Diseased The Fidget Spinner Community - "It's Not A Trend, It's A Way Of Life."

introman said:
Fidget spinners are being mass produced at factories right now in China at such a fast rate, that I have gotten multiple emails from Chinese distributors about selling them. It's a good fad market to get into, since the cost of a plastic fidget spinner to a basic seller (not talking economy of scale like walmart can get) is $ .88 . The metal-ones can vary from 5 dollars to about 18 dollars wholesale; these adult idiots are literally paying triple+ to get shit mass produced in China with no extensive R&D and that almost any individual can access. Fidget Spinners are just the next fad that business people are hyping to children because the profit margins are huge.
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I was in Hong Kong for a while and these fucking things started flooding all the night markets for $1-3 US. They weren't selling well and the locals were mostly just staring at them trying to figure out what the point of them was. They weren't even labelled "fidget spinners," there were just stacks of them on tables all over the place.

In retrospect, I should have known I was going to come back to autists embracing them as a "way of life" over here.
 
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I've never even heard of these before today, and for the life of me, I don't get it. As a cute distraction like those ball clacker things... yeah, sure, I guess.

I can understand paying extra for quality tools. I can even understand paying extra for quality toys, like a yo-yo if you're actually doing tricks with it.

But this?

It's just a fuckin' thing that spins.
 
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lol the fidget cube by antsy labs is way less expensive. If you wanted to receive one in the mail, you had to put down 25$ for it on Kickstarter. Which doesn't seem all that bad.

I think it's been proven that the fidget cube helps people concentrate, and that the fidget spinner is just a toy that serves as a distraction. NPR did an article on it.

http://www.npr.org/2017/05/14/52798...-spinners-provide-entertainment-not-adhd-help

I totally don't doubt this is a great toy for spergs though. It definitely explains the subreddit.

Here's an article on the cube: https://www.bostonglobe.com/lifesty...ys-may-help/eTvlgEbtEdvJ3NK9WMw7RM/story.html

So yeah, it's obvious the makers of the spinner are trying to cash in on what Antsy Labs has done. Either they don't give a shit, or they missed their mark completely. The cube works like a worry stone or pen that you can click, without taking your attention away from what you're actually working on. The spinners are mesmerizing and counterproductive.
 
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lol the fidget cube by antsy labs is way less expensive. If you wanted to receive one in the mail, you had to put down 25$ for it on Kickstarter. Which doesn't seem all that bad.

I think it's been proven that the fidget cube helps people concentrate, and that the fidget spinner is just a toy that serves as a distraction. NPR did an article on it.

http://www.npr.org/2017/05/14/52798...-spinners-provide-entertainment-not-adhd-help

I totally don't doubt this is a great toy for spergs though. It definitely explains the subreddit.

Here's an article on the cube: https://www.bostonglobe.com/lifesty...ys-may-help/eTvlgEbtEdvJ3NK9WMw7RM/story.html

So yeah, it's obvious the makers of the spinner are trying to cash in on what Antsy Labs has done. Either they don't give a shit, or they missed their mark completely. The cube works like a worry stone or pen that you can click, without taking your attention away from what you're actually working on. The spinners are mesmerizing and counterproductive.
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Spinners (specifically the Torqbar) have been around for years, far longer than the cube.
 
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I can't stand the moms on Facebook who try to defend these things claiming that they've helped their special :autism: snowflakes in school, but now that everybody has them their special snowflake can't bring theirs to school.
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If your kid is so autistic he can't function unless he's literally playing with toys in the middle of class then he shouldn't be going through mainstream education in the first place.
 
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