So... Is The Airup (TM) Any Good?
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- Опубліковано 29 бер 2024
- Hey, welcome back to your number-one source for cozy gaming and design content. After hearing about it in just about every video i watch here on youtube i thought i would give the AirUp "waterbottle" a shot...
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I like plain water guy, so i never considered it. But a "bottle" that doesn't hold water is just ridiculus.
Haha yea to be fair the lid DOES help but I think it's dumb to have a sippy style bottle that you can't turn on it's side lol
Water is nasty to me
@@lillysparrowthis often happens when people have sweetened soft drinks normalized to them, especially at a young age. It ruins your palette. It's correctable within weeks, though, by just cutting those drinks out and drinking nothing but water. It is well worth it, as it is unhealthy to not crave water when thirsty. It is a pretty easy problem to fix if you have any self discipline.
@@zenleeparadise tbh, i very rarely drink juices (only at school bc we get them for free for lunch and breakfast) I might have some weird heslth problem that makes me feel thirsty
@@lillysparrow nah man most of your peers likely have the same problem.
If you're not replacing the water you should be drinking with soft drinks, and you won't drink water, then you're likely dehydrated all the time. Talk to your parents about this, kid. It's very normal but also very unhealthy and very easy to resolve.
If scent-based taste exists, then just buy peppermint, orange and lemon essential oils (100% pure concentrated natural oil) and rub a drop on your water bottle. Boom, scent-based taste.
basically yea lol
Since Scent based taste is a thing, maybe I should try that
@@llewelynshingler2173putting a bit of stevia in the water really helps with making it not taste like vaugly scented water, it kinda taste like propel.
Scent-based taste is 100% a thing. Personally i think Air-Up is another over-priced garbage product, but my friend likes it.
Olfactory-sensory input is a pretty big part of taste as a whole too
Depends on what food for sure; and like you said some are volatile enough for that olfactory sensory input to do most if not all of the job
What people aren’t considering is: dental health. If you use Cirkul or Mio, you are adding something to your water. Those flavors, even though they do not have sugar, are made from citric acid, and other acids, in addition to other additives, that lower the pH of the water you are drinking. Sipping on these all day is destructive to your tooth enamel. And once you lose it, you don’t get it back. At least Air Up adds flavor without adding anything that alters the chemistry of the water, which preserves your tooth enamel.
Thats a really great point! I hadent really considered that but it makes perfect sense. I still feel a bit off about how they market it, it just feels a bit tricky to me, but yea I think for the people who do prefer or need flavored water thats a HUGE plus. Thanks so much for the insightful and informative comment i really appreciate the addition to the conversation.
Fun fact about artificial? "natural" watermelon flavor: It actually is naturally present in watermelons! So, if you're allergic to watermelon, you can also be allergic to the artifical flavoring too! I had a friend who was, it was a real nightmare for them!
Woh really?? That's crazy!
@@CozyDesignStudios Yeah! We had to sort through every bag of Jolly Ranchers to get rid of the watermelon ones, lol. It wasn't a severe allergy, but can develop in people who have severe ragweed allergies, because they're in the same family of plants!
That's so interesting haha so many things in this world to know 😅😂
from a chemical standpoint, 'natural' scents just means you are acquiring the ester that gives orange or vanilla its trademark scent from a natural source rather than synthesizing it from benzoyl peroxide or whatever, but concentrating this chemical into a pod may not necessarily make it smell natural to the user lol
ohh very interesting, thanks for the comment!
Omg yes, i’ve been looking for this comment. I’m interning at a colours and flavours manufacturer. I’m required to know the ingredients of many flavours the company produces. Was very eye-opening for me. The smell is defo not natural at all. I coughed a lot on my first day cuz of the smell 😅
*edit: typo
The way I immediately knew the AirUp was BS was because anyone who's ever had a stuffy nose understands that, yes, smell is a big part of taste, but smell does not ENTIRELY DICTATE taste. When you lose your sense of smell you can still taste some things, just not certain complexities of the flavors.
AirUp is the opposite of that; it's trying to add flavor complexities to a base that doesn't have the "supporting" flavor elements to actually make the scent "flavor" mean anything. AirUp claiming that scent alone can completely change the taste of flavorless foodstuffs to taste like XYZ scent is the same as if an artist claimed a stickman with good shading counts as realism.
What you are saying is not wrong but not entirely true. In the current scientific consensus, most "flavours" are scent based; we have only 5 taste receptors (sweet, salty, spicy, savoury, sour) and everything else is smell and sometimes texture. The way we "smell" food when we eat it is two-fold, so you are right when you say a stuffy nose doesn't completely block flavour, because it doesn't; it blocks smells from entering your nose, but it doesn't block smells from coming in through your mouth and travelling up your airway into your scent receptors. So I don't think it's accurate to say smells just add "certain complexities of the flavour" when basically all characteristic flavours (e.g vanilla, spices, fruit and meat "tastes", etc) come from scent. It's also weird to say that "scent can't change the taste of flavourless stuff", because yeah scent can't change taste, but if it has scent it's not "flavourless". I agree with your conclusion though, that only smelling something through your nose would provide an "incomplete" flavour experience.
