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 …
I was perusing Twitter yesterday when the algorithm fed me a tweet from a Pokémon idiot to the retail big-box store Target. It contained a photo taken at a Target customer service desk showing an associate buying two Pokémon Elite Trainer Boxes (ETBs). The Pokémon idiot, POV rips, told Target that the employee who bought …
The following tweet appeared in my Twitter feed yesterday: Pokémon has a gambling problem. Where there’s gambling, there are people drawn to it because they’re people with an addiction. Too many people use opening packs as a way of getting the dopamine fix they crave. They’ll literally pay thousands of dollars to pull a card …
Canadian YouTuber Rattle Pokemon (government name Michael Barristo) posted a video today announcing that a law firm claiming to represent Logan Paul sent him a cease-and-desist letter. It concerns a video Barristo posted six days ago titled, “Is Logan Paul’s Ripit Another SCAM Like Liquid Marketplace, Cryptozoo & Dink Doink?” The law firm, Neiman Mays …
I was listening to YouTube videos yesterday while straightening up the garage. A video appeared in my feed from Poke Office, a channel focused on collecting, investing, vending, and other business topics related to Pokémon. In the video, the host discussed obtaining a wholesale card distributor to supply sealed Pokémon products, which can then be …