>>51860334>Shiny Hunting can be used as a dick measuring contestSure, it can. But nobody outside of a small group is ever really going to care.
>Oh your Starter took 19,000 resets, mine took 21,000.But then some youtuber has 49,000. The only real dick measuring is with shinies like Jirachi, Manaphy of the niche ones on BR and other offshoots, but this is so niche that nobody outside of a few thousand people know or care about it.
>YoutubersYoutubers are just that, they piggyback off hobbies for money, some fuck spic saying it was hard to get a heracross in HGSS because he's only ever done raid hunts isn't a reflection of the wider community.
Which is also not centralised at all, unlike speed running.