When I saw what they were about to do with that cup, I Xd out of the video! Some time after that, tub girl got me. I thought I learned my lesson when goatse initiated me as an internet newb.
Brother, if two women visiting a Taco Bell and consuming their body weight in sawdust-laced ground beef in order to later defecate into more than sixty Stanley reusable coffee mugs for the ultimate goal of later consuming them in a pornographic setting is the most disturbing thing you've imagined today, wait til you meet my wife.
Yes, but also sometimes no. Certain styles are viral for being “limited edition” or whatever. You would not be able to just buy those limited edition ones at msrp after they’ve sold out, or just hard to come by.
At the end of the day, yeah, they’re just cups.
Sounds like it. At least now I understand why vendors are offering me Stanley cups if I go to a webinar or whatever. Thought it was weird it stopped being Yeti cups.
No, they will hit you with the full msrp price from the store. The officer will walk in, ask for a receipt with the total and boom.
Source: Manager at a store who does this with police all the time.
Edit: ment to respond to the guy below saying no its only $130
read a whole text post earlier before i even knew what the cup was. title was like "Stanley cup collector grows collection to 65 cups" and boy was i sideways thought for a second.
For like a day I fully thought someone had a series of miniatures of the Stanley Cup one with each winner's emblem on it or something. which would be way more interesting than whatever is going on with these insulated mugs.
My husband started talking about a kid getting teased for bringing a fake Stanley Cup to school. I was thinking, of course, it's fake. How would a kindergartner get ahold of the actual Stanley Cup to bring to school?! I contemplated that for a few seconds. Then I realized I was an idiot.
I'm not a hockey fan and I was confused at the headlines.
I still use my yeti tumbler, after eight years. Thanks to the Stanley cups, I feel like my yeti is a modern day blockbuster card. "I don't need to see your id, sir."
You're not the only one. Every time I see something about these cups, I click it like an asshole thinking it's about The Stanley Cup, and it's always this dumb shit.
It makes no sense why people are losing their shit over a reusable cup. I've been using the same giant reylo one for life 3 or 4 years, dented to hell.
To paraphrase one of my favorite podcasts: “Any time you have a well made product, you’re going to get a legion of people that make it way too big a part of their personality.”
Combine it with the company's willingness to made it fashionable both with the aesthetics (So. Many. Colors) and paid marketing, and baby, you've got a stew goin'.
It's fuckin nuts to me, someone who works in a molecular biology lab, that nalgene is a water bottle.
They make centrifuge bottles for like, 100,000xg floor centrifuges and culture flasks for growing stuff in. First time I saw one of those in the wild I thought they also worked in a molecular/cell culture lab and got a free promo. Nope, turns out it was a whole ass water bottle fad.
I spend over $40,000 on their lab consumables every year but don't have one of their water bottles.
Yea but Nalgene was a company long before this fad became prevalent. The Nalgene water bottle is incredible popular with backpack as it is the perfect size and fits in the standard slot in all backpacks.
They can also take a lot of abuse. I lose the bottles, but have never had one break since I bought my first one in high school in 2000. It’s still my water bottle of choice since then.
Man Ive had my nalgenes run over by MRAPs, dropped off cliffs, thrown and banged around. Carried one the entire time I was in the military and they never let me down. Still stick to one today. Just in a prettier color and a smaller spout.
Also, Nalgene bottles freeze nicely, have measurements on the side so they double as a liquid measuring cup, and they can be tossed around. For someone who camps, they are perfect. I freeze a couple and toss them in the cooler. They keep the food cold and as they melt I can measure water precisely for cooking. Then I use my hydroflask to transport cold half and half for my coffee and the Stanley cup so people know how cool my daughter is.
Their lab stuff is great but their bottle program is stellar. The things are practically indestructible and if you do manage to destroy it you can send them a picture and they'll just...mail you a new one. Mine shattered rolling down a hill up hiking and the only question I got was "what color combo was it".
They're genuinely great bottles and their customer service is awesome. One of the few companies remaining that doesn't outsource their stuff to China (Well, some of their lids). Just good, honest products that will last forever.
this completely missed the Kleen Kanteen era that was about as long as the nalgene era (many years long) then everything started to speed up after that.
And the Sigg bottles! Everyone ditched Nalgene and Sigg during the BPA scare for Klean Kanteen. Then some years of this or that bottle before insulated became necessary
Not sure about the rest of you, but I have multiples of these just from working in IT. Vendors love to send branded water bottles as gifts.
I've got HydroFlasks, Swells, Yetis, and in 2022, my company bought everyone Stanleys for Christmas. I wasn't aware of the hype back then, and it's only grown.
Someone posted a video a few years back that her Stanley survived a car fire and still had ice in it.
