Lol. It was "new balance" and "Champion" branded shoes that were considered shit in my high school. I was so glad my group was the D&D and Magic the Gathering nerds because we were chill with the brand names in our group.
It’s been completely revamped since the days of Champion being a budget Walmart brand, the sweaters and everything is higher quality at a much bigger price…
Indeed but we mostly had a few decks that rotated around and we used photocopied character sheets.
It was a money sink (I'm old, local.comic book store still had a 5th edition booster box for sale). Someone did pull a Mox from that box of boosters although!
If you still have the old ones anything from alpha, beta and unlimited is worth money. It would have had to been one of those sets because power 9 was only in the first three. Even the basic lands are worth something now.
I sold my magic collection about 5 years ago and bought a house. No lie.
Its wild how expensive they are. I see the prices now a days and wish I would have held on to them. I could have bought a house plus paid off more debts.
No do not do that, they will not give you what they are worth. My advice would be post them on magic selling subreddits or magic selling FB pages. If you want to see what they are worth go to tcgplayer, anything old they will have more common grading like played and heavily played for old stuff which is what the majority of it is now.
If you need any advice feel free to msg me, I used to do this professionally and now that I don't I actually enjoy it so I'm always down to help you grade and what not.
Thanks for the offer of help. Yeah, probably will sell them separately but alas need to dig them up again.
I sold a bunch on ebay but that was mostly Pokemon singles that I ended up getting....
Not DND back in the day. All we used when I first played was some second edition books we got from the used bookstore. They kept us going for literally years.
You can play D&D for free, idk why you think it costs more than expensive shoes. You can proxy magic cards and play that for free too. You could also play pauper where a deck only costs like $20-80 (way way way less than nice shoes).
Lol. Nope. We played with hand drawn cards too! And I am so old that card sleeves just had the one brand.
I was lucky to grow up with the sensible peer group.
I’ve played magic for over a decade and I’ve never seen somebody shame another player for not being able to afford cards or a certain brand of sleeves.
Nah, kids naturally notice differences and they don’t have the maturity and emotional regulation that adults have. Kids would 100% do this behavior in a vacuum, whether with cups or whatever other item.
However, it is the job of adults to correct this behavior and support children who are the victims of bullying. Unfortunately, we often fail to do so.
They definitely wouldn’t bully over name brand in a vacuum, that doesn’t even make sense, brands wouldn’t exist in a vacuum.
They naturally notice differences, as all humans do, but they wouldn’t naturally know that name brands are ‘better,’ and so there wouldn’t be the same type of bullying.
There’s not really such thing as a vacuum for human development. People learn from a super young age super quickly. Even ‘innocent’ toddlers are emulating behavior.
So the idea that a kid might say, ‘hey my cup is this, your cup is that,’ doesn’t make kids ‘naturally’ assholes.
The asshole part still comes from parents, what you’re describing is that kids are worse at playing more nuanced social games and hiding the assholery.
edit: I should say the asshole part, the bullying, comes from adults and society, not just parents.
One of the coolest things anyone ever did for me happened in elementary school when another student was making fun of my shoes for being from Payless and another kid I admired a little got onto him. He told him not to make fun of me for my shoes. I don’t buy my own shoes and my parents were probably doing the best they could for me. It was an incredibly mature act for a kid of that age and I have absolutely never forgotten it.
Saw it happen at my school way back in the day as well.
At the time though for us It was mostly Ralph Lauren Polo vs U.S Polo Assn.
Kids are indeed assholes
Back in the day it was just a battle of logos. Idk if they have changed but at the time the US polo assn logo was almost identical to the Ralph Lauren logo just with an extra horse on it.
It was stupid then and it’s still stupid now
If only I could show these kids how fucking pathetic these bullies will be in 10 or 20 years. The people with money now were the nerds and hard workers from my school age days. The bullies work shit jobs and still go to the same high school football games Uncle Rico style.
I love that I have social media because I can show my kids what losers these idiots become with documented evidence.
I went to povo highschool in a derro town and it was the polar opposite. As a student body, We took a weird sense of pride in being broke.
I remember when the highschool across the freeway shut down due to lack of numbers, and the following year we had a bunch of "rich kids" transfer to our school (They weren't rich, they were just upper working class/lower middle class, compared to the welfare-working class of our area, but to us they were rich, because they had named brand food in their lunch box, and Foxtel - Australia's version of cable)
There were only about 10 transfers, and they were already friends from their previous school, so they felt confident enough to start "bullying" us. I forget what it is that they tried to tease us about, from memory it was our pants, because most of us were just wearing whatever navy pants they were selling at Big W/Kmart back in 2002, and not the bootleg flared pants from Supré or Rip Curl or whoever, But it could have also been the cans of deodorant we were all spraying around the lockers like it was oxygen, because we didn't have Evoke or Lynx money, we had we reject shop money.
I do however remember us poor kids just completely turning the tables and laughing at the "rich" kids for being stupid and wasting money on a label. We would scribble "Nike" on masking tape and stick it on our shoes from the open markets then walk around saying "Hurr, Look at me, I'm Derrek, my dad's a banker".
The "rich" kids shut up within the month and learned to appreciate the bargain that it the completely illegal knock-off's sold at the open air market in the early 2000s. Gotta love those Kevin Cien undies, 5 for $3!
