Why is Pokémon not as popular anymore?

Everyone knows Pokémon, some of them are cute, and some look really cool. But why is it not so popular anymore like when it used to be?

Don’t get me wrong, it is still popular, but I feel like its not as popular as when it used to be back in like 2016. Now its more popular with adults and some kids. 

As an adult myself, I have a pretty big collection of cards. But a lot of people may have a lot more cards than me. Like people who open Pokemon cards for a living, like YouTube or TikTok. 

A lot of people also grade their cards and or sell them. For me, I just collect the cards just to collect them. I don’t want to grade or sell them. I don’t even want to do master sets. I just collect them. 

But there is a negative side to this community. Sometimes its hard to find Pokemon cards in stores that are new or recent. There are some people who buy them in large bulks of new Pokemon and sell them for a more expensive prices once they release. This makes it a lot harder for kids and casual collectors like me to get the Pokemon sets that have just released. These people are called scalpers, They are not just part of the Pokemon card community, but for mostly every trading card game. They can pretty much be spotted everywhere that sells cards. Sometimes you will see them in smaller card shops as well. This is the reason why some card collectors don’t go looking for new packs that much anymore. If you want to look deeper on this, You can search up the word Pokemon Scalpers on TikTok. Then you will see how serious this is to kids who are just trying to get some cards for their collection, and for casual collectors who just want to collect the cards. 

I wanted to share this because I want people to know about this so they can be aware of it. Whether you’re a card collector or not, It is great to try to minimize these people form doing this. Because it is making people leave the Pokemon card collecting community, even if they still love Pokemon. I only know this because I am one of those people who stopped collecting for a while and finally got back into it because I bought some cards at a card shop. And luckily now, my card collection is bigger than ever because one of my aunts boyfriend gave me some that they didn’t want anymore, which grew my collection to a whole new level that I didn’t even know I could reach when I was little. The picture on this article os my whole collection.

There is also an app that I use so that way I still get the satisfaction of opening card packs. The app is called Pokemon TCG Pocket. It’s a really good way to get the satisfaction of opening card packs but without the hassle of going to stores and finding the newest cards. 

That’s why I feel like Pokemon isn’t that popular when it comes to kids playing and collecting them, and for new collectors who are just trying to pull some cards to add to their collection. Because people like scalpers like to buy them in large amounts and sell them for a more expensive price. There are people who do sell cards like small businesses that are not scalpers. They get their cards from official wholesale distributors instead of places like Walmart or target like we do. So those aren’t who I’m talking about in this situation, card shops are great especially if you are trying to master set or if you just want to buy some cards. 

There are many other terms that I can talk about but there’s a lot that I just can’t talk about in an article. But maybe my next one will be about another term that not everyone knows about, but should know about in regards to the Pokemon card sellers that are out there. It is also a good thing to search up the different types of sellers in this community and in every card community so that way people are aware about it and people can help us stop this from happening as much is it is now. 

And who knows, maybe if we do prevent this from happening, trading card games will be more popular then they used to be. Even with the phone app that Pokemon has to collect cards virtually.