Hi there! Aspiring food scientist/sensory scientist here. The way that is bottle “works” is by taking advantage of retro nasal olfaction. Basically there’s 2 ways for the compounds for aroma to get into the nasal cavity: the nose and up the back of your throat. I think a lot of people have heard that most of flavor is smell, and that’s completely right, since retronasal olfaction accounts for most of flavor (in addition to taste and nerve sensations). So in fact, you’re mostly just smelling the flavors of these pods, though there is some taste happening. Now the problem with this bottle is that the people have different levels of ability to perceive aroma or odor. Some people just lack the receptors for some odors (this is called anosmia). The bigger issue is with the nose. In order to have retronasal olfaction, the nose HAS to be unblocked so that air can flow through. This can change with allergies or illness, and it’s why flavors are harder to taste when your nose is stuffed. The general population also has people who have structural differences like deviated septum. This really decreases your ability to perceive odor. Okay so two paragraphs later, what’s my point? My point is everyone perceives aroma and flavor with differing levels of sensitivity. That makes this product difficult to market, and the AirUp company have made really broad claims on how EVERYONE will experience this sensation. Also!!! Aroma and flavor is extremely hard to capture in a pod such as that, and that’s part of the reason why many people experience the “vomit” aroma/flavor. Aroma composition is crazy complex, and by producing such complex flavor pods, the aromas will definitely get muddled and interact in odd ways. Thank you for making this video because I’ve been wondering for MONTHS about this company and actual consumer opinions. What you’ve showed us a lack of sensory consumer testing before launching of this product, and it’s been supported by the comments saying it worked for 2/10 who tried it.
honest i've only seen one exeption to my rule. its raid shadow legend. I've seen it way before it was on the google play store. I still have pictures of it being a game promoted as a sex game on streaming websites. ( you know you click and they ask you for a credit card and finally its a game on flash with shitty graphics and you get scammed all your money) yeah. that's how RSL got their money for their revival. @@I-think-I-can-Shoot
Air up was a German start up that got attention in the German version of shark tank. After they huge in germany, than Europe they started to expand globally like in the us market. That's why they "came out of nowhere". Huge company throws a lot of money in marketing
I mean, they make infuser water bottles. Where you can put cut up fruit and/or veg in an infuser in the water to give it a hint of fruit flavor. And you actually get at least a LITTLE nutrition with hardly any sugar or calories compared to something like soda…
Sidenote, there is one product that seems to work. If you haven't gotten Hexclad cookware, it's really nice. They ended up sponsoring a ton of people, and it's really nice. Had mine for 3 years, and still working very well, not perfect, but great.
I did get RayCon headphones, though. They're actually pretty good. I used them for a couple years till my partner got me airpods for xmas and now my stepdaughter still uses them years later. I had to fix the case at one point with some electrical tape but the fact that it WAS repairable is a feature imo.
Heya, material engineering stundent here. The fact that the cap leaks water is intentional but it is executed poorly. There's a gap so when you suck water, the bottle lets air in, so you can actually suck the water without having to try and create a vacuum inside the bottle. Now this could be fixed with integrating a pressure valve in the cap but that would increase the already high price... though probably not by much. Still, I'd say it is an oversight in the process of making the bottle usable. tl;dr the leaking is intended but an oversight since the fix would be quite easy to implement from the company's end.
Maybe in order for the "smell pod" to work they needed a bigger hole (larger airflow)? Because all my cheap water bottle caps have valves. It can't be something you skimp on nowadays.
I have one of those bottles. The cap is designed in a way that the air gap is pushed down to seal it. So would he actually have turned the bottle right side up, it would have been dry on the inside of the cap. Of course, if it leaks upside down without the cap, it will leak into the cap when the cap is unscrewed while it is upside down. Not to defend the design. Just saying, it works as intended and it does not leak as long as the cap is screwed on fully. Not into the cap, not into your backpack. Is it a good design? Well, probably not so much. Oh and btw. it also pushes the pod down when you screw it on. That way it does not leak water into the pod. Which also is something you probably would not want.
The rule of thumb: If you see something advertised everywhere, you know that their money has gone towards marketing and not towards improving their product.
It's just so bizarre that they can't even get the 'water bottle' part of it right. Surely, you start there, and workshop how to get the scent stuff working around a perfectly normal bottle?
@@Joe90h If I had to guess, they probably had a prototype with the same base design that was watertight. Then they reduced the costs of producing the prototype by skimping on the materials, but couldn't be arsed to pay for more R&D on the new version, resulting in a leaky version of a design that worked fine with sturdier silicon.
Yeah, like those horrible Raycon earbuds. I have a pair of Altec Lancing Nanobuds that I've had my fad-changing co-workers try after listening to Raycons. Most like the AL Nanobuds more, and the rest can't tell the difference. Difference? Oh, about a 1-to-3 price gap.
I think it's less of a scam and more of an over-promise issue (except the quality control. That was awful to watch). Scents are way more complicated than tastes, and you'll never find a single thing that smells the same to everyone. Even odorless things can sometimes have a scent to some people. To say that everyone will like it is... just not possible. In fact, it's actually bonkers to even assume that's possible, considering how scented candles NEED to market towards specific groups and specific countries. There's a reason why the same exact franchise/company (like bath and body works) don't have the same products in stores geographically far from each other. They basically can't, because it's not reasonable for a scent to be the same in a completely different environment with a crap-ton of other factors. They know this, and don't try to constantly over-promise the enjoyment their scents produce, unless it's a line or group of scents. A single product? Yeah, they try to avoid that whenever possible. It's just bad business.
That's what I heard is that some people who review it get absolutely nothing out of this because their sense of smell is too weak and Hipyo here gets absolutely blasted in the face with scented candles because he clearly has a strong sense or is just repulsed by artificial scents.
@@gamerguy425 pretty much. It's like cucumbers or cucumber flavored products. Some people love it. Some absolutely hate it and legit don't understand how anyone can. The issue here is if the cucumber company kept marketing it everywhere saying "it's so much better than anything else out there!". Like, obviously people are going to take it and feel like they were being scammed because it tastes like crap to them. It's insane that any company would think it's a good idea to make those kinds of claims. And yet... Here we are
That definitely makes sense. I’ve been wondering if it’s less that this is a straight up scam and more that some people get a good ‘taste’ out of it and others don’t.
@@GodhandPlusOne literally the last sentence is "it's just bad business". I've put the blame Solely on the company entirely, from the start. Never even said anyone was misinterpreting anything. Hell, I didn't even talk about the consumer at all outside people having wildly different reactions to scents (the coldest of takes imaginable). All I said was that it was *less* of a scam. Which is pretty true- there are people who enjoy it and who never lied about their enjoyment. Its just their crappy marketing and bad business model that tries to overreach past their market in the most asinine way possible. I literally don't know what else to call it except over promising. It isn't an outright lie, as some people do in fact like it. So saying "you will like it" to a massive and diverse audience isn't entirely false, but it IS absolutely saying that more people will like it than physically possible (since no one will like everything). Which is a promise they can't fully achieve. Generally called over promising.
Honestly, at this point the more aggressively a product is being advertized through RUclips sponsorships, the more I expect it to fall somewhere between being utter garbage and an actual scam, and the less inclined I am to even consider looking into the product, let alone purchasing it. After Established Titles, Better Help, and apparently now Air Up, I've certainly lost the very little trust I had. When a company has so much money to blow on marketing that they seem to be willing and capable to sponsor each and every RUclipsr that has built at least somewhat of an audience, something has to be fishy.
The video is pretty bad tho. The product is actually fairly good, Ive been using it for months and love it. I went from drinking no water to only drinking water thanks to it and while the first bottle has quite strong taste, the longer you use the pods the better the taste gets. It also doesnt leak, unless you open it upside down of course like he did in the video, but any bottle will leak that way. If you keep the lid on you can store it upside down with no problem, no leakage at all
@@ja_uI'm not sure if that makes the video bad per se, it just seems that you personally had a very different experience with the product, which is very valid. Maybe I'd like it too if I tried it, who knows! But to be honest, I've always been sceptical of the concept, it's just nothing I'd ever want to use. This video validated many of my concerns about it. And it proved to me how products that are being hyped up through RUclips sponsorships are not necessarily all they're claimed to be, which I guess can be said about any kind of advertising. To sum that up, my point still stands, I have very little if any trust left in products and services that apparently spend a fortune on RUclips sponsorships to promote their product. It just doesn't sit right with me, and actually has the opposite effect of what those companies want to achieve.
@@givemeaworkingname That's one thing that I've also been considering because it sounds great. I haven't heard anything about it besides sponsorships though, so I have no clue if it's actually good or not. A resource that I like to use for this sort of thing is trustpilot. Just checked, and it seems that Brilliant has a really good score over there (4.6/5 for my country). So chances are it's genuinely a good service.
I think I’ve only ever seen one RUclipsr whose Air Up bottle was legitimately used and worn from use. When they said that they had used it for many months now, this was the only time I legitimately believed them because that logo was fading and the plastic looked chewed and everything.
Is it Ofherbsandalters? That's the youtuber i know of who isn't a super popular creator but has a consistent audience and made an unsponsored video about airup where they really liked it.
id say huel is a decent one tho. this tech youtuber i watch, actually u mightve heard of him as he does some keyboard stuff, badseed tech, had a huel sponsor and he mightve said something along the lines of that. ive heard of the company before but never really thought much of it. he said that he gets the black edition which basically is more protein and less carbs. i thought about it and it seemed decent concept wise. ive now been drinking the black editon huel everyday before work for 2 months now. just started my 3rd bag.
@@Sinsanatis Even if that's true, it's pretty rare and not worth the risk. I was on the market for a pair of earbuds a few years ago, when everyone was shilling raycons, and I thought "hey these must be pretty good, since everyone is advertising them". But then I asked some people who did actually buy them and like at least 90% of ppl did not think they were worth the money at all. I did my research and decided on Sony WF-C700Ns instead, and they've been perfect The point is, youtube sponsorships are a terrible way to make decisions on purchases, you can never expect someone who's being paid by a product to be objective about the product. There are some exceptions. PewDiePie doesn't take many sponsorship deals, and I know some others who don't take deals unless they actively use the product, so when someone like that has a sponsorship, you can usually trust it a bit more. But generally, do your own reseearch
I have a suspicion that a lot of youtubers expect their viewers to ignore sponsorships outright, so they dont really feel bad for accepting sponsorships for shitty products since hardly anyone will actually buy them
well yeah, but also, I just assumed everyone else was like me and ignored every commercial ever. But it's apparently worth millions and millions of dollars for the companies to show them, so I guess not.
I prefer RUclipsrs like Pyrocinical who just say “yeah I’m sponsored, it helps keep the lights on”, and doesn’t really engage with the product other than what they’re required to say.
I mean yeah watch time can be seen and it’s pretty obvious when everyone skips sponsor segments. Plus sponsor deals where they get paid for each click or buy. RUclipsrs know lol
Whenever a RUclipsr I like promotes a product and says stuff like "I use this every day" I'm like... "Are you sure? Or did the marketing department tell you to say that so your audience buys the product?" On one hand, RUclips can be absolutely out of their minds with their monetization system and can even demonetize videos for no reason. So understandably, it has become one of the bigger/only methods of making money as a content creator, but I sometimes wish they didn't have to promote products that are actual garbage.
I mean yeah capitalism sucks, we could just not have poverty but capitalism needs it to function properly and here we are, it could be more democratic but only for a little while because ownership is more important than actual work put into things. If we rewarded value instead of owning the value we'd be a lot better off but oh well here we are and now the world is ending ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
For everyone saying he “didn’t assemble the bottle correctly” and that’s why it’s leaking, Air Up LITERALLY states on their website that any tilting will cause the water bottle to spill.
@@ethanv7330It leaks with or without the pods installed. Having the pod in an open or closed position doesn't change its' thickness as it is a constant width, it's plastic. The gasket itself is leaking, so if the mere presence of a pod is enough to solve the leaking issue, there would be no issue. At the end, you can even see him try and push the pod down further to stop it from shaking all over his clothes. Just like his male friend did when he spilled it. This is a common occurrence.
So all the youtubers and podcaters are lying how amazing this is and how it's like drinking real sida? I haven't bought this thing but I still kind of feels scammed because they sound so positive.
@@gingerninja8872 That's true, although in the original video I believe they said the pod was left sitting out for those few weeks, rather than being used. I also imagine the difference between the products has something to do with the toys' perfume being essentially baked into the plastic, in contrast to the pods where it looks like the main scent component is a cotton piece that's presumably just been dipped in whatever oil they're using.
Sooo, I live in Japan and it's extremely common to get flavoured fizzy water that's flavoured only with scent here. I bought a bottle once, mainly because it was zero calories. I wanted to try it. I was surprised at how good it was and when I looked at the ingredients, I was flabbergasted to see it listed only water and "scent" - some flavours do have "extract" in them but many are only scent. I'm not really sure how they do it (the brand I like is "Wilkinson"), but it comes individually packed in plastic water bottles and are far more affordable. You can get the store brand ones for less than a dollar a bottle and those are also pretty good. It's a shame that air up tried to take something I find to be fascinating and actually really good (and affordable) and make it very half assed and extremely overpriced.
@@finn7599 I don’t know if you understand how sweeteners work, they cause cancer and shit. Flavoured water isn’t good for necessarily good for you. Air-up is
Actually a lot of people (and kids - surprisingly) here used it - although I feel the hype is dying down (Netherlands). We have one and actually thought it was kinda nice, same goes for my wife and daughter. Definitely not had such a reaction to fresh pods haha. The quality I feel we've been lucky with (no leaking if you use it correctly), but definitely can see some flaws in the design. But again, in my environment the AirUp doesn't have a bad rep and was quite popular even. Maybe helps that I didn't get into contact with it via YT spam as well.
@@UrfavLuna1234 It's cost-effective for me personally. I struggled with drinking soda and changed to bottled fizzy water, but between the cost of those, how much I can get to drink out of them and how much recycling I have to do, compared to the cost of air-up and its pods with how long the pods last, I'm glad I got mine.
It's a perfect PR storm. The bottles cost nothing to produce, the scent caps are just foam with artificial scent so also incredibly cheap to produce and it targets the usual hipster crowd by being "healthy and without added thingamabobs". I can definitely see investors swarming this thing. It's profit maximalisation at its finest.
It only got so big because people could finally "get away from sodas". I fucking hate fitness scams and lose weight fast solutions because it teaches nobody anything and the same pitfalls for relapse still exist. If you want to stop drinking soda, stop drinking soda. If you want to stop smoking, stop smoking. If you want to quit alcohol, just chug it away. Nothing is going to magic away your addictions or your habits, it's all work and dedication and the sooner people realize it the sooner people can stop pouring money into these scams. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
im getting pretty frustrated with youtubers having literally 0 integrity about their sponsorships, especially big youtubers who can afford to be choosy. it feels like nothing is genuine.
Sponsorships always feel sketchy to me. When they are advertising this aggressively on RUclips the product is probably overpriced to begin with to compensate for that cost.
@tetraasmr I absolutely agree, it's quite disheartening and some creators have gotten backlash, like Kurtis (deserved, I say). What frustrates me about really successful creators is that they often do the "begging", ie aggressively promote their Patreon etc, while _also_ taking any shady sponsorship ready to pay them. It does, indeed, not feel genuine, it feels like any greedy, cash-grabbing company out there.
I think the hole in the lid is for air to get in as you are sucking in water so it doesnt cause a vaccum but it would not be good for moving around in a backpack.
The cap is leak proof though? Idk why he unscrewed it upside down because that’s where the water spilt into the cap. You wouldn’t do that with regular (single use) store-bought water bottles and then complain that they spill?
It was horrible and difficult to return. I had to dispute the charge. They were not happy about my review either they e-mailed me requesting an "updated review". I said send me a refund, and they offered another bottle and deleted my review after I disputed the charges on my cc.
I'm glad I saw this video and read your review, along with a bunch of other horror stories in the comments section here. I was eyeing up one of their bottles and the extortionate price was the only reason I don't already have one of these bottles; I was looking to get a bottle and an array of flavours next month after holding fire because of the price. Any company that deletes reviews, pressures consumers for updates/changes on honest reviews, or makes refunds and returns a difficult/impossible process needs to not exist.
