83h?!??? THATS NOT EVEN A WEEK OF PLAYTIME. man i put 4000H into pokemon heart gold. tf you mean mercy he jsut genuinly didnt care about this and played once a month then made his video seem dramatic
@@viewersforme839 ok we get it you have no god damn fucking life, to put the equivelent of 166 days straight into a game just means no one should give a shit about your opinion, your horrible body oder probably reaches faster than any opinion you'd have, like god damn
This video's timeline is crazy, I started my senior year of highschool, graduated, and moved to college all before it was finished, respect to the commitment on the vid
Fr. in the time he did this challenge I went from insanely depressed and super anxious after failing my first semester in college, completely changing my life course by leaving a really good tech school to go to a community college because of a major change, and by August I was getting ready to start a (so far) incredible semester of college. I hope your college experience is doing better than mine did lol
This might be Alpharad’s magnum opus. I don’t care very much about shiny hunts, or nuzlockes, hell, I’ve never even finished a Pokémon game but even I felt something watching this. The grueling grind, the long journey, and the way it all only starts feeling emotional once it’s coming to an end. The way you look back at it all and realize how far you’ve come. This truly was a grand journey, and I look forward to future adventures. Both with my life, and with this channel.
This run would have been a lot less memorable if the requirement to have 50 species in the Pokedex wasn't there. Way shorter, sure, but it just wouldn't have been the same.
Nice to see a clip of Jo when he said to appreciate the “constants” in life. Just goes to show they Jo is always there when he needs him, and I think that’s pretty sweet
As someone who’s never played the Lets Go games, I was half expecting there to be another road block requiring him to have 75 Pokémon species recorded.
I left my job last July bc I’m pretty sick. I’m getting surgery in October hopefully things improve. I found your videos after watching some of Jaiden’s blindfolded Mario videos. I love Jaiden she helped me start my journey back to loving Pokémon again. But when I found your content I felt like I started my journey to becoming an actual Pokémon “master”. I know it’s corny but my brothers were actually very impressed by my conviction to getting head first into a game (1)I have never finished and (2)haven’t played in over 15 years. I found out I have ADHD last month, so I feel like that explains why I struggled so hard to keep playing Pokémon silver as a kid. Anyway I genuinely appreciate everything you and Jaiden do together and as individuals. Very glad you guys are safe. There aren’t enough people who share the positivity you put out on this channel. I appreciate the time you put into this genuinely funny wholesome and very awe inspiring content. I hope you continue to have fun bc some of us can’t and it’s cool when cool ppl share their experiences. Sorry this is long but I just want to extend a sincere thank you. Everyone here makes me laugh, chat is a riot😂 and I hope everyone who reads this stays safe and does what makes them happy 💜
That speech you gave at 19:00 about each encounter being a time capsule is why I love shiny hunting and these kind of runs so much!!!! They can take so long, but the hunt really is all about that cliched, "It's about the journey, not the destination"
It's true I have a shiny Staraptor that I caught in 2008 on Platinum as a Starly and I can never forget them ..... because my mother turned to look at what I was gasping about mid drive and almost crashed the car. Arceus bless you, Skidmark the Staraptor
The fact that I remember being there on the day you caught Throat Goat makes me realize just how quick life has gone by. It's really crazy how fast it feels, sometimes.
The fact that this silly little shinyhunt Nuzlocke video turned into an emotional commentary about growing older and finding value in the seemingly boring and mundane parts of your life really speaks to Alpharad's skill as a writer and a video artist. I've been a fan of your content, on and off, for five years now, which is crazy for me to realize. Ever since that silly little CPU tournament series you did with Jo. A lot has changed since then. Two years ago, I graduated. And you're right on the money when describing that bittersweet sensation of stepping onto the stage and realizing, this is it. This is the last time you'll ever be a highschooler, a kid. The rest of your life is ahead of you, for better or worse. And no matter how dismal or bland that school was (especially during COVID), you'll look back on that time of your life with a certain fondness. Smile because it happened indeed. The best years of your life are ahead of you, just as they are for me. Thank you for the ten years of content, Jacob Alpharad. Here's to many more, and to a peaceful retirement someday hopefully not too soon.
i love how the music to accompany Alpha's birthday was Chopin revolutionary etude. What a sophisticated 19th century man absolutely lovely to have more of his music for the ending too :). Alpha's music choices are always great
@@howlongcanachannelnamebethislo ?? That IS what they said already. "is closer to being" already acknowledges that it isn't either of the things that are about to be stated. Nothing in their comment implied that the switch is currently ten years old.
