Trying to Get Rich Off Pokémon Cards

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This week: we take a look at the fascinating and expensive world of Pokemon card collecting, and we find out if I can become a millionaire from my old collection. I had so much fun making this and I hope you enjoy it!
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[@kurtisconner]

hey guys the thing I mention later in the video has sold out! thanks so much for the support ❤️

[@treys2250]

Np

[@lilyanne6703]

NOOOOO I WAS JUST GOING FOR IT

[@taylorrhouser]

Jesus that was quick. I just got to that part of the video 😭

[@aidenhall5301]

Noooooo

[@sallyoldford9237]

Why didn’t I watch the video on double speed 😫

[@jarvis]

kurtis you have no idea how happy this video makes me

[@millyfiore7815]

hey jarvy

[@Chocoisgood]

it’s a kurtis thing

[@scioccoco]

hey bff

[@mossiplier]

you have no idea how happy it makes me that you are happy:)))

[@nietts]

I knew you'd be here!! Was expecting you feature in the vid king 😪

[@nikkicarreon]

The older I get the more frequently I almost cry over shit I watched when I was little 💀 in fact I am almost always on the brink of tears LMAO this made me feel better about that haha

[@lemonworm]

love your content and also SAME

[@rinrinring]

Omg it's you!! Candice

[@justpeachy6450]

@@rinrinring Thats not... candice... whos candice?? (also len pfp 😳)

[@rinrinring]

@@justpeachy6450 haha. Have you seen the clip of her saying Candice on TikTok. It became a bit of a meme. Also nice to see another vocaloid fan 🍊🍌

[@GreenJuicePouch]

Ofc nicole is a citizen of kurtistown 🙏🙏

[@itsPetal]

Dude the fuckin "UH OH" when he almost cried talking about digimon depression (digipression)??? *I felt that*

[@ximenacalderon326]

Same here lmao

[@eminempreg]

Digivolve into digitherapist

[@bubaaaaaaaaa]

Why tf am I laughing my ass off over digimon puns 💀

[@astererererer_]

@@bubaaaaaaaaa You could say you were digilaughing your digiass off at some digipuns

[@Lyra173]

Digipression goes crazy actually

[@RedChems]

As an adult I'm really glad to know it was actually pretty common to have a ton of Pokemon cards and have zero idea how the actual card game worked.

[@angelinacamacho8575]

I've only played the actual card game once 😂

[@Bullets4Brunch]

I like collecting the holographic cards cuz they're super shiny and make the Pokemon look even more cool 😂😂

[@tylerblalack6684]

Because the card game is ass

[@amandawhittemore5078]

I had naruto cards, Pokémon, Digimon, yu-gi-oh and various other cards. Never learned but still had fun

[@dantemagliari1073]

Yeah this was everyone. My friends and I all had insane book’s I remember everything on my front and second page. We all left them over at my buddies in like 4th grade and for years I’d see them laying around like ten years after we left em they were still there. One day when I found out they were selling for hella bread again I asked my buddy if they were still there and his mom had finally decided to throw them away lol I was kinda heartbroken honestly. First page was charmander, charmeleon, charizard (I paid $25 for in 4th grade.) second row was dark charmander, dark charmeleon, dark charizard. Bottom row Dr Blaine’s charmander, dr Blaine’s charmeleon, and dr Blaine’s charizard ppl used to go crazy over my front page. On the back of that page or the second page whatever lol I had all the legendary birds holographic it was all crazy I coulda sold that book for quite a bit if it wasn’t gone. But yeah I played the game like once, but one day I came over to that same friends house because we were all there like everyday and my two buddies were playing a game with cards I never seen or heard of. They told me it was kinda like Pokémon but it’s a new show called Yugi-Oh.. we started playing and it was awesome we started playing so much never having seen the show myself lol but I was loving the game.

[@annabanana1680]

“Minimalism is propaganda being fed to you from companies that make grey couches” I am losing it

[@paramorerocks26]

I’m so happy the Barbie saying balls is something that is staying, it’s so funny

[@FreezingmoonDSBM]

Just telling you you have 1.2k likes!

[@Nothing06940]

@@embryonic7692 1.6k likes now, and it's only been a day lol

[@paramorerocks26]

Look @ me go lmao thanks 4 letting me know y’all!

[@arsindmp9202]

2.6k now

[@Widdekuu91]

I wonder where the "EEEEEeeeEEuEEEeEuuuUUUuuwWWwwWWEHh!" comes from.

[@AnnikkaHowe]

Kurtis, you better film yourself opening the other boxes, I’m invested now.

[@SlainSigny]

could stream it on twitch? i'd tune in

[@iAquarius202]

@@SlainSigny yes @31:14 he says most likely he’ll open the other boxes on twitch once they arrive.

[@AnnaTalks-videos]

I’d also weirdly love a video of him just unboxing random boxes in the storage - it seems like there’s so much cool stuff in there

[@TheSeaBase]

Open new digimon game too! They are even doing classic styled packs with the old art!

[@obiwankenobi9141]

better? I hardly know her!

[@mimi-qz6tt]

jenna always helping kurtis and somehow having what he always needs sweetens my heart, i love them

[@taylorndean]

when i was nine going on ten, my older brother was moving out and left me his entire collection of pokemon cards. he was a super avid collector and had the original first packs from japan in mint condition as well as hundreds and hundreds of super rare US pokemon cards all in perfect condition- wrapped individually in plastic and placed into binders that were all organized by rarity. What did I do with these cards? I immediately took them all out of their protection cases + binders.... and taped them all.... to my door... I wanted to impress my two entire friends I guess??? so when they'd come over they'd see pokemon cards covering both sides of my door?? even tho one of these friends didnt even like pokemon??? after filling up my door, i still had so many binders of cards that i'd end up hanging them all over my room. I moved them around and re-taped them on the door so many times that they began to fall apart. due to this, my dad would then go on to throw them all out. i basically destroyed my family's future fortune in one day. i cannot tell u how many mint condition cards he had that are considered super rare and valuable. he had hundreds and kept them perfectly and i turned them into a pile of trash sent off to a landfill. don't give ur valuables to nine year olds

[@h222ley]

i would DIE omfgm

[@memechild2025]

this comment just killed me. call my family, they need to start making funeral arrangements.

