thanks pinely, ive been drinking bleach for about 6 - 7 months now and i had to rush to the hospital every time i felt thirsty, now i can drink in the ease of my own home and its been very refreshing
I'm a primary teacher. Seeing kids argue over prime, use prime as a bragging tool / insulting tool, bragging about how much their parents spent on prime on facebook. Hell, even one kid brought in multiple bottles to show off into one of my classes ??? Like IDK how to explain to them that they're being exploited
Anything you try will be better than doing nothing, kids should be taught to think for themselves and solve problems themselves, and this is probably one of the most difficult problems a person can encounter. I fully get how difficult this may be. 🫤
This is the first thing that came to my mind seeing all the clips with the kids. I think a lot of this is parents not being able to keep up with teaching their kids about the exploitative nature of media nowadays. It's going to be more and more important to find ways to teach and explain to children about how these media systems more and more try to get their hooks in them. Then again, that sorta goes back as far as one can look. There's always some sort of medium that becomes an aggressive capitalism machine marketing to children with precision.
Implore them to try and think about what actually makes prime valuable, and if they say anything related to status, ask them why that matters too. You can essentially just keep asking them to think about it until they hit the point where they can't throw out one word answers like "because it's cool" anymore ("what makes it cool?"), if needed you can even go into depth about it
I believe in redemption and all and was willing to forgive him for it and was under the impression he had changed, but after his recent controversies I'm heavily doubting that
That moment where Mr. Beast claims a mountain in Antarctica is so ridiculous because all the mountains in Antarctica ALREADY HAVE NAMES! I'm not smart enough to identify the specific mountain from the video, but if Mr. Beast & his crew were able to climb it, then it's definitely been climbed before. It's like if I climbed Mt. Everest & said "I now declare this the Walmart Peak," like?? NO, that's not how it works! I know his videos are meant for a young audience, but come on dude! Antarctica isn't a free-for-all billboard. I'm about to sound like an old man yelling at clouds, but I'm glad I grew up watching actual documentaries about Antarctica instead of having my baby brain scrambled by Mr. Beast.
lol true! i am so glad i grew up watching stuff like how its made on discovery channel, its kinda pointless but i learnt something adn my brain didnt rot and i watched a lot of documentaries on nat geo about some african lions and elephants etc, thank got i was born before the rotten mrbeast era.
This generation is going to experience a hell of a ride when they're older. Off topic but imagine a penguin sliding down Mount Vinson (the tallest mountain in Antarctica). That'd be cute
@@Snow_SailorMaybe that was where the 'penguin on a mission' was going. The one that just suddenly snapped and walked away from his colony, onward into the whiteout.
@@Blorp_ I didn’t even watch the video, I was just going off of what I was told. If Mr. Beast helps people with disabilities that’s great but you can agree with me that having a Mountain in Antártica being called “Shopify Mountain” feels wrong? Imagine if Mt. Everest was called “Coca Cola Mountain” lol If everyone in UA-cam operated like Mr. Beast, everything would be advertisement. Maybe that’s not Jimmy’s fault, maybe that’s a problem with capitalism but I don’t like it. Is that cool to you?
Using tumblr as my main social media for years now has really skewed my view of advertising because it's so easy to forget that this kinda shit is happening when the most famous user to take a brand deal on tumblr was essentially bullied off the site. With about seven ad-blockers on firefox and an extension that skips sponsorships on UA-cam, I so rarely actually see an ad anymore and wow, I did not realise how genuinely dystopian we've gotten.
With how much these people advertise to kids, I think its more important than ever to teach kids about how marketing works and how even celebrities they like will still sponsor shady stuff just for the sake of money
Yeah but there also isn't really a easy way to explain parasocial relationships to children. Espically since often times it's partially the parents faults, letting their kids spend all their time on UA-cam and lettihg that UA-camrs become their primary source of comfort.
the segment about the prime thumbnails- while very funny- DID make me think about how youtube thumbnails and the hyper-capitalized culture that goes along with them will be talked about in the future when put into context with the rest of art history. we don't think much of it now because its so ingrained with how we live, it's not even really thought of as art, but it is art- it is art the same way that billboard ads for coca cola in the 1950s are art. it makes me so eager to go into the future and talk to someone who's seen the movement play out and into the next one.
Now is definitely a good time to remind everyone that Logan is an actor. He's not been in anything good, but it's a profession he's seriously pursued and so he probably knows how to act earnest when he wants to, for the camera.
You're giving him too much credit so I doubt you have seen him act. It wasn't anything good (just like the movies he starred in)... I'm sure he never did acting classes. Maybe just one.
This is fascinating. Prime showed up in my grocery store idek, last summer? Had no idea it was an influencer drink, just was curious. It's a very striking bottle, okay? And it was fine? Very unremarkable. Too expensive for the size, tbh. I had no idea people were going crazy for it. Wild.
I saw it too (hard not to). It was also on sale for a buck or two. Hadn't heard of it at the time so I got a couple. It's no different from other electrolyte sports drinks out there.
@@judahmoar2533 oh, I didn't know that about it. It really is just marketing popular health concepts: low sugar, low calorie, coconut water, electrolytes. It's got what plants crave.
I feel so disturbed after watching this. The way advertisement is so embedded in everything these days is honestly chilling. Everything feels like it's trying to sell you something. And people like logan Paul benefit off of it. Someone who has done so many questionable things has people flocking to shops for some mediocre drink and profits off of them. I need to lie down. This was a great video.
Yup I'm sick of it. Everything is a scam or trying to sell me shit I don't want. Its exhausting. I wish people weren't so stupid. I don't buy shit thats constantly intruding on my personal time. If more people did, people would cut that shit out. Would still have the scammers though. Gmail recently decided to start tossing non scam emails in the same folder yet lets multiple scam emails through daily. Never used to get any and now it sucks.
I've always wondered why they'd choose the brand name Prime when Amazon already had a huge product named "Prime." It's like they couldn't think of a name while watching Amazon Prime.
It’s same old toxic masculinity red pill alpha male 🐂💩. Prime stands for Primal. All that nonsense which liver king spews etc. It’s a marketing ploy and I doubt that they thought of Amazon when coming up with the name. It’s just one if those toxic masculinity buzz words they and their gym bros use so often that it was the first thing to come to their minds. Then again, googling amazon prime and getting the link to the drink Prime sold on amazon app etc works in their favor, still I doubt that’s what they had in mind at first, at early stages of creating that overpriced gatorade knock-off marketed for children.
the "Shopify mountain" thing disturbs me so much. While I've never had the privilege to go to Antartica myself, I've read many essays by the naturalist and writer Barry Lopez, who has traveled to the remotest parts of Antarctica. Lopez paints the surreal, sublime nature of the mountains of Antartica, and ponders on the nature and desire of human discovery, in a place that few go. And Mr. Beast has the opportunity to explore those wonderous, isolated landscapes, and what does he do? He reduces the entire experience to a glorified ad for some shitty company. Anyways, we live in a capitalist nightmare, and the appeal of Mr. Beast's content is a testament to that.
He should've made a challenge while on top of the mountain. Something like "The last person to piss in my mouth gets a shopify discount coupon" or "The first one to jump off the mountain gets a Tesla."
So I’m a geography uni student studying in London and we recently tested the River Thames water in our lab. Yeah it turns out that the water contains x200 the safe/regular count of E-Coli and other dangerous substances. It also has chemical pollution, with very dangerous chemicals. So maybe don’t jump in.
I’ve never been to the UK, and I’m very curios so may I ask why don’t they clean the river? I mean, with filters and chemical treatments to counter the pollution etc. Would it be too expensive or something? What does make this endeavor a waste of time/resources then?