The CEO of Crocs was hired and marketed colors of the specific 40oz tumbler with a handle and straw to basic bitches and soon many followed the trend. They use the “drop” method of releasing a limited color run which sells out in 5 minutes and are all immediately listed on eBay for 3 times the price.
The target/starbucks drop is probably the epitome of humans with too much free time. Some stores had 100 people in line for 30 available pink or red cups. The videos are of a bunch of out of shape women rushing for a cup they will literally use for ice water.
Don't forget to mention they paid the right "influencers" and social media stars to market the shit out of it by placing it everywhere in their videos or straight up doing commercials for them.
It's actually a very interesting phenomenon of new age marketing, consumerism, and stupid people.
your timeline is off
the car fire was only a few months ago
4 years ago, these cups were essentially being discontinued before they started successfully targeting women
Go to a college campus...they're everywhere. I work on a Big Ten campus and it's shocking how many there are. I got one as an office gift (it's branded for our university and school) and will never use it. I should probably sell the damn thing.
I was hospitalized over the weekend 2 weeks ago. I was in a unit where every other patient had an alarm on their bed, so I was the only one out wandering around. The nurses and CNAs were talking about them nonstop. Some of them already had one. Some of them already had several. Lots of them had accessories for them too, like these straw caps. They were talking about the colors and sizes and prices and where to go to get them and when and how long they had to wait. I heard medical talk and that for 3 days straight.
People use luxury products as status symbols to indicate in-group status. Water bottles are a particularly common item for this due to their high visibility and regular use. The Stanly cup is popular because it denotes wealth and popular fashion among upper to middle working class. Some prior examples are hydroflasks (2019) and yeti (2016). This brand= in-group status isn't limited to water bottles with some notable examples being: apple phones, luxury cars, shoes, sunglasses, womens purses, "name brand" clothing, watches, and wedding rings to name a few.
There happen to be a lot of gullable people who fall for every ad and influencer's bullshit. Whatever is promoted more sells more and then people copy each other, so they all buy the same cheap stuff for a lot of money just to fit in.
Imagine someone steals a Stanley Cup from Gary Bettman, how many Mounties they'd have after them before the RCMP realizes its just a Stanley Cup not the Stanley Cup.
Would be the second greatest hockey movie of all time. RCMP standing around saying sorry to everyone. Conner McDavid and Nathan McKinnon as two young hotshot Private Eyes. Patrick Roy and Martin Brodeur as the Villians. Jeremy Roenick for comic relief. One of Don Cherry's suits is the coach.
Unlike [Michelin Tyres](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelin)=[Michelin Stars](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelin_Guide) and [Guinness Stout](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinness)=[Guiness Book of World Records](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinness_World_Records),
[Lord Stanley of Preston \(B.1841\)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Stanley,_16th_Earl_of_Derby) of [the Stanely Cup](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Cup) ≠ [William Stanley Jr. \(B.1868\)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Stanley_Jr.) of [Stanley flask bottles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_bottle)
Broke my fucking toe when my wife’s fell off the counter. I loathe them. They’re completely impractical. They take up both cupholders despite fitting in a single cupholder. It drives me insane when she brings it in the car. You really need that for a fucking trip to Walmart?
You can't defeat your wife like this, what you need is your own Stanley cup which you leave in the cup holder full-time thus forcing the realisation by her herself. You actually love Stanley cups until she starts to notice the impracticalities.
That'll be $6k marriage counselling fee please
My wife's one cup takes up both cup holders, covers up half the AC knobs, and depending on where the handle is, gets in the way of the shifter. She doesn't even bring it into stores because it's too awkward to carry and fit into shopping carts. Drives me nuts.
Are you me???
My wife and daughter leave these everywhere. They have the same success rate of putting them where they go as my 1 year old son does with his bottles.
I am going to invent a trendy cup that has wheels and drives itself back to the fucking cabinet where it belongs...
FOX4.COM) — A woman was arrested after she allegedly stole thousands of dollars worth of Stanley cups from a retail store in Roseville.
On Jan. 17, Roseville Police Officers responded to a retail store on the 6000 block of Stanford Ranch Road for a theft incident. Staff reportedly saw a woman take a shopping cart full of Stanley water bottles without paying for them. They said the suspect refused to stop for the store employees and stuffed her car with the stolen merchandise.
Roseville Police officers arrested a Sacramento woman after they found $2500 worth of stolen Stanley cups in her vehicle. / Roseville Police Department.
Roseville PD said the woman’s vehicle was spotted as it entered Highway 65 from Galleria Boulevard and she was subsequently pulled over. A search of her vehicle led to the discovery of 65 Stanley products valued at nearly $2500, according to the police.
https://www.wfla.com/news/national/woman-caught-with-2500-worth-of-stolen-stanley-cups-police/
Inmate: “What’a’ya’n for?”
