnt leak and fits in all cup holders. So basically, it has function. I only use it for coffee and thats it. Tried putting tea in there and all I could taste was coffee.
@@_-Montana-_ if you can't tell what I'm talking about then go to your local grocery store and try to find a can of your favorite soda, a 16 oz bottle of your favorite soda, and one of those 12 oz glass bottles of your favorite soda then when you drink those three you will notice that they taste slightly different. Make sure that if you find a glass bottle it has high fructose corn syrup in it because sometimes the glass bottles also have cane sugar which will definitely affect the flavor, The cane sugar is better. Technically you should make sure all three of them have high fructose corn syrup but it's usually the glass bottle that has the cane sugar.
I work at Target. For a whole week we kept getting phone calls about these damn things... we didn't have anymore. We weren't even allowed to talk about them.
When I heard that the Stanley was popular I thought it was the one that I’ve always used for camping, a green or cameo colored bottle to hold hot liquids for the cold nights. But I didn’t realize that the company made different styles of bottles and that people were fighting over the cup.
10:29 that croc guy is a marketing genius n why sometimes u need new pov.. simply changing the colour and focusing on a new audience.. it’s genius..it’s so simple but when u don’t have new pov u can’t see it
Great video! All throughout, as I was listening and learning, I was crafting a comment to you about your take, your humor, the music at the chapter breaks and the clever (and beautiful) chapter slides themselves. Complete with condensation. Well done! And then you ending talking about your personal experience to be drawn from Stanely's and the different ways you could go to perhaps get 1M views, etc. I have to tell you that your thumbnail is BRILLIANT! A hit pink Stanley cup in a coffin about to the lowered into the ground with the caption "Already Dying" (ouch!) There seem to be a number of videos on the Stanley Craze and from what I can tell most channels are asking why the cup is so popular and that they just don't get it. You told me why ... all the history and twists and turns. Thank you. And the last pretty pink straw in the coffin: why the car fire were the best and the worst thing to happen to Stanley. And why *I* am the worst thing to happen to Stanley. I am well beyond the influencer age range. My demotraphic says I should be knitting scarves and collecting cats. You did sell me on what a quality product these Stanely cups are so I will dig a discarded fad out of the dumpster, clean it well and happily walk off into the sunset with the ice never melting. And happily sip my H2O.
Good thing the CEO of Stanley said he would buy a car for customer as a one-time thing. Otherwise i would just buy a Stanley cup and light my car on fire. I need a new car too :(
Honestly, I feel the same way about Yeti. I received one as a gift and gave it away as i didn't want to be seen as a person that would pay $40 for a cup that is indistinguishable from a $10 cup, just to get the Yeti name on it. Likewise, I would go out of my way to not be seen with one of these Stanley cups, even though I'm sure they are good cups.
@kcgunesq that doesn't make you better than. You are still being influenced by other peoples' opinions even if you make the opposite choice. To be original means to live your own life regardless of what the masses think, whether that means fitting in at the time or not.
RU-vid has been pushing stanley cup vids at me hard this week for some reason, but yours is the only one I've watched so far. Great job explaining how this trend came to be.
Easy: I went to Dick’s Sporting Goods, found a lovely 40 oz tumbler in a nice shade of green (there were a TON of them), bought it, and didn’t have to clobber anyone.
I looked for cheapest one and I laugh but they are cute 😂. Just don’t make things limited so I don’t promote scalpers and resellers. Just reprint if there’s high demand, don’t make likmited
@@npcimknot958 Limited is done with colabs to build hype and because colabs are one-offs. To rerun colabs they'd have to re-negotiate a new contract while devaluing the colab. That's just a stupid thing to do. Those of us who aren't into the whole collector market thing can just buy their normal line of cups at normal prices because they keep a selection of basics in stock. The scalpers don't effect us.
