I Tried the Air Up... (So You Don't Have to.)

with literally so many creators promoting this I had to get to the bottom of this, oh that's good. I

tried

to vent so you don't

have

to because this YouTube water bottle promotion might be more of a YouTube scam, oh my god bro! This is going to be bad as shit. This is a scam. It's a nice thing. And we'll get into that right after you buy one. Now you're probably thinking what the problem is and who you are and why. You're so handsome, well hello, I'm a hippo and I try things so you don't

have

to now, as for what airup is, let me let these creators explain it to you.

Arup is a hydration system that uses aroma-based flavor, aroma-based hydration. The aroma-based flavor system adds flavor to water through the power of aroma and this thing has five now. I usually test keyboards and technology, but in this video I'm going to spend my money on aerating all the aroma pods to See why your favorite YouTubers are promoting it. That's crazy. Wait, my goodness, is it just about the money or is this really a good product? I'm putting it to the test and finding out why every time I take a sip. This makes me gag, why did I do that?

Why is it that a good part that is not as good as what I really want to see is this magical scented water or is it just a scam that got millions of dollars behind it because I don't know about you, I'm leaning towards the latter. I'm leaning that way. I have scoliosis like my water bottle, yeah, now to be able to put airups and these YouTubers claim to be proof, let's go to their website and see. how much do these water bottles cost since they're probably pretty cheap oh $32 for the cheapest possible okay but let's customize my game maybe that's a wait they also have a steel version we're going to have to try that too .

You guys are charging $5 more for a different color of plastic, what is this GMK key cover? We're talking $8 for three flavor pods, but made even more egregious by the flavors that actually look delicious, we're talking $113 for three. this is just an ongoing expense after 3 months you could buy a new Hydro Flask altogether. We were out $148 for two bottles of water and a couple of capsules, but that's okay, let's come back in a week or two and try it. Yes, now to achieve maximum chaos I have avoided drinking water all morning because you will never guess what just arrived, it's the air above, look, it's Nola, she's playing now, at this point all I was hoping for was what. all the ads I saw said how can we drink more water?

I end up like two or three of these bottles of tasty flavors. I'm literally slurping this all day like a fucking guinea pig. Okay, I was really excited, worst case scenario it's going to be like some kind of scented candle where I end up with a headache at the end of this place. Your bets if that's for shadow or not, also big floppa comes out in full force today Nola, give us a flop woo floppa big Flopper too Many of you get mad at me because you think I force my cat to appear in these videos.

Who is forcing here? Please comment below who is forcing who. I can't choose this. I don't promise. I see. don't force her to be in my videos okay because she's high maintenance watch her okay thank you okay bada bing bada boom come on no okay first we have our flavor pots and this is the most divisive part of all this. complete product because without these it's just a water bottle now I literally have no idea what's inside these so I'll open one up later in this video so stick with that but with so many options which one do you get?

I think what I'm most excited about is iced tea. Peach, usually orange scent, gives me headaches so N is excited about it too. That's so good, isn't it a big job. I don't actually see a world where watermelon tastes good if it does. not at all, but now it was time to see if the actual bottle lived up to the hype. This is basic air, but now I'm not a water bottle expert, but neither were any of the YouTubers who accepted sponsorships. However, I drink water I have a water bottle so I'm going to have a little experience here looking at this the basic product overview guides which I promise I'll read in full and this is it there you go it feels like a more resistant plastic.

Than I Expected Now you're probably wondering hippo, why do you focus so much on the experience of unboxing the water bottle and the actual quality of the water bottle? Well, that's because they advertise that this is something you'll want to use every day, so it'll have to pass all the tests you'd expect from a water bottle you'd want to use every day, meaning no leaks. Very important, easy to attach to things, so this hook is really great. and it should also be durable and easy to clean, which I'm a little skeptical of this huge straw, but I'm not too worried anymore considering it looks like it has scoliosis and also costs as much as metal. water bottle, he's like me really, moving on to the quality and how easy it will be to clean.

I mean, this straw can be cleaned with one of those straw cleaners, but this lid has that silicone finish that sticks. down to the slightest dust, this product is also designed in Germany and made in China and a lot of people will pay a lot of money for things made in Germany, whether it's a Leica or Cherry MX Brown camera, but that doesn't inherently make it good now. I'll look at the quality of the water bottle a little later because there are some obvious flaws, but first let's take a look at these flavor capsules because now I'm really curious to preserve their aroma.