And here we see Jacob Alpharad starting to understand the joy of shinyhunting. It's like you were saying about a time capsule, for a lot of us, it's about the journey more than the destination. I remember getting a shiny Noibat while sleep deprived and watching Jujutsu Kaisen, or Sentret while hanging out with my oldest friend before playing DnD. It's not just a Pokémon, it represents memories too.
I feel REALLY BAD for this comment buuut I got my first ever shiny pokemon playing pokemon black 2 again - He was my FIRST WILD ENCOUNTER in the grass!! I saved as i was really tired, and the next day i saw that the Purrloin i had caught beforehand, was in fact a SHINY!! i was the luckiest sunofabitch ever!!!
@@pheonixfire9517 i remember restarting my pokemon diamond copy when i was like 13 years old and getting a shiny chimchar as a starter first try. at first i didn't even know what it was and thought my game glitched, until a couple weeks later a friend of mine told me about how rare it was
watching this video made me realize that I have been watching this channel for like six years now… which is like, a lot. Like I didn’t have clinical depression when I started watching this channel, and now I do! Channel unrelated in that, but life do be how it is. thank you Jacob Alpharad who will never see this for all of the content and laughs through the years - we’re pretty far away from funny forward aerial and the clickbait series at this point, but it’s been a pleasure to be a viewer every step of the way.
So fun thing about how the catch combo shiny hunt works in this game. I've only ever seen this mentioned in Johnstone's shiny Professor Oak challenge video, but data miners found out that the increased shiny odds from high catch combos are only applied to the next individual pokemon that spawns after the combo increase. All other spawns after that are all normal odds. Because of course that's how GameFreak did it.
Funny thing is that's how I assumed it worked when I got the game, but then I read everywhere online people saying no and that you only need a combo of 31, and then years after I stopped playing the datamines come out and turns out it was the way I imagined the whole time
for someone who’s trying to do a shiny Dex in Let’s Go it makes me smile to know it took you just as long to get a good amount. I felt your frustration man but great video!
You’ve gotta hand it alpharad. The guy spent 2 years shiny hunting 41 pokemon and easily could’ve just cheesed it by not catching 41 normal pokemon. That not just patience but proof of “commit to the bit”
The shiny hunt streams will be missed, BUT FINALLY the story is over. Since every good story has an ending, don't be sad because it's over, be happy we got to see the cat ears
This video is exactly why I love shiny hunting, at first it feels like the worst thing you've ever done, but when you look back on the journey you feel happy about all of the adventures you've been through. You even start to look forward to the next one, something about turning something so mundane into an adventure is absolute magic, 10/10 video
honestly the funniest part of this video for me is looking over at chat and seeing myself before i changed my username pre-coming out as trans, really puts into perspective how long this run took… i had the time to reconsider my entire gender identify before this run was even close to ending.
Over a year of getting Shinies, these streams were so awesome and it was nice to just chill and hear Jacob talk about random stuff. Glad to see the journey end, it was amazing.
"It doesn't matter if it's considered good luck or bad luck, if it's a statistical improability, Jacob WILL hit it." ~Some Alpharad Gold Enjoyer, back in the day.
I kinda just now realize I’ve been watching this channel for 9 years now, ever since the “how to play ganondorf” video was sent to me by one of my friends when I was 13. Damn. Glad to have been here and glad to keep watching till either I or Mr. Jacob Alpharad gets sick of it all. How the years pass us by.
Throughout the creation of this video, I buried my pet, almost lost my other pet, attended 3 funerals, went through some hard shit, and even graduated university. Glad to see I wasn’t the only one suffering. Gotta say, thanks for the trip down memory lane. Enjoyed the video immensely too
That high school graduation metaphor hit home!!! Keep the good stuff coming, and I hope this TH-cam thing keeps giving you as much enjoyment and energy as your videos give to me. Keep rocking on legend!!
