The Air Up Bottle Is a Scam
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- čas přidán 6. 06. 2024
- The AirUp bottle is yet another contender in the water bottle games that seems to be taking over the internet. This one has a cool smell based feature that seems a little fishy...
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At this point seeing a product regularly in youtube sponsor spots just makes me assume it's hot garbage. And that I'm usually not wrong.
Yes, same here.
Dido
Sadly... you're not wrong. 😑
that's basically the norm. those companies go to youtubers because they know they can pay less than what a celebrity would charge, and they'll still get to a lot of people. and majority of the times, the products are crap, they're not what advertised at all.
it's safe to assume anything a youtuber sponsors is not worth getting
It's the modern-day infomercial.
I've met far too many people who loathe the taste of water because they were raised drinking literally nothing but soda and juice. Plain water to them is disgusting which is so bizarre to me. We need to stop giving our kids so much of that shit and teach them that drinking flavorless drinks is normal and fine.
Growing up, the tap water was too disgusting for filters to help and my parents didn't want to spend the little money we had on plastic water bottles. So I grew up with mainly soda and juice. Only now as an adult I'm learning to enjoy water via making it really cold and adding a bit of lemon juice.
I'm kinda pissy too about water taste, particularly hated tasting water from plastic containers.
But I'm not as far refusing to take a sip when I'm really thirsty
@@micmen1496 too gross for filters to help? Did you grow up in Flint, MI?
I don't think anybody thinks it's not normal and fine but that they prefer flavor. Same reason people season foods and don't just eat vegetables
I disagree but also agree. I think it's fine to drink stuff other than regular plain water
As a teacher from Germany I have to say that these bottles used to be EVERYWHERE some months ago. They suddenly disappeared about a month ago - I assume most people found out that the "Air Up system" is way too expensive. Almost every student I teach owned one and they all fell for the very aggressive marketing... I guess their parents don't want to spend hundreds of euros per year on "pods"...
3,5 years ago they started Showing up at my school interesting too See them Show up again i thought the Air up times were over
@@piti3811 I didn't even know "Air Up" was even a thing 3,5 years ago - nice to know! The marketing was/is great, however... Even I considered buying one but didn't do so after finding out how much the pods are.
@@piti3811 True, they were everywhere in the European influencer videos around the pandemic era and now they have creeped into the US influencer vids. Exhaust all markets until they fade away.
i dont get the hat on them i have one and i just use it mostly as a waterbottle without the scent and it works perfectly fine
i bought my second bottle and for me with my amount of use it's significantly cheaper than buying bottled flavored water from stores.
For some reason i can't stand the normal taste of tap water and this bottle is the perfect solution for me after having tried several different options.
CZcams ads are the new "as seen on TV" warning stickers.
The term "hydration system" that they use A LOT (!) is just hilarious to me, like dude, ITS A BOTTLE!!
Maybe the next product will be a nutrition system. Aka a plate ;)
@@unvergebeneid i hope it comes with bluetooth and a smartphone app so you can’t put it in the dishwasher! That would be "great"
It also needs a "internal weight measurement system" aka A SCALE
They can't call it a bottle cause it doesnt hold water, the lid was designed in such a why that it can't hold water with out leaking
Lol reminds me of when people call thinking a “thought experiment”
@@fisshbone eh... you should've done more thinking before posting that, although I don't see how a thought experiment would've helped. Because those are not synonyms.
Plain, cold water is so delicious, though. 😍
Especially at night
#plainwatergang
But does it smell delicious, though?
It really is
agreed
Consider calling it a "resin code" instead of "recycling triangle". The design fools consumers into thinking plastics are more recyclable than they actually are, and the technical name avoids reinforcing that association for the plastics manufacturers who intended it.
Love this!
Came to the comments wanting to point out the same thing.
That is among the reasons I am attempting to focus on reusable items made out of glass or metal. Glass is more recyclable than metal, but at least they are both more recyclable than paper and plastic.
And yeah, paper is biodegradable, but that still isn't a good excuse.
That said, I want people to talk more about cradle-to-cradle designs, which are a step above recyclable designs.
I really wish these resin codes (very appropriate name) were actually used more. Like the councils 'recycling guide' that talks about meat trays and yoghurt pots, but never simply says "yes to 1, 2, 4 and 7, no to all others". Then governments make the codes compulsory, even for films of plastic (they can be inked on), suddenly you really could exclude non-recyclables as a purchase decision.
love live resin
If they actually wanted to be sustainable they’d sell a bottle with a small compartment in the cap you can stick a slice of lemon inside.
But instead they made this thing ring shaped for maximum difficulty to fit anything sustainable, only their flavour pods.
Most people are to lazy to clean tveir stuff, and you will end up with a lot of dirty bottles with rotten Leon slice leftovers.
Some people are like Toddlers, they can't do the most simple tasks because they never were taucht.
@@CordeliaWagner1999 These bottles are already hard to wash since it has moving parts and a stupid straw that you'd have to clean and I doubt the same lazy people you are talking about would wash these well anyway. A lot of people think water means no need to wash which leads to nasty results. They would just chuck the bottle away and buy another.
@@CordeliaWagner1999thats a bit of an over exaggeration, this isnt like cleaning a frying pan that may have burnt oil stuck to it that takes a lot of work to get off, its just drop out the slice, wash the ring with soap water and clean it with a paper towel. 10 seconds. Let's not over exaggerate.