The foundation of the insulated tumbler phenomenon seems to be the obsession people have to "stay hydrated". They absolutely must drink X amount of water daily or have somehow failed. I am 67 years old...outside of a singular backpacking trip when I was young, I have never toted around a container of water (or any other liquid) all day. I've taken long trips by automobile, train, ship and plane and whenever I was thirsty, water was available somewhere close by. In the US we are fortunate to have potable water available in almost every location we encounter in our daily lives. Certainly, there are occupations or situations where one would need to bring water along (construction, farming, etc.), hence the original Stanley thermos bottles. My dad used one for years working at the steel plant. But in an office setting such as the one I worked in, the water cooler was only 25 steps from my desk. No need for a 30 ounce stainless steel insulated tumbler that cost $40 sitting on my desk. No doubt that another manufacturer will come along soon with a similar product but with some added feature(s) and the phenomenon will start all over again.
Water is good for your skin. But it has to be quality water. Purified or alkaline are the best ones. They do require you to carry them with you. Unless you have a really really good portable filter.
I bought a Thermos brand insulated cup about 25 years ago. It was great for some uses, like duck hunting or an early departure for a road trip. I never used it daily. Then, some years ago, I bought a Yeti tumbler. Again, it is something I'd use occasionally. My main use was to fill it with ice, then scotch. It was an all afternoon sipping cocktail. Getting ready to move, I found that old Thermos cup. It was still in decent shape, but I hadn't used it in however many years. It started to look like a scrap metal target. I put it aside and came back to it later. Looking it over closely, I could see there was a gasket that was discolored from coffee. Also, the rubber on it seemed tacky. I started by pulling off the plastic rim at the top. It was nasty. Coffee and whatever I put in it collected between the metal tumbler, the gasket, and the plastic rim. I'm glad I decided to put it in the scrap pile. The Yeti I bought some years ago with just the metal tumbler, plastic lid, removable gasket, and magnetic closure was a major sanitation improvement. Is Stanley any better? I don't know, I'll likely have my Yeti tumbler for the next 25 years.
I am someone who tries to avoid the influancer stuff any time I can, but I like the Stanly brand and knowing that even though they are making these cups for the trendy hip crowd the company didn't loose sight of what makes Stanly a good product, and that is quality (see the project farm review). I hope after this trend dies Stanly is able to transition to a state that keeps them making money any amazing products for another 100 years.
This is what I’ve been wondering about: What are people going to do with the Stanley cups that they’re trying to flip on eBay for $1500? Or more than $50? There will be a time when they won’t be able to flip them for a dollar because they’ll be hot garbage. So what are these people going to do with their Stanley cup-shaped Beanie Babies?
Unlike a beanie baby Stanley’s will still have a use. As a cup that holds temperature really well. I sincerely loathe the scalpers that clear the shelves to sell at 4x the price … so I hope they end up having to sell super cheap or give them away. 😅😅
Yeah, hopefully they end up donating them to a school or a fundraiser auction or thrift store. They can even get a tax deduction if they play their cards right. 👍
Well constructed? Sure. Well designed and practical? Oh heck no. They are too big to be practical, the base is too small so they tip easily, and that monster sized handle from hell makes them impossible to put anywhere. It is a product that will last forever, and is already replaced with cheap old ceramic mugs a month after Christmas. The whole fad was weird and silly.
A few years back I was just running to Target for general supplies & got their just before opening (to avoid crowds). Anyway, it wasn't a holiday or anything, but very mysteriously there was a line of about 20 guys waiting outside Target. When I got into the store I had to see what they were waiting for?! Apparently, Target was selling some kind of remake or replica of the original Nintendo. Yep! That's what they were waiting for. The gaming community was going nuts over those & it was a really big deal to get their hands on one. You made a good point.... everyone's got their thing that could see them line-up outside a Target.
Yep. I remember that. I was in walmart and I saw one just by chance. I bought it on impulse because it was only like $50 and my original Nintendo no longer works very well. So I got it with the intentions to play it on the weekend for nostalgia. Well I forgot about it until a few months later. I ended up selling it on Facebook marketplace and I got so many requests from people to buy it. Some guy offered me $200 and I sold it to him.
@@WeencieRants Yeah. I came home and watched videos about it. MANY years ago I was into reselling, & I thought when I saw that line & after leaving... could I have made some money? Should I have bought one? And the answer was YES! I should have, because at that time they were reselling for as much as $500. They demand was niche, but within that niche... the demand was huge. So, I absolutely believe you got $200 for it even more recently. Because I watched video after video of grown men salivating over those & dying to get their hands on one while kicking myself for not capitalizing on it when I had a good chance.
