They only did this because they are sitting on a bunch of inventory they can’t sell, so they used it for marketing, check out LegalEagle on youtube he has a 20 minute video on the lawsuit they are facing, they agreed a contract to have a custom factory line built then backed off when sales plummeted
Thanks, Logan.
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kameecoding@lemmy.world 7 months ago
this_1_is_mine@lemmy.world 7 months ago
You mean tax deductions… More lucrative thing just biting the loss.
kameecoding@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Not sure how the Us tax system works, but I am guessing storing inventory is also not free
lud@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Isn’t that a good thing in this case? If they lose slightly less money when donating compared to burning the money companies are more likely to donate it.
nl4real@lemmy.world 7 months ago
How the fuck does this guy have a career after the suicide forest video?
Schmoo@slrpnk.net 7 months ago
When you’re rich you gets lots of extra chances.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 7 months ago
People are still voting for Trump. You really should not be surprised anymore
jaschen@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Oh man, I remembered that. This guy is horrible.
Madison420@lemmy.world 7 months ago
You’re not concerned about the multi million dollar Bitcoin scam or just didn’t know? Dudes up to all sort of shady shit
nl4real@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Lol, I know, it’s just amazing the shit this guy gets away with.
EnderMB@lemmy.world 7 months ago
The man has also been involved in numerous scams.
I’m obviously not his demographic, but my wife (a teacher) says that there are loads of kids 10 and upwards that love Logan Paul and KSI. I think the suicide forest thing predates many of them, or they just don’t know/care about it.
WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
I have recently started watching some streamers. The suicide forest stuff is just par for the course. The entire genre is largely based around doing things you aren’t supposed to do for content.
In this world of marvel movies, conspiracy theories, and other unreal distractions, there is something both addictive and refreshing about just seeing an unfiltered idiot who is fucking around and finding out. I actually think watching streamers has made me a little more socially confident. If they can be that reckless and have it turn out ok most of the time, then maybe I don’t have to be anxious about things that might happen in public when I’m being reasonably careful.
a_postmodern_hat@lemmy.world 7 months ago
This sounds interesting to me. Do you mind sharing a couple of examples?
celsiustimeline@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Children watch his videos. Kids don’t fucking care.
drdalek@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Well, they can’t sell it, may as well get a tax break on it.
Mr_Blott@feddit.uk 7 months ago
Wtf is prime?
superkret@feddit.org 7 months ago
sugar water sold by Youtubers
MagnyusG@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Zoomer Gatorade.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Zoomers: “don’t put this evil on me. Blame the alphas”
Alphas: “I didn’t ask for this shit”
nbyu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
It’s some kind of energy drink
ABCDE@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Oh… why would that be handy when water and actual food is going to be useful/needed?
bstix@feddit.dk 7 months ago
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”.
skozzii@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
A signal the person consuming it is prepared to be sold whatever you are offering.
socsa@piefed.social 7 months ago
The most disgusting energy drink on the market.
undercrust@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
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
isolatedscotch@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
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”
kautau@lemmy.world 7 months ago
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
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 7 months ago
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.
Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 7 months ago
These people lost everything. Maybe we should monetize a video about sending a truckload of bibles and coyote urine! We’re super awesome, y’all!
Vespair@lemm.ee 7 months ago
I broke down an bought a pack of Prime to try recently after seeing it everywhere, even in the hands of people I don’t associate with the whole Logan Paul circus.
It tasted like piss and chemicals. If you’re at all sensitive to the taste of sucralose, it’s like drinking battery acid. I simply cannot fathom how it is as successful as it is.
Routhinator@startrek.website 7 months ago
celsiustimeline@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
I don’t think it’s that kind of drink. At least Brawndo mutilates your thirst. Prime is an energy drink.
Harvey656@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Kids, their taste buds are still developing so when they taste it and don’t instantly vomit they think it tastes good. After that their taste buds are permanently shifted towards those types of flavors, making the problem worse. Should be illegal.
twig@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
It’s a nonsense mixture of electrolytes. We mostly sweat out sodium, not potassium. Prime has a lower level of sodium and a higher level of potassium. It just doesn’t make sense.
And, y’know, it’s just fully a scam. It’s mostly successful because he’s famous. The business seems to be failing in a big way.
Fosheze@lemmy.world 7 months ago
The higher potassium does make some sense if you consider that most people already get excessive amounts of sodium in their diet and comparitively little potassium. Sodium is in practically everything, potassium not so much.
I would personally love to find an electrolyte mix with more potassium because I’ve had issues with potassium deficiencies. Of course I’m not about to buy this garbage and I doubt the shitheel selling it put that much thought into it.
shadowedcross@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
It’s targeted towards kids and parents who don’t know any better get it for them.
