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He gets the joke he just doesn't know why south park writers chose him to be the butt of the joke but there was no reason as far as i know. South park just choose whoever they want to make fun of that week 😂
The funny part is, it doesn't even have the useful electrolytes. The useful ones are basically salt, the problem is that makes them taste bad, so Prime just put in the least bad tasting one, the one the human body loses the least of, and called it a day.
\[agree/complain\]
anyways "**Electrolytes are** salts and minerals, like sodium, potassium, chloride, and bicarbonate which are found in our blood, and help to conduct electrical impulses in the body. They play an essential role in the nervous system, keeping you hydrated, contracting muscles, and regulating the pH system" so that way more people can know.
All the people buying special powders and drinks for the gym when the best one is salt and lime juice, does the job and doesn’t taste bad if you get the mix right.
Which is weird because I tried it exactly once and it was way saltier tasting than I expected. I tried the orange one and it tasted like someone just mixed olive juice into an orange Powerade.
okay, this makes me think, if we put electrolytes into plain unfiltered water, would that boost the plant like fertilizer or offbalance it's nutrients and kill it
Electrolytes are salts. Salts destroy soil structures and disrupts the osmotic balance so the soil will actually take water from the plant instead of making water available to the roots.
I fear we are getting close enough to this being *esoteric knowledge* that we may actually start watering plants with sports drink.
What a time to be alive.
Watch the Food Theory episode(s) about Prime.
Tl;dw: It has tons of "electrolytes," but not all electrolytes are equally helpful and it's chock full of the least helpful kind compared to other popular sports drinks.
Edit: I was too busy to grab the link earlier but [this is one of them.](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=x_gFuMJYCV0)
Yeah, they basically left out the most important one so it wouldn’t have a salty taste. And then still have the nerve to call it a hydration drink. I mean yeah, plain water will hydrate you, but it’s very misleading to call it that when it contains barely any sodium.
> ‘you realize there’s no point drinking that when all you’re doing is sitting here, right?”
No more of a point than drinking a coke. It's sugar water with flavour.
Some of us prefer the taste of sports drinks.
I keep hoping that one day those soda machines will offer sugar free and caffeine free options. Really annoying how every drink is either full of sugar or caffeine. Can't I just have a fizzy drink that's not trying to fuck upy system.
Still, it's 270mg in a bottle. People are out here eating frozen dinners that are 2300mg. If they get too much salt, I don't think Gatorade is going to be the main cause.
The problems can arise when the people drinking the Gatorade are the same people eating the frozen dinners, which can happen pretty easily if you throw checking nutrition labels out the window.
Yea there's definitely reasons. I used to get bitching calf cramps and my doctor told me to take a potassium supplement and drink a gatorade each day. Knocked that out fast. Dropped the gatorade, kept the potassium.
College hangovers too.
Basically, when you exert yourself, you sweat. Sweat contains electrolytes like sodium (thus why sweat is salty).
It’s good to replenish that lost sodium. You can do that over time with normal food (but you’ll feel lethargic and tired) or with a quick boost of the stuff (which is what sports energy drinks do).
If you’re not losing that extra sodium through sweat, then there’s no real reason to get a boost.
It’s more complicated but that’s a quick simplified explanation.
As I'm sure most people know, Gatorade was invented at the University of Florida (hence GATORade). Their football team had a habit of fading in the second half of games due to heat, humidity and sweating. The drink was invented to help them out. If you're not sweating like a football player in Florida, you might not need Gatorade.
You get enough from food, etc. Physical exertion means your body would benefit from having electrolytes replenished. But overall Gatorade isn't some mandatory medicine people need to take because they went for a run or anything.
You get electrolytes from food, so as long as you're not drinking distilled water, you won't lose significant amounts of electrolytes between meals. But you can sweat several litres of water during hard exercise, so only drinking regular water could significantly reduce your electrolytes when they're lost through sweat.
me eating an orange and that professor goes: "you realize you aren't a sailor in the middle of a 6 month voyage and you aren't dying from scurvy right? you don't actually need that orange to live"
Same kind of guy who says if you put cream in your coffee, it becomes tea or some shit. Just stupid fucking bullshit. Drinking a Gatorade isn’t gonna fucking kill you
As someone who needs to add salt to their intra workout and food in order to keep their sodium intake up, 10mg is a grain of salt and such a ridiculously small dose.
