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I mean on the one hand fuck every Pokemon card scalper and shit like that
On the other I kind of feel like these hobbies are just replacing other ones (like binge drinking) so it's not so much arrested development as it is a cultural shift
But on the third collecting - when the collecting is primarily expressed through purchasing - is clearly the result of capitalism and advertisements blasting our collective brains to mush. modern corporations have intentionally cultivated obsession in their consumer base's minds. funkos are the purest form of this - something with zero aesthetic value besides the feeling it gives you when you purchase it
This is the take I have too. I don’t think this is a matter of arrested development or “not growing up”; I’m suspicious of the prejudice behind such statements.
Collecting vs playing with toys is the difference between exchange-value and use-value. You can infinitely accumulate exchange value in the form of toys, but use-value drops off after a small number of toys. You only need one or maybe a few toys in order to play. All that has changed is the social acceptance of collecting and the mainstreaming of that hobby. I would guess in proportion as adults are unable to make “real purchases” (in scare quotes) on housing and such, because those are too expensive.
Adults have long been toy collectors. Before we had funko pops, Boomers were buying Barbies and other dolls.
I started playing the game because it was so much cheaper to make a functioning deck than any other 1v1 tcg... now i can't find any cards at msrp so i don't update my decks and once they rotate out of legality i think I'm just done