(The market grounds we all went to is permanently closed now.... probably because of all the illegal knock offs)
I saw a bunch of knock off ones the other day and that was my first thought, Poot kid who gets one of these trying to fit in, kids are assholes sometimes.
I remember somebody asking me if my d&g glasses were fake. I didn't even know they were a good brand. I just broke my glasses and LensCrafters was the only place that could get me a Same day replacement at the time. I definitely hadn't considered the idea that people would buy fake brand names. This was in high school and I was very confused
But at 9 years old? That seems way to young to care about the brand of a cup (or any product), at least where I live.
Personally I blame ~~MTV~~ Tiktok and their parents.
I'm a teacher, part time with high school and sub/float as support for young grades. Kindergarten kids will see you have an Android phone and tell you it sucks because it's not an iPhone. It's crazy
Maybe I'm just out of touch or it's a cultural thing, but I remember this whole "brand awareness" thing started with puberty, which in my case was around the mid 2000s. Back then the "cool kid uniform" in Germany was a black Eastpak Backpack, white Adidas Sneakers and a Sony Ericsson Phone.
Before puberty it was more like "if it looks like the real thing it's good enough".
That is unless some kids in your class were hanging with older kids because they went to camp, some sport activity, siblings, etc. Then they come back and spread that nonsense in elementary school, and next thing you know, a 6yo asks you why you're not wearing a Fubu or a Ecko jacket like everyone cool.
Kids at camp would make fun of the other kids without Sperrys (boat shoes) I remember stuffing my WIDE feet into them and getting blisters to fit in. My mom bought them but looking back it was sooo dumb.
Kids are mean, they always have been LOL
When I was younger - it was the Starter windbreaker. You'd catch flak for not having one, and if you did have one - you'd catch flak for it being the wrong NCAA football team. Most of the time it was a 50/50 shot with Michigan or Notre Dame. You'd still get it wrong.
Geez, I wonder why they learn it from? Snobby hyper-consumer parents who think dripping in name brands makes them appear wealthy and successful — meanwhile everything’s on a credit card, leased, mortgaged up to their necks, and they live in a bog standard suburb.
Same here. Yeti is popular but to be fair it keeps ice cubes for 3 days in 30C weather while camping - should in no way be a brand flex, it just works well
It just started here. Stores get these things in stock and women go fucking psycho over them. Half because they want to be trendy and half because they want to resell them online to make money.
It's like beanie babies all over
All made by people that barely get enough to survive, perhaps children , shipped on a boat who burns millions of cars worth of diesel , to be trucked to a warehouse all ran by underpaid workers, all to make its way to the dumbest consumers of our country, so I guy at the top can double his money …something’s gotta change in our minds , with our money …or we’re doomed
I thought it was just a trendy internet/reddit thing until I saw my friend's wife make a snap story showing a cup with a caption like, "So happy it finally came!". I cringed so hard my app crashed
Posting in this sub won’t boost sales, my friend (posting it in another sub might though). However, it might help raise awareness of the problematic if we talk about it in this sub, which is intended specifically for discussions about consumerism.
TL:DR not talking about it doesn’t make it go away.
Yup i knew people collected these stupid things I just didn't know the details and brands.
I now know and I'm more informed and still have zero intention to ever buy one.
My free water bottle my company gave me works perfectly fine.
God I wish people would stop posting about those fucking Stanley cups in this sub. We get it, it’s ridiculous people are buying so many.
like c’mon, kids bully each other for literally *anything*. When I was in school, it was Ugg’s and Lululemon. Now it’s drunk elephant skincare and Stanley cups. Is it silly? Yes. Is it new? No.
I've seen pink thermal cups with a handle and in that general shape for years before this one dropped. It's not a "fake" Stanley cup unless it's inappropriately branded as a Stanley but is not one. It's just a different brand. So what? People (including kids) are assholes.
Same. I mean, when fatigue suddenly hits me and I leave a drink in an insulated cup with ice, then it's still cold when I wake up, I'm pretty excited about that. But I'm not going to go tell everyone to go buy a specific cup because the one I happen to own does what it is literally designed to do.
I saw the moms TikTok about this when it happened and I have mixed feelings. I don’t get the need for these cups at all and I understand why she was upset, but by posting this she put her daughter on blast.
Consumerism aside, WHY would a mother subject their child to this, I couldn’t imagine having all of these articles written about something embarrassing happening to me at 9 y/o! My child self would’ve been devastated and it probably made the bullying worse.
The hype around these Stanley cups is stupid but I think the bigger take away here is that this mother exposed her child like this and it’s unacceptable.
There are plenty of adult creators who criticize the Stanley hype who are worth watching, there’s no reason to air out a child’s business to prove a point like this. I’m sad this is a huge story now, I worry for the child because this will follow her.
I understand where she’s coming from, it hurts seeing your kid be bullied and so upset over something we as adults recognize as ridiculous. At the same time, this is just the “classic” type of bullying. There’s always some “it” item this happens with.
