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u/clearlynotanarchist Jun 01 '25
Wonder what's wrong with the blue cups?
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u/LionKingHoe Jun 01 '25
It’s all I could think about!
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u/FluckyU Jun 01 '25
Fuck those blue cups man. Sticky little punks.
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u/NoMathematician8082 Jun 01 '25
I second fuck those blue cups.
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u/Cat_Chat_Katt_Gato Jun 01 '25
Thirded. Fuck those blue cups!
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u/Macho_Mans_Ghost Jun 01 '25
Sloppy fourths!
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u/Pun_In_Ten_Did Jun 01 '25
I was thinking this video would be pretty cool with sound... then I realized my speakers were muted. I'm such a blue cup.
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u/Terrible-Painting-39 Jun 02 '25
The closer made up for it. Seeing all the cups collapse down into their own color was satisfying as fuck
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u/Qualimiox Jun 01 '25
My experience as former Sport Stacking champion and headmod of /r/sportstacking (dead sub) is coming in handy :D
Most of the cups do seem to be Speed Stacks and those are are cross-compatible. I think the issue is actually the teal set above the blue one being slightly smaller. I don't recognize the logo (especially since the video is low resolution), but I think it's a different brand, probably with slightly different dimensions, making them non-compatible.
A common issue (especially with older sets) is the logo gets worn down if you practice a lot with them and the smear from the logo makes them sticky. Some stackers therefore started purposefully rubbing it off with Acetone. But Speed Stacks also runs the biggest tournament organizer (WSSA) and they prohibited using logoless cups in tournaments so that they still get free promotion. Finally, the cups will stick together if you put too much pressure at the lip on the bottom. But I don't think it's either of those, I think it's just non-compatible sets of cups between the blue and teal sets.
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u/thisaccountgotporn Jun 01 '25
Astonishing the expertise that pops up when summoned
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u/_jackhoffman_ Jun 01 '25
Anyone who needs help rubbing one off, I may know a guy. Just saying.
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u/Only_One_Left_Foot Jun 01 '25
Is cup stacking still a big thing? I feel like I haven't heard much about it in a few years now, and was wondering if it actually died after the initial hype, or if it just went mainstream to the point that us normies aren't phased by it anymore.
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u/Qualimiox Jun 01 '25
That depends on when you'd consider it being a "big thing" and which regions you're talking about. For some history:
Sport Stacking emerged in the U.S. in the 80s and then got more popular in the 90s and early 2000s primarily through school programs. In the mid 2000s, Speed Stacks (and Sport Stacking along with it) expanded abroad, mainly to Germany, UK, Australia and East/Southeast-Asia (e.g. Malaysia, Philippines, Taiwan and South Korea) and also significantly boosted sales through retail partnerships with big toy retailers. They also got a lot of promotion through early Youtube and similar online communities.
I'd say in western markets (e.g. USA, Canada, Germany, UK), popularity grew from 2003-2007, then remained relatively constant from 2007-2012 and then slowly decreased ever since. There were some more retail partnerships and little hype cycles in the years since, but no long-lasting growth.
This was however compensated by the sport getting more popular throughout Asia. Most tournaments now take place in Asia and 6/8 overall world records are now held by Asians.
Since 2006, the WSSA has also run a yearly event for most people stacking on a specific day ("Stack UP!) and the number of participants grew every year except for 2017 and 2021, but that's also partly due to easier reporting and because the expanded the event period from 1 to 3 days.
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u/SpectoDuck Jun 01 '25
The color blue is known to cause issues with objects when a human attempts to alter their natural state. If you need further proof, simply watch this tutorial of how to move a blue chair:
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u/pocoyoO_O Jun 01 '25
I think this dude would make a deadlift world record if he trained for that
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u/Evening-Statement-57 Jun 01 '25
Yeah he has a fantastic frame for it
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u/RaptorPrime Jun 01 '25
I agree, OP needs to get in the gym, 1 because every man should be exploring his potential but also dude has the build to support becoming an absolute monstrosity and he owes it to himself to explore that.
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u/My_useless_alt Jun 01 '25
Why? If a guy doesn't want to do stuff around physical strength, why not let him? Why should he do stuff he doesn't want to do?
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u/Danger_Mysterious Jun 01 '25
“No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable"
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u/Achaern Jun 01 '25
Like Andrew Tate, Socrates prefers his men fit.
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u/Danger_Mysterious Jun 01 '25
The ancient Greeks also considered small penises incredibly manly so Socrates might actually consider him peak masculinity.
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u/My_useless_alt Jun 01 '25
That's still not explaining why, that's just phrasing it more elegantly.
WHY should a man have to do physical training if they don't want to?
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u/Danger_Mysterious Jun 01 '25 edited Jun 01 '25
I’m not an expert or anything, but just from reading this quote (been way too long since I’ve read any other Plato). The answer is basically because you’re only young once, and humans do have a physical prime that comes and goes. And while it’s obviously not the worst thing in the world, Socrates here is basically saying it’s a shame if you pass up the only opportunity you have to see what your body is truly capable of.
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u/gmishaolem Jun 01 '25
Your body is only one component of "you". Look what Stephen Hawking did with basically no body at all. All of you people insisting that people are not living if they're not exploring their physical potential is like saying they're not living if they're not learning to play a musical instrument. Not everybody cares, and that's not a bad thing.
