QR code adding every variant of a Pokemon to my dex?

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Ok so this is something that is kinda bugging me…So I finished my dex and because I didn’t have all the gender variants I used a the qr scanner to get them in my dex… but I realised that it added every variant, even shiny, to my dex.For example I didn’t have female regular rattata so I scanned female rattata, but instead of just getting female rattata I also got shiny forms of both genders of rattata and alolan rattata shiny… what?

At first I didn’t take much notice, but then realised… why would shinies and gender variants have different qr codes if they add all forms of that Pokemon?

And then I scanned the special QR codes on global link and I didn’t get the shiny forms or anything…

Global Link QR codesOther QR codes, where I got rattata and some other Pokemon

I am very confused about this, I’m sure that the other site used pkhex to get the Pokemon to get the codes in the first place, but I don’t see why that would make any difference as the QR codes are exactly the same, so why randomly give me shiny forms?Also I took a photo of a rowlet’s QR from my own dex and scanned it, and didn’t get shiny rowlet in my dex.

Basically anyone else have this happen to them and have any clue as to why?

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I clicked on the links you provided and I found the answer to your question. The reason why you got those shiny Pokemon in your pokedex is because the site provided the QR codes for the shiny Pokemon. The site where you got the special Pokemon did not provide the QR code for their shiny forms. I scanned the QR codes too. Thanks for bringing me to that site! Now I have some shiny Pokemon in my pokedex too! And, no, the QR codes of Rowlet and shiny Rowlet are different. QR codes are hard to tell apart, but what I did is clicked the arrow button to get to the shiny Rowlet’s QR code from the regular Rowlet’s and then went back to the regular Rowlet’s QR code from the shiny Rowlet’s. I did that very fast and I noticed that the QR codes are different.Hope this helped! :)