I Tried the Air Up... (So You Don't Have to.)
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- Опубліковано 17 лют 2024
- I Tried the Air Up water bottle so you don't have to! Every popular youtuber seems to be promoting this "flavored water bottle" but is it a scam or is it real?
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I came for the keyboards. I stayed for the destruction of this insanely horrible product
lol
sssame
And the cat, don't forget the cat
Cilantro is amazing you people are weird
Hey! Me to
honestly I have a rule. if i've never heard of a company, and it is suddently sponsoring every single youtubers I watch. there is something shady.
that's a good rule
AHEM established titles
honest i've only seen one exeption to my rule. its raid shadow legend. I've seen it way before it was on the google play store. I still have pictures of it being a game promoted as a sex game on streaming websites. ( you know you click and they ask you for a credit card and finally its a game on flash with shitty graphics and you get scammed all your money) yeah. that's how RSL got their money for their revival.
@@I-think-I-can-Shoot
Same. Huge red flag.
Air up was a German start up that got attention in the German version of shark tank. After they huge in germany, than Europe they started to expand globally like in the us market. That's why they "came out of nowhere". Huge company throws a lot of money in marketing
57 dollars for a bottle? Even if it wasn't a scam, at that point I'd just buy an actual fruit and hold it under my nose while I drink.
Honestly, not a bad idea. And if you get hungry you already have a snack
@@a-lien💀💀💀💀💀💀 lol
I mean, they make infuser water bottles. Where you can put cut up fruit and/or veg in an infuser in the water to give it a hint of fruit flavor. And you actually get at least a LITTLE nutrition with hardly any sugar or calories compared to something like soda…
or squeeze the fruit in the water and have actual flavored water
Some fruit have added sugars
I've gotten to the point where if I notice a product appearing literally *everywhere* in advertising, I don't trust it.
If it’s a sponsor on UA-cam I won’t buy it. There was this “organic” soda a year ago sponsoring….a 12 pack was $36!
Sidenote, there is one product that seems to work. If you haven't gotten Hexclad cookware, it's really nice. They ended up sponsoring a ton of people, and it's really nice. Had mine for 3 years, and still working very well, not perfect, but great.
buying stuff from the internet is generally a bad idea
I did get RayCon headphones, though. They're actually pretty good. I used them for a couple years till my partner got me airpods for xmas and now my stepdaughter still uses them years later. I had to fix the case at one point with some electrical tape but the fact that it WAS repairable is a feature imo.
@@arctrix765 Yeah I shouldn't have bought that physical copy of a game I love
(this is a joke I agree with you lmao)
For everyone saying he “didn’t assemble the bottle correctly” and that’s why it’s leaking, Air Up LITERALLY states on their website that any tilting will cause the water bottle to spill.
No it says could, and mine doesn't in fact spill. If you close the pod correctly. I've never had a drop spill.
@@ethanv7330good for you
@@ethanv7330lol, so what’s your thoughts on the product?
@@ethanv7330It leaks with or without the pods installed. Having the pod in an open or closed position doesn't change its' thickness as it is a constant width, it's plastic. The gasket itself is leaking, so if the mere presence of a pod is enough to solve the leaking issue, there would be no issue. At the end, you can even see him try and push the pod down further to stop it from shaking all over his clothes. Just like his male friend did when he spilled it. This is a common occurrence.
@@TheRealLACIf I had to guess it’s just an issue with some sealing better than others causing the different responses on this!
just drink normal water this feels like a bad habit
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flamenco?? 🥺🥺
you're so real for that flamingo
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WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE
The rule of thumb: If you see something advertised everywhere, you know that their money has gone towards marketing and not towards improving their product.
It's just so bizarre that they can't even get the 'water bottle' part of it right. Surely, you start there, and workshop how to get the scent stuff working around a perfectly normal bottle?
@@Joe90h If I had to guess, they probably had a prototype with the same base design that was watertight. Then they reduced the costs of producing the prototype by skimping on the materials, but couldn't be arsed to pay for more R&D on the new version, resulting in a leaky version of a design that worked fine with sturdier silicon.
Honestly, if I see UA-camrs advertising it, then I already assume it's garbage.
Yeah, like those horrible Raycon earbuds. I have a pair of Altec Lancing Nanobuds that I've had my fad-changing co-workers try after listening to Raycons. Most like the AL Nanobuds more, and the rest can't tell the difference. Difference? Oh, about a 1-to-3 price gap.
Important lesson that was further cemented for me by watching this video.
I think it's less of a scam and more of an over-promise issue (except the quality control. That was awful to watch).
Scents are way more complicated than smells, and you'll never find a single thing that smells the same to everyone. Even odorless things can sometimes have a scent to some people. To say that everyone will like it is... just not possible. In fact, it's actually bonkers to even assume that's possible, considering how scented candles NEED to market towards specific groups and specific countries.
There's a reason why the same exact franchise/company (like bath and body works) don't have the same products in stores geographically far from each other. They basically can't, because it's not reasonable for a scent to be the same in a completely different environment with a crap-ton of other factors. They know this, and don't try to constantly over-promise the enjoyment their scents produce, unless it's a line or group of scents. A single product? Yeah, they try to avoid that whenever possible. It's just bad business.
That's what I heard is that some people who review it get absolutely nothing out of this because their sense of smell is too weak and Hipyo here gets absolutely blasted in the face with scented candles because he clearly has a strong sense or is just repulsed by artificial scents.
@@gamerguy425 pretty much. It's like cucumbers or cucumber flavored products.
Some people love it. Some absolutely hate it and legit don't understand how anyone can.
The issue here is if the cucumber company kept marketing it everywhere saying "it's so much better than anything else out there!". Like, obviously people are going to take it and feel like they were being scammed because it tastes like crap to them. It's insane that any company would think it's a good idea to make those kinds of claims.
And yet... Here we are
That definitely makes sense. I’ve been wondering if it’s less that this is a straight up scam and more that some people get a good ‘taste’ out of it and others don’t.
@@GodhandPlusOne literally the last sentence is "it's just bad business".
I've put the blame Solely on the company entirely, from the start.
Never even said anyone was misinterpreting anything. Hell, I didn't even talk about the consumer at all outside people having wildly different reactions to scents (the coldest of takes imaginable).
All I said was that it was *less* of a scam. Which is pretty true- there are people who enjoy it and who never lied about their enjoyment.
Its just their crappy marketing and bad business model that tries to overreach past their market in the most asinine way possible.
I literally don't know what else to call it except over promising. It isn't an outright lie, as some people do in fact like it. So saying "you will like it" to a massive and diverse audience isn't entirely false, but it IS absolutely saying that more people will like it than physically possible (since no one will like everything). Which is a promise they can't fully achieve. Generally called over promising.
I genuinely enjoy air up, I don’t exactly like most the flavors but I highly enjoy peach. It’s not typically bad, but they create too high of expectations.
Same
That’s also their job, tho. They’re not gonna say “try our product, it’s okay, but not the best”. They have to sell it, and they have. This video is ridiculous, tho. Seems like it’s for views only. I used Air Up years ago before I saw it advertised everywhere and it’s great, although expensive. Many of my friends and family have tried it as well, and every single one of them liked it, which always shocked them. I used to drink no water, now I drink around 3L a day. Genuinely. It’s a great product, and this is a video of someone who went in with a negative mindset, and the comments are of people who have never even tried the product. Just weird.
Totally agree ! I bought myself an AirUp after a friend bought one for herself and let me try it, felt weird at first (the bubbles when drinking and the scent feeling a bit too chemical to me, it was rose-litchee I remember) but I still bought one hoping I would drop sodas and drink more water.
It's a total win on me, I bring it every where and refill it at least twice a day, I barely drink sodas now, like an occasional gaming night. Not all pods are good, and it really depends on people's taste I think, personnaly I love the wildberry, orange creamsicle and peach flavors the most. The downside is the price and plastic amount though, I feel like it could be reworked somehow...