I cannot smell most things aside from strong smells like cleaning products, however I can still taste everything just fine
i said this on Hipyo's video as well, but i think its funny so i'll repeat it.
it is WILD that sponsors are able to convince people to buy a plastic bottle with a urinal cake on top.
😂😂 ya know I can't argue with you there
Oh no.....
it disappoints me when youtubers tell their subscribers they mean a lot to them etc and then accept sponsors that are borderline unethical advertising. like i get it get the bag but idk.
Hey , I remember your comment, it gave me a good chuckle
@@kissingtheladderthe moment I found that Frank Thelen invested into air up was the moment I decided to never buy something from them.
I love that UA-cam is recommending me videos from smaller channels! It’s been a really nice change I’ve recently noticed.
This video was really clear and thorough! I've been wondering about Air Up for a while now - whenever a brand starts sponsoring a lot of youtubers I always become sceptical about it.
Haha same here, I think thats always a good attitude to take. Hopefully I could help answer a question or two you had haha thanks so much for watching!
"Good wine needs no bush"
They try to get it big by having as many youtuber advertise it so that they can sell it to Nestlé, the Investore behind it already did something like this with other food products like yfood.
I'm not very broken up about the flavours not tasting that natural, but the fact that it isn't watertight is a big problem for me. I don't want it leaking all over my trunk when I'm taking my e-bike to work and having to keep a towel around just for that.
Yea, I find the cap generally does a sufficient job keeping it water tight but frankly having that be a variable at all kinda sucks and the one time it doesn't seal quite right is probably when you have a computer or phone with it or somthing else that could get damaged by water so yea Im totally with you
I didn't expect such a kind and respectful view towards people who do enjoy flavored waters, I'm used to hearing lots of hate towards people wanting to hydrate but just needing a helping hand. Great edits and Im glad I clicked
Oh my god same
I've seen people saying such weird things about people that would want this
4:05
As a chemist, just about everything you put in your mouth is a chemical, and just about all foods have volatiles that create scent. There's really nothing that should concern you on that front.
As far as the divorce between flavor and scent, I want you to imagine the gap and difference between how an alfredo spaghetti smells, and how it tastes. They're really very different experiences. I think they're both valuable in different ways.
Listen, it is not worth 50 dollars. I learned that the hard way. Once you have it, it’s a cool novelty until you run out of pods and realize it’s nowhere near important enough to keep chucking money into. It’s literally a subscription service, just not traditionally. The pods last not nearly long enough (maybe 2 weeks). If you’re dead set on getting one, go for the orange creamsicle flavor, it’s the best of the ones I tried and doesn’t really have the chemical taste of the others
Moral of the story: Just put the dang flavoring packet in your water, people.
fukn wow
Very interesting breakdown of the product. I found it especially interesting how you talked about some of their tricky marketing techniques.
Hey thanks! I'm glad you liked the video 😁 I hope to see you here again
I truly don't understand the appeal. Like just throw some fruit into your water. You can refill it and still have some taste infused. I use frozen berries and it's fine all day, way cheaper than these pods. Plus you can eat the fruit when you're done lol
Haha yea after using it I would say that's probably the way to go lol. Thanks for the comment! 😁
Also just put your bottle with lemons in the fridge overnight and it will be good the next day too
Personally i trust no cooperation that can afford to mass-advertise influencer. That means the product is over-priced, or just over hyped.
All large companies (that aren’t failing…) can afford to do this. They just spend their marketing budget elsewhere. Source: I’ve seen a shit ton of marketing budgets.
@@jessj2530 you are totally right. But i mainly talk about stuff that is advertised via youtuber
AirUp: $40+ for the starter kit
Slicing fruits and herbs and letting them infuse in your water: $10+ and you get to eat the fruit.
This video had such a charming vibe to it, and it's seriously refreshing how straightforward and to the point it was without cutting corners. I've been wondering about airup for a while so this was relevant and helpful:)
Hey thanks so much! I'm really glad you liked the video 😁 I hope to see you around here again I hope you have a great day, or night or I guess afternoon whichever it is for you haha thank you so much 😊
Really enjoyed this! Very thorough, even-handed assessment.
I'll admit to being a little confused by the concern about scent compounds entering orally vs nasally. I totally see what you mean about it being deceptive, but your nasal passages are connected to your mouth, and also full of mucous membranes, so even if the scent compounds were some kind of hazard, they'd be just as dangerous in your nose as in your mouth. Think about how we use nasal sprays for some medications that we want to take effect very rapidly (narcan, some migraine meds, etc), because they can be absorbed much more quickly and completely that way than if taken orally.
