not sure if anyone remembers me here anymore, or even sees me here (since most of my friends have quit and moved on) but i just wanted to say thank you. furthermore, im going to share the story of how i ended up on scratch i'm currently an 8th grade student on my last year of middle school, i am moving on to 9th grade next year. it feels like life is moving so fast. one day im a 13 year old honors student and the other im an optimistic 8 year old child discovering how to code for the first time and gaining another interest scratch was a MAJOR part of my life, and when i was about 8 years old, i joined a coding class (not one, A LOT. online, real life, anything that involved scratch.) i absolutely loved scratch and gained a big interest into coding on it, as you may see from many of my old projects. i coded and coded every single day, and i mean it when i say EVERY single day. soon, i met minuofficial, (now anakin) a person who had the same interests as me!! mlp and all. i talked to minu every single day and we were (and still are) best friends, and then i met neehaa, and benita! (pvsteliacai) we all shared very similar interests in cute things many of my classmates supported the fact that i was absolutely IN LOVE with scratch at the time, and i may have made many of my friends join as well, where they sadly lost intrest, however, i didn't mind, i was happy with the people i met on scratch. on my 10th birthday, i was STILL in love with scratch, i came home everyday to millions of notifications. i didnt care about grades, homework, stress, judgement, i was a carefree little girl who loved to express herself. even if middle school was the year after, and i knew that people were going to be horrible, i didn't care. i enjoyed every single moment of that year. sure, people left the year after, i gained new interests, but i never EVER left the 6th grade wasn't too hard, at the time i had formed my band, a small band called rust and rebellion (which i still preform with to this day) with a couple of classmates. it was fun, and still is to preform with them. i also have a memory of liking gacha at the time, how i made gacha ocs and posted my funny videos on scratch, how i'd go home everyday to post, i have a vivid memory of what it was like 7th grade things took a turn for the worse when i started the 7th grade, i was still in love with scratch, where i started my OMORI broken band au. at the time, we had a school coding class where we were able to code and be on scratch. this is where it gets bad some of my classmates had found my account and multiple classmates doxxed me as they laughed and mocked me in reality. i felt empty and tired and unsure if theyre still viewing. it eventually stopped but with that, my scratch addiction ended. i didn't want to continue, i didn't have any motivation, but i didn't want to leave either. i fell in love with different interests, i tried new things, i got good grades, i moved on. i moved on from scratch this isn't a "im leaving" letter. its a "thank you for everything" letter. i miss everyone who was previously on this platform, i miss our conversations and texts, i miss you all i do not know where you've gone, where you are in life but i hope that you are happy wherever you are, i wish you success and happiness. therefore, thank you for making my childhood full of joy and happiness.
first, i would like to thank @pusheenom, not an online friend but my BEST friend to this day. they have been my friend ever since i joined scratch and although we weren't close at the time, they are my bestest friend in the world and i value them more than anything, they taught me how to code and value myself rather than not caring about myself, you taught me how to appreciate my own self, and cared for me when nobody else even dared to bat an eye at how i felt. so thank you, i'll always appreciate you for that <3 next, i would like to thank @neehaa, @minuoffical, and @pvsteliacai (2/3 i am STILL in contact after all these years, if neehaa sees this please respond to this post!! i hope your doing well) you were my first friend group and group of online friends ever and you all are amazing, i'm really glad i broke the "no online friends" rule lol lastly, i would like to thank everyone else that i met on this platform. thank you all i'm not quitting or moving, but i will not be online too much, of course, i will provide updates on my life and WILL NEVER EVER forget about scratch, but i'm on a hiatus for a little while. i'll try my best to reply to each of your messages. for now, broken band is officially discontinued. thank you all. with love, kiki/keiko/mia/rin so long suckers!