[@God-ic4gx]

You know how you’re mad at yourself for that? Yeah, I’m just as mad

[@feliciananami9115]

I- this is so sad:") omg

[@pokaay3163]

As someone who kept many old pokemon cards of my own as I grew up, this comment hurt me deeply

[@charly_george]

The story arc of this video is like the trading card equivalent of a teen movie where the girl spends most of the movie simping for the popular guy only to realise she should actually be with her nerdy best guy-friend who’s been in love with her all along.

[@cease842]

God this is true and it’s perfect 💀

[@AnnikkaHowe]

This is Exactly right

[@pretzel5202]

surprisingly accurate

[@mai-mj2bf]

tall girl

[@thefloralbeatle4413]

the genders are usually reversed but ok

[@jojosaverageadventure_7202]

“I almost started crying because i was talking about a Digimon episode.” -Kurtis Conner, 2021

[@AxxLAfriku]

OH NOOOOOO!!! Most people agree that my vids are the worst on KZbin. I agree to disagree. Please agree to disagree with the haters, dear ian

[@randomdemonluna6805]

Honestly, who wouldn't when you relate to those kids

[@setperentie6462]

Same tho

[@theclaybor4352]

I started tearing up just listening to him describe it, and I've never even seen the show.

[@briannawalker4793]

honestly tho it's a mood - Digimon fucking SLAPS and it deserves all of the tears n.n

[@joshuapuett]

My dad collected a lot of different trading cards between the 1980s through the early 2000s. I asked him if he had any pokemon cards, and he said he thought a relative gave him a bunch of "weird cards." And when I finally found the box, I was amazed to see...a box of disney trading cards.

[@zaeromero6042]

😂😂😂

[@maxw9833]

The fact that every monster in Digimon ended with "mon" is hilarious

[@dylangarcia8429]

Damn, you really read between the line on that meat card.

[@waiting4digimonsurvive24]

I think it’s supposed to be like a file name. They are digital monsters after all

[@GamingintheAM0801]

It's their file extension. They're all .mon files. (In actuality, it's just a holdover from Tamagotchi. Every Tamagotchi name ends with "chi" and Digimon, being a spinoff, needed an equivalent.)

[@literallyafishhook]

@@GamingintheAM0801 til that digimon is a spinoff of tamagotchi what the fuck

[@themyofmy]

@@GamingintheAM0801 DIGIMONS A SPINOFF OF TAMAGOTCHI??

[@literalcyborg3723]

I remember the day that my little brother came home in TEARS because our elementary school had banned Pokémon cards. There had apparently been a physical fight over a Charizard and the principal had decided that it had gone too far. It was a dark day.

[@Salt____]

for my school some kid's entire binder got stolen and they got banned after that

[@Salt____]

it’s the reason you never bring an entire binder of Pokemon cards to school, you only bring one of those little pocket binders you can keep on you at all times

[@vicwaju6963]

my elementary school banned them too cuz they wanted the kids to get physical activity instead of sitting trading cards LMAO

[@ashleighhindson4590]

My primary school in aus also banned cards and card trading. It was a dark day :’(

[@Cheddar_Shred]

mine had banned them for the entire week except for Fridays during second recess because 'kids weren't getting active enough during recess'

[@avsusky]

finding a loose stack of pokemon cards under a bunch of beanie babies is a quintessential 90s baby storage unit find

[@iAquarius202]

This video was literally oozing with authentic 90s nostalgia… and I loved every minute of it! I think I’m gonna binge watch the “I Love the 80s” and “I Love the 90s” MTV series this weekend too.

[@christmastiger]

I actually was more excited about the beanie babies, I've pulled out my old boxes of them recently (I was literally obsessed with beanie babies, played with them constantly and took them to school, did drawings, made my own TV show with them, etc) and it was such an awesome feeling playing with them with my nieces like I used to as a kid, I let some of them have a few because I wanted them to experience the joy beanie babies gave me---I did keep a few that were really special though, so back of children!

[@makemosaics]

That photo of Curtis in front of the Pokémon car with the backstreet boys T-shirt is one of the sweetest things I’ve ever seen.

[@emiliachabik1205]

Bruh Kurtis' message about collecting things was so touching it almost made me feel like matt in that one digimon episode

[@shelby2901]

kurtis talking about that one digimon episode is literally me talking about that episode of spongebob where gary runs away from home and spongebob is trying to find him and there’s that scene where he’s just sitting on his bed crying while looking at a photo album of them both :(

[@lenagolia8320]

no because the song he sings used to just make me cry on the daily

[@taffyvago]

@@lenagolia8320 wait wait what song is it? If you can remember

[@ellairene9570]

@@taffyvago gary come home 😩

[@preternatural3231]

"gary im sorry i neglected u, i never expected u to run away and leave me feeling this empty" 😭😭

[@ellairene9570]

@@preternatural3231 your meow right now would sound like music to me 🥲

[@sophieblenkinsopp7639]

as a kpop photocard collector i can see a lot of similarities! it’s a physical collection of something you care really deeply about. the anticipation you feel opening an album to see your cards, it’s so fun. i’m glad to see other communities having the same/ similar experiences because it’s such a good time!

[@brenchadpicks3]

I don't even like kpop but this is just wholesome. Glad others get to experience something similar to how great trading cards are.