That is a very good point haha im no biologist but yea that makes total sense. I think for me it mostly just made me feel weird in conjunction with all the other stuff. Like if it were just that one thing on its own I don't think it would have even registered to me it just feels weird TO ME as a marketing thing haha. Thanks so much for the comment, ones like these are always super helpful for future videos!
no idea how i found this channel but i am NOT disappointed. I'm looking forward to seeing what you produce, man!
(P.S. Love the aesthetic of your vids, but I would 100% consider tweaking your black levels just a little bit :) I get the look you're going for and I LOVE it, but you have a lot of cool details in your backgrounds that get lost with the filter you use, not to mention your hair ends up melting into the background a bit. Just allowing your blacks to have a little bit more value would be awesome! Sorry for unsolicited advice, but it stood out to me a lot watching your previous vids too :,D )
Thanks so much! I'm always open to feedback haha I'll definitely take a look at that it definitely wasn't the intent haha super valid points! Thanks so much for the feedback 😁 and I'm really glad you liked the video!
Thank you for this video! Im a sensory seeking autistic adult and really struggle to drink plain water but also hate having all the super sweet stuff or some of the weirder fake sweetners and im so sick of people's main take being "god just drink water stop being difficult" instead of doing a genuine review of how well it functions (or doesnt!) so i appreciate the way you covered this. You've got a new subscriber in me, keep up this thoughtful, well put together work ❤
Hey I'm really glad my video could help 😁 I hope I can continue to entertain and hopefully inform in future videos. I hope I see you back soon ❤️
I highly suggest drinking cold, thinned tea or putting small amount of syrups in your water, so it tastes a little different and changes color!
Wow this is such a great channel. I actually really appreciate the straight forward and calmer approach to the water bottle.
My grandpa died and I had to take days off to travel to his funeral. And for whatever reason I bought an air up bottle in my grief. I kinda liked it? The flavor I got (Vanilla Orange) was bad and the bubbling effect really ticked me off and I couldn’t understand why it’d do that. But the silicone straw made drinking a lot easier for me than like. A cup. However I stopped using it because for whatever reason, and I need to emphasize that I would actively put this in the dishwasher, unidentifiable black gunk built up in the top under my straw and I. Felt so grossed out. I’m not sure if that’s something others experienced but it was. So gross to discover.
Oh man I'm so sorry to hear about that 🫤 yea I haven't experienced that but I'll definitely do an update if that does happen, as for the flavours yea I totally agree the vanilla orange was certainly not my favourite haha I was super excited cuz It smelled kinda like orange Julius flavor but it very much doesn't live up 😅 any way I hope your doing well and thanks so much for the comment they always help 😁
"unidentifiable black gunk built up in the top under my straw"
EWWWWW!!!!
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I’m an alcoholic who’s been trying and failing at recovery for 6 years now after drinking since I was 8, and I was curious about this if it actually worked, but something just sounded…off. I was never actually considering buying it since the cap mechanism isn’t possible with my disabilities and I don’t have any help, but its something I keep wondering about. I do drink a ton of flavored water since unflavored water makes me throw up and alcohol is the only other alternative I’ll actually drink, so I always wonder if stuff like this can help someone else like me.
I saw so many youtubers I follow promote it once, but never again. Even the popular sponsor products that are WELL known to be shitty like Raycon and Raid get dozens upon dozens of videos out of these creators so it just felt really red flaggy to see this drop off so fast.
I love your atmosphere and presentation of your work, this is the first video I’ve seen from you and it was really easy to understand which is a major problem for me. Thanks for answering my curiosity about this thing so clearly! I’m looking forward to exploring the rest of your channel :)
Hey thanks so much for the comment, that is definitely something I'll try to take into consideration more in future videos, being non disabled myself certainly gives me alot of blind spots when it comes to that side of product design but I always love to hear from people who do expirience that so comments like this are super valuable to me I really appreciate you taking the time to leave it. I hope I see you around here again I'm really glad you liked the video 😁
@@CozyDesignStudiosIt’s the dexterity needed to put this thing together and take it apart again! Drinking out of it, it would actually be better for me than a traditional water bottle of glass, which I can’t use at all without a straw. But the assembly is a huge limitation.
I’m an incomplete quad, the reason I drink lol, with one arm thats not functional at all and one hand that’s semi functional but the arm itself isn’t great either. I can manage to do enough things with my good hand but only _if_ they can be done in my own way (there’s not one specific way you have to put on pants for instance.)
-The need for two hands to attach the straw
-The need for coordination and a good grip to pull up the fragrance disk to activate/remove it
-Pieces that require hand-washing
-The shape, size, and packaging of these pieces alone would be hopeless trying to hold them with my amount of tremor, grip weakness, and limited number of fingers I can move on my good hand
Those are the main problems I saw with the design in the ads I’ve seen.