@@26349 I’m actually really happy you asked because it is a topic i’m very interested in. So the water in London goes through a cycle: from the river Thames, to filtration, to our taps, and then back to filtration and then released to the Thames again. It might seem like a waste to filter it twice but that is how it’s done and it would be hard to change it now. So then why is there chemical pollution in the River Themes? The water treatment facilities have limited space in them, and usually that is not a problem but when it gets filled it has to release at the risk of overflowing back to the houses. The main part of the problem is not that households use up too much water which causes an overflow, but the fact that our drains are also linked to this system. The drains i’m referring to are the rain water, so when it rains the clean water runs into the same sewage system as our waste and it is not divided. It would be better if the rain water was kept separate from our sewage but the system is an old one and it would take too long and cost too much to have it changed. Water security and development is actually pretty interesting and it’s a good topic to have information about. And a fun fact that totally disgusted me from my professor: there is something called ‘forever drugs’, these are found in antidepressants, and many other drugs. These forever drugs remain in the water forever because they cannot be filtered out, so when someone takes the medicine, they then pee it out, goes through filtration and back in taps, which someone might drink and then pee out again, a never ending cycle.
We're surrounded by advertisement so much, I think a lot of people have become desensitised. It just feels suffocating to be surrounded by ads 24/7, which is something the internet has granted us with. And the internet being a huge part of our lives, it's inescapable really.
I noticed this before I started using the internet much. Everywhere I've lived, there are advertisements everywhere, cluttering up the view. It always made me feel sort of sick. At least with the internet I can utilize ad blockers 😥
I can't believe Mr Beast legit got Hans Zimmer to compose music for an ad read. I don't know what to make of this information but this has been an incredible video with some excellent analysis.
When I was in 6th grade there was a new set of lessons at my school about propaganda and advertising, where we were taught the different techniques used by marketing to try to influence people's decisions. One important part of the celebrity endorsement technique was that the celebrity drink/eat/use the item on camera because seeing another human consume or use something tells our subconscious that the item is safe to consume. (Celebrity demonstration is actually a different technique than when they talk about the product, talking about it is celebrity/expert testimonial.) If they look like they're having fun, even if it seems fake, it can convince the subconscious that whatever the product is will taste good or be enjoyable in some way. A very famous example is Eve eating the apple: her eating it in front of Adam convinced him that it was safe and enjoyable. (Also, Eve ate the apple in the first place because the snake fed her imagination ideas of what it could do for Adam, which was a sort of sideways testimonial technique.) I wish more people would have gotten those lessons that I got (and that more people might learn from the Adam and Eve story's core lesson of just not accepting someone else's word that something is good for you before consuming it). It seems like these days there are a LOT of unaware, uneducated consumers for marketers to use these techniques on.
Testimonial technique is double edged sword. At one side, you know some products are safe or at least enjoyable to you when you see others try it. It doesn't need to be an ads, it could be your friends or family reccomend something to you to try/buy. You subconsciously thought that these people know you and giving you a fairly reasonable reccomendation. Another example is review of the product. In this video, Pinely says that Prime taste like crap. We instantly know that Prime is crap and we shouldn't buy it, controversy aside. That's the example of review in a testimonial technique. Problem was, sometimes the "review" or "reccomendation" is pushed like crazy and not honest. That's literally what happened with Prime, or most of popular product now.
It's quite dystopian that literally every aspect of our lives are being dominated by ads, and we can't even be sure that a video from a smaller creator is completely ad-free. We're inches away from having ads in our dreams like in Futurama. Also, Prime is mid. Monster is the better energy drink.
Or ads ingrained into the walls of our own homes and we must pay if we want to mute them let alone turn them off completely for an hour/a night just like in that episode of Black Mirror.
Which is already kind of happening with ad-free versions of streaming services and apps, but outside of that, on the streets and inside the media itself(videos, movies, tv-shows) we are still bombarded by ingrained ads, not ad breaks in between but those subtle pushes of clothes, make up, drinks, lifestyle, beauty procedures by actors and influencers, so it’s not an official ad with a beginning and an end but a weird subliminal one.
1997: "wow, consumerism has really peaked, look at how everyone's clamoring for these Tickle-Me Elmo dolls or Tamagotchi or Beanie Babies or whatever it was this year" 2023: "In the UK, every day is Black Friday for this sports drink that two boxers invented"
In highschool, we were doing a lesson in English on persuasive writing and that included talking about advertisments. My teacher told us to see how often we were being advertised to, and that it was probably borderline impossible to go a day without seeing at least something advertising to you. She was damn right
Pinely i know i said this last video but your color grading is so good. also the layout of your backgrounds, the clips you choose to put while you speak. i’ve gotta give insane props you’re one of my favorite video essayists
I live in quite a small town in England. The local store got prime in stock. When I noticed this, I asked one of the cashiers "have the kids been asking for it?" in a sort of knowing way... She told me that they hadn't stopped asking. For anyone interested, it's £10 a bottle. Even if it tasted like the very nectar of the gods I wouldn't pay a tenner for any single drink
@ketaminepoptarts4740 that's insane. Makes you think though, someone must be paying that much, right? They wouldn't offer it if someone didn't buy it... Or more, it's nickel and diming any parents who are constantly being begged for these sub par "drinks"
I started using an ad block on my mobile and it's genuinely saved me so much headache, I'm sick of being marketed too all the time, my better half has an Alexa in our bedroom that tells her new Amazon deals, she plays mobile games that show ads for extra lives, it's scary really, even streaming services that we pay for have Ads now, I hate it because I want to support good content, but I can't stand feeling like im being manipulated all the time.
I tried prime once and it legit tasted like soapwater to me. Also low calories is one of the oldest marketing tricks out there. Logan was never known for good products, but for his batshit insane marketing
LMAO Im drinking zero sugar gatorade that has 0 calories and comes in packets 🤣 people are being dumb uncritical thinkers and letting others decide for them.
The box version of Pinely I knew from TRO videos is a happy memory but holy crap dude your videos are amazing now. The editing and writing and comedic bits are great. And the final little bit of acting was chef kiss. Well done, seriously.
your videos are honestly a fresh breath of air, ive been watching you since i was a sophomore in highschool and now im a soph in uni and its been so cool to watch you grow and change your content with time~ i just wanna say that i hope youre happy and proud of the stuff youre creating cause it has to be one of the better and more carefully made on the platform . cant wait to see what you make next !
Bro, I was so invested in Shane and Jeff that I was about to put in my card info to buy the conspiracy palette when it hit me, "omg I don't even wear makeup."
Some beverages are dehydrating (alcoholic drinks, coffee, tea, high protein smoothies, some vegetables juices that contain diuretics, energy drinks that contain taurine, etc.).
I'm scared to have children who have access to social media. There seems to be no regulations to what content creators can market to kids and integrate ads into their content. I can say no to my kids, but the idea they'll be desiring all this bc their favorite UA-camr or streamer manipulated them and it being constant is just terrifying. I'm lucky I happened to be in the small window of time where kids media was legally not allowed to mix marketing directly in the content.
@@elijimenez7710 I forget when exactly it was put into law but in the 90s until the rise of internet content, legally kids media could not have advertising in the actual episodes. Still had commercials during breaks, but not part of the episodes. And it's what gave rise to channels like Nick and Cartoon Network with creators who were actually trying to make artistic content for kids.
