Inside the hateful Pokémon card grading scene
In today's WIRED Daily, we explore a world that's full of Pokémon card grading fun – and tons and tons of abuse. Plus, why Apple went all in on audio at WWDC.
When Peter Graham noticed that people were going nuts for Pokémon cards again – that grown men were sweeping packs into their shopping trolleys and pulling out guns to fend off Weedle-crazed muggers; that Logan Paul had paid $150,000 for a single Charizard card, the one he wore around his neck before fighting Floyd Mayweather – he thought of his childhood.
Graham, who is 30 and speaks with the controlled affability of a salesman, remembered how he used to zip through the playground, clutching an elastic band full of cards. And like the more worldly kids back then – the ones who ended every school day with the best trades – he saw this new craze as a business opportunity. And so he entered a new world. A world where he spends twelve happy hours a day examining and talking about Pokémon cards. And a world where his days are sometimes filled with furious, virulent abuse.
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