If you ever want to test how accessible a product is (mobility wise only), try to use it:
a) with very oily hands
b) with only one hand, from opening the packaging all the way to washing it after use
c) with different sets of fingers tied together on one or both hands
d) with only one hand that’s _also_ oiled, and/or
e) with your elbows never leaving your sides, as if they were stuck there with glue.
There are infinite disabling conditions out there and that doesn’t nearly cover a fraction of them but it does semi-simulate some common conditions like arthritis, paralysis, grip weakening conditions, and coordination disorders well enough to know if the product has a chance. If an abled person cant easily use it intentionally hobbling themselves the hopes for a disabled person is slim!
I just subbed btw, can’t wait to see how your channel grows. ✌🏻
Wow that was all really useful I will DEFINITELY include that in future product showcases that's all really great to know thank you so much!
HOW do you only have several hundred subscribers???? This quality deserves AT LEAST 100k!!!!
haha im hoping to get there eventually, thank you so much for the comment im really glad you liked the video!
I thought he had 800k i read that so wrong this is so well made!
@@CozyDesignStudios you totally will dude I believe in you!!! 😁
My mother thinks the experience of drinking water is akin to having the resulting slurry of hosing down a black market Cambodian abbatoir forced down her throat, so after seeing Kurtis Connor and others advertise this I was very interested, wanting to keep my dear ma hydrated and such.
Then I went to their website and found that their product isn't approved in Canada. Which, apart from being a big red (&white) flag about any consumeable, is weird, given KC is Canadian
oh really?? yea i know here in the US we have... a bit more uhh shall we say... lax? consumable restrictions so yea thats kinda concerning actually thanks for the info!
I also heard alot about it from KC's videos I found it a particularly interesting coincidence that he and a bunch of the other commentator youtubers started doing ads for this right after they did a whole thing about the flavored water people on tiktok.
They probably aren't lying about the flavorings being natural, in fact they probably did extract the flavors from their natural source, which is an absurd waste of resources compared to just artificially producing them. The reason it tastes “artificial” is because of the solvant they used, they can't just put the flavor compound on its own in a capsule because it'd just be a powder that wouldn't get into the air so you wouldn't be able to smell it. So in order to let you smell it they have to disolve the compound in some sort of solvant that will slowly evaporate into the air and take some of the flavoring with it, and then they just soak something in this solution and put it in the capsule. You're probably smelling/tasting this solvant, and the reason you and Hipyo reacted so differently to it is because humans can have wildly different sensitivies to these solvants, in fact Hipyo might be slightly allergic. I don't know what solvant they're using but ethanol and benzaldehyde are both commonly used in perfumes IIRC. Also the solvant helps prevent rotting by being something bacteria can't live in.
Artificial flavors can absolutely be so good that you can't tell the difference, the reason the early examples failed was because they only had a single compound when usually the taste of any one thing is a combination of many compounds. However people also ended up liking the early artificial flavors so they stuck around. The really tricky thing isn't flavor so much as texture, turns out the experience of eating is so multifaceted that it is really difficult to replicate.
I think it’s a decent product for a very specific group of people. Both my dad and brother have air ups. My dad has had a huge soda addiction for as long as I can remember and multiple times would quit cold Turkey but then end up like drinking insane amounts of orange juice or something like that. The one that’s been happening for the last few years is seltzer. Which also got my brother to drink an insane amount of it. Like I’m talking in a four person family where I never drink seltzer and my mom will maybe have one a day we were going through four cases a week. So air up has hugely cut that down (we go through about one and a half cases a week now, still not great but more manageable for sure). They’re not huge fans of the air up (both the bottle and the flavor) but it does enough to offset their dumb cravings for essence of lime or whatever the hell those seltzer flavors are that it’s helpful to have around.
Yea i would agree, I think for the people it works for its good. The issue I take with it is that its marketed as like a "lifestyle" product when its really not anything special. (to be fair im not aware of any "lifestyle" products that really are SPECIAL) i hope you liked the video!
@@CozyDesignStudios oh dude the video was great you 100% are undersubbed I’m so glad the algorithm pushed me your video. Also yeah a lot of products that can really help people with specific niches tend to suffer being pushed to everyone. It’s not as serious obviously but it reminds me of the phenomenon of stuff made for disabled people being pushed to everyone as some interesting techy gadget just because companies can’t stomach the idea of not marketing to everyone they have access too even if it’ll lead to more criticism from people the product was never really made for.
Haha thanks! I'm really glad your liking the content 😁 and yea believe me designers are constantly butting heads with marketing teams about that kinda thing 😂😂 unfortunately for now that's just how business works but I'm optimistic it will get better eventually haha
Within two minutes you said “1) […], and B)”. Instant sub.
How do you not have more engagement?! You are such an awesome creator!
Awe thanks so much 😊 that means alot!
