My YuGiOh Obsession and School

So back when I was a wee little tofu in elementary my world revolved Around Yu-Gi-Oh Leave it to a Japanese cartoon about a card game to showcase some of the coolest characters ever while coming up with crap like “Power of Friendship” and belief in the heart of the cards Obviously to an average person that just sounds like complete garbage but slap that infront of a sheltered me and it is the most Sugoi-est frickin thing ever! The Dark magician The Bude Exodia! the Egyptian gods! the whole shebang Of course though this was back when the cards were super simple and didn’t require a friggin magnifying glass to read the effects... Now Yu-Gi-Oh was pretty popular at my school and surprisingly... my school recognized Yu-Gi-Oh as one of the greatest gifts to humanity and made it their goal to cultivate this passion that many children had Teachers would encourage us to play even discuss strategies during lectures Our school opened a Yu-Gi-Oh varsity team! *cuts off with laugher* [hahaha] That's not true SYKE! Yu-Gi-Oh was forbidden and super illegal because huge surprise I went to private school Whaaaaaat!?!? [sarcasm] Oh my gosh Jon? a YouTube animator went to a private school as well. Who would have thought [sarcasm] what? *laugher* [haha] what a crazy world we live in? I admit it. Yes. On top of the usual restrictions like uniform dorms gross vegetarian cafeteria food yadi yadi yada YouTube story time animator topic cliches Yu-Gi-Oh and school also did not mix my elementary school was pretty strict about this I mean, who knew that contrary to anime you weren't allowed to Play Yu-Gi-Oh on school grounds In fact you weren't allowed to play any card games! I think it had to do something with it being demonic or some form of gambling... whether we bet our souls to the shadow realm or Cheetos... I don’t know It's the same in their eyes we would have supervisors watching us at all times and if they saw us they would come over and be like All right you nerds! put those away right now or I will take them and throw them in the trash where they belong... But you know what? Screw you! I call foul sir! You don't seem to have a problem with people reading during recess like Harry Potter or books about talking cats fighting That sounds pretty Pretty messed up to me I'd like to argue that playing card games is way better. Cultivating strategic cognitive skills Math! reading comprehension! socialization! and most important of all... there are pictures! *silence* Prove to me that books can do the same thing but whatever! When we are given the choice between playing a card game that we loved and being little responsible school children we chose... crime because sometimes the heart of the cards guides you to break rules I.E. [in example not internet explorer] playing in the supervisor’s blind spot while having a dedicated kid act as a lookout. And for the most part that plan worked It just really sucked When it didn’t For example one time I excitedly brought my favorite cards to school because they were mostly the ones you've seen in the anime I was showing them off to my friends during recess but then APPEARENTLY! my other friend Whom we’ll call... Big Foot... frickin snitched on me! and because of him a supervisor came and took my cards gave them to my teacher and I had to wait till after school go get them back And not only that I had to bring my parents my parents for a parent teacher conference And when we got home they held on to my cards for a whole nother week as some kind of cruel and unusual punishment! *internal screaming* So that was not a good day... I know there could have been worse situations like never getting them back or they ended up throwing my cards away But shut up... I don't wanna think about that. I still haven't forgiven Bigfoot to this day. But just exactly how far did we go to keep this game a secret from our teachers? Well every Friday after school a group of friends and I would sneak into the high school side because apparently that's a private school thing There are no supervisors in high school And also we thought that once the high schoolers got out of class we could blend in because we looked cool and mature and obviously could pass as high schoolers ... No... Anyways we would always play in this room outside where the band would practice It was like our haven our spot and even the high schoolers who played Yu-Gi-Oh would join us which was pretty cool In the corner There was also this little Asian Girl younger than us who would set up shop with her huge Hello Kitty roller backpack and sell Yu-Gi-Oh cards Now Were they stupidly overpriced? ... Yes... But when you show a bunch of financially irresponsible huge nerds a pack of rare cards **INTENSE SOUND EFFECTS** Well that’s just easy money right there I wouldn't be surprised if businesswoman or scam artist was on her occupation list High school eventually came We don't talk about what happens in junior high but high school was a lot more relaxed with the restrictions Most of the teachers didn't care as long as it wasn’t during their class with the exception of the librarian! during study hall... I don't know. Apparently we're supposed to do productive stuff like studying but... [Tofu Spits] **spitting noise** Who does that... but even with fewer restrictions like the older I grew... the less inclined I became to play Because there were... *Sighs and gasps for air** how should I say... other things... on my mind... Like I believed high school was a time to hang out with cool people and impress girls But you accomplish neither of those things Sitting in some secluded corner pushing up your glasses with two fingers saying stuff like “HA I SUMMON!” or... “NOT SO FAST!” “YOU ACTIVATED MY TRAP CARD!” Yeah... Real way to woo the ladies with that last one... [Tofu does a nerdy mocking laugh] ahehehehheehh well ACTCHUALLY! I don't know about you but but the jerk magician girl is the only girl I nee- [gets cut off] NOOO And I guess that's when I started phasing out Probably for the best... Because as the circle of people playing grew... so did the unnecessary drama drama and toxicity... Some kids would take it way too seriously Someone's cards would get stolen and my insect deck could just no longer compete with everyone else’s more updated and OP decks You know it's not the most fun thing in the world when your opponent's cards are just invincible So it was time for me to move on choose something else that is more acceptable in society something... more popular something that would make me quote unquote Cool So I decided to play pokemon *Tofu Laughs* [hehehehe] and then I graduated Yu-Gi-Oh duel links came out on the App Store and it helped carry me through college And that was my experience with Yu-Gi-Oh in school mostly full of breaking school rules and wasting a stupid amount of money on ... Dare I say... fancy pieces of paper [hit in the face] **THUDDD** I can't be all motivational and say Ohhhhhhh I didn't care what other people thought about me [Laughing] **heh heh heh** because I did ... VERY MUCH SO It was just very unfortunate in highschool that Yu-Gi-Oh or my nerdiness turned into something that I was self-conscious and somewhat embarrassed about But like no matter what I did if someone mentioned or displayed the slightest enthusiasm for YuGiOh I would get that excited feeling that I once had as a kid And as time went by I just came to accept the fact that you know what? I am a nerd I'm sorry!!!! I like building decks! I like picking up cards with two fingers! And I may or may not have bought some new cards to bolster my insect deck last year because I'm an adult with money But that's not important! What is important is that even though I don’t play that much anymore and I'm left with boxes full of cards that I spent HUNDREDS of dollars on sometimes questioning whether it was worth it... I can't deny how much Yu-Gi-Oh has influenced me growing up from making friends teaching me how to draw monsters and dragons to how I play other casual card games Yu-Gi-Oh will always have that special place in my heart I might even say that I still have... the heart of the cards... [Tofu laughs at joke] **hah haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah** [Tofu gasps for breathe] **ouhhhhhhhhh** ohhhhhh Does that make me a huge nerd? Probably. But I don't care. I don't know if that ending made sense but the point is you can still be a nerd and still be cool. All right. Anyways Haaaaaaaaay guys It's been a while [Laughing] **hehehehe* Feels like forever since i’ve done a video and uhhh and an end card... but But it's good to be back. I had a really nice break and now I’m ready to get back on things and upload more videos. Got a lot of exciting things in the works SoOoOoOoOooo I think this is a perfect reason for you to subscribe and turn on notifications and all that good stuff but that'll be it for this end card Thank you so much for watching and I will see you all in the next video But until then Continue to stay safe and stay young

Channel: Young Yong Tales

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Length: 9min 10sec (550 seconds)

Published: Sat Feb 27 2021