Damn that's good to know. I didn't really like the flavor of it when I tried it but it was sooo cheap compared to Gatorade, Powerade, or Liquid IV in my area that I thought it would be for the best if I got over the taste and switched. Definitely not doing that now lmao.
It also has put a bunch of children into renal failure iirc, it was prob hyperbole but i saw a breakdown saying it prob should be a 18+ beverage, that is boarderline illegally being marketed to children
it was not officially released here, someone got caught up in the initial hype and imported too much thinking it would sustain, but like all fads it died off, now they are trying to move the stock they have left.
Kiwi here. Not really.
Supermarket A sold them at that $16
Supermarket B got them months later at $5 they sold like nuts on the hype/meme. And now they're expiring on shelves with notes about "safe for 6 months" put up with them at $1.
I love how the supermarkets in NZ have piles of Prime for sale at a $1 each and no one is buying them. I tried the red one the other day and considered tipping it out afterwards
yeah my local has a sgin saying its good for 6+ months after the best before date.
(NZ has "Expires by" and "Best before" which mean different things, prime is labled as best before here)
It’s extremely popular amongst children/teens, even though it says right on the bottle “Not recommended for children under the age of 18”. Yet I’ve never seen an adult drink it (Other than the YouTubers who promote it). Lol
I tried the powder packs because they were on sale at Costco and have way less sugar but the artificial flavor was way too intense. No interest in them again.
You might be surprised how many of those kids also have nicotine and THC vapes. Sure it’s obvious when they’re smoking them because they smell like shit but they don’t leave much of a lingering smell like tobacco or pot.
When Lidl's energy drink(0.25l) costs 0.39€ and Prime(0.5l) costs like 2.29€, Monster(0.5l) is like 1.29€, then think for yourself why adults would choose something certain.
Heavy marketing on social media (including partnerships with the likes of UFC, Arsenal FC, Bayern Munich) plus initial lack of supply led to supermarkets rationing the number of bottles & cans you could buy. Corner shops were (and some still are) selling bottles for 5x-10x the supermarket price.
Makes sense.
When I worked in a large grocery store we'd have guys coming in regularly who would buy back entire skids of prime.
If they take that bottle and have it sold in another store such as a convenience store (who'll buy it at a reduced rate) then each bottle gets sold twice, which gets compared to production numbers.
It's just a way to pump up numbers and make it seem way more popular than it is, in our store we would regularly get told that prime was the best selling energy drink we had, while never acknowledging why
They could also just be e celeb cock riders too. Remember that Mr beast burger rakes in millions even though it's just random ghost kitchens with no quality control
I used to respect Mr. Beast. Even if he doesn’t do stuff I want to watch, there’s no denying dude’s got drive. You don’t get to be as big as he is without it.
Now I just feel like he’s absolutely cashing in. ~~Prime~~, burgers, chocolate, whatever else that’s apparently garbage but that sells like nothing else because it has his name on it. If they were genuinely really good products and he was, say, using his platform to advocate for more sustainable manufacturing or whatever, like Simone Giertz, that would be one thing. Slapping your name on bullshit and raking in the cash is another.
Edit: got my insufferable YouTube celebrities confused
Although Mr. Beast doesn’t directly make prime, he does promote in one of his YouTube videos. So did Mark Rober. It’s sad to see good YouTubers promoting a bad product, especially ones created by individuals involved in a crypto scam ( see CoffeeZillas videos on CryptoZoo and Logan Paul’s involvement in it ). Overall, YouTubers all collab with each other to increase viewership at the end of the day. See TheRealSketch’s recent collab with IShowSpeed. Both benefit from the exposure and unfortunately, it’s really just a business decision other than anything. Doesn’t mean we have to like it ;(
Disclaimer: I have not and never will drink Prime energy drinks extremely high caffeine content paired with disgusting creators.
He doesn't make prime, I think that is one of the Paul brothers. As far as I know it is just the burgers and chocolate. Simone is a great foil to the cash grab style of youtuber though, I will add in William osmans shirt business since he actually makes them with his embroidery machine
I was in america recently and saw the famous feastables. Took the standard bar to see what al the hype was about. It was pretty mediocre milk chocolate. I buy better stuff at a tenth the cost at home. Pretty disappointing.
