The Question of the Day is a way to facilitate community discussion to help members ponder the unanswered questions of the world that are somehow relating to the hobby. Questions are many times open ended and up to interpretation. Feel free to post your thoughts in as much or as little detail as you’d like.
Helpful Considerations may or may not help some people focus their answer, these are blurred to not bother those who have their own ideas.
For me, I would do like a promo card of the day, go over history, release structure etc. If done daily it should last about a couple of years or so. By then either the audience or myself will get bored of the blog.
I’d probably cover the forgotten and oddball corners of the TCG. Regional exclusives, obscure promos, misprints, rejected designs, mail-in prizes. Stuff that barely made it into the spotlight or was never meant to. There’s something special about the almost-lost pieces of Pokémon history that tell their own weird little stories.
First off should people even pursue the Blog?? How much longer can Blog sustain relevance? I didn’t think much of the internet world read. You know TLDR. Or do people just video Blog? In which case is it still a Blog if it is not in written form? I believe that would be a VLOG. I think to answer this we need a different demographic to answer these questions. Age: 37% of blog readers are 41-60 years old, while 30% are 31-40 years old (Source: FinancesOnline. ) My take on this Blogs are for the older demographic, so with the internet at my disposal I would not Blog.
Now if we just look at Pokémon content.. I might produce content (using a setup similar to True Crime Podcasts) about the dark underbelly Pokémon Cabal working to elevate the vintage market, manipulate card prices with secret buyouts, and shady forums.
I’d blog about the worlds which are inhabited by Pokemon in the TCG. There are a lot of interesting things to look at here, from the Delta Species sets which are all in the region of Holon (never explored in the games) to mosaic card arts to all the crazy worlds drawn by the more unconventional artists (Komiya etc.). I think it would be cool to show how a lot of the TCG allows us to imagine Pokemon in entirely different ways than we would through main-series video games.
I would choose and present pokemon artists and post their different cards for something like week-month, analyzing the artwork, easter eggs and references etc before picking up a new artist
How pokemon, like ANY hobby lives and dies by it’s users’ human and organic engagement in the hobby, and posts to highlight how members of that community are doing just that.
