Sparkling water for badass operators
Not that Fr*nch shit
This stuff is mostly meant to be sold in place of alcohol without standing out, and gives you a "special" sip when hanging out. I hated it till I learned this, then realized its mostly harmless if it gives someone something to hold instead of booze. its less "la croi gay hurr durr" and more "this stands out less, less people ask questions, you can avoid a possible addiction trigger"
I was first introduced to this by a friend who wanted to cut back on booze. It worked exceptionally well for him, and it honestly tastes pretty good. Kind of a La Croix style thing, but with interesting flavors. Also, it's great when you ARE drinking because it's water, obv
That's kind of just a marketing position though-- and the end of the day it's about creating profit as a solution to its own manufactured problem.
You, the consumer, should feel insecure about being in an alcohol social setting due to possible addiction issues, therefore the solution is to order this specific product to "fit in". And you definitely shouldn't order products that might project additional weakness!
I'm not trying to be combatative or disagreeable but to think it was created to solve a problem is not how consumable goods are created or marketed. They create the product then reverse engineer how to sell them to their target consumers.
Liquid Death was originally conceived to go after the same demographic as Monster Energy drink (since most bottle water was more "aspirational", so it was a demographic without much competition). How can we sell bottled water to people who drink Monster?
Only once you have a marked demo can you reverse engineer "solutions" to your consumer-base. Reaching for this at a bar is one of those marketing exercises. It was never created with any sort of altruism in mind, this just marketing positioning.
I guess at the end of the day it's good that these products can help some people, but I get really upset by the disingenuousness path of how these products become solutions in the first place.
And at the end of the day, sure overpriced water in an aluminum can is harmless, but look what happens when other products run on false altruism. Juul ran on a health campaign as a way for people to quit cigarettes-- well instead it got a new generation addicted to vaping, while hiding under the "healthy alternative" under the jig was up.
From what I recall, the guy who came up with these felt awkward holding a water bottle at punk shows. I think originally it was just plain ol water in a can, dunno if they originally had flavor
Yeah, the only people I know who buy these are recovering from alcoholism. Seems to work for them, and I can relate with the way I phased from nicotine gum to regular gum by just letting myself get addicted to the habits - the oral fixation, the ritual, the social calm of it, the parts of it that weren't narcotic. It's a way of scratching the itch without letting an actual chemical breach happen. I chew mint gum like crazy, but it's way less likely to kill me than nicotine, and way less expensive. I think it's kind of the same as the Liquid Death nonsense.
I mean I guess an aluminum can is infinitely more recyclable than any plastic water bottle so I guess it's a good thing?
The design is a little obnoxious obviously, but at least "man water" is better than drinking alcohol.
Also I assume these cans are like 75 cents right it's just water after all
More like $3, they have it at one of my local breweries to give to kids and recovering alcoholics
Y'all are being very "stop having fun guys" about fancy sparkling water that has a cool skull on it.
a cool skull on it
This is probably the disconnect. I cannot see any skull shit as cool excepting cultural stuff like day of the dead. Skull operator content in America is deeply lame.
This looks less operator skull and more heavy metal skull to me. Operator skulls usually have cleaner lines and oakleys or something. Plus the influencers I've seen boosting it are people with decades of goth cred, so I never associated it with operators at all.
to me it has the same vibe as a harley with $5000 in Harley brand (tm) skulls
after thinking about it, it's the money factor. music is art, skulls on that are fine and not really lame. branded skull content is what's lame, just like operator skulls, harley skulls, punisher skulls, etc
It’s the edgy tacticool aesthetic associated with PMC’s. Think SWAT teams and other heavily armored cops
There are so many non-Punisher skull appreciators out there. My house is fucking stacked with skulls because my wife likes the grim/spoopy vibe.
The chuddification of every product in the supermarket continues unabated.
The year is 2024. You walk into your local grocery store which is now a Walmart Neighbourhood Grocery. The meat department has been overtaken by a brand called MAGA Farms. Half of the mascots in the cereal aisle are holding AR-15s. The produce section only has Red Delicious apples, "Burger Tomatoes," and "Freedom Fry Potatoes" in it. Every product having an angry face, a skull, and/or American flag on it regardless of what country you're actually in. The organic and health food department has been converted into a massive display for a line of unregulated steroids named Based AF. 75% of the food on your grocery list has been shoved into a disused aisle labelled "ethnic food". Your phone informs you that the music playing overhead is something called "Lofi Alex Jones To Consoom and Plot Insurrection To."