Our 🤝 Shiny ✨ Poliwag 🐸 , who art 🎨 in square 🟦 , hallowed be thy name 📛 ; thy kingdom 🏰 come, thy will be done on earth 🌎 as it is in the square 🟦 . Give us this day 📆 our daily tacobell 🌮 , and forgive 🤗 us our trespasses ⛔ , as we forgive 🤗 those who trespass ⛔ against us; and lead us not into temptation 😉 , but deliver 📬 us from the nonbelievers.
The way my life has changed in this past year and honest to god one of the few things keeping me going being this channel, this video feels like seeing my own journey along with yours. Love the content please keep it going.
Only alpharad would do something so crazy. It really shows his dedication (to putting everything before his mental health because dear god this looks impossible)
I’m so used to the ending of the videos to be another long running joke, or the emotional beats to be turned into a joke at some point, but this was different and I loved how wholesome it was. I loved the lasting message. Thank you!
The part at the end with Clair de Lune playing was genuinely one of my favourite parts of any TH-cam video ever, it was so beautiful like genuinely it made me cry
watching along these streams was so lovely. Such a different laid back vibe to usual where you could just have a yap. Felt more like a podcast than gameplay content lol
frankly i did not expect this video to get so retrospective, but im really glad that it did, im a huge fan of you and hearing a smile in your voice as you reflect on these SICK things that happened to you, makes me happy as a viewer :3
Thank you Alpharad for sharing your moments in and out of your Shiny Hell experience with us. Been a fan of your channel for quite a well and I’m happy for how far you’ve come. You truly are a Rad Alpha.
I’m a junior in High School right now, and I just wanna say that speech about the stream ending and comparing it to graduation day made me realize how much you gotta appreciate the little things, and I thank you for that
Wow, I salute you for your tenacious dedication. Those gym clauses truly do make this one of the hardest runs. That journey truly was the core of the video, but it also brought so much heart, discovery, and warmth with all you had to do while searching for those 50 Pokemon.
I’m playing Legends Arceus while watching this video and Jacob putting the LA shiny noise for everything he encounters is giving me psychological distress
As someone who's graduating at the end of this year, I was not expecting the Alpharad shinylocke to remind me that time is limited Great video, made me cry lol
the way you started talking about “how it’s like graduation” and im literally graduating in a few weeks. that hit unnecessarily hard. what a journey this has been. good work man
This video made me realize I've been watching your content for 9 years, since the how to play videos from smash 4. I'm now 23 and still look forward to all of your videos
I remember hearing about this stream almost two years ago. This wasn’t just a journey for Alpharad, it was a journey for everyone who has been watching along with him!
I wanna say thank you for these streams. These streams where a genuinie help for my mental health as I could just watch them for hour and hours at night to relax when things where stressfull. Plus they were great dnd writting fuel
I’ve watched these streams since day 1 in January 2023 and it was such a genuine pleasure to see the journey from start to end. This video is an incredible time machine
I’ll be real, when I first clicked on this video, I just thought: “haha funny video that will make Alpha regret choices” but by the end, I was also kinda emotional despite the fact that this is a 30 minute video on the Internet. Great storytelling and keep up the great work!
Catching tentacool was a whole ass journey, I spent nearly an entire day of my life just watching alpharad on twitch attempting to catch one single shiny.
I know I am getting late for this video but this has served as a reminder that we should treasure the small things happening on the background. Thanks for this video and all the other wholesome videos that you upload every now and then; it really makes me happy to enjoy a 20min video every once in a while.
Damn. That little graduation day bit hit quite hard. I graduated high school 2 years ago at this point, but I still remember how it just…didn’t feel real until it was FINALLY there. Great video.