They are pre-packaged in this little plastic wrapper, so you have to open each one individually and they come in packs of three. This is peach iced tea. Oh, it smells so fake it's like you just walked into a bathroom and the body works, but. somehow even more chemical you get all the joy of flavor without calories or chemicals or water without added chemicals or nothing without chemicals this is going to be bad I'm going to get a headache now at this point I'm not going to lie I started to get pretty scared by what i was going to face once i actually

tried

this now guys here is your keyboard solution look there is a hippot keyboard tech video keyboard youtube algorithm keyboard now i'm also not a flavor expert but they mentioned that all of these are made with natural flavor, although omg those chemicals don't smell natural, okay, before we go too crazy trying the plastic one, the silver air, now it's like their most premium offering at a more premium price . so I hope it feels more premium oh hey it's actually heavy but they're really focusing a lot on recycled material.

Excuse me, how is this eco-friendly? I don't care if you just don't do it. I don't want to be green, but please don't say you're green and then have as much B plastic on a recurring basis as your product. This is no better than curig. I really can't judge. I run a channel based on keyboards and key caps that are made of plastic and anyway, the bottle, wow, hot dog, this reminds me of one of those soup thermoses, but in the worst possible way it has a band of really nice silicone. Here, similar to the other one, the lid is plastic.

I dropped it, why does it feel so much cheaper than my really really cheap water bottle? Shouldn't it really be premium? Do you ever go to a fair and get a free bottle of water? It's metal and it smells really bad after using it twice, that's what it feels like, so my expectations are already pretty low now that first impressions are out of the way, I feel incredibly dehydrated, so it's time to make this work now. The setup is to wash your water bottle easily, most of you can do that and then fill it with water, it's also easy, most of you can do it, but then pretty quickly I started having a problem because while I was doing some tests, that's going to be a problem I think your water bottle does that is normal, okay maybe it's just the lid that fits, maybe I need to like it, won't it spill all over your bag?

This is a problem, okay, what about the blue? Maybe blue is too much. better and it won't leak, let's figure out what it's going for and if I put the lid on, okay, let's say you have it upside down for a while, well, let's get back to this, I'll put it right here, we'll get back to the actual build quality and the Overall bottle quality is really mediocre, which makes me wonder if you're making an absolute killing on these aroma pods that people have to constantly buy, why would you skimp so much on the build quality of your water? bottles I don't understand why maybe it's because these aroma capsules are just amazing and they're going to give me amazing flavors and they're going to blow me away.

This is me trying the air for the first time. It really surprised me, Ed. it worked, it felt like a magic trick, keep in mind I haven't drank water yet today, can you notice how dry my lips are? POV water is bad now I know what you're thinking oh hippo you just put the lid on wrong I need to do it right but no I tried literally everything. I looked at your guide. I think their quality control is so bad that there is a gap on the back of their water bottle. We're back to this. Approximately 5 minutes have passed.

It is this? lid filled with water so it doesn't leak, however, yes this lid is filled with water, who in their right mind wants their water bottle to do that? This is not a water bottle that is already almost a death. Not for this, now it's a water bottle. It has one job and that is to hold water, so when the water bottle doesn't hold water, you instantly fail the water bottle's mission, but even worse, the lid doesn't sit straight and it leaks everywhere oh no, that's a lot to deal with. my water bottle that doesn't hold water, it was time to see if it will retain the flavor.

Now I asked them about the quality of their bottles, some said they were leaking, some said it was okay, some said the taste was great and some said there was no taste so I have no idea ok we have both bottles of water here and I'm going to try them for the first time, of course, I need to try it without any of the aroma capsules. If I sip it, this is fine. does the same thing they both deliver water congratulations you are a water bottle this is not a water bottle now I have a million different aroma capsules here the iced tea Peach noticed that this one smells absolutely terrible incredibly incredibly fake so let's start with this one now they are very specific on how to use this stuff, so if you just put the aroma container in you will get a bad result.

I did it wrong? I don't prove anything let me go grab the manual maybe I did something wrong okay maybe I'm stupid and that's why you read the manual because apparently you have to like it oh I showed it up now in theory this is where I'll get the H flavor, maybe that's why they call it. air up hippo up oh at this point the chemicals hit the back of my throat and oh no oh I was overwhelmed by the taste oh my god this tastes like vomit oh my god no peaches or iced tea that's terrible there's a taste there's a taste it tastes to something, but it's vomit, this is truly one of the worst things I've ever tasted, delicious flavors, oh that's good, maybe I was being too dramatic and needed to try a different flavor, raspberry, lemon, it'll probably be pretty good. of Swedish fish smells that were in a bathroom that you just cleaned with uh Lysol, let's try metallic air for this lemon, raspberry, the flavor really takes you by surprise.