[@catherinehansen8809]

i’m watching this video as i organize pcs in my binder 😭

[@moonlit_sky127]

i was going to say the same ! i remember my friend pulling blue hour r-ver soobin and LOOSING her shit. he's her ult and that cards worth like $600-$3000 so we were both freaking out 😭

[@Keyboardsmash143]

@@moonlit_sky127 I was literally thinking about blue hour soobin watching this entire video 😭

[@LovelyIKnowx]

@@moonlit_sky1277 months late but holy shit?? What an INSANE pull omg 😭

[@SilencedTides]

Kurtis, these video essays and experiments are honestly so entertaining and the hard work you put into them really shows! we appreciate the effort you put into these and it’s just pure gold every time

[@adah5195]

TRUEEEEE

[@gravehymnuk]

our boy Kurtis works so hard and kicks himself too hard for it. we love you bro

[@aFoxyFox.]

Wow, you guys actually liked this style? I guess this is the new style of KZbin videos, I've seen a lot of creators making these sorts of things these days but I find them quite boring and not as enjoyable as the comedy focused stuff where he is making lots of jokes non-stop about things that are already awkward and funny, this seemed to have a lot less of that and was also really long, so it was kind of tedious and boring for me. It is very interesting to see how people might actually be liking it, I wonder what the age difference is or what age groups tend to like this sort of thing. I come from a generation that might like more quickly paced stuff that has lots of great moments, each statement leading to the next joke and the next joke and providing a lot more entertainment in a lot less time. I've noticed even Netflix stuff and tv shows are getting long and boring and sort of serious too, its not to my taste at least, but very cool and interesting that there are some people (a lot apparently) where this is the thing they are really into. It sort of reminds me of boring podcasts I've heard even, where people are just talking about some technical thing or repeating a lot, I find it a pain really, and liked some of the older videos (even recent ones) which were shorter with a lot more jokes back to back. There were definitely jokes in here, but compared to some of the other videos, this seemed less funny as frequently as those. You wrote a nice comment though, he seemed to put a ton of work into this one for sure, but I wonder if he can actually manage to put in less work and end up less burned out with better results with one of the more comedy focused short commentary things rather than the documentary journey style types, that also cost him a ton of money in this case as well.

[@loradanford7918]

i agree!!

[@SilencedTides]

@@aFoxyFox. are you good bro 😭

[@phillycheesesteak1028]

My school banned Pokémon cards because it was a form of “child gambling”

[@heejinscementbrownies1385]

mine banned it because the battles were violent so we had to try to do it without getting noticed 😭

[@pussybaby]

@@heejinscementbrownies1385 throwing cards on cards are violent, lmao

[@stoppedposting8239]

My after school program banned pokemon cards for no reason so pretty much everyone pretend we were illegally gambling. I think the reason was because people kept on stealing the cards

[@thatoneguy9582]

i mean it can be gambling if you try hard enough

[@ichigogogracie3371]

Same...kids would trade and cry bc they found out later it was actually rare...

[@Slizzabelle]

our teachers told us we weren't allowed to trade pokemon cards in elementary school so we would go into these bushes and walk a few steps off the campus to trade them. We had a president, vice president, and treasurer of the club. we would all take votes to see who would get which position.

[@ashknight6696]

and so true democracy was found in the anti-authoritarian

[@DIGITALGH05T]

that's already way better than the student body in our school i never once understood what the presidents and vice presidents did in our school, no public hearings, idek if the school gave them anything to do or if they were just figureheads (i mean it would make sense, our school pres was literally a gay guy, what better to scream "hey look at me, im so progressive" without actually making any changes than that)

[@tatumcummins6]

lol so cute u will never forget that

[@Mmmmmmmmmmmac]

democracy wins again

[@cole3363]

one time at lunch in 5th grade our lunch lady was like "NO MORE POKEMAN CARDS IN SCHOOL" 😂we all joked about it with her up until we graduated

[@Am-of1ej]

This is one of my favourite kurtis videos. Its comforting for some reason. I dont think it would be as comforting if he found his old collection and it was worth a million or something. Idk it feels real

[@c0ttage]

the overwhelming passion of Kurtis explaining Digimon that he nearly cried is such a fucking mood

[@rabdolezal4099]

YESYESYESYESYES

[@ravenkarlin]

I feel it though, I cry every time I talk about the end credits of Wall•e.

[@craigcorcino1168]

Mood for atla too , its just such a deserving series

[@yoy331]

Honestly I never even watched Digimon but I teared up at just the description of that scene

[@Sitcomabed]

FORTY FIVE WHOLE MINUTES KURTISTOWN IS BEING FED TODAY YESS

[@nataleigh8377]

HELL YEEAAAAHHHH

[@witchdagger2349]

YESSS

[@milkkee540]

Yas

[@abluemug]

When he eats we all eat

[@voosgoose]

YESS

[@ArcaneCraze]

If the “Meat Card” doesn’t become a running joke on this channel I’m going to RIOT

[@acaesic]

@about you have you nothing better to do with your time?

[@ObscureNephilim]

@Stale Memes, Love your pfp, bro! It won't let me @ you..

[@nomoretwitterhandles]

@@ObscureNephilim Replies to the OG comment don't have an @. Replies to OTHER replies have an @. Hope that clears up any confusion.

[@ObscureNephilim]

@@nomoretwitterhandles Ahhh, that makes sense! Makes it kinda difficult to @ the OG, tho lol! Thank you for letting me know!

[@hvrock13]

He clearly hasn’t met Garbodor. The meatball of garbage

[@paytonmcmann]

I was way more of a Digimon kid to. The storyline is so much better, the connections the kids have with their friends and Digimon is wholesome. They tackled so many mature topics to in a kid way.

[@hannahlanai]

Shout out to Jenna's dad and Kurtis's mom- without you guys, this potential hype would have never been possible.

[@Mckinley-mick]

I know nothing about Pokémon, Digimon, or collecting cards in general, but I’m so invested in seeing you open the rest of the packs 👀

[@rina7564]

Kurtis hasn't done an extra greeting for three videos... His power is overtaking him.

[@meganmanning6425]

He said in a podcast ep that he’s gonna stop! Part of an evolving image and all that jazz :)

[@rina7564]

@@meganmanning6425 g a s p- well as long as my mayor is thriving I'll be happy

[@paularunslondon]

I didn't sign up for this. I'm out.

