YouTuber Logan Paul cashes in $16.5 million for his Pokémon card. It’s vindication for the ‘armchair quarterbacks yelling from the sidelines,’ he says

From cryptocurrencies to Hermès Birkin bags, Gen Z investors are on the hunt for unconventional assets that double as status symbols—and sometimes even careers. For Logan Paul, one of those bets came in the form of a single Pokémon card.

The YouTuber turned social media mogul and entrepreneur turned heads in 2022 when he paid $5.3 million for a single Pokémon card—an ultra-rare Pikachu Illustrator—making it the most expensive ever sold at a private sale.

But Paul didn’t stash it away in a vault.