Please remix. Bullying on scratch NEEDS to stop. Picture this: It was an uneventful Tuesday. Some annoying stuff happened, but today you can play scratch! You are logging into scratch, eager to start coding or looking at other peoples codes. You are desperate to have that powerful feeling of being able to create a game, no, a world, with just a tap of your finger. After you have logged on though, you see that you have some messages. You are electrified by the thought that someone commented on your game, or put a new project in a studio. You click on the message button, hoping to see that someone complemented you, maybe even loved your game. You find a comment on the game you were most proud of. You read it, thinking it will say, "Great Job," or "I loved this!" Instead, it says something that tears your happiness in two. It says, "dude i could make something this dumb when i was five. like how is it possible that your game is so freakishly stupid. get off of scratch idiot. some people actually have smart games. no dummies allowed!" You are shocked. Horrified, really. You delete your account and a tear rolls down your cheek. The fact that this was your first time being bullied made this even harder to handle. People might call you sensitive, but you loved that game. You are flabbergasted that someone could say something mean about it. You are never coding on scratch again. Bullies point of view: You have just finished creating your favorite project, and it took five months to make! It uses the most advanced blocks that there are. It took so much careful planning and work. You are incredibly pleased with it, and it already has 100 views in just an hour. Aww, dang it. Time for school. You groan, and swing on your backpack. Well, at least when you get back, your project will be waiting there for you, with at least 100 more views. When you get to school, you have to sit through a long E.L.A lesson, where you learn about independent clauses and sentence fragments. Afterwards, you have an even longer math lesson, where you have to find the value of x, and how it compares to the value of y. Then you have social studies, writing, P.E, science, and a couple of other stuff. When the day ends, you can hardly hold your excitement. EEHH! Your project is finally shared. But when you log on to scratch, something strange has happened. You can't find your project anywhere. Instead, there is something on your profile called, "I'm a dummy." You look inside this project, and find out that this is the project that you worked months on. Somebody has defaced it. HOW COULD THEY! YOU WORKED MONTHS ON THIS, MONTHS! You had never felt so proud of yourself before, and now your project is ruined. You act like a little kid, and start to sob. It turns out your little sister did this. You are so, so mad at her. Your parents ground her for a month, but you're still inhumanly mad. You go onto scratch, and see a project. It looks pretty stupid. You bet it didn't take whoever made this five months to make. Without thinking, you do something so stupid. On the game, you comment some really mean stuff, and then shut the computer. An hour later, you feel so bad about this, and want to go back and apologize. But when you log onto scratch, the project is gone, deleted. You feel so bad, and wish you could change what you did. You are never going on scratch again. Your point of view: You are logging into scratch because you have nothing else to do today. No after school, no hang out, no fun activity. When you get on, though, instead of coding you decide to just browse and see what the people you're following are up to. You click on Markerly, a kid who makes cool games even though his coding level is lower than yours. You click on his game "Ai bull," a funny simulation of what a bull would do in certain situations. But below it, you see a comment. You wonder who it could be, because Markerly doesn't have that many followers. When you read the comment, you are fuming in anger. You think that it's the most mean comment you have ever seen! WHAT WOULD YOU DO? What you should do in this situation is report the mean comment as fast as you can. That way, the bully will be taken care of by the scratch team. Things to not do: make the bully's life miserable. Things to do: Tell the bully to stop.
As you can see from the story/stories above, bullying has drastic affects on people, and sometimes, the bully is actually hurt. Yet still, bullies shouldn't have any excuses. So, when you see bullying on scratch report it, and comfort the person being bullied. Tell the bully to stop, that they are hurting someone's feelings. If they do not stop, then things might get serious. Thanks for playing. Bye!