Even if one can't drink basic water, flavor drops exist. A lot less complicated than sponge disks soaked in mystery fluid that you strap onto a specialty water bottle (that apparently leaks).
Or flavor with carbonation
I saw that Hipyotech review, too. When your specialty water bottle fails to BE a bottle that holds water, there's a big problem.
Also, I don't know what's wrong with the water where I live (it could be these ancient pipes for all I know), so I have to keep bottled water on hand. Even so, I rarely feel the need to add flavor. Water's great!
'Can't drink basic water' or 'don't want to'. Not the same think
@@cassieoz1702 Some people do actually have issues with this! Bariatric surgery can cause issues drinking water, especially cold water, and people with dementia sometimes need to be given water in a flavored form since they're not interested otherwise, for example. So there are use cases... But yeah, there's better ways to put flavor in water.
@maiiau clearly. Ive had bariatruc surgery and survived. There are very few absolutes but I'm sick of folks saying ' cant' when they mean 'I don't want to'. The language absolves them of taking responsibility for their decisions. Also, folks these days drink insane amounts of water.
Yeah, my initial reaction to the product was "just get an infuser bottle and some fruit, ffs". Or not even that: buy some fruit. Freeze it. Put it in your water. You get flavoured water + some nutrients from the fruit. There's probably multiple ways you could do that.
Idk, i always just thought: put on your big boy pants and drink water.
Or make tea, herbal tea on hot days. Can drink it cold. Flavored water
Wait what you can do that? You can flavor water with fruit??
@@thereisa6inthenameMaybe possible in Europe and Canada and Australia where water is clean, but in the United States tap water is akin to river water. The amount of lead, sulfur, and other dangerous minerals in it makes it at best disgusting and at worst toxic to drink. Don't forget the multi-trillion dollar for-profit healthcare industry we have, if we get lead poisoning because we had the audacity to think water was safe, that's another $30,000 bill nobody can afford
@@semekiizuio Yeah, I used to get the pomegranate Tetley tea bags and use them in cold water...delicious in the summer time.
this just reminded me of my parents lives in the southeast asian mountains. Before my parents came to the U.S, they were so poor that they would sometimes eat when people who could afford meat would be cooking so they could smell the meat and forget how poor their meals were. 😢
You don't need meat to create healthy tastefull meals....
@@CordeliaWagner1999 cool, tell that to the thousands of refugees in a third world country where meat is the status symbol of wealth.
@@chovue2363well, being pale is seen as a status of wealth in at least 2 continents, yet you don't have need to be white to be wealthy
@@CordeliaWagner1999you just need a shit ton of money, which, is only available to people that ignore the fact that they will not get a free home past their 60s.
@@CordeliaWagner1999but it’s tasty
Considering perfume samples come on paper, seems like they’re going out of their way to sell plastic
If this was really supposed to be eco-friendly, it would make much more sense to just have some reservoir on the top of the bottle that you can refill with these scents, and then they could sell those liquids (or gels) in reusable bottles made from recycled plastic. Considering these pucks last about ten days, then this bottle could last for month(s). The idea doesn't seem terrible, but could and should be much less wasteful if it's supposed to keep people from creating more trash.
Problem with your idea is that liquids or gels are much more easily replicable at home vs weird mystery pucks. Meaning company would propably only make the one sale and no recurrent buyers. More eco friendly, but not profitable
@@viiranen Yeah, but it would also draw more potential buyers. You're right though, there would be less profit but no razor blade type of business will ever be eco friendly unless you're selling spades and shovels and the refills are saplings.
@@filipruml considering how viral the water bottle is, they are already selling like hot cakes, and if the company really wanted to be more eco friendly, selling scent fluids would be the perfect choice. just increase the cost of the bottle and sell the smelly liquid. lol. i think it would actually be pretty cool if you could open up the cartridge, take out a bio-degradable sponge, douse it in a scent that you want, insert it into the cartridge and be good for about a week before you have to wash the sponge and insert a new scent.
this bottle itself can last for years.. my first bottle lasted me about 2 years and now my sibling is using it as i bought the new gen 2. i bought this bottle end of march and am only on my second pod which is not yet empty. It lasts longer than the website says it does. It's just after a certain amount of water the flavor does get a little weaker.
@@Chrysalis208 thats honestly a great idea to make it even more ecofriendly!
For me the reason it works is because it goes through the mouth to the nose so keeping the mechanism as it is now just with a reusable pod kinda thing would be great!
I wonder if the reason we can't get them in Canada is because of the single use plastic laws we have now... regardless... this thing is so dumb. Great piece as always.
don’t worry. it will remain a novelty. In a couple of years, they will go under.
hahah 88% less plastic, when usually you dont even waste any plastic drinking regular water
@@kurostyx9124but it isn’t meant to replace regular water, it’s meant to replace flavored bottled drinks for people to make healthier choices
@@raquelfantoni2812how is drinking mystery scent chemicals any healthier than adding fruit to water?