I grew up during that time period as well, and now I have a 6 yr old son, and man, it's wild out there now. Luckily for us, my spouse & I both worked in media for the past decade - I specifically used to write advertising. So there's no shortage of education here about advertising, promotions, and all the tricks people use to get you to want what they're selling. We closely monitor his media intake and provide guidance on these things. And yet it's still so easy for him to get carried away by a UA-camr's enthusiasm for a product/their merch, or a mobile game ad he saw on the drawing app on his tablet, etc. I can only imagine what it's like in households where there isn't constant dialogue about this kind of thing, and/or media consumption isn't as closely monitored. It's actually low key horrifying to think about. And while yes we should do our part, I don't put ALL the blame on the parents - especially as I don't remember us getting these kind of discussion as kids. You don't know what you don't know. It's not like TV or radio though - you can't just regulate the internet in the same way.
And even if you monitor and restrict your children’s internet access they’ll STILL be obsessed with trends like this because that’s all everyone at school will talk about.
Basically the same thing happened in Poland, when Polish influencer group made popsicles (and soda if I remember correctly) - there was mayhem in many stores, it was crazy and stupid.
oh my god you just reactivated a memory of mine, I fully forgot about it and Friz in general, it was SO chaotic. I have an "Ekipa" notebook with their logo and I didn't even realize it was theirs when buying it - I got it a while after the situation cooled down. I got it because it seemed nice quality and had a nice cover (I must admit that I really like the cover designs). I remember that when I saw how many people were buying their merch (and for what prices) I got so confused, since I didn't - and still don't - get the hype at all.
i work in a school in the uk and all the younger pupils (mainly boys) will not stop talking about prime. they bring bottles into school to flex on their friends and compare. it's legitimately so bizarre. there was this kids Doctor Who spinoff on TV when i was a kid called The Sarah Jane Adventures and all i can think about is the bubble shock episode tbh lol
Amazing video, I really enjoyed watching it on my old 2020 Acer IPS 1080@75Hz, 16:9 monitor with 110% sRGB. Finally, someone brought out the true capabilities of these new displays!
Love the parallels to the Truman Show. It really does feel like we're all eerily close to our friends and neighbors ad-reading to us in the middle of a conversation at this point. Like we're all one big happy MLM.
In a way, we've always done something of the sort. Femininity has been constructed to sell makeup, razors, and patriarchy. "God bless America" is a cry to respect the Government, with religion used to make the government seem more trustworthy. It's getting worse, but it's also just shifting and changing, not coming out of nowhere.
This video presents such horrific concepts that would usually make me immediately panic, but you deliver your content in such a positively nihilistic manner that it soothes the part of me that thinks anything can be done by one person alone.
It's always been weird to me how people will happily overpay for random influencer or celebrity stuff but I imagine it's the same phenomena with luxury brands. A shirt will be made in the same sweatshop factory but one is no name brand and one will have a versace logo on it and somehow one of those will cost like 20x the no name one. It's all just artificial value being placed on items.
There are 100% so many bodies in the Thames. It's a big river and people have lived there for at least 2 millennia. There's gonna be a good few bodies ditched in there. Most of them will probably be decomposed, but there will be some recent ones for sure. There's also all the sharp rusty metal and glass in there because it's a river in the middle of a city and people get drunk. And, as Pinely mentions, the sewage in there is also insane. The only reason it's not covered in algae is because of the boats.
some parents are letting their ways rub off on their kids these days too often man. I recently had to go to my son’s school to talk to them because kids were making fun of his shoes every day. They were light up sketchers and the other kids had name brand shoes. This type of crap is why kids are materialistic among many other creators. I can keep my kid from it, but other people who have tablet kids think logan paul and jake paul’s brands are god tier without parental guidance.
Imma be joining uni soon and movin out People been telling you gotta get branded stuff(shoes etc) I am like I don't need em... Materialism is taking over fr
Logan Paul's brands are, at best, uncommon tier and like level 4 or below. I've seen better products in vending machines at Three Horns Divide Good parenting tho!
I remember a local small deli in my town stocked up on prime in their drinks area. Didn’t know about it and I went to get a meal there, and there was a massive line of people at the cash register all buying prime. It was crazy. I decided to try it and it made me feel like I was going to throw up, so I have no idea why everyone was going crazy over them
It's for the trend and since there's low quantity I the UK, little kids get it for clout on the school playground and teens get it for clout on tiktok.
@@scourgehh714 wait, is this like…a real science thing or is this just a joke??? because if this IS a real science thing then thats absolutely fucked up
@@memechild2025 I mean, a child's pallet is far more receptive to sweet flavors. It's why you may love something as a child and go back as an adult and it now tastes too sweet or rich. You lose that as you mature. So the fact that the drinks they are making is so incredibly sweet, means they are making it for kids. Which makes sense if you look at their demographics
@@memechild2025 it is real science lol, because its extremely sweet and the marketing is def for kids because theyre bright big bottles marketed mostly by youtubers that kids watch
There’s a video mr beast did of 7 days in solitary confinement where you watch him slowly start to degrade and talk gibberish and at the lowest point of the video he jumps into a flavoured water ad, it was the most dystopian thing I had seen
I just came here to compliment your thumbnail game. Idk if i'm actually gonna watch this video but the thumbnail for it was GREAT, really eye-catching, intimidating and inventive. Good job!
Truman Show's one of those movies I think they should make kids watch and analyze in highschool, along with Breakfast Club and School of Rock. So many foundational ideas and virtues to chew on that get more relevant each passing year, which imo could minimize the amount of attempts to ape industrial superstars and manure salesmen. (Loving the "analog" touches you're adding to your aesthetic btw!)
I dont know if it was just my teachers (in Germany), in english class we watched and talked a lot about the truman show. In German class we watched the circle
I unfortunately heard about him for the first time years ago when he came to Japan, acted like an absolute asshat, and then filmed a deceased person and posted it on UA-cam.
@@theEumenides I never liked watching Logan, but I did before that incident went public. I watched that video. For some reason I started watching him out of spite then never ever did again.
When you said that they literally got Hans Zimmer to compose for their latest video, I thought you must be wrong, but no, they literally got one of the most famous film musicians ever to make a random background track. This only makes me so much more disappointed in how that video turned out, and I feel like I've lost a lot of respect for Jimmy for wasting such an opportunity like that.
Dunno if I got the timeline wrong, but it seems like he got called out for a giant crypto scam in the form of a clusterf*ck, and his response (After his poor apologies), is to sell energy drinks. I'm half expecting the drinks to turn you into a mushroom
10:29 of THAT flavour (the orange is the best orange flavoured drink they’ve ever had, the grape is the best grape flavoured drink they’ve ever had, etc.). Prime’s claim to fame is that it tastes good without excessive sugar while also having the most electrolytes of any drink sports drink. People say it’s more than just sweet, it has a richer flavour than any other drink they’ve had before. It’s because it has an EXCESSIVE amount of potassium in it, and almost no sodium. It’s disgusting to market it as an electrolyte sports drink bc it will NOT replenish the electrolytes you need. In fact, Prime has so little sodium (which is the electrolyte you need the most of when working out bc it depletes the fastest) that you would need to drink 27 bottles of prime to match the sodium content in Gatorade. By which point you will have consumed 18,900 mg of potassium, the equivalent of about 52 bananas, which could cause a heart attack for some people. What’s also interesting is that one can of Thirsty Buddha’s coconut water with pulp contains 800 mg of of potassium, 135 mg of sodium, and 75 mg of calcium. Prime contains 700 mg potassium, 10 mg sodium, and 124 mg magnesium, meaning a can of coconut water has more electrolytes than prime! Not only that, it will actually offer you more sodium which you actually need! Wow! Fuck you, Logan!
i have to say, though this video was only 30 minutes long, it felt quite long (in a really good way) i cling on to every one of your word and im enthralled by all of your points, i love long videos and most people i watch on youtube feel short, even if they're like an hour long, but your videos keep my adhd brain entertained, maybe its the fun lighting, maybe its yoyr voice, maybe its the background changes, but maybe its the entertaining topics you cover, but idk, i just love your videos so much
In my film studies class the Truman show was on the list and I have known of the movie for a few years. It was the one I was anticipating the most and the day we finished the movie was the day this came out, could not think of any better timing. Oh and I loved the Truman show, I felt like I would and it did not disappoint.