Hi there! Aspiring food scientist/sensory scientist here. The way that is bottle “works” is by taking advantage of retro nasal olfaction. Basically there’s 2 ways for the compounds for aroma to get into the nasal cavity: the nose and up the back of your throat. I think a lot of people have heard that most of flavor is smell, and that’s completely right, since retronasal olfaction accounts for most of flavor (in addition to taste and nerve sensations). So in fact, you’re mostly just smelling the flavors of these pods, though there is some taste happening.
Now the problem with this bottle is that the people have different levels of ability to perceive aroma or odor. Some people just lack the receptors for some odors (this is called anosmia). The bigger issue is with the nose. In order to have retronasal olfaction, the nose HAS to be unblocked so that air can flow through. This can change with allergies or illness, and it’s why flavors are harder to taste when your nose is stuffed. The general population also has people who have structural differences like deviated septum. This really decreases your ability to perceive odor.
Okay so two paragraphs later, what’s my point? My point is everyone perceives aroma and flavor with differing levels of sensitivity. That makes this product difficult to market, and the AirUp company have made really broad claims on how EVERYONE will experience this sensation. Also!!! Aroma and flavor is extremely hard to capture in a pod such as that, and that’s part of the reason why many people experience the “vomit” aroma/flavor. Aroma composition is crazy complex, and by producing such complex flavor pods, the aromas will definitely get muddled and interact in odd ways.
Thank you for making this video because I’ve been wondering for MONTHS about this company and actual consumer opinions. What you’ve showed us a lack of sensory consumer testing before launching of this product, and it’s been supported by the comments saying it worked for 2/10 who tried it.
Thanks for the insight!
these youtubers have no fucking integrity wtf.
Nope! That's just what money does to some people @mauritshagedorn856
@@mauritshagedorn856they need to get paid so hard to blame them it good for some people as long text in one hippie hearted
@mauritshagedorn856 your saying you wouldn't do the same thing for 10 grand lol
I have a suspicion that a lot of youtubers expect their viewers to ignore sponsorships outright, so they dont really feel bad for accepting sponsorships for shitty products since hardly anyone will actually buy them
well yeah, but also, I just assumed everyone else was like me and ignored every commercial ever. But it's apparently worth millions and millions of dollars for the companies to show them, so I guess not.
I prefer UA-camrs like Pyrocinical who just say “yeah I’m sponsored, it helps keep the lights on”, and doesn’t really engage with the product other than what they’re required to say.
I mean yeah watch time can be seen and it’s pretty obvious when everyone skips sponsor segments. Plus sponsor deals where they get paid for each click or buy. UA-camrs know lol
Those with the sponsor time in the time,ine so I can easily skip? My heroes
@@tright6like Todd in the shadows
I think the hole in the lid is for air to get in as you are sucking in water so it doesnt cause a vaccum but it would not be good for moving around in a backpack.
Make sense actually, but it should be something you toggle yourself so it doesn’t leak everywhere
@@CaptainRx-ss3rt yeah there should be a lock mechanism like there is with lifting the pod up to activate.
The cap is leak proof though?
Idk why he unscrewed it upside down because that’s where the water spilt into the cap. You wouldn’t do that with regular (single use) store-bought water bottles and then complain that they spill?
every water bottle i’ve ever had has a hole for that purpose, but never leaks. idk how they do it but airup didn’t care to know either.
@@CaptainRx-ss3rt The bottle cap is a toggle. It doesn't leak with the cap on.
I have one and have for about a year now, idk if it’s different in the US but the in the UK they taste very non-chemical like and very nice and are perfect as a way to make water a bit nicer, yes it’s expensive but I prefer it to squash and will happily paw a price for a nice bottle. Also they advertise the pods as lasting about 20 days but I’ve used some for over 2 months and the flavour barely went away. I get why people are hating on it for the price but I like it for what it is supposed to do and it does it’s job well.
I got it before it went viral and I've never regretted my purchase. As someone who has trouble drinking water (mainly drink soft drinks like Coke Zero) unless very thirsty (e.g. after a workout or in the middle of the night), this tool had provided me with a way of drinking water even when not particulary thirsty and actually being able to hit the "drink 2 liters of water a day". Not all flavours taste good, and some are stronger than others, but for me, I'm very happy with it. Of course it's not for everyone. I guess we just are the target audience and people like @flamingo are not ("Just drink normal water"). It _is_ normal water, just with fake flavour, meaning it's just as healthy as water, just easier to drink.
Yeah I’m confused as hell too and feel like he intentionally made it seem way worse?
I’m not gonna lie, they don’t taste like real fruit. But it isn’t nearly as bad as they make it out to be, certainly not vomit. It tastes more like other artificially flavored drinks, just not as strong.
Also can’t get over the oH nO tHeY sPiLl WhAt ThE hEcK when they put them upside down without the freaking lid on and he unscrewed the bottle upside down?? Like… come on. What did you expect to happen? You certainly wouldn’t buy a bottle of coke, unscrew it upside down or flip it around only holding the opening shut with your finger and then complain about it spilling?
Yes, it is expensive and overhyped. But this whole video is so forced.
i agree, im from germany (origin of the bottle) and you can buy everything in stores here. my brother has one and tbh its pretty good.
Is this better than any other flavored or infused water? I usually drink bubly as a soda alt.
@@casandra0 I‘d say actually infused water is better, as they have a more intense taste and are usually sparkly. You can use sparkling water with air up, which will also enhance the infusion a little, but it‘s still quite faint in my opinion.
But that’s just my personal preference. It‘s definitely a good option though if you really want pure water without anything in the water itself but still want it to taste like something.
0/10 product .No RGB ,no knob and no num pad
Pretty sure all water bottles are TKL
and it doesn't THOCK!!!
where is my numpad I need my numpad I can't live without the numpad :((
@@narpwareal numpad users are the most oppressed class
Not hot swappable! ANGY
Heya, material engineering stundent here. The fact that the cap leaks water is intentional but it is executed poorly. There's a gap so when you suck water, the bottle lets air in, so you can actually suck the water without having to try and create a vacuum inside the bottle. Now this could be fixed with integrating a pressure valve in the cap but that would increase the already high price... though probably not by much. Still, I'd say it is an oversight in the process of making the bottle usable.
tl;dr the leaking is intended but an oversight since the fix would be quite easy to implement from the company's end.
Maybe in order for the "smell pod" to work they needed a bigger hole (larger airflow)?
Because all my cheap water bottle caps have valves. It can't be something you skimp on nowadays.
I have one of those bottles. The cap is designed in a way that the air gap is pushed down to seal it. So would he actually have turned the bottle right side up, it would have been dry on the inside of the cap. Of course, if it leaks upside down without the cap, it will leak into the cap when the cap is unscrewed while it is upside down. Not to defend the design. Just saying, it works as intended and it does not leak as long as the cap is screwed on fully. Not into the cap, not into your backpack. Is it a good design? Well, probably not so much.
Oh and btw. it also pushes the pod down when you screw it on. That way it does not leak water into the pod. Which also is something you probably would not want.
The hydroflask solved that issue forever ago (quite easily) with the design of their strawcap, this company sucks ass.
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Actually a lot of people (and kids - surprisingly) here used it - although I feel the hype is dying down (Netherlands). We have one and actually thought it was kinda nice, same goes for my wife and daughter. Definitely not had such a reaction to fresh pods haha. The quality I feel we've been lucky with (no leaking if you use it correctly), but definitely can see some flaws in the design. But again, in my environment the AirUp doesn't have a bad rep and was quite popular even. Maybe helps that I didn't get into contact with it via YT spam as well.
I've had mine for a few months and it honestly works perfectly fine for me. You can say it is overlypriced sure, but it does what it says it does. When you just drink it without conetrating on the smell it really does taste like the flavor. Obviously everyone's sensitivity to smells is different so that will impact how effective it is for each person. I would not classify this as a scam. There are so many other products that more clearly fit that box more egregiously. Just my two cents since a lot of people haven't used it, I figured i'd share my positive experience at least.