It feels so gratifying seeing this video come to fruition I can't imagine being the one to make it too lol Like it really puts into perspective how long this has taken with other events sprinkled in as context
Another Alpharad video where I feel as if I was taken on a journey. After watching you for the better part of my life, thank you for being a childhood content creator that never went sour ❤
25:29 "you might call this cheating" we're over a year into this run man, at this point I can only call it mercy
with how it took longer than a YEAR, yeah it just is mercy tbh
83h?!??? THATS NOT EVEN A WEEK OF PLAYTIME. man i put 4000H into pokemon heart gold. tf you mean mercy he jsut genuinly didnt care about this and played once a month then made his video seem dramatic
@@viewersforme839 ok we get it you have no god damn fucking life, to put the equivelent of 166 days straight into a game just means no one should give a shit about your opinion, your horrible body oder probably reaches faster than any opinion you'd have, like god damn
@@viewersforme839 aww, someones throwin a hissy fit :(
someone thinks game hours mean something.. ain't that wacky
10:25 chat message saying "have you considered buying a firearm or other form of defense in case a fan gets too parasocial?" is insane
Wonder if it’s the same person who broke in
"Did you ever end up getting footage of that homeless person that stole your chicken?"
wait til you see the one asking him to retell the cocaine story during the hunt for tentacool
Nah his fans are cool but he will need the firearm if he ever meets the cocaine guy from the cocaine story again
Its insane to protect yourself ?
My jaw actually dropped when I realized this challenge started in January 1st, 2023, not 2024.
I realized when they mentioned the creator contest for Omega Strikers, which happened over a year ago
As a fan I knew the stuff he was talking about happened before this year
exactly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There ain’t no way it took that long
oh boy i was confused about that lol cause he showed the march video and it said a year ago lmao yeesh
This video's timeline is crazy, I started my senior year of highschool, graduated, and moved to college all before it was finished, respect to the commitment on the vid
Fr. in the time he did this challenge I went from insanely depressed and super anxious after failing my first semester in college, completely changing my life course by leaving a really good tech school to go to a community college because of a major change, and by August I was getting ready to start a (so far) incredible semester of college.
I hope your college experience is doing better than mine did lol
Jaiden instantly finding a shiny for the minute he was in the bathroom will always make me laugh
And it was Baabu:(
Yeah fr haha
I thought bro had bad luck
Bals
same, same🦍🦍🦍🦍🦍🦍🦍🦍🦍🦍🦍🦍
This might be Alpharad’s magnum opus. I don’t care very much about shiny hunts, or nuzlockes, hell, I’ve never even finished a Pokémon game but even I felt something watching this. The grueling grind, the long journey, and the way it all only starts feeling emotional once it’s coming to an end. The way you look back at it all and realize how far you’ve come. This truly was a grand journey, and I look forward to future adventures. Both with my life, and with this channel.
This run would have been a lot less memorable if the requirement to have 50 species in the Pokedex wasn't there. Way shorter, sure, but it just wouldn't have been the same.
or if he just decided to register the species by meeting randon pokemon. because you dont really need to catch them to register IIRC.
@@unkindled6410brother did you read the text or watch the video yesterday you have to catch them
yoooo, it's you.
Oh hey you
he just could have caught the non shiny pokemon but never use them lol. but it does make it more interesting of a challenge to have all 50 be shiny.
Nice to see a clip of Jo when he said to appreciate the “constants” in life.
Just goes to show they Jo is always there when he needs him, and I think that’s pretty sweet
As someone who’s never played the Lets Go games, I was half expecting there to be another road block requiring him to have 75 Pokémon species recorded.
Same, I would have cried
as someone who had played the game, i expected the same
What a weird way to pad the game
I left my job last July bc I’m pretty sick. I’m getting surgery in October hopefully things improve. I found your videos after watching some of Jaiden’s blindfolded Mario videos. I love Jaiden she helped me start my journey back to loving Pokémon again. But when I found your content I felt like I started my journey to becoming an actual Pokémon “master”. I know it’s corny but my brothers were actually very impressed by my conviction to getting head first into a game (1)I have never finished and (2)haven’t played in over 15 years. I found out I have ADHD last month, so I feel like that explains why I struggled so hard to keep playing Pokémon silver as a kid.