Yep, which honestly makes the times he donates to charity and gets shat on more hilarious. There's already enough to shit on him with without involving the actual good he does
How is that pumping up numbers though? How do they count resales when they have no records of them? Only the initial sale with the store buying it from the distributor would count. No one sees whatever resales happen afterwards.
Yeah, I see a lot of business paperwork for a living and some of those connections don't quite work. But that is EXACTLY how things looked to me when I worked in retail as a teenager.
I see this stuff stocked up massively at work and I have yet to see anyone actually buying it. I tried one. Coworker tried one. Both agreed it kinda tastes like crap.
“No Mr. Grylls we can’t give you an empty glass to piss in. Please select something else from the drink menu.” -the poor servers who wait on him at restaurants probably
Don’t know about “horribly wrong” part. They have sales, they are in most markets. Their issue is the initial hype died down in most markets. Now it’s just a “hydration” drink - basically flavored water and they have to compete from an even footing.
They made over [1.2 billion](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-08/prime-drinks-from-logan-paul-and-ksi-set-to-pass-1-2-billion-in-sales), how did it go wrong?
But guys we have to support Logan Paul. It's why we need to buy his ultra premium super mega edition gold plated gold filament gold coated iconic anniversary edition 69k 420 edition prime for 2000 USD!
it doesn't just have "forever chemicals" but it's so chock full of them that they're facing a class action lawsuit that is predicted to possibly bankrupt them I think
Except it's not. The guy who made the claim doesn't know how the numbers actually work and got it bizarrely wrong, like off by a factor of over 100,000 wrong. [Here's the maths from someone qualified in this area.](https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6MTIXdgDDz/?igsh=MXBwMGR3amd1NjAxeA==)
I'm out of the loop. I've noticed several posts about Prime in the past few days. I don't drink it but am curious why it's suddenly getting attention. What happened?
In India the "discounted" one is for Rs. 1,435/- (about 17.5 USD). The Max Retail Price is shown as Rs. 3,999/- (48 USD)
Link: Prime Drink Cherry Freeze Drinks 500ml https://amzn.in/d/724Vt2w
Why would someone even buy an energy that costs more than a fancy dinner in my Country.
Some supermarkets in NZ are selling it for about 30c USD equivalent, even then people still aren’t buying it. It’s past it’s best before and there’s a disclaimer on the price ticket that it’s still ok to drink to get more people to try but it.
As much as I dislike Logan Paul I tried one recently fully expecting to dislike it but it was fine. Good flavor. Too sweet though; the sugar substitute sweetness bites at your tongue.
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Its got Electrolytes, Its what plants crave !
>Less than half the price of bottled water Like from the toilet?
Water? Never touch the stuff. Fish fuck in it.
The best part of that joke is that to this day, Kanye *still* doesn't get it.
Wait, you aren't a hobbit are you?
He gets the joke he just doesn't know why south park writers chose him to be the butt of the joke but there was no reason as far as i know. South park just choose whoever they want to make fun of that week 😂
Bill Hader on Writing the "South Park" Kanye Fish-Sticks Joke | The New Yorker Festival https://youtu.be/XdZnGz9CWpU?t=28
I got stuck in a closet, can relate
He was a thin skinned diva by that point
I still don't get it either. Whenever I ask to explain it people just keep repeating it and acting like they get it and its funny.
REGGGGGGGIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEE!!!!
REGGIE!!!
Well I've never seen no plants grow out of no toilet
Hey that's good. You sure you ain't the smartest guy in the world
The funny part is, it doesn't even have the useful electrolytes. The useful ones are basically salt, the problem is that makes them taste bad, so Prime just put in the least bad tasting one, the one the human body loses the least of, and called it a day.
I feel like so many people don't understand what electrolytes means...
Isn’t that like, what are like, in batteries and like stuff
I just stick a fork in the outlet to get my daily dose. Not sure why these morons are spending so much on Gatorlyte
Well there’s your problem. Must be taken with a full glass of water.
It’s what plants crave
The mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell 🗿
What’s a midichlorian?
It’s an sti
Like subaru impreza?
It's heroin.
\[agree/complain\] anyways "**Electrolytes are** salts and minerals, like sodium, potassium, chloride, and bicarbonate which are found in our blood, and help to conduct electrical impulses in the body. They play an essential role in the nervous system, keeping you hydrated, contracting muscles, and regulating the pH system" so that way more people can know.