People who think you can "force" a cat to perform have never met a cat. You can TRAIN a cat, but that's different from forcing. And Nola just likes her dad.
Probably also has a lot to do with a lot of people not realizing that cats can and do behave that way towards people on their own, just because they feel affection for those people.
Also, she's probably learned by now that when her dad speaks with a certain tone and cadence toward the thing with shiny bits and lights (i.e. when he's filming a video), she's probably going to get a new cardboard box to explore soon (3:55). Cats are rarely trainable like dogs, but they _do_ recognize patterns, make associations, and love cardboard boxes.
@@HaloInverseYou can train cats to do specific things, but there has to be something in it for them. You know, like when they walk across your keyboard and you play with them as a distraction, and then they keep doing it… But in all seriousness I have so far trained 1.5 cats to shake hands with me for a treat! One of them looks you in the eye and puts his paw in your hand. The other doesn’t quite get it yet and just touches anything repeatedly (such as the treat, my hands, my sandwich, and my face) to see if it works. He’ll figure it out eventually.
I have one and have for about a year now, idk if it’s different in the US but the in the UK they taste very non-chemical like and very nice and are perfect as a way to make water a bit nicer, yes it’s expensive but I prefer it to squash and will happily paw a price for a nice bottle. Also they advertise the pods as lasting about 20 days but I’ve used some for over 2 months and the flavour barely went away. I get why people are hating on it for the price but I like it for what it is supposed to do and it does it’s job well.
I got it before it went viral and I've never regretted my purchase. As someone who has trouble drinking water (mainly drink soft drinks like Coke Zero) unless very thirsty (e.g. after a workout or in the middle of the night), this tool had provided me with a way of drinking water even when not particulary thirsty and actually being able to hit the "drink 2 liters of water a day". Not all flavours taste good, and some are stronger than others, but for me, I'm very happy with it. Of course it's not for everyone. I guess we just are the target audience and people like @flamingo are not ("Just drink normal water"). It _is_ normal water, just with fake flavour, meaning it's just as healthy as water, just easier to drink.
Yeah I’m confused as hell too and feel like he intentionally made it seem way worse? I’m not gonna lie, they don’t taste like real fruit. But it isn’t nearly as bad as they make it out to be, certainly not vomit. It tastes more like other artificially flavored drinks, just not as strong. Also can’t get over the oH nO tHeY sPiLl WhAt ThE hEcK when they put them upside down without the freaking lid on and he unscrewed the bottle upside down?? Like… come on. What did you expect to happen? You certainly wouldn’t buy a bottle of coke, unscrew it upside down or flip it around only holding the opening shut with your finger and then complain about it spilling? Yes, it is expensive and overhyped. But this whole video is so forced.
@@casandra0 I‘d say actually infused water is better, as they have a more intense taste and are usually sparkly. You can use sparkling water with air up, which will also enhance the infusion a little, but it‘s still quite faint in my opinion. But that’s just my personal preference. It‘s definitely a good option though if you really want pure water without anything in the water itself but still want it to taste like something.
If a bunch of RUclipsrs are getting sponsored suddenly, the best you can expect is an expensive version of a good product. Or just a mediocre or bad product with good marketing. If something catches your interest, look into the market, not just the brand being promoted. That's how I ended up with a $30 rigid wallet from Amazon instead of spending $50+ for a Ridge one. And I love it.
I have a vague guess that these pods contain esters. These are compounds made from organic (or inorganic) acids that, depending on how they are changed, smell like certain foods. A lot of the time they smell fruity. Now very commonly esters are created using butanoic acid, creating butyl esters. Thing is, butanoic acid smells like vomit. And a lot of the time if you have made an ester, getting a good nose full of it will still give you that hint of vomit from the butanoic acid. This would explain the water also tasting like vomit, especially to someone who is sensitive to smells, and why most of the available flavours are fruity in some way or another.
I think you are right. The moment I saw their first advertisement I thought that somebody has to debunk their claims. Something like "No chemicals, no sugar, no bullshit". They also claimed, that you just smell it, so it is not harmful, but healthy. I will remember that, the next time I am breathing something like diethylether or worse things in the lab, or benzine at a gasstation. I would guess that their chemical formulations are not proper tested for safety and human health either because it is no food, but only a "parfume" and you are not supposed to eat it. The worst part is the tons of waste their stupid single use containers create. I think this start-up should just be sued to the ground.
I agree with your analysis that they're made from esters. I can't speak for the US but in the EU pretty much everything has them in them in some capacity. Remember; they do occur naturally in fruits too. I'm very scent sensitive and these work just fine on me, although I haven't tried all the scents mentioned in the video (yet, I have some of them) most of them smells fine albeit artificial to me. We played with butanoic acids in school so I know personally very well what it smells like (and it's not a scent you forget), but for cola, strawberry lemongrass, honeydew melon, and chocolate orange that scent doesn't appear. I have yet to try the other flavours though and these I believe are second gen scents so maybe the first gen scents were just crappy? I will say that honey dew lemon does taste like a chewed out gum when the scent is at the end of it's run.
I genuinely enjoy air up, I don’t exactly like most the flavors but I highly enjoy peach. It’s not typically bad, but they create too high of expectations.
That’s also their job, tho. They’re not gonna say “try our product, it’s okay, but not the best”. They have to sell it, and they have. This video is ridiculous, tho. Seems like it’s for views only. I used Air Up years ago before I saw it advertised everywhere and it’s great, although expensive. Many of my friends and family have tried it as well, and every single one of them liked it, which always shocked them. I used to drink no water, now I drink around 3L a day. Genuinely. It’s a great product, and this is a video of someone who went in with a negative mindset, and the comments are of people who have never even tried the product. Just weird.
Totally agree ! I bought myself an AirUp after a friend bought one for herself and let me try it, felt weird at first (the bubbles when drinking and the scent feeling a bit too chemical to me, it was rose-litchee I remember) but I still bought one hoping I would drop sodas and drink more water. It's a total win on me, I bring it every where and refill it at least twice a day, I barely drink sodas now, like an occasional gaming night. Not all pods are good, and it really depends on people's taste I think, personnaly I love the wildberry, orange creamsicle and peach flavors the most. The downside is the price and plastic amount though, I feel like it could be reworked somehow...
why not just get some bubly drops it's literally half the price per gallon, doesn't need a stupid cheap proprietary bottle, comes in paper packaging + glass bottles, you can easily adjust the strength of the flavoring
@@v000000000000v The idea is that olfactory receptors trick the brain into thinking that you are drinking flavored water, when in fact you are drinking pure water without additives. This is not the case with Bubly Drops. Although they only list "natural ingredients" on the packaging, this is meaningless. Bubly Drops does not exist in the EU (even though SodaStream was a german company until it was recently taken over by PepsiCo), 'cause they are not allowed to just label it as "natural ingredients" there, but have to list every single ingredient. Bubly Drops contains a lot of propane-1,2-diol or propylene glycol for instance, which is an alkanol, just like alcohol, and therefore may harm the liver and kidneys and reduces the fat metabolism. This is exactly what you want to avoid with Air-Up.
Classic case of "if we tell them they want it, they'll want it". This is happening more and more these days and the products attached to that ethos are getting less and less logical
@@thedogethatgamesI’m kinda surprised folks think they’re expensive, cause for me it was an alternative to getting Beats / AirPods. But I have no idea if they’re no better than a Walmart or Target brand, I just didn’t think they were horrendous. I will say I couldn’t talk on the phone with my raycons which I found really odd, but that was my only real negative feedback.
I got one of these probably like 3 years ago. The way I understand it, the pods smell as strong as they do because the amount of smell you inhale while drinking is deceptively small compared to just smelling the pod directly. They're also mean to last for a fair amount of refills so it'd make sense for the pod itself to smell super agressive in order for the actual scent per swig to be balanced / decent. I wasn't blown away by the bottle or the flavors I've had, but I also couldn't deny the legitimacy of the idea behind the bottle. My bottle doesn't leak. Now *my* main issue with the product is that it *will* draw air when drinking, even with no pod inserted. So even if you *do not* want to drink scent and remove the pod, you will inhale a water-air mix. If you're prone to burping easily, this bottle will turn you into an absolute monster. Even pushing the pod in, which is supposed to "disable" the scent, will not sufficiently block the airways to prevent this from happening.
Can't that cause health issues? I'm pretty sure aerophagia(as opposed to breathing air into the lungs like normal) can cause health problems and in some cases sever or dangerous issues?
I hope you do more things in this series, I would adore to see someone review common RUclips sponsorships in an unbiased manner. I also adore your cat. She seems like a sweetheart.
The amount of youtubers I respect who have good reputations promoting this is now really baffling to me. Kurtis Conner says he uses it every day and he can legitimately taste the flavors. Idk.
Consider that not everyone has anosmia. Pizza smells like vomit to me. Cilantro hits 50/50 for people. It's not a matter of the product working or not, like raycon earbuds. It entirely depends on the olfactory sensitivity of the person using it.
@@miikoshka Raycon earbuds use a single dynamic driver, same as Airpods, Skullcandy, and practically every other earbud on the market. The only way you're going to get a real difference in sound quality is with multi-driver earbuds or headphones.
Yeah and danny Gonzalez getting sponsored by this and helli fresh which are now known to not actually be sustainable or cut costs... Also many youtubers who advertise betterhelp which were expised for being a terrible company... I dont understand
It is safe to assume that everything promoted on RUclips is overpriced tat, no matter what your favorite RUclipsr says. No hate, as you gotta put dinner on the table.
@@RocketboyX skillshare. apparently trash. magic spoon. trash. betterhelp traumatises vulnerable people and is insanely pro israel. raid shadow legends. gambling for kids. air up bad smelly water. hello fresh. over priced and terrible working conditions. etc etc etc. Only sponsor I've seen that looks good is displate. they give 50% of each sale to the artist which should be the standard for products like that but isn't. they do look very nice and seem easy to hang up. you might spend what like £10 on a regular poster but they get ripped. I feel like I'm shilling it now they aren't paying me I just appreciate the business model and seemingly high quality
People who say you force your cat to be there clearly don't understand that if a cat doesn't want to be somewhere, it will not be there. That good baby *very clearly* loves and trusts you.
Thank you for the review. Here is my knowledge and experience: - The silicon plastic straw/cap thingy doesn't fit perfectly and leaves a little opening every time indeed, but this has a reason. The slurp you hear is caused by this opening. And what it does is: It ensures that some air enters while you drink and that air comes out through the pod. So it's done on purpose. If you just want to have a bottle, you can take the whole straw and silicon top off and use it as a bottle, then it won't spill any water. - I mostly used it with soda water and coke flavor. To be honest I'm impressed. I kinda feel some light coke flavor somewhere. It's not like I'm drinking coca cola, but it 's a bit similar to sodastream + it's pepsi syrup. Is it expensive? Yes. Is it worth it? Don't think so. Was it fun to try? Yes. Do I like the (quality of the) bottle? Yes. Will I buy new (other) pods when I'm done using these? Probably not.
18:30 No no, the investors definitely tried it. But then they said to themselves "people are gullible and it will sell like hotcakes, if the company fails later we'll have made our money anyways".
@@realdragon More so, look deeper into a product, especially if it's being aggressively advertised to you. Try to wait for actual reviews on something.
@exyz Nah, so far those big things that were advertised were just to sell products and lie to people in some way. Tom Scott made video about VPN and how it's not really how they advertise it Ridge wallet has rfid protection but I can do the same thing by wrapping my ordinary wallet with tinfoil (and I have place for coins) That thing where they were selling plot of land so you have title of Lord was just a scam They advertised Raid Shadow legends as THE GAME that is on par with AAA, honestly I don't know if anybody expected it to be something more than just another mobile game Now there's this
Hey, watching this from germany. Air up actually originated on the German version of shark tank and was picked up and made big by Frank Thelen who you could basically describe as the German Elon musk. He's known for greed, crazy advertising campaigns aaaand of course products that sound interesting enough to be easy to market but actually under delivery quite heavily. So yeah. No surprises with the airup brand
Calling Frank Thelen the german Elon Musk gives a bit too much credit to Frank imo (I hate both of them btw), allthough I didn't know this incredible product was pushed by him. Makes a lot of sense now lol.
some sphinx/"hairless" cats grow hair later in life, and "hairless" genes can be mixed with "hair-ed" genes! this little can probably is a hairless cat in genes, just not... appearance, haha edit: typo
It’s a Cornish Rex. Unfortunately this guys cat has been fed an unhealthy amount. This breed is extremely small, or at least it’s supposed to be, so long term it’s going to put a LOT of stress on the cat.
the amount of plastic waste you showed reminds me of that futurama joke where fry unboxes 50 things to stamp an oreo together manually only to peel it apart, eat the filling, then throw away the actual cookie.
This thing is so dumb. It's "solving" a problem that doesn't exist and like all stupid solutions it produces a crapton of waste because I can guarantee that that stupid scent pod isn't going to last very long especially if you're not using the bottle all day every day to get the most out of the pod.
Accurate 🤣👏 If you never watched that episode you don't know how ON point & accurate this comment is. All that plastic, but instead of cookie filling it's for water... circa 2024 😆
I understand RUclipsrs need to make an income so I don't hold it against them for hawking what I deem "RUclips products", but to be honest, whenever there's a random product that suddenly pops up in a ton of RUclipsrs' different videos all at once, it's pretty much a safe bet to assume it's a scam and/or shit tier product, especially if it's not a mainstream brand.
Not always true it’s just hard to tell what is and isn’t the case A lot of these RUclipsrs are probably being scammed too without knowing it Or maybe every person just reacts differently like pineapple pizza idk
It is not okay to make income through shady, harmful or deceptive methods. That's like saying, "''I understand why they robbed a bank and hurt people, they're poor trying to make a living!"
Neat. Basically every youtube sponsor is suspicious because of all the ones that have turned out to be scams, and it's just like "hey guys this company paid me to tell you this product is good but trust me when I tell you it's good"
that is upsetting, cuz matpat said it was good T_T Sad they kind of sell out as well, and he kind of promotes air up, in almost every video he was in before he retired, (ever since he got the sponsor)
@@McQuackeen dude. matpat has always been a joke. the guy has been making shit videos for decades. the guy never had ANY integrity. but I'm glad you found out now.
I think of it as just paid actors, when it's a product and don't trust them unless they proudly say in non sponsored content they wouldn't recommend something they don't like. But thats only if its a dumb product that doesn't change anyone's life. Because that's just capitalism. When it's something like BetterHelp, where its seeking out vulnerable people and taking advantage of them....
That's the thing. The idea isn't that bad. Now it's getting hyped by some but as soon as there are cheap, actual affordable options available it starts losing it's flavor (ha ha) because it isn't anything special anymore.
@@aluisious some people like it, so at an appropriate price its a good product, its not like the idea is fake (it works in the video after all, its just overpriced and most people dont like it)
you can have the exact same "experience" they're selling if you just sit really close to your air freshener, smell it a bit and drink water right after
The only difference between "natural" and "artificial" flavors is whether or not they originally came from a plant/animal/fungus/whatever. They're still isolating a specific chemical and concentrating or diluting it based on the purpose. If a particular molecule has a "chemical" scent or taste to it, then it will have that scent or taste regardless of whether or not it's from a "natural" or "artificial" source.
yep, always find it funny when people say "oh that has natural flavorings" etc. but every chemist will tell u that most often they are literally the same molecule. also find it funny when they say that as an example water has no chemicals inside them, when water itself is a chemical compound and has a plethora of other stuff inside it, since humans dont drink distilled water. just shows who had chemistry and who didnt
That's not really true though. You eating the fruit is completely different because texture probably has an impact on how we perceive tasste but even ignoring that, the chemical composition of the natural product is much more complex than any artificial flavor. So all these little things sum up to make the natural taste when the artifical version is just the raw version that doesn't really compare. It's like just taking CBD and saying it's no different from the actual plant it comes from.