Imagine paying for this grift
@@sorenjunkers3834 a grift implies it's something that doesn't actually work. Yet 96% of the people saying it's a scam or grift haven't tried it. I might be old school, but I like to make judgements based on my own and not just take what others say as fact without checking for myself. I thought it was a neat idea and so I wanted to see if it would actually work, like the youtuber in this video did. And like I said I still use it everyday and it works exactly as advertised for me. On a video that claims to say it fully doesn't work, I thought to share the fact it did for me. And I know there are others who have the same experience, but making a video saying it works isn't going to get all the clicks and thumbs up instead of a video saying it's a scam and that it doesn't work. Which clearly a lot of people online have a bias of believing without verifying for themselves.
@@sorenjunkers3834 to try it for myself like this youtuber did? Do you normally just take whatever other people say as truth without checking for yourself? I tried it and I use it everyday so I didn't lose anything 🤷♂️
How do you know it is a grift?@@sorenjunkers3834
@@sorenjunkers3834 It's unnecessary to shame someone only for their personal experience
It's amusing to me how many youtubers who "would never advertise a product they don't like" are sponsored by bad products and unethical companies
ah yes because this one youtuber doesn't like the product every other youtber is obviously lying
@@jansorijansosten253 did you notice how they actually didn’t say that at all?
@@jansorijansosten253 I dont think ive ever heard of a real person actually liking these.
They just like the money mostly and just say that
@@jansorijansosten253hey guys we found the air up employee
Whenever a UA-camr I like promotes a product and says stuff like "I use this every day" I'm like... "Are you sure? Or did the marketing department tell you to say that so your audience buys the product?"
On one hand, UA-cam can be absolutely out of their minds with their monetization system and can even demonetize videos for no reason. So understandably, it has become one of the bigger/only methods of making money as a content creator, but I sometimes wish they didn't have to promote products that are actual garbage.
The only time I've seen UA-camr's be legitimate about "using every day" is Vessi shoes. Every other product, it seems fake or is fake.
I mean yeah capitalism sucks, we could just not have poverty but capitalism needs it to function properly and here we are, it could be more democratic but only for a little while because ownership is more important than actual work put into things. If we rewarded value instead of owning the value we'd be a lot better off but oh well here we are and now the world is ending ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@@smileyp4535 not really no, get outta here with this defeatist mindset lmao
@@ember9361 "defeatist mindset" not everyone can be fucking happy and optimistic like you wanna pretend you are 24/7. stfu.
@@smileyp4535 well capitalism is the best thing we have. We've already tried socialism/communism and that didn't work
I hope you do more things in this series, I would adore to see someone review common UA-cam sponsorships in an unbiased manner.
I also adore your cat. She seems like a sweetheart.
I've been using mine for about a year now and it really does help me to drink more water. Sure it's not as good as actually flavored water (e.g. soda), but it's about on par with tea in my opinion and better than day in day out just water and tea. There's a lot of pods that don't do it for me but I enjoy coconut, forest fruit, and chocolate orange. It's not wow but like I said it does help me drink less soda etc so for me it's worth it.
Honestly, at this point the more aggressively a product is being advertized through UA-cam sponsorships, the more I expect it to fall somewhere between being utter garbage and an actual scam, and the less inclined I am to even consider looking into the product, let alone purchasing it. After Established Titles, Better Help, and apparently now Air Up, I've certainly lost the very little trust I had. When a company has so much money to blow on marketing that they seem to be willing and capable to sponsor each and every UA-camr that has built at least somewhat of an audience, something has to be fishy.
The video is pretty bad tho. The product is actually fairly good, Ive been using it for months and love it. I went from drinking no water to only drinking water thanks to it and while the first bottle has quite strong taste, the longer you use the pods the better the taste gets. It also doesnt leak, unless you open it upside down of course like he did in the video, but any bottle will leak that way. If you keep the lid on you can store it upside down with no problem, no leakage at all
@@ja_uI'm not sure if that makes the video bad per se, it just seems that you personally had a very different experience with the product, which is very valid. Maybe I'd like it too if I tried it, who knows! But to be honest, I've always been sceptical of the concept, it's just nothing I'd ever want to use. This video validated many of my concerns about it. And it proved to me how products that are being hyped up through UA-cam sponsorships are not necessarily all they're claimed to be, which I guess can be said about any kind of advertising.
To sum that up, my point still stands, I have very little if any trust left in products and services that apparently spend a fortune on UA-cam sponsorships to promote their product. It just doesn't sit right with me, and actually has the opposite effect of what those companies want to achieve.
Do you have the same impression of Brilliant? I've been seriously considering it but have similar reservations.
@@givemeaworkingnameskillshare is a scam when the videos they offer is basically a paywalled UA-cam video but idk about brilliant
@@givemeaworkingname That's one thing that I've also been considering because it sounds great. I haven't heard anything about it besides sponsorships though, so I have no clue if it's actually good or not. A resource that I like to use for this sort of thing is trustpilot. Just checked, and it seems that Brilliant has a really good score over there (4.6/5 for my country). So chances are it's genuinely a good service.
im getting pretty frustrated with youtubers having literally 0 integrity about their sponsorships, especially big youtubers who can afford to be choosy. it feels like nothing is genuine.
Fr. Whenever I see sponsorships I skip them. it’s usually the same 6 products anyway and I bet most of them are scams
You guys don't use sponsorblock? 😂
Sponsorships always feel sketchy to me. When they are advertising this aggressively on UA-cam the product is probably overpriced to begin with to compensate for that cost.
first world problems....
@tetraasmr I absolutely agree, it's quite disheartening and some creators have gotten backlash, like Kurtis (deserved, I say). What frustrates me about really successful creators is that they often do the "begging", ie aggressively promote their Patreon etc, while _also_ taking any shady sponsorship ready to pay them. It does, indeed, not feel genuine, it feels like any greedy, cash-grabbing company out there.
To be fair, based on you review, this doesn't really look like a scam, per se, but, just a product that you don't like.
Thats exactly what i think i guess it has a different effect to everyone there are the one who like it like me and there are others who dont like the smell/taste and think its scam just because its not as someone expected does not make a scam
No I think the scam part is:
- The bottles are super expensive but no matter what version you get they leak like crazy
- The pods themselves are also ridiculously expensive and they charge even more for flavors people are likely to want to try first
Capitalists : It's not a scam, it's business !
People buy things with money they don't have. Creating needings by marketing should be a crime.
it is a scam unless you're a capitalist
@@lizzytheowl577 bro I really cannot read this comment without cringing myself inside out. I own about 12 different Strawbased Waterbottles each and every single one of those has a whole in its lit to let the air inside so u don't suck a vacuum while using it. Every single bottle of those leaks if u point it upside down this is also the reason why every straw water bottle has a lid. off course the lid is going to be full of water if you open it upside down slowly. A German product getting hate in America because they are to studio to understand physics is crazy to me.
I bought the Air-Up bottle for my girlfriend 6 or so months ago. To this day, she's still using it daily: it hold a lot of water, the scent-based system feels nice to drink, and I have seen 0 leaking problems from the bottle
Yeah, it's costly, but it feels very high quality to this day and it helped her drink more, which was the goal
they really are overpricing the experience of huffing a candle while drinking water
huffing a candle is crazy 😂
So all the youtubers and podcaters are lying how amazing this is and how it's like drinking real sida? I haven't bought this thing but I still kind of feels scammed because they sound so positive.
@@teijaflink2226 I enjoy Air Up. Motivates me more to drink fluids. Not every flavour is for everyone.
@@Cynalie do you work for air up?
how much are they paying you?@@Cynalie
I'm still not over the fact the pods fade so quickly when my 20 year old Strawberry Shortcake CDs and dolls smell just as fruit-candy-esque as ever.
the strawberry shortcake car where you could press down on the steering wheel to release strawberry smell 😍
@@bammythegreatI hope that it brings you pleasure to know how insane that sounds to someone who didn't grow up on those toys lol
True, but are you constantly pouring water on the every time you use them?
