Video Games & Esports
Esports
A competitive scene where prize pools can top $40 million for a single tournament, funded largely by the players' own community purchases.
Fantasy Sports
A hobby that's turned watching any random Sunday football game into something tens of millions of people have a genuine emotional stake in.
Retro Gaming
A hobby built on the idea that some decades-old games, running on hardware that once felt disposable, are actually worth carefully preserving before they're lost for good.
Speedrunning
A competitive scene built almost entirely around finding and exploiting the bugs a game's own developers never meant to be there.