@@w花bi think u are mixing some stuff up here. the thing that clashblaster was talking about, is that if u have a natural and artificial flavour both of these will be the same, bc the molecules have the same structure. he is talking about extracting ONE flavour. what u are talking about is that a fruit will be tasting differently, bc it has more complexity. u are not entirley wrong, but the result of the different flavour isnt in a more complex molecule, but rather many different flavour molecules resulting in a mixture of flavours, which we identify as a specific taste. as an example vanilla. the main flavour u will find in a vanilla pod will be the vanillin. u can either produce it artificially or extract it "naturally" from a vanilla pod. both vanillin molecules, so the artificial one and the extracted one will be the same, be it taste wise or from the molecular structure. but the reason many people say that a vanilla pod tastes better, is bc next to the vanillin there are other flavours. the better taste is not bc the vanillin molecules are different, which many people assume.
@@w花b I'm taking what they say to mean that "it's the same molecule whether or not it's made from natural sources or synthesised in a lab from scratch". Like for example IIRC fake strawberry flavoring is made from wood shavings, which makes it "natural", but it will still taste just as fake so using a "natural" product as a starting point is just a marketing tactic that won't improve the taste. I don't think anyone is arguing that an extract of the actual product (eg powdered freeze dried strawberries) will taste the same as the artificial/natural replacement. Even for things like vanillin which is the main flavor component of vanilla pods and can be cheaply made, real vanilla pods contain more than just that one chemical and that leads to a more complex flavor profile overall.
I've been using mine for about a year now and it really does help me to drink more water. Sure it's not as good as actually flavored water (e.g. soda), but it's about on par with tea in my opinion and better than day in day out just water and tea. There's a lot of pods that don't do it for me but I enjoy coconut, forest fruit, and chocolate orange. It's not wow but like I said it does help me drink less soda etc so for me it's worth it.
@@박동글-b9m Without the cap on it is similar to the video. But holding any bottle that has a cap upside down should let the water flow i would imagine. The extra gap is to let air flow in so you get the scent. If I put the cap on it does not leak like in the video though. Seven months later and many trips with the bottle in my laptop bag and I've had zero issues. I Maybe the author of the video put the cap on incorrectly, maybe his bottle has a fabrication error or maybe I'm just lucky with my bottle. Either way my experience is different from the video.
I don't care how much I enjoy a youtuber or streamer, I will never buy any sponsored product like this. They're usually just mediocre products with decent marketing.
I made the mistake of spending way over 1000 EUR on Betterhelp after watching a convincing sponsorship at an emotionally vulnerable time. As far as therapy goes, it sucked.
i only consider using sponsored products if i have any way to confirm the quality. The only exception was an energy drink powder product which i kinda took a leap in the dark and got one of those tasting kits with lots of flavors and i've actually liked the product and the price. About air up tho, i never even considered it. It's a blatant overprice (edit: i purchased a steel bottle from a sports brand called decathlon and paid like 25 euros, less than half of the metal air up product) and hydration formulas already exist and are sold by much more respected beverage companies (biggest example i'd say is twinings tea, which is a quite renowned brand). The technology is interesting, but it's clearly a marketing scheme with no intention of putting that technology to any real use at all.
Are you telling me that my MANSCAPED The Lawn Mower 4.0 or my Raycon THE EVERYDAY EARBUDS are just an average product with decent marketing investment??? Whaaaat???
I totally get why people take their money to promote this shit but you would be crazy as a watcher to actually go out and buy any of the products RUclipsrs promote.
I struggle with this too, and I already have mild kidney damage so it's important that I keep my intake up (or so my nephrologist says). What works for me are Starburst flavor packs, for water. They taste great and, with only 5 calories per pack, it's guiltless. It's increased my water intake dramatically and more importantly; my nephrologist doesn't scold me anymore for not drinking enough water. ;p (Note: I neither work for, nor am I affiliated with, Wrigley. I just like this product.).
Whenever I see any youtube sponsorship I just assume it's either a scam, the company is extremely abusive to its employees or a nice, healthy mix of both lmao
Adam Ragusea has explicitly stated in non-sponsored videos that he only takes sponsor opportunities from things that he actually would use, so things like Magic Spoon, Squarespace, some probiotic and testing stuff. Knowing that makes me trust the sponsors a bit more, but they're still not really things that I would personally need or use.
companies arent required to meet regulations to slap "green" and "Eco friendly" and "recycled product!" on their products. In fact, a lot of companies will take their scrap material and put it back into rotation and call that a recycled product. So, probably, most of these 'recycled' water bottles we see are just non-waste water bottles. This practice is called industrial recycling rather than consumer recycling which is recycling materials that have gone out to the consumer been used and are now being made into something else. The more transparency and information a business shows on HOW they are green or HOW or WHAT is being recycled, the better.
The notion of "recycling" doesn't actually exist as advertised at all. We're currently recycling less than a fourth of the plastic we use and the recycle symbol isn't actually a recycle symbol, it's just a plastic ident (several videos online about it). Basically, only aluminium, steel and glass are ok. Even paper goods are not that eco friendly as they seem.
@@aserta Turns out rich corporations who have vested interest in plastic have been lying about it's ability to be recycled the entire time. If anyone is shocked by this. . . . why?
Hey man thanks for doing this, the advertising for this product is all over the place so you do get to wondering. Experience tells me it is not what they make out it is but how does one know. I suspect it’s over hyped, most products that are advertised and over hyped like this disappoint. Thanks.
I was gonna say like what's the difference between this and getting a scented fruit or the fruit itself and drink it in your water like lemon slices or tea
Very insightful review. My sibling recently got a bottle as a gift, and we were shocked about the amount of waste. I'm also disappointed in the company calling themselves "eco-friendly" and so many RUclipsrs I like promoting it 😐
fun fact. you're a product or ATM to most RUclipsrs. they don't care if you like or don't like products they hock...just as long as they get money for it.
Kurtis comes to mind. He literally was criticizing water tok then got this as a sponsor. Plus he makes 16k a month on patreon alone. He doesn't need to do any sponsorship ever
@KingVoid27 mat pat.. has like, a switch whether he feels like chasing clout and money or being a completely genuine person. He's a lot better than most, but it is unfortunate people can't see the flaws. I think in part of the reason he stepped down was becuase staying successful was hurting his own values.
I found the idea interesting so I checked it out. When I discovered that you had to pay $8 for rings that would only last a couple of bottles, I decided it wasn't even remotely worth the price even if it worked exactly as advertised.
Well, I have an Air Up, the cartridges have lasted me for gallons of water for weeks on end. I've had no problems with taste or quality, honestly, it is really good for the price.
@@tpfoxCastro rich people have fridges completely full of glass bottles of sparkly water already. They'll just grab that on the way out. This is for dudebros who make more money than they should but are too dumb to not waste it, NOT rich people
I never tried it myself, but I remember my psychology teacher drinking from one of their products back when corona started. She said she really liked it because her sense of taste hasn't come back, but because of the smelling part she was able to ''taste'' again. I think that, in corona times, this was a fantastic product since it actually had a reasonable purpose but after gaining your taste back - it doesn't really make sense. Also, as a German, I swear we normally make better product I am sorry
Its not a bad product, they simply need to listen to their consumers. Clearly a lot of ppl do like it, they could just refine their formula to have more mass appeal, obviously more natural flavors.
@brendolbreadwar2671 I think in this case, making it for a broader audience would lead to a dilution of the brand. A lot of comments already pointed out that it's not a product everyone can enjoy - simply because certain smell receptors are missing. So I don't think AirUp would benefit from a mass approach, but more so from higher quality of the actual product and less plastic (so they can actually keep their promise). Refining, yes, but refining for the already existing customers
as someone who ate an air freshener as a kid those flavors exactly line up with that childhood trauma, my guess is instead of using flavor extracts which are ok to eat they instead used the same principals as a car air freshener which is why it tasted better the night after since car air fresheners are in a methanol solution (so they evaporate) whist flavor extracts are in vegetable glycerine (which don't evaporate)
Rule of thumb is simple: if a RUclipsr is paid to tell you that something is good, then it's likely bad or at least overhyped. Kamikoto knives, Air Up, literally every VPN service out there, etc, etc.
Still see people saying "oh but VPNs are good" while you oay like 20$ a month to pay for 20+$ a month for Netflix when you can just get the free movies anyway, 40+$ for jack and shit No they dont help you protect against anything, you dont need a VPN keep your money please
@@Lipapalidevu do get nasty chemical particles from inhaling, this is what scent is - tiny particles that got into your nostrils. Ever heard of second hand smoking?
When someone says "chemicals" my natural repsonse is always "wait.. but is not like everything made of "chemicals"?"Is water not H2o, which are Hidrogen and Oxigen, 2 chemical substances? I know what you mean, but it's a very inaccurate way to express that concept 😂
Thats exactly what i think i guess it has a different effect to everyone there are the one who like it like me and there are others who dont like the smell/taste and think its scam just because its not as someone expected does not make a scam
No I think the scam part is: - The bottles are super expensive but no matter what version you get they leak like crazy - The pods themselves are also ridiculously expensive and they charge even more for flavors people are likely to want to try first
@@lizzytheowl577 bro I really cannot read this comment without cringing myself inside out. I own about 12 different Strawbased Waterbottles each and every single one of those has a whole in its lit to let the air inside so u don't suck a vacuum while using it. Every single bottle of those leaks if u point it upside down this is also the reason why every straw water bottle has a lid. off course the lid is going to be full of water if you open it upside down slowly. A German product getting hate in America because they are to studio to understand physics is crazy to me.
That's exactly what I thought it would be. A lot of people taste through their sense of smell and also don't have an issue with chemical candle smells. Yeah they're falsely advertising that you're not putting chemicals in the water you're just breathing them in instead.
Moreover, them saying no chem is just an immediate red flag, as chemicals are the reason flavor exists. Just saying that makes it feel like they are hiding something.
@@benjamincharlton1388 The problem is that people are generally uneducated and have no idea what "chemicals" even are. They just have some vague association with "unnatural" and "unhealthy".
Just got this bottle and it tastes more like plastic than anything else. This plastic/silicon taste/smell is so strong, I can't even use this as a regular water bottle. Thankfully I didn't blow many doubloons on that thing
i don't understand why anyone would choose this over just putting a handful of fruit in your water bottle. that would be cheaper, more consistent, and actually taste natural because it is natural. the literal only thing i can think of as a point for air up is that cleaning the fruit out of the bottle might be annoying and you'd have to clean your bottle more. but also they do make water bottles with inserts specifically for fruit so i feel like that kinda helps solve that problem
@@falloutfreek1992Yes but just having fruit pieces sitting in your water is going to give your water bagels any calories. It’s not like if you added juice or smooshed up the fruit and added it.
Actually Nestlé literally tried that and years ago china had sellers for mountain air because the air in Peking was so terrible... Capitalism would would let you pay to get be born... Wait, that already happens...
The day you learn celebrities and influencers will gaslight you and lie to your face about the quality of a product is like the day you learn Santa Claus isn't real.
@@mimimosa259I mean on the one hand... have you seen the ingredients in 80% of Davids Tea teas? But on the other... pretty sure they're talking about tea infusions for water (which do in fact contain sugar a lot of the time) or just straight up packaged iced tea which is what a majority of ppl use (specially in america) which has incredible boatloads of sugar (which is why I love Pure Leaf that has an unsweetened version).
@@MyStarseedColoring First of all never heard of Davids Tea over here and second of all tea is an infusion but not all infusions are tea, and actual tea is just a spoon of leaves you combine with hot water, and there is no sugar in there. But I don't understand how you can present packaged iced tea as actual tea because that is just syrup not tea.
I WISH I watched this before buying mine. I had almost the same exact reaction. I saw the Try Guys reaction, was surprised at how sincere it looked and decided to give it a try after thinking about it for a couple of weeks. I assumed I would either taste something good or not taste at all, then after trying I thought I was crazy because all of the pods I tasted were disgustingly unlike any taste they claimed to be and tasted more like nail polish/alcohol/chemicals than the flavors they were supposed to. No other reviewer claimed this so I thought I was crazy. Plus, the website only published a couple of my reviews that were "eh okay" and never published the horrible reviews when I reviewed online 😅 Thank you so much for being so honest and truthful compared to others!!!
Honestly I think this is far worse than Ned (which should have been between him and his wife), and I feel like they should address it. I still love them, but it’s especially hard to see Keith do it as he’s always seemed achingly honest. (Not that Zach isn’t. I guess I just identify with Keith.). Props to Eugene for not doing it if I recall correctly.
Wanna take a guess why it tasted like nail polish or alcohol? It's likely because they just perfumed that little bit of foam in the pod. The way perfume works you essentially just have aroma molecules (which is what youll smell) diluted in alcohol, which will dissipate into the air and thus carry aroma with it. This is great for perfume and deodorant as you'll want people to smell it and the alcohol does that job well, carrying the aroma from wherever you applied the perfume all the way to your nose. The problem is that air up isnt a product youre meant to smell, but rather one you're meant to taste. All the issues of missing out on the actual parts of the (intended) flavor your tongue perceives aside, what effectively happens here is the equivalent of spraying perfume in a room, and then walking through it with your mouth open. While you're not getting any direct sweet notes or tartness on your tongue from the scent of watermelon or orange vanilla or whatever else, you ARE getting traces of alcohol on your tongue, which will bring its own aroma and bitterness especially when the pod has just been freshly opened. At that point you might as well spray perfume over an open water bottle and itll be a better experience because that 10ml bottle of perfume at least lasts you longer than the 4 or 5 pods you buy for 8 bucks every month. that being said, *PLEASE DO NOT PERFUME YOUR WATER UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES*
Same here! I bought it because Kurtis and Danny were only saying good things about it, and I trusted them. I have my pink one now, having bought a 3-pack of peach and a flavor starter kit. Safe to say, it's kinda crap and I'd rather have just NORMAL water than this scent pod nonsense.
@@nettalie4435If they are using alcohol to dilute the aroma molecules-doesn’t that also make it just as dangerous as perfuming your water as you joked about in your last sentence? Could these scent pods also cause harm to ppl down the road who are in a sense inhaling all this alcohol through their mouths??
I own an airup, but a European one... The packages of the flavors for us look different, well mainly the backside, which gets me wondering if there is perhaps a difference in their approach to the "american" pods. You see, as someone who works in the import/export of genuine food and candy I know north American rules surrounding chemicals and flavors are much more toned down, and thus cheaper options are a common practice. An example would be how Europe has strict rules on Yellow 5 and 6 (E102 and E110), as they are potentially harmful food colorings, however in the US there is no rules prohibiting their use at all and thus this cheap compound is used often. In Europe, however, they replace it with E160 or Beta-Carotene, a much healthier but in fact more expensive to produce coloring derived from carrots. I've got quite a few friends who also enjoy their airup bottle, and the flavors, although a common ground of complain is certainly the unusual profit margins on the pods and bottles. None of us have the issues with plasticy flavors, nor do we have the incredibly poor produced lid! Is it scaling? Is it localization? Did they increase margins even more? I'm curious, because your review is so vastly different than the wide pool of people I've met here...
I have one too, also in Europe. The most people I know with the airup, including myself, really enjoy it, so I was a little confused by the reactions in the video. I do think that they are a pain in the ass to clean though. I drink way more than the recommended 5L with one pod, as I drink at least 2L a day and I use one pod for a week easily. Even though they get less scent/taste after a few days, I still like it more than just water and it prevents me from drinking lemonade all day.
@@MadBradz It's the exact same for me, I got angry watching this video trashing on this brand because it actually helped me drink less sodas and I actually do like the tastes, even though I actually believe that the ones used in that video are not the best (best ones would be something like Lime which has a strong and good taste). Glad to see that i'm not the only one surprised by this bad review ! I guess it's actually the difference between EU and US. Another damn point on which I prefer being European then lmaooo
@@mattwinther5112I blame Capitalism and company greed lol. Companies are really getting out of hand with product quality. Which I'm also assuming drives regulations on what can and cannot be used here like that yellow food coloring mentioned just to make a product as cheaply as possible so companies can make top dollar.
Now I am curious between their differences. This video for some reason made me want to try it more, for myself, to see if it really is awful. However, I am from the UK so I would get the European one too. I wonder if there is a way to order some US Pods to this country?
As someone with Anosmia (zero sense of smell since birth) I have been curious if these actually worked. I know from research, 80% of "flavour" comes from your sense of smell, other 20% is your taste buds on your tongue responsible for sweet, salty, sour, bitter and umani flavours.