@@ExtraThiccc well for one youre not drinking it. second fruit is pretty healthy with water just dont add sugar to it
bigger the marketing budget, worse the product
No the bottle is good
@@tonyman905I've counted like 7 comments talking about the bottle. 5 of them said that it leaks
@@ChesterManfred its almost as if more haters of the bottle look at a video hating on the bottle than ppl who dont hate it
Just buying less crap in general is a good idea. I don't even like buying stuff all that often, and having an economic system that depends on us buying useless crap while destroying the planet is just depressing. Owning stuff honestly kinda sucks. It piles up then you gotta figure out what to do with it as time goes on. You gotta maintain it or it breaks. I see people with garages, basements, and attics full of crap and I'm like, "wow why is this necessary?" Can't we just stop buying so much useless crap as a society? I just never understood how so many people struggle having $25 in their bank account and their mind tells them "SPEND THAT RIGHT NOW!"
Sounds like someone needs to make communism 2.
You just hit on a HUGE difference in attitudes between the time I was a kid in he 60's-70's for a LOT of people and now. In fact, the whole "minimalist" movement is a fancy way to say "buy/use less crap / clutter", in reaction to people cramming endless stuff into as large a house as they can possibly afford.
With 8 billion people and counting, at SOME point, such things need to cease, though re AGW, it's likely already too late.
Owning more things than I can handle literally gives me panic attacks.
When I first heard of it, I just thought about how I can slice a 50¢ lemon which has zero plastic on it. Or get some strawberries or pick blackberries in a field.
Airup makes zero sense financially and environmentally
to be fair, I can see how this could be interesting to people with fruit allergies? Seeing as it's just straight up chemicals in there xD Like I am allergic to fruit so unfortunately putting something in there for flavour that isn't just sugar or something adjacent is rather difficult if I want to keep it healthy xD I'm NOT a fan of AirUp, thought it was a scam and smelled rather bad when a friend offered me to try so I was like 'I'm not drinking from THAT' but I can see how the market these days (with lots of people not liking to drink water but knowing they should) would be open to these sorts of things
Edit: also I ain't paying for that shit xD
@@DarknessDust Are you? Are you allergic to all fruit?
Strawberries, mint , lemon are more expensive than the pods. $8 worth of pods will last u a month
All fruit allergy??? Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa? [will assume a figurative allergy like those people that aren't celiac but refuse to eat gluten]
In what land 1Kg of lemons is more expensive than 8$? Bloody hell. If one wants to be even cheaper its just buying citric acid, 2-3g/L of water and you get real nice pure lemonade for ~0.02-0.05€.
Honestly I think that’s a stupid comparison, do people need anything like air up to get their flavor fix if they could just drink lemon water.
Just drink water, you'll be fine.
It's water. You're just adding a scent to it. Also not always. It depends on where you live and accessibility to clean drinking water
Sometimes I drink unflavored carbonated water when I'm feeling fancy. And on special occasions I add ice cubes.
8:39 black man / white woman ad 😂
@TokyoXtreme um ok? Lol care to explain why it's important enough to point out?
@@doll9340 Thought I was in the main thread when I posted that 😂 Regardless these ads are so ubiquitous that there is / was a sub-reddit devoted to pointing them out. I think such ads represent 80% of all couples depicted in commercials, despite them constituting less than 10% of married couples.
unflavored water is literally a blessing dude. sometimes i need to take some break from all the tastes and everything
"Hey you! Stop being so consumerist! Reduce your dependency on single use plastics!"
"...also here's some plastic stickers I'm selling."
lol, yeah.
And I'm still wondering why he supports starbucks? Pretty sure they use tons of disposable one-use cups.
the stickers last for a long time where ever you stick them and you don't have to keep replacing them so i don't think its the same
I noticed a lot of influencers promoting AirUp and in one particularly odd instance was the SINGLE ad they featured on Good Mythical Morning and Rhett was the only one to participate in the ad and Link seemed far more hesitant and said that this was his thing then they never mentioned or featured it again from what I’ve seen. Just the influencer marketing around this alone was *almost* as aggressive as Bloom because they seem willing to work with ANYONE as long as you show off their product.
Edit: After checking to answer someone else’s comment I’ve found it was two videos posted a few days apart 5 months ago. The “Can we combine German & Chinese Food” and “Can we guess the steak cut”
I mean GMM still promotes betterhelp so they clearly don't care about the ethics of their sponsorship deals
Which GMM episode did they do the AirUp ad in?
@@damefruhauf Yea it’s not just GMM sadly it’s also EarBiscuits they promote them on. To be honest I’ve never really checked to see if anyone’s called it out in the comments etc but Im sure they have.
@@User24x I’ve found it was two videos posted a few days apart 5 months ago. The “Can we combine German & Chinese Food” and “Can we guess the steak cut” are the only two with AirUp ads.
@@damefruhaufwait, what’s gone on with betterhelp?
Just use gummy peach rings on a regular water bottle. 😅
Good idea, but I would eat the gummy rings too quickly. Scented plastic, on the other hand, would take me a few days before I finally ate it.
except the mechanism for airup is that it also goes into your mouth. I tried several of these air flavor things and none worked except air up
@@joesmith942exquisite sponges soaked in mystery glade
@@joesmith942true true.... Wait...
absolutely love the editing in this video btw with the captions and images/videos being used adding a lot to the visual element. It felt engaging and kept in to hear what y'all were trying to tell me about. Plus the memes felt topical and not cringe where it wasnt randomly added in but felt like a reprieve
IMHO you shouldn't call it a scam when it does what it says.