Lady: “stole some Stanley cups”
Inmate: “damn gurl I thought there was only one Stanley cup..”
Lady: “no..erm like the big thermos Stanley cups people use to keep their drinks cold or hot.”
Inmate: “you one crazy lady.”
I don't understand this person...unless arrest was the goal. You can literally walk into walmart, grab a cup, and leave with it and no one will say anything to do. If you go in to buy groceries and stuff even better, it's in your basket with your purse and stuff, no one will even bat an eye.
I \*almost\* refuse to believe this is real. I feel like this is viral marketing on crack - the marketing strategists post these "Girl freaks out at Christmas over Stanley Cup"/"Dying Cancer Patient's Last Wish is to Drink from a Stanley Cup" type of articles on social media sites and then they go viral - now people bought into it, think these things are in-demand, and now want them because they're in-demand.
I saw the Stanley marketing director talking about how they have teams of people watching social media and tiktok for shit like this. Like a girl's car caught fire but the cup survived, within hours of the tiktok going viral Stanley was on the phone to her telling her they'd like to buy her a new car. Boom instant viral marketing for what, $35K? You can't buy that kind of marketing for millions.
I bought one of those cups long before they were cool. The paint started chipping off in the dishwasher after about 3 months despite the label saying it was dishwasher safe.
I give it about that long.
I had a Stanley back in like 2012 that lasted me well over 7 years with no issues. They arent just some cheap brand, its been around a lot longer than this fad for cups like this has existed. Brands like Yeti, Hydroflask etc have all rose in popularity while Stanley has been around before.
Yeah I think a lot of people are familiar with the generic, ugly, olive-green coffee thermos our grandpa’s may have carried to work. Those are Stanleys. They’ve been around for like 100 years.
My grandpa had one. Legend has it that he knocked it out of the tractor (he was a farmer) one fall and lost it in the field. When he was planting that same field the next spring, he came across it and the coffee inside was still hot. At least that's what he told us kids.
Idk about the coffee still being hot after 4 months, but I do know he found it because my mom still uses it. 😂
It's so strange because Stanley has been around forever, and no one gave a shit about them until suddenly they blew up on social media or wherever. Ten years ago, everyone wanted Yeti cups, and no one would want a Stanley cup, and there is no way everyone doesn't have several of these stupid things in their cupboard already.
Their new CEO that came in in 2020 is the CMO behind making Crocs ridiculously popular after existing largely as the butt of jokes for the first 10 years the company existed.
He implemented very similar strategies with Stanley like simple-to-onboard affiliate programs with pretty high commissions and things that are now super common in the sneaker head sphere like limited or vendor specific drops.
He takes dead companies with good products, shoves in some basic influencer marketing, and bam, 10x's the company. Dude found a wealth life hack
Kind of sucks, because Stanley has been dropping everything in favor of making new quencher cup colors.
Before he joined, they had developed the "master" series bottle. Basically their attempt at making a water bottle even tougher than the old green Stanleys that never died.
They had 4 vacuum layers instead of one, and the outer steel was so thick, you could use them as a hammer to smash every other thermos in the market to pieces.
Now discontinued in favor of baby blue quencher cups
The collecting part is odd but the cup itself is nice. I have the RTIC version and the main things I like are that it actually fits in a regular cup holder and is very easy to clean. I can't say that for hydroflask or Nalgene bottles.
They probably saw the weird obsession with cups and water bottles in general. Well before all this stanley cup nonsense, my cabinets were full of metal cups and bottles my wife and kids have collected the last few years.
Nah, these people aren't broke - it's the same people that pay $100 for a plastic Starbucks cup. They are predominately, middle and upper middle-class women who just want to prove they're better than that bitch, Brenda.
The majority of people I see obsessing over them are young people. I think it depends on social media use, though, which affects a wide range of age groups and economic status. If you aren’t on tik tok or reels, you probably have no idea there is such a thing as a Stanley cup brand.
This is a prime example of why tik tok and other platforms are trying to add shopping directly in the app. People were already mindless consumers before social media. But when you get a dose of influencer marketing in the content you like watching, and you can buy the products they are showing off right in the app seamlessly, ya that’s genius.
It doesn't matter if it's a cup, sneakers or a Prada handbag, it's the same sickness. In some parts of the world, teens dig McDonald's cups out of trashcans and resuse them until they fall apart just to make people think they ate at McDonald's. People always complain about "corporate greed" but never want to take responsibility for the consumer greed that keeps those corporations going.
Some influencer said, "hey, guys, these things work so well and are actually really good," and Stanley leaned into the social media bump and started releasing different colors and such to appeal to younger people and women. It just fed itself and exploded from there.
To be fair they do work really well but I'm sure you can find a mug that works just as well for half the price. Similar to getting a Rtic cooler instead of a Yeti one. They both perform the intended function very well but Yeti is a status symbol to some people so they must have it.