@@gingerninja8872 the scent pods actually never come into contact with water! they sit outside the water bottle's straw, above the lid.
@@gingerninja8872 That's true, although in the original video I believe they said the pod was left sitting out for those few weeks, rather than being used. I also imagine the difference between the products has something to do with the toys' perfume being essentially baked into the plastic, in contrast to the pods where it looks like the main scent component is a cotton piece that's presumably just been dipped in whatever oil they're using.
The real scam is the pricing. Who on their right mind would....
I actually liked the taste and don’t think its a scam. My friend used to have an Air Up and I used to occasionally drink from it. Its still expensive though
THANK YOU! I also use Air Up and I find it to be great!
Honestly... I think he tried some of the worst flavors Air Up has to offer. Except for Peach Ice Tea. I like that one. Idk what happened there.
@@KingBobaFettThat's Peachy!
Same, I got one and for me it works. I like some pods, not all of them. I have to agree, some of them small & taste chemical, but not all of them.
I think that literally GAGGING on each of the pods is just acting and overreacting, this video is fake. I have the 2 of the bottles with several flavors and they are good.@@KingBobaFett
The reason i dont think its worth it is cuz like, i mean its just water. So yeah, but thats just my opinion. If yall like it and have the money for it thats fine
I think I’ve only ever seen one UA-camr whose Air Up bottle was legitimately used and worn from use. When they said that they had used it for many months now, this was the only time I legitimately believed them because that logo was fading and the plastic looked chewed and everything.
Who was it Im curious
Did they also say it's good ?
MatPat is apparently crazy for this thing
@@juanletsplay1550going crazy from the sponsorship money he's getting from this thing
Is it Ofherbsandalters? That's the youtuber i know of who isn't a super popular creator but has a consistent audience and made an unsponsored video about airup where they really liked it.
People who think you can "force" a cat to perform have never met a cat. You can TRAIN a cat, but that's different from forcing. And Nola just likes her dad.
Probably also has a lot to do with a lot of people not realizing that cats can and do behave that way towards people on their own, just because they feel affection for those people.
Also, she's probably learned by now that when her dad speaks with a certain tone and cadence toward the thing with shiny bits and lights (i.e. when he's filming a video), she's probably going to get a new cardboard box to explore soon (3:55). Cats are rarely trainable like dogs, but they _do_ recognize patterns, make associations, and love cardboard boxes.
@@HaloInverseYou can train cats to do specific things, but there has to be something in it for them. You know, like when they walk across your keyboard and you play with them as a distraction, and then they keep doing it…
But in all seriousness I have so far trained 1.5 cats to shake hands with me for a treat! One of them looks you in the eye and puts his paw in your hand. The other doesn’t quite get it yet and just touches anything repeatedly (such as the treat, my hands, my sandwich, and my face) to see if it works. He’ll figure it out eventually.
@@HaloInverse dude that's a cat referring to him as her dad is really weird even as a joke
@@evanelison it's really not.
Omg please do more reviews like this skdkskd also ur cat is so cute 😭😭💞
I think the hole is there on purpose to straw working properly because there must be some way to replace the water you drink with the air inside the bottle.
Sooo, I live in Japan and it's extremely common to get flavoured fizzy water that's flavoured only with scent here. I bought a bottle once, mainly because it was zero calories. I wanted to try it. I was surprised at how good it was and when I looked at the ingredients, I was flabbergasted to see it listed only water and "scent" - some flavours do have "extract" in them but many are only scent. I'm not really sure how they do it (the brand I like is "Wilkinson"), but it comes individually packed in plastic water bottles and are far more affordable. You can get the store brand ones for less than a dollar a bottle and those are also pretty good. It's a shame that air up tried to take something I find to be fascinating and actually really good (and affordable) and make it very half assed and extremely overpriced.
same case in Europe, they love their flavored sparkling water!
Wilkinson strong sparking water slaps.
I believe this is what they try to achieve and being "eco fiendly" as less plastic bottles are needed. If it would work of course.
@@finn7599 I don’t know if you understand how sweeteners work, they cause cancer and shit. Flavoured water isn’t good for necessarily good for you. Air-up is
Sweeteners lad, sweeteners, not good for you
If a company is paying this much money to advertise their product on youtube, it usually means you shouldn't buy it.
Classic case of "if we tell them they want it, they'll want it". This is happening more and more these days and the products attached to that ethos are getting less and less logical
ah yes reminds me of a certain RAID. That came from the SHADOWs pretending it was of LEGENDS.....
I mean Raycon is alright. Good quality earbuds for a little cheaper
@@thedogethatgamesI’m kinda surprised folks think they’re expensive, cause for me it was an alternative to getting Beats / AirPods. But I have no idea if they’re no better than a Walmart or Target brand, I just didn’t think they were horrendous. I will say I couldn’t talk on the phone with my raycons which I found really odd, but that was my only real negative feedback.
Correct. That's why I never donate to charity because all UA-camrs always talking about it /s
The Amazon ripoff of this is better than the actual brand
I honestly thought it was 100% a scam until I watched Mia Maples’ video on it. She did a “trying things people wanted me to sponsor” video and genuinely liked AirUp so much that she agreed to do a sponsorship in a later video. You can often see the water bottle in the background of her non-sponsored videos. So I’d say maybe there is some variability on whether or not it works for people. But it still does excuse the cheap water bottle, the excessive amount of packaging, and the wild prices. I also would never buy it because I get severe migraines from perfumes.
I don't care how much I enjoy a youtuber or streamer, I will never buy any sponsored product like this. They're usually just mediocre products with decent marketing.
honestly wouldn't buy any product found through sponsoring period, if it's actually good it will find me through gods good humour
@@krabiat Only sponsor thing i ever got was Huel, pretty good pretty cheap.
I made the mistake of spending way over 1000 EUR on Betterhelp after watching a convincing sponsorship at an emotionally vulnerable time. As far as therapy goes, it sucked.
i only consider using sponsored products if i have any way to confirm the quality. The only exception was an energy drink powder product which i kinda took a leap in the dark and got one of those tasting kits with lots of flavors and i've actually liked the product and the price. About air up tho, i never even considered it. It's a blatant overprice (edit: i purchased a steel bottle from a sports brand called decathlon and paid like 25 euros, less than half of the metal air up product) and hydration formulas already exist and are sold by much more respected beverage companies (biggest example i'd say is twinings tea, which is a quite renowned brand). The technology is interesting, but it's clearly a marketing scheme with no intention of putting that technology to any real use at all.
Are you telling me that my MANSCAPED The Lawn Mower 4.0 or my Raycon THE EVERYDAY EARBUDS are just an average product with decent marketing investment??? Whaaaat???
People who say you force your cat to be there clearly don't understand that if a cat doesn't want to be somewhere, it will not be there. That good baby *very clearly* loves and trusts you.
“Herding cats”
@@OkieDokieSmokieI don't think you know what love is.
Came to say the same thing xP
I wouldn't be surprised if Nola understands camera = money making = food lol
That's what I was thinking... Cats pretty much do what they want. That kitty looks good quite content to be where she is.
So glad you covered this! I saw it in the British UA-cam reality show “footasylum Locked In” in the newest season and was curious!
Thank you for the review. Here is my knowledge and experience:
- The silicon plastic straw/cap thingy doesn't fit perfectly and leaves a little opening every time indeed, but this has a reason. The slurp you hear is caused by this opening. And what it does is: It ensures that some air enters while you drink and that air comes out through the pod. So it's done on purpose. If you just want to have a bottle, you can take the whole straw and silicon top off and use it as a bottle, then it won't spill any water.
- I mostly used it with soda water and coke flavor. To be honest I'm impressed. I kinda feel some light coke flavor somewhere. It's not like I'm drinking coca cola, but it 's a bit similar to sodastream + it's pepsi syrup.
Is it expensive? Yes.
Is it worth it? Don't think so.
Was it fun to try? Yes.
Do I like the (quality of the) bottle? Yes.
Will I buy new (other) pods when I'm done using these? Probably not.