Anyway I genuinely appreciate everything you and Jaiden do together and as individuals. Very glad you guys are safe. There aren’t enough people who share the positivity you put out on this channel. I appreciate the time you put into this genuinely funny wholesome and very awe inspiring content. I hope you continue to have fun bc some of us can’t and it’s cool when cool ppl share their experiences. Sorry this is long but I just want to extend a sincere thank you. Everyone here makes me laugh, chat is a riot😂 and I hope everyone who reads this stays safe and does what makes them happy 💜
That speech you gave at 19:00 about each encounter being a time capsule is why I love shiny hunting and these kind of runs so much!!!! They can take so long, but the hunt really is all about that cliched, "It's about the journey, not the destination"
Bro is that hit youtuber AbsolBlogsPokemon? Yo its hit youtuber AbsolBlogsPokemon the Baja Blast, shiny hunting, style wearing guy.
Calzone
I thought the same thing! I felt it was a very "shiny journey retrospective" that you say in your vids!
@@hunterstjean119 hhh
It's true
I have a shiny Staraptor that I caught in 2008 on Platinum as a Starly and I can never forget them
..... because my mother turned to look at what I was gasping about mid drive and almost crashed the car.
Arceus bless you, Skidmark the Staraptor
The fact that I remember being there on the day you caught Throat Goat makes me realize just how quick life has gone by. It's really crazy how fast it feels, sometimes.
The fact that this silly little shinyhunt Nuzlocke video turned into an emotional commentary about growing older and finding value in the seemingly boring and mundane parts of your life really speaks to Alpharad's skill as a writer and a video artist. I've been a fan of your content, on and off, for five years now, which is crazy for me to realize. Ever since that silly little CPU tournament series you did with Jo. A lot has changed since then. Two years ago, I graduated. And you're right on the money when describing that bittersweet sensation of stepping onto the stage and realizing, this is it. This is the last time you'll ever be a highschooler, a kid. The rest of your life is ahead of you, for better or worse. And no matter how dismal or bland that school was (especially during COVID), you'll look back on that time of your life with a certain fondness. Smile because it happened indeed. The best years of your life are ahead of you, just as they are for me.
Thank you for the ten years of content, Jacob Alpharad. Here's to many more, and to a peaceful retirement someday hopefully not too soon.
i love how the music to accompany Alpha's birthday was Chopin revolutionary etude. What a sophisticated 19th century man
absolutely lovely to have more of his music for the ending too :). Alpha's music choices are always great
Shiny man 82 solos the entire Pokémon Universe
ThroatGoat the Bellsprout solos the dragonball universe
Agreed
And 1 billion lions
@@Cpt.Stickerno0dle-iu3ok no
No he only Soloed about 1/3 of it
25:53. If you are 14 months in and are struggling to get one, hats off to you man, you needed this
17:49 the fact this clip is still used is awesome
This comment makes me realize how long the Switch’s lifespan has been. 2017 is closer to being a decade ago than not
@@kikiretzorg1467 i know what you're saying but it is not a decade old it's closer to being a decade old then from when it was new
I remember King of Skill also uses that clip
@@howlongcanachannelnamebethislo ??
That IS what they said already. "is closer to being" already acknowledges that it isn't either of the things that are about to be stated. Nothing in their comment implied that the switch is currently ten years old.
@@howlongcanachannelnamebethisloyou’re very artistic
I absolutely loved the change from emotion and reflection, to throat goat and a tackle from a magikarp that killed the elite four. HAIL THE SQUARE!
And here we see Jacob Alpharad starting to understand the joy of shinyhunting. It's like you were saying about a time capsule, for a lot of us, it's about the journey more than the destination. I remember getting a shiny Noibat while sleep deprived and watching Jujutsu Kaisen, or Sentret while hanging out with my oldest friend before playing DnD. It's not just a Pokémon, it represents memories too.
I feel REALLY BAD for this comment buuut I got my first ever shiny pokemon playing pokemon black 2 again - He was my FIRST WILD ENCOUNTER in the grass!! I saved as i was really tired, and the next day i saw that the Purrloin i had caught beforehand, was in fact a SHINY!! i was the luckiest sunofabitch ever!!!
