We're destroying the planets capacity to support life so we can make more plastic shit like this..

Oh, for fuck's sake. Children like to play with toys.

You assholes are so God-damned old.

Wasn't meant as a reply, but still applies.

Something something oligarchy.

I have this idea to commission a comic artist to make a panel of the "cycle of consumption" like an educational poster style, but it's just a big factory that dumps its products directly into the landfill.

Now, I'm not sure that I'm up on my fidget spinner history, but didn't these things start out as a gun/knife dork thing? I remember seeing fancy fabricated metal ones that were being marketed to the kind of person who likes the tactile sensation of absent-mindedly holding a nice knife or a gun. My impression is that they were a worry stone for guys in dragon/wolf shirts.

It's kind of amusing that a thing that started as a low production machinist's toy has been turned to plastic garbage glued to cheap Chinese bearings... So I guess this is the "finger skateboard" of 2017?

It's not that kids are playing with toys, it's the pretense to a medical value that bothers me.

I don't know if the toy is that cheap, but that one is home made, you can see it in another video where he makes a spinner using hot glue.

Nobody ever said spinners have "medical value" just that they're useful for helping many kids with ADHD or people on the autism spectrum maintain focus & keep calm.

I can confirm that because my youngest nephew has ADHD. If you talk to him for any extended length of time, he starts to fidget. He starts by wringing his fingers. If he keeps going, he'll grab one foot with one foot with one hand, pulling his leg as far back as he can while balancing shakily on the other foot. His other arm will be wrapped over the top of his head with his hand grabbing his ear and pulling his head sideways. Naturally, people think he's doing this on purpose to be a little wise-ass. Really, he does it to keep paying attention to what you are saying. You can imagine how well this routine would go over in school.

Since we've gotten him a spinner and a fidget cube, he keeps his hands quietly occupied and stands mostly still while listening to people.

I'm glad the spinners are popular with all kids, even the ones who don't have ADHD. It makes my nephew feel less freakish seeing other kids enjoying them.

Pseudoscience and nothing but. You've just got anecdote.

They pitch a product using pseudoscience, it gets embraced by the kids that don't need it, they proceed to make it an annoying fad, ability to utilize scientific method to test the effects of a fidget spinner on the autistic and ADHD is greatly diminished by schools banning it come September across the board.

God, you're awful.

Just fucking awful.