Thank god someone can talk about sponsorships, wish there's more videos where people review sponsored crap.
It is safe to assume that everything promoted on UA-cam is overpriced tat, no matter what your favorite UA-camr says. No hate, as you gotta put dinner on the table.
@@RocketboyX I hate promotions
@@RocketboyX The only sponsorship product that I actually bought and liked was the henson shaving one
How to fell 50 in your teens:
@@RocketboyX skillshare. apparently trash. magic spoon. trash. betterhelp traumatises vulnerable people and is insanely pro israel. raid shadow legends. gambling for kids. air up bad smelly water. hello fresh. over priced and terrible working conditions. etc etc etc. Only sponsor I've seen that looks good is displate. they give 50% of each sale to the artist which should be the standard for products like that but isn't. they do look very nice and seem easy to hang up. you might spend what like £10 on a regular poster but they get ripped. I feel like I'm shilling it now they aren't paying me I just appreciate the business model and seemingly high quality
18:30 No no, the investors definitely tried it. But then they said to themselves "people are gullible and it will sell like hotcakes, if the company fails later we'll have made our money anyways".
"People already bought scams they will buy another"
I just don't trust any YT promotion at this point
@@realdragon More so, look deeper into a product, especially if it's being aggressively advertised to you. Try to wait for actual reviews on something.
@exyz Nah, so far those big things that were advertised were just to sell products and lie to people in some way.
Tom Scott made video about VPN and how it's not really how they advertise it
Ridge wallet has rfid protection but I can do the same thing by wrapping my ordinary wallet with tinfoil (and I have place for coins)
That thing where they were selling plot of land so you have title of Lord was just a scam
They advertised Raid Shadow legends as THE GAME that is on par with AAA, honestly I don't know if anybody expected it to be something more than just another mobile game
Now there's this
@@invertexyz There has been quite a few advertisements that were misleading on purpose
@@realdragon Yes... thus why I'm saying what I am haha
I've had mine for about 3 years now, and I have only always used the flavour lime. I think it works well (I always took it to school for 2 years), and lime does taste good to me, while almost every other flavour I tried was terrible.
I got it 3 years ago, because we are only allowed to drink water in school, and I really hated the taste of water back then, and for that, It did a really good job.
Now, I don't use it anymore, because I like the normal taste of water now
The opening at the top makes total sense, how can you stick on a straw when no air can go in another place? I’m confused why you actually criticise this, it’s obvious physics and nicely done…
You obviously didn't watch the part where WATER tasted like vomit 😂😂
If a bunch of UA-camrs are getting sponsored suddenly, the best you can expect is an expensive version of a good product.
Or just a mediocre or bad product with good marketing.
If something catches your interest, look into the market, not just the brand being promoted.
That's how I ended up with a $30 rigid wallet from Amazon instead of spending $50+ for a Ridge one. And I love it.
#1 rule, if they're spending money on lots of marketing it means they are not spending money on a quality product.
@@TheVerendus Not exclusively, but it is a good rule of thumb to consider.
It's not like good marketing doesn't exist for good products.
A good rule of thumb is always to compare any paid youtube product with comparable amazong copies ... sometimes they are identical
lmao 50$? Must have been an outlet or something cause them shits are 80$+ on the regular
@@vracaze I admit I was only going from memory
Whenever a lot of youtubers get sponsored by a certain product i immediately distrust the product. The ray earphones, this, its always the same
and let's not forget the BetterHelp trainwreck....
You are right about Raycons.
Absolute TRASH headphones. Literally shit you buy at a gas station.
I've been using NordVPN, which I'm happy with. I have honey browser extension, which doesn't work a lot of the time, but hey, it's free. Other than that, I have no interest in any sponsored UA-cam products.
Hello fresh and all the sister/daughter companies, the no sugar all protein cereal, Temu, Colon broom can’t trust any of em
Established titles was definitely the worst offender, for literally being a fake product
Sooo glad he mentioned the focus on recyclable packaging when each flavor pod literally comes wrapped individually in plastic 🤦🏽♀️
14:43 “that’s literally not a water bottle!” has me dying lmao, more honest review of the airup than most youtubers
We all know the only reason Drew Gooden hasn’t tore AirUp to shreds is because his own friends are advertising it lol
yeah probably
yeah, it's like when he reviewed magic spoon and the moon pod
he is still advertising better help so I'm not so sure he would
@@roh819big oof. Better help is the biggest scam out there.
@@roh819when did he last advertise for better help?
the amount of plastic waste you showed reminds me of that futurama joke where fry unboxes 50 things to stamp an oreo together manually only to peel it apart, eat the filling, then throw away the actual cookie.
Yeah! There's usually no plastic waste in tech so this was crazy
Especially since it turns out the pods are better left open for a while.
This thing is so dumb. It's "solving" a problem that doesn't exist and like all stupid solutions it produces a crapton of waste because I can guarantee that that stupid scent pod isn't going to last very long especially if you're not using the bottle all day every day to get the most out of the pod.
Literally watching futurama right now lmao
Accurate 🤣👏
If you never watched that episode you don't know how ON point & accurate this comment is. All that plastic, but instead of cookie filling it's for water... circa 2024 😆
Great video. I almost....almost, fell for this and was going to buy one. I had the last minute urge to look up reviews and here i am. Great video and thank you however, I have to say, Nolan is definitely the star of the show lol 😂
Subbed 👍
About the leakage, bet there is a valve in it that got displaced
or something since it's a necessity for the straw to work correctly.
With a sealed bottle and straw you'll only be able to drink a bit
before being unable or if you can go on drinking the bottle will
implode because of negative pressure.
Sure, probably not with the aluminum bottle but for sure in the realm
of possible for the plastic one. So, I would recommend
checking if there is a valve and if there is trying to get it back
to it's original position. Look out for a rubber flap in front of
a smaller opening, hopefully with support bars, grid or sieve
under the flap/in the opening so the mechanism actually works
in every situation and is not getting sucked in to the opening
getting stuck there so water can leak.
A visual representation could look something like this: ((+))
Imagine the brackets as full circles, the outer ones being the flap,
the inner ones being the opening and the plus is the support bars
at the same level of the openings edge pointing towards the flap.
The flap needs to be in the inside, so whenever water is pushing
against it, the flap gets pushed against the opening sealing it
but letting air in from the outside, so far so simple.
Last but not least, I'm disappointed fellow germans
released such a scammy product since they can't tell me,
while producing it in china, it has to cost that much.
Take coffee pads for example, they have to be more expensive
compared to this, yet they are not. Or do you think,
coffee and the aluminum cap costs less than these caps here?
Neat. Basically every youtube sponsor is suspicious because of all the ones that have turned out to be scams, and it's just like "hey guys this company paid me to tell you this product is good but trust me when I tell you it's good"
that is upsetting, cuz matpat said it was good T_T Sad they kind of sell out as well, and he kind of promotes air up, in almost every video he was in before he retired, (ever since he got the sponsor)
@@McQuackeen dude. matpat has always been a joke. the guy has been making shit videos for decades. the guy never had ANY integrity. but I'm glad you found out now.
And good for him mentioning Keurig with this German trash as they are the kings of "green washing" while being consumer end product polluter kings
I think of it as just paid actors, when it's a product and don't trust them unless they proudly say in non sponsored content they wouldn't recommend something they don't like.
But thats only if its a dumb product that doesn't change anyone's life.
Because that's just capitalism.
When it's something like BetterHelp, where its seeking out vulnerable people and taking advantage of them....
@@defmore5099Are you serious? That's a joke right?
Rule of thumb is simple: if a UA-camr is paid to tell you that something is good, then it's likely bad or at least overhyped. Kamikoto knives, Air Up, literally every VPN service out there, etc, etc.
That's true. Tbh the only sponsorship I trusted was one action rpg lol. Even stuff like Filmora ruins your video, if you don't pay for the premium.