I have one of the Super Nintendo ones. I didn’t get the Nintendo because I played it with switch online. Kinda wish I did get one cause they haven’t been available since I last saw a few extra stuffed in the back of a Walmart shelf.
Thank you, this is the best video about Stanley cups. I honestly was lost! Didn’t know it was a collectors item until a few days ago. Good job, the history helps!
Bought a $9 knockoff version for my cousin for Christmas. He's happy with it and we didn't know what a Stanley is before a girl mentioned it, and we didn't care.
I have a Stanley mug that I bought probably back in 2016. I love it and it's a great insulated mug in basic black. It's still going strong. I bought it for its utility, like most guys do, especially back then. A couple years ago, my girlfriend (at the time) also mentioned how much she loved that mug. And this was before Stanley became trendy. It's a great design and great construction. Purely from the design, construction, materials, longevity and functionality standpoint, they are great. It's like buying a good tool that you know will last forever. I'm glad other manufacturers have copied the design, especially the materials. I just wish people would buy one of them and use it forever, as opposed to just buying them for their fad value.
@jf2176Long before it became trendy, men were buying Stanley's for their utility. It's not a gimmick. Stanley cups really are built really well. I have a Stanley beer stein that I bought probably around 2016. It's a fantastic, well designed, very durable insulated mug that I am still regularly using to this day. Even before Stanley became trendy, people who came into my house and saw it really liked it. (It never left my house because it's not designed to fit into a car cup holder.) So I definitely would not say it's a gimmick. They really are very good designs, made of very good materials, that will probably last you a lifetime. And they had these qualities long before they became trendy among women.
I'm a teenage girl and I was CONSTANTLY badgered by other girls at my school for not having a Stanley for months. Now their all ditching the Stanley's because everyone else has them.
Hey can you speak more to this? I'm doing marketing research, whats the state of Stanleys among the girls now? If they ditched them, what are they using for water drinking needs instead?
@@handfuloflight Yeah absolutely! So Stanleys have fallen off, and come back at the same time. Owalas are the big water bottles right now that everybody has at least one color of. (usually the baby pink one for some reason) But for Stanleys, theyve come back, but only with rare or expensive colors, and accessories. I reccomend looking up "Stanley accessories" online, and youll see what Im talking about. The most popular Stanley accessories are a silicone cup type thing at the base, lip gloss holders, keychains with the Stanley logo, straw toppers, and I also see a lot of mini bags attached to the cups, but those are only on a few of them. If you need any more info please lmk! Im more than happy to help :D
I watched a tumbler comparison the other day day and Stanley was the clear winner. Even over Yeti which was my preferred brand. I ordered one because I needed I cold drink one with a straw for work/driving. Just one though. I only need one.
I watched it too. It certainly was not comprehensive I’m the comparison and only compared it against the cheaper yeti. My Costco cups keep ice and temp control excellent… so does my yeti. They cherry picked the comparisons.
@@lindamcneil711 I picked up one of the Costco deals on the Manna 1gallon/4liter massive waterbottles. I love it. I couldn't believe that they were selling it for only $22, considering that it was stainless steel with really thick plastic lid/handles. I'm also really tall so I thought it would be funny to carry around such a massive water bottle, it looks like a scuba tank.
I genuinely enjoyed watching this video! I didn't know the history of the Stanley Cup and I'm glad you added it to this video. It was so well made and I'm surprised this video hasn't blown up!! Keep up the great work!
I am portugueses and i was introduced to Stanley Cups by my wife who is brazilian and after a trip to Brazil she returned and talked about the fever those cups were in Brazil. i never heard of it before ,so just for curiosity we bought 2 Stanley pint cups from Amazon Spain. It was love at first sight, the cups are really well built and can keep the temperature for a long time.After that i bought some to offer and a thermo for water. Recently i began to watch the crescent wave of clones made In China.Some are vacuum insulated ,some are not, but the original ones are hard to copy.I guess this is a trend like others ,but i am very happy with my Stanley Cups.