Klear@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I broke down and bought a pack of Prime
You need to work on that. That’s not good.
Crismus@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Just a swallow or sip of sucralose I fused drinks can send my to bed in a dark room due to migraines.
That drink may kill me.
Snapz@lemmy.world 7 months ago
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!”
Rinox@feddit.it 7 months ago
More like
Multi-millionaire tries to pass off marketing as a tax write-off
Jagger@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
Yep, sounds more like that
ZeffSyde@lemmy.world 7 months ago
You know they are sending thousands of bottles of whatever flavor didn’t test well that has been sitting in a warehouse, too.
Snapz@lemmy.world 7 months ago
“Peanut butter schnapps”?
lud@lemm.ee 7 months ago
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.
abigscaryhobo@lemmy.world 7 months ago
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.
archomrade@midwest.social 7 months ago
Prime’s got what plants crave - it’s got electrolytes
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 7 months ago
True, but it’s clearly no Powerthirst.
archomrade@midwest.social 7 months ago
Mother nature will be like ‘sloooooowwwwww dowwwwwwwn’, and you’ll say “FUCK YOU” and kick her in the face with your
ENERGY LEGS
Jaybob32@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Came to comments for this line specifically.
socsa@piefed.social 7 months ago
It tastes like oompa loompas spitting in my mouth.
TriPolarBearz@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Oompa loompa doopa dee dit
He wants to swallow some of our spit
Oompa loompa doopa dee dah
Aim at his mouth and go hawk tuah
LucidNightmare@lemm.ee 7 months ago
I couldn’t find where I saw/heard it, but I swear I saw a blurb about PRIME drinks containing polyfluoroalkyl, which is what allows jackets and tents to repel water…
I did however find a Consumer Reports article.
hinterlufer@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Eh, if someone comes up with such a comparison it immediately tells that they don’t know what they’re talking about. Like, linseed oil was also used for waterproofing (oilskin), yet it is quite healthy. Other applications/occurences of a substance simply don’t tell you anything about it being good or bad for you.
Default_Defect@midwest.social 7 months ago
There’s HYDROGEN in the WATER, the stuff that BURNED in the HINDENBURG and they want you to DRINK IT?!?
NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Well, PFAs are definitely not good for you.
VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
I’d believe that. I tried Prime once and it tastes like the fumes from spray paint.
TheBlue22@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
I would rather drown myself than drinking that cat piss.
Also they don’t even do it out of charity. Prime, being as dogshit as it is, is selling terribly. So they are giving it away instead of having to spend money getting rid of it. Would not expect nothing else from scammer logan and soulless KSI
x00za@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
It’s like sending candy.
robocall@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Not true. I actually like candy.
SSJMarx@lemm.ee 7 months ago
True fact once I was getting a drink with my younger brother and he asked me to get him a Prime, kid took about three sips before he gave up on the rest and got a glass of water, lmao.
Diddlydee@feddit.uk 7 months ago
Absolute piss. My 8 year old bought some and I tried it. It’s like they tried to make it taste awful.
Jagger@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
A truck loaded with eater bpttles is more useful than Prime bottles, think it a little, for medial reasons spm people can’t drink hyper sugar shit.
Maggoty@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Great, so anyone allergic or sensitive to coconut water is fucked. Great job Mr. Influencer. If you can’t do aid right, don’t get in the way of the professionals.
skozzii@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
These people have suffered enough.
And it was a publicity statement, it wasn’t for the peoole, let’s be real.
mindaika@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
It’s got what victims crave.
It’s got electrolytes
theangryseal@lemmy.world 7 months ago
How did I not know these jackasses made Prime? Makes me feel guilty for the two I gagged down a year ago.
1984@lemmy.today 7 months ago
Who is Logan Paul?
Guess it’s some YouTube influencer.
finickydesert@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
The sweetness would make life bitter
robocall@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Did your spouse die and everything in your home is ruined by water damage? Here’s a bottle of prime. You’re welcome.
blackluster117@possumpat.io 7 months ago
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.
CoffeeJunkie@lemmy.world 7 months ago
istdaslol@feddit.org 7 months ago
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.
otter@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
Isn’t prime caffeinated? That’s dehydrating and not at all helpful to people who need water…
SoupBrick@yiffit.net 7 months ago
I don’t think the main goal is to actually help people. Most likely PR/brand awareness for tax write offs.
blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
The cans have caffeine. The bottles don’t. Pic looks like the bottles.
Still tons of sugar though.
arudesalad@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
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)
istdaslol@feddit.org 7 months ago
They have both, the plastic bottles are hydration and the cans are energy drinks