Absolute piss. My 8 year old bought some and I tried it. It’s like they tried to make it taste awful.
The sweetness would make life bitter
Wtf is prime?
Zoomer Gatorade.
With extra sugar
It only has 20 calories. I’m all for hating on Prime, but it’s not heavy in sugar at all. Definitely fake sugars. And heavy on caffeine.
The thing about fake sugar is that it’s arguably worse for you than the real thing. Fake sugar should really only be prized by diabetics and dentists.
Ah yes, the “we made rats eat 20kg of aspartame and they died” thing
First of all, you are referencing a study on saccharine, not aspartame.
Secondly, this is about obesity.
Idk, doesn’t seem that damning to me considering that people who have more body fat might tend to consume more artificial sweetener and other such factors.
Don’t have the time to look into the particular paper and other research right now though.
Oh, I didn’t realize it was mostly artificial sweeteners. I just remembered trying it, and finding it cloyingly sweet compared to gatorade
Zoomers: “don’t put this evil on me. Blame the alphas”
Alphas: “I didn’t ask for this shit”Owned by millennials, marketed to zoomers, primarily consumed by gen alpha.
It’s some kind of energy drink
Oh… why would that be handy when water and actual food is going to be useful/needed?
It wouldn’t, but the energy drink version isn’t what’s in the picture anyways; it’s basically Gatorade but sweeter
1: the guys making it have a minimum purchase every month.
2: they keep selling less than that, costing them money.
3: charitable gifts are tax deductible
I don’t think they have issues with selling enough. This shit is huge among children.
Pfffft, Prime is SO 2023: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/meteoric-rise-stunning-fall-prime-130900275.html
It isn’t an energy drink, because it doesn’t have caffeineor sugar. The producer calls it a “hydration drink” which I suppose is somehow different from a “drink”.
sugar water sold by Youtubers
cancer
A signal the person consuming it is prepared to be sold whatever you are offering.
It’s a win win they can fulfill their contractual minimum orders, that they failed to reach last months and can write these off. Win-Win situation.
Isn’t prime caffeinated? That’s dehydrating and not at all helpful to people who need water…
I don’t think the main goal is to actually help people. Most likely PR/brand awareness and tax write offs.
They’d get the same tax deduction by disposing of the drinks.
The cans have caffeine. The bottles don’t. Pic looks like the bottles.
Still tons of sugar though.
Actually not sugar, these are full of sweeteners and very little sugar, lots of potassium, little sodium, it’s a great way to create some electrolyte imbalance
Ok fine, but it’s cloyingly sweet. Try Meta Moon hydration and tell me it’s not way too sweet.
I heard that it’s sweet as fuck, but I am not giving a single dime to that motherfucker Logan “film dead bodies for clout” Paul, he can go fuck himself
They have both, the plastic bottles are hydration and the cans are energy drinks
I don’t think it is, it’s supposed to keep you hydrated, all it is is water with a shit load of sweeteners and flavouring (and allegedly lead)
There’s a caffeinated version of it and a ‘electrolyte’ version, afaik
A good, it’s got what plants crave
I was just making that joke
You sure you’re not the smartest guy in the world?
Online grift sends in goyslop for the hurricane survivors at least fedi crowd know this is pathetic. I am sure on reddit they LARP as some sort of W.
Rich man helps da poors! Rheee
A truck loaded with water bottles is more useful than Prime bottles, think it a little, for medial reasons some people can’t drink hyper sugar shit.
Even worse it’s coconut water. That’s okay in a normal market. But this might be the only “clean” water within a day’s travel in an emergency like this. The problem is there are people with coconut allergies and sensitivities. So for them he’s effectively sent poison. Furthermore, not everyone in a disaster zone needs rehydration all the time. This is why aid organizations don’t even send pre-mixed drinks. It’s the powder packets.
Literally everything about this is wrong. I wouldn’t be surprised to learn they just unloaded the trailer in a random parking lot inside the declared zone and ran away.
Like Atary and the old leyend of the buried cartridges, it’s a possibility the unloaded the the truck in a random parking.
Really, no one should be drinking high sugar drinks. Even stuff like juice should be a once in a while thing. I’m as guilty of it as almost everyone else, I admit. Hard to break that sugar addiction.
I have the same problem, that sugar addiction
Prime’s got what plants crave - it’s got electrolytes
True, but it’s clearly no Powerthirst.
Mother nature will be like ‘sloooooowwwwww dowwwwwwwn’, and you’ll say “FUCK YOU” and kick her in the face with your
ENERGY LEGS
Came to comments for this line specifically.
It’s got what victims crave.
It’s got electrolytes
Alt headline:
Multi-millionaire donates tax write off of $12,652, adds, “These cattle better be taking photos of this shit and sharing while mentioning the brand or I’m not fucking doing it!”
Just because it’s (potentially) a tax write off doesn’t mean they gain any money. It means that they either lose slightly less money or that they can donate more for the same amount, depending on how you see it.
Technically they don’t gain money no, but they get:
- To move or dispose of product, making sales look better
- Free marketing, both in people having the drinks and to say “look we did a charity”
- To pay their taxes with effectively free money, because they take the product that they made for pennies, and count it as a “donation” at full price. Meaning that all the “profit” they would have made on markup goes straight to paying the taxes instead of making the money and paying taxes on the money they already made.
It’s why a company donating their product is always better for them than a regular person donating cash. They are effectively still making money it’s just this time they are making money specifically to pay off their taxes.
You know they are sending thousands of bottles of whatever flavor didn’t test well that has been sitting in a warehouse, too.
More like
Multi-millionaire tries to pass off marketing as a tax write-off
Yep, sounds more like that
Gooooddddammit, I actually didn’t mind the PRIME electrolyte powder for when I’m sweating like mad (brought it to Burning Man this year), but Logan goddamn Paul owns it? Fuck I hate that guy
FYI they advertise it as “electrolytes” because it’s full of potassium and has next to no sodium, which is the main thing you lose when sweating, and they do that to say it’s sodium free while still having “electrolytes”
Right, Gatorade, a long standing “sports drink” has 12% of your DV of sodium or something for the reason you stated. Fuck logan paul and fuck his “get the kids to get their parents to buy this” garbage
Oh, is that what this is? Here I was thinking they “shipped Amazon Prime” to people and thought “well that’s bad grammar but… what did they actually ship using Prime?”
And yeah, fuck that guy.
Who is Logan Paul?
Guess it’s some YouTube influencer.
Wouldn’t it be amazing if there were some sort of fully-indexed global network of computers full of information where you could do something like type the words “Logan Paul” into a text box and instantly get an answer about who that person is?
Alas…
Fair enough. ')
You’re much better off not knowing, imo. Influencers are like Tinker Bell, in that they disappear if there aren’t enough people who believe they exist.
Well, they can’t sell it, may as well get a tax break on it.
I get the lemonade version sometimes and it only has a couple of grams of sugar, iirc. I like it for hikes and things like that. Usually I’ll get the powder packs and put some in my water bottle.
DripDrop powder packs are a possible alternative if you don’t want to support Logan Paul. They have a variety pack. I used them to keep hydrated during colonoscopy prep, lol.
Can also recomment “Sqwincher” (stupid name aside) products.
https://www.sqwincher.com/products/single-serve-qwik-stik-zero/
As they market primarily to people working in construction / other trades - and are therefore sold at the likes of electrical and safety supply stores - we buy them in bulk for when we’re spending weeks installing racks of servers in our datacentre at work.
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