It's obviously something that most people shouldn't buy, but that doesn't make it a scam.
I was really confused when he said it was a scam. It isn't? It does work as intended and is as advertised. The "razor blade model" IS expensive and is worth mentioning, however. But generally I usually get Air-Up marketed as a soft drink replacement. Not drink more water encouragement. But to outright replace soft drinks. Which makes its price make more sense.
@@Pulstar232 tbh the razor blade model doesnt even apply since you can use the bottle without the scent
As I understand it from this video, the scam is that it's claiming to be all eco and environmentally friendly when the basic design is the opposite. A slight tweak would have actually made it significantly more eco but instead they chose to go with this wasteful and expensive pod design.
So you're right, the water bottle itself isn't a scam, but the marketing is deliberately misleading to the point where you could consider that a scam.
@@Pulstar232: Claiming it's environmentally friendly while using plastic pods makes that a TOTAL scam.
@@rogergeyer9851 THAT I understand.
Our understanding of what food is and how nutrition works has become a fantasy
The next diet should be the vegan keto diet.
@@ehiebert1297 lol
@@ehiebert1297 or "vegans can eat meat too" or however that goes.
@@XDarkGreyX It is the way things are going these days. We need a new this or that or some other thing, when what we need is a simple life, not filled with some new kind of crazy.
It always hurts me when I see all these people going keto... unless your diabetic carbs are not hurting you, like... at all. Of course if that's ALL you eat it will be bad, but that goes for literally anything!
I never understood ppl that say they dislike the "taste" of water. However there are so many better, more sustainable ways to flavour your drinks. Just add a spritz/slice of lemon,lime, whatever or throw in some mint etc.
People have gotten so annoying over the years. As a kid I was drinking water that probably contained bugs from a hose while playing outside. 🤷♀ It tasted like water and water tastes perfectly fine as.
People have different tastes. I don't like lettuce or tofu but people say those taste of nothing too
I drink a lot of water myself, but I've noticed that for the people who were raised in a family that always had flavoured drinks, they have to push past that consciously. A lot of people don't seem to want to.
If I drank a glass of orange squash as a kid (cordial), and then immediately followed it up with some water, the water would taste a bit bad just because of the comparison. It tasted plain and therefore, unenjoyable. Same kind of "eugh" reaction as drinking orange juice just after brushing your teeth - the comparison of the two flavours is what tastes bad?
Problem is, these people who never drank plain water as kids (due to lack of access, childhood stubbornness, or whatever) don't *know* what a plain glass of water is like. They are always comparing it to something sweet and flavourful, which it will never live up to - for obvious reasons.
I moved to a different area with harder water and I did not like it when I first arrived, but I love plain water, so eventually I worked out that if I put ice in it it'd "cover up" the mineral taste. And now I actually like it, just because I drank it enough to get used to it!! So I know it's doable... you just have to try. But a lot of people don't want to push past the initial "eugh" and do that. Which is kinda sad.
@@JohnDoe-hj9fh convinced people claiming tofu has no taste are deliberately lying. It’s so clearly got a taste and it’s not pleasant, and it’s there no matter what marinades you try. The best marinades can do is make the gross tofu flavour a little more palatable.
Water definitely has a taste and the tastes differ by region you get the water from. I’m fine with it plain but prefer it flavoured, like with some lemon, etc.
Sometimes I wonder if some people genuinely can’t taste the flavours in these things, and it’s like a weird genetic difference or something. I’ve wondered if it could be an “untrained palate” issue where they just can’t detect more “nuanced” flavours, but I don’t think that’s it. Maybe it’s like how people think of vanilla ice cream as being plain ice cream even though it’s literally flavoured with vanilla; like, maybe people just consider it flavourless because they see it as the neutral default? Idk, makes no sense to me lol.
Oh mint. Right! I forgot all about that. My parents used to grow that for mint juleps and we could use a little in water now and again.
I have an air up and it actually do really like it but it’s kind of loud and it’s embarrassing during class to drink out of it
Same😂
Thats why i dont get the hate because it is actually a solid bottle
i dont even care how loud it is xD it helps me drink water instead of juices xD
Same, I love mine. I see a lot of comments saying to put fruit in water or freeze it,and it's like maybe I don't want anything in my water, I don't want bits of whatever in there. Or surger or whatever, the little hit of Scent it all I want!
@@SophieNoNotThatOne: If you don't mind paying a lot and all that plastic waste, go for it. Just realize what you're actually doing / wasting.
how hard is it to just drink water without dousing it with gimmicks and sweeteners 😮💨
Fr, it keeps you alive, it should be normal to drink the thing that keeps you alive
@@Carlo_von_Habsburg because it can also not taste good
For people raised on all flavored drinks -- apparently really hard, sadly enough.
Can we just put a moratorium on the production of new water bottles for at least 5 years?
I'm a seltzer fanatic and for a while it bothered me that I was generating so much waste, even though they were just recyclable cans. The solution I found was to make my own seltzer with a Drinkmate machine and put in a drop or two of food-grade essential oil for flavor. Amazing! the CO2 cartridges get reused so it's cut down a lot on waste.
How do you reuse the co2 cartridges?