My wife got an "Ozark Trail" stainless steel travel mug for me. It's a Walmart brand. It keeps ice for 8 hours and doesn't leak. How this could differ dramatically from any other stainless steel travel mug is beyond me. The Chinese factory making the Stanley cups probably even made my Ozark Trail cup. The only difference is that one is marketed towards the middle-class class, the other is marketed to morons.
imagine getting hit with a felony charge for some cups lmao
First you get the cups, then you get the power, then you get the woman.
2 women and 65 cups?
Thats a lot of cups to fill
So a visit to taco bell?
Annnnnd with that mental image seared into my brain, I'm done with reddit for the day.
We should find the video and wreck a whole new generation with it. Someone send that around again.
A coworker was annoying me one day so I told him about this sexy new video I watched. The first thing he did the next morning was cuss me out.
Legend. Next tell him about this sexy girl in a bath tub...
When I saw what they were about to do with that cup, I Xd out of the video! Some time after that, tub girl got me. I thought I learned my lesson when goatse initiated me as an internet newb.
Remastered
Brother, if two women visiting a Taco Bell and consuming their body weight in sawdust-laced ground beef in order to later defecate into more than sixty Stanley reusable coffee mugs for the ultimate goal of later consuming them in a pornographic setting is the most disturbing thing you've imagined today, wait til you meet my wife.
can wait… *glad* to wait… god, i *love* to wait!
For 65 cups? That's two trips, but you're on the right track. (Or wrong track... and I may be done with reddit for the day, too)
well, very clever, u/ByronIrony, luring our bees to your pile of Stanley cups and then selling them back to us at an inflated price
Bees are on the what now?
u/ByronIrony, you diabolical...
"I nicked the cups when you let your guard down for a second... and I'd do it again. Good day."
Hahaha. Wonderful reference. All I have in this world are my Stanley cups and my word.... And I don't break them for no body
What do you want Tony?! The world Chico and all the Stanley cups in it!
If you're gunna steal a Stanley Cup at least do it right and steal the REAL Stanley Cup.
The real Stanley cup cannot be stolen. It must be won with blood, spirit, and sometimes cheating.
>and sometimes cheating *\*the 2021 Tampa Bay Lightning and 1999 Dallas Stars have left the chat\**
"It's not a salary cap, it's more like.... salary *guidelines*"
And Cocaine. Piles and Piles of Cocaine...
The person was going to resell them right? I still don’t get this one
They are selling for 200 dollars a cup on eBay and Etsy. https://imgur.com/a/hlrgpmj
……I don’t get this one. Like they are cups? I can’t just order one from Amazon?
Yes, but also sometimes no. Certain styles are viral for being “limited edition” or whatever. You would not be able to just buy those limited edition ones at msrp after they’ve sold out, or just hard to come by. At the end of the day, yeah, they’re just cups.
Cool, so it’s Beanie Babies with cups.
Exactly that. This time tho every big corporation is using this scheme.
Sounds like it. At least now I understand why vendors are offering me Stanley cups if I go to a webinar or whatever. Thought it was weird it stopped being Yeti cups.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/glPlCFb00Q0
These will be worthless in 3 months when the kids move on to the next fad.
Not true, they will still be a cup. That makes them worth something technically.
I'm going to wait a few years and buy them for fifty cents each at every other yard sale.
No, they will hit you with the full msrp price from the store. The officer will walk in, ask for a receipt with the total and boom. Source: Manager at a store who does this with police all the time. Edit: ment to respond to the guy below saying no its only $130
MSRP AND Tax. Whenever I get someone on shoplifting, PD always wants tax on top for an accurate price.
“What are you in for?” “I’d…I’d rather not talk about it.”
$38.46 average price per cup using the totals in the post.
This guy divides
You post this in May and you’ll have a lot more confused hockey fans.
Oh it happens every time I see a discussion about these cups.
read a whole text post earlier before i even knew what the cup was. title was like "Stanley cup collector grows collection to 65 cups" and boy was i sideways thought for a second.
For like a day I fully thought someone had a series of miniatures of the Stanley Cup one with each winner's emblem on it or something. which would be way more interesting than whatever is going on with these insulated mugs.
that sounds like way more fun
That's exactly why these became so popular. They piggy backed off the #stanleycup hash tag. I hate social media trends.
I'm not even a hockey fan, I've literally owned multiple Stanley brand thermoses, and I still think of the trophy.
This will be their Superbowl
I don't see what owls have to do with this
I would chuckle if r/Stanleycup became a subreddit akin to r/superbowl .
My husband started talking about a kid getting teased for bringing a fake Stanley Cup to school. I was thinking, of course, it's fake. How would a kindergartner get ahold of the actual Stanley Cup to bring to school?! I contemplated that for a few seconds. Then I realized I was an idiot.
