# Breeding Difficulty Breeding Difficulty, also known as the 'I Sold You To A Pet Store' Toasteed Quiz, blew up on Twitter in late January 2023 after users typed their names into a joke generator that rated them as pets. The hashtag #BreedingDifficulty trended January 24 through 26 as thousands shared their fake pet stat sheets, with confused onlookers initially guessing it referred to competitive Pokémon mechanics. ## Origin In January 2023, the generator site Toasteed published a quiz at toasteed.com titled 'I sold you to a pet store! How much did you sell for?'[1]. Entering a name produced a cartoon stat sheet styled like a Pokédex page, with the five-star Breeding Difficulty meter sitting next to the favorite-food and personality fields[1]. The quiz itself did not credit an individual author beyond the Toasteed site, which hosts similar name-based generators[4]. The format became a meme once Twitter users began screencapping results and attaching the #BreedingDifficulty tag in the final week of January 2023[2]. - **Platform:** Toasteed.com / Twitter (viral spread) - **Creator:** Toasteed - **Date:** 2023 ## Overview Participants punch a name into the Toasteed prompt, click 'Take the test,' and receive a mock pet dossier listing a favorite food, a personality type, a 'notes' blurb and a Breeding Difficulty rating from one to five stars[1]. Five stars means hardest to breed, a detail that set off most of the jokes once results hit Twitter[2]. Screenshots of the stat cards drove the format. Users posted their own cards, dunked on friends who got low ratings, and riffed on the 'breeding difficulty' line as if their own pet-sheet was dating advice[3]. A second strain of posts came from people who had not taken the quiz and only saw the hashtag, assuming it was a serious term from Pokémon or livestock circles[3]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Breeding Difficulty? Breeding Difficulty is a joke stat from Toasteed's 'I Sold You To A Pet Store' quiz that rates participants on a one-to-five-star scale, which went viral as a Twitter hashtag in late January 2023[1][2]. ### Where did Breeding Difficulty come from? It comes from a name-based quiz posted on toasteed.com in January 2023 that imagines the user as a pet and prints a cartoon stat sheet with a Breeding Difficulty rating[1]. ### What does Breeding Difficulty mean? In the quiz, Breeding Difficulty is a made-up rating for how hard the user would be to breed as a pet, with five stars being the hardest; outside the quiz, it only meant whatever trending tag people saw on their feed[1][2]. ### How do you use Breeding Difficulty? Users typically take the Toasteed quiz, screenshot the resulting stat card, and post it with the #BreedingDifficulty tag or a reaction joke, as @bluedragonjet did with the Pokémon punchline on January 24, 2023[3]. ### Is Breeding Difficulty still popular? No, the hashtag peaked between January 24 and 26, 2023 and faded within days, though the Toasteed quiz page is still reachable[1][4]. ## References 1. [https://toasteed.com/7fzsry]() 2. [https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2023/01/25/what-does-breeding-difficulty-mean-twitter-overtaken-by-pet-store-quiz-term/]() 3. [https://twitter.com/bluedragonjet/status/1618024333561188352]() 4. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/breeding-difficulty-i-sold-you-to-a-pet-store-toasteed-quiz]() 5. [https://twitter.com/IshenSpins/status/1618167940817514497]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/breeding-difficulty-i-sold-you-to-a-pet-store-toasteed-quiz Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library