Yo we have the same furby!!! I put him in the background of all my videos too, great to come across a fellow man of taste. Great video 10/10
Haha that's awesome! Say hey to your furbs for me!
@@CozyDesignStudios will do 🤝
i’m an air up user so i appreciate you taking a fairly neutral/objective stance on it. i definitely agree about the price point and issues with the water bottle. the plastic one (which i have) is honestly not super durable unfortunately. i’ve had it for almost 6 months and a piece in the inside of the lid broke off. but i honestly still support it because it’s the first thing that’s gotten me to regularly drink water in my entire life. i’ve never been good at drinking water, i don’t really get thirsty very often so sometimes i’ll just forget to drink for an entire day. i’ve tried adding flavors but i always found them too strong and ultimately nothing really stuck in my routine. if anyone has similar experiences to me and can afford it, i would honestly recommend the product. the lemon flavors are my favorite because they’re pretty subtle and natural imo, and i can still “taste” the flavor even after the whatever amount of liters the package says. if you buy one, all i’d suggest is that you get a stainless steel. i got the stainless steel for my dad and his seems like it’s holding up better than my plastic one.
That bubbling effect sounds awful. I have a really high epiglottis and having too much air in my mouth when I swallow always makes me cough and splutter to an ambarrassing degree. It also sounds impossible to chug from even without the scent pod "engaged" and if I can't drink a whole 500mL in ten seconds after a gym sesh what's the point???
Anyway good video, here's a comment to drive engagement.
As for the flavours, hibiscus cold brew teabags are superior and also good for lowering blood pressure. I love the peach and pineapple flavour from Red Seal.
haha totally fair, fellow water chugger here and can confirm this aint it chief haha.
oooo i gotta give those a try sometime!
I'm honestly pretty happy about this review the one from hipyo was imo just disingenuous and more of a slander as they didn't understand 90% of the bottle.
I still think the bend design makes sense because basically ever straw bottle I know has the straw pointing slightly sideways instead of straight up also this way you don't have to tilt it that much while drinking.
about the watertightness I still don't understand the point in saying the bottle isnt water tight when it's open. like basically every bottle will leak once you unscrew the thing that keeps the water inside. from a plastic bottle to isolation cups every bottle will leak once you can drink out of it and once you close it it's watertight which the air up is.
I thought about what flavors would taste good and my instincts knew that a bunch of flavors wouldn't be that good but those who are pretty easy to make like lime or coca are honestly pretty tasty. I didn't get watermelon because I knew it would be awful and even vanilla swirl isn't that good but peach and the before mentioned two are imo worth it.
the price is high but you get a new technology that no one else has. its both the brand name and what they offer which you pay so I can understand the price. it's like a luxury thing like apple or Rolex. you pay for something not worth the price in production cost but you also get something which no one else has.
I got myself a bottle before Christmas and 2 month later I got the gen 2 (1 liter) because I wanna drink water and not just refill it every hour. I think the flavors are fine when you get the right flavors. since I got the first bottle I used like less than 10 pods in about 4 month and I use this as my main bottle which I use every day also, you can get more than 5 liters out of it and still have a taste which is less noticable but still there. it's like having a bit of water in a empty soda bottle, you still get some taste but it's less than the soda.
I absolutely loved this video. It was so interesting, and the low lighting - and your really chill way of talking - made it really relaxing to listen to
There was a product called "The Right Cup" about 10ish yrs ago, that kind of functions the same way- but each cup had a flavor built in. If it's still available maybe people might prefer that?
omg thats hilarious I just checked it out and they use the same exact marketing about changing the way you drink and tricking your brain an stuff. Super cool to see this is nothing new 😂
Honestly, while the air up is weird and fun, the best thing I’ve seen in a reusable water bottle (my current water bottle) is a small plastic grate that snaps into the opening so you can put stuff like fruit or ice in your water and don’t get a mouthful of it or clog the mouth piece. It’s simple but makes a difference.
I’m really interested in trying air up but the price is so high that I could get a lot of good quality teabags in much higher volumes at the same price or lesser so I guess I’ll just stick to my tea haha
I love the atmosphere and editing style of your videos!
glad i found this channel, love your editing style and ive been looking for a non sponsored review of airup :) good luck man
its kinda wild to me how these bottles were weirdly popular among german soccer moms for their kids like... years ago. i remember trying one at my cousins house who still went to school back then never havign heard of the bottle/brand before
and a few years after that, the brand started doing commercials on YT
and today they are all over the internet. like this isnt even a "i was there before it was cool" kinda thing but like
i had no idea this gimmicky product that i thought would disappear like 99% of quick fads, turned out to become rly popular.
This is awesome! Would love to see even more footage of things like packaging. Thank you for making this :)
It kind of reminds me when i got covid, i didnt really lose my sense of smell, but for a few days i couldnt smell through my nose. I COULD smell through my mouth in the back of my throat though. Since it was the only way i could smell it was way more noticeable. It was very strange.
