All in all, the situation for BackyardBreak seems to be getting worse with every attempt at justification. It remains to be seen whether the guys will actually give away the $25,000 card or if they will come up with further excuses not to do so.
A much more positive story about trading cards can be found here: A little boy saves his terminally ill dog by selling his valuable Pokémon cards.
A group of streamers called BackyardBreaks recently opened trading cards of football players live and gave them to viewers. But when they pulled a super-rare and accordingly valuable card, they suddenly wanted nothing to do with it. This did not end well for them.
How was this supposed to go? On the streaming channel BackyardBreaks, boxes full of football trading cards are opened live and raffled off to viewers. The cards go to viewers who can then keep them.
What exactly is pulled remains unknown until it is unpacked. Such “breaks” are very popular among trading card fans.
What was the problem? But then the streamers suddenly pulled an extremely rare card. According to a reddit user, there are only 10 copies of this card in total. Everyone immediately went wild and jumped around the room. They quickly realized, “this card is worth at least $10,000!”
It would only be fair to give it to the lucky winner. But then one of the streamers said, “Actually, that’s not fair at all; we should keep it!”
Streamers refuse to give up $25,000 card and cause a lot of trouble
How did the situation unfold? Shortly thereafter, it became clear that the card was worth around $25,000 (approximately €21,810). At that moment, it was suddenly clear that the streamers preferred to keep the card.
“Sorry, we can’t give away a $25,000 card!” one of the streamers revealed. He immediately took responsibility for it: “People will surely hate me for this!”
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Here are the reactions: The streamers’ actions were not well received, of course. On reddit, YouTube, and Twitter, there are numerous shaking head reactions from viewers, who consider the streamers’ actions quite shady:
- “I love how they immediately went from ‘This is all free’ to ‘This belongs to us.'”
- “How can you watch this stream and think these guys would ever give anyone anything worth more than $5?”
- “Stay tuned for the BackyardBreakers crypto coin in a few weeks.”
Moreover, according to various users on reddit, the raffle was not free at all. Instead, the streamers are said to charge people to participate in the draw:
“Yes, these guys are in trouble. It’s not even a giveaway; they are charging people to get a ‘slot’ for the chance to win a box or a pack of cards.”
User Crunchsmash on reddit.
How did the streamers react? After the pressure from the community increased, the streamers suddenly were willing to donate $20,000 for a good cause. However, this was also not well received. Rather, they were accused of wanting to save on taxes this way (donations can be deducted from taxes). Even the accompanying Twitter video was not taken seriously. In it, the streamers want to assure that it is much fairer to donate the money from card sales to a good cause than to give it to one person.
Rather, there was harsh criticism of the honesty behind the initiative. Another viewer even took the trouble to post a video of his own. In it, he dresses up like one of the BackyardBreakers and loudly announces that he will keep his valuable card and instead donate fast food worth $12 to several people. That would be much fairer!
Streamers continue to backtrack and make themselves even less popular: After it became clear that the donation action didn’t achieve the desired effect, the streamers published another tweet with another announcement. They will now give away the card. But not to the original winner, but to a randomly selected follower on Twitch.
This was evidently not well received either, and people are wondering why they didn’t simply give it to the person who originally won it. However, according to the streamers, that was never the case; they claim they never intended to raffle off this specific pack of cards.
All in all, the situation for BackyardBreak seems to be getting worse with every attempt at justification. It remains to be seen whether the guys will actually give away the $25,000 card or if they will come up with further excuses not to do so.
A much more positive story about trading cards can be found here: A little boy saves his terminally ill dog by selling his valuable Pokémon cards.
