Hagerstown, Maryland
Just when I thought I’d seen every method grifters use to extract money from people in the Pokémon community, someone comes along and raises the grifting bar. Case in point: PokeHEX, a mid-tier Pokémon influencer, announced on X that for $99 a month, he will be your VIP friend on X. This is what he …
A YouTube content creator who specializes in covering the Star Wars Black Series action figure line from Hasbro was arrested for possessing child pornography. From 25News: A man from LeRoy was arrested over a week ago on a county warrant for allegedly possessing child pornography. The Normal Police Department said 21-year-old Luke Griffin was arrested …
There’s a major update concerning the Bricks & Minifigs (BAM) controversy involving a missing Star Wars LEGO collection worth $200,000. The story was made famous by gonzo-style documentary YouTuber Benjamin “Reckless Ben” Schneider. In the multipart documentary series, Reckless Ben accused Ammon McNeff, CEO of BAM Franchising, Inc., and his brother Matt McNeff, COO of …
If you collect sports cards, you probably know the most famous basketball card ever made, the 1986-87 Fleer Michael Jordan #57. It’s Michael Jordan’s rookie card. Except there’s one small problem. It isn’t actually from his rookie season, nor is it his first licensed NBA trading card. Jordan’s NBA rookie season was 1984-85, when he …
Reckless Ben is a content creator known for making gonzo-style YouTube documentaries. His latest series centers on Bricks & Minifigs, a retail franchise with roughly 300 independently owned stores that buy, sell, and trade new and used LEGO products. The story also involves Ed Mansell, an 83-year-old Oregon resident who spent decades assembling what is …