[@mal-lh8sd]

his podcast explains why!

[@heyosj9705]

@@meganmanning6425 which ep?

[@MissFelice]

I would absolutely watch a series of Kurtis rewatching Digimon episodes and just crying.

[@ratboys.3340]

Man imagine him getting to Tamers, he'd be bawling from how depressing that show gets.

[@finlaylaidlaw8801]

Except it is formatted like shia lebouffs streams

[@juumudachi]

I WOULD SERIOUSLY BE DOWN FOR THIS

[@boyhuyo1707]

I don't want this, I NEED this

[@lauraoliveira9679]

The Barbie ✨ BALLS ✨ reverb will NEVER get old

[@ineedmyhat]

I love these almost hour long videos that whisk me away to somewhere else

[@merediths.693]

do i know anything about pokemon? no. will i still watch and enjoy this whole video? yes. Kurtis’s deep dive videos are always so amazing and well thought out!!

[@jahnaviraman5411]

right

[@valerieselenec]

I was just thinking about this. I don't know anything about Pokemon, nor have I ever been interested in it, but Kurtis's video was very entertaining, and not once did I feel excluded from the fun. He's very inclusive.

[@meredithrasey2032]

Nice name

[@michellebalqis1758]

kurtis realized that he likes digimon is like when a male anime protag finally confess to their love interest after ignoring them for 4 season

[@matcha_pot]

Eren Jaegar slander not allowed sorry

[@TheSeaBase]

Digimon has a new card game that's great

[@tommeria]

just say eren

[@SavvyCD1]

"When was the last time you were so excited that you were fucking shaking?" Thank you so much Kurtis. This is now on my bucket list. I want something so good to happen in my life, that I start shaking. I want that level of happiness and contentment.

[@heatherm2055]

The first time my family came to visit me after I moved abroad, I was so excited to pick them up from the airport. It’s such an exhilarating feeling

[@peachesandapricots5010]

@@heatherm2055 awhh that’s so sweet

[@scottyb8392]

I really hope we get an update, Riles Toe. We want this for you 👏

[@ladylark10884]

i collect anime figures and just anime merch in general. i have a few grails i really want but haven't been able to get. when i finally get them, ill experience that joy :'3 i cannot wait!

[@biggestastiest]

i want to get so excited over something that i hunch over and foam at the mouth and growl

[@deusbeowulf6039]

I agree with you on digimon. The original digimon series is criminally underrated. The evolution system alone is one of deepest I’ve seen in any anime.

[@jayecoz]

i remember having a school-wide ban on pokemon cards because they caused too much drama between the kids 😭 what an era

[@taffyvago]

yess the same thing happened at my school because of all the crying 😭

[@solomonfrogge8597]

Same happened at my primary school but with Beyblade

[@Judessin]

@@solomonfrogge8597 And with Cogos

[@jenniferp4612]

Lol ah the innocence

[@jordanmachuca6087]

And now Target stopped selling them because there was dangerous drama between adults trying to buy them 😂

[@maddelynatwater5799]

when you’re used to listening to Kurtis’ podcast his videos feel like speedruns

[@na2873]

IKR

[@sgodevoli]

this is so accurate

[@victoria-tk5jf]

dudududu

[@jayhightower5355]

literally its so nice to see how happy and excited Kurtis got during the digimon portion of the video. I hope he does more stuff that makes him that happy

[@ryleeemra7158]

omggg yes

[@lotsofoptimism]

yessssss i love watching other people get excited over things like this, especially when it’s something i’m into. i’m not all that into pokémon cards, i never was but i always thought they looked really cool, still never considered buying them though. but after i watched Ludwig and his friends open all of those pokémon boxes for that one week last year, i had felt so much joy watching them be happy over these awesome cards that i wanted to buy some cards myself. idk what it is but man, watching other people get excited over things they’re really passionate about makes me unbelievably happy.

[@thatoneweirddudeinthecorner]

I WAS TOO DIGIMON IS AWEOSMEJFKEKOD

[@anacrea3931]

The comment about collecting is so true. I collect ceramic/porcelain dogs and it's always fun going out to an antique store or vintage market to look around and see what I can find.

[@tesso200497]

Hey Kurtis, hope you’re not feeling down by the “numbers”, we all see how much time and effort you put into your videos these last few months (in particular) so feel proud of that

[@justme-uu8oe]

Which numbers?

[@cassie7707]

@I Don’t Know ​ Kurtis posted on his ig story that the view count for this video was down quite a bit compared to his other videos, Tess is just looking out for him no need to be rude

[@justme-uu8oe]

@I Don’t Know oh thanks 😀

[@justme-uu8oe]

@@cassie7707 oh sad to hear that but the weren't rude tho. Have a good day. 😀

[@ChexNyx]

GUYS they could also be talking about the pokemon cards 😭

[@cheesepie72]

100% had the same experience with the cards where EVERYONE was fanatical about getting the cards but NO ONE actually knew how to play the game lol

[@krimsee8300]

i feel like i was the only one out of my group who traded the cards who actually knew how to play it lmao

[@amandatidey5751]

I'm trumatized now. I never got the cards because I didn't understand how the game worked and I was very left out. But to know now that almost no one else did either!!!! Now I wish I could go back to 8 years old and ask all of the "cool kids" how to play and expose their lying asses

[@seanmatthewking]

Same! Lol I was mostly just addicted to he rush of opening the packs. I was buying them around year 2000 or so. I had a binder of all the best ones sitting in the closet of my room at my mom’s house for probably 15 years after I stopped collecting. I think 5 or 6 years ago I got rid of them somehow. Either have them to a thrift store or straight into the trash idk lol I also never bought bitcoin. Or Dogecoin 😭

[@xx_somescenecath0lic_xx888]

EXACTLYYYYY

[@TimotheasMakeuproom]

I love how he skipped over the beanie babies when those r prolly worth so much 😭

[@specializedchemicals6669]

right? i would sell a kidney for one of those

[@antigraphophobic]

Wait, is there a demand for Beanie Babies? Because my mom has a massive bin full of them in her garage.