Is your sense of taste also less than other people's? Like, are you unbothered by foods that are too sour, salty or whatever for other people? If you don't mind my asking.
@@gnocchidokeyi also have anosmia and for me i don't think it's any different taste-wise? like if my sense is dulled i wouldn't really know it since i haven't experienced anything else. i still taste sour, salty, spicy etc. stuff just fine!
@@gnocchidokey I am bothered by Spicy foods, can't stand them. I read a few forums and it seems that is the case for most people with Anosmia. There have been a few cases for me personally where I can weakly taste scents on the tip of my tongue. It seems like it has to be fairly strong though. For example one time I was chopping down Ivy and I could slightly taste it. Everyone else there said it had a strong smell.
@@twdgs3thats bc sweet, sour, spicy and so on are all things that the tongue tastes and doesnt work through the nose. If you really dont smell ANYTHING then yes your taste is definitely worse without a doubt but since you dont know it any other way you wouldnt know. But someone that has smell can tell it easily by just eating while holding the nose the taste is drastically reduced and that doesnt even disable the nose completrly since our throat is still connected to the noee so the smell can still get to the nose, only worse. So having no actual smell will definitely make taste worse. Not in terms of sweet, sour, spicy, salty but in aroma. I wouldnt even know how to describe it to someone that doesnt know it but when i eat with my nose closed theres a big tasty part of enjoying food and tasting it that is missing
I used it for a few months on and off. After all, I came to the conclusion it's not worth it because of the cost of the pods. In my experience, there are two types of pods. The ones that taste awful, like you experienced, which seems to be the majority of pods, and the ones that taste good for like a day, and then almost lose their taste entirely. BTW, I didn't like any of the pods you tested either. The leaking was never an issue for me. I did notice it, but if you only move it with the cap on and remove the cap upright it was a non-issue for me. Then again, that was during the pandemic and I didn't leave the house much.
It's the same with the word "natural". There are a ton of things found in nature that are more dangerous than synthetically created stuff. It's just one of those terms meant to sell things and make it seem healthier than they actually are.
I also hate when people think all chemicals are negative. Our bodies are literally formed out of chemicals. Our world would be nothing without Hydrogen and Carbon
I want to start a food no chemicals company. It sells empty containers that symbolize food. We often crave unwrapping food, so this is all of the experience of unwrapping without the calories
tbh, I don't understand people who can't just drink water. But surely you could just do a quick infusion with fruit or citrus or learn how to drink tea.
I never trust anything that talks about "chemicals" like that, just straight up marketing BS relying on an inadequate understanding of basic chemistry.
that's not what they're saying, though. what they're getting at is that the water you end up drinking itself is untouched, fucking obviously the scent pods have chemicals in them. the product is a water bottle that doesn't hold water, you shouldn't be scrambling this hard to clutch onto some fragment of a thing to misinterpret about it.
The states like to leave their citizens at a grade 4 level of education so you'll have to excuse the massive amounts of ignorance and general stupidity
This is why I stay away from pretty much any sponsorship products/services. The fact that almost all companies that do sponsorships are ONLY known for doing sponsorships should be enough for people to steer clear of them because there is ALWAYS either a catch or a straight up LIE.
Yeah, same here. I trust sponsorship products when I have heard of them outside of sponsorships, but that's it. If I've only ever seen a product in a sponsorship, I can almost guarantee there is zero reason to trust it.
Yep, I remember when everyone was shilling Raycon earbuds and they turned out to be just horrible quality wireless buds that you can find for way cheaper, or otherwise get much better ones from any tech store for the same money.
It is actually pretty good if you are not sensitive to smell. I'm German and used it at the start of the company, and some taste good some bad some taste like nothing, but it seems like everyone i know has a different reaction to each pod, but once i found the one i like, they taste good, I just stopped because i just don't mind plain water and don't see spending money if plain water is fine for me too
It's hard to say but like, you should question everyone's endorsements no matter who it is, even him in this video. Because even if it is genuine that other youtubers like it and he's saying he doesn't, you still saw that in this video its possible for some people to like it without them being sponsored, and even my guy started the entire thing by saying "scents give me headaches, so he has a glaring negative bias going into it before even starting it because its entire business model is scent focused, so its not something you're ever going to be able to get a definitive "this is good" or "this is bad", you don't have to spend $130 to try it out, just get the pods for like $15 and put it next to your nose while drinking water, then if its your thing get the bottle. It doesn't really seem as nefarious as I'm seeing people say it is
@@TheMainCoreThere's a reason he decided to have 3 other opinions to combat that, one of them even disagreed with him initially but eventually also confirmed it sucks
Frankly, he unscrewed the bottle upside down to see if it was leaking which will make it late, but it was also a cut in the video so that didn’t seem too genuine
Great video. I almost....almost, fell for this and was going to buy one. I had the last minute urge to look up reviews and here i am. Great video and thank you however, I have to say, Nolan is definitely the star of the show lol 😂 Subbed 👍
He was just unlucky with the bottles. Every bottle i saw (in person) so far didn't leak at all. But i really don't like the smell of it. For me it doesn't taste, but smells and most of the time way to strong. I get headaches from it, and i am normally not sensitive to strong smells.
Second is the pods. If it's litteraly just a cotton soaked in airfreshner, then make the lid take this cotton straight. Without the plastic pod. Sell flavors in bottles that you can soak the cotton yourself. Oh wait, I just invented vaping, but bottle.
@@ne0ns0wl46 for everyone it doesn't taste. That's the whole point. It's trying to trick your brain into thinking you taste... But it's just smell. It's a gimmick... And clearly not very effective
love that some of them say “water with no chemicals in it” tell me you don’t know what a chemical is without telling me you don’t know what a chemical is
@@GendoRokabundi saying 'smells chemically' in an unpaid review as a clear use of casual lingo is completely different than getting paid to promote something factually and saying that it has no chemicals in it. it's not really. literally? maybe. but there is a semantics difference.
I came for the keyboards. I stayed for the destruction of this insanely horrible product
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Hi there! Aspiring food scientist/sensory scientist here. The way that is bottle “works” is by taking advantage of retro nasal olfaction. Basically there’s 2 ways for the compounds for aroma to get into the nasal cavity: the nose and up the back of your throat. I think a lot of people have heard that most of flavor is smell, and that’s completely right, since retronasal olfaction accounts for most of flavor (in addition to taste and nerve sensations). So in fact, you’re mostly just smelling the flavors of these pods, though there is some taste happening.
Now the problem with this bottle is that the people have different levels of ability to perceive aroma or odor. Some people just lack the receptors for some odors (this is called anosmia). The bigger issue is with the nose. In order to have retronasal olfaction, the nose HAS to be unblocked so that air can flow through. This can change with allergies or illness, and it’s why flavors are harder to taste when your nose is stuffed. The general population also has people who have structural differences like deviated septum. This really decreases your ability to perceive odor.
Okay so two paragraphs later, what’s my point? My point is everyone perceives aroma and flavor with differing levels of sensitivity. That makes this product difficult to market, and the AirUp company have made really broad claims on how EVERYONE will experience this sensation. Also!!! Aroma and flavor is extremely hard to capture in a pod such as that, and that’s part of the reason why many people experience the “vomit” aroma/flavor. Aroma composition is crazy complex, and by producing such complex flavor pods, the aromas will definitely get muddled and interact in odd ways.
Thank you for making this video because I’ve been wondering for MONTHS about this company and actual consumer opinions. What you’ve showed us a lack of sensory consumer testing before launching of this product, and it’s been supported by the comments saying it worked for 2/10 who tried it.
Thanks for the insight!
these youtubers have no fucking integrity wtf.
Nope! That's just what money does to some people @mauritshagedorn856
@@mauritshagedorn856they need to get paid so hard to blame them it good for some people as long text in one hippie hearted
@mauritshagedorn856 your saying you wouldn't do the same thing for 10 grand lol
honestly I have a rule. if i've never heard of a company, and it is suddently sponsoring every single youtubers I watch. there is something shady.
that's a good rule
AHEM established titles
honest i've only seen one exeption to my rule. its raid shadow legend. I've seen it way before it was on the google play store. I still have pictures of it being a game promoted as a sex game on streaming websites. ( you know you click and they ask you for a credit card and finally its a game on flash with shitty graphics and you get scammed all your money) yeah. that's how RSL got their money for their revival.
@@I-think-I-can-Shoot
Same. Huge red flag.
Air up was a German start up that got attention in the German version of shark tank. After they huge in germany, than Europe they started to expand globally like in the us market. That's why they "came out of nowhere". Huge company throws a lot of money in marketing
57 dollars for a bottle? Even if it wasn't a scam, at that point I'd just buy an actual fruit and hold it under my nose while I drink.
Honestly, not a bad idea. And if you get hungry you already have a snack
@@alinayossimouse💀💀💀💀💀💀 lol
I mean, they make infuser water bottles. Where you can put cut up fruit and/or veg in an infuser in the water to give it a hint of fruit flavor. And you actually get at least a LITTLE nutrition with hardly any sugar or calories compared to something like soda…
Some fruit have added sugars
@@bryceelectric uuh, yeah? Its called fructose, or fruit sugars. This is news to literally noone.
I've gotten to the point where if I notice a product appearing literally *everywhere* in advertising, I don't trust it.
If it’s a sponsor on RUclips I won’t buy it. There was this “organic” soda a year ago sponsoring….a 12 pack was $36!
Sidenote, there is one product that seems to work. If you haven't gotten Hexclad cookware, it's really nice. They ended up sponsoring a ton of people, and it's really nice. Had mine for 3 years, and still working very well, not perfect, but great.
buying stuff from the internet is generally a bad idea
I did get RayCon headphones, though. They're actually pretty good. I used them for a couple years till my partner got me airpods for xmas and now my stepdaughter still uses them years later. I had to fix the case at one point with some electrical tape but the fact that it WAS repairable is a feature imo.
@@arctrix765 Yeah I shouldn't have bought that physical copy of a game I love
(this is a joke I agree with you lmao)
just drink normal water this feels like a bad habit
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you're so real for that flamingo
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WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE
Heya, material engineering stundent here. The fact that the cap leaks water is intentional but it is executed poorly. There's a gap so when you suck water, the bottle lets air in, so you can actually suck the water without having to try and create a vacuum inside the bottle. Now this could be fixed with integrating a pressure valve in the cap but that would increase the already high price... though probably not by much. Still, I'd say it is an oversight in the process of making the bottle usable.
tl;dr the leaking is intended but an oversight since the fix would be quite easy to implement from the company's end.
Maybe in order for the "smell pod" to work they needed a bigger hole (larger airflow)?
Because all my cheap water bottle caps have valves. It can't be something you skimp on nowadays.
I have one of those bottles. The cap is designed in a way that the air gap is pushed down to seal it. So would he actually have turned the bottle right side up, it would have been dry on the inside of the cap. Of course, if it leaks upside down without the cap, it will leak into the cap when the cap is unscrewed while it is upside down. Not to defend the design. Just saying, it works as intended and it does not leak as long as the cap is screwed on fully. Not into the cap, not into your backpack. Is it a good design? Well, probably not so much.
Oh and btw. it also pushes the pod down when you screw it on. That way it does not leak water into the pod. Which also is something you probably would not want.
The hydroflask solved that issue forever ago (quite easily) with the design of their strawcap, this company sucks ass.
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The rule of thumb: If you see something advertised everywhere, you know that their money has gone towards marketing and not towards improving their product.
It's just so bizarre that they can't even get the 'water bottle' part of it right. Surely, you start there, and workshop how to get the scent stuff working around a perfectly normal bottle?
@@Joe90h If I had to guess, they probably had a prototype with the same base design that was watertight. Then they reduced the costs of producing the prototype by skimping on the materials, but couldn't be arsed to pay for more R&D on the new version, resulting in a leaky version of a design that worked fine with sturdier silicon.
Honestly, if I see RUclipsrs advertising it, then I already assume it's garbage.
Yeah, like those horrible Raycon earbuds. I have a pair of Altec Lancing Nanobuds that I've had my fad-changing co-workers try after listening to Raycons. Most like the AL Nanobuds more, and the rest can't tell the difference. Difference? Oh, about a 1-to-3 price gap.
Important lesson that was further cemented for me by watching this video.
I think it's less of a scam and more of an over-promise issue (except the quality control. That was awful to watch).
Scents are way more complicated than tastes, and you'll never find a single thing that smells the same to everyone. Even odorless things can sometimes have a scent to some people. To say that everyone will like it is... just not possible. In fact, it's actually bonkers to even assume that's possible, considering how scented candles NEED to market towards specific groups and specific countries.
There's a reason why the same exact franchise/company (like bath and body works) don't have the same products in stores geographically far from each other. They basically can't, because it's not reasonable for a scent to be the same in a completely different environment with a crap-ton of other factors. They know this, and don't try to constantly over-promise the enjoyment their scents produce, unless it's a line or group of scents. A single product? Yeah, they try to avoid that whenever possible. It's just bad business.
That's what I heard is that some people who review it get absolutely nothing out of this because their sense of smell is too weak and Hipyo here gets absolutely blasted in the face with scented candles because he clearly has a strong sense or is just repulsed by artificial scents.
@@gamerguy425 pretty much. It's like cucumbers or cucumber flavored products.
Some people love it. Some absolutely hate it and legit don't understand how anyone can.
The issue here is if the cucumber company kept marketing it everywhere saying "it's so much better than anything else out there!". Like, obviously people are going to take it and feel like they were being scammed because it tastes like crap to them. It's insane that any company would think it's a good idea to make those kinds of claims.
And yet... Here we are
That definitely makes sense. I’ve been wondering if it’s less that this is a straight up scam and more that some people get a good ‘taste’ out of it and others don’t.
@@GodhandPlusOne literally the last sentence is "it's just bad business".
I've put the blame Solely on the company entirely, from the start.
Never even said anyone was misinterpreting anything. Hell, I didn't even talk about the consumer at all outside people having wildly different reactions to scents (the coldest of takes imaginable).
All I said was that it was *less* of a scam. Which is pretty true- there are people who enjoy it and who never lied about their enjoyment.
Its just their crappy marketing and bad business model that tries to overreach past their market in the most asinine way possible.
I literally don't know what else to call it except over promising. It isn't an outright lie, as some people do in fact like it. So saying "you will like it" to a massive and diverse audience isn't entirely false, but it IS absolutely saying that more people will like it than physically possible (since no one will like everything). Which is a promise they can't fully achieve. Generally called over promising.
@@noblesseoblige319 exactly what your comment says it’s actually weird cuz I can smell things in unscented things
Honestly, at this point the more aggressively a product is being advertized through RUclips sponsorships, the more I expect it to fall somewhere between being utter garbage and an actual scam, and the less inclined I am to even consider looking into the product, let alone purchasing it. After Established Titles, Better Help, and apparently now Air Up, I've certainly lost the very little trust I had. When a company has so much money to blow on marketing that they seem to be willing and capable to sponsor each and every RUclipsr that has built at least somewhat of an audience, something has to be fishy.
The video is pretty bad tho. The product is actually fairly good, Ive been using it for months and love it. I went from drinking no water to only drinking water thanks to it and while the first bottle has quite strong taste, the longer you use the pods the better the taste gets. It also doesnt leak, unless you open it upside down of course like he did in the video, but any bottle will leak that way. If you keep the lid on you can store it upside down with no problem, no leakage at all
@@ja_uI'm not sure if that makes the video bad per se, it just seems that you personally had a very different experience with the product, which is very valid. Maybe I'd like it too if I tried it, who knows! But to be honest, I've always been sceptical of the concept, it's just nothing I'd ever want to use. This video validated many of my concerns about it. And it proved to me how products that are being hyped up through RUclips sponsorships are not necessarily all they're claimed to be, which I guess can be said about any kind of advertising.
To sum that up, my point still stands, I have very little if any trust left in products and services that apparently spend a fortune on RUclips sponsorships to promote their product. It just doesn't sit right with me, and actually has the opposite effect of what those companies want to achieve.
Do you have the same impression of Brilliant? I've been seriously considering it but have similar reservations.