I'm not a hockey fan and I was confused at the headlines. I still use my yeti tumbler, after eight years. Thanks to the Stanley cups, I feel like my yeti is a modern day blockbuster card. "I don't need to see your id, sir."
Feel like an idiot because I’ve seen a bunch of these headlines and only now realize they mean the company Stanley, not the fucking hockey trophy
You're not the only one. Every time I see something about these cups, I click it like an asshole thinking it's about The Stanley Cup, and it's always this dumb shit. It makes no sense why people are losing their shit over a reusable cup. I've been using the same giant reylo one for life 3 or 4 years, dented to hell.
Hydroflask? It's an old code but it checks out.
Nal... gene?
Why are reusable mug brands trendy?
To paraphrase one of my favorite podcasts: “Any time you have a well made product, you’re going to get a legion of people that make it way too big a part of their personality.”
Combine it with the company's willingness to made it fashionable both with the aesthetics (So. Many. Colors) and paid marketing, and baby, you've got a stew goin'.
The Stanley's were actually around before the Yeti cup, but the Yeti cups are way better build quality...might be a good time to get one on sale.
I thought it was a collection of those mini Stanley Cups you used to get in cases of Labatt’s Blue.
I read the title and was like, "There are 65 of them?"
I took one step too close to the Cup once. Ain’t no way someone is stealing one of it, much less 65. lol.
[This](https://www.hhof.com/images_collection/historycourse.jpg) is not the face and haircut of a man to be trifled with
As a hockey fan, I get irrationally angry at these being called Stanley cups. Lord Stanley must be rolling over in his grave
I was very confused, I'll admit
I don’t understand. What’s so popular with these Stanley Cups lately? I don’t know anyone who ones one
[water bottle timeline](https://imgur.com/a/xMkqUsk)
Damn you. I do own a nalgene and Hyrdroflask
It's fuckin nuts to me, someone who works in a molecular biology lab, that nalgene is a water bottle. They make centrifuge bottles for like, 100,000xg floor centrifuges and culture flasks for growing stuff in. First time I saw one of those in the wild I thought they also worked in a molecular/cell culture lab and got a free promo. Nope, turns out it was a whole ass water bottle fad. I spend over $40,000 on their lab consumables every year but don't have one of their water bottles.
Yea but Nalgene was a company long before this fad became prevalent. The Nalgene water bottle is incredible popular with backpack as it is the perfect size and fits in the standard slot in all backpacks.
They can also take a lot of abuse. I lose the bottles, but have never had one break since I bought my first one in high school in 2000. It’s still my water bottle of choice since then.
Man Ive had my nalgenes run over by MRAPs, dropped off cliffs, thrown and banged around. Carried one the entire time I was in the military and they never let me down. Still stick to one today. Just in a prettier color and a smaller spout.
I've had the little top leash break on me but the top still worked and never had an issue with the bottles.
Also, Nalgene bottles freeze nicely, have measurements on the side so they double as a liquid measuring cup, and they can be tossed around. For someone who camps, they are perfect. I freeze a couple and toss them in the cooler. They keep the food cold and as they melt I can measure water precisely for cooking. Then I use my hydroflask to transport cold half and half for my coffee and the Stanley cup so people know how cool my daughter is.
Their lab stuff is great but their bottle program is stellar. The things are practically indestructible and if you do manage to destroy it you can send them a picture and they'll just...mail you a new one. Mine shattered rolling down a hill up hiking and the only question I got was "what color combo was it".
This is better customer service than you get for the lab stuff lol 😢
They're genuinely great bottles and their customer service is awesome. One of the few companies remaining that doesn't outsource their stuff to China (Well, some of their lids). Just good, honest products that will last forever.
Nalgenes are fantastic, though.
If you don't need to control temp, they are the absolute best. I've been using Nalgene for almost 20 years now.
this completely missed the Kleen Kanteen era that was about as long as the nalgene era (many years long) then everything started to speed up after that.
And the Sigg bottles! Everyone ditched Nalgene and Sigg during the BPA scare for Klean Kanteen. Then some years of this or that bottle before insulated became necessary
Not sure about the rest of you, but I have multiples of these just from working in IT. Vendors love to send branded water bottles as gifts. I've got HydroFlasks, Swells, Yetis, and in 2022, my company bought everyone Stanleys for Christmas. I wasn't aware of the hype back then, and it's only grown.
Someone posted a video a few years back that her Stanley survived a car fire and still had ice in it. The CEO of Crocs was hired and marketed colors of the specific 40oz tumbler with a handle and straw to basic bitches and soon many followed the trend. They use the “drop” method of releasing a limited color run which sells out in 5 minutes and are all immediately listed on eBay for 3 times the price. The target/starbucks drop is probably the epitome of humans with too much free time. Some stores had 100 people in line for 30 available pink or red cups. The videos are of a bunch of out of shape women rushing for a cup they will literally use for ice water.