Still see people saying "oh but VPNs are good" while you oay like 20$ a month to pay for 20+$ a month for Netflix when you can just get the free movies anyway, 40+$ for jack and shit
No they dont help you protect against anything, you dont need a VPN keep your money please
Prime
@@Shadox-yv8ms VPNs are mostly useful for getting around region blocks
@@Shadox-yv8ms20$ a month for a vpn? Lol what service is that?
I remember this meme, where a guy takes a good sniff of a burger and then quickly eats an apple because he was on a diet 😂 same point!
I'm SO happy someone did a video about this. UA-camrs who, in the past, would have mocked creators for taking these sponsos now taking them themselves is so annoying and knew it was a scam
This is a very generalizing statement. I personally like the product very much. Yeah, they’re expensive, but it’s by no means a bad product. Appears to be of a personal preference in taste I guess or maybe they have fixed them, but I personally promote this with pure honesty. I bought one for my girlfriend too.
@@RobbeYT just drink tea bruh
The amount of youtubers I respect who have good reputations promoting this is now really baffling to me. Kurtis Conner says he uses it every day and he can legitimately taste the flavors. Idk.
Consider that not everyone has anosmia. Pizza smells like vomit to me. Cilantro hits 50/50 for people. It's not a matter of the product working or not, like raycon earbuds. It entirely depends on the olfactory sensitivity of the person using it.
@@miikoshka Raycon earbuds use a single dynamic driver, same as Airpods, Skullcandy, and practically every other earbud on the market. The only way you're going to get a real difference in sound quality is with multi-driver earbuds or headphones.
Oh nooooo, not my fav youtuberino!
Yeah and danny Gonzalez getting sponsored by this and helli fresh which are now known to not actually be sustainable or cut costs...
Also many youtubers who advertise betterhelp which were expised for being a terrible company... I dont understand
Parasocial relationships hit hard sometimes.
Edit: I think that is the modern way of saying _"Don't meet your heroes"_
It was horrible and difficult to return. I had to dispute the charge. They were not happy about my review either they e-mailed me requesting an "updated review". I said send me a refund, and they offered another bottle and deleted my review after I disputed the charges on my cc.
Not sure if you can, but report them to the BBB, if possible.
I'm glad I saw this video and read your review, along with a bunch of other horror stories in the comments section here. I was eyeing up one of their bottles and the extortionate price was the only reason I don't already have one of these bottles; I was looking to get a bottle and an array of flavours next month after holding fire because of the price.
Any company that deletes reviews, pressures consumers for updates/changes on honest reviews, or makes refunds and returns a difficult/impossible process needs to not exist.
I don’t like flavoured water so I wasn’t tempted but ive been really curious about how it works so I’m glad to have my curiosity quenched 😂
Similar problems happened with some wine box CinemaSins promoted.
@@MidnightSonnet reporting them to BBB is like reporting them to yelp
Actual product review starts at 5:25
Oh finally. The editor of this video acknowledges my main problem with cats
Hey, watching this from germany. Air up actually originated on the German version of shark tank and was picked up and made big by Frank Thelen who you could basically describe as the German Elon musk. He's known for greed, crazy advertising campaigns aaaand of course products that sound interesting enough to be easy to market but actually under delivery quite heavily. So yeah. No surprises with the airup brand
Ich bin Frank Thelen und I approve this message
That makes sense. The only way Elon Musk could ever be more evil was if someone created a German version of him!
Calling Frank Thelen the german Elon Musk gives a bit too much credit to Frank imo (I hate both of them btw), allthough I didn't know this incredible product was pushed by him. Makes a lot of sense now lol.
@@LHyoutube I can say for all us Germans, please don't make a German version of Elon. He is already awkward af.
@@LHyoutubeMate, you will not like hearing about Peter Thiel then.....
I struggle with drinking water, but instead of using whatever airup is i just think about how bad kidney stones are
Yep. Once you get them - never again.
That actually motivated to drink water more. Thank you.
Try cordial, or as we Brits call it squash, especially Robinson's squash. no sugar doesn't have a lot of preservatives.
@@Robdc89Ribena clears
I struggle with this too, and I already have mild kidney damage so it's important that I keep my intake up (or so my nephrologist says). What works for me are Starburst flavor packs, for water. They taste great and, with only 5 calories per pack, it's guiltless. It's increased my water intake dramatically and more importantly; my nephrologist doesn't scold me anymore for not drinking enough water. ;p (Note: I neither work for, nor am I affiliated with, Wrigley. I just like this product.).
I like my bottle, the leaking is a quite stupid problem though. (Its so that air can go in when water goes out i think tho) i like my peach pod it tastes like theres peach in there but my wild berry one only tastes like blackberry and then i have a lemon one that’s quite nice , it tastes like lemon water, a lot of people have tried my bottle too and they said it tastes like peach but that might just be because were younger so our taste buds are more sensitive
The Raycon of water bottles
I understand UA-camrs need to make an income so I don't hold it against them for hawking what I deem "UA-cam products", but to be honest, whenever there's a random product that suddenly pops up in a ton of UA-camrs' different videos all at once, it's pretty much a safe bet to assume it's a scam and/or shit tier product, especially if it's not a mainstream brand.
Not always true it’s just hard to tell what is and isn’t the case
A lot of these UA-camrs are probably being scammed too without knowing it
Or maybe every person just reacts differently like pineapple pizza idk
It is not okay to make income through shady, harmful or deceptive methods. That's like saying, "''I understand why they robbed a bank and hurt people, they're poor trying to make a living!"
Yup just like Raycons
@@joejam174am I crazy for loving my raycons? Lol I’ve had mine for years they’re great
BetterHelp has entered the chat
Whenever I see any youtube sponsorship I just assume it's either a scam, the company is extremely abusive to its employees or a nice, healthy mix of both lmao
only one i ever saw that i'd have supported was for a product i already owned anyway XD
Best case is that you're getting a decent product for a non-decent price.
Adam Ragusea has explicitly stated in non-sponsored videos that he only takes sponsor opportunities from things that he actually would use, so things like Magic Spoon, Squarespace, some probiotic and testing stuff. Knowing that makes me trust the sponsors a bit more, but they're still not really things that I would personally need or use.
@@akpsyche1299magic spoon is incredibly overpriced and not very good
@@akpsyche1299 Lots of UA-camrs say that but the perspective of a UA-camr is just not the perspective of the average person
I am so happy that this video validated my suspicion! I never tried airup, but this company makes me so angry. I despise this over the top marketing and acting like this product is somehow making the world better.
My air up bottle was only 25 bucks, got lots of free testers. The scents are flavored but obviously personal taste/opinion is involved here. It def helped me drink more water which was the point of me buying it. I like the scents and would recommend this product. However after 2years of use I just diverted to normal water as I got sloppy with replacing the scent pods and it lost its flavor i was just drinking water. Was it worth it? Yes, Would I use it again? Maybe some time but not like I used to!
why is it so hard for people to drink water? just drink water. simple. and when you want taste the drink tea.
This seems like one of those 'design student final projects' that got funding, realized it was a bad idea half way through, and needed to go to market to fulfill contracts.
@AlexEckles-ue9hu Seriously, why does the cherry taste like that? It's gotta be the most commonly used fake flavor on the market, how did they mess that one up? My household tried several and had decent success with a few but everyone hated the cherry.
See also: Thunderf00t 's series taking down the crowdfunded garbage scam that was "Fontus Water Bottle," which promised a portable system for condensing drinkable water out of the air (powered by a small solar panel). It seemed like it was thrown together by a bunch of design students with no background in the sciences.
He explained how this product as advertised was not scientifically feasible with current technology, like not even close.
After the project got funded, what followed was months of delays and evasive "updates" littered with corporate-speak excuses.
Instead of a small sleek water bottle, the prototype that emerged was a giant clunky cylinder that resembled a dehumidifier.