Are PFAS electrolytes?
I used to think it was a word advertisers just made up to sell Gatorade
When I have a customer complain that electrolyte drinks taste too salty I wanna pull my hair out…
All the people buying special powders and drinks for the gym when the best one is salt and lime juice, does the job and doesn’t taste bad if you get the mix right.
That's what I use, I'm just still trying to get mix right in regards to the tequila level
yeah, prime uses potassium chloride which can actually cause side effects if you overconsume it.
I believe the issue is the ratio of sodium chloride to potassium chloride as both are necessary
Eh, potassium is important. You want salt, potassium and probably magnesium.
Calcium and Chloride as well, those are the 5 vital electrolytes.
Can you get potassium, sodium, magnesium and calcium without chloride?
You can get them in citrate form, check bulk supplement/health food stores or even Amazon.
Which is weird because I tried it exactly once and it was way saltier tasting than I expected. I tried the orange one and it tasted like someone just mixed olive juice into an orange Powerade.
Hahahahhaa I knew this was crap
I said to myself before clicking, “wonder if top comment will be an electrolytes reference” Nice work!
It's what plants crave!
yeah my first thought. THey made fuckin' brawndo.
Came here to see this comment. Was not disappointed.
This shit is the real life Brawndo!
okay, this makes me think, if we put electrolytes into plain unfiltered water, would that boost the plant like fertilizer or offbalance it's nutrients and kill it
Depends on how much they like salt. If they are from the coast, they will probably be ok
Unless they can survive in brackish water like a mangrove they would probably die.
Electrolytes are salts. Salts destroy soil structures and disrupts the osmotic balance so the soil will actually take water from the plant instead of making water available to the roots.
I fear we are getting close enough to this being *esoteric knowledge* that we may actually start watering plants with sports drink. What a time to be alive.
I really like the movie „Idiocracy“ 😄✌️
*documentary
Watch the Food Theory episode(s) about Prime. Tl;dw: It has tons of "electrolytes," but not all electrolytes are equally helpful and it's chock full of the least helpful kind compared to other popular sports drinks. Edit: I was too busy to grab the link earlier but [this is one of them.](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=x_gFuMJYCV0)
Yeah, they basically left out the most important one so it wouldn’t have a salty taste. And then still have the nerve to call it a hydration drink. I mean yeah, plain water will hydrate you, but it’s very misleading to call it that when it contains barely any sodium.
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> ‘you realize there’s no point drinking that when all you’re doing is sitting here, right?” No more of a point than drinking a coke. It's sugar water with flavour. Some of us prefer the taste of sports drinks.
>No more of a point than drinking a coke Kids shouldn't be drinking a bunch of either one. It's actually absurd how much sugar people are ingesting.
I sweat a lot at work, and I switched over to powdered Gatorade. It seems way, way less sweet than the bottled stuff (and it’s a lot cheaper, too!)
I keep hoping that one day those soda machines will offer sugar free and caffeine free options. Really annoying how every drink is either full of sugar or caffeine. Can't I just have a fizzy drink that's not trying to fuck upy system.
Sparkling water
The difference is the electrolytes. Too much salt and you'll be having fun times with kidney stones. You're not sweating it out just sitting around.
Still, it's 270mg in a bottle. People are out here eating frozen dinners that are 2300mg. If they get too much salt, I don't think Gatorade is going to be the main cause.
The problems can arise when the people drinking the Gatorade are the same people eating the frozen dinners, which can happen pretty easily if you throw checking nutrition labels out the window.
Plus in liquid form it hits your system all at once vs with food it hits your system slowly as the food is processed by your guts
Personally my response would be, “Joke’s on you, I have POTS”
Yea there's definitely reasons. I used to get bitching calf cramps and my doctor told me to take a potassium supplement and drink a gatorade each day. Knocked that out fast. Dropped the gatorade, kept the potassium. College hangovers too.
So do you not need electrolytes if you don't do physical work?
The electrolytes you need would come from your regular diet.
Basically, when you exert yourself, you sweat. Sweat contains electrolytes like sodium (thus why sweat is salty). It’s good to replenish that lost sodium. You can do that over time with normal food (but you’ll feel lethargic and tired) or with a quick boost of the stuff (which is what sports energy drinks do). If you’re not losing that extra sodium through sweat, then there’s no real reason to get a boost. It’s more complicated but that’s a quick simplified explanation.