Brilliant
@@lrom5445 drinkmate has an exchange program where you mail back empty co2 cylinders for a coupon that covers part of the cost for filled cylinders
@@lrom5445depending on where you are, you can probably find refilled CO2 cartridges for your favorite carbonator (in my case it's an old SodaStream thingie which I'm using with refilled CO2 cartridges I can get for about five bucks at the grocery store in exchange for the empty CO2 cartridge)
@@lrom5445 Fire extinguisher shops will often refill them for you and in some places they have exchange programs.
Also the water bottles themselves are super cheap and leaky, can't travel anywhere without it spilling everywhere.
no lol absolutely not the case
I drank water almost exclusively (except refilling the bottles MANY times from the tap), from cheap plastic bulk packaged water (like 24 or 36 packs) from Kroger, etc. for several decades now.
The ONLY time I had a problem with leaks was when I accidently sliced a bittle with a utility knife while cutting the plastic straps off the container (ENTIRELY my fault).
The only issue I've ever had was using the same bottle so long that stuff started growing in it. Again -- entirely MY fault.
So what the hell are you making shiite up about that for?
@@rogergeyer9851 Just because some cheap PET bottles work reliably that doesn't mean this overpriced fancy bottle is any good. Not sure how you think those are comparable, they're not even the same material.
Thanks for this video, I share it IMMEDIATELY to my mother who want to buy a air up bottle for my birthday (even if I already say that I don't want it😅). You do a great job guys! Have a nice week!😊
whats your issue with the bottles they are great lol
Parents. Yeah. "I don't want X". So you get X. Been there, done that. And my mother wan't about high consumption -- just not too good on paying attention.
love how the kleen kanteen just stands there i the back all the time :D
I once tried it when a colleague bought an air up when they were brand new. It tasted like nothing and had a really chemical, plasticy, unpleasant aroma to it that wafted in my nose at the same time. Would definitely not recommend! So I don't understand all that "hype" about an overpriced waterbottle!
Saw another guy talk about this from the consumer's standpoint. One of the major reasons the reviews of the scent packs are so varied is, after you open a scent insert, you need to let it sit for about a day to vent.
What i found is just a tea bag. Taste and smalls good without sugar if you cant drink caffeine there are decaf version.
I just love to pair with Irish black tea with sodastream.
Good advice! You can use mint or camomile if you don't wish to have caffeine.
Shoutout to @HipyoTech for covering this earlier
agree hipyo is the true one in tha hood
Yeah he published that video as we were coming up with this script 😅
@@FutureProofTV great minds think alike
Nah hes a dummy who cant use waterbottles and doesnt know how they work
@@FutureProofTV Really respect both of you for not taking the sponsorship and creating an actuall informativ video!
What they need are pods that can be reused, you send the pod in and for cheaper then new pods they fill the old one back up, that way they have a eco friendly product that actively makes people feel like they are doing something to help the earth
Given the risk of contamination of the old pod so cleaning needs or tracking the pod back to the original customer -- that probably costs MUCH more than just cranking out new pods en-masse.
And thus we continue to fill more landfills until we've made ALL the plastic we possibly can.
Seems similar to a time I lost the cap on a plastic bottle I was reusing, I used one from a flavored drink, and it did smell like the flavored drink for a week, it didn't change the flavor, but seems like the same principle.
I will never comprehend people hating the taste of water
100% water (distilled water, essentially) isn't really good for you, so the water you drink will nearly always have some kind of trace elements in it. That varies depending on location and source, and some people might not like the trace elements they taste.
@@rodh1404yeah but if you’re thirsty water always tastes amazing
Yeah I really can't wrap my head around the idea that people don't enjoy the same things I do it's so crazy
@@rodh1404still extremely weird and consumerist
I can taste the salt and sometimes I can’t stand it but I also drink distilled water which tastes better. I only enjoy it when I am really thirsty
I've never understood the complaints of water tasting like nothing. Maybe it's just because my mom raised us on more water than sugared drinks but I prefer water because it's tasteless. It doesn't do weird things to my breath and it goes with everything more or less. I always keep a bottle of water around, and I genuinely dislike flavoring water because it almost always tastes like chemicals, so this need to revolutionize water drinking simply refuses to compute for me.
Do you prefer flavored food or food that tastes of nothing? It's the same thing
@@JohnDoe-hj9fh Not really? Not to me, at least. When I drink water I expect it to be flavorless, a background to a meal or something to make me feel hydrated after working in my gardens in the hot southern sun. Especially that last part. Going inside and getting a glass of cold water in the middle of yard work is so satisfying to me, I always feel better shortly after and ready to take on the next task.
However, when I cook, I expect my food to be packed with flavor and spices. My favorite dishes to cook are Indian and Thai food because they are so delightfully flavored and spiced, the same goes for my bakes. Food is the highlight of the table, not the water. So...maybe I simply manage my expectations regarding flavor profiles (or lack thereof).
@@JohnDoe-hj9fh ah, it's not the same thing. The equivalent would be, would you like a variety of flavours, or your comfort food that has the same, predictable taste.
@@audreydoyle5268 Sure but if your comfort food is bland and flavorless. It's like not understanding why some people prefer ice cream that isn't vanilla
@@JohnDoe-hj9fhyou are such a victim of soda and juice companies without realizing it, the human body is made to drink water, not coke.