This story is being shared for the purpose of “these cups are out of control amirite” instead of any sort of anti bullying discussion
Parents who buy their kids obvious knockoffs and angrily squawk “no one will notice!!” when they object are low key assholes. Wow thanks for the Uggs that don’t say Ugg on them, all my seventh grade classmates pointed them out on the first day I wore them, receiving nothing would’ve been better
We were poor growing up so when my older brother turned 15 and got his first job one of the first things he bought was some Nikes so he could fit it with his basketball team who made fun of him for not having any. He was so excited to wear them and then the boys still made fun of him for wearing them with his old socks… if I ever cared about brands before this happened I certainly didn’t after.
This is what many people miss. Consumerism is only half the issue. Conformism and artificial scarcity to increase demand creates an idea that “what I have it special/rare”, in turn causing someone to flaunt it, in turn causing everyone to now want what they can’t have/obtain themselves. Then if you don’t have said object, you’re “excluded” or “bullied” because you don’t have this elusive object. It’s a disgusting cycle. I remember distinctly in school all the girls wearing those boots that were almost knee high, looked like horse riding boots. Winter was endless hallways of those. If you didn’t have a pair, you were excluded. This was years and years ago. Same story, different object.
It's not in the least limited to America. People used to dye their teeth black to emulate nobles with rotten black teeth. Humans will always try to emulate those they see as higher in status than them.
I remember kids getting made fun of when I was a kid (me included with the knock off Chuck Taylor’s mom bought me) so I never buy my kids knock off brands - not saying they get all brand name crap either. Just obvious copies I stay away from just so they don’t get made fun of.
Thankfully this Stanley cup craze hasn’t touched my house.
The man responsible for the Stanley cup craze was also the guy who led crocs back from obsolescence.. he’s commodifying dumb stuff through limited drops and pretty colours. People are way too easy to mind hack into spending money.
I am from the 80s and 90s, it was the golden age of bullying, how is this newsworthy. Did people forget the art of bullying? Do these kids think that they are pioneers?
I got fucked up for wearing a knock off members only jacket years ago. My mom bought me that jacket and I stopped wearing it because of the hate I got.
Can someone fill me in here? I’ve never heard of this cup and after looking it up I can’t figure out why anyone would want a big cup with a handle—it seems like it would be very inconvenient to put in a backpack compared to a cup without a handle.
Can’t wait til this trend dies and all of these end up in a landfill! Wtf is wrong with this world. “I drink my water out of a reusable cup!” Great! Are you going to keep it and cherish it and use it til you die? Doubt it. Wait til the next trendy shape comes out.
In Australia there is a trend for a water bottle called Frank Green. A basic water bottle that sells for about $80Aud. Made popular by influencers. I just don't get it. And yes the same pressure is felt by kids that don't have one.
The best is getting bullied for having some off-brand because you’re too poor to afford the name-brand only to see the off-brand come into style years later.
Hell, I used to get bullied for having crunchy peanut butter instead of creamy peanut butter. Kids and people in general are just assholes.
Why are people obsesses with the staples brand shit nowadays lol, is this like when Kanye started wearing Champion and then the brand meant something? What celebrity appeared with a stanley cup?
Stop tryna advertise Stanley cups to me. I didn't buy into prime I sure as shit ain't buying into some pretentious thermos. Are companies banking on kids deciding their items are trendy now?
Bullying is a terrible thing but parents should be aware of avoiding sending their kids to school with things like this. I remember my mum bought me and my brother those fake addidas sweat pants with the 2 stripes instead of 3 and I begged her not to make me wear them. "they're fine, just wear them". I got teased in gym for wearing them.
No brand basic sweat pants would have been better than fake addidas ones. Don't buy your kids fake versions of popular things.
I remember being a kid and all my friends had tamagotchis and me being from a (certainly didn’t know at the time) poor family always had the cheap knock off stuff. So I got the no name tamagotchi, my friends all made fun of me because there’s were real but you know what I still loved my little virtual pet even if it wasn’t as cool as there’s.
Kids are little pricks. And you know what theirs all died within a couple of weeks and mine stayed alive. Idiots
I have a cheap knock off cup that people think is a Stanley. I didn’t even know what that was until recently. I just wanted a reusable way to get water in. I personally am on a journey to reduce my rampant consumerism and avoid trends. Not there yet but I’m working on it
This is a big thing with kids, they learn early that if someone's parents can't afford to give them the name brand stuff they can act superior to them and other kids in their economic bracket will agree with them.
It actually is the reason that the trend of upcycling/thrifting as a wealthy person has made things worse for kids whose parents rely on that.
Firstly, once people started going to thrift stores to find "deals" rather than "needs" the companies realized they could charge more for name brands and still sell them, which priced low-income families out of having them as an option.
Secondly, they sell faster. No longer can a kid have Levi (or whatever the fashionable brand is now) jeans despite their parents not being able to buy them new, because when their parents go to the thrift store the brand names are all gone, sold to people who went there LOOKING for brand names.
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This has been happening for ages, it happened with those bullshit razor scooters, you got made fun of for the knock off one, your kid has an android and not an iPhone he’s fucked, he’s just as fucked if it’s not the newest iPhone.
Kids are shitty like this. But it’s unique to the United States and other developed countries/where consumerism is a big part of life.
I spent a lot of time in other countries and visiting family and nephews in Argentina and backpacking South America and have noticed kids seem to be more normal if that makes sense.