@@pheonixfire9517 i remember restarting my pokemon diamond copy when i was like 13 years old and getting a shiny chimchar as a starter first try. at first i didn't even know what it was and thought my game glitched, until a couple weeks later a friend of mine told me about how rare it was
watching this video made me realize that I have been watching this channel for like six years now… which is like, a lot. Like I didn’t have clinical depression when I started watching this channel, and now I do! Channel unrelated in that, but life do be how it is.
thank you Jacob Alpharad who will never see this for all of the content and laughs through the years - we’re pretty far away from funny forward aerial and the clickbait series at this point, but it’s been a pleasure to be a viewer every step of the way.
So fun thing about how the catch combo shiny hunt works in this game. I've only ever seen this mentioned in Johnstone's shiny Professor Oak challenge video, but data miners found out that the increased shiny odds from high catch combos are only applied to the next individual pokemon that spawns after the combo increase. All other spawns after that are all normal odds. Because of course that's how GameFreak did it.
yea he had to explain that about 100 times a stream
insane
why the fuck would they do that 💀
@@coralcarl3074To cause pain
Funny thing is that's how I assumed it worked when I got the game, but then I read everywhere online people saying no and that you only need a combo of 31, and then years after I stopped playing the datamines come out and turns out it was the way I imagined the whole time
The fact that the mudkip video is 5 years old is crazy because that was the video that i started really watching your videos at.
Let’s Go Eevee did not have enough goodwill to justify not spawning in a Shiny for the first 12 hours of hunting, that’s just cruel
he was unusually over odds but he didnt have a shiny charm so it tracks.
Sup Pat
for someone who’s trying to do a shiny Dex in Let’s Go it makes me smile to know it took you just as long to get a good amount. I felt your frustration man but great video!
20:18 LET'S GOOO FORTNITE THE RATTATA!!!!!!!
Classic Aaronitmar!
It's funny because fortnite is funny
And then Fortnite 2
You’ve gotta hand it alpharad. The guy spent 2 years shiny hunting 41 pokemon and easily could’ve just cheesed it by not catching 41 normal pokemon. That not just patience but proof of “commit to the bit”
straight up “catching it”, and by “it”, heh… let’s just say… my shinies
at the ponké center
@@7koboldsinatrenchcoat straight up restraining it
Watching this video after jaiden’s cat video and getting a tostada jumpscare at 20:48 was so funny
The shiny hunt streams will be missed, BUT FINALLY the story is over. Since every good story has an ending, don't be sad because it's over, be happy we got to see the cat ears
well well well. Didn't expect to see you here
@@NottSayingWhat can I say, the bi men call to me
This video is exactly why I love shiny hunting, at first it feels like the worst thing you've ever done, but when you look back on the journey you feel happy about all of the adventures you've been through. You even start to look forward to the next one, something about turning something so mundane into an adventure is absolute magic, 10/10 video
This video feels like a recap of last year in a way that I really enjoy, seeing cameos from your other videos throughout the year.
Don't talk to me unless your talking about the Grumpig vs McDonalds saga
Then it shall fall.
honestly the funniest part of this video for me is looking over at chat and seeing myself before i changed my username pre-coming out as trans, really puts into perspective how long this run took… i had the time to reconsider my entire gender identify before this run was even close to ending.
That's crazy! Congrats for coming out as trans 🏳️⚧️
Congrats on coming out!
CONGRATS
The part at the end of missing everything, it’s exactly like moving houses and realising that your never gonna live in the house again
Over a year of getting Shinies, these streams were so awesome and it was nice to just chill and hear Jacob talk about random stuff. Glad to see the journey end, it was amazing.
23:10 why am i only just now finding out alpharad and jaiden got robbed.
no frrr
I also had no idea
He got robbed again?
"It doesn't matter if it's considered good luck or bad luck, if it's a statistical improability, Jacob WILL hit it."
~Some Alpharad Gold Enjoyer, back in the day.
I kinda just now realize I’ve been watching this channel for 9 years now, ever since the “how to play ganondorf” video was sent to me by one of my friends when I was 13. Damn. Glad to have been here and glad to keep watching till either I or Mr. Jacob Alpharad gets sick of it all. How the years pass us by.
Throughout the creation of this video, I buried my pet, almost lost my other pet, attended 3 funerals, went through some hard shit, and even graduated university.