@@givemeaworkingnameskillshare is a scam when the videos they offer is basically a paywalled RUclips video but idk about brilliant
@@givemeaworkingname That's one thing that I've also been considering because it sounds great. I haven't heard anything about it besides sponsorships though, so I have no clue if it's actually good or not. A resource that I like to use for this sort of thing is trustpilot. Just checked, and it seems that Brilliant has a really good score over there (4.6/5 for my country). So chances are it's genuinely a good service.
I think I’ve only ever seen one RUclipsr whose Air Up bottle was legitimately used and worn from use. When they said that they had used it for many months now, this was the only time I legitimately believed them because that logo was fading and the plastic looked chewed and everything.
Who was it Im curious
Did they also say it's good ?
MatPat is apparently crazy for this thing
@@juanletsplay1550going crazy from the sponsorship money he's getting from this thing
Is it Ofherbsandalters? That's the youtuber i know of who isn't a super popular creator but has a consistent audience and made an unsponsored video about airup where they really liked it.
I'm at a point now where whenever a RUclipsr endorses something with the tag of "I use this every day" I actively avoid it.
id say huel is a decent one tho. this tech youtuber i watch, actually u mightve heard of him as he does some keyboard stuff, badseed tech, had a huel sponsor and he mightve said something along the lines of that. ive heard of the company before but never really thought much of it. he said that he gets the black edition which basically is more protein and less carbs. i thought about it and it seemed decent concept wise. ive now been drinking the black editon huel everyday before work for 2 months now. just started my 3rd bag.
@@Sinsanatis How much do they pay you?
literally why....do you think everyone lies or smth?
JerryRigEverything@@Sinsanatis
@@Sinsanatis Even if that's true, it's pretty rare and not worth the risk. I was on the market for a pair of earbuds a few years ago, when everyone was shilling raycons, and I thought "hey these must be pretty good, since everyone is advertising them". But then I asked some people who did actually buy them and like at least 90% of ppl did not think they were worth the money at all. I did my research and decided on Sony WF-C700Ns instead, and they've been perfect
The point is, youtube sponsorships are a terrible way to make decisions on purchases, you can never expect someone who's being paid by a product to be objective about the product. There are some exceptions. PewDiePie doesn't take many sponsorship deals, and I know some others who don't take deals unless they actively use the product, so when someone like that has a sponsorship, you can usually trust it a bit more. But generally, do your own reseearch
The real scam is the pricing. Who on their right mind would....
0/10 product .No RGB ,no knob and no num pad
Pretty sure all water bottles are TKL
and it doesn't THOCK!!!
where is my numpad I need my numpad I can't live without the numpad :((
@@narpwareal numpad users are the most oppressed class
Not hot swappable! ANGY
I have a suspicion that a lot of youtubers expect their viewers to ignore sponsorships outright, so they dont really feel bad for accepting sponsorships for shitty products since hardly anyone will actually buy them
well yeah, but also, I just assumed everyone else was like me and ignored every commercial ever. But it's apparently worth millions and millions of dollars for the companies to show them, so I guess not.
I prefer RUclipsrs like Pyrocinical who just say “yeah I’m sponsored, it helps keep the lights on”, and doesn’t really engage with the product other than what they’re required to say.
I mean yeah watch time can be seen and it’s pretty obvious when everyone skips sponsor segments. Plus sponsor deals where they get paid for each click or buy. RUclipsrs know lol
Those with the sponsor time in the time,ine so I can easily skip? My heroes
@@tright6like Todd in the shadows
Whenever a RUclipsr I like promotes a product and says stuff like "I use this every day" I'm like... "Are you sure? Or did the marketing department tell you to say that so your audience buys the product?"
On one hand, RUclips can be absolutely out of their minds with their monetization system and can even demonetize videos for no reason. So understandably, it has become one of the bigger/only methods of making money as a content creator, but I sometimes wish they didn't have to promote products that are actual garbage.
The only time I've seen RUclipsr's be legitimate about "using every day" is Vessi shoes. Every other product, it seems fake or is fake.
I mean yeah capitalism sucks, we could just not have poverty but capitalism needs it to function properly and here we are, it could be more democratic but only for a little while because ownership is more important than actual work put into things. If we rewarded value instead of owning the value we'd be a lot better off but oh well here we are and now the world is ending ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@@smileyp4535 not really no, get outta here with this defeatist mindset lmao
@@ember9361 "defeatist mindset" not everyone can be fucking happy and optimistic like you wanna pretend you are 24/7. stfu.
@@smileyp4535 well capitalism is the best thing we have. We've already tried socialism/communism and that didn't work
For everyone saying he “didn’t assemble the bottle correctly” and that’s why it’s leaking, Air Up LITERALLY states on their website that any tilting will cause the water bottle to spill.
No it says could, and mine doesn't in fact spill. If you close the pod correctly. I've never had a drop spill.
@@ethanv7330good for you
@@ethanv7330lol, so what’s your thoughts on the product?
@@ethanv7330It leaks with or without the pods installed. Having the pod in an open or closed position doesn't change its' thickness as it is a constant width, it's plastic. The gasket itself is leaking, so if the mere presence of a pod is enough to solve the leaking issue, there would be no issue. At the end, you can even see him try and push the pod down further to stop it from shaking all over his clothes. Just like his male friend did when he spilled it. This is a common occurrence.
@@TheRealLACIf I had to guess it’s just an issue with some sealing better than others causing the different responses on this!
they really are overpricing the experience of huffing a candle while drinking water
huffing a candle is crazy 😂
So all the youtubers and podcaters are lying how amazing this is and how it's like drinking real sida? I haven't bought this thing but I still kind of feels scammed because they sound so positive.
@@teijaflink2226 I enjoy Air Up. Motivates me more to drink fluids. Not every flavour is for everyone.
@@Cynalie do you work for air up?
how much are they paying you?@@Cynalie
I'm still not over the fact the pods fade so quickly when my 20 year old Strawberry Shortcake CDs and dolls smell just as fruit-candy-esque as ever.
the strawberry shortcake car where you could press down on the steering wheel to release strawberry smell 😍
@@bammythegreatI hope that it brings you pleasure to know how insane that sounds to someone who didn't grow up on those toys lol
True, but are you constantly pouring water on the every time you use them?
@@gingerninja8872 the scent pods actually never come into contact with water! they sit outside the water bottle's straw, above the lid.
@@gingerninja8872 That's true, although in the original video I believe they said the pod was left sitting out for those few weeks, rather than being used. I also imagine the difference between the products has something to do with the toys' perfume being essentially baked into the plastic, in contrast to the pods where it looks like the main scent component is a cotton piece that's presumably just been dipped in whatever oil they're using.
Sooo, I live in Japan and it's extremely common to get flavoured fizzy water that's flavoured only with scent here. I bought a bottle once, mainly because it was zero calories. I wanted to try it. I was surprised at how good it was and when I looked at the ingredients, I was flabbergasted to see it listed only water and "scent" - some flavours do have "extract" in them but many are only scent. I'm not really sure how they do it (the brand I like is "Wilkinson"), but it comes individually packed in plastic water bottles and are far more affordable. You can get the store brand ones for less than a dollar a bottle and those are also pretty good. It's a shame that air up tried to take something I find to be fascinating and actually really good (and affordable) and make it very half assed and extremely overpriced.
same case in Europe, they love their flavored sparkling water!
Wilkinson strong sparking water slaps.
I believe this is what they try to achieve and being "eco fiendly" as less plastic bottles are needed. If it would work of course.
@@finn7599 I don’t know if you understand how sweeteners work, they cause cancer and shit. Flavoured water isn’t good for necessarily good for you. Air-up is
Sweeteners lad, sweeteners, not good for you
Actually a lot of people (and kids - surprisingly) here used it - although I feel the hype is dying down (Netherlands). We have one and actually thought it was kinda nice, same goes for my wife and daughter. Definitely not had such a reaction to fresh pods haha. The quality I feel we've been lucky with (no leaking if you use it correctly), but definitely can see some flaws in the design. But again, in my environment the AirUp doesn't have a bad rep and was quite popular even. Maybe helps that I didn't get into contact with it via YT spam as well.
Is it worth it
@@UrfavLuna1234 It's cost-effective for me personally. I struggled with drinking soda and changed to bottled fizzy water, but between the cost of those, how much I can get to drink out of them and how much recycling I have to do, compared to the cost of air-up and its pods with how long the pods last, I'm glad I got mine.
@@AgentxIndigo I think I will just get cirkul
It's a perfect PR storm.
The bottles cost nothing to produce, the scent caps are just foam with artificial scent so also incredibly cheap to produce and it targets the usual hipster crowd by being "healthy and without added thingamabobs".
I can definitely see investors swarming this thing. It's profit maximalisation at its finest.
Someone saw that cereal that was sponsoring everyone and their mother a while ago and copied the formula exactly.
@@asteroidrulesMagic spoon cereal
It only got so big because people could finally "get away from sodas". I fucking hate fitness scams and lose weight fast solutions because it teaches nobody anything and the same pitfalls for relapse still exist.
If you want to stop drinking soda, stop drinking soda. If you want to stop smoking, stop smoking. If you want to quit alcohol, just chug it away. Nothing is going to magic away your addictions or your habits, it's all work and dedication and the sooner people realize it the sooner people can stop pouring money into these scams. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@@asteroidrules Yeah I mean this is such a dropshipping product
It's amusing to me how many youtubers who "would never advertise a product they don't like" are sponsored by bad products and unethical companies
ah yes because this one youtuber doesn't like the product every other youtber is obviously lying
@@jansorijansosten253 did you notice how they actually didn’t say that at all?
@@jansorijansosten253 I dont think ive ever heard of a real person actually liking these.
They just like the money mostly and just say that
@@jansorijansosten253hey guys we found the air up employee
im getting pretty frustrated with youtubers having literally 0 integrity about their sponsorships, especially big youtubers who can afford to be choosy. it feels like nothing is genuine.
Fr. Whenever I see sponsorships I skip them. it’s usually the same 6 products anyway and I bet most of them are scams
You guys don't use sponsorblock? 😂
Sponsorships always feel sketchy to me. When they are advertising this aggressively on RUclips the product is probably overpriced to begin with to compensate for that cost.
first world problems....
@tetraasmr I absolutely agree, it's quite disheartening and some creators have gotten backlash, like Kurtis (deserved, I say). What frustrates me about really successful creators is that they often do the "begging", ie aggressively promote their Patreon etc, while _also_ taking any shady sponsorship ready to pay them. It does, indeed, not feel genuine, it feels like any greedy, cash-grabbing company out there.
I think the hole in the lid is for air to get in as you are sucking in water so it doesnt cause a vaccum but it would not be good for moving around in a backpack.
Make sense actually, but it should be something you toggle yourself so it doesn’t leak everywhere
@@CaptainRx-ss3rt yeah there should be a lock mechanism like there is with lifting the pod up to activate.
The cap is leak proof though?
Idk why he unscrewed it upside down because that’s where the water spilt into the cap. You wouldn’t do that with regular (single use) store-bought water bottles and then complain that they spill?
every water bottle i’ve ever had has a hole for that purpose, but never leaks. idk how they do it but airup didn’t care to know either.
@@CaptainRx-ss3rt The bottle cap is a toggle. It doesn't leak with the cap on.
It was horrible and difficult to return. I had to dispute the charge. They were not happy about my review either they e-mailed me requesting an "updated review". I said send me a refund, and they offered another bottle and deleted my review after I disputed the charges on my cc.
Not sure if you can, but report them to the BBB, if possible.
I'm glad I saw this video and read your review, along with a bunch of other horror stories in the comments section here. I was eyeing up one of their bottles and the extortionate price was the only reason I don't already have one of these bottles; I was looking to get a bottle and an array of flavours next month after holding fire because of the price.
Any company that deletes reviews, pressures consumers for updates/changes on honest reviews, or makes refunds and returns a difficult/impossible process needs to not exist.
I don’t like flavoured water so I wasn’t tempted but ive been really curious about how it works so I’m glad to have my curiosity quenched 😂
Similar problems happened with some wine box CinemaSins promoted.
@@MidnightSonnet reporting them to BBB is like reporting them to yelp
People who think you can "force" a cat to perform have never met a cat. You can TRAIN a cat, but that's different from forcing. And Nola just likes her dad.
Probably also has a lot to do with a lot of people not realizing that cats can and do behave that way towards people on their own, just because they feel affection for those people.
Also, she's probably learned by now that when her dad speaks with a certain tone and cadence toward the thing with shiny bits and lights (i.e. when he's filming a video), she's probably going to get a new cardboard box to explore soon (3:55). Cats are rarely trainable like dogs, but they _do_ recognize patterns, make associations, and love cardboard boxes.
@@HaloInverseYou can train cats to do specific things, but there has to be something in it for them. You know, like when they walk across your keyboard and you play with them as a distraction, and then they keep doing it…
But in all seriousness I have so far trained 1.5 cats to shake hands with me for a treat! One of them looks you in the eye and puts his paw in your hand. The other doesn’t quite get it yet and just touches anything repeatedly (such as the treat, my hands, my sandwich, and my face) to see if it works. He’ll figure it out eventually.
@@HaloInverse dude that's a cat referring to him as her dad is really weird even as a joke
@@evanelison it's really not.
I remember watching so many RUclipsrs use an AirUp bottle on cam and always thinking "This seems like something that never needed to be made"
It's a health thing
Disposable plastic pods. We need more microplastics for our health! 😂
@@averagegamer-mx1of
how? Just drink water
@@eisflamme2438Its how people don't like to drink JUST water. They want it flavored so this is a thing and quite a popular one.
@@eisflamme2438 because some people enjoy flavor but don't want the calories that comes with
I have one and have for about a year now, idk if it’s different in the US but the in the UK they taste very non-chemical like and very nice and are perfect as a way to make water a bit nicer, yes it’s expensive but I prefer it to squash and will happily paw a price for a nice bottle. Also they advertise the pods as lasting about 20 days but I’ve used some for over 2 months and the flavour barely went away. I get why people are hating on it for the price but I like it for what it is supposed to do and it does it’s job well.
I got it before it went viral and I've never regretted my purchase. As someone who has trouble drinking water (mainly drink soft drinks like Coke Zero) unless very thirsty (e.g. after a workout or in the middle of the night), this tool had provided me with a way of drinking water even when not particulary thirsty and actually being able to hit the "drink 2 liters of water a day". Not all flavours taste good, and some are stronger than others, but for me, I'm very happy with it. Of course it's not for everyone. I guess we just are the target audience and people like @flamingo are not ("Just drink normal water"). It _is_ normal water, just with fake flavour, meaning it's just as healthy as water, just easier to drink.
Yeah I’m confused as hell too and feel like he intentionally made it seem way worse?
I’m not gonna lie, they don’t taste like real fruit. But it isn’t nearly as bad as they make it out to be, certainly not vomit. It tastes more like other artificially flavored drinks, just not as strong.
Also can’t get over the oH nO tHeY sPiLl WhAt ThE hEcK when they put them upside down without the freaking lid on and he unscrewed the bottle upside down?? Like… come on. What did you expect to happen? You certainly wouldn’t buy a bottle of coke, unscrew it upside down or flip it around only holding the opening shut with your finger and then complain about it spilling?
Yes, it is expensive and overhyped. But this whole video is so forced.
i agree, im from germany (origin of the bottle) and you can buy everything in stores here. my brother has one and tbh its pretty good.
Is this better than any other flavored or infused water? I usually drink bubly as a soda alt.
@@casandra0 I‘d say actually infused water is better, as they have a more intense taste and are usually sparkly. You can use sparkling water with air up, which will also enhance the infusion a little, but it‘s still quite faint in my opinion.
But that’s just my personal preference. It‘s definitely a good option though if you really want pure water without anything in the water itself but still want it to taste like something.
If a bunch of RUclipsrs are getting sponsored suddenly, the best you can expect is an expensive version of a good product.
Or just a mediocre or bad product with good marketing.
If something catches your interest, look into the market, not just the brand being promoted.
That's how I ended up with a $30 rigid wallet from Amazon instead of spending $50+ for a Ridge one. And I love it.
#1 rule, if they're spending money on lots of marketing it means they are not spending money on a quality product.
@@TheVerendus Not exclusively, but it is a good rule of thumb to consider.
It's not like good marketing doesn't exist for good products.