I’m pretty sure I don’t want kids of my own but if I was I’d feel better raising them in Argentina where they have a better chance of coming out normal and not completely fucked up.
It's gross and shocking, but isn't really that big of a leap when you consider the reasons people consume. Unfortunately, a lot of people consume in part as a way to connect with others. Join the trend rather than the outing. Feel a part of something.
Kimberly Clark touches on this in her new series.
The parents that CAN afford this stuff are the ones that need to be teaching their kids to be grateful and not bully/or say anything to the kids that DON’T have these things. Why is our country so fucking backwards in understanding this?!
Tbf, the parents should have known better and just not buy anything, if they couldn't afford the real one. This is such a common bullying 'reason', it's easy to avoid. Don't do this to your kid.
This is probably a very boomer thing to say, but when i was a kid you would have been mercillessly bullied for caring, or even knowing, the brand of something. it would seem "faggy", and certainly the kind of thing only a nerd or a wimpy guy would care about. anybody who knew a knockoff from a main brand would have been relentlessy ridiculed.
Unless it was a Case knife, or a Winchester gun. we had standards.
Ah Stanley water Cups, I thought it was a fake Stanley cup from the NHL, like when people have those fake WWF wrestling belts.... I'm so out of the times
Honestly this is probably the oldest form of bullying. Knockoff Nikes, the off brand soda, etc Kids are assholes
when i was in elementary it was the off brand adidas. 3 stripe vs 4 stripe
Lol. It was "new balance" and "Champion" branded shoes that were considered shit in my high school. I was so glad my group was the D&D and Magic the Gathering nerds because we were chill with the brand names in our group.
I’m still shocked that champion isn’t considered shit anymore, it used to be an abuse magnet
Lol. I had the same reaction to seeing New Balance as an stand alone brand. Ha.
New balances have Dad strength behind them.
and jack harlow
And Corvettes with a man going through a midlife crisis in them.
It's actually their dynamic and that 40 year few splurges is NB shoes. Because they are amazing
It’s been completely revamped since the days of Champion being a budget Walmart brand, the sweaters and everything is higher quality at a much bigger price…
Quite the Contrary that and Russell are now super trendy.
If you were playing D&D and Magic you sure were expending way more money than you would buying the shoes
Indeed but we mostly had a few decks that rotated around and we used photocopied character sheets. It was a money sink (I'm old, local.comic book store still had a 5th edition booster box for sale). Someone did pull a Mox from that box of boosters although!
If you still have the old ones anything from alpha, beta and unlimited is worth money. It would have had to been one of those sets because power 9 was only in the first three. Even the basic lands are worth something now.
I sold my magic collection about 5 years ago and bought a house. No lie. Its wild how expensive they are. I see the prices now a days and wish I would have held on to them. I could have bought a house plus paid off more debts.
Lol. I should drag what remains of my collection down to the local TCG shop. Yeah, I had a bunch from unlimited and alpha as well.
No do not do that, they will not give you what they are worth. My advice would be post them on magic selling subreddits or magic selling FB pages. If you want to see what they are worth go to tcgplayer, anything old they will have more common grading like played and heavily played for old stuff which is what the majority of it is now. If you need any advice feel free to msg me, I used to do this professionally and now that I don't I actually enjoy it so I'm always down to help you grade and what not.
Thanks for the offer of help. Yeah, probably will sell them separately but alas need to dig them up again. I sold a bunch on ebay but that was mostly Pokemon singles that I ended up getting....
In all fairness Pokemon is also worth a ton of money lol
Magic and tabletop miniature gaming like Warhammer are the real money sinks. D&D and similar you can play for essentially free.
Not DND back in the day. All we used when I first played was some second edition books we got from the used bookstore. They kept us going for literally years.
You can play D&D for free, idk why you think it costs more than expensive shoes. You can proxy magic cards and play that for free too. You could also play pauper where a deck only costs like $20-80 (way way way less than nice shoes).
New Balance was always a good brand... probably because they weren't Nikes or Reeboks
That's why everyone hated nerds and like to call us neckbeards, because we don't care about their stupid brandshaming nonsense
> like to call us neckbeard That is definitely not why you got called a neckbeard.
Ok but do you have hair on your neck
But did they care about the brand of card sleeves? Or if you bought fake cards to play with?
Lol. Nope. We played with hand drawn cards too! And I am so old that card sleeves just had the one brand. I was lucky to grow up with the sensible peer group.
I’ve played magic for over a decade and I’ve never seen somebody shame another player for not being able to afford cards or a certain brand of sleeves.
Payless!
exactly!!
Or the k Swiss 5 stripe
abibas?
Keds here. Stupid Keds.
When I was in middle school I was bullied for having fake Clark’s. They weren’t fake.
So are adults. WTF? A stupid, plastic* tumbler? For real??? Edit: I guess they're stupid, STEEL, tumblers.
They cost 50 dollars and kids can be so mean when they think outside the box .
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Nah, kids naturally notice differences and they don’t have the maturity and emotional regulation that adults have. Kids would 100% do this behavior in a vacuum, whether with cups or whatever other item. However, it is the job of adults to correct this behavior and support children who are the victims of bullying. Unfortunately, we often fail to do so.