The color-grading on your video is just so calming I love it
Oh damn. This was a well made video with really good editing, a strong aesthetic, and well researched and considered thoughts. I can't believe you haven't even hit 1k subs. But you're one closer for me :) thank you for making this.
love your whole vibe, will def be checking out your other videos
The problem of these bottles is they suggest you need to drink more water than you actually need. You don't need 2l water a day. You need about 2l of liquid a day, a lot of which you already get through the solid food you eat throughout the day. Add a coffee or thee or 2, and suddenly you only really need a few glasses more.
air up is just a new version of the cirkul water bottle we all forgot about😂
Omg that is it.
Thank you.
Been in the back of my brain for ages
What do that bottle look like
Difference is cirkul holds your water and is just mio with less work
My guy the production quality is totally up there. Got yourself a new subscriber, and i'm sure more will come
I love this channel, so cozy! 😭
Personally I enjoy my Air Up but I certainly understand and see most of the criticisms. The flavor is NOT substantial, it’s subtle, but for me it’s enough to add a little interest to my water. The pods are really hit or miss, but what’s weird is some of the pods really do get better after sitting out for a bit. I recently ordered the strawberry lemongrass, and mango passion fruit pods and on initial taste it was… bitter and almost plasticy? So I took them off and came back to them the next day and they honestly tasted extremely pleasant and that weird bitter taste was totally gone. Those and the mixed berry were so far the nicest ones that I actually actively enjoy using. Also I don’t think the “water tightness” is much of an issue because as long as you screw the top on it’ll be fine. I don’t find it revolutionary, but I definitely enjoy using it and honestly kind of like the look and feel of it all.
You might be one of my new favorite UA-camrs. I love your editing style, and your voice is really relaxing!!
This video is really professional, informative and well made. Subscribed, can't wait to see your channel grow :)
Awesome review thanks for making this!
irl, whenever I see an air up bottles they are ALWAYS filled with juice. guess that was a sign they probably don't work
absolutely loved your delivery, editing and video style; you deserve way more subs! under 1k is CRIMINAL
this was what i was looking for… a good, non-biased review of a product. thank youuuuuuuu :3
As an anosmic, I am not particularly interested in Air Up, but I love hearing other people's opinions!
epic video, I'll be back!! love the cozy vibes, I was curious about airup and this was fun to just watch while I chill back
the way you covered this was very nice
I definitely appreciate your grounded and calm style of review. I saw hipyo's first, but I think I like your review a bit better. Keep it up!
1.3 gallons?
That means I’d be switching those things out every 2 days (2L/day).
Shame that most UA-camrs can only manage to get advertisements for insanely gimmicky products.
My husband and i watched this together. We both felt that you did a really good job! We agree on all points. Also, your vibe is super cozy. Instant Sub
I’m one of those weirdos who likes the “flavor” of water all by itself. Those hydrogen and oxygen chemicals just really do it for me. So something like AirUp would never attract me but I’m glad that it exists for the people who it does attract.
Yea, the flavor of just normal water is absolutely delicious
Everyone confused about why you dont have more followers... It takes time to break into the youtube sphere. Steady growth and quality content is a great way to do things. I believe you'll keep seeing your numbers rise!
haha yea im certainly in no rush to grow, there is a certain charm I think to a smaller more dedicated audience rather than a massive multi-million sub following (not to poopoo that approach, it is definitely impressive and lucrative). As long as I can make videos I would want to watch and hopefully eventually be sustainable ill be happy haha.
Hey, cool video! Loved the editing and youre well spoken on camera
Thanks so much! Its good to get a third party opinion on that 😅
Love the look of your set and the quality of the video going to have to watch more
It’s happening. You’re making it, and I’m calling it.
I hope you'll find your public and thrive making videos ❤️
Take your time and be happy before everything else !
Fulfilled, satisfied, accomplished, inspired... Any word you prefer !
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Hey thanks so much it really means alot. I really hope it works out haha 😅
The thing is, flavoured water does get pretty expensive, the pods are expensive but they can last quite a while
And concentrates dont always taste that nice
Thats a very good point! I do really appreciate not being locked into one bottle with other flavors, but there is certainly value to be had with the pod system I totally agree.
Your voice is so relaxing to draw to!
Why dont more people watch you :O
Defo earned a sub
haha thanks so much! happy drawing!
very aesthetic video. i can see the effort!
For me it's really easy. When sonething gets too much "influencer marketing" I'm not interested in it.
And if I want flavored water I just buy frozen berries or fruit and put it in the water.
I’ve just found this channel and am in love
You're handsome so I'm subscribing
Apart from that, I do really love design breakdowns, specially when it comes to products that are highly recommended by content creators. The ambient you made is very comfortable and the information you provide is really interesting, I'm glad I found this channel!!