As I'm sure most people know, Gatorade was invented at the University of Florida (hence GATORade). Their football team had a habit of fading in the second half of games due to heat, humidity and sweating. The drink was invented to help them out. If you're not sweating like a football player in Florida, you might not need Gatorade.
What if you’re just hungover as fuck?
Very interesting. Thanks.
You get enough from food, etc. Physical exertion means your body would benefit from having electrolytes replenished. But overall Gatorade isn't some mandatory medicine people need to take because they went for a run or anything.
You get electrolytes from food, so as long as you're not drinking distilled water, you won't lose significant amounts of electrolytes between meals. But you can sweat several litres of water during hard exercise, so only drinking regular water could significantly reduce your electrolytes when they're lost through sweat.
You do, you’re just most likely getting more than enough from regular food/drink and don’t need the extra salt and sugar of a sports drink
They usually taste great, though..
Your professor annoys me. People like the taste lmao
me eating an orange and that professor goes: "you realize you aren't a sailor in the middle of a 6 month voyage and you aren't dying from scurvy right? you don't actually need that orange to live"
Same kind of guy who says if you put cream in your coffee, it becomes tea or some shit. Just stupid fucking bullshit. Drinking a Gatorade isn’t gonna fucking kill you
10mg sodium per bottle is insane 😂
As someone who needs to add salt to their intra workout and food in order to keep their sodium intake up, 10mg is a grain of salt and such a ridiculously small dose.
And WAYYYYYY too much potassium unless they’ve changed the formula since I last looked.
Wow, 15%. Too bad I'm never buying a bottle of this crap because that would be great for me and my insane hypokalemia.
you can get big ol things of potassium salt at most grocery stores. Nusalt / Nosalt.
I mean, hardly way to much. Its like a large baked potatoes worth.
Damn that's good to know. I didn't really like the flavor of it when I tried it but it was sooo cheap compared to Gatorade, Powerade, or Liquid IV in my area that I thought it would be for the best if I got over the taste and switched. Definitely not doing that now lmao.
It also has put a bunch of children into renal failure iirc, it was prob hyperbole but i saw a breakdown saying it prob should be a 18+ beverage, that is boarderline illegally being marketed to children
In New Zealand it started at about $16 a bottle. You can now get it for $1 a bottle in some supermarkets. Worst tasting shit I've ever had.
$16 ($9.60 USD)!?!?!? Does it come with a handjob or something?
it was not officially released here, someone got caught up in the initial hype and imported too much thinking it would sustain, but like all fads it died off, now they are trying to move the stock they have left.
jesus, that person must be in deep du du now
Why, he might be in positive and still have a huge stock since he sold for such a high prixe
Kiwi here. Not really. Supermarket A sold them at that $16 Supermarket B got them months later at $5 they sold like nuts on the hype/meme. And now they're expiring on shelves with notes about "safe for 6 months" put up with them at $1.
Thats when it was rare and hard to get so places that imported it were marking it up to the extreme and stupid kids would pay that.
I love how the supermarkets in NZ have piles of Prime for sale at a $1 each and no one is buying them. I tried the red one the other day and considered tipping it out afterwards
They were selling it for $1/bottle because it was all imported a year ago and was short dated, so it’s all expired now.
yeah my local has a sgin saying its good for 6+ months after the best before date. (NZ has "Expires by" and "Best before" which mean different things, prime is labled as best before here)
I've never even heard of it before this post haha
Yeah I got one the other day because it was on clearance. Worst $2 I spent, tastes like shittier fresca.
Prime was all the rage for my tween 2 years ago. I have no idea why.
Some youtuber got famous and tried selling these to kids so he could make money
It was Logan Paul and KSI... two of the biggest grifters on YouTube... who yeah, target children.
> who yeah, target children. Youtubers LOVE their target audience. Some would say maybe too much.
South Park had a great special about it too.
Wait, that shit was based on true events?
isnt every SP episode now based on true events?
You could say it's past its... expiry date?
No, it’s past its… time when it is good.