[@stinkynewton3145]

@@antigraphophobic there isn't a huge demand like people thought however there are collectors out there! (me 👀)

[@doobiedoops265]

i had such a sick beanie baby collection, more than 50 of them, and my mom threw them all out. i was 8.

[@delia_watercolors]

In perfect condition with tag attached, on average a Beanie Baby sells for $5 USD today 2021. The list price is not the sell price. People can list something very high but that doesn't mean it sells for that much on average. Ik I got very sad about this when I was going to sell my Beanie Babies.

[@meganclow6959]

The year was 2010, me and some friends lived together and had to move suddenly so we had to put things into a storage unit. Gave said friends $80 toward the store unit for the next month. Next month they tell me the storage unit was auctioned off. My 2, TWO binders of mint pokemon cards were in there 💀 I will never not be bitter

[@RolandKoller90]

😮 they would no longer be my friends. You don’t come back from that type of betrayal.

[@DZENITA.]

i just realized me collecting photocards fills that joy pokemon cards do for others cos i should not be that excited pulling out a kpop singer and yet here we are

[@michellinembuyi6837]

Yes, yes you should get that excited! ESPECIALLY if it's your bias girl 😊😊

[@mo0nL1ghtt]

wait bc i just realized that

[@abbyl4621]

It's crazy how invested humans are in trading items but yea, I had the same thought when kurtis was talking about that shaking-excited feeling

[@subub4928]

me pulling the neos : oh yeah

[@ghalarabea]

Yeah I didn’t get the pokemon card thing till I realized that i FREAK OUT when i get my favorite photocards

[@ThailaCTP]

Finding out kurtis is a Digimon fan Is the highlight of my week.

[@hecklene1276]

@about you no

[@sedativespore77]

I love Pokémon and have collected a decent amount through my life. Sadly I don’t have older cards, mainly because I wasn’t born then, but It’d be awesome to find old cards in garage/yard sales

[@lotsofoptimism]

first we have "so, surface leather- *HUH?* surface level-" now we have "but since im such a fan of, like, physibal- *HUH?* since im such a fan of physical-" the saga continues, what will it be next?

[@coke2402]

Wtf I didn’t think someone else was gonna notice that

[@hellkat8892]

time stamp please

[@lotsofoptimism]

@@hellkat8892 38:36

[@anna___7312]

which video was the surface level one from??

[@coke2402]

@@hellkat8892 kzbin.info/www/bejne/o6u6o4Wef9iibLs and here is the surface leather one

[@krystilsmith3957]

I work at target and it’s beyond terrifying how many people line up on Thursday mornings trying to buy cards, to the point where our “safety became a concern”

[@finnsword8286]

Scalpers once again ruining everything for everyone.

[@fridaballard8769]

Same! the one I work at, people start lining up at 3 am on fridays ;_;

[@skitebird]

I used to work at a homegoods store, women would literally line up and throw hands for mass produced rae dunn pottery. I'm pretty sure there's videos all over tiktok and youtube about it, it's like a cult lol. Shoutout to retail employees.

[@KingOfGaymes]

Some places they only sell them really early and one per person it’s nuts-

[@kriikitty3520]

same with me!! it’s sad to tell people who actually are excited about pokemon that we ran out only a few hours after the store opened

[@jaidyn7524]

i love your normal videos but these video essays ones are definitely my favorite its so much fun watching you talk ab something your so passionate about

[@elainaismert8057]

“Don’t come crying to me because all that’s gonna do is make me cry as well” okay mood

[@whoswallowing]

me when i have kids

[@joliesam]

taking a picture next to a pokemon car while wearing backstreet boys tshirt when they were four is such a kurtis thing to do

[@Nana.fernana]

It's a Kurtis thing, we wouldn't understand

[@joliesam]

@@Nana.fernana true

[@juliakubes5544]

This is an episode of Storage Wars you can’t convince me otherwise.

[@Cailee689]

I loved what you had to say about collecting things. I collect vintage Disney and looney toons watches and the joy I feel at having a physical collection that I can see and touch and that I can actively wear can't be beat

[@_The_Traveler_]

I remember home-room in 4th grade when the kids who traded cards would all wait until the teacher stepped out of the room for something, and instantly maybe 6 or 7 extra large 3-ring binders would come flying out of backpacks and slam onto desks, everyone else pulling out what they had to trade from their pockets or card cases. They were so efficient at not getting caught that the teacher could have stepped right outside, and they had 3 or 4 kids in the room that acted as the lookouts at all times, and everyone else would ninja their way across the room to nab trades really quickly. Like, _almost the entire class._ And then one day our teacher caught us, and instead of busting us she revealed she was a fan too and brought us over to her desk to show us the Eevee card she had taped on her monitor, since it was her favorite one because of the many evolutions. Mrs. Peters, one of the kindest and most gentle teachers I ever had in my entire scholastic career. If I could have just had her as my teacher for the rest of my life, I probably would have done a whole lot better and had a few honors degrees by now.

[@chrometheraptor]

When you said that she was a fan too I was expecting her to have a bunch of binders full of Pokémon cards behind her desk

[@marnmalue9135]

Reminds me of my 3rd Grade Teacher, she had a HUGE collection of cards in boxes and she'd let us trade and play Pokemon during recess. I remember having this rivalry with this one boy over who got to trade with her first and it was a blast. I think she gave both of us a little blind bag with Pokemon cards at the end of the year when we were going on to 4th. She was a great teacher and actually helped me figure out that I was nearsighted so I could get my glasses, so thanks Mrs. Jones, wherever you are.

[@_The_Traveler_]

@@marnmalue9135 I miss the days when our lives were this simple.