Drinking plain water is biologically right, cavemen didn’t drink Coca Cola and they still managed to reproduce to lead up to us.
Water is not meant to taste like anything, it’s meant to keep you alive, it’s okay to enjoy a soft drink, just don’t use it as your primary source of hydration
Funniest thing for me is that in Germany that bottle was “in” like five years ago and kinda irrelevant today.
According to Company man, this and a rapid growth abroad is a recipe for disaster.
they had one deal with Edeka. I never saw the bottles there. I interviewed once with them and got the most unfriendliest rejection via phone in 2019.
@@Canleaf08 It's part of the standard product range at Rossmann and DM.
tbh i see it more today than five years ago
I was confused at first why the reupload but then I realised I had in fact watched the Hipyo video on the Air Up bottle being a scam 😄
i've actually had it for about two years now (recently bought the second gen) and i absolutly love it. It works really well for me and really helped me drink a lot more water. It's defenitly expensive for a bottle but for me it's really worth it, for me i can use a pod for up to 3 weeks and still taste it
Had mine for 4 years (going to get a metal soon) I also love mine. I have had Orangeade on for a month and a half and still taste it.
Me too man. I’ve had mine for a year. The pods last a long time. Sweet Coconut is one of my faves. I’ve got Grapefruit in right now. It’s delicious.
Same- I had mine for 3 years and loved it, mostly the bottle itself is just perfect to me. I keep a pod in for over a month and it’s fine. Only getting a new one now because I dropped mine one too many times and it cracked.
fr i cant get the hate its probably because they never had one
@@tonyman905: Maybe another way to stupidly fill more landfills with plastic pods isn't appealing to people with a brain -- especially when it's for a product that isn't really even needed.
I also hate the whole wasteful coffee pod model, when a giant can of Folgers et. al. is easy to find at any decent grocery store for cheap.
I drink tea. At least everything but the staple is basically biodegradeable.
I despise the whole idea of influencers.
Just the name is kind of obnoxious in itself. That's why they had to bring in the disclaimer card on Y.T as it's such a seedy business model right? Don't get me started on the endless VPN endorsements either!
Oh me too!!!
@@elone3997 Hear hear!
Advertising will always happen within capitalism, prior to influences corporations did not share any of the ad revenue with everyday people. Now “influencers” can make a job out of marketing and advertising that use to remain in the hands of capitalists and corporations
This video is by an influencer
youre giving the relevancy of this bottle YEARS is veryyyyy generous. nobody even thinks about this bottle until its mentioned, and then they forget the moment the ad is over
For one thing, I actually bought one of these bottles. It was cool at first because it did actually work. Problem is though, it really was just way too expensive to keep up with and I just switched back to a normal bottle. Recently however, I was reminded of Cirkul and their whole system. Cool thing about them is that, they literally do flavor your water instead of "flavoring" through scent. You should totally do a video on them sometime because they have a similar business scheme!
you couldve just used the air up as a normal bottle...
personally, i find cirkul to be kind of redundant as why not just buy cordial or other water flavourers
@@epic3286 what is cirkul
A glass of water from the waterpipe
tastes better and its free😂😅😅
it tastes the same in a air up bottle
I don't watch or use any short form content platforms + ad blocking... never even heard of this thing before. Man, the public really is hit with a pile of crap advertising eh ?
I also use SponsorBlock extension for CZcams, and I'm so happy that I don't see any ads...or as little as possible at least.
the bottle is good tho
its interesting, i remember their early marketing in the Netherlands being very geared towards it being a HEALTH choice and not an eco friendly one (scented water over sodas) but in all fairness, buying bottles of water is not standard here. I do think there's also been a shift in general in the last five or so years to really get into that eco friendly market in general.
Hey, great video as always. Rewatched some old videos again and idea: Nicotine Pouches. As here you talk about product similar to coffee pods, you spoke about vaping last year, could be a good continuation. 🤗
Had air up for over 3 years now, it’s great. I don’t know if it’s just because I have an older bottle, but I’ve never noticed anything bad. Except the old cherry pods. It smelt like gas. Idk why. Anyways before one of my friends got an air up they had a idk and they smelt the pod whilst drinking and it replicated an air up taste just not as strong
The kids do know about "flavortown", the kids love Guy Fieri
Yes this! Guy is freaking awesome!
Shipping plastics + cardboard = 💯 plastic consumption 😂
I remember a very similar product back in the 90s. Instead of a ring, though, it was cylinder shaped. And the water had to pass through the cylinder to get the 'flavoring' along with the 'fragrance'. I remember seeing commercials for it and it could be purchased at Bed, Bath and Beyond.
I’ve figured this was a scam for quite a while now!
You've got those FP googles on haha
why is your comment before the vid was uploaded?
@@Seizuqithe video could have been unlisted and shared with a select few people before released to the public
It's just a piece of car freshener between your bottle and your nostrils 😥
@@Seizuqimaybe they’re in a very different time zone haha
They made personal sized bottles of flavoring to add to bottled water. Might as well just have kept doing that and made unique flavors, the bottles are probably more recyclable than the pods and package for the pods
I had been using one for 2 years : it gets nasty really fast, really hard to clean, expensive as you really pay for nothing, the scent goes away really fast…
Just drink water or something with real complements and taste inside like Holy in Europe for cheaper.