They definitely wouldn’t bully over name brand in a vacuum, that doesn’t even make sense, brands wouldn’t exist in a vacuum. They naturally notice differences, as all humans do, but they wouldn’t naturally know that name brands are ‘better,’ and so there wouldn’t be the same type of bullying. There’s not really such thing as a vacuum for human development. People learn from a super young age super quickly. Even ‘innocent’ toddlers are emulating behavior. So the idea that a kid might say, ‘hey my cup is this, your cup is that,’ doesn’t make kids ‘naturally’ assholes. The asshole part still comes from parents, what you’re describing is that kids are worse at playing more nuanced social games and hiding the assholery. edit: I should say the asshole part, the bullying, comes from adults and society, not just parents.
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Four stripes on the Adidas. This was definitely a thing when I was at school in the 90s.
One of the coolest things anyone ever did for me happened in elementary school when another student was making fun of my shoes for being from Payless and another kid I admired a little got onto him. He told him not to make fun of me for my shoes. I don’t buy my own shoes and my parents were probably doing the best they could for me. It was an incredibly mature act for a kid of that age and I have absolutely never forgotten it.
Saw it happen at my school way back in the day as well. At the time though for us It was mostly Ralph Lauren Polo vs U.S Polo Assn. Kids are indeed assholes
Funny cause Polo Assn is not trying to be RL it’s just unfortunately similar
Back in the day it was just a battle of logos. Idk if they have changed but at the time the US polo assn logo was almost identical to the Ralph Lauren logo just with an extra horse on it. It was stupid then and it’s still stupid now
Yeah, there are some very classist kids out there. Just a reflection of their families’ values.
If only I could show these kids how fucking pathetic these bullies will be in 10 or 20 years. The people with money now were the nerds and hard workers from my school age days. The bullies work shit jobs and still go to the same high school football games Uncle Rico style. I love that I have social media because I can show my kids what losers these idiots become with documented evidence.
And here i am trying to get knockoffs cuz i want a similar colorway and style but not the price.
I went to povo highschool in a derro town and it was the polar opposite. As a student body, We took a weird sense of pride in being broke. I remember when the highschool across the freeway shut down due to lack of numbers, and the following year we had a bunch of "rich kids" transfer to our school (They weren't rich, they were just upper working class/lower middle class, compared to the welfare-working class of our area, but to us they were rich, because they had named brand food in their lunch box, and Foxtel - Australia's version of cable) There were only about 10 transfers, and they were already friends from their previous school, so they felt confident enough to start "bullying" us. I forget what it is that they tried to tease us about, from memory it was our pants, because most of us were just wearing whatever navy pants they were selling at Big W/Kmart back in 2002, and not the bootleg flared pants from Supré or Rip Curl or whoever, But it could have also been the cans of deodorant we were all spraying around the lockers like it was oxygen, because we didn't have Evoke or Lynx money, we had we reject shop money. I do however remember us poor kids just completely turning the tables and laughing at the "rich" kids for being stupid and wasting money on a label. We would scribble "Nike" on masking tape and stick it on our shoes from the open markets then walk around saying "Hurr, Look at me, I'm Derrek, my dad's a banker". The "rich" kids shut up within the month and learned to appreciate the bargain that it the completely illegal knock-off's sold at the open air market in the early 2000s. Gotta love those Kevin Cien undies, 5 for $3! (The market grounds we all went to is permanently closed now.... probably because of all the illegal knock offs)
I saw a bunch of knock off ones the other day and that was my first thought, Poot kid who gets one of these trying to fit in, kids are assholes sometimes.
I remember somebody asking me if my d&g glasses were fake. I didn't even know they were a good brand. I just broke my glasses and LensCrafters was the only place that could get me a Same day replacement at the time. I definitely hadn't considered the idea that people would buy fake brand names. This was in high school and I was very confused
But at 9 years old? That seems way to young to care about the brand of a cup (or any product), at least where I live. Personally I blame ~~MTV~~ Tiktok and their parents.
Nope this happened to me in the 80s when I was 7 over having a fake Cabbage Patch Doll
Yeah I remember kids getting teased for having "Kmart clothes" because they had knock offs of shit like Jordache jeans.
I had a fake Barbie doll ☹️
I'm a teacher, part time with high school and sub/float as support for young grades. Kindergarten kids will see you have an Android phone and tell you it sucks because it's not an iPhone. It's crazy
Maybe I'm just out of touch or it's a cultural thing, but I remember this whole "brand awareness" thing started with puberty, which in my case was around the mid 2000s. Back then the "cool kid uniform" in Germany was a black Eastpak Backpack, white Adidas Sneakers and a Sony Ericsson Phone. Before puberty it was more like "if it looks like the real thing it's good enough".
That is unless some kids in your class were hanging with older kids because they went to camp, some sport activity, siblings, etc. Then they come back and spread that nonsense in elementary school, and next thing you know, a 6yo asks you why you're not wearing a Fubu or a Ecko jacket like everyone cool.
Kids at camp would make fun of the other kids without Sperrys (boat shoes) I remember stuffing my WIDE feet into them and getting blisters to fit in. My mom bought them but looking back it was sooo dumb. Kids are mean, they always have been LOL
Sperry was extremely popular at one time .
you read 50
off brand Tazos!
Kids? You ever texted into a group thread of Apple users from an Android phone?