A good rule of thumb is always to compare any paid youtube product with comparable amazong copies ... sometimes they are identical
lmao 50$? Must have been an outlet or something cause them shits are 80$+ on the regular
@@vracaze I admit I was only going from memory
We all know the only reason Drew Gooden hasn’t tore AirUp to shreds is because his own friends are advertising it lol
yeah probably
yeah, it's like when he reviewed magic spoon and the moon pod
he is still advertising better help so I'm not so sure he would
@@roh819big oof. Better help is the biggest scam out there.
@@roh819when did he last advertise for better help?
I have a vague guess that these pods contain esters. These are compounds made from organic (or inorganic) acids that, depending on how they are changed, smell like certain foods. A lot of the time they smell fruity. Now very commonly esters are created using butanoic acid, creating butyl esters. Thing is, butanoic acid smells like vomit. And a lot of the time if you have made an ester, getting a good nose full of it will still give you that hint of vomit from the butanoic acid. This would explain the water also tasting like vomit, especially to someone who is sensitive to smells, and why most of the available flavours are fruity in some way or another.
I think you are right. The moment I saw their first advertisement I thought that somebody has to debunk their claims. Something like "No chemicals, no sugar, no bullshit". They also claimed, that you just smell it, so it is not harmful, but healthy. I will remember that, the next time I am breathing something like diethylether or worse things in the lab, or benzine at a gasstation. I would guess that their chemical formulations are not proper tested for safety and human health either because it is no food, but only a "parfume" and you are not supposed to eat it. The worst part is the tons of waste their stupid single use containers create. I think this start-up should just be sued to the ground.
This is a great breakdown of why this thing sucks. It screams "gimmick product" through and through.
I agree with your analysis that they're made from esters. I can't speak for the US but in the EU pretty much everything has them in them in some capacity. Remember; they do occur naturally in fruits too. I'm very scent sensitive and these work just fine on me, although I haven't tried all the scents mentioned in the video (yet, I have some of them) most of them smells fine albeit artificial to me. We played with butanoic acids in school so I know personally very well what it smells like (and it's not a scent you forget), but for cola, strawberry lemongrass, honeydew melon, and chocolate orange that scent doesn't appear. I have yet to try the other flavours though and these I believe are second gen scents so maybe the first gen scents were just crappy? I will say that honey dew lemon does taste like a chewed out gum when the scent is at the end of it's run.
Butanoic acid is a carboxylic acid. Esters end in -oate not -oic acid
isnt that acid also the one that's in hershey chocolate and that's why a lot of foreigners think american chocolate taste like vomit?
I genuinely enjoy air up, I don’t exactly like most the flavors but I highly enjoy peach. It’s not typically bad, but they create too high of expectations.
Same
That’s also their job, tho. They’re not gonna say “try our product, it’s okay, but not the best”. They have to sell it, and they have. This video is ridiculous, tho. Seems like it’s for views only. I used Air Up years ago before I saw it advertised everywhere and it’s great, although expensive. Many of my friends and family have tried it as well, and every single one of them liked it, which always shocked them. I used to drink no water, now I drink around 3L a day. Genuinely. It’s a great product, and this is a video of someone who went in with a negative mindset, and the comments are of people who have never even tried the product. Just weird.
Totally agree ! I bought myself an AirUp after a friend bought one for herself and let me try it, felt weird at first (the bubbles when drinking and the scent feeling a bit too chemical to me, it was rose-litchee I remember) but I still bought one hoping I would drop sodas and drink more water.
It's a total win on me, I bring it every where and refill it at least twice a day, I barely drink sodas now, like an occasional gaming night. Not all pods are good, and it really depends on people's taste I think, personnaly I love the wildberry, orange creamsicle and peach flavors the most. The downside is the price and plastic amount though, I feel like it could be reworked somehow...
why not just get some bubly drops it's literally half the price per gallon, doesn't need a stupid cheap proprietary bottle, comes in paper packaging + glass bottles, you can easily adjust the strength of the flavoring
@@v000000000000v The idea is that olfactory receptors trick the brain into thinking that you are drinking flavored water, when in fact you are drinking pure water without additives.
This is not the case with Bubly Drops. Although they only list "natural ingredients" on the packaging, this is meaningless. Bubly Drops does not exist in the EU (even though SodaStream was a german company until it was recently taken over by PepsiCo), 'cause they are not allowed to just label it as "natural ingredients" there, but have to list every single ingredient.
Bubly Drops contains a lot of propane-1,2-diol or propylene glycol for instance, which is an alkanol, just like alcohol, and therefore may harm the liver and kidneys and reduces the fat metabolism. This is exactly what you want to avoid with Air-Up.
If a company is paying this much money to advertise their product on youtube, it usually means you shouldn't buy it.
Classic case of "if we tell them they want it, they'll want it". This is happening more and more these days and the products attached to that ethos are getting less and less logical
ah yes reminds me of a certain RAID. That came from the SHADOWs pretending it was of LEGENDS.....
I mean Raycon is alright. Good quality earbuds for a little cheaper
@@thedogethatgamesI’m kinda surprised folks think they’re expensive, cause for me it was an alternative to getting Beats / AirPods. But I have no idea if they’re no better than a Walmart or Target brand, I just didn’t think they were horrendous. I will say I couldn’t talk on the phone with my raycons which I found really odd, but that was my only real negative feedback.
Correct. That's why I never donate to charity because all RUclipsrs always talking about it /s
"So that was cherry"
"Whoever told you that was incorrect" lol I cracked up
Air up is THAT terrible
I have an air up and the cherry one taste like cherry perfume... it is so bad
I got one of these probably like 3 years ago.
The way I understand it, the pods smell as strong as they do because the amount of smell you inhale while drinking is deceptively small compared to just smelling the pod directly. They're also mean to last for a fair amount of refills so it'd make sense for the pod itself to smell super agressive in order for the actual scent per swig to be balanced / decent.
I wasn't blown away by the bottle or the flavors I've had, but I also couldn't deny the legitimacy of the idea behind the bottle. My bottle doesn't leak.
Now *my* main issue with the product is that it *will* draw air when drinking, even with no pod inserted. So even if you *do not* want to drink scent and remove the pod, you will inhale a water-air mix. If you're prone to burping easily, this bottle will turn you into an absolute monster. Even pushing the pod in, which is supposed to "disable" the scent, will not sufficiently block the airways to prevent this from happening.
Man, that sounds horrific.
Can't that cause health issues? I'm pretty sure aerophagia(as opposed to breathing air into the lungs like normal) can cause health problems and in some cases sever or dangerous issues?
Burp lovers are winning with the Air Up.
you can put your finger over the scent hole to stop it from letting air in
"it will draw air when drinking"
That goes beyond being a scam and veers directly into actively malicious design.
I hope you do more things in this series, I would adore to see someone review common RUclips sponsorships in an unbiased manner.
I also adore your cat. She seems like a sweetheart.
The amount of youtubers I respect who have good reputations promoting this is now really baffling to me. Kurtis Conner says he uses it every day and he can legitimately taste the flavors. Idk.
Consider that not everyone has anosmia. Pizza smells like vomit to me. Cilantro hits 50/50 for people. It's not a matter of the product working or not, like raycon earbuds. It entirely depends on the olfactory sensitivity of the person using it.
@@miikoshka Raycon earbuds use a single dynamic driver, same as Airpods, Skullcandy, and practically every other earbud on the market. The only way you're going to get a real difference in sound quality is with multi-driver earbuds or headphones.
Oh nooooo, not my fav youtuberino!
Yeah and danny Gonzalez getting sponsored by this and helli fresh which are now known to not actually be sustainable or cut costs...
Also many youtubers who advertise betterhelp which were expised for being a terrible company... I dont understand
Parasocial relationships hit hard sometimes.
Edit: I think that is the modern way of saying _"Don't meet your heroes"_
Thank god someone can talk about sponsorships, wish there's more videos where people review sponsored crap.
It is safe to assume that everything promoted on RUclips is overpriced tat, no matter what your favorite RUclipsr says. No hate, as you gotta put dinner on the table.
@@RocketboyX I hate promotions
@@RocketboyX The only sponsorship product that I actually bought and liked was the henson shaving one
How to fell 50 in your teens:
@@RocketboyX skillshare. apparently trash. magic spoon. trash. betterhelp traumatises vulnerable people and is insanely pro israel. raid shadow legends. gambling for kids. air up bad smelly water. hello fresh. over priced and terrible working conditions. etc etc etc. Only sponsor I've seen that looks good is displate. they give 50% of each sale to the artist which should be the standard for products like that but isn't. they do look very nice and seem easy to hang up. you might spend what like £10 on a regular poster but they get ripped. I feel like I'm shilling it now they aren't paying me I just appreciate the business model and seemingly high quality
People who say you force your cat to be there clearly don't understand that if a cat doesn't want to be somewhere, it will not be there. That good baby *very clearly* loves and trusts you.
“Herding cats”
@@OkieDokieSmokieI don't think you know what love is.
Came to say the same thing xP
I wouldn't be surprised if Nola understands camera = money making = food lol
That's what I was thinking... Cats pretty much do what they want. That kitty looks good quite content to be where she is.
Thank you for the review. Here is my knowledge and experience:
- The silicon plastic straw/cap thingy doesn't fit perfectly and leaves a little opening every time indeed, but this has a reason. The slurp you hear is caused by this opening. And what it does is: It ensures that some air enters while you drink and that air comes out through the pod. So it's done on purpose. If you just want to have a bottle, you can take the whole straw and silicon top off and use it as a bottle, then it won't spill any water.
- I mostly used it with soda water and coke flavor. To be honest I'm impressed. I kinda feel some light coke flavor somewhere. It's not like I'm drinking coca cola, but it 's a bit similar to sodastream + it's pepsi syrup.
Is it expensive? Yes.
Is it worth it? Don't think so.
Was it fun to try? Yes.
Do I like the (quality of the) bottle? Yes.
Will I buy new (other) pods when I'm done using these? Probably not.
18:30 No no, the investors definitely tried it. But then they said to themselves "people are gullible and it will sell like hotcakes, if the company fails later we'll have made our money anyways".
"People already bought scams they will buy another"
I just don't trust any YT promotion at this point
@@realdragon More so, look deeper into a product, especially if it's being aggressively advertised to you. Try to wait for actual reviews on something.
@exyz Nah, so far those big things that were advertised were just to sell products and lie to people in some way.
Tom Scott made video about VPN and how it's not really how they advertise it
Ridge wallet has rfid protection but I can do the same thing by wrapping my ordinary wallet with tinfoil (and I have place for coins)
That thing where they were selling plot of land so you have title of Lord was just a scam
They advertised Raid Shadow legends as THE GAME that is on par with AAA, honestly I don't know if anybody expected it to be something more than just another mobile game
Now there's this
@@invertexyz There has been quite a few advertisements that were misleading on purpose
@@realdragon Yes... thus why I'm saying what I am haha
Hey, watching this from germany. Air up actually originated on the German version of shark tank and was picked up and made big by Frank Thelen who you could basically describe as the German Elon musk. He's known for greed, crazy advertising campaigns aaaand of course products that sound interesting enough to be easy to market but actually under delivery quite heavily. So yeah. No surprises with the airup brand
Ich bin Frank Thelen und I approve this message
That makes sense. The only way Elon Musk could ever be more evil was if someone created a German version of him!
Calling Frank Thelen the german Elon Musk gives a bit too much credit to Frank imo (I hate both of them btw), allthough I didn't know this incredible product was pushed by him. Makes a lot of sense now lol.
@@LHyoutube I can say for all us Germans, please don't make a German version of Elon. He is already awkward af.
@@LHyoutubeMate, you will not like hearing about Peter Thiel then.....
Your cat gives hairless cat energy. I don't know how to describe it. It's a hairless cat in cats clothing. Also really cute.
some sphinx/"hairless" cats grow hair later in life, and "hairless" genes can be mixed with "hair-ed" genes! this little can probably is a hairless cat in genes, just not... appearance, haha
edit: typo
It’s a Cornish Rex. Unfortunately this guys cat has been fed an unhealthy amount. This breed is extremely small, or at least it’s supposed to be, so long term it’s going to put a LOT of stress on the cat.
@@alicepersson9568 woah, that's really cool! Thanks for sharing :)
@@rosmire_9664 The cat doesn't look overweight AT ALL. Wtf are you talking about
@@rosmire_9664that literally is not an overweight cat. Honestly, if it’s a size thing it’s probably just not a purebred Rex lol
14:43 “that’s literally not a water bottle!” has me dying lmao, more honest review of the airup than most youtubers
the amount of plastic waste you showed reminds me of that futurama joke where fry unboxes 50 things to stamp an oreo together manually only to peel it apart, eat the filling, then throw away the actual cookie.
Yeah! There's usually no plastic waste in tech so this was crazy
Especially since it turns out the pods are better left open for a while.
This thing is so dumb. It's "solving" a problem that doesn't exist and like all stupid solutions it produces a crapton of waste because I can guarantee that that stupid scent pod isn't going to last very long especially if you're not using the bottle all day every day to get the most out of the pod.
Literally watching futurama right now lmao
Accurate 🤣👏
If you never watched that episode you don't know how ON point & accurate this comment is. All that plastic, but instead of cookie filling it's for water... circa 2024 😆
I understand RUclipsrs need to make an income so I don't hold it against them for hawking what I deem "RUclips products", but to be honest, whenever there's a random product that suddenly pops up in a ton of RUclipsrs' different videos all at once, it's pretty much a safe bet to assume it's a scam and/or shit tier product, especially if it's not a mainstream brand.
Not always true it’s just hard to tell what is and isn’t the case
A lot of these RUclipsrs are probably being scammed too without knowing it
Or maybe every person just reacts differently like pineapple pizza idk
It is not okay to make income through shady, harmful or deceptive methods. That's like saying, "''I understand why they robbed a bank and hurt people, they're poor trying to make a living!"
Yup just like Raycons
@@joejam174am I crazy for loving my raycons? Lol I’ve had mine for years they’re great
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Neat. Basically every youtube sponsor is suspicious because of all the ones that have turned out to be scams, and it's just like "hey guys this company paid me to tell you this product is good but trust me when I tell you it's good"
that is upsetting, cuz matpat said it was good T_T Sad they kind of sell out as well, and he kind of promotes air up, in almost every video he was in before he retired, (ever since he got the sponsor)
@@McQuackeen dude. matpat has always been a joke. the guy has been making shit videos for decades. the guy never had ANY integrity. but I'm glad you found out now.
And good for him mentioning Keurig with this German trash as they are the kings of "green washing" while being consumer end product polluter kings
I think of it as just paid actors, when it's a product and don't trust them unless they proudly say in non sponsored content they wouldn't recommend something they don't like.
But thats only if its a dumb product that doesn't change anyone's life.
Because that's just capitalism.
When it's something like BetterHelp, where its seeking out vulnerable people and taking advantage of them....
@@defmore5099Are you serious? That's a joke right?
6:46 I like how he provides a keyboard fix for the “millions of confused viewers” not knowing this would indeed be viewed by millions of people
I had to laugh at the part where you open up the "pod" and its literally just a bit of sponge soaked in chemical scent. lol.
yeah and then you consider the price of em
That's the thing. The idea isn't that bad. Now it's getting hyped by some but as soon as there are cheap, actual affordable options available it starts losing it's flavor (ha ha) because it isn't anything special anymore.
What did you think was going to be in there?
@@disbelief3911No, the idea of it as a product for people to consume is bad. The idea is only good as a way to rip off stupid consumers.
@@aluisious some people like it, so at an appropriate price its a good product, its not like the idea is fake (it works in the video after all, its just overpriced and most people dont like it)
I’ve always wanted to know what my car air fresheners taste like 😂😂
3:12
Much wow, 'tis Guinea Pigs Adventures; I did not expect that.
you can have the exact same "experience" they're selling if you just sit really close to your air freshener, smell it a bit and drink water right after
Lol
@@852Duarte fax
The only difference between "natural" and "artificial" flavors is whether or not they originally came from a plant/animal/fungus/whatever. They're still isolating a specific chemical and concentrating or diluting it based on the purpose. If a particular molecule has a "chemical" scent or taste to it, then it will have that scent or taste regardless of whether or not it's from a "natural" or "artificial" source.
yep, always find it funny when people say "oh that has natural flavorings" etc. but every chemist will tell u that most often they are literally the same molecule.
also find it funny when they say that as an example water has no chemicals inside them, when water itself is a chemical compound and has a plethora of other stuff inside it, since humans dont drink distilled water.
just shows who had chemistry and who didnt
That's not really true though. You eating the fruit is completely different because texture probably has an impact on how we perceive tasste but even ignoring that, the chemical composition of the natural product is much more complex than any artificial flavor. So all these little things sum up to make the natural taste when the artifical version is just the raw version that doesn't really compare. It's like just taking CBD and saying it's no different from the actual plant it comes from.