Dude I’ve been watching for awhile. Your content has gotten incredibly good. You can tell the improvement. The intro alone hooked me. I hope youre happy with your style and how it’s evolved, because if you’re enjoying, I know I’m sure as hell enjoying it
dear god. i mean holy shit. i know this isnt related to the actual thesis of the video, but your writing in this? fucking brilliant. the ending was AMAZING. sincerely, every video you make is a treasure to watch and i wish you only the best
I could tell a mile off it was gonna be Shopify mountain lool. Also I really wonder how long it is before more legislation comes, the whole "influencers must declare ads" has made a fair amount of impact in that most ads are much more upfront now, I wonder whether "integrated advertising" will be attacked, particularly by boomer legislators whose minds probably still work in TV ad breaks...
The environment is what should concern us: millions of needless plastic bottles. Consumerism in general has a huge footprint. Apparel has an especially large one - clothing is the 4th most polluting industry in the world. Every product we consume fuels climate change, so we should consume less and buy secondhand where possible.
I work at a grocery store and we have a set of Prime right next to a BIG tub of hot wheels. And most of the time when kids see it they go "GASP They have Prime!?!"
I think when big corporations catch up to this point in marketing people might start to notice it more. People don't really find companies saying crazy things on Twitter very funny anymore, so when Disney finally creates their own country people might start asking a few questions.
I liked and Subscribed to Pinely because I liked his takes and format and voice. Now hearing that he uses videogame soundtracks from friggin Monsters Inc. Scare Island(at 12.00 in the video) confirms I made the right choice.
Can’t wait to explain to kids how the cool person on UA-cam they were admiring and “hanging out” with were really just mindlessly acting on capitalistic market forces for the maximization of their profit. How something they thought was new and exclusive and different was actually just the next step in the evolution of advertising
The whole point of drinks like Gatorade is to be full of sugar/salts and calories, to help restore the electrolyte balance in your body after intense activity.
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jokes on you, I'm drinking milk 😎
@@longdogman can’t wait for your lactose intolerance arc, I’m here for it
no!!!!!!! i hate hydration!!!!!!!!!
thanks pinely, ive been drinking bleach for about 6 - 7 months now and i had to rush to the hospital every time i felt thirsty, now i can drink in the ease of my own home and its been very refreshing
Fun fact: Milk keeps you hydrated longer than water.
This aged SO well that I didnt even realize how long ago it was made
Oh my god. I kid you not until I read your comment I thought this came out today. I was wondering why there was no Lunchly mention
i had a vicseral reaction to reading this comment and then expanding the description and realising this video is not from mid to late 2024
I'm a primary teacher. Seeing kids argue over prime, use prime as a bragging tool / insulting tool, bragging about how much their parents spent on prime on facebook. Hell, even one kid brought in multiple bottles to show off into one of my classes ??? Like IDK how to explain to them that they're being exploited
Anything you try will be better than doing nothing, kids should be taught to think for themselves and solve problems themselves, and this is probably one of the most difficult problems a person can encounter. I fully get how difficult this may be. 🫤
Gotta love being able to advertise to kids, nothing quite rots the brain like exploitation at a young age
This is the first thing that came to my mind seeing all the clips with the kids. I think a lot of this is parents not being able to keep up with teaching their kids about the exploitative nature of media nowadays. It's going to be more and more important to find ways to teach and explain to children about how these media systems more and more try to get their hooks in them.
Then again, that sorta goes back as far as one can look. There's always some sort of medium that becomes an aggressive capitalism machine marketing to children with precision.
Implore them to try and think about what actually makes prime valuable, and if they say anything related to status, ask them why that matters too. You can essentially just keep asking them to think about it until they hit the point where they can't throw out one word answers like "because it's cool" anymore ("what makes it cool?"), if needed you can even go into depth about it
Ban prime from the class lol
Mr. Beast climbing a mountain just to name it after a corporation is some actual Infinite Jest shit
Perfect comparison lolol
I can’t 😂
on his mountain is buried a treasure chest
literally the kind of shit the outer worlds is about
@@spingleboygle A chest full of disgusting breakfast biscuits and bologna
It was so disturbing that someone was able to have a full PR redemption after profiting off the dead.
the scam drama made some people realize he never had redemption.
Me when i murder grumbo on camera
@@Pinely relatable!
I believe in redemption and all and was willing to forgive him for it and was under the impression he had changed, but after his recent controversies I'm heavily doubting that
I mean, I guess it worked… (I hate the guy tho)
That moment where Mr. Beast claims a mountain in Antarctica is so ridiculous because all the mountains in Antarctica ALREADY HAVE NAMES! I'm not smart enough to identify the specific mountain from the video, but if Mr. Beast & his crew were able to climb it, then it's definitely been climbed before. It's like if I climbed Mt. Everest & said "I now declare this the Walmart Peak," like?? NO, that's not how it works! I know his videos are meant for a young audience, but come on dude! Antarctica isn't a free-for-all billboard. I'm about to sound like an old man yelling at clouds, but I'm glad I grew up watching actual documentaries about Antarctica instead of having my baby brain scrambled by Mr. Beast.
lol true! i am so glad i grew up watching stuff like how its made on discovery channel, its kinda pointless but i learnt something adn my brain didnt rot and i watched a lot of documentaries on nat geo about some african lions and elephants etc, thank got i was born before the rotten mrbeast era.
This generation is going to experience a hell of a ride when they're older.
Off topic but imagine a penguin sliding down Mount Vinson (the tallest mountain in Antarctica). That'd be cute
@@Snow_SailorMaybe that was where the 'penguin on a mission' was going. The one that just suddenly snapped and walked away from his colony, onward into the whiteout.
I climbed it and called it Walmart peak anyways
Late reply but mt.Everest being used as an example is really funny considering it’s name was changed from its original native name without asking
mr beast naming a mountain after a sponsor feels so oddly dystopian
Wait till you see his new video about blind people
@@epiceeveelicious I can’t even tell if this is a joke or not, that’s how ridiculous he has gotten
@@Lucaz99 oh no it's real. I refuse to watch so idk how it is
@@Lucaz99 bro cures blind people and you got a problem with that lolwot
@@Blorp_ I didn’t even watch the video, I was just going off of what I was told. If Mr. Beast helps people with disabilities that’s great but you can agree with me that having a Mountain in Antártica being called “Shopify Mountain” feels wrong?
Imagine if Mt. Everest was called “Coca Cola Mountain” lol
If everyone in UA-cam operated like Mr. Beast, everything would be advertisement. Maybe that’s not Jimmy’s fault, maybe that’s a problem with capitalism but I don’t like it.
Is that cool to you?
The mountain being called Shopify is the most dystopian thing I have heard in a while, and it gives me an impending sense of doom.
Yeah I stumbled on that video by accident weeks ago and Did Not Like It
Not just a mountain, one of the few untouched mountains left on earth
@@scourgehh714 that’s just sad.
Nah people have always been naming things after the person or entity that sponsored the expedition
@@EKIANandWolvesGaming naming it after a person is better than idk, a random corporation.
