Efour Weekly — June 7–14, 2026
By the numbers
- New topics: 40 | New posts: 1,217
- Active users (top liked): @PokeBahl (192 likes), @wisewailmer (128), @Quuador (113)
- Most active category: #General
- Standout thread: Crazy Market — sustained multi-day debate, highest sustained engagement of the week
- Community highlight: E4 Chain Letter reached its latest stop; Worlds SF meetup unveiled a custom commemorative card
Nobody Knows When the Music Stops
I’m here on da scene, and da question dat ran through dis forum all week wasn’t if the market’s crazy — it’s whether crazy is the new normal. The Crazy Market thread lit up Thursday with a debate that kept pulling people back in: should TPC raise box prices to meet secondary market demand? @koala argued the current pricing is intentionally below equilibrium — starved demand keeps every set selling, and doubling MSRP would only push resellers to raise their floor too. @CardboardInsanity ran the math and wasn’t convinced. @smpratte and @churlocker brought the counterweight: the doom narrative doesn’t hold up to scrutiny.
I’ve never seen anyone substantiate that the new buyers are not genuine fans. The % of the cards on the secondary market relative to supply hasn’t increased dramatically.
That post from @churlocker landed 20 likes — the week’s clearest sign that the forum’s experienced collectors are tired of the bubble-burst story. @Professor_Broke reframed it generously: new collectors just haven’t had time to develop taste beyond the rarest pull. The thread never reached consensus, but it shifted tone midweek — from anxiety about the market to something closer to cautious acceptance.
The Pitch That Wrote Itself Into a Corner
A new member opened a thread with a business idea for themed Pokémon card displays — and the forum responded to the way it was written as much as the concept itself. The post was immediately flagged as AI-generated, and @Swoobot compressed the thread’s reaction into a two-line summary that got more engagement than most full posts. When @MacWaspe90 returned to clarify — noting GPT had just been used to organize their thoughts — @wisewailmer was direct:
This isn’t as humble as you may think it sounds.
@festa put the structural issue plainly: trust is social credit here, and a first post with AI polish and no presence burns that credit before you spend it. @Paulkemon offered the most constructive path — start small, make displays for friends, post in arts and crafts, don’t shill. By week’s end @MacWaspe90 was receptive and moving toward a prototype phase. The thread became a quiet case study in how this community receives newcomers — not unkindly, but honestly.
Connected by a Tent
The Guess the Card game produced the week’s best small discovery. @Quuador posted a heavily cropped promo, and the thread stayed stuck until @stagger12 solved it and revealed something better than the answer: the Shinx, Luxio, and Luxray cards from Fusion Strike all share a continuous yellow tent in the background — a connected artwork trio that had flown under the radar. @Quuador immediately catalogued it in the Gallery of Cards With Connected Artwork, crediting the find. It’s a small loop that captures something the forum does well: a game produces a discovery, the discovery goes into the record. The binder pages thread saw similar quiet energy, with @Parrotdox assembling a full page of Team Rocket Returns dark Pokémon that @crindy called “ominous and gorgeous.”
The Letter, the Card, and the Water Energy
The E4 Chain Letter made its latest stop this week when @banks shared what arrived from @JohtoTimes: handwritten letter, childhood base set cards, stickers, and a tanka poem. @pikachutcg claimed the next leg within minutes; @lyleberr missed it by seven hours and said so. The thread has been running since early 2024 and hasn’t lost its warmth — it’s still one of the few things on this forum that gets better with every post. @JohtoTimes also shared their signed Water Energy, the traveling artifact that now carries multiple signatures from across the community. Separately, the Worlds SF meetup revealed a custom trading card commissioned from @Visiron — serialized, doubling as a door prize ticket. The community infrastructure keeps building.
That’s da week, youse — Meowth out, and remember: da market’s always crazy until it ain’t, and da chain letter’s always movin’ somewhere worth going.