You decide to return home and buy your groceries from Amazon, the only other option in your country.
This stuff is really good. Way better than LaCroix or Spindrift and way cheaper for a bigger can. I don't like soda because it has too much sugar and these are the best alternative. I don't know why everyone here cares so much about the ink on the outside of some water.
It's got to be socialist curmudgeonly "stop having fun guys!" popping up. Why not put sparkling water in a silly metal-head super badass can?
The company started selling canned still water like it was eco friendly because it’s not plastic but still encourages you to buy a pack full of individually canned portions of stuff you can get straight out of your sink. For sparkling water I get that you can’t get it out of your tap but I still think we should move away from drinking out of single use cans and bottles. Ideally you could take a case of glass bottles to be refilled at a shop but not under capitalism.
I drink a ton of regular water as well, and it's always tap water, so it's not a replacement at all. And aluminum cans are objectively much better for the environment than plastic bottles, but that doesn't even factor into why I drink it. I mean, I agree that single use containers are bad, but we aren't even close to a position where they are going to be banned, and I could list hundreds of things that should be banned before aluminum cans, so it doesn't really bother me.
How is it way better? I never knew that people had preferences for canned sparkling water
yes, it's wild. I live in a sparkling water house and we all have pretty strong opinions.
usually it's about the bubbles. some have 'bigger' bubbles, some fizz different, some flavors are different (like the polar lime tastes different than the spindrift lime, etc)
It's not just sparkling water. It's flavored. The flavors are better and it's very slightly sweetened whereas the others are not.
I went looking for it on Amazon.
https://www.amazon.com/GEN-Water-Flavorless-Transparent-Recyclable/dp/B09MXBHWKG
GEN Z Water - Flavorless Transparent Liquid (Purified Still Water)
This is so obnoxious. If an industry exists purely around marketing with otherwise indistinguishable products, give me the Trader Joes Ration Centre. One affordable brand that's good enough.
:soypoint-1: you can refill the can up to 8 times
a thermos costs slightly more and you can refill it infinite times like a cheat code :soypoint-2:
i'm so confused by the existence of this shit. like i guess la croix doesn't make a tallboy? and that'd be cool?
It's fucking sick bro there's a snake on the box that's coming out of the eye socket of the skull and the skull is dripping like it's toxic
It’s for people who don’t want to drink alcohol and don’t want to stand out. It looks similar enough to all the other cans around that people are less likely to ask questions
Also, it's fucking sick *throws up the horns and sacrifices a puppy to satan*
Serioulsly it's okay to have fun packaging on things. These are 1.25 a can. It's maybe a few cents more than a la croix.
It's pretty mid as far as sparkling water goes, but the design is so it looks like a beer for people who want to be at live shows/bars without drinking.
When I was twenty, I got carded for it because of how much it looks like beer.
Is this supposed to be for Tier 1 Operators? I always assumed this is for metalheads and punks who don't like to wash their doodoo ass, based on the aesthetics.
I am a metalhead and punk that does not wash my doo doo ass and I just drink White Claw.
I think it's supposed to be silly over the top fun that mocks how energy drinks are marketed.
Well…. You might be shocked to hear this, but some of us in the wealthiest nation in the history of the world get E. coli or lead poisoning if we drink the tap.
I don't know what you're talking about
And... You might be shocked to hear this, but some in the wealthiest nation on earth buy drinking water in gallon plastic bottles. Waaay cheaper. A liquid death can is $1.60 for 17 ounces, and you can buy a gallon of water for $1.30 at target in a plastic container.
And you can also buy a 4$ 17 ounce can of Fiji at Starbucks. I don’t understand your point. A 17 oz aluminum can is better for recycling than a 17 oz plastic bottle.
And yes I know about gallons. since the ecoli in the water became a thing, I use 5 gallon plastic jugs.
This is for when you want to drink some water but want to make sure everybody knows you're not gay
Water, with packaging that strongly suggests alcopop. I wonder why no one's tried that before?
[Drinks one while driving]
[Is immediately pulled over]
Apparently it's extremely popular at my local store. They put a giant stack of it next to the register. I don't get it.
Bet it's from Oregon or something
Our water is obtained from a private protected underground source managed by Starzinger in Frankenmarkt, Austria. Our water is processed using a combination of filtration and pasteurization to remove any microbiological contaminants.
Innovation is shipping drinking water across the globe to places where it's already plentiful. The water report if anyone wants to decode. I've had a few cans given to me, it was nice sparkling water.