I have a vague guess that these pods contain esters. These are compounds made from organic (or inorganic) acids that, depending on how they are changed, smell like certain foods. A lot of the time they smell fruity. Now very commonly esters are created using butanoic acid, creating butyl esters. Thing is, butanoic acid smells like vomit. And a lot of the time if you have made an ester, getting a good nose full of it will still give you that hint of vomit from the butanoic acid. This would explain the water also tasting like vomit, especially to someone who is sensitive to smells, and why most of the available flavours are fruity in some way or another.
I think you are right. The moment I saw their first advertisement I thought that somebody has to debunk their claims. Something like "No chemicals, no sugar, no bullshit". They also claimed, that you just smell it, so it is not harmful, but healthy. I will remember that, the next time I am breathing something like diethylether or worse things in the lab, or benzine at a gasstation. I would guess that their chemical formulations are not proper tested for safety and human health either because it is no food, but only a "parfume" and you are not supposed to eat it. The worst part is the tons of waste their stupid single use containers create. I think this start-up should just be sued to the ground.
This is a great breakdown of why this thing sucks. It screams "gimmick product" through and through.
I agree with your analysis that they're made from esters. I can't speak for the US but in the EU pretty much everything has them in them in some capacity. Remember; they do occur naturally in fruits too. I'm very scent sensitive and these work just fine on me, although I haven't tried all the scents mentioned in the video (yet, I have some of them) most of them smells fine albeit artificial to me. We played with butanoic acids in school so I know personally very well what it smells like (and it's not a scent you forget), but for cola, strawberry lemongrass, honeydew melon, and chocolate orange that scent doesn't appear. I have yet to try the other flavours though and these I believe are second gen scents so maybe the first gen scents were just crappy? I will say that honey dew lemon does taste like a chewed out gum when the scent is at the end of it's run.
Butanoic acid is a carboxylic acid. Esters end in -oate not -oic acid
isnt that acid also the one that's in hershey chocolate and that's why a lot of foreigners think american chocolate taste like vomit?
The bend at the top makes it look too much like a baby bottle. That's essentially the company signaling that they view the consumers as unintelligent infants.
6:46 I like how he provides a keyboard fix for the “millions of confused viewers” not knowing this would indeed be viewed by millions of people
The only difference between "natural" and "artificial" flavors is whether or not they originally came from a plant/animal/fungus/whatever. They're still isolating a specific chemical and concentrating or diluting it based on the purpose. If a particular molecule has a "chemical" scent or taste to it, then it will have that scent or taste regardless of whether or not it's from a "natural" or "artificial" source.
yep, always find it funny when people say "oh that has natural flavorings" etc. but every chemist will tell u that most often they are literally the same molecule.
also find it funny when they say that as an example water has no chemicals inside them, when water itself is a chemical compound and has a plethora of other stuff inside it, since humans dont drink distilled water.
just shows who had chemistry and who didnt
That's not really true though. You eating the fruit is completely different because texture probably has an impact on how we perceive tasste but even ignoring that, the chemical composition of the natural product is much more complex than any artificial flavor. So all these little things sum up to make the natural taste when the artifical version is just the raw version that doesn't really compare. It's like just taking CBD and saying it's no different from the actual plant it comes from.
@@whannabii think u are mixing some stuff up here.
the thing that clashblaster was talking about, is that if u have a natural and artificial flavour both of these will be the same, bc the molecules have the same structure. he is talking about extracting ONE flavour.
what u are talking about is that a fruit will be tasting differently, bc it has more complexity. u are not entirley wrong, but the result of the different flavour isnt in a more complex molecule, but rather many different flavour molecules resulting in a mixture of flavours, which we identify as a specific taste.
as an example vanilla. the main flavour u will find in a vanilla pod will be the vanillin. u can either produce it artificially or extract it "naturally" from a vanilla pod. both vanillin molecules, so the artificial one and the extracted one will be the same, be it taste wise or from the molecular structure.
but the reason many people say that a vanilla pod tastes better, is bc next to the vanillin there are other flavours. the better taste is not bc the vanillin molecules are different, which many people assume.
@@whannabiyep, actual vanilla vs artificial vanilla is an example
Those 2 has no idea what they're talking about
@@whannabi I'm taking what they say to mean that "it's the same molecule whether or not it's made from natural sources or synthesised in a lab from scratch". Like for example IIRC fake strawberry flavoring is made from wood shavings, which makes it "natural", but it will still taste just as fake so using a "natural" product as a starting point is just a marketing tactic that won't improve the taste. I don't think anyone is arguing that an extract of the actual product (eg powdered freeze dried strawberries) will taste the same as the artificial/natural replacement. Even for things like vanillin which is the main flavor component of vanilla pods and can be cheaply made, real vanilla pods contain more than just that one chemical and that leads to a more complex flavor profile overall.
Here's the thing about this that most people fail to realize: flavour is a Gestalt experience of scent and taste (though it's primarily scent); what you associate as "the fruit" with various fruits, for instance, is the smell characteristic of that fruit, plus the corresponding tastes stemming from sugar content, acidity, bittering compounds etc. It's almost impossible to provide any of the latter via volatile compounds, but you can easily confer the scent, because it's *_all_* volatile compounds, as long as you can isolate them, or at least synthesize some equivalent. Now here's the stumbling block: it can be tough and/or expensive to get those volatile compounds right, so a lot of companies just use cheaper synthetic compounds, and only a few of these, to trick you to some extent; and your mind will always think there's something wrong when you can *_smell_* something, but not taste it, or vice versa. It's why your appetite goes to shit when you have a cold and can't smell your food instead.
Probably between 5 to 10 years back, there was another product called "The Right Cup" that also claimed to trick your brain into tasting flavors via scent. The cups themselves had the fragrance built into them.
UA-camr grav3yardgirl actually purchased and reviewed them for her series "Does This Thing Really Work?", with moderate results.
I think she bought a set of five cups for $115, and each individual cup cost about $30.
That product seemed to have worked a little bit better, but not by much, and the marketing buzz wasn't nearly as big.
There seems to be a bunch of products that are being re-marketed to younger millennials and gen Z, who don't realize that these things were already around, and many were kind of known to have been failures.
I'm surprised more UA-camrs don't Google to see if similar products existed before, and how well they were received.
Your cat gives hairless cat energy. I don't know how to describe it. It's a hairless cat in cats clothing. Also really cute.
some sphinx/"hairless" cats grow hair later in life, and "hairless" genes can be mixed with "hair-ed" genes! this little can probably is a hairless cat in genes, just not... appearance, haha
edit: typo
It’s a Cornish Rex. Unfortunately this guys cat has been fed an unhealthy amount. This breed is extremely small, or at least it’s supposed to be, so long term it’s going to put a LOT of stress on the cat.
@@alicepersson9568 woah, that's really cool! Thanks for sharing :)
@@rosmire_9664 The cat doesn't look overweight AT ALL. Wtf are you talking about
@@rosmire_9664that literally is not an overweight cat. Honestly, if it’s a size thing it’s probably just not a purebred Rex lol
"Hydration system" is already a super annoying way to deacribe a water bottle.
Corporate tech marketing blabber
The metal option looks like an industrial whipped cream dispenser people use for fun 😂
never seen your work before but this is an instant like and subscribe
im glad UA-cam exists, because i get to watch other people buy awful products so i don't have to
if you didn't watch youtube you wouldn't know these awful products exist
@@freddyfish835 Being oblivious is not always good.
@@freddyfish835 Stores sitll exist lmao
this reminds me so much of DankPods reviewing RayCon earbuds
RonDons!
RanCans!
@@llynxfyremusic the RoyJoys!!!
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RoyJoys!
RayDays!
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For $30, I got a vacuum-insulated growler thermos that holds 60oz of liquid *almost a 2-liter bottle's worth). I could fill it with 1-2 trays of ice and fill it with water. Then leave it in my car for 24-hours in the summer heat and it would still have ice in it over 24-hours later (Hot liquid like coffee stays hot for at lest 8 whole hours). No prorietary refill cartridges to buy either. The lid even doubled as a cup if I needed it to. Other models come with a straw, but are not gas tight like my growler. Also, yes, a growler can hold carbonated beverages too.
