I just want everyone to note that I was the first person in this thread to bring up sksksksksk and I used it correctly. Hip as fuck
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How did a water bottle end up being a status symbol? (Hydroflask)
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there were a bunch of things that separated the cool kids from the not so cool kids back when I was a kid. Having lunchables for recess, wearing heelys, owning a city scooter etc. etc.
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I have big hands okayyyy
My daughter does this, she has the hydroflask, the shell necklaces, the weird little backpack shaped like a square, etc
My daughter has a straw lid on her hydroflask water bottle. [shrug]
Also, Hydroflask has been around for ten years now.
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HydroFlask must be the stupidest name ever. It's so blatantly "hip for the youngsters" its not even funny
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That's the joke. By blaming it on millennials I sound even more ancient then by not getting the fad. Old people have been known to falsely not "get" millennials even though its been other generations they've been talking about for a long time already.
i think its just their version of "LOL" but on a phone your thumbs are over the S and K keys
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coworker has one of those...not sure it even does anything
Great quality water bottles from dozens of brands are all over the place these days. Don't get why Hydro Flask is getting all the love from the tweens. What they got that the other nice ones don't have? Featured by some celeb or TV show?
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I knew about the sksksksk thing and the "and I oop", but this is the first time I've seen the term VSCO girl... sksksksk
As a middle school teacher I will say that you're saying it wrong, it's Hydro Flasksksksksksksk.
I know most people are just kidding around, but I'm happy that since kids are always going to have a "thing" that sometimes it's something like "drinking water is good." The expensive water bottle being part of it is a small price to pay, imo.
My kid is 7, so he cares about water bottles, but doesn't care what brand, as long as it matches his stuff. He's using a grey one we got at Target this year.
My kid is 7, so he cares about water bottles, but doesn't care what brand, as long as it matches his stuff. He's using a grey one we got at Target this year.
It's because this isn't an online thing so much as it's a 13 year old thing. I only know about it because I was browsing Tik Tok for a weeks before I raised I was about 15 years older than the average user and decided to stop. In that time I saw many a variation of a teenage girl pretending to shame others at her lunch table for not having a Hydroflask or reusable straws while inserting a sksksk between every three words.
My wife got me one of these cause I was just drinking out of a gallon jug. It has made drinking all my water easier. I doubt a less expensive one would have been any different but I appreciate that it is nice and durable.
My kid has a cheaper water bottle cause they lose shit sometimes. That said, he is 11 and in no way has water bottle elitism reached his school yet lol
My kid has a cheaper water bottle cause they lose shit sometimes. That said, he is 11 and in no way has water bottle elitism reached his school yet lol
I remember when I went to a new school with all new kids in sixth grade. If you didn't have at least one Coca-Cola shirt you sucked.
yep, mid/late 80s Coca-Cola had a damn clothing line. Not just the licensed t-shirts you see today with brands, it was full on normal "designer" clothing with like a Coca-Cola logo on it. And it was a huge fad.
I came in not even knowing it was a thing. All of a sudden to get these new kids to think i was ok I was begging my mom for Coca-cola shirts and fucking K-Swiss tennis shoes.
Not my best year.
yep, mid/late 80s Coca-Cola had a damn clothing line. Not just the licensed t-shirts you see today with brands, it was full on normal "designer" clothing with like a Coca-Cola logo on it. And it was a huge fad.
I came in not even knowing it was a thing. All of a sudden to get these new kids to think i was ok I was begging my mom for Coca-cola shirts and fucking K-Swiss tennis shoes.
Not my best year.
THE LAZY KIDS CAN'T EVEN TYPE THE PROPER WAY LIKE I DID IN MY DAY
These are actually the best. The coffee contigos are even better. They literally keep the temp of stuff, hot or cold, for over 6 hours.Excuse me?
Honestly, there are far worse trends than reusable water bottles. Help your daughter ride the wave of the social stratum and save the planet at the same time, boom, everyone is happy.
I literally do this dance every single time that I remember how out of touch I am at twenty-fuckin-fiveI've been out of that scene for decades, but I've had a few Hydro Flasks for a couple years now.
Also why are we calling foul on people with Hydro Flasks, it wasn't that long ago people were all about YETI bottles/mugs for the same reason. I didn't get that either, drinks don't last long enough with me to no longer be the desired temperature.
What will really blow your mind is a majority of the kids we're talking about have no idea what this movie is.
Seriously, Yeti's are fucking amazing. I have one for coffee and one for an all day/gym water bottle.
Well when I was in middle School the fad was thongs lol.
The school even had to send out a letter that was basically like "we can't tell you what to buy your kids, but any student with visible thongs are violating dress code and will sent home". Also everyone blamed Sisqo.
The school even had to send out a letter that was basically like "we can't tell you what to buy your kids, but any student with visible thongs are violating dress code and will sent home". Also everyone blamed Sisqo.
I received mine as a gift and was surprised to find out how big of a deal it was for kids(and some adults). My co-worker took a picture of me at my desk and sent it to a shared old work friend and she (and her niece) replied back asking about my water bottle of all things that just happened to be in the shot. I was like, "are these things really that popular?"
They are good bottles though. I have the larger one and it can be a little too heavy at times though when full.
They are good bottles though. I have the larger one and it can be a little too heavy at times though when full.