You guys rock so much 🔥
ah so you dont actually have one ? great no need to bs
The presence of a crew guy in the mirror just made my day 10:45
Nice product placement of the Starbucks Kleen Kanteen 😆
The disappointing thing about air up is I knew it was a scam. But watching some of my favorite CZcamsrs and influencers promoting it was so sad. I really would like to trust them but ultimately it’s another pay check.
How is it a "scam"? Some people actually like it , is it a scam for them too?
Well the business model is a scam but the product itself isn’t no? You pay for a water bottle and air pods then you get what you paid for. Yes you might not like it and yes, this isn’t the BEST way to go about hydration overall but it still works. In the end it’s just a cool gimmick.
I’d rather get promotions for Air Up rather than Established Titles or Better Help which are actually sold based on false premises and might even put people in danger.
@@NatLaS Even the business model isn't a scam. If you don't like to drink water, air-up will still be cheaper than buying flavoured water.
And yes, you can also flavour the water yourself, but that will take more work for only a bit less money.
@@jcruz5050: To the extent they LIE about the product being environmentally friendly, it's most certainly a SCAM.
That's not complex.
@@rogergeyer9851 what are u talking about their site says 1 thing, that they use less plastic than single use bottles. Its not a scam to state a stat about ur product genius, EVERYTHING mass produced causes waste & green house gases including "environmentally friendly" products
I really like the sit down style of your videos
great vid, keep spreading That awareness People Need It
I was skeptical about it from the beginning
its a good bottle
Thank you for validating my strong skepticism of this product!
Unnecessary and wasteful but very cool in concept alone.
Yeah right? Just cuz it's a cool idea doesn't mean that it should exist!
whyz your comment before the vid was uploaded?
@@Seizuqi Haha, patreon early access benefits, my friend.
Conformation bias
everytime i see one of the ads for it i laugh because ive never been able to smell so it would just be water for me 😭😭
Reminds me of the alternative vapes that are supposed to be just “flavored air” lol
One of my friends in university know the founders personally. I remember her gemeint me about their idea before air up was on the market. Even though I don’t personally know the founders, it makes me weirdly happy/proud to see them succeed
I’m thankful that I’ve always loved water and never had an issue drinking it plain. I know people that cannot STAND water lol.
Haven’t watched the video yet but had an air up ad before it 😭
Thanks for the video.
Just wondering if this would work. Replace the ring with a felt ring add a few drops of essential oil. One bottle should last you a long time, and you can change out to different oils.
Or take your what ever water bottle you own put a small felt ring around the straw and add essential oil, done no need to buy a new water bottle.
i agree with you on the points you made about the flavor cartridge, its unneccesary, short lived and ultimately just something you'd buy for its novelty. i have bought an air up water bottle and ive actually enjoyed it. its a nice alternative to the flavored water that is just high in unnecessary sugars, artificial flavorings and calories that you shouldnt get with ordinary plain water, but being able to "taste" something that is honestly pretty good, and not have to worry about calculating calories or worry about added sugars is nice. and perhaps its better for the environment than drinking tons of soft drinks like coke or pepsi
All those pods in landfills is NOT good for the environment, no matter what they may claim.
@@rogergeyer9851 totally agree. Even if it's biodegradable.
why are there comments from before the vid was uploaded?
could be early access (unlisted video) through patreon?
A lot of creators will put their videos on private and link their patreon subs first. That's why you sometimes see comments from before the video was made public.
Patreon folks got it early 👍🏻
Never heard of any of those influencers, it's a sign. You should be proud - you're providing quality content, will be relevant for years to come.
Its a sign you dont live in 2024
While I am a fan of my Air Up bottle personally, this video is still a really well put together video essay that I could agree with on multiple points. Good video!
I still like my Air Up bottle, but I recognize its limitations.
There is always room for morons.
It helped me drink more Water, that was my goal. Good video still :)
There was a water bottle years ago that did the same idea but used essential oils in a little compartment on the lid.
Suggestion on possible future video: I'm seeing these in kitchen composters, and noticing they need all kinds of additives to work. Makes me wonder if they are really any good. I don't see any of the garden channels recommending them. The big brand I'm seeing advertised is Lomi right now.
I have an air up bottle and yes it does not taste like soda but it actually does flavor your water without adding anything. All of these bad comments are from people that have never tried it. And to be fair I don’t think this guy even tried it.
You can try it and still have negative things to say
I might as well not listen to you either then? Since you're on the internet as well.
Plus, he outright said he hadn't tried it due to it not being available where he lives
Than why is he reviewing it if he hasn’t tried it 😂
@@danielleitherHe isn't revewing the product. He's reviewing the company and how they run their business
just drink plain water, who needs these type of trash
Those who can't tolerate plain water
I'd suggest flavoured water, actual flavoured water
@taffingtonboathouse5754 I personally do those flavor packets and Cirkul
I don't know if I should say this but you saying Levi caught me off guard, I didn't know I share a name with you. It's really cool.
I remember there was another flavour smell system at least 7-8 years ago... It died down and now this haha
As a person that used a airup it really helped me drink more water i sadly lost mine and now want a new one
I'm pretty sure they'll take ALL the money you want to send them. Just think - you can help fill more landfills.