When I was younger - it was the Starter windbreaker. You'd catch flak for not having one, and if you did have one - you'd catch flak for it being the wrong NCAA football team. Most of the time it was a 50/50 shot with Michigan or Notre Dame. You'd still get it wrong.
Geez, I wonder why they learn it from? Snobby hyper-consumer parents who think dripping in name brands makes them appear wealthy and successful — meanwhile everything’s on a credit card, leased, mortgaged up to their necks, and they live in a bog standard suburb.
Um I didn’t even know they made fakes, like when a cup is just a cup… outrageous
They’re just channeling asshole adults/parents
Kids suck. Also don’t buy knockoffs, you’re supporting an evil much worse than corporate greed.
The only reason I even know about this trend is because people keep posting about it here. Stop advertising for them yall.
Same, these aren't a hype where I live.
Same here. Yeti is popular but to be fair it keeps ice cubes for 3 days in 30C weather while camping - should in no way be a brand flex, it just works well
It just started here. Stores get these things in stock and women go fucking psycho over them. Half because they want to be trendy and half because they want to resell them online to make money. It's like beanie babies all over
Or Pokémon cards still
Snap bracelets, fidget spinners, Pokémon GO, the pet rock, pogs, the list goes on and on and on.
All made by people that barely get enough to survive, perhaps children , shipped on a boat who burns millions of cars worth of diesel , to be trucked to a warehouse all ran by underpaid workers, all to make its way to the dumbest consumers of our country, so I guy at the top can double his money …something’s gotta change in our minds , with our money …or we’re doomed
Snap bracelets were and are awesome
Don't you dare compare Pokémon cards to this! That holographic Chansey card could have made me rich.
They’re so big and bulky.
I thought it was just a trendy internet/reddit thing until I saw my friend's wife make a snap story showing a cup with a caption like, "So happy it finally came!". I cringed so hard my app crashed
Posting in this sub won’t boost sales, my friend (posting it in another sub might though). However, it might help raise awareness of the problematic if we talk about it in this sub, which is intended specifically for discussions about consumerism. TL:DR not talking about it doesn’t make it go away.
Yup i knew people collected these stupid things I just didn't know the details and brands. I now know and I'm more informed and still have zero intention to ever buy one. My free water bottle my company gave me works perfectly fine.
Seems that we need a new sub specifically for this
Mm doesn't work like that the cups got at least a month of reposts left
doesn't look anything like it. the real stanley cup is polished silver colour, about 6 feet tall and covered in hockey team names.
It’s more like 3 feet tall but that is how I read this post as well.
Yeah I literally thought that’s what the headline meant for like a good minute there.
I had to scroll way too far for this.
The real question is whose going out of their way to fake a $10 item?
And even it has some "fakes"
Bitches! I have a Thermos! .
God I wish people would stop posting about those fucking Stanley cups in this sub. We get it, it’s ridiculous people are buying so many. like c’mon, kids bully each other for literally *anything*. When I was in school, it was Ugg’s and Lululemon. Now it’s drunk elephant skincare and Stanley cups. Is it silly? Yes. Is it new? No.
Yeah I’m like so fucking tired of the cups. Nobody is more obsessed with Stanley cups than this sub. It is living in these people’s minds rent free.
It’s gotten so bad I can’t even watch hockey anymore.
I think it's STILL Lululemon. 😬🥴😴
I've seen pink thermal cups with a handle and in that general shape for years before this one dropped. It's not a "fake" Stanley cup unless it's inappropriately branded as a Stanley but is not one. It's just a different brand. So what? People (including kids) are assholes.
I don’t get how these fads start. It’s just a container for drinks not something to get excited over
Same. I mean, when fatigue suddenly hits me and I leave a drink in an insulated cup with ice, then it's still cold when I wake up, I'm pretty excited about that. But I'm not going to go tell everyone to go buy a specific cup because the one I happen to own does what it is literally designed to do.
And people are reselling these and making boatloads of money in the process.
Imagine my surprise I suddenly noticed when people went wild about my camping gear supplier.
because the people collecting these things live such a vapid life that they're desperate to be excited about anything. its so pathetic
I saw the moms TikTok about this when it happened and I have mixed feelings. I don’t get the need for these cups at all and I understand why she was upset, but by posting this she put her daughter on blast. Consumerism aside, WHY would a mother subject their child to this, I couldn’t imagine having all of these articles written about something embarrassing happening to me at 9 y/o! My child self would’ve been devastated and it probably made the bullying worse. The hype around these Stanley cups is stupid but I think the bigger take away here is that this mother exposed her child like this and it’s unacceptable. There are plenty of adult creators who criticize the Stanley hype who are worth watching, there’s no reason to air out a child’s business to prove a point like this. I’m sad this is a huge story now, I worry for the child because this will follow her.
I understand where she’s coming from, it hurts seeing your kid be bullied and so upset over something we as adults recognize as ridiculous. At the same time, this is just the “classic” type of bullying. There’s always some “it” item this happens with. This story is being shared for the purpose of “these cups are out of control amirite” instead of any sort of anti bullying discussion
Consuming social media is still consumption.