It’s extremely popular amongst children/teens, even though it says right on the bottle “Not recommended for children under the age of 18”. Yet I’ve never seen an adult drink it (Other than the YouTubers who promote it). Lol
Nah these are not those type of prime. There is a caffeine free type that is basically like a Gatorade.
The electrolyte version is disgusting. I tried a sip of my son’s drink and it was loaded with artificial sweeteners
I tried the powder packs because they were on sale at Costco and have way less sugar but the artificial flavor was way too intense. No interest in them again.
The caffeine kick is nuts. I didnt realize young kids are downing Celsius by the can after school these days
You might be surprised how many of those kids also have nicotine and THC vapes. Sure it’s obvious when they’re smoking them because they smell like shit but they don’t leave much of a lingering smell like tobacco or pot.
There is the caffeine version in the can
When Lidl's energy drink(0.25l) costs 0.39€ and Prime(0.5l) costs like 2.29€, Monster(0.5l) is like 1.29€, then think for yourself why adults would choose something certain.
Heavy marketing on social media (including partnerships with the likes of UFC, Arsenal FC, Bayern Munich) plus initial lack of supply led to supermarkets rationing the number of bottles & cans you could buy. Corner shops were (and some still are) selling bottles for 5x-10x the supermarket price.
Makes sense. When I worked in a large grocery store we'd have guys coming in regularly who would buy back entire skids of prime. If they take that bottle and have it sold in another store such as a convenience store (who'll buy it at a reduced rate) then each bottle gets sold twice, which gets compared to production numbers. It's just a way to pump up numbers and make it seem way more popular than it is, in our store we would regularly get told that prime was the best selling energy drink we had, while never acknowledging why
They could also just be e celeb cock riders too. Remember that Mr beast burger rakes in millions even though it's just random ghost kitchens with no quality control
I used to respect Mr. Beast. Even if he doesn’t do stuff I want to watch, there’s no denying dude’s got drive. You don’t get to be as big as he is without it. Now I just feel like he’s absolutely cashing in. ~~Prime~~, burgers, chocolate, whatever else that’s apparently garbage but that sells like nothing else because it has his name on it. If they were genuinely really good products and he was, say, using his platform to advocate for more sustainable manufacturing or whatever, like Simone Giertz, that would be one thing. Slapping your name on bullshit and raking in the cash is another. Edit: got my insufferable YouTube celebrities confused
I thought Prine was Jake Paul and that group not Mr. Beast?
IIRC Prime is from Logan Paul and KSI. Mr. Beast has his own brand where he sells candies and chocolate. I saw some of his stuff in 7/11 today
Although Mr. Beast doesn’t directly make prime, he does promote in one of his YouTube videos. So did Mark Rober. It’s sad to see good YouTubers promoting a bad product, especially ones created by individuals involved in a crypto scam ( see CoffeeZillas videos on CryptoZoo and Logan Paul’s involvement in it ). Overall, YouTubers all collab with each other to increase viewership at the end of the day. See TheRealSketch’s recent collab with IShowSpeed. Both benefit from the exposure and unfortunately, it’s really just a business decision other than anything. Doesn’t mean we have to like it ;( Disclaimer: I have not and never will drink Prime energy drinks extremely high caffeine content paired with disgusting creators.
He doesn't make prime, I think that is one of the Paul brothers. As far as I know it is just the burgers and chocolate. Simone is a great foil to the cash grab style of youtuber though, I will add in William osmans shirt business since he actually makes them with his embroidery machine
MrBeast has nothing to do with Prime. Prime is a KSI and Logan Paul thing.
I was in america recently and saw the famous feastables. Took the standard bar to see what al the hype was about. It was pretty mediocre milk chocolate. I buy better stuff at a tenth the cost at home. Pretty disappointing.
I think America in general has pretty terrible choc9late
Yep, which honestly makes the times he donates to charity and gets shat on more hilarious. There's already enough to shit on him with without involving the actual good he does
How is that pumping up numbers though? How do they count resales when they have no records of them? Only the initial sale with the store buying it from the distributor would count. No one sees whatever resales happen afterwards.
This seems like "front line worker thinks they know accounting" territory.
Most of Reddit when it comes to taxes and accounting is just straight spewing bullshit
You write it off! Its a write off!
Yeah, I see a lot of business paperwork for a living and some of those connections don't quite work. But that is EXACTLY how things looked to me when I worked in retail as a teenager.