This felt like a really satisfying overview of the situation. Appreciated how kind you were towards female youth culture as well. So many of these sorts of videos tend to paint female collectors as childish and uncultered ime
It's very important to market towards women since they make up the large majority of consumers and are easily impressionable by marketing via commercials and social media influencers. Thier purchases are much more based on emotion making it far easier to make them impulse buy an item.. think all those gossip magazines at the checkout aisle and such.
I used to have a lime tree growing at my backyard, and it bears fruit all year long in moderate quantities, just enough for my household to use. And then there was this one year where it suddenly stopped bearing fruits for about 6 months, and when the dry season came, the tree suddenly bore so many limes that it overwhelmed me. There were so much limes that I could give them away to my neighbours in bulks. 2 months after that sudden burst of abundance, the lime tree died. This Stanley cup craze is like my lime tree's sudden over-production, it's the beginning of the end. But who knows what the future holds, let's all wait and see where this is going...
Excellent video. Well written, lots of information, and very well presented. I imagine it tooks several days or weeks to research this story and it shows. Very good balance of personality and style without distracting from the facts of the story.
Rest assured: this video was excellent and is trending to be your best! Very engaging thumbnail and title. I came for news that the Stanley trend was dying and stayed because of the Stanley lore that i didn't know i was getting! The key to your success on RU-vid? DO MORE VIDEOS LIKE THESE!!!
First vid of yours I've seen. I'm impressed by the research you did and the info you provide that wasn't in the other vids I've watched on this phenomenon. Instantly subbed.
ì live in Europe, so when I was made aware of this trend, it fascinated me. All the stories over a waterbottle. This video is by far the best researched I have seen. Though I wish it would have briefly touched on another factor that has helped this phenomenon, and that is WaterTok, and its root in gastric surgeries.
This was a REALLY well done video. Kudos to you. I have not looked at any of your other content, but if this video is any indication, it’s a damn shame you have less than 7,000 subscribers. Hence, I have subscribed. TW, I’m a guy and I do own a 40 ounce Stanley Quencher. (It’s a pretty amazing cup.)
It's good for them to have this become more popular with older and younger people. No one wins chasing teens. Older people have money, and younger kids have parents that have money. They have all manner of products they can offer to a new market based on the goodwill of this one cup. They can even become the main supplier of the various theme cups that Starbucks offers
They’re not drinking more water. I’ve seen more TikTok posts about how entire bottles of wine or champagne, or you can hide beer cans under ice, than anyone saying they are more hydrated.
This was an EXCELLENT video, I’ve shared it with a bunch of people. I checked your sub count and was amazed it was so low! Great work, please keep going.
aint never thought i would watch and throoughly enjoy a mini-doc on a cup that i thought was associated with hockey but really is connected with a mortgage company ... now adored by millions of social media moms. im becoming my dad, smh/lml /bklyn 👑
People that are watching this probably don’t realize that the older thermos’ that were used in kids lunch boxes were lined in glass. So if you dropped your lunchbox or the actual thermos the inside would shatter. 😢
I used an old school glass Thermos we had freshman year of college (8yrs ago) a friend of mine second semester accidentally knocked it over and broke it. I was very happy with my replacement stainless steel Thermos that was the same capacity but half the size lol
As a dude, I now have a Stanley cup, not the colorful trendy one, but a functional one (not saying the colorful ones aren't functional) - all because the awareness brought on by the trend. The realization that Stanley makes incredible products, trend be damned, is something that I didn't really care for, but now appreciate because I'm using the cup and thermos everyday.
A Big thanks for covering about this craze that I have just been pondering 'why'. You made it very interesting while you break it down for us. A huge thumbs up.
