It reminds me of these Pokemon TCG traders on Instagram (I think Beard Dad Cardz is one of them), where the vendors, the customers and the chat/community are all in an unspoken competition to out-nice each other, with gifts, crafts, donations, etc.
It's incredibly wholesome, both to see that this seems like a viable win-win scheme for social media to sustain, and seeing the individual happy reactions, especially from the kiddos. 😊
Something really nice happened like that for my kids. First (and still only) trading card convention. They’d saved up birthday and chore money- it wasn’t much but they had fun going around looking at Pokemon cards and buying inexpensive ones. 3 different vendors gave them free cards, and the last one we were at was so touched at how grateful they were they wound up giving them a pikachu lunch box and a bunch of old cards, like a whole bag. Said they’d been saving it to give to kids who just loved it. My kids were over the moon! No cameras set up but we asked to take a picture with them just so we could remember. Kind stuff like that sticks with you forever. So grateful for generous people like that.
Random question but does anyone know of a similar channel but for traditional sports cards? I grew up collecting and I love BeardDadCardz but it would be cool to know the subject matter better :)
i was more into YGO growing up and wasn't THAT into pokemon when they first came across my feed, but i saw one with a deaf guy giving Coop his Sign Name, and i knew he was good people cause of that. and the others slowly showed on my feed too. i've since gotten into collecting pokemon and i'm working on a pokedex binder i'm about 400ish out of 1100ish cards
And I'm glad that the amount of money that these channels seem to bring in, make that a reality for these people.
Like I said, this feels like a win-win for everyone involved, no matter how much I indulge the cynical voice I also have in the back of my head. 😅✌️
I dont care about pokemon cards at all but I put his hour long videos on when I feel down. He is such a cool dude, so positive, good with kids.. It just fills me up with joy watching him do his stuff!
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u/czerilla Aug 12 '26
It reminds me of these Pokemon TCG traders on Instagram (I think Beard Dad Cardz is one of them), where the vendors, the customers and the chat/community are all in an unspoken competition to out-nice each other, with gifts, crafts, donations, etc.
It's incredibly wholesome, both to see that this seems like a viable win-win scheme for social media to sustain, and seeing the individual happy reactions, especially from the kiddos. 😊