Glad to see I wasn’t the only one suffering.
Gotta say, thanks for the trip down memory lane. Enjoyed the video immensely too
That high school graduation metaphor hit home!!! Keep the good stuff coming, and I hope this TH-cam thing keeps giving you as much enjoyment and energy as your videos give to me. Keep rocking on legend!!
Our 🤝 Shiny ✨ Poliwag 🐸 , who art 🎨 in square 🟦 , hallowed be thy name 📛 ; thy kingdom 🏰 come, thy will be done on earth 🌎 as it is in the square 🟦 . Give us this day 📆 our daily tacobell 🌮 , and forgive 🤗 us our trespasses ⛔ , as we forgive 🤗 those who trespass ⛔ against us; and lead us not into temptation 😉 , but deliver 📬 us from the nonbelievers.
what
PRAISE THE SQUARE
Cool ig 🥳
THE RECTANGLES SHALL FALL!
Huh
I love that you do what you love with youtube! the audience knows that this is something you truly enjoy and we certainly can take the fewer uploads.
I only tuned in to the final stream, and it was also my first Alpha stream. Now it’s time to watch the other streams that came before.
The way my life has changed in this past year and honest to god one of the few things keeping me going being this channel, this video feels like seeing my own journey along with yours. Love the content please keep it going.
“Bird come back!” Had the energy of a toddler startling a species of colorful bird they’d never seen before and not understanding why it was afraid.
The emotion I felt at 32:20 . Amazing video, Jacob, your ability to convey emotions never fails!
playing among us while in a discord call with friends while shiny hunting is the best aderall to make sure no one gets distracted
legends arceus and scarlet and violet spoiled us with easy shiny hunting
Only alpharad would do something so crazy. It really shows his dedication (to putting everything before his mental health because dear god this looks impossible)
All the graduation talk, the recap of the year, and the "I've been focusing more on my personal life"
I was ready for the raccoon.
I’m so used to the ending of the videos to be another long running joke, or the emotional beats to be turned into a joke at some point, but this was different and I loved how wholesome it was. I loved the lasting message. Thank you!
The part at the end with Clair de Lune playing was genuinely one of my favourite parts of any TH-cam video ever, it was so beautiful like genuinely it made me cry
Fantastic video, was one heck of a journey. Glad to have been a part of this
watching along these streams was so lovely. Such a different laid back vibe to usual where you could just have a yap. Felt more like a podcast than gameplay content lol
frankly i did not expect this video to get so retrospective, but im really glad that it did, im a huge fan of you and hearing a smile in your voice as you reflect on these SICK things that happened to you, makes me happy as a viewer :3
Thank you Alpharad for sharing your moments in and out of your Shiny Hell experience with us.
Been a fan of your channel for quite a well and I’m happy for how far you’ve come. You truly are a Rad Alpha.
Surely I can't be the only person who noticed that "for a reason" was perfectly synchronised with the music at 11:18
You might be that’s crazy-
I didn’t notice but now I can’t unhear it oh lord
it was so beautiful when i hearr it haha
the audio in alpharads video are usually very very good so i expect that may have been intentional
I’m a junior in High School right now, and I just wanna say that speech about the stream ending and comparing it to graduation day made me realize how much you gotta appreciate the little things, and I thank you for that
27:00 Shiny Tentacool never forgets a hit and run.
love this Alpharad Time Capsule (featuring some unrelated Pokemon footage)
"Life doesn't owe you anything except for death and taxes, and for me, just death"
Mr Alpharad, you tax fraud you.
Wow, I salute you for your tenacious dedication. Those gym clauses truly do make this one of the hardest runs. That journey truly was the core of the video, but it also brought so much heart, discovery, and warmth with all you had to do while searching for those 50 Pokemon.
