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TCA Gaming (Rusty) has a lot of great stuff. Some of his older vids and Q&A ones offer a ton of valuable insight :

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Thank you, rtas! :grin: I’ve been taking a break from videos, but I s’pose this is motivation for me to make new ones again.. I have a few vintage ideas in my brain. Definitely have more arita to cover!

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I have talked a lot about packaging and ltd items by Arita, specifically, but also ltd release cards.
Specifically for channels to watch, I’ll also recommend Rusty’s ‘TCA Gaming’ as listed above, ‘joe R Vintage Pokemon’, and ‘Pokemon Classics’. The last one especially is great for introduction to new channels and videos, which he features regularly.

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all this time I didn’t know you make YouTube content lol, I have seen you comment on Saturninebear’s videos though

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I enjoy NextGenTCG’s channel. It’s interesting to hear gemmintpokemon’s perspective. Sadly, their videos are somewhat sporadic!

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At this point I just watch 2 channels - Opossum Bud (and a couple of other ones of the same theme - just to see what kind of funny drama happened lately) and some niche boosters opening channels.
PS:
Literally everything else is cringy Poke-Investing “Omg - The Market is Crazy!!“ or “Ohh
it’s Over for us isn’t it??” type of dumb clickbait thumbnails. I absolutely hate poke-youtube. It’s very close to those “kids channels“ with Elza and Spiderman that were on the hype a few years later
 It gives you that eerie cringy feeling like you shouldn’t fill your recommendations with that kind of stuff.
I remember clogging my recommendation/algorithms with really weird “: 000 OOO Market is crazyy! :O“ thumbnails and it took me some time to make everything back to normal.

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Some of my favourites off the bat:

Sleeve No Card Behind - Great videos explaining specific sets, specially good for those in the beginning stages of collecting, however he has a video for everyone. My favourite video of his is All Pokémon Card Back Designs Ever.

Check The Box - If you are remotely interested in watching even the slightest struggle of us, species collectors. There are some criticism, specially about not including all variants, nonetheless it is good and a digestible way to learn more about the TCG run of an specific species.

Ruby Retro - Information about old meta decks and how the TCG was played a few decades ago. So for TCG related history this is a good start.

PTCGRadio - Not sure about his current content, however this playlist is useful to learn an overview of most of the vintage sets and some stuff about the old meta too: The Complete History Of The Pokémon TCG.

The Poke Planet - Personally, I’m not a fan of all the videos but there are some that might be worth checking out. I like this one Every PokĂ©mon Error Card Explained.

Weaboolin - Throwback videos about specific PokĂ©mon’s legacy in the TCG and some information about specific events too. Good one to start: The History Of PokĂ©mon Card Illustration Contest.

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Ruby Retro has had some GREAT videos. I forgot them, and couldn’t find their sub in my YT account. Who’d have guessed YT would hide accounts that you’re subbed too
 :roll_eyes:
They also haven’t done a video in a while. ANYway. YES!

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