Using tumblr as my main social media for years now has really skewed my view of advertising because it's so easy to forget that this kinda shit is happening when the most famous user to take a brand deal on tumblr was essentially bullied off the site. With about seven ad-blockers on firefox and an extension that skips sponsorships on UA-cam, I so rarely actually see an ad anymore and wow, I did not realise how genuinely dystopian we've gotten.
Been using ablocks from the moment they were a thing, and then seeing just the youtube front page on someone else's computer makes you feel woozy
@@Kuroo39 oh for real, I'm infuriated when I have to use chromebooks.
Any good recomendations on add blockers?
Yeah as someone who also uses Tumblr as their main source of social media consumption this is so fucking true 🤣😭
@scardycat4462 ublock origin is pretty good
With how much these people advertise to kids, I think its more important than ever to teach kids about how marketing works and how even celebrities they like will still sponsor shady stuff just for the sake of money
"Listen, they're not your friend, they don't even know your name, they'd sell you and your grandma to Satan for one NordVPN sponsorship."
Agree
Yeah but there also isn't really a easy way to explain parasocial relationships to children. Espically since often times it's partially the parents faults, letting their kids spend all their time on UA-cam and lettihg that UA-camrs become their primary source of comfort.
Maybe UA-cam should be less worried about swearing and more worried about marketing to children
@@jebbush4godemperor285 but that'll never happen as long as it makes them money
Your editing skills and video quality has flown off the roof since the last time I saw your channel. Keep up the good work.
Fr I last watched during the cardboard days 😭
cardboard pinely died and mr youtuber took over
It used to be worse?
the segment about the prime thumbnails- while very funny- DID make me think about how youtube thumbnails and the hyper-capitalized culture that goes along with them will be talked about in the future when put into context with the rest of art history. we don't think much of it now because its so ingrained with how we live, it's not even really thought of as art, but it is art- it is art the same way that billboard ads for coca cola in the 1950s are art. it makes me so eager to go into the future and talk to someone who's seen the movement play out and into the next one.
I fully agree
Mr. Beast calling a mountain Shopify should be internationally considered vandalism.
Now is definitely a good time to remind everyone that Logan is an actor. He's not been in anything good, but it's a profession he's seriously pursued and so he probably knows how to act earnest when he wants to, for the camera.
His fake earnesty only works on kids though.
He's in the WWE so he has to be able to tell a bullshit story and make people believe it
You're giving him too much credit so I doubt you have seen him act. It wasn't anything good (just like the movies he starred in)... I'm sure he never did acting classes. Maybe just one.
This is fascinating. Prime showed up in my grocery store idek, last summer? Had no idea it was an influencer drink, just was curious. It's a very striking bottle, okay? And it was fine? Very unremarkable. Too expensive for the size, tbh. I had no idea people were going crazy for it. Wild.
I saw it too (hard not to). It was also on sale for a buck or two. Hadn't heard of it at the time so I got a couple. It's no different from other electrolyte sports drinks out there.
@@shanefoster2132 idk it’s a little worse for actual sports, because it has barely any sodium which is the main electrolyte you sweat out
apparently people r only really going nuts over it in england bc the stock is so low,, not so much in the US
@@judahmoar2533 oh, I didn't know that about it. It really is just marketing popular health concepts: low sugar, low calorie, coconut water, electrolytes. It's got what plants crave.
2 pounds
I feel so disturbed after watching this. The way advertisement is so embedded in everything these days is honestly chilling. Everything feels like it's trying to sell you something. And people like logan Paul benefit off of it. Someone who has done so many questionable things has people flocking to shops for some mediocre drink and profits off of them. I need to lie down. This was a great video.
Yup I'm sick of it. Everything is a scam or trying to sell me shit I don't want. Its exhausting. I wish people weren't so stupid. I don't buy shit thats constantly intruding on my personal time. If more people did, people would cut that shit out. Would still have the scammers though. Gmail recently decided to start tossing non scam emails in the same folder yet lets multiple scam emails through daily. Never used to get any and now it sucks.
I've always wondered why they'd choose the brand name Prime when Amazon already had a huge product named "Prime." It's like they couldn't think of a name while watching Amazon Prime.
if you type up "prime" amazons one even comes up first lmao
That might be part of why they named it that tbh. To be associated with a word that people already think of as a product. Possible
It’s same old toxic masculinity red pill alpha male 🐂💩. Prime stands for Primal. All that nonsense which liver king spews etc. It’s a marketing ploy and I doubt that they thought of Amazon when coming up with the name. It’s just one if those toxic masculinity buzz words they and their gym bros use so often that it was the first thing to come to their minds. Then again, googling amazon prime and getting the link to the drink Prime sold on amazon app etc works in their favor, still I doubt that’s what they had in mind at first, at early stages of creating that overpriced gatorade knock-off marketed for children.
@@26349 primal? Wow. That’s dumber than I thought.
I'm surprised daddy Bezos hasn't sued
As a nicaraguan, that Truman Show scene of the cocoa ad it's even funnier cause we're not a mount, we're a country lmao
Yeah I was gonna say I don't think y'all have a mountain
@@G_FRE we have volcanoes so maybe that counts?
the "Shopify mountain" thing disturbs me so much. While I've never had the privilege to go to Antartica myself, I've read many essays by the naturalist and writer Barry Lopez, who has traveled to the remotest parts of Antarctica. Lopez paints the surreal, sublime nature of the mountains of Antartica, and ponders on the nature and desire of human discovery, in a place that few go. And Mr. Beast has the opportunity to explore those wonderous, isolated landscapes, and what does he do? He reduces the entire experience to a glorified ad for some shitty company. Anyways, we live in a capitalist nightmare, and the appeal of Mr. Beast's content is a testament to that.
I wish free speech was real and I could say what I wanted about Mr Beast.
@@supermarx you can say it only once my brother, alas
i genuinely have 0 respect for Mr. Beast because of this, he’s the definition of sell out and surrounds himself with people of a similar nature
He should've made a challenge while on top of the mountain. Something like "The last person to piss in my mouth gets a shopify discount coupon" or "The first one to jump off the mountain gets a Tesla."
That last flag reveal was devastating
Its a good day when we get a thirty minute long video essay from pinely
Reply?
So I’m a geography uni student studying in London and we recently tested the River Thames water in our lab. Yeah it turns out that the water contains x200 the safe/regular count of E-Coli and other dangerous substances. It also has chemical pollution, with very dangerous chemicals.
So maybe don’t jump in.
I’ve never been to the UK, and I’m very curios so may I ask why don’t they clean the river? I mean, with filters and chemical treatments to counter the pollution etc. Would it be too expensive or something? What does make this endeavor a waste of time/resources then?
@@26349 Our useless government.
@@26349 I’m actually really happy you asked because it is a topic i’m very interested in.
So the water in London goes through a cycle: from the river Thames, to filtration, to our taps, and then back to filtration and then released to the Thames again. It might seem like a waste to filter it twice but that is how it’s done and it would be hard to change it now.
So then why is there chemical pollution in the River Themes? The water treatment facilities have limited space in them, and usually that is not a problem but when it gets filled it has to release at the risk of overflowing back to the houses. The main part of the problem is not that households use up too much water which causes an overflow, but the fact that our drains are also linked to this system. The drains i’m referring to are the rain water, so when it rains the clean water runs into the same sewage system as our waste and it is not divided. It would be better if the rain water was kept separate from our sewage but the system is an old one and it would take too long and cost too much to have it changed.
Water security and development is actually pretty interesting and it’s a good topic to have information about.