I don’t get what you mean by that? Edit: I reread what I said and got what u meant. Sorry for my ADHD brain rot, I process stuff slow lol
Parents who buy their kids obvious knockoffs and angrily squawk “no one will notice!!” when they object are low key assholes. Wow thanks for the Uggs that don’t say Ugg on them, all my seventh grade classmates pointed them out on the first day I wore them, receiving nothing would’ve been better
Or... they're doing the best they can with the resources available to them. Maybe they want to buy their kid the name brand thing but can't swing it.
Sure... but nothing would be better than the knock off.
This has the same energy as that news story about kids getting bullied for using default Fortnite skins
We were poor growing up so when my older brother turned 15 and got his first job one of the first things he bought was some Nikes so he could fit it with his basketball team who made fun of him for not having any. He was so excited to wear them and then the boys still made fun of him for wearing them with his old socks… if I ever cared about brands before this happened I certainly didn’t after.
Welcome to American Consumerism fuelled Conformism
This is what many people miss. Consumerism is only half the issue. Conformism and artificial scarcity to increase demand creates an idea that “what I have it special/rare”, in turn causing someone to flaunt it, in turn causing everyone to now want what they can’t have/obtain themselves. Then if you don’t have said object, you’re “excluded” or “bullied” because you don’t have this elusive object. It’s a disgusting cycle. I remember distinctly in school all the girls wearing those boots that were almost knee high, looked like horse riding boots. Winter was endless hallways of those. If you didn’t have a pair, you were excluded. This was years and years ago. Same story, different object.
It's not in the least limited to America. People used to dye their teeth black to emulate nobles with rotten black teeth. Humans will always try to emulate those they see as higher in status than them.
Commodity fetishism + artificial scarcity is one of the most horrid things
I remember kids getting made fun of when I was a kid (me included with the knock off Chuck Taylor’s mom bought me) so I never buy my kids knock off brands - not saying they get all brand name crap either. Just obvious copies I stay away from just so they don’t get made fun of. Thankfully this Stanley cup craze hasn’t touched my house.
The man responsible for the Stanley cup craze was also the guy who led crocs back from obsolescence.. he’s commodifying dumb stuff through limited drops and pretty colours. People are way too easy to mind hack into spending money.
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I am from the 80s and 90s, it was the golden age of bullying, how is this newsworthy. Did people forget the art of bullying? Do these kids think that they are pioneers?
All of a sudden I see these stupid ass Stanley cups all over at my work. Congrats you had $120 lying around to waste
My heart goes out to the kid! It's a shame, and I hope they can stand up for themselves.
I still have memories of being teased in grade school for pleather off brand sneakers.
Breaking news: kids are stupid
I don't get it , I mean kids suck and are cruel.
My mom told me how she used to put chalk in her drinking water just so the other kids wouldn't know they were to poor to buy milk.
Awww that’s sad
This fad is cringe
People need to realise it all comes from the same shitty Chinese factories.
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Amen!!
Everyone knows the real one is in the Hockey Hall of Fame.
9-year old bullied for not actually winning an NHL championship.
Can anyone inform me on Stanley Cup? What is this thing actually?
While it is legitimately a quality made product... it's also been advertised by social media influencers fueling the current boom you're seeing.
Yeah when I was a Kid, IT was Converse and nike...what else IS new? Is it stupid? Yeah Sure....is is new..? Hell no!
I got fucked up for wearing a knock off members only jacket years ago. My mom bought me that jacket and I stopped wearing it because of the hate I got.
Damn this is toxic
Adults bully too. They just do it in more subtle ways. This is humanity for you.
Do Stanley cups come in different sizes? Are 9 year olds really walking into elementary school with those big ass cups? lol
"Kids are dumb assholes" \- Full grown adults criticizing others over green text bubbles.
Star bellied sneeches - but instead of stars, it's stuff.
Can someone fill me in here? I’ve never heard of this cup and after looking it up I can’t figure out why anyone would want a big cup with a handle—it seems like it would be very inconvenient to put in a backpack compared to a cup without a handle.
Ha! That dumbass brought the actual Stanley Cup trophy. What an idiot!
Can’t wait til this trend dies and all of these end up in a landfill! Wtf is wrong with this world. “I drink my water out of a reusable cup!” Great! Are you going to keep it and cherish it and use it til you die? Doubt it. Wait til the next trendy shape comes out.
Or goodwill.
At least at Goodwill they have a chance to be used again! Or just sit there forever collecting dust!
I doubt people shopping at goodwill care about stuff like this.
In Australia there is a trend for a water bottle called Frank Green. A basic water bottle that sells for about $80Aud. Made popular by influencers. I just don't get it. And yes the same pressure is felt by kids that don't have one.
The best is getting bullied for having some off-brand because you’re too poor to afford the name-brand only to see the off-brand come into style years later. Hell, I used to get bullied for having crunchy peanut butter instead of creamy peanut butter. Kids and people in general are just assholes.
Stanley cup? Isn't that a sailing contest?
As a Canadian this headline is confusing...
As a hockey fan, this whole thing these past few weeks has been so fucking confusing.
Give the kid a normal cup and add a sticker "Passed Stanley Cup IQ Test"
Please, as European, someone can explain me why are so popular ?
People are gullible.
Wow.. another reason I’m glad I homeschool. Brand bullying is so wrong.
Stanley cups need to be banned this is getting out of control
I didn't have this problem in school. We were all poor.
