My working theory its a giant cope for how weak some people are. They can't adapt and thrive because they get offended when drumpf publishes a Tweet or something so they regress, turn to their childhood toys, and consoom for comfort. Also mainstream toy companies make collecting plastic garbage quasi- accomplishments; ohhh look I got the exclusive special edition at (insert generic retail store here)!!
I want to say Hot Topic, which was mocked for trying to profit off of counterculture.
I do think consumerism might be a defense mechanism related to nostalgia and you don't even need to involve Trump with how shitty the world's becoming.
Theater kids made collecting games gay. They post that shit online, brag about it. I just do it because it's fun, that and the possibilityof archiving it someday. They do it for clout "look at me, I got a NES copy of Mario 3!". Fucking faggots.
how fucking common is this "theater kid" phenomena
They’re like nerds but performative, dramatic, and seek outside attention/validation for everything they do. It’s basically as you described, but IRL and usually the normal people think they’re loud weirdos and the insular nerds resent them for presenting the latter’s Special Interests to the general public in the most cringeworthy manner possible.
I think why theater kids specifically are getting the blame is because, while there were always TMI autistic nerds trying to drag normies into listening to their rants about their Special Interests, the norm used to be that nerds knew they were nerds, and kept their nerd shit under the table because they knew it was niche.
That just smells like a government propaganda thing. However after watching the video, I find it interesting that governments now seem to be using consoomer behavior in their control and power methods. We're in for a wild ride in the future folks when it comes to China.
It's scary being at the point with governments mandating what to buy and trying to influence what we eat. China is just ground zero, forcing them to get the commie phones.
Basically this. Theater kids take your hobby, shout it from the roof, and then people make fun of it as it becomes normie. You just liked old games. They wanted to spread it without caring about the damage it'd do.
Strange I'd always assumed the current state of retro gaming was due to the people who grew up with then being at the age where they have alot of disposable income and bad faith actors like resellers and scalpers deliberately hyping the games up. Maybe it's just the sites I use but I haven't seen these type of kids pretending to like the hobby yet.
I'd love to see some of these types of videos of kids braging about owning old nintendo games, I've seen it with graded game "investors" where the they bragged about owning rare games and how great they are despite never playing them.
Where do you think they start? They were those kids. The youtubers alone have destroyed retro gaming. They hype it up, prices go up, then people horde those old games despite there being millions, enough to go around for the remaining consoles
Dude that was just life growing up man. You go into a used game shop anymore, and the fun games are behind glass and cost more than they did at retail. Unboxed. It starts at word of mouth, until youtubers drive up artificial hype for a fucking copy of Pokemon Red, despite there being millions of those in existence.
There was also that one episode of Storage Wars where the guy said a regular ole nintendo console went for thousands. Or was it millions I forget. That got the normie scalpers in on the retro game "I know what I have" trend.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95eUhuR8_ps They got $10 for it, thinking it was worth five figures.
id believe you if it didnt seem like that crowd IS the today's normalfags
The damage was done despite that.
Yeah it got them thinking that maybe their game/console/whatever was the ONE. The number of Duck Hunts and Super Mario Bros I've seen elderly normies trying to sell for $50+ is amazing.
This is what I'm talking about. One guy will make a common game "super rare" just by saying it is, and now Duck Hunt is full priced AGAIN. All because young kids will see that, and now want a copy as they hit their game stores trying to scoop a copy for a console they probably they don't even own (barring a Retron that let's you play those old games). I'd say Nintendo is the worst offender. Even just getting old controllers is hard, because if you want OEM ones, prepare to pay for that autism for your old console.
