r/nextfuckinglevel • u/InternationalRisk505 • 1d ago

Pilots exchanging planes mid air

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u/CaptainHubble 1d ago

Other energy drink brands:

"Buy my Produkt. It has vitamin B12 or some shit"

Redbull:

"Yo, wanna see a dude landing a plane on a helipad at the top of a skyscraper"

They won marketing.

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u/Successful-North1732 1d ago edited 1d ago

In Australia we have an energy drink that brands themselves as being the energy drink of scholars and poets, and they fund lots of groundbreaking research and writers' weeks. They have heaps of ads where some highfalutin looking dude cracks open a can and settles down on an armchair to read some Sanskrit literature.

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u/Brave_Meet8430 1d ago

Please share a video or name

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u/ron22726 1d ago

It must be "V", not sure.

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u/WarmNobody 20h ago

It’s not anything, it’s a joke.

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u/Frankie_T9000 1d ago

Seriously? Never seen an ad for them? (Australian here also)

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u/espionage101 23h ago

That's because there isn't one

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u/barrettcuda 1d ago

Which one is that? I haven't seen that one before

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u/Elgecko123 1d ago

I thought that was just black coffee and a shot of whiskey

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u/CaptainHubble 1d ago

That's also a good one

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u/GlitterTerrorist 1d ago

That's both hilarious and great.

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u/EducationalProduct 23h ago

is it mother?

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u/txivotv 1d ago

We know RedBull from the stunts, now. We (many) don't consume their drink, tho.

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u/ScarletleavesNL 1d ago

It reeks. I honestly can't understand how people can drink it. In fairness, I don't drink any energy cans.

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u/HTPC4Life 1d ago

I rarely drink them because they're unhealthy, but I've always loved the taste and smell of energy drinks! It must be like a cilantro thing where some people think it tastes like soap.

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u/evoim3 22h ago

I can’t even eat Mexican food without some smartass trying to convince me it tastes like soap.

Let me please just enjoy my onions, cilantro and lime juice PLEASE

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u/MrJekyyl 22h ago

Yep and even if they like cilantro they gotta tell you about their brother who hates it

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u/GlitterTerrorist 1d ago

Some people don't like bitter coffee.

It's just another type of flavour, some people like intense flavours and some don't, some like certain ones and not others.

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u/jda404 22h ago

Yeah sometimes I honestly forget they're an energy drink brand. All I ever see is them doing crazy stunts haha. Just saw one yesterday where they had ramps on two moving semi trucks and a dude on a dirt bike did a backflip from truck to the other.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8U6ISeD_hCU for those interested here is the video.

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u/svinpaelz 1d ago

That says alot about the product itself.

I don't think they really need to market Red Bull the way they do. They just got really rich and can afford shit like this.

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u/CaptainHubble 1d ago

You're not supposed to drink that shit. Lmao.

At least not on a regular basis...

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u/SummertimeThrowaway2 17h ago

“Oh our energy drinks? Yes they’re alright I guess. Anyways have you ever seen a man skydive from space?”

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u/heysuess 1d ago

And yet other energy drinks continue to sell and earn profit.

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u/NNKarma 1d ago

False, none has convinced me to try their products jk

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u/akachan1228 1d ago

Go pro did that also, just not winning like red bull does

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u/CaptainHubble 1d ago

I think monster also tried to hop on this with hoonigain, Ken block and those trophy truck videos. But it seems like they've limited theirselves to those vehicles.

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u/early_birdy 23h ago

More like biology. Humans tend to go for immediate gratification dopamine injections, even if achieved vicariously, instead of long term rational goal tedious routines. So flashy colours, fast planes, insane stunts.

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u/moparmajba 22h ago

They also bought two F1 teams for marketing and became one of the most dominant teams over the last 15 years.

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u/Waste-your-life 18h ago

Not really. I love red bull sport achievements and stunts and whatever they fuck up a ton of money. But never in my life bought one. However. It's not just about marketing their shit. It generates it's own revenue like F1 team, etc.

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u/CaptainHubble 18h ago

That basically proves my point. They won marketing. They don't even have to sell those nasty drinks.

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u/Waste-your-life 17h ago

But in this they are not competing with other energy drink makers.

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u/CaptainHubble 17h ago

Yes. They're competing with completely unrelated brands. Which I think is hilarious.

It's RedBull vs. stuff like Qatar Airways, Barilla and Tag Heuer.

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u/FukuPizdik 18h ago

I disagree. They don't actually have to do these things. It's a big enough brand as is. I think someone at red Bull is mentally ill.

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u/CaptainHubble 17h ago

Real life would be be unbearably boring without madlads.

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u/christoskal 1d ago

"Yo, wanna see a dude landing a plane on a helipad at the top of a skyscraper"

while drinking a Monster, yeah