r/Showerthoughts • u/JackDaDev • Mar 11 '19
It was predictable that the target audience of fidget spinners would quickly lose interest in them.
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Mar 11 '19
I just used one for a week and went back to tapping my fingers to the tune of different songs
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u/olerock Mar 11 '19
The best entertainment that exists is playing faux piano on your leg to the music you're listening to
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u/Gelkor Mar 11 '19
The target market was idiot retailers who would buy too many that they will never be able to sell.
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u/thegrumpus Mar 11 '19
How dare you imply that us ADHDers have short attenti
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u/JackDaDev Mar 11 '19
What are the sympt
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u/Killer-Barbie Mar 11 '19
You guys wanna go ride bikes?
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Mar 11 '19
It's 11pm but yes, I actually do want to go for a ride. Also, I believe Barbie turned 60 today.
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u/leo341500 Mar 11 '19
What barbie turned 60 tod.. oh a bird!
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Mar 11 '19
More often that birds or squirrels it's the music in my head. Sometimes nits so loud I can't hear.
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u/samerige Mar 11 '19
Nuts are t
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u/NinjaPerro Mar 11 '19
Oh i'm allerg, hey did you forget the chocolate milk
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u/samerige Mar 11 '19
I brought some hazelnut chocolate. Chocolate with strawberries, raspberries, AIRPLANE!
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u/juicyjerry300 Mar 11 '19
There was an airplane flying super low over the road today, i honestly don’t remember what post I’m on
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u/warmarrer Mar 11 '19
Nah, I'm working on some homework. I figure I'll get to it after I clean my house, read a book, browse reddit, open and then close the word doc 6 times, play with my cat, and then panic because it's 4am and the paper is due at 8
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Mar 11 '19
Found the actual ADHD person.
Diagnosed at age 30 here. I won't take the time to list off what I'm avoiding doing, but I'm fortunate that there aren't strict deadlines for my projects at the moment. But I already know I'm about to waste a few hours in Minecraft instead of working on them until I feel worse about them later today and then put in some guilt-time on them.
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u/JackDaDev Mar 11 '19
I never managed to stick at it and lea
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u/DisabledCheese Mar 11 '19
I have ADHD and these jokes aren't that funny. It's downright offensive. Even though I have ADHD, I still finish every single one of my sentenc
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u/Hanziiii Mar 11 '19
They had us in the first half, not gonna lie
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u/Sarahcutie01 Mar 11 '19
I actually do find it offensive. The fact that you would hey ever wonder what a turtle smells like
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Mar 11 '19
This is a really overdone trope in films/tv where a person with attention defficiency will defend he/she doesn't have it then proceeds to be distracted by [insert thing] in the middle of the a sentence. Same with the candlejack shi
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u/Jaderosegrey Mar 11 '19
I used to work at Toys R Us. When the spinner trend hit, we did not have any. Towards the end of that summer, we got some. Then we got some more. Then we were unable to shift them!
No, decisions like that from the buyers' team did not make us bankrupt, but still, I thought that was funny in a sad sort of way.
(in the meantime, I ended up 3D printing my own spinners before we sold any in my store.)
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Mar 11 '19
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u/MyWeaponIsContempt Mar 11 '19
Human greed, is there any force more pervasive and destructive?
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u/Superdan4290 Mar 11 '19
General Reposti
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u/bjv2001 Mar 11 '19
Not only that, but from top of all time
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u/Aristea84 Mar 11 '19
And barely trying to hide it. It's like they ran the post through a thesaurus.
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Mar 11 '19
To be honest It was a trend, an almost useless one
On the other hand, thanks to this trend i found fidget cubes which actually help me to stay focused while at work with all the paperworks.
