Earlier moments of intense interest in the Pokmon TCG space can be explained fairly easy with the launch of Pokmon Go in 2016 coinciding with interest then, or for the much larger boom during the pandemic years of 2021-2022, it was the high level of interest in goods rather than services and particularly the different collectible markets at that time
While we can't find an official one, there are community-made Pokmon TCG Pocket Discord servers you can join
Its only when we consider the card in practice, and the flavor text, that we realize the victim is probably a corpse already
Despite the prices, a proportion of the Pokemon community buy from Whatnot because of a) the scarcity of the product, or b) they want a streamer they watch to open a pack for them
There's also the possibility for each of those 25 cards to have a holographic picture, which means that if someone wanted to catch 'em all, they'd be after 50 distinct cards
While this card is a lot pricier in the Japanese TCG, due to the infamous waifu tax, the English version is less sought after