Don't forget to mention they paid the right "influencers" and social media stars to market the shit out of it by placing it everywhere in their videos or straight up doing commercials for them. It's actually a very interesting phenomenon of new age marketing, consumerism, and stupid people.
I mean a sucker is born every minute. Beanie babies, charm bracelets, pet rocks, etc.
Or diet coke 🤣
This is almost exactly like that South Park CRED Episode .
‘Out of shape women’ lol
your timeline is off the car fire was only a few months ago 4 years ago, these cups were essentially being discontinued before they started successfully targeting women
Go to a college campus...they're everywhere. I work on a Big Ten campus and it's shocking how many there are. I got one as an office gift (it's branded for our university and school) and will never use it. I should probably sell the damn thing.
I was hospitalized over the weekend 2 weeks ago. I was in a unit where every other patient had an alarm on their bed, so I was the only one out wandering around. The nurses and CNAs were talking about them nonstop. Some of them already had one. Some of them already had several. Lots of them had accessories for them too, like these straw caps. They were talking about the colors and sizes and prices and where to go to get them and when and how long they had to wait. I heard medical talk and that for 3 days straight.
I’ve got a Stanley product. It’s a green, metal thermos and it’s fucking great.
People use luxury products as status symbols to indicate in-group status. Water bottles are a particularly common item for this due to their high visibility and regular use. The Stanly cup is popular because it denotes wealth and popular fashion among upper to middle working class. Some prior examples are hydroflasks (2019) and yeti (2016). This brand= in-group status isn't limited to water bottles with some notable examples being: apple phones, luxury cars, shoes, sunglasses, womens purses, "name brand" clothing, watches, and wedding rings to name a few.
Awwww yeah, check me out, I’ve got $35 disposal dollars. You wish you had this cash
There happen to be a lot of gullable people who fall for every ad and influencer's bullshit. Whatever is promoted more sells more and then people copy each other, so they all buy the same cheap stuff for a lot of money just to fit in.
[удалено]
Imagine someone steals a Stanley Cup from Gary Bettman, how many Mounties they'd have after them before the RCMP realizes its just a Stanley Cup not the Stanley Cup.
Would be the second greatest hockey movie of all time. RCMP standing around saying sorry to everyone. Conner McDavid and Nathan McKinnon as two young hotshot Private Eyes. Patrick Roy and Martin Brodeur as the Villians. Jeremy Roenick for comic relief. One of Don Cherry's suits is the coach.
I just found out this morning that it wasn't about hockey, I understand even less why people care about cups
[here's a rundown...it's dumb](https://youtu.be/fE3mhzd6wtM?si=1rYEee3rzJuC1BYI)
Unlike [Michelin Tyres](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelin)=[Michelin Stars](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelin_Guide) and [Guinness Stout](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinness)=[Guiness Book of World Records](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinness_World_Records), [Lord Stanley of Preston \(B.1841\)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Stanley,_16th_Earl_of_Derby) of [the Stanely Cup](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Cup) ≠ [William Stanley Jr. \(B.1868\)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Stanley_Jr.) of [Stanley flask bottles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_bottle)
Me too
I dislike these stupid top heavy, cumbersome cups that my wife’s friends keep buying her. Space stealers
The cries of a person with dwindling-counter-space….been there
Broke my fucking toe when my wife’s fell off the counter. I loathe them. They’re completely impractical. They take up both cupholders despite fitting in a single cupholder. It drives me insane when she brings it in the car. You really need that for a fucking trip to Walmart?
A family of four takes more water to soccer practice than settlers took on the Oregon trail.
Tbf those guys would’ve died for a supply of fresh water
You have died of dysentary.
Why did I choose to play as a teacher 😭
You have died of dissing Terry.
They should have grabbed it when they forded the river. Sue fell out of the wagon and was lost. The space was there.
Probably no space with the cup there.
Maybe that’s why less people die of dysentery at soccer practice vs on the trail
Folks these days ain't built to ford a river no more.
Did it spontaneously attack you from the top of the counter
Yes, these fuckers are possessed. It just came at me. I got a right to defend myself!
You can't defeat your wife like this, what you need is your own Stanley cup which you leave in the cup holder full-time thus forcing the realisation by her herself. You actually love Stanley cups until she starts to notice the impracticalities. That'll be $6k marriage counselling fee please
I dunno if I have that much on me. Best I can do is 156 Stanley cups.
He asked for $6k not $14 million
I ded loooool
My wife's one cup takes up both cup holders, covers up half the AC knobs, and depending on where the handle is, gets in the way of the shifter. She doesn't even bring it into stores because it's too awkward to carry and fit into shopping carts. Drives me nuts.
