Apollonir.Scale
He/Him- 2,116
- 1,153
I agree with this. It's just like bodybuilding. People look at posts from steroid-using bodybuilders and think everyone should have bodies as big as those steroid-using bodybuilders, and that anyone below that level is a "zargana" (a Turkish term for a very skinny fish, used to describe thin athletes). Whereas, before social media became so popular and people didn't even know what steroids were, they praised any average, natural physique.not ftl =/= unimpressive speed showing, scaling got so inflated people think if they're not ftl they're auto garbage which just isn't true
Another reason why people believe the characters in Bleach have incredibly high speeds is because in the early 2020s, some Instagram and TikTok scalers said things like, "Even Soul Society's Ichigo has MFTL+ calc." I can't find the posts mentioning calc because they've been deleted, but there was also a post from the same guy saying Las Noches was as big as a star, and he stated that the calc was incorrect and that he got it from someone else. Since no one refuted the calc in his post, he didn't delete it.
As mentioned above, speed doesn't matter much when the speed is evenly matched in matches. Shinigami and Arrancar also have passive Soul Crush, so speed isn't crucial against most characters.