I bought a bottle and a flavor sample thing because Matpat recommended it and when i tried it i thought it was terrible, and my husband and my siblings agree. the orange vanilla swirl tasted like spoiled milk and the after taste for all the flavors were horrible and it all just tasted like chemicals you would smell at a doctors office. i was confused on why everyone online seems to love it while i hated it. we came to the conclusion that it was because of the air pressure where i live was causing issues with our sense of smell and taste or something. i was so upset and i wanted my money back but the website says that if the products were opened and used then i cant return them which was stupid. now the bottle is hanging out in a dusty old cupboard cus i cant even use it as a normal water bottle because of the hole in the straw for the flavor pod causing bubbles to go through it. 0/10 would not recommend!
companies arent required to meet regulations to slap "green" and "Eco friendly" and "recycled product!" on their products. In fact, a lot of companies will take their scrap material and put it back into rotation and call that a recycled product. So, probably, most of these 'recycled' water bottles we see are just non-waste water bottles. This practice is called industrial recycling rather than consumer recycling which is recycling materials that have gone out to the consumer been used and are now being made into something else. The more transparency and information a business shows on HOW they are green or HOW or WHAT is being recycled, the better.
The notion of "recycling" doesn't actually exist as advertised at all. We're currently recycling less than a fourth of the plastic we use and the recycle symbol isn't actually a recycle symbol, it's just a plastic ident (several videos online about it).
Basically, only aluminium, steel and glass are ok. Even paper goods are not that eco friendly as they seem.
Green washing 😞
People don't want to use less and reuse they just want to be told they are buying a magic earth friend product with no guilt.
@@aserta Turns out rich corporations who have vested interest in plastic have been lying about it's ability to be recycled the entire time. If anyone is shocked by this. . . . why?
Anybody who thinks a human can control their cat's agency, has never owned a cat.
Cats will do anything for the right treat. But they'll make you pay for it later.
My cats control my agency.
*been owned by a cat
In Russia, just like everywhere else, cat own you, you no own cat.
Has never been owned by a cat!
Good thing i dont know a single one of these "fav youtubers". Damn, i didnt even know your channel before this video appear randomly after a tasting history one !!
But guess who get a new subscriber.
2:03 Me tryna customize my GTA5 bunker😭
Making tea for less than a dollar a bag ❌
Spending 13 dollars for a bathroom disc in your water bottle 👌👌
It's just annoying almost every tea has sugar in it. Fucking sucks
@@habbomirror1236what?? Most loose leaf or tea bags have no sugar lol what teas are you drinking?
@@mimimosa259I mean on the one hand... have you seen the ingredients in 80% of Davids Tea teas? But on the other... pretty sure they're talking about tea infusions for water (which do in fact contain sugar a lot of the time) or just straight up packaged iced tea which is what a majority of ppl use (specially in america) which has incredible boatloads of sugar (which is why I love Pure Leaf that has an unsweetened version).
Sugar is needed to get a nice flavor on most things anyways. Just take note of how much you consume.
@@MyStarseedColoring First of all never heard of Davids Tea over here and second of all tea is an infusion but not all infusions are tea, and actual tea is just a spoon of leaves you combine with hot water, and there is no sugar in there. But I don't understand how you can present packaged iced tea as actual tea because that is just syrup not tea.
I never tried it myself, but I remember my psychology teacher drinking from one of their products back when corona started. She said she really liked it because her sense of taste hasn't come back, but because of the smelling part she was able to ''taste'' again. I think that, in corona times, this was a fantastic product since it actually had a reasonable purpose but after gaining your taste back - it doesn't really make sense. Also, as a German, I swear we normally make better product I am sorry
It wasn't made in Germany.
@thebaccyman probably not manufactured but AirUp is a german start up so the idea was definitely made in Germany
@@thebaccymanif a german company produces in china, you know they give a fuck about quality.
Its not a bad product, they simply need to listen to their consumers. Clearly a lot of ppl do like it, they could just refine their formula to have more mass appeal, obviously more natural flavors.
@brendolbreadwar2671 I think in this case, making it for a broader audience would lead to a dilution of the brand. A lot of comments already pointed out that it's not a product everyone can enjoy - simply because certain smell receptors are missing. So I don't think AirUp would benefit from a mass approach, but more so from higher quality of the actual product and less plastic (so they can actually keep their promise). Refining, yes, but refining for the already existing customers
i just realized why the bottle leaks when turned upside down, the back divot or the "flaw in quality control" is a pressure release so that the straw works. good video though, very thorough.
Another smoky thing promoted by creators is VPNs. An average person doesn't normally need one
nah man i ain't usin that name-brand stuff. Ima smear some handsoap around the rim of my water bottle. Poor man's Airup
I was gonna say like what's the difference between this and getting a scented fruit or the fruit itself and drink it in your water like lemon slices or tea
@@purpleclaws202 there isn't if you watched the video. there is literally a piece of cotton dipped in "flavor" which gives it flavor
Try smearing some vape juice flavoring if you’re ever feeling fancy
Have to eat and regurgitate the soap first
Very insightful review. My sibling recently got a bottle as a gift, and we were shocked about the amount of waste. I'm also disappointed in the company calling themselves "eco-friendly" and so many UA-camrs I like promoting it 😐
fun fact. you're a product or ATM to most UA-camrs. they don't care if you like or don't like products they hock...just as long as they get money for it.
Kurtis comes to mind. He literally was criticizing water tok then got this as a sponsor. Plus he makes 16k a month on patreon alone. He doesn't need to do any sponsorship ever
@@sto12mmatpat?
@KingVoid27 mat pat.. has like, a switch whether he feels like chasing clout and money or being a completely genuine person.
He's a lot better than most, but it is unfortunate people can't see the flaws.
I think in part of the reason he stepped down was becuase staying successful was hurting his own values.
@@TheRealSuperKirbythat's why he's based as hell
Who the hell could ever force a cat to do something they don't want to 😂
Whenever someone advertises something as "natural" I remember that natural stuff can be bad. I wouldn't want arsenic, lead, or cyanide in my water.
i don't understand why anyone would choose this over just putting a handful of fruit in your water bottle. that would be cheaper, more consistent, and actually taste natural because it is natural. the literal only thing i can think of as a point for air up is that cleaning the fruit out of the bottle might be annoying and you'd have to clean your bottle more. but also they do make water bottles with inserts specifically for fruit so i feel like that kinda helps solve that problem
"But mah zero calories"
@@falloutfreek1992 don't get me started on the weird 0 cal marketing. this kind of thing is the zillenials' crystal lite
@@falloutfreek1992 It would still be 0 calories
@@Serengetii fruit has calories
@@falloutfreek1992Yes but just having fruit pieces sitting in your water is going to give your water bagels any calories. It’s not like if you added juice or smooshed up the fruit and added it.
as someone who ate an air freshener as a kid those flavors exactly line up with that childhood trauma, my guess is instead of using flavor extracts which are ok to eat they instead used the same principals as a car air freshener which is why it tasted better the night after since car air fresheners are in a methanol solution (so they evaporate) whist flavor extracts are in vegetable glycerine (which don't evaporate)
you fucking what?
@@imKas SO you not only gas yourself with cheap air freshener fragrances, but does yourself with high grade alcohol straight to the bloodstream.
That's what you get. Eating air fresheners like laffy taffies.😂
@@cattysplat A very toxic form of Alcohol at that.
Some kids treat themselves with a little air freshener snack, other kids bite down on forks - for me, it was raspberry scented chapstick 😋
dude I just laughed so hard i cried when you started tasting them and the chemicals hit the back of your throat XD
There is a huge stigma here. Yes the bottle leaks when the lid is off meaning it is (open) and you DO NOT put it upside down and in a bag (open)!!!
ALso you kept it upside down and twisted it open, meaning, halfway opening it filled up with water as it’s UPSIDE DOWN as you twisted it open…. If you close (all the way tight) and shake it and hold it upside down, then if you open it when it upright it won’t be filled with water
I dont think you know what the word stigma means