@@w花bi think u are mixing some stuff up here.
the thing that clashblaster was talking about, is that if u have a natural and artificial flavour both of these will be the same, bc the molecules have the same structure. he is talking about extracting ONE flavour.
what u are talking about is that a fruit will be tasting differently, bc it has more complexity. u are not entirley wrong, but the result of the different flavour isnt in a more complex molecule, but rather many different flavour molecules resulting in a mixture of flavours, which we identify as a specific taste.
as an example vanilla. the main flavour u will find in a vanilla pod will be the vanillin. u can either produce it artificially or extract it "naturally" from a vanilla pod. both vanillin molecules, so the artificial one and the extracted one will be the same, be it taste wise or from the molecular structure.
but the reason many people say that a vanilla pod tastes better, is bc next to the vanillin there are other flavours. the better taste is not bc the vanillin molecules are different, which many people assume.
@@w花byep, actual vanilla vs artificial vanilla is an example
Those 2 has no idea what they're talking about
@@w花b I'm taking what they say to mean that "it's the same molecule whether or not it's made from natural sources or synthesised in a lab from scratch". Like for example IIRC fake strawberry flavoring is made from wood shavings, which makes it "natural", but it will still taste just as fake so using a "natural" product as a starting point is just a marketing tactic that won't improve the taste. I don't think anyone is arguing that an extract of the actual product (eg powdered freeze dried strawberries) will taste the same as the artificial/natural replacement. Even for things like vanillin which is the main flavor component of vanilla pods and can be cheaply made, real vanilla pods contain more than just that one chemical and that leads to a more complex flavor profile overall.
I've been using mine for about a year now and it really does help me to drink more water. Sure it's not as good as actually flavored water (e.g. soda), but it's about on par with tea in my opinion and better than day in day out just water and tea. There's a lot of pods that don't do it for me but I enjoy coconut, forest fruit, and chocolate orange. It's not wow but like I said it does help me drink less soda etc so for me it's worth it.
Doesn't the water flow like in the video?
@@박동글-b9m Without the cap on it is similar to the video. But holding any bottle that has a cap upside down should let the water flow i would imagine. The extra gap is to let air flow in so you get the scent. If I put the cap on it does not leak like in the video though. Seven months later and many trips with the bottle in my laptop bag and I've had zero issues. I Maybe the author of the video put the cap on incorrectly, maybe his bottle has a fabrication error or maybe I'm just lucky with my bottle. Either way my experience is different from the video.
The only people who say you force the cat, are people who've never owned a a cat.
Yep, you can't force cats to do shit lol.
Fr these mfs are always trying to 100% explore every area imaginable.
He is tho, he's recording in that cats personal space😤😤😤 (joke obviously)
TRUST ME I KNOW THIS I HAVE 2 CATS AND THEY BULLY ME IN MY SLEEP
@@salmay4266
I don't care how much I enjoy a youtuber or streamer, I will never buy any sponsored product like this. They're usually just mediocre products with decent marketing.
honestly wouldn't buy any product found through sponsoring period, if it's actually good it will find me through gods good humour
@@krabiat Only sponsor thing i ever got was Huel, pretty good pretty cheap.
I made the mistake of spending way over 1000 EUR on Betterhelp after watching a convincing sponsorship at an emotionally vulnerable time. As far as therapy goes, it sucked.
i only consider using sponsored products if i have any way to confirm the quality. The only exception was an energy drink powder product which i kinda took a leap in the dark and got one of those tasting kits with lots of flavors and i've actually liked the product and the price. About air up tho, i never even considered it. It's a blatant overprice (edit: i purchased a steel bottle from a sports brand called decathlon and paid like 25 euros, less than half of the metal air up product) and hydration formulas already exist and are sold by much more respected beverage companies (biggest example i'd say is twinings tea, which is a quite renowned brand). The technology is interesting, but it's clearly a marketing scheme with no intention of putting that technology to any real use at all.
Are you telling me that my MANSCAPED The Lawn Mower 4.0 or my Raycon THE EVERYDAY EARBUDS are just an average product with decent marketing investment??? Whaaaat???
Whenever a lot of youtubers get sponsored by a certain product i immediately distrust the product. The ray earphones, this, its always the same
and let's not forget the BetterHelp trainwreck....
You are right about Raycons.
Absolute TRASH headphones. Literally shit you buy at a gas station.
Hello fresh and all the sister/daughter companies, the no sugar all protein cereal, Temu, Colon broom can’t trust any of em
Established titles was definitely the worst offender, for literally being a fake product
I totally get why people take their money to promote this shit but you would be crazy as a watcher to actually go out and buy any of the products RUclipsrs promote.
Omg please do more reviews like this skdkskd also ur cat is so cute 😭😭💞
I struggle with drinking water, but instead of using whatever airup is i just think about how bad kidney stones are
Yep. Once you get them - never again.
That actually motivated to drink water more. Thank you.
Try cordial, or as we Brits call it squash, especially Robinson's squash. no sugar doesn't have a lot of preservatives.
@@Robdc89Ribena clears
I struggle with this too, and I already have mild kidney damage so it's important that I keep my intake up (or so my nephrologist says). What works for me are Starburst flavor packs, for water. They taste great and, with only 5 calories per pack, it's guiltless. It's increased my water intake dramatically and more importantly; my nephrologist doesn't scold me anymore for not drinking enough water. ;p (Note: I neither work for, nor am I affiliated with, Wrigley. I just like this product.).
Whenever I see any youtube sponsorship I just assume it's either a scam, the company is extremely abusive to its employees or a nice, healthy mix of both lmao
only one i ever saw that i'd have supported was for a product i already owned anyway XD
Best case is that you're getting a decent product for a non-decent price.
Adam Ragusea has explicitly stated in non-sponsored videos that he only takes sponsor opportunities from things that he actually would use, so things like Magic Spoon, Squarespace, some probiotic and testing stuff. Knowing that makes me trust the sponsors a bit more, but they're still not really things that I would personally need or use.
@@akpsyche1299magic spoon is incredibly overpriced and not very good
@@akpsyche1299 Lots of RUclipsrs say that but the perspective of a RUclipsr is just not the perspective of the average person
companies arent required to meet regulations to slap "green" and "Eco friendly" and "recycled product!" on their products. In fact, a lot of companies will take their scrap material and put it back into rotation and call that a recycled product. So, probably, most of these 'recycled' water bottles we see are just non-waste water bottles. This practice is called industrial recycling rather than consumer recycling which is recycling materials that have gone out to the consumer been used and are now being made into something else. The more transparency and information a business shows on HOW they are green or HOW or WHAT is being recycled, the better.
The notion of "recycling" doesn't actually exist as advertised at all. We're currently recycling less than a fourth of the plastic we use and the recycle symbol isn't actually a recycle symbol, it's just a plastic ident (several videos online about it).
Basically, only aluminium, steel and glass are ok. Even paper goods are not that eco friendly as they seem.
Green washing 😞
People don't want to use less and reuse they just want to be told they are buying a magic earth friend product with no guilt.
@@aserta Turns out rich corporations who have vested interest in plastic have been lying about it's ability to be recycled the entire time. If anyone is shocked by this. . . . why?
Hey man thanks for doing this, the advertising for this product is all over the place so you do get to wondering. Experience tells me it is not what they make out it is but how does one know. I suspect it’s over hyped, most products that are advertised and over hyped like this disappoint. Thanks.
nah man i ain't usin that name-brand stuff. Ima smear some handsoap around the rim of my water bottle. Poor man's Airup
I was gonna say like what's the difference between this and getting a scented fruit or the fruit itself and drink it in your water like lemon slices or tea
@@purpleclaws202 there isn't if you watched the video. there is literally a piece of cotton dipped in "flavor" which gives it flavor
Try smearing some vape juice flavoring if you’re ever feeling fancy
Have to eat and regurgitate the soap first
Very insightful review. My sibling recently got a bottle as a gift, and we were shocked about the amount of waste. I'm also disappointed in the company calling themselves "eco-friendly" and so many RUclipsrs I like promoting it 😐
fun fact. you're a product or ATM to most RUclipsrs. they don't care if you like or don't like products they hock...just as long as they get money for it.
Kurtis comes to mind. He literally was criticizing water tok then got this as a sponsor. Plus he makes 16k a month on patreon alone. He doesn't need to do any sponsorship ever
@@sto12mmatpat?
@KingVoid27 mat pat.. has like, a switch whether he feels like chasing clout and money or being a completely genuine person.
He's a lot better than most, but it is unfortunate people can't see the flaws.
I think in part of the reason he stepped down was becuase staying successful was hurting his own values.
@@TheRealSuperKirbythat's why he's based as hell
14:32 “It tastes like there’s a party in my mouth and everyone’s throwing up”
I found the idea interesting so I checked it out. When I discovered that you had to pay $8 for rings that would only last a couple of bottles, I decided it wasn't even remotely worth the price even if it worked exactly as advertised.
Rich people exist tho
Well, I have an Air Up, the cartridges have lasted me for gallons of water for weeks on end. I've had no problems with taste or quality, honestly, it is really good for the price.
@@tpfoxCastro rich people have fridges completely full of glass bottles of sparkly water already. They'll just grab that on the way out. This is for dudebros who make more money than they should but are too dumb to not waste it, NOT rich people
@@guaranteedtopwnCan confirm though not necessarily sparkly water. Not to say there aren't plenty of dumb rich people.
@@guaranteedtopwn Look, for me anyone that has more than 2 cents and an ant on their pocket is rich
I never tried it myself, but I remember my psychology teacher drinking from one of their products back when corona started. She said she really liked it because her sense of taste hasn't come back, but because of the smelling part she was able to ''taste'' again. I think that, in corona times, this was a fantastic product since it actually had a reasonable purpose but after gaining your taste back - it doesn't really make sense. Also, as a German, I swear we normally make better product I am sorry
It wasn't made in Germany.
@thebaccyman probably not manufactured but AirUp is a german start up so the idea was definitely made in Germany
@@thebaccymanif a german company produces in china, you know they give a fuck about quality.
Its not a bad product, they simply need to listen to their consumers. Clearly a lot of ppl do like it, they could just refine their formula to have more mass appeal, obviously more natural flavors.
@brendolbreadwar2671 I think in this case, making it for a broader audience would lead to a dilution of the brand. A lot of comments already pointed out that it's not a product everyone can enjoy - simply because certain smell receptors are missing. So I don't think AirUp would benefit from a mass approach, but more so from higher quality of the actual product and less plastic (so they can actually keep their promise). Refining, yes, but refining for the already existing customers
as someone who ate an air freshener as a kid those flavors exactly line up with that childhood trauma, my guess is instead of using flavor extracts which are ok to eat they instead used the same principals as a car air freshener which is why it tasted better the night after since car air fresheners are in a methanol solution (so they evaporate) whist flavor extracts are in vegetable glycerine (which don't evaporate)
you fucking what?
@@imKas SO you not only gas yourself with cheap air freshener fragrances, but does yourself with high grade alcohol straight to the bloodstream.
That's what you get. Eating air fresheners like laffy taffies.😂
@@cattysplat A very toxic form of Alcohol at that.
Some kids treat themselves with a little air freshener snack, other kids bite down on forks - for me, it was raspberry scented chapstick 😋
0:34 Casually using ''Air Up' to cover cat's but lmao 🤣
this reminds me so much of DankPods reviewing RayCon earbuds
RonDons!
RanCans!
@@llynxfyre the RoyJoys!!!
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RoyJoys!
RayDays!
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@@llynxfyrethe Roy joys!
Rule of thumb is simple: if a RUclipsr is paid to tell you that something is good, then it's likely bad or at least overhyped. Kamikoto knives, Air Up, literally every VPN service out there, etc, etc.
That's true. Tbh the only sponsorship I trusted was one action rpg lol. Even stuff like Filmora ruins your video, if you don't pay for the premium.
Still see people saying "oh but VPNs are good" while you oay like 20$ a month to pay for 20+$ a month for Netflix when you can just get the free movies anyway, 40+$ for jack and shit
No they dont help you protect against anything, you dont need a VPN keep your money please
Prime
@@Shadox-yv8ms VPNs are mostly useful for getting around region blocks
@@Shadox-yv8ms20$ a month for a vpn? Lol what service is that?
"Hydration system" is already a super annoying way to deacribe a water bottle.
Corporate tech marketing blabber
I remember this meme, where a guy takes a good sniff of a burger and then quickly eats an apple because he was on a diet 😂 same point!
After every time a youtuber would say "no chemicals", I'd be like...so what are we inhaling from the scent pod...
It ain't genuine ingredients that go into their pods I'm almost guaranteeing it.
They're right though no chemicals in the water it's in the air
@@Lipapalidevu do get nasty chemical particles from inhaling, this is what scent is - tiny particles that got into your nostrils. Ever heard of second hand smoking?
@@bambinaforever1402please do read my comment again and read it fully this time
When someone says "chemicals" my natural repsonse is always "wait.. but is not like everything made of "chemicals"?"Is water not H2o, which are Hidrogen and Oxigen, 2 chemical substances? I know what you mean, but it's a very inaccurate way to express that concept 😂
Great. A subscription water bottle. Is nothing sacred anymore?
Wow you sum it up perfectly
Anybody who thinks a human can control their cat's agency, has never owned a cat.
Cats will do anything for the right treat. But they'll make you pay for it later.
My cats control my agency.
*been owned by a cat
In Russia, just like everywhere else, cat own you, you no own cat.
Has never been owned by a cat!
To be fair, based on you review, this doesn't really look like a scam, per se, but, just a product that you don't like.
Thats exactly what i think i guess it has a different effect to everyone there are the one who like it like me and there are others who dont like the smell/taste and think its scam just because its not as someone expected does not make a scam
No I think the scam part is:
- The bottles are super expensive but no matter what version you get they leak like crazy
- The pods themselves are also ridiculously expensive and they charge even more for flavors people are likely to want to try first
Capitalists : It's not a scam, it's business !
People buy things with money they don't have. Creating needings by marketing should be a crime.
it is a scam unless you're a capitalist
@@lizzytheowl577 bro I really cannot read this comment without cringing myself inside out. I own about 12 different Strawbased Waterbottles each and every single one of those has a whole in its lit to let the air inside so u don't suck a vacuum while using it. Every single bottle of those leaks if u point it upside down this is also the reason why every straw water bottle has a lid. off course the lid is going to be full of water if you open it upside down slowly. A German product getting hate in America because they are to studio to understand physics is crazy to me.
That's exactly what I thought it would be. A lot of people taste through their sense of smell and also don't have an issue with chemical candle smells. Yeah they're falsely advertising that you're not putting chemicals in the water you're just breathing them in instead.
Moreover, them saying no chem is just an immediate red flag, as chemicals are the reason flavor exists. Just saying that makes it feel like they are hiding something.
Thats kind of the point?
@@solarflarearmor2081
Did you even read the entire thing?
@@benjamincharlton1388 The problem is that people are generally uneducated and have no idea what "chemicals" even are. They just have some vague association with "unnatural" and "unhealthy".
Just got this bottle and it tastes more like plastic than anything else. This plastic/silicon taste/smell is so strong, I can't even use this as a regular water bottle. Thankfully I didn't blow many doubloons on that thing
i don't understand why anyone would choose this over just putting a handful of fruit in your water bottle. that would be cheaper, more consistent, and actually taste natural because it is natural. the literal only thing i can think of as a point for air up is that cleaning the fruit out of the bottle might be annoying and you'd have to clean your bottle more. but also they do make water bottles with inserts specifically for fruit so i feel like that kinda helps solve that problem
"But mah zero calories"
@@falloutfreek1992 don't get me started on the weird 0 cal marketing. this kind of thing is the zillenials' crystal lite
@@falloutfreek1992 It would still be 0 calories
@@Serengetii fruit has calories
@@falloutfreek1992Yes but just having fruit pieces sitting in your water is going to give your water bagels any calories. It’s not like if you added juice or smooshed up the fruit and added it.
