Gotta Collect 'em All!

Pikachu is the mouse-like animal below. Pikachu is a Pokémon. The Pokémon trading card game is growing at rates that would make you jump out of your seat, take your chair, and smash it against the wall until it becomes sawdust. Seriously, it is expanding quicker than the waist of my jeans on Thanksgiving.

A few influential people are to inherit the blame for the worldwide craze for the cardboard squares, and they also are at the epicenter of the worldwide drought of the very same cards that elude everyday casuals like you and I. Below are links to the channels of YouTubers Logan Paul and PokeRev, two of the main culprits in the infamous pandemic-long card heist, as I enjoy calling it. Essentially, they corner the market on expensive cards and they flip them for their own financial gain. While repeating this process, they also acquire passive income through revenue streams such as their subscriber/view increase through opening the cards, and their livestreams where viewers can donate however much they desire to fuel the empire.

Logan's Base Set Booster Box Opening: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQ-f4N2yzTM

PokeRev's Skyridge Booster Box Opening: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AB8q_x8IGbk

Here is a chart of the pokemon card market relating to Logan Paul's Base Set Opening. The chart shows the growth of Base Set Foil cards from April 2020 to January 2021, and the results make me want to vomit into a manila envelope and personally mail it to Logan himself.

In laymen's terms, or in other words, in my simple terms because I am a simple person, the rich people take the thing that we all want and they use it all up or they choose who gets to have the thing. The thing being Pokémon cards, of course. As we venture into uncharted territory through the timeline of our lives, new obsessions may plague the culture of humanity. Until otherwise noted, however, the earth's population seems to be latched onto the drug that is Pokémon cards. Not actually, because they would be more expensive if they were a drug. And they probably wouldn't be sold at retail stores, well maybe CVS they are kind of a wild card when it comes to economics. Any who, Godspeed my soon-to-be Pokémon card enthusiasts and connoisseurs...be careful and keep your eyes open, maybe a pack will drop into your lap if you put your mind to it and have faith, or if you donate to Logan Paul's twitch stream.