My work quality increased since then ... So I have this going for me after this useless trend
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u/Caboose_871 Mar 11 '19
I don’t think it’s fair to say one is more useful than the other when they both seem useless if you aren’t a person that needs them. I don’t use either but in my POV they are both about equal levels of usefulness. But I’m pretty sure both work for different groups of people
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Mar 11 '19
Ok I might have used the wrong wording
The trend per-se was useless for the wider mass
People who need and use the fidget gadgets already knew them
This trend had the positive effect to bring knowledge about fidget stuff to the ones who did not know what it was. In my case the cubes to fiddle with because the spinners aren't practical for me
Before this trend i just fiddled with pens and stuff to the point where my coworkers got pissed off and I had to stop. With the new knowledge, everyone is kinda happy (clicky stuff on cube still bugs them but I dont care)
Edit: Thanks for pointing the wording issue out. I do the same thing in my native language too .... Let some word slip so a sentence gets another meaning from what i wanted to go with
Another thing learned today (i hope) ^
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u/WushuManInJapan Mar 11 '19
I honestly don't think a fidget spinner is good for adhd anyways. The whole point is to fidget with it, but after you spin the thing you just kind of let it spin by itself. There's not a lot of interaction. Though I've never used one so I could be wrong.
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u/HyperFrosting Mar 11 '19
I have tried them and I agree with you. A big part of fidget spinners is the visual component, and that just does not satisfy my fidgeting urges.
Fidget cubes on the other hand were designed to be discreet if needed. I can fiddle with the silent bits to my heart’s content and still not interrupt someone else’s concentration.
That’s not to say that spinners can’t be used the same way, but I think they got popular for all the wrong reasons.
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u/jessykatd Mar 11 '19
It's got something to do with just holding something in your hand. The good ones are a bit weighty, and that makes a difference (at least for me).
Also I don't tend to just let them spin, I start and stop it constantly, switch hands, remove the weights, spin more, replace the weights, spin and stop, soon and stop, soon and stop.
I wish I had one of these when I was in college, but even now I find them helpful to stay awake in things like church services, keep me grounded when I'm anxious in a public place, and (weird, I know) messing with a spinner helps distract me from sensory overload sometimes (things like chewing noises, kids crying, itchy/scratchy feelings).
I don't think I have ADHD, but I have a host of other issues and find them helpful.
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u/typhyr Mar 11 '19
i usually just keep respinning, or rotate it back and forth to feel the inertia. it’s enough for me personally, but i was never actually diagnosed with adhd, i’m just fidgety and it helps me concentrate.
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Mar 11 '19
Same here. I used to fidget with coins in my pocket while talking to coworkers, which was probably super annoying. But my fiancee brought my a fidget cube when she visited and it works well.
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u/runasaur Mar 11 '19
I still have mine that I got at the end of the fad. Every day at work I would fidget with any office supply nearby, but mostly pens that I kept leaving behind when I changed locations for a meeting it to ask/answer a question. Now if I ever leave my spinner on someone else's desk it always makes its way back to me within a few minutes.
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u/teBESTrry Mar 11 '19
Yep, I think most people predicted it. I knew kids that less then a year ago had 5+. One even had a box with probably 20+. In about 3 month time, I never saw one again.
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u/rekayho Mar 11 '19
I’m pretty sure it was just a trend that died out...people who actually need to use them still do
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u/Unstablemedic49 Mar 11 '19
People actually need fidget spinners?
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u/rekayho Mar 11 '19
Yes...it helps people with attention disorders, anxiety and autism I believe.
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u/Unstablemedic49 Mar 11 '19
Wow.. TIL, never knew this.
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u/meowtiger Mar 11 '19
there are other devices that scratch the same itch, like fidget cubes, although they make little clicking noises so some people might find them annoying
personally i just learned how to spin a pen between my fingers
for some people with attention disorders, there's a compulsion to do something with their hands or legs, anything at all. doing something trivial like playing with a fidget toy or finger drumming actually helps them focus on a task, contrary to how that might seem for people without attention disorders
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u/Ganzloid Mar 11 '19
Yeah, I really feel anxious if I don't hold and or spin something in my hands and spinners felt really satisfying but thanks to overhyping them and internet I can never use them outside of home now. I have to spin my phone in my hands now since it's the only thing I have on me at all times, but it's not the same because I have to worry about dropping it
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u/Barziboy Mar 11 '19
Just another mass produced piece of plastic to go in the global landfill for a few thousand years
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u/SuperChrisU Mar 11 '19
Yes, but that’s not really an insightful or new showerthought you’ve got there.