2:03 Me tryna customize my GTA5 bunker😭
My dyslexic ass read the title as "I tired to give up air".
Next tittle"I gave up on life"😂
@@suckernaut ???????
@@suckernautwhat
@@slendermmn😊😊😊
@@Tyranitar. they were correcting their typo ????
The Lorax movie is real. They really be selling bottled air here 💀
mfs when O'Hare air:🤑🤑😋😋
they took that idea from SpaceBalls
My dude doesn't know what air is, I'm dead 😂😂😂
Lol
Actually Nestlé literally tried that and years ago china had sellers for mountain air because the air in Peking was so terrible... Capitalism would would let you pay to get be born... Wait, that already happens...
im glad RUclips exists, because i get to watch other people buy awful products so i don't have to
if you didn't watch youtube you wouldn't know these awful products exist
@@freddyfish835 Being oblivious is not always good.
@@freddyfish835 Stores sitll exist lmao
Sooo glad he mentioned the focus on recyclable packaging when each flavor pod literally comes wrapped individually in plastic 🤦🏽♀️
The day you learn celebrities and influencers will gaslight you and lie to your face about the quality of a product is like the day you learn Santa Claus isn't real.
wtf santa claus isnt real? what's next? The queen of england is dead?
@@morfufo wait he isnt real? jeeze, at least we still have MatPat
@@Fish-bt4cyeah, we’ll always have him by our sides. Wait what do you mean he’s retiring?!?
Yeah I'm pretty sure I remember Huggbees shilling this stuff so I'm kind of disappointed.
" is like the day you learn Santa Claus isn't real" you mean.. it is many years ago? I agree.
Making tea for less than a dollar a bag ❌
Spending 13 dollars for a bathroom disc in your water bottle 👌👌
It's just annoying almost every tea has sugar in it. Fucking sucks
@@habbomirror1236what?? Most loose leaf or tea bags have no sugar lol what teas are you drinking?
@@mimimosa259I mean on the one hand... have you seen the ingredients in 80% of Davids Tea teas? But on the other... pretty sure they're talking about tea infusions for water (which do in fact contain sugar a lot of the time) or just straight up packaged iced tea which is what a majority of ppl use (specially in america) which has incredible boatloads of sugar (which is why I love Pure Leaf that has an unsweetened version).
Sugar is needed to get a nice flavor on most things anyways. Just take note of how much you consume.
@@MyStarseedColoring First of all never heard of Davids Tea over here and second of all tea is an infusion but not all infusions are tea, and actual tea is just a spoon of leaves you combine with hot water, and there is no sugar in there. But I don't understand how you can present packaged iced tea as actual tea because that is just syrup not tea.
never seen your work before but this is an instant like and subscribe
I WISH I watched this before buying mine. I had almost the same exact reaction. I saw the Try Guys reaction, was surprised at how sincere it looked and decided to give it a try after thinking about it for a couple of weeks. I assumed I would either taste something good or not taste at all, then after trying I thought I was crazy because all of the pods I tasted were disgustingly unlike any taste they claimed to be and tasted more like nail polish/alcohol/chemicals than the flavors they were supposed to. No other reviewer claimed this so I thought I was crazy. Plus, the website only published a couple of my reviews that were "eh okay" and never published the horrible reviews when I reviewed online 😅 Thank you so much for being so honest and truthful compared to others!!!
my game theory is that they probably took out the scent thing
Honestly I think this is far worse than Ned (which should have been between him and his wife), and I feel like they should address it. I still love them, but it’s especially hard to see Keith do it as he’s always seemed achingly honest. (Not that Zach isn’t. I guess I just identify with Keith.). Props to Eugene for not doing it if I recall correctly.
Wanna take a guess why it tasted like nail polish or alcohol?
It's likely because they just perfumed that little bit of foam in the pod.
The way perfume works you essentially just have aroma molecules (which is what youll smell) diluted in alcohol, which will dissipate into the air and thus carry aroma with it. This is great for perfume and deodorant as you'll want people to smell it and the alcohol does that job well, carrying the aroma from wherever you applied the perfume all the way to your nose.
The problem is that air up isnt a product youre meant to smell, but rather one you're meant to taste. All the issues of missing out on the actual parts of the (intended) flavor your tongue perceives aside, what effectively happens here is the equivalent of spraying perfume in a room, and then walking through it with your mouth open. While you're not getting any direct sweet notes or tartness on your tongue from the scent of watermelon or orange vanilla or whatever else, you ARE getting traces of alcohol on your tongue, which will bring its own aroma and bitterness especially when the pod has just been freshly opened.
At that point you might as well spray perfume over an open water bottle and itll be a better experience because that 10ml bottle of perfume at least lasts you longer than the 4 or 5 pods you buy for 8 bucks every month.
that being said, *PLEASE DO NOT PERFUME YOUR WATER UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES*
Same here! I bought it because Kurtis and Danny were only saying good things about it, and I trusted them. I have my pink one now, having bought a 3-pack of peach and a flavor starter kit. Safe to say, it's kinda crap and I'd rather have just NORMAL water than this scent pod nonsense.
@@nettalie4435If they are using alcohol to dilute the aroma molecules-doesn’t that also make it just as dangerous as perfuming your water as you joked about in your last sentence? Could these scent pods also cause harm to ppl down the road who are in a sense inhaling all this alcohol through their mouths??
I own an airup, but a European one... The packages of the flavors for us look different, well mainly the backside, which gets me wondering if there is perhaps a difference in their approach to the "american" pods. You see, as someone who works in the import/export of genuine food and candy I know north American rules surrounding chemicals and flavors are much more toned down, and thus cheaper options are a common practice. An example would be how Europe has strict rules on Yellow 5 and 6 (E102 and E110), as they are potentially harmful food colorings, however in the US there is no rules prohibiting their use at all and thus this cheap compound is used often. In Europe, however, they replace it with E160 or Beta-Carotene, a much healthier but in fact more expensive to produce coloring derived from carrots. I've got quite a few friends who also enjoy their airup bottle, and the flavors, although a common ground of complain is certainly the unusual profit margins on the pods and bottles. None of us have the issues with plasticy flavors, nor do we have the incredibly poor produced lid! Is it scaling? Is it localization? Did they increase margins even more? I'm curious, because your review is so vastly different than the wide pool of people I've met here...
I have one too, also in Europe. The most people I know with the airup, including myself, really enjoy it, so I was a little confused by the reactions in the video. I do think that they are a pain in the ass to clean though. I drink way more than the recommended 5L with one pod, as I drink at least 2L a day and I use one pod for a week easily. Even though they get less scent/taste after a few days, I still like it more than just water and it prevents me from drinking lemonade all day.
@@MadBradz It's the exact same for me, I got angry watching this video trashing on this brand because it actually helped me drink less sodas and I actually do like the tastes, even though I actually believe that the ones used in that video are not the best (best ones would be something like Lime which has a strong and good taste). Glad to see that i'm not the only one surprised by this bad review ! I guess it's actually the difference between EU and US. Another damn point on which I prefer being European then lmaooo
@@mattwinther5112I blame Capitalism and company greed lol. Companies are really getting out of hand with product quality. Which I'm also assuming drives regulations on what can and cannot be used here like that yellow food coloring mentioned just to make a product as cheaply as possible so companies can make top dollar.
Now I am curious between their differences. This video for some reason made me want to try it more, for myself, to see if it really is awful. However, I am from the UK so I would get the European one too. I wonder if there is a way to order some US Pods to this country?
@@jasminappleby779 same. Without the need to try the obviously worse American version … ;-)
As someone with Anosmia (zero sense of smell since birth) I have been curious if these actually worked. I know from research, 80% of "flavour" comes from your sense of smell, other 20% is your taste buds on your tongue responsible for sweet, salty, sour, bitter and umani flavours.
Is your sense of taste also less than other people's? Like, are you unbothered by foods that are too sour, salty or whatever for other people? If you don't mind my asking.
@@gnocchidokeyi also have anosmia and for me i don't think it's any different taste-wise? like if my sense is dulled i wouldn't really know it since i haven't experienced anything else. i still taste sour, salty, spicy etc. stuff just fine!
@@gnocchidokeyi also still am bothered by foods that are really spicy/sour, so i don't think that's any different from anyone else.
@@gnocchidokey I am bothered by Spicy foods, can't stand them. I read a few forums and it seems that is the case for most people with Anosmia. There have been a few cases for me personally where I can weakly taste scents on the tip of my tongue. It seems like it has to be fairly strong though. For example one time I was chopping down Ivy and I could slightly taste it. Everyone else there said it had a strong smell.
@@twdgs3thats bc sweet, sour, spicy and so on are all things that the tongue tastes and doesnt work through the nose. If you really dont smell ANYTHING then yes your taste is definitely worse without a doubt but since you dont know it any other way you wouldnt know. But someone that has smell can tell it easily by just eating while holding the nose the taste is drastically reduced and that doesnt even disable the nose completrly since our throat is still connected to the noee so the smell can still get to the nose, only worse. So having no actual smell will definitely make taste worse. Not in terms of sweet, sour, spicy, salty but in aroma. I wouldnt even know how to describe it to someone that doesnt know it but when i eat with my nose closed theres a big tasty part of enjoying food and tasting it that is missing
RUclipsr sponsored items are this generations "As seen on TV" products.
I used it for a few months on and off. After all, I came to the conclusion it's not worth it because of the cost of the pods. In my experience, there are two types of pods. The ones that taste awful, like you experienced, which seems to be the majority of pods, and the ones that taste good for like a day, and then almost lose their taste entirely. BTW, I didn't like any of the pods you tested either. The leaking was never an issue for me. I did notice it, but if you only move it with the cap on and remove the cap upright it was a non-issue for me. Then again, that was during the pandemic and I didn't leave the house much.
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I’m not going to buy it? But out of curiosity, what flavors are good?
lemme guyess one of the only "good" flavors is the coke one
@@insertnamehere1398 according to another comment I read, that’s one of the worst.
same for me. the price is crazy and the bottles are failing.
The "No chemicals" is always hilarious. The who universe is chemistry. I was curious about this product and this was a great look at it.
"the whole universe is chemistry" is a beautiful sentiment ngl
It's the same with the word "natural". There are a ton of things found in nature that are more dangerous than synthetically created stuff. It's just one of those terms meant to sell things and make it seem healthier than they actually are.
Absolutely! Worried about your health try All Natural 100% organic free range bears! nothing could go wrong. 😂 @@Merilly
I also hate when people think all chemicals are negative. Our bodies are literally formed out of chemicals. Our world would be nothing without Hydrogen and Carbon
I want to start a food no chemicals company. It sells empty containers that symbolize food. We often crave unwrapping food, so this is all of the experience of unwrapping without the calories
Another company trying to turn water into a subscription service.
Isn't water already a subscription service?
Since I pay a bit less than 2€ per 1000 litres for my tap water.
tbh, I don't understand people who can't just drink water. But surely you could just do a quick infusion with fruit or citrus or learn how to drink tea.
Reeeeal, he spent as much money on it as a water bill!
I mean if you look at how much the plastic bottled water industry makes it already is there for a lot of people.
@@howtomundane3109 kinda lol
Thank you for convincing my wife she doesn't want this. Kidding, but she was intrigued, until she saw your video.
"No chemicals added!" Literally everything on this planet is a chemical. This is always a sales technique
I never trust anything that talks about "chemicals" like that, just straight up marketing BS relying on an inadequate understanding of basic chemistry.
that's not what they're saying, though. what they're getting at is that the water you end up drinking itself is untouched, fucking obviously the scent pods have chemicals in them. the product is a water bottle that doesn't hold water, you shouldn't be scrambling this hard to clutch onto some fragment of a thing to misinterpret about it.
The states like to leave their citizens at a grade 4 level of education so you'll have to excuse the massive amounts of ignorance and general stupidity
@@jakerose3872 Honestly, I agree. At this rate, the schools are so fucked, it's pretty obvious they're being set up to fail intentionally.
Its like when you see Dairy free and Gluten free on egg cartons
This is why I stay away from pretty much any sponsorship products/services.
The fact that almost all companies that do sponsorships are ONLY known for doing sponsorships should be enough for people to steer clear of them because there is ALWAYS either a catch or a straight up LIE.
Yeah, same here. I trust sponsorship products when I have heard of them outside of sponsorships, but that's it. If I've only ever seen a product in a sponsorship, I can almost guarantee there is zero reason to trust it.
Yep, I remember when everyone was shilling Raycon earbuds and they turned out to be just horrible quality wireless buds that you can find for way cheaper, or otherwise get much better ones from any tech store for the same money.
@@_moonmothI’ll never spend money on headphones that are everywhere in marketing
And I use headphones almost 24/7, I care about that stuff
@pemanilnoob587 audiophiles, rise up!
It is actually pretty good if you are not sensitive to smell. I'm German and used it at the start of the company, and some taste good some bad some taste like nothing, but it seems like everyone i know has a different reaction to each pod, but once i found the one i like, they taste good, I just stopped because i just don't mind plain water and don't see spending money if plain water is fine for me too
Tysm for this. I was curious, and tbh it makes me question Danny & Kurtis' endorsements for sure.
It's hard to say but like, you should question everyone's endorsements no matter who it is, even him in this video. Because even if it is genuine that other youtubers like it and he's saying he doesn't, you still saw that in this video its possible for some people to like it without them being sponsored, and even my guy started the entire thing by saying "scents give me headaches, so he has a glaring negative bias going into it before even starting it because its entire business model is scent focused, so its not something you're ever going to be able to get a definitive "this is good" or "this is bad", you don't have to spend $130 to try it out, just get the pods for like $15 and put it next to your nose while drinking water, then if its your thing get the bottle. It doesn't really seem as nefarious as I'm seeing people say it is
This guy does not seem honest. He had decided to hate it from the beginning. Extremely biased against the company.
It’s also worth to mention that not everyone has the same scent based taste. Rhett and Link did an entire video testing it out if you’re curious
@@TheMainCoreThere's a reason he decided to have 3 other opinions to combat that, one of them even disagreed with him initially but eventually also confirmed it sucks
Frankly, he unscrewed the bottle upside down to see if it was leaking which will make it late, but it was also a cut in the video so that didn’t seem too genuine
Great video. I almost....almost, fell for this and was going to buy one. I had the last minute urge to look up reviews and here i am. Great video and thank you however, I have to say, Nolan is definitely the star of the show lol 😂
Subbed 👍
Their first mistake was to not design it with a simple check valve to let air in, but not let water out.
He was just unlucky with the bottles.
Every bottle i saw (in person) so far didn't leak at all.
But i really don't like the smell of it.
For me it doesn't taste, but smells and most of the time way to strong.
I get headaches from it, and i am normally not sensitive to strong smells.
Unlucky? With BOTH of the bottles he purchased? Nah son. . . garbo@@ne0ns0wl46
Second is the pods. If it's litteraly just a cotton soaked in airfreshner, then make the lid take this cotton straight. Without the plastic pod. Sell flavors in bottles that you can soak the cotton yourself. Oh wait, I just invented vaping, but bottle.
@@ne0ns0wl46 for everyone it doesn't taste. That's the whole point. It's trying to trick your brain into thinking you taste... But it's just smell.
It's a gimmick... And clearly not very effective
@@DARKredDOLLAR lmao
love that some of them say “water with no chemicals in it” tell me you don’t know what a chemical is without telling me you don’t know what a chemical is
I mean “smells like chemicals” is the same argument.
@@GendoRokabundi saying 'smells chemically' in an unpaid review as a clear use of casual lingo is completely different than getting paid to promote something factually and saying that it has no chemicals in it. it's not really. literally? maybe. but there is a semantics difference.
LOL That was my first thought too. And my eyes rolled so hard hahaha
Yeah they should say "no harmful chemicals"
Because literally everything is made of chemicals
I won't drink any water that contains dhmo. That stuff can kill you.