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Why are millennials spending large amounts of money on Pokemon cards?
Nathaniel Hernandez
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Dominic Campbell
>Why are baby boomers spending large amounts of money on baseball cards?
James Morales
>Why are greatest generationers spending large amounts of money on stamps?
Brayden Nelson
Some weird fetish i guess. or child like brains
John Sullivan
regression
I've noticed this, too. The Pokemon Company must be fucking ecstatic.
James James
Why are Silent Generations spending large amounts of money on cigarette cards?
Anthony Rogers
You're about a decade out of touch OP
Cameron Sanchez
This. Pokemon cards are millenial's version of collector items. I am sure the WW2 generation thought collecting baseball cards was retarded too
Daniel Garcia
>You're about a decade out of touch OP
Xavier Ward
We want to remain in suspended adolescence.
Nolan Phillips
>bullshit ebay price
Yeah, no, this ain't Magic. Pokemon cards ain't worth shit. Well, not singles, sealed you can move
Michael Johnson
I might have a few of those laying around, if those retards are buying them, I might have to try to find them. Hopefully they aren't destroyed by moisture.
Luke Gutierrez
Pokemon hasn't been an interesting theme since like 2003.
Easton Gray
why do millennials look like webm related?
Luke Wright
pokemon card are the new bitcoin
Kevin Price
You talking shit about games?
Alexander Walker
I feel sorry for that couch
Colton Thomas
delet dis
Charles White
That firat edition Charizard fetches a good penny.
On a similar note, an Alpha Black Lotus could let me live 24 months without working or collecting unemployment. Living well within my means.
Alexander Young
>Hopefully they aren't destroyed by moisture.
its only worth that much if its in pristine condition, definitely never been used by kids playing the game
Ryder Lewis
Hahaha now THAT is a good question.
Zachary Sanders
>On a similar note, an Alpha Black Lotus could let me live 24 months without working or collecting unemployment. Living well within my means.
yeah but those are rare as hell, the alpha run was really short
Jordan Reyes
Welp, there goes that.
Tyler Moore
Android Netrunner is pretty fun
Samuel Morris
>I'm a very lucky guy
>My brain is so broken that I make videos about buying cardboard mass-produced art at crazy mark-ups because "muh nostalgia"
Yeah, choose one. I certainly wouldn't think I was a lucky parent if that was my son, LOL
Jaxson Thompson
PSA 10 cards from trading games are pretty rare, even if you had them graded freshly from an unopened booster you wouldnt get straight 10s.
The other thing worth considering is that they are an easy way to launder money and they hold their value decently well.
Kevin Lee
SOURCE FOR CRINGE PURPOSES
pour faver folks
Jace Roberts
Holy shit I have a holo Charizard somewhere at my parents' place. They go for 20k now?
Luis Barnes
some cinemassacre christmas special i assume, never saw it so it might be new?
Jason Stewart
It's not millennials, it's slightly older people going back and re-living their childhoods. This happened for stamps, comics and baseball cards too.
I remember the baseball card boom. There were shops everywhere and it was always high flying 30 somethings buying cases.
Julian Walker
If its an early one and perfect condition - remember not only did kids play with them but the foil naturally causes the cards to bend with time.
Brayden Garcia
Just like in magic there are very specific cards with value. Pokemon just doesn't have any eternal formats, so nobody is seeking cards for their power.
Neither magic nor Pokemon are more than a fart in a windstorm compared to real art collecting.
Lincoln Hill
>When mommy wommy bought you a pack of pokemon cards instead of yugioh
Elijah Lee
All this gamer nerd shit is just an escape because the real world has become so shitty. I'm not a gamer/nerd myself but I don't blame all your guys that stay in your room all day playing video games because the real world is incredibly depressing.
Josiah Diaz
Grayson Jenkins
Mike really needs some new friends.
Kevin Morris
Ever hear of the words collector and collectables
Jace Reed
>(((art collecting)))
Alexander Edwards
>tfw I lent my good cards to a friend back in school which proceeded to avoid me so much Im sure he was always looking around the corners for years (seriously, the guy was almost invisible)
Im sure I had a charizard and a mewtwo there, along other things. each time Isee news like this my heart and my wallet hurt
Ryder Carter
Same reason people spend large amounts of money on defunct, devalued currency from collapsed or extinct civilizations.
Leo King
Its not as bad as you think, 99.5% of pokemon cards will never come close to being this valuable.
Lucas Morris
yes, I know, I still have the ones that arent worth anything. or should I say, I only have those now
Jose Cruz
I opened a pack a week or 2 ago
Got a $40 secret rare
Angel Nguyen
You can probably get $50 depending on the edition and how close to mint it is.
Yeah, sealed boosters on the other hand.
The pokemon collecting communities are extremely normal, and the reason is that it was well designed as a game, the powerful cards were not really expensive, there has been WC decks that were as cheap as $300 total, sure sounds like a lot but with $300 you couldnt do shit in other competitive card games. Working on a store i actually was surprised how normal pokemonfags were, compared to weeboos and nerds, the only ones that are more normie were the toy train guys.
Justin Green
I have two of those cards.
Ryan Ramirez
Had one of these in 1999, got it the first pack of cards I ever bought.
Lost it few years later, kek.
Jack Long
I have one of those too!
Aiden Johnson
i used to have a few of those :(
Wish i had that Black Lotus. sick condition.
Lincoln King
A girl who had a crush on me in grade 4 gave me one of those Charizards because she liked me, I didnt even ask.
Life is easy when youre good looking.
Asher Kelly
Not 1st Edition. $20,000 dollars is ridiculous tho. You could buy one for $500 a year ago.
Justin Walker
I guarantee not a single person in that webm has ever played any sport
Brody Jackson
Those aren't shadowless you fucking casual
Leo Bell
You should see it when people share "most valuable Pokémon cards" lists on Facebook. You see dozens of faggots that had like 50 cards, tops, back in 1999-2001 tagging friends and asking if they had any. All the cards in the list end up being super rare tournament promos, prizes and 1st edition misprints that were rare enough when it was big. As bad as people ITT, if not worse.
Michael James
>As bad as people ITT
>One guy posted two cards
Uh huh