And a fun fact that totally disgusted me from my professor: there is something called ‘forever drugs’, these are found in antidepressants, and many other drugs. These forever drugs remain in the water forever because they cannot be filtered out, so when someone takes the medicine, they then pee it out, goes through filtration and back in taps, which someone might drink and then pee out again, a never ending cycle.
lots of neat info here, thanks for sharing!
The eels are good to eat though right? Right???
We're surrounded by advertisement so much, I think a lot of people have become desensitised. It just feels suffocating to be surrounded by ads 24/7, which is something the internet has granted us with. And the internet being a huge part of our lives, it's inescapable really.
I noticed this before I started using the internet much. Everywhere I've lived, there are advertisements everywhere, cluttering up the view. It always made me feel sort of sick. At least with the internet I can utilize ad blockers 😥
I can't believe Mr Beast legit got Hans Zimmer to compose music for an ad read. I don't know what to make of this information but this has been an incredible video with some excellent analysis.
When I was in 6th grade there was a new set of lessons at my school about propaganda and advertising, where we were taught the different techniques used by marketing to try to influence people's decisions. One important part of the celebrity endorsement technique was that the celebrity drink/eat/use the item on camera because seeing another human consume or use something tells our subconscious that the item is safe to consume. (Celebrity demonstration is actually a different technique than when they talk about the product, talking about it is celebrity/expert testimonial.) If they look like they're having fun, even if it seems fake, it can convince the subconscious that whatever the product is will taste good or be enjoyable in some way. A very famous example is Eve eating the apple: her eating it in front of Adam convinced him that it was safe and enjoyable. (Also, Eve ate the apple in the first place because the snake fed her imagination ideas of what it could do for Adam, which was a sort of sideways testimonial technique.) I wish more people would have gotten those lessons that I got (and that more people might learn from the Adam and Eve story's core lesson of just not accepting someone else's word that something is good for you before consuming it). It seems like these days there are a LOT of unaware, uneducated consumers for marketers to use these techniques on.
My 5th grade teacher made an entire class dedicated to this topic too (including a test)
I'm so grateful her after what I've seen, including this
Thanks for mentioning this, I'm a aspiring teacher so I'll search more of this 💖😊✨
I thought adam and eve was supposedto be an allegory of kids growing up and leaving the house?
@@notapplicable6985 It's several lessons at once.
Testimonial technique is double edged sword. At one side, you know some products are safe or at least enjoyable to you when you see others try it. It doesn't need to be an ads, it could be your friends or family reccomend something to you to try/buy. You subconsciously thought that these people know you and giving you a fairly reasonable reccomendation. Another example is review of the product. In this video, Pinely says that Prime taste like crap. We instantly know that Prime is crap and we shouldn't buy it, controversy aside. That's the example of review in a testimonial technique.
Problem was, sometimes the "review" or "reccomendation" is pushed like crazy and not honest. That's literally what happened with Prime, or most of popular product now.
It's quite dystopian that literally every aspect of our lives are being dominated by ads, and we can't even be sure that a video from a smaller creator is completely ad-free. We're inches away from having ads in our dreams like in Futurama.
Also, Prime is mid. Monster is the better energy drink.
Or ads ingrained into the walls of our own homes and we must pay if we want to mute them let alone turn them off completely for an hour/a night just like in that episode of Black Mirror.
Which is already kind of happening with ad-free versions of streaming services and apps, but outside of that, on the streets and inside the media itself(videos, movies, tv-shows) we are still bombarded by ingrained ads, not ad breaks in between but those subtle pushes of clothes, make up, drinks, lifestyle, beauty procedures by actors and influencers, so it’s not an official ad with a beginning and an end but a weird subliminal one.
They both suck
Tbf prime and monster are completely different things. Monster is caffeinated and prime is a sports drink. Gatorade the better sports drink though
I got the joke. The guys is against Ads. But at the end. The comment itself is an add. Master class 😂
1997: "wow, consumerism has really peaked, look at how everyone's clamoring for these Tickle-Me Elmo dolls or Tamagotchi or Beanie Babies or whatever it was this year"
2023: "In the UK, every day is Black Friday for this sports drink that two boxers invented"
its a bit of a stretch calling logan a boxer, id say "a 'boxer' and a scammer" would fit better
@@ebenezer-scrooge He didn’t even invent it either
@@ebenezer-scrooge any attempt to describe Logan's actual job just makes it depressing to type
@@nickbensema3045 he’s an overly annoying talking head. I think I nailed it.
Two boxers? How about two UA-camrs, boxers is giving them too much credit.
In highschool, we were doing a lesson in English on persuasive writing and that included talking about advertisments. My teacher told us to see how often we were being advertised to, and that it was probably borderline impossible to go a day without seeing at least something advertising to you. She was damn right
Pinely i know i said this last video but your color grading is so good. also the layout of your backgrounds, the clips you choose to put while you speak. i’ve gotta give insane props you’re one of my favorite video essayists
I live in quite a small town in England. The local store got prime in stock. When I noticed this, I asked one of the cashiers "have the kids been asking for it?" in a sort of knowing way... She told me that they hadn't stopped asking.
For anyone interested, it's £10 a bottle. Even if it tasted like the very nectar of the gods I wouldn't pay a tenner for any single drink
another 5 pound and its a full english breakfast at a decent-fancy place! 10 is ridiculous for that crap
in canada a 5 pack costs $34.99, unless theres gold flakes in it too theres no way im ever paying over 30 dollars for energy drinks
theres also a 15 pack thats NINETY DOLLARS. anyone buying this is genuinely insane
@ketaminepoptarts4740 that's insane. Makes you think though, someone must be paying that much, right? They wouldn't offer it if someone didn't buy it...
Or more, it's nickel and diming any parents who are constantly being begged for these sub par "drinks"
I started using an ad block on my mobile and it's genuinely saved me so much headache, I'm sick of being marketed too all the time, my better half has an Alexa in our bedroom that tells her new Amazon deals, she plays mobile games that show ads for extra lives, it's scary really, even streaming services that we pay for have Ads now,
I hate it because I want to support good content, but I can't stand feeling like im being manipulated all the time.
I tried prime once and it legit tasted like soapwater to me. Also low calories is one of the oldest marketing tricks out there.
Logan was never known for good products, but for his batshit insane marketing
LMAO Im drinking zero sugar gatorade that has 0 calories and comes in packets 🤣 people are being dumb uncritical thinkers and letting others decide for them.
It tasted exactly like koolaid that someone dumps a bunch of extra sugar into
The box version of Pinely I knew from TRO videos is a happy memory but holy crap dude your videos are amazing now. The editing and writing and comedic bits are great. And the final little bit of acting was chef kiss. Well done, seriously.
your videos are honestly a fresh breath of air, ive been watching you since i was a sophomore in highschool and now im a soph in uni and its been so cool to watch you grow and change your content with time~ i just wanna say that i hope youre happy and proud of the stuff youre creating cause it has to be one of the better and more carefully made on the platform . cant wait to see what you make next !
I want to make the world a place where nobody will ever name a mountain after a sponsorship ever again.
One year later and they're selling Prime at a huge discount at my local Walgreens and they can't get rid of it lmao
Unfathomably dystopian for a millionaire to name a mountain he climbed after an advertisement, and for him to make money while doing it
Bro, I was so invested in Shane and Jeff that I was about to put in my card info to buy the conspiracy palette when it hit me, "omg I don't even wear makeup."
same 😿 I want pokemon//acnh themed makeup brushes but they're expensive I would most likely just use them for painting.
I honestly just need to bring up that ‘hydration beverage’ is one of the most redundant phrases I’ve ever heard.
Some beverages are dehydrating (alcoholic drinks, coffee, tea, high protein smoothies, some vegetables juices that contain diuretics, energy drinks that contain taurine, etc.).
