What's a hobby that has a surprising dark side to it?

Disney pin collectors. I like pins, and I'll buy them when I'm traveling for souvenirs.

Apparently, at Disney Properties, pin trading is a big thing. And it's also pricey. What at Disney

isn't, and there were a bunch that you could only get from random packs. There'd be a set of like seven to eight different pins, but you wouldn't know which one you

were getting, and they had sets that were well over a hundred bucks.

I'd stopped by one of the kiosks at Disneyland because I wanted a few Star Wars pins, and I saw

people trading pins with the employees.

I was curious about it, so I googled a bit and was amazed by the

black and grey market of pin trading. People would buy knock-offs and then go to the parks and

trade them to staff or other patrons, even kids, for legit pins. Or they'd find someone with a rare or

valuable pin that didn't know its worth, and they'd try to rip them off.

I guess with obsession comes darkness.

Beekeeping. There are keepers who weaponised severe illnesses against others' hives and

many cases of hive theft every year. I'm not sure if it's still a thing, but when I played

Magic the Gathering a number of years ago,

I heard some real horror stories about how competitive Pokemon and Yu-Gi-O players were.

One story involved a guy at Yu-Gi-O tournaments holding a weapon under the table to scare an opponent

into losing.

Wasn't there one Yu-Gi-O card that got banned in competitions because it was making people show up smelling like absolute crap?

Yeah, that card had a line on it about the players shaking hands, and if you shook hands, you'd get a beneficial effect.

So people would choose to not bathe or just deliberately smell terrible so that their opponents,

while they might want that beneficial effect, would resist

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