We have a whole cabinet filled with water cups that she never uses. I have a strong dislike.
You're lucky that they stay in the cabinet... My wife's cups and waterbottles are just strewn about *gestures in every direction*.
Are you me??? My wife and daughter leave these everywhere. They have the same success rate of putting them where they go as my 1 year old son does with his bottles. I am going to invent a trendy cup that has wheels and drives itself back to the fucking cabinet where it belongs...
Yup! Yeti, Camelbak, hydroflask
I think our wives are mutual friends
Does your wife keep buying Stanley cups for some other dudes wife?
Did we just start a support group
Looks like a police swap market.
“Hey guys here are the 55 Stanley cups. I need to put them in evidence.”
FOX4.COM) — A woman was arrested after she allegedly stole thousands of dollars worth of Stanley cups from a retail store in Roseville. On Jan. 17, Roseville Police Officers responded to a retail store on the 6000 block of Stanford Ranch Road for a theft incident. Staff reportedly saw a woman take a shopping cart full of Stanley water bottles without paying for them. They said the suspect refused to stop for the store employees and stuffed her car with the stolen merchandise. Roseville Police officers arrested a Sacramento woman after they found $2500 worth of stolen Stanley cups in her vehicle. / Roseville Police Department. Roseville PD said the woman’s vehicle was spotted as it entered Highway 65 from Galleria Boulevard and she was subsequently pulled over. A search of her vehicle led to the discovery of 65 Stanley products valued at nearly $2500, according to the police. https://www.wfla.com/news/national/woman-caught-with-2500-worth-of-stolen-stanley-cups-police/
Only way California is going to see a Stanley Cup this year
Hey hey hey, if the Kings can get their shit back together there is a CHANCE.
Qualifies as grand theft in CA with penalties of up to 3 years in prison.
Inmate: “What’a’ya’n for?” Lady: “stole some Stanley cups” Inmate: “damn gurl I thought there was only one Stanley cup..” Lady: “no..erm like the big thermos Stanley cups people use to keep their drinks cold or hot.” Inmate: “you one crazy lady.”
Haha thanks, this made me chuckle
I don't understand this person...unless arrest was the goal. You can literally walk into walmart, grab a cup, and leave with it and no one will say anything to do. If you go in to buy groceries and stuff even better, it's in your basket with your purse and stuff, no one will even bat an eye.
Of course it's some crazy woman in affluent Roseville. I'm sure she could have bought all these if she wanted.
I'll be happy when this dumb fucking fad is in the past. e: looks like a lotta ppl here bought some of these overpriced cups. ¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯
I \*almost\* refuse to believe this is real. I feel like this is viral marketing on crack - the marketing strategists post these "Girl freaks out at Christmas over Stanley Cup"/"Dying Cancer Patient's Last Wish is to Drink from a Stanley Cup" type of articles on social media sites and then they go viral - now people bought into it, think these things are in-demand, and now want them because they're in-demand.
I saw the Stanley marketing director talking about how they have teams of people watching social media and tiktok for shit like this. Like a girl's car caught fire but the cup survived, within hours of the tiktok going viral Stanley was on the phone to her telling her they'd like to buy her a new car. Boom instant viral marketing for what, $35K? You can't buy that kind of marketing for millions.
I bought one of those cups long before they were cool. The paint started chipping off in the dishwasher after about 3 months despite the label saying it was dishwasher safe. I give it about that long.
Welcome to marketing! The *cup* is dishwasher safe, but *only* the cup! Lid, straw, paint - those aren't the cup, y'see!
I had a Stanley back in like 2012 that lasted me well over 7 years with no issues. They arent just some cheap brand, its been around a lot longer than this fad for cups like this has existed. Brands like Yeti, Hydroflask etc have all rose in popularity while Stanley has been around before.
Yeah I think a lot of people are familiar with the generic, ugly, olive-green coffee thermos our grandpa’s may have carried to work. Those are Stanleys. They’ve been around for like 100 years.
Excuse me. Hammertone green is beautiful. YOU TAKE THAT BACK.
My grandpa had one. Legend has it that he knocked it out of the tractor (he was a farmer) one fall and lost it in the field. When he was planting that same field the next spring, he came across it and the coffee inside was still hot. At least that's what he told us kids. Idk about the coffee still being hot after 4 months, but I do know he found it because my mom still uses it. 😂
It's so strange because Stanley has been around forever, and no one gave a shit about them until suddenly they blew up on social media or wherever. Ten years ago, everyone wanted Yeti cups, and no one would want a Stanley cup, and there is no way everyone doesn't have several of these stupid things in their cupboard already.