😂 thanks I'm glad you like the content! I hope to see you around here again!
he is indeed very handsome
I personally like the ritual of putting my mio in manually. I get to mix flavors, figure out my perfect squirt quantity, and drinking something lighter if I feel like it
"natural flavouring" just means that it comes from a natural source, that the main ingredient is not man made. Doesn't mean it comes from the thing that it is trying to taste like.
I'm sorry but you are waaay to nice. I know these are super popular with school children where I live I don't even want to imagine how many books, notebooks and homeworks (and phones) got ruined because they assumed their fancy waterbottle would you know... hold water.
In 2018 I bought a 10$ Nalgene Bottle that I still use. And nice if I want flavor I just put Flavor in that.
Air up has become another sponsor that when i see a youtuber with it to not really trust their word or what they endorse, just like Raid or betterhelp. If you want the money from it, fine, but just realise youre blowing a big foghorn that says "I PUT NO THOUGHT INTO WHAT I SUPPORT!"
I know about betterhelp, but what's wrong with raid? I haven't heard about that yet!
@@stellasdoesstuff Raid is there only because I played the game several times over the years and never enjoyed it (I dont see how people enjoy it) honestly just a personal thing more so
@@stellasdoesstuffI think the issue with RAID is that it’s just another cash-grab/pay-to-win mobile app- similar to things like Dragon City and those match-3 games. I guess it just happens to have a high enough budget to rake in sponsorship after sponsorship lol. It’s not a game that *anyone* can be “””obsessed with””, it’s just your average garbage mobile ad lol :-p
@@stellasdoesstuff Raid swiftly became infamous for terrible gameplay and shady Gacha mechanics. Only the stupid or desperate work with them now
How intense is the flavor? Is it like a la croix or like adding a flavoring packet to water?
It's closer to la croix but maybe a bit fainter
Congrats on 1k, weren't you on like 200 yesterday
Yea it's kinda crazy 😅 i was at around 300 and then BOOM haha
damn bro. saw the view and sub count and thought this video would be ass but it wasn't. This shit is fuckin sick man. good video, good editing, good script. great job man i was not expecting it to be this good tbh.
Hahahaha thanks I'm happy it beat expectations and that you liked it! Thanks for giving it a shot 😁
Bought AirUp because I wanted to drink more water myself. Currently, I drink a lot of sweet tea mainly, and I have bad experiences with flavoring packets (seeing floating blue-colored particles in my pink strawberry mix freaked me out even if they were harmless.) I used Mio as a kid, but like KoolAid, never really liked it as much as something like sweet tea. After seeing so many people promote AirUp, I gave it a try.
It's definitely not for people used to heavily flavored, sugary drinks. It didn't taste like anything... good. It felt like drinking poor quality water, if you know what I mean. That hollow, empty sip that coats your mouth and makes your stomach hurt a little because it feels like you drank something wrong. That was the experience I got from the Peach Iced Tea flavor pod. I tried a couple others, but none of them tasted good at all, if they tasted like anything.
Believe me, I tried to force myself to like it, I tried to lie to myself and say it tasted good, it was just mild, but it simply wasn't true. I ended up trashing the pods and giving the bottle to my sister. I also didn't like how the water got bubbly like the bottle was unsealed when the pod was up; it felt aggravating to drink.
no way you only have 880 subs i love your style
I think if the scents were better then it would be more appealing. It would be nice to have them sold in stores with scent testers like perfume. I'm not skeptical of the functionality - it's been known for a long time that our interpretation of flavor is greatly impacted by scent. I'm just not surprised they failed to execute the concept in an appealing way.
in my experience, there is a flavour, but its very distant. its still very much water, i can barely differentiate between the two 'modes' (flavour and no flavour). However, a friend of mine does swear by the fact that there is actual strong flavour and that it doesnt taste like drinking water. Could also just be that it works for some and not for others, and i happen to be one of the ones it doesnt work for.
Lol not a water bottle... a sippy cup
your so underrated! tbh your content kinda reminds me of matpat and I am loving it
loving the aesthetic
haha yay!
I need someone to check that isn't just flavoring the water. The scent pod isn't exactly isolated from the water stream
I'm fairly certain it's not because when you suck, it creates negative pressure in the bottle so any holes (like the one in the top that the scent enters through) are going to be letting air in and not water out.
So if what your asking is if water comes out and enters the pod and then back into the stream, then no definitely not.
ive never gotten the idea of smell having such a strong dictation on taste (i never personally really noticed this much) and i hate watered down flavor (prefer full flavor or just water) so id probably hate air up lmao
Haha yea I suspect that you (and me haha) arent the target audience, apparently these are popular with kids which makes perfect sense because they are marketed as a status symbol which is going to be super effective with kids in school.
Yea i can defiantly say you would dislike the strength of the "scents" they are THERE but its really a hint haha.