[@foxinabox5103]

@@chrometheraptor turns out he's a card dealer and have done so for years of his time teaching. Basically drug dealers.... But pokemon cards.

[@Soaring_lizzard]

Best thing I’ve read today.

[@Leep458]

I've been saying "when you're hot, you're hot" for YEARS and completely forgot where it came from. Thank you Kurtis, you're an absolute legend

[@aarones4378]

Kurtis out here creating documentaries and shit. This was so dope!

[@RiotMonster]

I'm only halfway through but omg I relate so hard to being pissed about never being able to find my little book of childhood Pokemon cards 😩

[@mothersbasement]

Glad you recognize digimon for the superior series it is.

[@chrlorez]

I agree. Digimon has the best stories out of all the gacha games I've seen so far.

[@BabyGirlTiny]

Superior in tbe fact that the kids do nothing but believe in their companions. Except season 4 which is the best season

[@spoon1265]

Why hello basement, I didn't expect to see you here :0

[@schauss9897]

Yu-Gi-Oh is superior, it is so godly that when you get a Blue-Eyes, you get a stroke.

[@jam13rocks]

Was not expecting to see you here lmao

[@apologeticaussie949]

“Po come on” I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if that one joke was the only reason why he made this entire video

[@Ben.N]

😳

[@voodoosleeper]

That's literally how he says Pokémon every single time too lmao.

[@adamlaski9128]

I sold my entire collection (probably around 300 or so cards, lots of rare ones) at a yard sale for 25 bucks. Plus they were all in a binder protected. Whoever bought it… congrats on your mansion

[@weliveinasociety4629]

My brothers and I still have our cards binders, but my older brother had a binder filled with his first and rarest cards that got lost. Possibly a million bucks lost to the ether 😔

[@ThexDynastxQueen]

I didn't have any 1st edition cards but was very thankful I even got cards as a kid and still remember the Christmas my mom bought me official branded binders for my cards. I still have them as she understood what they meant to me and she's no longer here now so even if the cards somehow became worth 1mil+ I don't feel I could sell them.

[@kylo2592]

@@ThexDynastxQueen don’t worry all of this kids are over exaggerating. Cards that are some are even 1$ to 2$ plus say you got a charzaird from base set. And you list it on eBay you gotta find someone crazy enough to want it

[@jackwykes7523]

Unlucky man. I sold a 200ish basic common cards and one or two semi expensive EX for £150 last year, way more than they’re actually worth

[@turtlemusic1509]

I'm in a similar boat. Probably less cards, not as many in good condition, and not as many rare ones. So they aren't enjoying a mansion, maybe a used Prius. Congrats.

[@aspenlovesbirds]

I think it's genuinely so cool how excited you were about the Digimon cards compared to the Pokemon cards. Obviously both are rad!!! But I think the fact that you had a change of heart and decided to go after something you really love was so cool to watch!

[@mercy5647]

Watching youtube for really the first time since having a kiddo. Turned it on while trying to get him to bed, he just turned 6 months and was FIGHTING me on going to sleep, so I gave in and got up with him. He is absolutely LOVING you. Yelling at the TV laughing, and talking to you ☠️🩵

[@harveyoldershaw5833]

Omg Kurtis you’re not gonna believe this, at 16:38 the Pokémon book is like right next to you, you like just missed

[@GlitterGremlyn]

I can't believe he just did not see it!!

[@themagicalllama8514]

Oof, can we get an F in the chat?

[@dreabrown6595]

he’s so blind i swear

[@imsamh]

so annoying like it was rIGHT thERE 🙄🤚

[@vivianmcafee7869]

STOPPP

[@Deebles.]

“Retailers hope that the pokemon craze will continue into Christmas” *Pokémon craze continues into Christmas 27 years later*

[@obiwankenobi9141]

Retailer? I hardly know her!

[@obiwankenobi9141]

Later? I hardly know her!

[@MsEyelinered]

Kurtis you gotta sort by “sold” on eBay. Anyone can list anything at any price. That doesn’t mean anyone is buying them.

[@benjaminstern3977]

Exactly! I found that so frustrating

[@arutezza]

I saw a copy of new super mario bros wii on ebay and they were trying to sell it for 4000$

[@EBankstonMusic]

when i was in highschool (graduated last year), my band director was very into pokémon. we had marching band so we had a dude who helped with the drum line and he gifted my band director a pokémon card pack. one day in jazz band (ran by the assistant band director), we hear the loudest scream from his office. he runs out and screams “I just pulled a 500$ card!”. i don’t know anything about pokémon, but low and behold, he did.

[@Lozie331]

“minimalism is propaganda that is being fed to you from the companies that make grey couches” NAHHH IM DEAD 😂

[@voidnutella]

The title: "Trying to Get Rich Off Pokémon Cards" The video: kurtis getting poorer off Digimon cards

[@obiwankenobi9141]

Poorer? I hardly know her!

[@voidnutella]

@@obiwankenobi9141 Excuse me is it grammarly incorrect to say "poorer"? I swear this one always gets me on my nerves

[@serious7422]

@@voidnutella no it’s good, anything with one or two syllables get an ‘er’ added and anything else above gets ‘more’ Ex: funny (2 syllables) = funnier Ex: extraordinary (6 syllables) = more extraordinary It was a joke where ‘poorer’ sounds like ‘pour her’ so “poorer, I hardly know her!” It’s a play on words. It’s a common pun with anything that has any part that sounds like ‘her’ Ex: heater? I hardly know her! This was your English grammar lesson from Serious

[@bettyschneider5268]

You mean poorest! Lol 😂 or just way to poor? Just picking on you! 🙆🏻

[@LunaWitcher]

Kurtis making a whole Pokemon video just to realize that's not where his heart is at is like top Disney straight to TV movie plotline and I am living for it

[@beniminxz9725]

yes omg it was beautiful

[@keikarhinopuppy]

Raichu being your favorite Pokemon is awesome, I know no one but myself who feels the same way. I love the Raichu ear-curlies!

