Cucksumerism: Why Pokemon Sucks

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"cucksumerism" we truly live in the darkest timeline.

As far as I know, this began in the 80s, when the US deregulated some aspects of media aimed at children. Then you had toy companies like Matel making shows centered around selling stuff. The model was pioneered by them, in things like Transformers, GI Jow, all the Barbie shows, He-Man, My Little Pony, and a long etc. This model went on into the 90s, and it's still in place today. Pokemon just refined and perfected the recipe. They streamlined a system in which they could keep introducing a gazillion characters into the show. A cornucopia of dumb things to sell to children.

The part at 2:37 aged like fine wine. Can't believe BB knew about Tate a year ago

i really wish my parents didn't throw out my cards when i was a teenager because i "was becoming a man and didn't need shit like that anymore" like they weren't even right about the man thing

"based their entire personality on following the orders of some marketing company from the 90s". I don't even collect pokemen cards and I can feel the burn form this truth.

In about 2015, my friend and I got really stoned, and started reminiscing about Pokémon. We ended up digging up our cards and learned how to play the game. It was incredibly boring and uneventful

I had a stepdad at the time who traveled to Japan and he bought me boxes of normal pokemon cards and japanese boxes as well. I had every first edition pokemon card, and its Japanese version as well. Both were complete full sets. And then I traded them all for a rob zombie cd because it cussed and I wanted to be a cool kid who didnt have pokemon cards and had cds that cussed. My mom heard me listening to it the next day and took the cd so then I had nothing and everytime pokemon resurges I think about this and now I won't let my son throw any old toys away and its a problem. Fin

We were even dumber in my primary school, we didn't just not know about the game, we made our own game which was just "who can throw the pokemon card the furthest". People would have bets and whoever won got to keep both cards

to be fair about the household objects as magical creatures, I assumed that was inspired by japanese folklore about tsukumogami (tools or objects that have gained a spirit by existing and being looked after for a long time) rather than just "let's just put a cup on there"

As a tournament player, it's insane how much their influence bumped up the prices. Like I just want to own a few packs here and there for my own collection and deck, and I can't even have that.

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The part about kids having the cards but not knowing how to play the game or really caring that much was incredibly accurate. I was one of those kids lol.

Fun fact: my parents saw the pastors freaking out about Pokémon, and decided to buy me Pokémon cards for Christmas because of it.

Every 5 years or so I get bit by the Pokémon bug and play through my old games. So timeless. Always gonna love Pokémon

Pokemon FOR SURE was NOT the first to discover the cartoon / merch hack. There were actual laws and such about all of that back in the 90s in general... but Dik, Hanna Barbera, etc era... the whole GI Joe, Xmen, Ninja Turtles, Ghostbusters, He-man, Transformers, etc era... the whole Fox Kids era... it was all done WELL BEFORE Pokemon ever came on the scene and swooped up the derpy kids.

“Sorry babe I can’t come out tonight, new Boy Boy just dropped”

Grew up poor so I always saw through the pointless consumerism of collectable landfill at a young age but that might have just been me on copium

The reason why I like the cards is for the same reason I like the games: Fictional zoology with great depth to it and I find every pokemon I've ever seen adorable, even critters like Regigigas and Eternatus However, I don't understand the obsession with buying up and hoarding the cards until their value is raised so ridiculously that the kids the series is marketed to don't have even a sliver of a chance to get pokemon cards

10:30 Oh my days "a little nibble on the side...sony's signature cardboard case" 🤣🤣