Victoria Song

So and then it goes into reasons why.

So I just want to say, yeah, this is the level of journalistic integrity that I bring to a very pointless fact.

Um, I think that a lot of it, there's like multiple reasons why, but a lot of it that I think, uh, can be traced back to some reader requests that I've actually gotten over the last couple of years, which we did a Verge cast hotline about it.

Like I think two years ago, it was like, where have all the fitness bands gone?

Because, um, there was a shift in time with wearables where we went kind of all in on the smartwatch for various reasons.

And, uh, you know, the pebbles went to the, to the side, the, uh,

fitness bands of yore that were affordable and fairly basic gave way to more complicated Pixel watches and Apple watches and all of those things due in part to their advanced health tech features.

And so Whoop

in their absence, kind of gained a lot of traction.

The Oura Ring gained a lot of traction precisely because there's no display.

There are minimal notifications or haptic reactions and pretty robust data that gets tracked.

And so, you know, there have been a number of whoop-doops in the last year or so.

There's one from Amazfit, however we're pronouncing that,

Um, that I've gotten a lot of questions about from our subscribers and readers.

And so when the Fitbit Air came out, I think you saw a lot of people just go like, it's a whoop dupe.

I have a theory about that.

Um, but they go, oh, it's a whoop dupe and it's $99 and you don't have to pay whoops, ridiculous yearly subscription.

Um,

Yeah, like my theory kind of dovetails with your theory in that I think people have been calling this a whoop-doop one because whoop-doop is just a fun thing to say.

Whoop-doop.