It was these water influencers on TikTok, there is a whole scene of middle aged cracker ladies that pump sugar free flavored syrups into their water, they make their own recipes and stuff. Not my thing but whatever. Anyway a bunch of them use Stanley cups probably because Stanley paid the influencers.

A lot of coffee shops will fill up your personal mug, one place I go I have seen them putting drip coffee into a Stanley mug just the other day. I heard Starbucks also decided to allow it again at all locations but I didn't see that directly. Plenty of places did before the pandemic but stopped. Or people will buy the fancy latte and pour it into their cup themselves, I've seen that too where I'm at.

Consumerism and it's fucking consequences. I don't understand why people are fawning over a certain brand of flask, but they are