There is something here, the fruit comes from a vomit taste. there's an Essence here that's happening right this is just an update like an hour later all my burps taste like chemicals there's no way people are using this correctly right now maybe I thought I was doing something wrong I needed read the manual again, but There's no way this could be bad right, orange, vanilla swirl, it literally smells like a car air freshener, like I'm not crazy right? I think I need a second opinion. Let me try this first and then we'll get one. second opinion maybe a third opinion maybe everyone is going to get orange herpes Vanilla Swirl I only let myself try it in the other bottle, it's not pleasant at all now that my experience has been overwhelmingly negative so far, I had to find out what was inside those capsules, so I took one and I opened it with a pair of tweezers and I was waiting like I didn't know something, but it was literally just a piece of cotton soaked in flavor, well, in quotes, so I thought maybe it was like a cilantro thing where some people hate it and some people don't, so I grabbed two of my friends, I didn't tell them what we were doing and I caught them trying this water bottle, so take a sip from this water bottle real quick, oh I want say. there's something that I feel like is supposed to be lemon, it doesn't taste like lemon, it just tastes like water, but you can smell it and I don't know if it's good or bad, I mean bad, it's not good.

It tastes sticky, yeah, that's a good way to put it, so thatIt was Cherry, that you just tried, whoever told you that's wrong, it wasn't Cherry, okay, now here's a different one, okay, oh H, it's like dirt, it's like, oh God, that's a chemical. it's like perum dirt dirt perfume wait i need to find out what this is so they wouldn't be blown away by the flavors and some of them were grossed out but what would they think of the quality of the water bottles? Maybe it's going to redeem everything like backwards, oh God, oh God, that's literally not a water bottle, this is not a water bottle.

I was scammed, that's how I would feel crazy, yeah, now your reaction was overwhelmingly negative, so I thought, okay, I'll get one last point from you to confirm everything and then we'll be fine, the science is done, but then something changed. I had the aroma capsule sitting. I was outdoors for a few days and then another friend tried them which really changed everything Hi Josie. I need you to take a sip from this bottle of water. Interesting, is it good? Not bad. Wait, really. Yeah, what the hell? It's a nice thing. I mean, it's really strong and it smells like perfume, but it's not horrible, wait, she really likes it.

Okay, I need you to try different flavors because maybe this is a fluke, maybe it's a fluke, no, it's kind of fun. I don't think I'd want to have the smell on my face all day. I'm really confused. Wait, let me try. It's awful. Wait. You really think that's good. I don't think it's bad. Are you kidding? No, I'm not kidding. Seriously, now it definitely tasted less potent and less chemically today, so I'm wondering if maybe the aroma improves after it loses flavor, which defeats the purpose, so I opened a new capsule for Josie to try to see if maybe that was the conclusion here okay try that oh that's bad that's a lot yes I don't like that that's that the same taste that's the same taste as the one you just said was good no that's that's that's a bad experience tastes like plastic So this confirms that the pods taste less terrible the longer they sit out, but that defeats the whole purpose as it's a thinning line between not tasting like vomit and tasting like nothing and so far Josie said that they know. nice but not that she would actually wear them because to me they are still terrible but Josie liked them which confuses me so maybe someone might like these but I don't know if they are terrible.

I hate it, one last experiment and this is the one everyone has hated. Well, that was a bit bad, yeah, so with my new knowledge, I just had to know why what they're doing. It's all marketing, the fact that their margins are so genuine. It's crazy that they can pay creators like 10 thousand dollars to scam this trash, frankly it's a crime, but it's legal, although hippot headache reports a pretty bad headache all day long. I think if you're the type of person who gets headaches from shipped candles, stay far away. but I saved the best for last, which is the fakest watermelon I have ever smelled in my life.

Well, you know guys, I was very excited about this. I thought all my favorite YouTubers were promoting this. This has to work. It has to be good, right, it's literally just a hit of chemicals right in your throat immediately feels like it's hitting your uula I feel like I just died guys I was hoping for something I was hoping for something to be positive here so far there's no air in the air down down I can't imagine anyone would really like this because it's a terrible water bottle experience, it's a terrible tasting experience because of the leak and the quality and everything else it's missing.

What's good about it? What's good about it? Water was spilled. me again they made a terrible product they got a great investment did the investors try the product? You can't tell me that investors tried this and said yes, send it, send it, it's great, I'm literally spilling water on myself just by shaking this. What happens around this is terrible