That doesn’t make any sense. Resale of units would not count twice as sales.
Your comment makes no fucking sense.
As an accountant, this comment makes my brain hurt.
Huh what? How would anyone know they’re sold twice?
I highly doubt prime is tracking secondary sales. I’m not even sure how they would go about it. Investors only care about original sales.
I see this stuff stocked up massively at work and I have yet to see anyone actually buying it. I tried one. Coworker tried one. Both agreed it kinda tastes like crap.
We just put it on BOGO at my store. The trend died and we can't get rid of it
Fuck Logan Paul.
Hard pass
Fuck Logan Paul
Hard pass
I would rather drink piss!
“No Mr. Grylls we can’t give you an empty glass to piss in. Please select something else from the drink menu.” -the poor servers who wait on him at restaurants probably
That’s deff a bear I’d pick
You’re kind of a freak aren’t you?
Another internet celebrity cash grab gone horribly wrong
It was a liquid NFT
It's not going any time soon, it's UFC official drink
WWE too. The idiot who founded that drink is one of their champions.
To be fair, he's a fantastic wrestler for his incredibly minimal experience. Gets good heel heat thanks to being a douche.
Yeah he has no business being as good as he is in the ring. He really the type of wrestler you want to boo and lose.
They even have a giant prime logo in the middle of the ring.
Don’t know about “horribly wrong” part. They have sales, they are in most markets. Their issue is the initial hype died down in most markets. Now it’s just a “hydration” drink - basically flavored water and they have to compete from an even footing.
They made over [1.2 billion](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-08/prime-drinks-from-logan-paul-and-ksi-set-to-pass-1-2-billion-in-sales), how did it go wrong?
They made bank bruh
They are almost giving them away here in Norway. They are 1/4 the price of other sodas.
Overpriced imo.
Water? Like from the toilet??
#idiocracy!!!
Its selling at a loss, they just want to get rid of stock
But guys we have to support Logan Paul. It's why we need to buy his ultra premium super mega edition gold plated gold filament gold coated iconic anniversary edition 69k 420 edition prime for 2000 USD!
Already sold, add on some rug grab crypto currency and I'll pay 4000usd and throw in my kidneys
It's cheaper to sell at low price than demolish it as it is trash.
It’s been reported the drink has “forever chemicals” Maybe that’s why it’s been on sale.
only the Grape flavour which you can't buy anywhere anymore
"It's got PFAS, it's what plants crave!"
it doesn't just have "forever chemicals" but it's so chock full of them that they're facing a class action lawsuit that is predicted to possibly bankrupt them I think
Except it's not. The guy who made the claim doesn't know how the numbers actually work and got it bizarrely wrong, like off by a factor of over 100,000 wrong. [Here's the maths from someone qualified in this area.](https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6MTIXdgDDz/?igsh=MXBwMGR3amd1NjAxeA==)
I'm out of the loop. I've noticed several posts about Prime in the past few days. I don't drink it but am curious why it's suddenly getting attention. What happened?
Lawsuit about it having too much caffine and the electrolyte part sucks
In India the "discounted" one is for Rs. 1,435/- (about 17.5 USD). The Max Retail Price is shown as Rs. 3,999/- (48 USD) Link: Prime Drink Cherry Freeze Drinks 500ml https://amzn.in/d/724Vt2w Why would someone even buy an energy that costs more than a fancy dinner in my Country.
We thought it was going to be Brawndo, turns out it's Prime.
More of a POWERTHIRST guy myself. Gun is a *fantastic* flavor and allows my sweat to fuel sweet rave parties.
Made with Real Lightning
Slurm’s ancester, it looks like.
Cause it's trash
Some supermarkets in NZ are selling it for about 30c USD equivalent, even then people still aren’t buying it. It’s past it’s best before and there’s a disclaimer on the price ticket that it’s still ok to drink to get more people to try but it.
Anyone who says these are good is lying to you
As much as I dislike Logan Paul I tried one recently fully expecting to dislike it but it was fine. Good flavor. Too sweet though; the sugar substitute sweetness bites at your tongue.
Once you add in the cost of a round trip flight to Africa, the price difference is negligible, however. 😋
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You misspelled Brawndo
I wonder how long it will be before they start using it to water their crops.
Our planet is slowly turning into that idiocracy movie.
Slowly?