[@gabsf6]

I'm recovering from a surgery and the "get ready for my meat" joke almost made me pull my stitches out

[@start8090]

oh man wishing u the speediest recovery it killed me too i overexercised last night n my tummy died

[@gabsf6]

@@start8090 thank you 🖤

[@bettyschneider5268]

Get well soon! 🌈 i had lots of surgery in my life. I know how it feels. 💒⛪⛪⛪

[@gabsf6]

@@bettyschneider5268 thanks 😊

[@tanja9006]

I love how rich people take the simplest things of entertainment and destroy it to a point where only the rich 1% can enjoy it now 🥰

[@danabana6421]

Literally this. All the rich fucks bought and hoarded up all the Pokémon cards and now none of the stores in my region have cards or boxes to buy.

[@Staggs2200]

We must seize the means of production

[@shadowwolfmc4236]

@@Staggs2200 the means of pokemon

[@l1z4rd67]

Why is no one talking about "Poe, come on!" That was fucking hilarious

[@esmeralda7060]

lmao

[@pastelsunset6419]

Po*

[@l1z4rd67]

@@pastelsunset6419 sorry my condolences to po teletubby for this name mishap/nm

[@sandigould2350]

we appreciate the effort you put into these and it’s just pure gold every time

[@Codyumm]

I can't unhear poe, cmon ... fuck

[@alyssa6743]

it's spelled po smh fake teletubby fan

[@shawnorr6015]

This is one of the best digimon commercials I've ever seen.

[@Yahoodoraze]

It’s ok Kurtis I almost started crying LISTENING to you talk about a Digimon episode uh oh

[@fullsundotcom]

30:48 2021: “this is like the most expensive video i’ve ever made” 2023: drops $6k on a single rare booster pack

[@Impallica67]

I remember loving Pokemon as a kid, and being a Canadian my mom would take trips to Florida every once in a while and one time she came home and surprised me with Pokemon Cards, but when I opened them they were all in Spanish. She felt so bad but I told her they were super cool and I still have them to this day. My favourite one is my Spanish Raichu :)

[@allisonmiller3669]

My dad would always buy me and my sister these weird Spice Girl lollipops.. Dont know if anyone else ever had one but it was so fun n I still remember the taste. Nostalgia baby :'(

[@Impallica67]

@@allisonmiller3669 Omg now I would love to know what they tasted like!!

[@obiwankenobi9141]

Remember? I hardly know her!

[@obiwankenobi9141]

Super? I hardly know her!

[@Impallica67]

@@obiwankenobi9141 😂😂😂😂

[@Lol-pb9bx]

Real Kutistown members remember when this video was title "The Unpredictable Resurgence of Pokemon Cards"

[@yurimessiah]

And then "a deep dive into Pokémon cards"- I somehow even remember all the thumbnails 💀

[@malloryg4251]

Ok, he DID change the title a few times. I thought I was losing my mind! I was like, how many Pokemon vids did he come out with in 24 hours???

[@goofballcartoonist7848]

ah yes, fellow *Kutis*town members.

[@bee.ok666]

@@yurimessiah yup this is the title I remember

[@PapoCulturaPop]

Yeah I was thinking the title wasn't this one

[@amnoirgg8563]

My partner collects magic cards and I always thought it was a little silly, but I’ve never told him. I’m so glad I saw this video, because it gives me a newfound appreciation for his hobby. It makes him so happy and even if I don’t see the value in it, it brings value to his life and I’m glad he has something that brings him joy. Thanks Kurtis, another banger.

[@upsidedownmtv]

god i love magic

[@three7446]

He’s an adult and you don’t think he can handle knowing you find it silly? I mean you don’t have to bully him but I def tell my boyfriends if they’re doing something I find stupid. I mean sure they can keep doing it, but no banter is odd to me. I feel like it’s weird to fake liking every aspect of ur partner.

[@fatmouserat]

this is my favorite of your videos i love it so so much i love seeing people so passionate about their interests its so good

[@stefania5882]

Fun story: when I was a kid, I wanted all the Pokémon cards in the world for Christmas. I wrote Santa an 8 page long letter. Woke up Christmas morning and there was a gigantic box, and I was like "Santa PULLED THROOUUUGGGHH." Opened the box! Kitchen set. A kitchen set... I've never felt disappointment like that in my life

[@jaiden494]

Sue your parents for screwing you out of millions of dollars👀

[@thisisnerd7072]

@@jaiden494 don’t you mean sue Santa? Unless you’re implying this person is Santa’s kid, which cannot be true as we all know Santa canonically doesn’t fuck

[@ri5410]

@@thisisnerd7072 ok but then why does mrs claus exist

[@Ccorleone1609]

opposite story for me

[@Grace-mv5jx]

That reminds me of the time my grandma wrapped my present in a hand mixer box and I opened it up and it was books and I was so disappointed, I didn’t even want nor need a hand mixer I was just excited for one

[@averyhargrave7343]

I used to have a collection of thousands of Pokemon cards back when I was a kid. As an adult I tried searching everywhere I could, talked to both my mom and my dad and apparently, they just disappeared one day. My mom is convinced that my uncle probably took them and sold them. If that's the case, he probably sold 2000+ pokemon cards for $10 or so. To this day, I'll never forgive him.

[@whyareyoureadingthis5227]

This is why I still have mine. I'm Gen Z so the majority of mine are from the 2000s era. But hopefully in the future when I'm older they'll be worth a lot.

[@thiefofhyrule8000]

I had a binder full of first editions. I try not to think about it. Lol.

[@sushilampa8287]

I have an entire binder except most of them are ruined because my room flooded and they got caught in that flood so I doubt they'd sell at all (I had over a thousand and the flood cut that to over half)

[@adyaparamitaputripratama2786]

Did she sold 1 card for $10 and since he bought 2000+, She received $20,000-ish? Or did she sold the whole 2000+ for $10?

[@klitzy]

Damn what an uncle douche!