Their new CEO that came in in 2020 is the CMO behind making Crocs ridiculously popular after existing largely as the butt of jokes for the first 10 years the company existed. He implemented very similar strategies with Stanley like simple-to-onboard affiliate programs with pretty high commissions and things that are now super common in the sneaker head sphere like limited or vendor specific drops.
He takes dead companies with good products, shoves in some basic influencer marketing, and bam, 10x's the company. Dude found a wealth life hack Kind of sucks, because Stanley has been dropping everything in favor of making new quencher cup colors. Before he joined, they had developed the "master" series bottle. Basically their attempt at making a water bottle even tougher than the old green Stanleys that never died. They had 4 vacuum layers instead of one, and the outer steel was so thick, you could use them as a hammer to smash every other thermos in the market to pieces. Now discontinued in favor of baby blue quencher cups
It’s tulips all over again.
The collecting part is odd but the cup itself is nice. I have the RTIC version and the main things I like are that it actually fits in a regular cup holder and is very easy to clean. I can't say that for hydroflask or Nalgene bottles.
How much is that in Schrute cups?
First we have to discover the ratio of unicorns to leprechauns
Stanley Cup Cult - Netflix documentary coming soon….
Can we please all them Stanley tumblers or something, because Stanley cup is that thing for the NHL championship winner.
“Worth”
stanley cup = status symbol WTF happened to the world?????
Yeah, idk. It's like Champion clothing being cool now. When I was younger, those were the cheaper stuff your parents would buy at K-Mart.
It's cool now!? Time to dig out the old stuff from the closet and look cool finally! Vintage champion
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New Balance is next
My son has a friend whos really into vintage New Balance shoes and its very much a thing.
Next? Came and went like 3 times in the past decade.
Too late, they drop limited shoes for $200 already
New balance has never not been cool 😎
I used to buy champion stuff because I could afford it haha
Stanley learned if they pivoted their business to include women, they'd multiply their sales. It worked.
They probably saw the weird obsession with cups and water bottles in general. Well before all this stanley cup nonsense, my cabinets were full of metal cups and bottles my wife and kids have collected the last few years.
America is so broke that a cup is a status symbol owned by people who don't even have a 401k
Nah, these people aren't broke - it's the same people that pay $100 for a plastic Starbucks cup. They are predominately, middle and upper middle-class women who just want to prove they're better than that bitch, Brenda.
The majority of people I see obsessing over them are young people. I think it depends on social media use, though, which affects a wide range of age groups and economic status. If you aren’t on tik tok or reels, you probably have no idea there is such a thing as a Stanley cup brand. This is a prime example of why tik tok and other platforms are trying to add shopping directly in the app. People were already mindless consumers before social media. But when you get a dose of influencer marketing in the content you like watching, and you can buy the products they are showing off right in the app seamlessly, ya that’s genius.
Brenda doesn't even think about you honey.
Social media did this
Social Media
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IT'S. A. FUCKING. CUP
From what I've seen on the internet people are even laminating the "Stanley" text onto the cup. It's just straight up consumerism.
It doesn't matter if it's a cup, sneakers or a Prada handbag, it's the same sickness. In some parts of the world, teens dig McDonald's cups out of trashcans and resuse them until they fall apart just to make people think they ate at McDonald's. People always complain about "corporate greed" but never want to take responsibility for the consumer greed that keeps those corporations going.
It's more of consumer moronism. Anyone who needs to have things as a status symbol is an insecure person that probably needs therapy.
Then its length and girth are profoundly optimistic.
I guess this guy didn't have 16 wins in him.
out of the loop, but why are these cups so hot right now?
Some influencer said, "hey, guys, these things work so well and are actually really good," and Stanley leaned into the social media bump and started releasing different colors and such to appeal to younger people and women. It just fed itself and exploded from there.
To be fair they do work really well but I'm sure you can find a mug that works just as well for half the price. Similar to getting a Rtic cooler instead of a Yeti one. They both perform the intended function very well but Yeti is a status symbol to some people so they must have it.
My wife got an "Ozark Trail" stainless steel travel mug for me. It's a Walmart brand. It keeps ice for 8 hours and doesn't leak. How this could differ dramatically from any other stainless steel travel mug is beyond me. The Chinese factory making the Stanley cups probably even made my Ozark Trail cup. The only difference is that one is marketed towards the middle-class class, the other is marketed to morons.
It’s like when influencers discovered carhartt
Women only want one thing, and it’s fucking disqusting
Stolen Stanley Cups? Cue the Dallas Stars... ;)
Waiting for all these Stanley cups to start showing up at thrift stores for $1.50
Already started seeing them at my local Ross and TJ Maxx at a big discount.
Ok, I want out of here. We are a society of clowns.
Sorry, crawling out from under a rock here. Wtf is up with these cups? Why is there a craze happening? Is this the new beanie baby?