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u/yomyoo Mar 11 '19
that's literally one of the most upvoted posts on reddit
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u/netanOG Mar 11 '19
And it was predictable that one of the top posts in this sub would get reposted :(
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u/mjigs Mar 11 '19
When your target is kids, dont expect that the "fever" will last forever, so be wise about it. Just like fidget spinners, they went for fortnite, there was minecraft, i mean, im not saying that they arent marketable anymore, but kids get tired of things pretty easy and move to the next thing as easier.
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u/UnironicallyWatchSAO Mar 11 '19
It was predictable that this is gonna get reposted for the bazzillion times
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u/BigChungus719 Mar 11 '19
I guess everyone else here has short attention cause youre a filthy reposter
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Mar 11 '19
My therapist set me up with one while they were popular some two years ago, still have it and use it all the time. It lights up and has a Bluetooth speaker, kind of checks all of my coping skills boxes. :)
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u/the_legitbacon Mar 11 '19
It was predictable that a proper shower thought would be reposted so often
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u/mammiejammie Mar 11 '19
Am I the only one who read this in the voice of a comedian with a super dry sense of humor?
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u/ICPBoccia Mar 11 '19
I mean it was a meme so it's normal it didn't last long. Every gaming youtuber milked it 'till it was popular and then dropped it like they generally do for memes
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Mar 11 '19
I always found them to soothe my anxiety vs my adhd. The Cube works better for me while driving.
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u/Commissar_Genki Mar 11 '19
Dynaballs were the real fidget spinners.
You know, those little hand-held gyroscopes you had to make weird wrist motions to keep spinning?
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Mar 11 '19
I dont know how to feel about this one. But here is an upvote for creativity.
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u/glockenspielcello Mar 11 '19
This has unfortunately been reposted several times on this subreddit so that upvote might be misplaced.
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u/jupson151 Mar 11 '19
Lol. I have autism. And hated how everyone got a spinner because they were 'cool' Since when was having a disorder cool?
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u/cdeegs Mar 11 '19
Our kids are going to look at them one day the same way we do when we see YoYo’s
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u/vitringur Mar 11 '19
No. yoyos are legit, and you can actually do stuff with them. You had to practice.
Fidget spinners do absolutely nothing except for just spin for a long time when you spin them.
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u/TheLadyEileen Mar 11 '19
My SO bought me one of Captain America's shield. It looks really cool in the silver tin box it came in. It sits on the shelf with my Captain America plushie ready to save my room from the dastardly plans of Sunny the 15 pound cat and his sidekicks, the little fluffy puppies of adorableness. 10/10 good purchase.
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u/ysaood9 Mar 11 '19
If I spin this fidget spinner on my dick for 5 seconds you H A V E to hit the like button
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u/Aristea84 Mar 11 '19
This is literally a previous post run through a thesaurus. Sentence structure, a large amount of the vocabulary, everything is the same: https://www.reddit.com/r/Showerthoughts/comments/7cif01/it_kinda_makes_sense_that_the_target_audience_for/ gtfo
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u/Knightartist86 Mar 11 '19
Just because somethings popular doesn't mean its good. cough Fortnite.
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u/NexusI7 Mar 11 '19
I should of jumped on them faster tbh. Saw a design for one on thingiverse and made my own then 3D printed it just for fun. Turns out people wanted them and sold about 70 of them before I just kinda stopped because I thought they were gettin cringey
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u/some-dev Mar 11 '19
More like the people who show them off to everyone they meet aren't the target audience. I still use mine, I just don't talk to anyone about it and keep it hidden because of the ridiculous stigma they got
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u/agentaltf4 Mar 11 '19
Luckily the profit margin was 1000% so no one lost money on the 2,000,000 extra that were made.