edit (july 30th 2025): hi guys i'm back still not checking comments cuz im scared of yall fr ? so uh hi guys long time no see am i right XD before we get into more things i'll start off with this: 1. no i didn't get banned 2. no i didn't get hacked i left. scratch was WAY too much for my mental health and i guess i just snapped? i don't really know honestly ever since then i've been way too scared to come back i know this was a horrible thing to do but i really didn't know any other way to do it? it just all happened ig i thought i was gonna come back in a couple of days and make an official "quitting scratch" project but a couple days turned into a couple weeks and a couple weeks turned into a couple months so here i am i was also WAY too scared to check scratch once again, i don't know why; i was probably too scared to face the consequences of my actions lol and also i just want everyone to know i am NOT coming back i might pop in time to time but i will no longer post as much as i used to over my weird hibernation i realized that scratch just isn't for me there's just a lot of issues that i don't even think i have to tell you about lol and also i've just outgrown it in addition, everything has changed so much so many new artists and people leaving and i've just fallen behind on that note, i will be quitting everything no winners for the dmac or the draw my cat i love all your designs and art, but you can keep them all, i really don't deserve it same with all my map parts my otaps and everything else also, right after quitting scratch, i got MASSIVE art block that only just ended like a couple days ago over this whole time i think i've finished a digital art piece like six times, no joke that's basically all you should now and also, i'd like to say how incredibly sorry i am it was wrong of me to just leave everything behind like that i honestly don't mind if you're angry at me just please know that i am sorry and i regret doing what i did even though i'm apologizing to everyone, i want to give a special apology to the people i consider my friends @-sagetea-, @__Goldenbloom__, @Azure_Axolotl, @bunny_lover404, , , , , and others i'm sorry for just randomly leaving like that ;-; i thought about yall so much honestly and i felt really bad so uh just pls know that im sorry btw as a gift there's an age reveal inside the project (putting this here and not at the end so people who just scroll don't see it) anyways, even tho i'm not on scratch anymore, you can find me on pixel cat's end as CherryDaCat and i'm planning to start a yt channel during the summer too and i might post it here idk also i didn't check any of the 23 messages i got during when i was not here so uh sorry bout that folks anyways thank you for reading <3 i do not deserve all 228 of you, but you're here anyways, so thank you for that thank you so much for being here for me on scratch, inspiring me, motivating me, being my friends i'm so grateful for ALL of you thank you bye <3 -cherry