Hey YYE family. Its been about 14 years since I was last active on a yoyo forum but I went on a deep dive of nostalgia last night and found my old account on here. I’m not looking to connect this account with that one as I was a dumb highschooler who posted more than I should on the internet, but I thought it would be fun to come back and see what the yoyo world is up to. For the past 14 years Ive carried my Werrd crossbody bag across the country on various moves still loaded with a few yoyos that I never ended up parting with. I have no idea how active I’ll end up being but I’m gonna pull my BvM out of storage and see how hard the bug bites me again!
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Nice!! Welcome back. Hopefully you’ll find yourself chiming in but even if not, it’s nice to have you here.
Hello all,
im Joe, from 
I’m new to yo-yos and I haven’t used one in years. Over the past year or so I’ve been talking to friends about yo-yos from back in school days and how it was a on and off trend back then. Literally when the trend disappears the shops stop selling them, reminiscing on the good old days
Then the other day I started to do some YoYo research watching videos, social media etc etc etc then came across a YoYo company called Offset on YouTube seen the quality in their products and ended up buying a Outlier 5. I have used it yet as I’ve got an injury to my foot. Then my journey lead me to the best YoYo forum on the internet, this one. But one question I would like to ask is why doesn’t Offset YoYo get much attention on here? I feel like I’ve made a bad choice. But in a sense I live in the uk and that was my only choice to buy the Outlier 5 but there’s not many shops here.
Anyway I hope you all find my little journey interesting and have a wonderful day
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Offset makes great yoyos, so don’t worry about having made a bad choice. I have a couple thoughts on why they might not get as much conversation here.
Their marketing is very much aimed at youth and at people looking to play competition yoyo, with hype social media marketing, and pushing limits on performance and width. The people that frequent the forums are generally an older audience (forums being a dead medium and all) and an audience less focused on raw performance.
The second reason is there are a ton of smaller companies with a ton of collectors, with some having huge collector legacy like clyw, others like g2 or onedrop having a huge cult following, so a newer brand which doesn’t make a ton of “unique” thros and focuses on performance isnt going to have as much traction with collectors
Rest assured the outlier 5 is a great yoyo
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