When Prime first came to South Africa, one bottle cost triple the amount of a 500ml Coke. Now it’s half the price of a Coke.
The 8 hour ad of Shane's documentary is so real. Legit was part of the rush to buy the pallette and bought it. God what was teenage me doing.
I'm glad DanTDM raised me when I was a child and not logan.
I'm scared to have children who have access to social media. There seems to be no regulations to what content creators can market to kids and integrate ads into their content.
I can say no to my kids, but the idea they'll be desiring all this bc their favorite UA-camr or streamer manipulated them and it being constant is just terrifying.
I'm lucky I happened to be in the small window of time where kids media was legally not allowed to mix marketing directly in the content.
What small window of time was that?
@@elijimenez7710 I forget when exactly it was put into law but in the 90s until the rise of internet content, legally kids media could not have advertising in the actual episodes.
Still had commercials during breaks, but not part of the episodes. And it's what gave rise to channels like Nick and Cartoon Network with creators who were actually trying to make artistic content for kids.
I grew up during that time period as well, and now I have a 6 yr old son, and man, it's wild out there now.
Luckily for us, my spouse & I both worked in media for the past decade - I specifically used to write advertising. So there's no shortage of education here about advertising, promotions, and all the tricks people use to get you to want what they're selling. We closely monitor his media intake and provide guidance on these things. And yet it's still so easy for him to get carried away by a UA-camr's enthusiasm for a product/their merch, or a mobile game ad he saw on the drawing app on his tablet, etc.
I can only imagine what it's like in households where there isn't constant dialogue about this kind of thing, and/or media consumption isn't as closely monitored. It's actually low key horrifying to think about. And while yes we should do our part, I don't put ALL the blame on the parents - especially as I don't remember us getting these kind of discussion as kids. You don't know what you don't know.
It's not like TV or radio though - you can't just regulate the internet in the same way.
and of course we can't expect parents to moderate their kids internet access. that would mean actually having to parent them.
And even if you monitor and restrict your children’s internet access they’ll STILL be obsessed with trends like this because that’s all everyone at school will talk about.
The hype of it died real fast in Denmark, my local supermarket keep putting them on sale because they aren’t being bought.
Basically the same thing happened in Poland, when Polish influencer group made popsicles (and soda if I remember correctly) - there was mayhem in many stores, it was crazy and stupid.
Literally, they went craazyy for them, even tried selling the goddamn packaging for like thousands 😂
oh my god you just reactivated a memory of mine, I fully forgot about it and Friz in general, it was SO chaotic. I have an "Ekipa" notebook with their logo and I didn't even realize it was theirs when buying it - I got it a while after the situation cooled down. I got it because it seemed nice quality and had a nice cover (I must admit that I really like the cover designs). I remember that when I saw how many people were buying their merch (and for what prices) I got so confused, since I didn't - and still don't - get the hype at all.
i work in a school in the uk and all the younger pupils (mainly boys) will not stop talking about prime. they bring bottles into school to flex on their friends and compare. it's legitimately so bizarre. there was this kids Doctor Who spinoff on TV when i was a kid called The Sarah Jane Adventures and all i can think about is the bubble shock episode tbh lol
Crazy how this video has become even more topical now. Goes on to show how well thought out these videos really are. Video aged like fine wine.
Amazing video, I really enjoyed watching it on my old 2020 Acer IPS 1080@75Hz, 16:9 monitor with 110% sRGB. Finally, someone brought out the true capabilities of these new displays!
It's so funny about Prime's manufactured scarcity, because its been sitting on the shelves of my local target for months
It’s only really big in the UK I think
Love the parallels to the Truman Show. It really does feel like we're all eerily close to our friends and neighbors ad-reading to us in the middle of a conversation at this point. Like we're all one big happy MLM.
In a way, we've always done something of the sort. Femininity has been constructed to sell makeup, razors, and patriarchy. "God bless America" is a cry to respect the Government, with religion used to make the government seem more trustworthy. It's getting worse, but it's also just shifting and changing, not coming out of nowhere.
This video presents such horrific concepts that would usually make me immediately panic, but you deliver your content in such a positively nihilistic manner that it soothes the part of me that thinks anything can be done by one person alone.
It's always been weird to me how people will happily overpay for random influencer or celebrity stuff but I imagine it's the same phenomena with luxury brands. A shirt will be made in the same sweatshop factory but one is no name brand and one will have a versace logo on it and somehow one of those will cost like 20x the no name one. It's all just artificial value being placed on items.
That's what im talking about mate
There are 100% so many bodies in the Thames. It's a big river and people have lived there for at least 2 millennia. There's gonna be a good few bodies ditched in there. Most of them will probably be decomposed, but there will be some recent ones for sure.
There's also all the sharp rusty metal and glass in there because it's a river in the middle of a city and people get drunk. And, as Pinely mentions, the sewage in there is also insane. The only reason it's not covered in algae is because of the boats.
some parents are letting their ways rub off on their kids these days too often man. I recently had to go to my son’s school to talk to them because kids were making fun of his shoes every day. They were light up sketchers and the other kids had name brand shoes. This type of crap is why kids are materialistic among many other creators. I can keep my kid from it, but other people who have tablet kids think logan paul and jake paul’s brands are god tier without parental guidance.
Imma be joining uni soon and movin out
People been telling you gotta get branded stuff(shoes etc)
I am like
I don't need em...
Materialism is taking over fr
Light up sketchers are awesome tbh
Logan Paul's brands are, at best, uncommon tier and like level 4 or below. I've seen better products in vending machines at Three Horns Divide
Good parenting tho!
It's so vindicating watching it crumble apart slowly a year (or so) later. Here's hopping the paul brother bubble bursts
I remember a local small deli in my town stocked up on prime in their drinks area. Didn’t know about it and I went to get a meal there, and there was a massive line of people at the cash register all buying prime. It was crazy. I decided to try it and it made me feel like I was going to throw up, so I have no idea why everyone was going crazy over them
It's for the trend and since there's low quantity I the UK, little kids get it for clout on the school playground and teens get it for clout on tiktok.
Are you a child? If not, prime won't taste that good. Prime is specifically made for a child's pallet
@@scourgehh714 wait, is this like…a real science thing or is this just a joke??? because if this IS a real science thing then thats absolutely fucked up
@@memechild2025 I mean, a child's pallet is far more receptive to sweet flavors. It's why you may love something as a child and go back as an adult and it now tastes too sweet or rich. You lose that as you mature. So the fact that the drinks they are making is so incredibly sweet, means they are making it for kids. Which makes sense if you look at their demographics
@@memechild2025 it is real science lol, because its extremely sweet and the marketing is def for kids because theyre bright big bottles marketed mostly by youtubers that kids watch
There’s a video mr beast did of 7 days in solitary confinement where you watch him slowly start to degrade and talk gibberish and at the lowest point of the video he jumps into a flavoured water ad, it was the most dystopian thing I had seen
I just came here to compliment your thumbnail game. Idk if i'm actually gonna watch this video but the thumbnail for it was GREAT, really eye-catching, intimidating and inventive. Good job!
Truman Show's one of those movies I think they should make kids watch and analyze in highschool, along with Breakfast Club and School of Rock. So many foundational ideas and virtues to chew on that get more relevant each passing year, which imo could minimize the amount of attempts to ape industrial superstars and manure salesmen.
(Loving the "analog" touches you're adding to your aesthetic btw!)
I dont know if it was just my teachers (in Germany), in english class we watched and talked a lot about the truman show. In German class we watched the circle
Children don't care, they're too busy throwing papers at each other 😂
I watched school of rock in school! Don't remember why, though. Maybe for my history of the american musical class?