[@quinnperry3197]

7:58 My mom and I love pokeon puzzle league and have been playing it almost every day for several years. We make jokes and references about it all the time, mostly Misty's "good battle!!" I have never been catered to in such a specific way for a joke before

[@matwith2teas]

Can we talk about how much effort Kurtis has been putting into his videos

[@rawaneissa263]

rightttttt theyre all so well written and structured i feel like im watching a mini movie every time

[@Xx_Mrs.Magic_xX]

YES! He's doing so good, you can tell all the heart he puts into his video's

[@emilyackerman2000]

You should do this vid again with your beanie babies, they’ve spiked in popularity .

[@imjustdandy9799]

Ikr the beanie babies is where the real money could be

[@emilyackerman2000]

@Cassidy Reefhuis ahaha thank you!

[@biancamarcellino3799]

I loved beanie babies I called them beanie boos though. Idk if that’s something different or not… Wait never mind I know the difference

[@emilyackerman2000]

@Cassidy Reefhuis thank you! You too friend!!

[@christmastiger]

For some reason I hope that beanie babies are not worth money one day because I loved them all and played with them so much as a kid (doing what they were intended for) that I don't have any in decent condition and would be depressed knowing if I hadn't enjoyed them in my childhood and just kept them in a plastic box I could make money off of them today.

[@candebaronio3620]

I would absolutely watch a series of you opening all the packages you bought, please make videos doing that. I didn't even watch digimon but it was soooo thrilling seeing you excited and finding cool cards

[@tonykaze]

I sold my MTG collection back in like 2008 for $7k (could have probably gotten a lot more if I took my time with it), and while I did need the money at the time, I really regret it. I'd love to go through them all again and again or even keep playing them. I can see why people like me, if they have a ton of cash laying around, might spend a good amount of it to recreate that kind of collection.

[@happbapp]

Those news people were talking about Pokémon as though it’s telling their kids to do drugs and break the law

[@zuzuuzu342]

ikr it was so weird

[@cheekynandosss581]

The ‘psychiatrist’ was too much

[@lolaWWEWWFpunk]

@@cheekynandosss581 it killed me lol

[@ThexDynastxQueen]

It was legit like that and Christian evangelicals had another Satanic panic over Pokemon especially evolution. Not the legal dog fighting part...just fictional animals growing into slightly different form of the same animal like you know dog breeds.

[@VTK13_]

i don’t think i know a single person who can actually play the card game correctly

[@phoenix2269]

Dhdjdh my friend is like one of the top competitors in the worldwide Pokémon card game competitions and he wins thousands of dollars from it

[@shaianna.1222]

@@phoenix2269 real way to get rich from pokemon cards

[@PoppyOxymoron]

Me and my brother used to play it. I actually didn’t get the card trading craze at all. I only knew the game. I also made my own cards!

[@edithsmith4485]

Me and my brother played the yuguoi (I can’t spell) card game all the time even tho we didn’t even know what we were doing. He just somehow always convinced me I lost

[@kristinepinlac2796]

It's kind of like uno, the rules are what you can convince other people are the rules

[@FlowceanSoul]

I have that banned Little Mermaid cover but it’s on a DVD and they also misspelled Jodi’s name so it says “Jodo Benson” and it’s my favourite thing ever

[@abbyl4621]

Your pic is so cool

[@FlowceanSoul]

@@abbyl4621 thank you!

[@worstusernameintheworld9871]

the pfp oddly matches the fact that you got a banned Little Mermaid dvd (which is a pretty cool coincidence lmao)

[@FlowceanSoul]

@@worstusernameintheworld9871 even weirder: my name is actually Ariel 🤣

[@worstusernameintheworld9871]

@@FlowceanSoul damn now that's an even weirder coincidence :0

[@breakcoregirlxd]

A long video, I needed this

[@voosgoose]

nice to see you here

[@sofiasofia8533]

Indeed

[@voosgoose]

@{📎}justsometiredhuman lol right he was lil nas x like 20 mins ago

[@sofiatrojanovich4413]

Was thinking the exact same thing

[@sofiatrojanovich4413]

@@sofiasofia8533 dude same name crazy shit

[@brogetablue6975]

I’m so glad I found someone who was as hyped as me for digimon. It really melded into my personality as I’ve grown.

[@IknowIamkindagreat]

Kurtis legit crying over Digimon is the purest thing I have ever seen. Good lord, that was powerful in a weird way.

[@keelytesterman838]

i literally never knew or cared to know anything about pokémon or digimon but i think this is one of my favorite kurtis videos

[@coolandgood1010]

You're so young 🙃

[@keelytesterman838]

@@coolandgood1010 this is true

[@thatssoari3533]

@@coolandgood1010 no i’m 18, i just don’t like it. i know ab it. my cousin loves it and i’ve been surrounded by it my whole life, i just couldn’t get into it. has nothing to do w/ age

[@dog771]

@@thatssoari3533 i think 18 is actually kinda young in this context, considering many pokemon fans grew up playing the gameboy and DS games, as well as collecting/trading cards, and those things have pretty much been fazed out by newer consoles and games, and even social media. like it's still a thing, but not as culturally relevant now. i have a little cousin that watches the pokemon series, but doesn't know about the games and cards, so the franchise just isn't as important in his life.

[@thatssoari3533]

@@dog771 i had a DS, still do, and a gameboy. as i said my cousin loved it and all of his parties were around it, and i know almost everything ab the franchise. i just wasn’t into it. your right, 18 is young, but it depends on the view. to a 14 year old it isn’t, to a 27 year old it is. so it’s just perspective!

[@kaidosleftnut5830]

The fact that i had an entire binder of super rare 90s pokemon cards back in the day and my parents threw them out still haunts me.

[@RolandKoller90]

That would haunt me too.

[@wari4]

My mom was so annoyed of those pokemon cards, that she cut them in half and threw them away. So well yes I can feel you lmao

[@Flizz0]

My older brother threw his Pokémon cards away