Imagine being the rival, losing a match to getting a fish thrown at you and the oppinent just startd crying of joy
I love how Alpharad's videos have started to become introspective, and him being happy with his life is so sweet
I’m playing Legends Arceus while watching this video and Jacob putting the LA shiny noise for everything he encounters is giving me psychological distress
I'm sorry for being so elusive. In my defence, I didn't like being compared to Weedle
It's just so peak seeing Alpharad wither away over 16 months and looking back on everything
As someone who's graduating at the end of this year, I was not expecting the Alpharad shinylocke to remind me that time is limited
Great video, made me cry lol
I was so confused when I started playing this game about the shiny mechanics, but once I figured it out they were so easy to abuse. W video
the way you started talking about “how it’s like graduation” and im literally graduating in a few weeks. that hit unnecessarily hard.
what a journey this has been. good work man
The switch getting thrown in the trash is one of my favorite reoccurring jokes
This video made me realize I've been watching your content for 9 years, since the how to play videos from smash 4. I'm now 23 and still look forward to all of your videos
I remember hearing about this stream almost two years ago. This wasn’t just a journey for Alpharad, it was a journey for everyone who has been watching along with him!
I am constantly impressed and bewildered by the mileage alpha has gotten out of that clip of throwing his switch in the trash.
I wanna say thank you for these streams. These streams where a genuinie help for my mental health as I could just watch them for hour and hours at night to relax when things where stressfull. Plus they were great dnd writting fuel
This video was beautiful, can even say I started tearing up towards the end. Man Alpharad knows how to make a damn script for sure and its awesome.
“Wait why is his Bellsprout level 36 and still a Bellsprout”
(8:45 appears onscreen)
“Oh that’s why”
I’ve watched these streams since day 1 in January 2023 and it was such a genuine pleasure to see the journey from start to end. This video is an incredible time machine
Oh boy, I can’t wait to see alpha definitely not give himself an injury trying to catch a bad fossil Pokémon
This was such a journey. I appreciate the true measure of patience. And hey, less content is perfectly fine when it's nothing but masterpieces.
1:26 Chat got that Subway Surfers attention span.
Alpharad was unintentionally triggering and capitalizing on our short attention span neurodivergent brains
Aloha ninetales: there's an imposter among us
Shiny nintales:I wonder who that would be
Alpharad try not to make the most beautiful emotional speech ever in every video challenge: Impossible
I’ll be real, when I first clicked on this video, I just thought: “haha funny video that will make Alpha regret choices” but by the end, I was also kinda emotional despite the fact that this is a 30 minute video on the Internet. Great storytelling and keep up the great work!
Catching tentacool was a whole ass journey, I spent nearly an entire day of my life just watching alpharad on twitch attempting to catch one single shiny.
this video ended up being way more profound, deep, and beautiful than I was ever prepared for from an alpharad video, and i loved every second of it
it takes amazing dedication and/or stupidity to do something as impressive as this
I know I am getting late for this video but this has served as a reminder that we should treasure the small things happening on the background. Thanks for this video and all the other wholesome videos that you upload every now and then; it really makes me happy to enjoy a 20min video every once in a while.
18:18 The Christmas miracle was so good that Jacob turned into Kermit the frog for a second
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“A christmas m🐸iracle t🐸ook place.
Damn. That little graduation day bit hit quite hard. I graduated high school 2 years ago at this point, but I still remember how it just…didn’t feel real until it was FINALLY there. Great video.
31:44 is such a smooth transition
Was about to say the same thing. Perfect editing
It feels so gratifying seeing this video come to fruition I can't imagine being the one to make it too lol
Like it really puts into perspective how long this has taken with other events sprinkled in as context
I feel like this was divine punishment from how Alpha changed the shiny odds when he was playing the shiny soulsilver video
this isn’t a video documenting a shiny-only pokemon run, it’s an update video on what jacob’s been doing for the last 18 months
13:40 this reveal shattered my worldview
That Nidoking is almost 2 years old
Another Alpharad video where I feel as if I was taken on a journey. After watching you for the better part of my life, thank you for being a childhood content creator that never went sour ❤
Lmao, guess Tentacool took the previous shiny kill _VERY_ personally, and made you suffer for it. 😂
Man after seeing all of those shorts, I finally get to see the journey. Huge congrats dude!
Man nothing like clicking on a new Alpharad vid and one of the first parts is a clip of a bell sprout fighting the champion
This and the Pokemon Worlds video make me feel so happy for Alpharad. I'm glad he's in a good place.