Use a flashlight to test. Real airpods, the plastic does a really good job at blocking the light and it won't diffuse. Fake ones almost always use shitty plasti

Use a flashlight to test. Real airpods, the plastic does a really good job at blocking the light and it won't diffuse. Fake ones almost always use shitty plastic and the light diffuses. When I was an Apple Certified iOS Technician, this was one of the tests we did.