I actually watched The Truman Show this year in high school for a video production class
Cannot tell you how glad I am to be a boomer who had never heard of prime and logan paul until a few weeks back when Coffeezilla ripped him a new one.
I unfortunately heard about him for the first time years ago when he came to Japan, acted like an absolute asshat, and then filmed a deceased person and posted it on UA-cam.
@@theEumenides I never liked watching Logan, but I did before that incident went public. I watched that video. For some reason I started watching him out of spite then never ever did again.
I thought this said one hour ago not one YEAR
Loving the video essays you’ve been putting out!! I love when you do longer videos keep up the good work!
Anyone else watching this for the first time after the whole Lunchly situation??
It’s funny cause I live in America and I just see shelves full of this stuff, like no one (at least in my area) is going crazy about it over here.
In Ireland the whole obsession with it has completely died and theres just fully stocked shelves of unsold prime lying there unbought now
The way you juxtaposed that clip from The Truman Show with clips of those young guys shilling Prime was honestly genius.
When you said that they literally got Hans Zimmer to compose for their latest video, I thought you must be wrong, but no, they literally got one of the most famous film musicians ever to make a random background track. This only makes me so much more disappointed in how that video turned out, and I feel like I've lost a lot of respect for Jimmy for wasting such an opportunity like that.
Dunno if I got the timeline wrong, but it seems like he got called out for a giant crypto scam in the form of a clusterf*ck, and his response (After his poor apologies), is to sell energy drinks. I'm half expecting the drinks to turn you into a mushroom
I've watched a little more, I think coca cola gonna have to put the coke back in
I believe Prime was being sold before he was called out for the scam
@@gremloid way before
I’ve tried Prime’s lemonade. I fucking love lemonade. It was, I’m not kidding, the worst fucking lemonade I’ve ever had.
I believe you
10:29 of THAT flavour (the orange is the best orange flavoured drink they’ve ever had, the grape is the best grape flavoured drink they’ve ever had, etc.). Prime’s claim to fame is that it tastes good without excessive sugar while also having the most electrolytes of any drink sports drink. People say it’s more than just sweet, it has a richer flavour than any other drink they’ve had before. It’s because it has an EXCESSIVE amount of potassium in it, and almost no sodium. It’s disgusting to market it as an electrolyte sports drink bc it will NOT replenish the electrolytes you need. In fact, Prime has so little sodium (which is the electrolyte you need the most of when working out bc it depletes the fastest) that you would need to drink 27 bottles of prime to match the sodium content in Gatorade. By which point you will have consumed 18,900 mg of potassium, the equivalent of about 52 bananas, which could cause a heart attack for some people.
What’s also interesting is that one can of Thirsty Buddha’s coconut water with pulp contains 800 mg of of potassium, 135 mg of sodium, and 75 mg of calcium. Prime contains 700 mg potassium, 10 mg sodium, and 124 mg magnesium, meaning a can of coconut water has more electrolytes than prime! Not only that, it will actually offer you more sodium which you actually need! Wow! Fuck you, Logan!
I hate being advertised to. Maybe that makes me old fashioned now, but the way lots of young people are using social media seems dystopian
This is a great time to revisit this video.
There is something truly dystopian about the idea of discovering some unexplored region of the Earth and naming a mountain after an ad.
Logan Paul: *promotes Prime during the birth of his kid*
UA-cam algorithm: “Yeah, time to recommend this banger”
Watching a pinely video and hearing music from my favorite indie video games always throws me for a loop
Crazy how this happens AGAIN
super proud of u pinely! ❤️ milestone well-deserved and i look forward to where ur channel and content are headed :) ur cool
I’ve been watching you for 2-3 years or something and your videos get better every time you upload! Keep it going my guy ☺️
the quality change is noticeable and you did such an amazing job!! keep up the good work
i have to say, though this video was only 30 minutes long, it felt quite long (in a really good way) i cling on to every one of your word and im enthralled by all of your points, i love long videos and most people i watch on youtube feel short, even if they're like an hour long, but your videos keep my adhd brain entertained, maybe its the fun lighting, maybe its yoyr voice, maybe its the background changes, but maybe its the entertaining topics you cover, but idk, i just love your videos so much
The perfect video to watch just as I finish work! So I can buy stuff. And then work more. 🙃
For real though, love your videos!
In my film studies class the Truman show was on the list and I have known of the movie for a few years. It was the one I was anticipating the most and the day we finished the movie was the day this came out, could not think of any better timing. Oh and I loved the Truman show, I felt like I would and it did not disappoint.
Dude I’ve been watching for awhile. Your content has gotten incredibly good. You can tell the improvement. The intro alone hooked me. I hope youre happy with your style and how it’s evolved, because if you’re enjoying, I know I’m sure as hell enjoying it
This aged well
like wine or milk
„Grumbo“ is one of the most soothing words I have ever heard. You saying it makes me very happy for some reason :]
I really miss the Box, but that's not gonna stop me from popping up and telling you what great work you're doing :)
The thing i hate the most is when I’m listening to a good video and then suddenly realize the last 45 seconds it somehow turned into an ad.
So called "free thinkers" when their favorite youtuber releases a half baked (literally) food product
dear god. i mean holy shit. i know this isnt related to the actual thesis of the video, but your writing in this? fucking brilliant. the ending was AMAZING. sincerely, every video you make is a treasure to watch and i wish you only the best
I could tell a mile off it was gonna be Shopify mountain lool. Also I really wonder how long it is before more legislation comes, the whole "influencers must declare ads" has made a fair amount of impact in that most ads are much more upfront now, I wonder whether "integrated advertising" will be attacked, particularly by boomer legislators whose minds probably still work in TV ad breaks...
Tv shows do integrated ads too now like shopping shows were a tiny little text comes at the end saying this show was sponsored by = insert brand =
The environment is what should concern us: millions of needless plastic bottles. Consumerism in general has a huge footprint. Apparel has an especially large one - clothing is the 4th most polluting industry in the world. Every product we consume fuels climate change, so we should consume less and buy secondhand where possible.
I work at a grocery store and we have a set of Prime right next to a BIG tub of hot wheels. And most of the time when kids see it they go "GASP They have Prime!?!"
I love your videos, so authentic it’s a breath of a air after seeing what’s trending right now
I love how you’re looking at this through a lens of social engineering. Bravo
I consume most of my UA-cam content by listening to it and with Pinely I can't tell if it's him speaking or The Act Man 😃
I think when big corporations catch up to this point in marketing people might start to notice it more. People don't really find companies saying crazy things on Twitter very funny anymore, so when Disney finally creates their own country people might start asking a few questions.
I liked and Subscribed to Pinely because I liked his takes and format and voice.
Now hearing that he uses videogame soundtracks from friggin Monsters Inc. Scare Island(at 12.00 in the video) confirms I made the right choice.
My brother was going crazy over bottles of prime and when I asked him "why do you like it so much" and he said "becuase it's made by famous people"
Lmao wtf is that @@pyan9660
Oh dang, I really loved that surrealist framing, especially leading up to that final scene in the kitchen.
Can’t wait to explain to kids how the cool person on UA-cam they were admiring and “hanging out” with were really just mindlessly acting on capitalistic market forces for the maximization of their profit. How something they thought was new and exclusive and different was actually just the next step in the evolution of advertising
disgusted that he didn’t call the mountain ‘onma island is buried a treasure chest’
cant wait to watch this one, pinely! amazing content from you, as usual
The whole point of drinks like Gatorade is to be full of sugar/salts and calories, to help restore the electrolyte balance in your body after intense activity.