I think “Scsm” is kinda harsh, especially if it does what it says and encourages more use of refillable water bottles over other single use options. You don’t have to be perfect to be better.
but these things claiming to be good for the environment fall very much behind any other normal refillable bottle that don't come with those plastic rings.. just use any flavour syrup or tea or coffee of you liking instead? or just enjoy the great refreshing taste of plain water? that's still a thing xD
@@lalystar4230used 1 pod for 1 and a half months now. Still going strong.
@@lalystar4230 The question to ask is, is the average person buying this replacing a regular water bottle or replacing single use drinks. I suspect it's the later and that's the audience their targeting. Would making your own flavored drink be better? Sure. But I don't know how many people are going to do that. But if buying this, causes you to buy one fewer single-use drinks per week, I think that's a net win for the planet in terms of less waste create. Those plastic disks are tiny. Yes it would be better if they were recyclable, but it's still better than a weeks worth of other bottles ending up in the trash.
@@sethgrandeau9267 if that's the target audience, then sure. Here in the Netherlands a ton of people have bottles of syrup and just pour it in glasses when at home or in travel bottles when going out. Yes we do buy single use bottles of soda as well, just generally not that many, and if we do, we always bring them back to a recycle station, coz empty plastic bottle = money xD and Dutch people are cheapskates hahaha
Agreed
I always thought how much of a stupid idea it is. Just add real fruit to ur bottles 😂
While watching this video, I got an ad about some product that helps people pass stool easier and RIGHT after I skipped it, I cut back to: 8:28 🤣
I had no idea about this until your video. Pleasure obsession is getting scarier...
I have an eating disorder and will not drink water because of it. To me, water doesn't just taste like nothing. Water is absolutely vile. Also the watered from my tap is the worst. I liked my air up. It did make me drink more water, and I did replace all my other drinks with water from the air up, but it was the cost that made me stop using my bottle. I simply couldn't afford it and I'd be lucky if the 3 pack pods lasted me 6 days.
The ironic thing is that I discover a lot of these hyped up products through Futureproof, never heard of this brand before. On another note, I’ve already seen a similar product to this one for several years now.
This intro is the main reason I watch the channel.
So I have ADHD. Firstly, water is VERY boring to me. Couple that with object permanence and hyper focus, and I tend to forget to drink water unless I place in directly in my field of vision. I saw Kall Me Kris and Game Theorists promote it for over a year. I did a lot of research, tried some different fruit waters here at home, and finally gave in and bought a damn Air Up bottle. I genuinely gave it a good try for about 2 months before I gave up. It didn't really work for me. I switched to Cirkul and have been happy with that for about a year now.
Same story for me except that I never tried Air Up
im not disliking your video without watching it, so you shouldn't critique something you haven't even tried yet.
Do I really have to get bitten by a cobra or engage in hand to hand combat with a grizzly bear to know that both are a bad idea? Besides, this video wasn't really critiqing the product so much as pointing out the problems with the basic business model. And one way or another, we've all "tried" that business model before.
@@rodh1404 he literally said it was fucking stupid without testing it and your cobra comparison isn't really philosophically accurate. Plus if we were only using unproblematic products there wouldn't be much of a device left watching this video, so if there are people liking AirUp, why don´t you just let them like it, especially if your opinion is based on some random reviews that are and I quote the video "mixed" and not bad at all...
I've tried the smell theory with my friend with a thing of cherry blossom perfume. To get the actual smell to work, you practically have to huff it so you can't really drink it at the same time, half the time you have to line up your breaths in super uncomfortable ways for the method to work.
so, out of curiosity, does this mean that another water bottle like Cirkul is also a scam? I'm not trying to start any trouble, I'm just curious, cause until I ran out of flavour cartridges for my Cirkul bottle, I would use it a lot.
I am so glad more and more youtubers are calling out this company. I HATE seeing youtubers I otherwise trust and like promoting stuff like this, betterhelp, raid shadow legends and established titles. They should have enough integrity to research to see if the product is, you know. Good. And whether they genuinely use it and like it. Must of them simply take the money and say whatever. It is gross, and takes advantage of people who admire them and don't have the backbone to not follow their sponsorship advice, particularly children. Disgusting practise
Lol betterhelp is an actual bad company, raid shadow legends is just a bad game but still a choice to play. Yeah dunk on bad companies but air up isnt a good one to “call out” whilst they literally say what they are and do nothing extensively bad, yeah maybe a bit expensive and theres other options, but it also helps people, like just avoid it if u dont believe in the product 😂its not like betterhelp or other shit companies doing actual harm or scamming like that “become a lord “ thing” . But yea just avoid youtubers that take any and all brand deals, its crazy how they can just promote anything without thinking further
Uh, there is zero valid criticism in this review and yet you're calling it a scam. The thing is advertised factually and solves a real need.
Claiming pods are environmentally friendly is a PURE scam.
I remember when the startup company called The Right Cup tried to do the same thing with the same "technology" but with regular cups in like 2016 and they are out of business now lmao
I am shocked to see people in the comments say they don't like plain water, fym you don't like water? It's water! You don't just "not like" water, I refuse to believe that liking water is not a natural instinct. Just drink water, you'll live.
Never heard of this product. Watched the video anyway, since I watch and enjoy all Future Proof videos.