Honestly playmaxx is dead or at least those people gone so I’m less worried about that.
Like I’m not gonna boycott a company because someone’s great grandpa was in the kkk. Unless they start wearing great grandpas clothes.
I edited this comment to clarify I didn’t mind playmaxx since they are dead. Sorry for the confusing wording before.
tbf ppl’s gripes with yyf are FAR more recent than that and with at least one person that is still at the company
Yeah I meant I don’t mind buying playmaxx yo-yos because that company is dead. Unless I missed something.
YYF ain’t getting my money and I’m actively protesting them by providing free cork pads that aren’t YYF made.
What are you using for Adhesive to apply your printed ones?
For the cork fiber and carbon fiber they fit so snug you don’t need adhesive.
For the softer plastics polypropylene and tpu I’m sending them out without adhesive and recommend either a light spray of super 77, or cheap hairspray. Or even a little glue stick.
oh i see, no i misunderstood. i thought you were referring to yyf
Can’t wait to try these out
Oh no. I can’t actually fully express my opinion on YYF here in forum safe language.
Wait, are we talking about YYF, YYF, or YYF?
They claim the F stands for Factory if that helps clarify.
Ah, so we aren’t talking about F as in Friends or F as in Freaks?
To clarify, we are talking about Yoyo Factory? Not Yoyo Friends nor Yoyo Freaks?
The YYF in which we are speaking controversially about is Yoyo Factory
You have come to the correct conclusion.
Thank you for clarifying. I’d be horrified if I blamed YYF or YYF for something that YYF did. Also, Idk what YYF(actory) did (or didn’t?) do. I’m sure I have an idea, but the second I see YYF, my eyes start blurring.
never heard of yoyo freaks but i thought ppl differentiated yoyo friends by abbreviating it to YYFr from what I’ve seen
I had also forgotten about YYFreaks when I was discussing this with someone, and boy howdy did my argument become even more rock solid.
Also, that differentiation is not a hard rule; it tends to be more of an unspoken guideline that nobody knows. Honestly, I don’t even pay attention anymore if I see a ‘F’ appended to two ‘Y’. Life’s too short.
To make matters worse, I’m almost positive there’s another (ie fourth) YYF
YoYoFreaks had some pretty cool stuff. There was a really fun POM called the Sharp, and they had a sick undersized bi-metal called the Hashtag that was pretty solid. Their big thing was the “hundred series” where they would only make one run of each model, limited to 100 pieces only, and never made again afterwards.
Hashtag:
Wait. Is this the racism controversy I remember being discussed last year? I thought that was YoyoFriends
Nope, that was all YoYoFactory.
There’s a lot to unpack there, but it’s honestly not hard to find.
