Archive glitch?

[Calaco]

So I was doodling through the sitting cat archive and clicked on ‘see completed months’ and it said 🎉 you’ve collected all of 2012 🎉 etc etc but the only sitting cat in 2012 is the cheshire cat and there’s no fluffing WAY I’ve come even close to getting it so I don’t know what’s going on, maybe a bug or glitch?

[Lennie]

As store pets don't count towards the complete collection count, even if you did have the outcome, this wouldn't be a result of the Cheshire Cat being in your collection! This is an odd situation and I'm curious to know if there are other filters that would result in this - as there was a sitting cat outcome released in 2012, the archive's collection tracker does recognize 2012 as a year to be collected from. This is worth noting because in years where there are 0 outcomes released for a particular lineart, the "you have collected all" line does not appear (e.g., Koi, where you would never see "you have collected all of the Koi from 2015" as 0 koi were released that year).
Since the only outcome that was released for sitting cats in 2012 was an outcome that does not count towards a complete collection, even if you did not have a Cheshire Cat in your collection, this year would show as "completed" for you by default as you have collected 0/0 outcomes that count towards the collection total.

This wouldn't necessarily constitute a glitch/bug, as the archive filter still needs to show 2012, though whether there's benefit to removing the "completion" line for that specific year may be up for debate as there is technically nothing to actively complete as a user. Hopefully that explanation makes sense - I'm happy to try and reword if it doesn't! ^^

[Calaco]

Oooh, I think I get it. So it says I have them all because stores don’t technically count and there’s none other than that? Thanks so much, I was deeply confused 🤣