Curious what your opinions on what pyro said, because he tried defending this brand like his life depended on it lol. He was like "why would it matter if the water bottle leaked? it's staying upwards anyway" which is a crazy claim haha
Yea I mean ive seen other people talk about how other brands bottles also leak if knocked over, it seems there is a certain audience that doesnt really worry about the leak potential?
Though these appear to be super popular with the kids so i feel like a leaky bottle is maybe not the best for THAT audience? haha
Idk I think there is an audience for every product no matter how useless or dumb it may seem to other people if it solves the problems those people have they may well be willing to deal with the unavoidable flaws that product might have.
No product is perfect and, as I alluded to in the video there are definitely ways to allow air in and not water out. I think they likely just got very stuck on the idea of having a press fit silicone top and then tried to design around that to make it work rather than take a more wholistic approach which would have lead them to see that leaking may be a problem and maybe they should figure out a valve of some kind.
Its always hard to kill your darlings and in product design there is alot of physical work that goes into doing that so its even harder and sometimes the budget doesnt allow it so its understandable.
i bought an air up and used it maybe twice, for me the pods really don`t taste good and the bottle itself has not enough volume, i am also a enjoyer of carbonated water and with that the mechanism simply does not work and you just get air in your mouth.
Oh that's really interesting! I dident even think to try it with carbonated water but yea it's super airy as is I can imagine it would really suck with carbonation haha
@@CozyDesignStudios It doesn't suck, and that's the problem... hhahahahahsh
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I'm new here. I love videos I can listen to and this one is nice like that. But it's also visually easy too.
Very nice.
Haha thanks! Im really glad you liked it, i do the same thing all the time with youtube videos so im really glad i can fall into that usecase 😁
i bought a knockoff of this (i’m not paying $40 for a water bottle) and i agree w this guy. i found that it doesn’t work for me, cause i don’t breathe in while drinking water. literally that was the whole problem. best part was the straw and i used it for like 2? weeks. don’t buy it
I will say: taste and smell are completely different, from a biochemical standpoint. You have EXACTLY 5 things that you can taste, and EVERYTHING ELSE is considered smell. Calling this "scent-based taste" is really mixing the lay and technical understandings in a very unhelpful, intentionally "cloudy" way.
For the record, you can taste the following things:
1. You can taste the presence of ions, especially metal ions. This is referred to as "salt", and is why sodium chloride is "salty".
2. You can taste the presence of acids - that is, the presence of electron-donating molecules. This is referred to as "sour", and is why lemon juice is "sour".
3. You can taste the presence of bases - that is, the presence of electron-accepting molecules. This is referred to as "bitter", and is why cocoa is "bitter".
4. You can taste the presence of sugars, especially simple sugars like glucose and sucrose. This is referred to as "sweet", and is why honey is "sweet".
5. You can taste the presence of amino acids, especially glutamates. This is referred to as "umami" or sometimes "savoury", and is why meat is "umami".
Taste is when you CHEMICALLY REACT or CHEMICALLY INTERACT a molecule with a PHYSICAL receptor on your tongue, dissolved in a solution of water and enzymes (saliva), and use it to determine some chemical property about the thing that's in your mouth. If you've ever had the displeasure to accidentally eat soap, you'll know it's very bitter - that's because soap is BASIC, and bases are bitter to us.
Smell is when you take volatile compounds in the AIR you inhale, mostly through your mouth but also through your nose (humans have quite a bad sense of smell, we mostly smell via our mouths as we eat), and bind the compounds in it to a series of complex, highly specialised receptors in your nose. These fire off complex, multi-layered signals to your brain which become associated not with a specific chemical reaction or process, but rather with a mental, emotional, and historical concept that your brain has developed individually over time. It's used to identify specific items, such as individual esters or ketones (e.g. SPECIFICALLY identifying benzaldehyde as being very almondy), rather than broad classes of molecules (e.g. generally saying that "ionic compounds taste weird and salty").
Strictly speaking... almost EVERYTHING we regard as "taste" is actually smell. However, to refer to "scent-based taste" is really unhelpful, because you can see how this is actually trying to use both of these meanings, in a way that obscures the truth. Like, it wants to claim to be "taste" so that lay people will understand it, but also try to weasel out of saying "so we put this in your mouth" by saying "but it's SCENT based!!" It's a complex thing that they're exploiting, basically.
Do you have a source for this? The only thing I can find is this link (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK279408/) which contradicts you on multiple accounts
What are your screen savors if you don't mind I'm going crazy wanting to know
The one in this video is from Fancy Fox Gaming www.youtube.com/@fancyfoxgaming9952
Here on youtube they have great ambient music to chill or work to its great haha.
Hipyo's comment about air up tasting like "swedish fish soaked in bleach" took me OUT man.
Like....so gross man!
cool vid! good quality video :] subbed
Thanks so much! 😁
Great video!