"You guys are not going to believe this."

A few days ago, a musician named Sueco went viral on TikTok when he started a video by declaring, "You guys are not going to believe this. Starbucks has been scamming us this whole time."

To prove his point, Sueco fills a tall size Starbucks cup with coffee, and then claims to pour the exact same contents into a venti cup, which is the company's version of a medium.

About 16 million people have seen the musician's video, and while the evidence may appear damning, I couldn't help but be a little skeptical. Starbucks has been around since the '70s. If they've been scamming us on cup sizes this whole time, I wondered if it would have taken so many years for outrage to ensue.

And I wasn't alone! While some commenters suggested that Sueco's experiment makes sense because the smaller cup appears wider, so that would allow it to hold the same amount as a narrow cup that's taller...

...others wanted to see if he put anything inside the bottom of the cups to take up room before he started pouring:

So, I drove up to my local Starbucks and asked the incredibly patient barista for an empty cup of each size.

To start my personal experiment, I filled a short size cup with water and dumped that into the tall.

Though I did spill the tiniest amount, it was clear that the amount of coffee held by a short was nowhere near the amount that could satiate someone who regularly buys a tall.

To be fair, though, Sueco did not have a short...

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