Does anyone know who is behind the Fidget Spinner phenomenon? A few months ago they didn't exist, and now they're everywhere. Who's getting rich off this?
No one, because they're not branded or licensed. The people doing well out of them own the factories in China that make them, or buy them from those factories to mark up and sell to the gas stations and convenience stores where they get marked up again and sold to the kids who want them.
Thirty (twenty?) years ago, it was "slap bracelets". Same story; it's just that the Internet makes everything faster.
I remember back in January, there was this video [1] that kept showing in everybody's recommended videos, similar to the "1000 DEGREE EXPERIMENTAL KNIVES" video from MrGear [2]. It became popular very quickly and so the trend started.
The Fidget Spinner as we know it came about because the patent holder could not afford the fees to renew the said patent. Her name is Catherine Hettinger[1].
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[ 3.0 ms ] story [ 47.3 ms ] threadThirty (twenty?) years ago, it was "slap bracelets". Same story; it's just that the Internet makes everything faster.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14271914
Seriously, jokes about Ripple is the only time i ever heard about "fidget spinners". They likely have nothing to do with it what-so-ever.
I remember back in January, there was this video [1] that kept showing in everybody's recommended videos, similar to the "1000 DEGREE EXPERIMENTAL KNIVES" video from MrGear [2]. It became popular very quickly and so the trend started.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mP-tqMKqDAQ
[2] https://youtu.be/hjSheQ7LgJ4
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/may/03/fidget-...