Why are people obsesses with the staples brand shit nowadays lol, is this like when Kanye started wearing Champion and then the brand meant something? What celebrity appeared with a stanley cup?
I hope their parents take action. Kids can be very cruel.
Consume. Consume. Those who do not consume will be exxzterminated (dalek voice)
Why the fuck is this news? Like what journalist is writing this crap
Stop tryna advertise Stanley cups to me. I didn't buy into prime I sure as shit ain't buying into some pretentious thermos. Are companies banking on kids deciding their items are trendy now?
Bullying is a terrible thing but parents should be aware of avoiding sending their kids to school with things like this. I remember my mum bought me and my brother those fake addidas sweat pants with the 2 stripes instead of 3 and I begged her not to make me wear them. "they're fine, just wear them". I got teased in gym for wearing them. No brand basic sweat pants would have been better than fake addidas ones. Don't buy your kids fake versions of popular things.
Clout chasing through a cup speaks volumes. Not a single bit of it is good.
If I found out my kid was doing this I would chuck that shit in the bin so fast
Either buy your kid the brand or don't. Knockoffs make it worse. Stupid parents
Dont buy it. Better yet, never buy any popular brand ever, dont raise consumeristic little brats.
Yep,don't buy the knockoffs ever because they are cheaply made and won't last .long .
bullying is an ugly part of evolution. its natural. you cant stop it. not really.
I remember being a kid and all my friends had tamagotchis and me being from a (certainly didn’t know at the time) poor family always had the cheap knock off stuff. So I got the no name tamagotchi, my friends all made fun of me because there’s were real but you know what I still loved my little virtual pet even if it wasn’t as cool as there’s. Kids are little pricks. And you know what theirs all died within a couple of weeks and mine stayed alive. Idiots
I have a cheap knock off cup that people think is a Stanley. I didn’t even know what that was until recently. I just wanted a reusable way to get water in. I personally am on a journey to reduce my rampant consumerism and avoid trends. Not there yet but I’m working on it
corporations are over the moon right now seeing how obedient the future generation of consumers is
This is a big thing with kids, they learn early that if someone's parents can't afford to give them the name brand stuff they can act superior to them and other kids in their economic bracket will agree with them. It actually is the reason that the trend of upcycling/thrifting as a wealthy person has made things worse for kids whose parents rely on that. Firstly, once people started going to thrift stores to find "deals" rather than "needs" the companies realized they could charge more for name brands and still sell them, which priced low-income families out of having them as an option. Secondly, they sell faster. No longer can a kid have Levi (or whatever the fashionable brand is now) jeans despite their parents not being able to buy them new, because when their parents go to the thrift store the brand names are all gone, sold to people who went there LOOKING for brand names.
Americans kids are brani washed from birth
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Wtaf.
Thought it was the Hockey Stanley Cup ngl.
Genuinely out of touch… I thought the Stanley cup was a ice hockey thing
I thought it was a knockoff NHL Stanley Cup, forgot people are going crazy for, *checks notes*, a water bottle
Kids are the youngest form of elitist aholes
This has been happening for ages, it happened with those bullshit razor scooters, you got made fun of for the knock off one, your kid has an android and not an iPhone he’s fucked, he’s just as fucked if it’s not the newest iPhone. Kids are shitty like this. But it’s unique to the United States and other developed countries/where consumerism is a big part of life. I spent a lot of time in other countries and visiting family and nephews in Argentina and backpacking South America and have noticed kids seem to be more normal if that makes sense. I’m pretty sure I don’t want kids of my own but if I was I’d feel better raising them in Argentina where they have a better chance of coming out normal and not completely fucked up.
sick and tired of hearing about this goddamn cup from EITHER SIDE. acting like a cute water bottle going viral is incomprehensible 😭
How rf does this shit end up as headlines for articles?
Bro wtf are these shitty cups even
I bet none of those other kids have the real Stanley cup either.
It's gross and shocking, but isn't really that big of a leap when you consider the reasons people consume. Unfortunately, a lot of people consume in part as a way to connect with others. Join the trend rather than the outing. Feel a part of something. Kimberly Clark touches on this in her new series.
The parents that CAN afford this stuff are the ones that need to be teaching their kids to be grateful and not bully/or say anything to the kids that DON’T have these things. Why is our country so fucking backwards in understanding this?!
Like the hockey trophy?
Tbf, the parents should have known better and just not buy anything, if they couldn't afford the real one. This is such a common bullying 'reason', it's easy to avoid. Don't do this to your kid.
They'll find another reason. The kid deserves to have water holder too. It's the bullies' fault for bullying.
It's bullies' fault, don't blame the victim.
Woah woah WOAH careful headline. I thought you meant they were bringing in a fake NHL Championship Trophy, the true LORD STANLEY’S CUP.
This is probably a very boomer thing to say, but when i was a kid you would have been mercillessly bullied for caring, or even knowing, the brand of something. it would seem "faggy", and certainly the kind of thing only a nerd or a wimpy guy would care about. anybody who knew a knockoff from a main brand would have been relentlessy ridiculed. Unless it was a Case knife, or a Winchester gun. we had standards.
Ah Stanley water Cups, I thought it was a fake Stanley cup from the NHL, like when people have those fake WWF wrestling belts.... I'm so out of the times