Wow, I'm so glad you popped up on my feed😊 like others have said, you did a great job covering the history of Stanley and why they've grown so popular lately! We do love the girlies 💅🏻 what we don't love, is the historic downplaying of women's interests. I loved the guys at Stanley * Admitting * that there was pushback to having pink in the lineup, but the dollars don't lie lol Also the "unsolicited noises" bit from those early internet websites had me rolling 😂 same fr. Indeed this was profound sir, thank you for your addition to the internet. Subbing for more💕
The Stanley cup craze just proves that people are yearning for a connection and feel like they’re all fitting in. In the USA we’re not allowed to have a tribal, kin folk connection so we cling to cups and fashion. We’re no longer a nation with a people who have a true connection to each other. We are just consumers living in a grey country. It’s sad.
But it isn't connection... and that is the frustrating thing. I like a lot of nerdy things, and 'I liked them before they were cool'. And watching nerd culture become main stream culture has been bewildering... and now it is going out of style again, which is equally as jarring as it becoming popular in the first place. But I liked things like anime, and comics, and computers, and VR back in the 90s (yes, VR was a thing in the 90s)... and now that they are phasing out, it doesn't change my view, or my friend's view of them. But these are things that went from stigma and ridicule, to being something to be praised for liking and being 'ahead of the curve', and now back to social disgust. It isn't a tool for connection. It is a tool to weed out the nonconformists. If you hated nerd culture in the 90s, you were expected to make that opinion known, and when it became vogue you had to change your tune, and now that it is out again you have to keep up with ridicule again. And people wonder why they are mentally unstable lol. They just keep up with trend and don't actually have something they like and enjoy, and can't be themselves. They are afraid to be themselves, because it is just a matter of time before something they like and enjoy becomes social liability instead of social currency. What I find weird is that for myself, the 'nerd persicution' of my youth was rather formative. I heavily discount the opinions of others, and am a harsh critic of things myself because if there is something I am going to latch onto, it has to hold up to ridicule before the general populaiton turns it into a weapon against me. But as harsh and critical I am of things, I also have a deep compassion for people, and I try my best to be hard on things and trends and ideas, but not people. My beliefs and tastes have shifted over time, and I love some things that others find annoying, so I'm not about to judge a person for enjoying something that I happen to dislike... but people don't seem to get that. I love old anime, but I get that it has issues, and I'm not going to feel personally attacked if someone critiques one of my favorite shows. So I don't get it when I dump on a fad and people take it so personally.. like... be a person, don't make your whole identity just the things you like. Other people don't need to like the things you like for those things to have value to you. My son is going through the exact opposite. He has grown up in the nerdy golden era where everything has been about comic book movies, high fantasy books and shows, anime, computers, STEM topics, and encouraged in all of this stuff by family, friends, teachers, people at church... but now nerd culture has been in the lime light for about 20 years, so it is phasing out of pop culture. And it is throwing him for a bit of a loop. He is a kid, and hasn't gotten his head around what he does and doesn't like outside of what people encourage him to like. Now that he is getting mixed opinions on things he is starting to understand that sometimes you like things because you like them, and that is OK even if the world does care for those things. It is a hard lesson, but important for anyone who wants to commit themselves to a topic of study, or career, or spouse for more than just a couple years, and I am glad that he is taking it well... or as well as any kid can who has to struggle with real disapproval for the first time. My daughter is the one that I can't relate to. She is somehow up on all the fassion trends even with limited exposure to social media. And she knows that mom and dad are slow to move on purchases, so when she sees something new at school she asks for it pretty early on so that there is half a chance that we buy it 3-4 months later lol. But it is that double-edged sword. My son had learned to build friendships in spite of differences in opinions and tastes in things, where my daughter's friendships are totally based on social posturing and fads... if you aren't up with the hive mind, then you are out of the hive mind. I find it to be pretty toxic, and I worry that this is going to prevent her from finding things that she genuinely enjoys, or friends who can be there for her through tough times when fads become the least of her concerns. I don't want her to become the fad of some guy who likes her because she is fassionable, and not because of her more perminant qualities... and really, that is all that fast fassion is; training for women to remain maliable. And I hate it. Nothing wrong with enjoying the high of the world coming around to the things you like for a while and moving on. But trend chasing just has this awful manipulative side to it... I get how people get caught up in it when they are young. But how people continue with it in their 30s and older... like... how in the first place lol, but why? It seems like a lonely and debasing place to be where you can't ever know who you are, or who your friends are... it seems lonely.