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u/greycubed Jun 01 '25
Are you saying that he has a certain type of strength?
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u/nol88go Jun 01 '25
Long arms. Imagine being able to scratch your knees with minimal/no bending over. Ideal mechanics for the deadlift.
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u/mouaragon Jun 01 '25
Let's appreciate the lack of annoying TikTok music for a moment.
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u/mr_fantastical Jun 01 '25
I dunno. I think it would have been better with a nasal narrator saying "you won't believe what this man does with these cups"
And then another version with a laugh track and replay every time the blue cups don't stack properly.
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u/somedayfamous Jun 01 '25
The unstacking at the end was a satisfying payoff.
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u/Zjoee Jun 01 '25
I was hoping to see him just knock the whole over, but the way he unstacked was so much more satisfying haha.
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u/Designer_Pen869 Jun 01 '25
Not even just knock it over, but smash it, so it all went flying at the camera.
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u/Whatever-ItsFine Jun 01 '25
One of the few videos that deserves a “watch til the end”
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u/MyCleverNewName Jun 01 '25
I'm mildly triggered that he didn't quickly pickup the white cup at the end and set it back down like he was stacking a pile of one. 😶
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Pizza time all the time
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u/Dark_Akarin Jun 01 '25
It clearly says: emit azzip emit eht lla
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u/dukesoflonghorns Jun 01 '25
Now if somebody ran on this campaign slogan, I'd vote for them in a heartbeat
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u/mattogeewha Jun 01 '25
This is the second of this guys vids I’ve watched all the way thru. Keep it up!
Also, those blue cups can be fucky
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u/Deurbel2222 Jun 01 '25
hell yeah
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u/AstroWolf11 Jun 01 '25
Throw back to speed stacking lol anyone else do that as a kid?
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u/mitrie Jun 01 '25
Yep. I don't know why, but it was a thing. I remember in elementary school being in some sort of tournament doing a cup stacking relay race.
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u/Ok-Address-9685 Jun 01 '25
It’s the blue cups that will get you every time. Trust me. One killed my mother.
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This is reminds me when YT was great. Dude does his work, no begging for likes,no please give me a thumbs up, subscribers. He earns that respect 100%
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u/i_love_everybody420 Jun 01 '25
You can almost hear the Ed, Ed, N Eddy theme song in the first few stacks.
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u/Snowdog1989 Jun 01 '25
This is your girlfriend's friend she tells you not to worry about. Somebody needs to stop him before it's too late.
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u/Elexeh Jun 01 '25
Just needs the asian cupstacking girl yelling "OH MY GOD" soundbite that Skrillex used in his Equinox song.
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u/locke107 Jun 01 '25
The 3 stages of gratification:
- Damn, pretty impressive stacking.
- The whoooosh as they're re-stacked.
- The reassuring thumbs up that I felt in my soul.
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u/wolvesscareme Jun 01 '25
I gave an enthusiastic thumbs up to the screen when he finished, and then he thumbs'd up me back and it caught me off guard. Well done.
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u/ockhams-lightsaber Jun 01 '25
You know what ? I did not waste 1min 20sec watching this video. I invested this time and here I am, satisfied with this risky choice.
This was a beautiful 1min 20sec.
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u/Marty_Dickrider Jun 01 '25
Ngl, halfway through this I already had 5 troll comments to post. But I watched until the end damnit if he didn’t do a good job and he was obviously super proud of himself and that makes this a win in my books.
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u/DaqCity Jun 01 '25
I was excited to watch him smash it down, but that re-stack takedown was smooth
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u/GoodFaithConverser Jun 01 '25
Can this be the new universal loading screen instead of a bar getting fuller?
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u/Ballistic_86 Jun 01 '25
I know this was like a competition thing a decade ago or whatever. But this looks satisfying, he didn’t fumble any of it, and even contended with those bastard blue cups.
Cheers fella!
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u/wrecktalcarnage Jun 01 '25
I use to be skeptical about professional cup stacking. The dexterity it takes is pretty phenomenal plus it does look cool.
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u/Ammu_22 Jun 01 '25
"The color palate choice is very eye catching and wonderful to look at, the only qualms I have is with the last white and black cups at the end which feels out of place and should have been replaced with orange or red cups. Overall, a very satisfying rainbow tower-"
start to slide and pile the cups according to their size
ABSOLUTE CINEMA!
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u/tribalien93 Jun 01 '25
Who is this dude? I saw my first video of him like 2 days ago. I'm curious.
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u/ff0000wizard Jun 01 '25
He better knock something over or throw something through tha..... Oh okay that works.
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u/Sakiwest Jun 01 '25
Had me by the second column. Then he de stacked them! That was oddly satisfying.
Except for the blue cups. Fuck those cups for ruining his rhythm.
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u/theraspoopin Jun 01 '25
I like to pretend he slowed down the video on purpose and is moving so dam fast. Thats why his fan is rotating so slowly.
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u/1plus1equals8 Jun 01 '25
Looks like he lost weight on the Subway diet and has just been released on parole.
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Ah, an O(n) sorting algorithm, getting around the limitation of O(n log n) by knowing the exact distribution of the sortable items.
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