TLDR: I'm moving my favorite works to a new site because scratch gives me anxiety nowadays, I'm also moving bc I had that inevitable moment where I got too "unc" and not all of my stuff is gonna be 7+ anymore, but I'll still check in here for the foreseeable future! I'll be @ frosty-violet at the place known for "anons" "asks" and "bl0gs" that starts with the letter of the english alphabet known as "T" (Yes, I know there is likely no ART training involved with this new update atm! But I'm still moving, explanations below) I just recently hit 6 years and 600 followers on here. I was making a DTA to celebrate. Not sure if I'll post it here, if I do, it'll be after the boycott (Feb 1st-7th) and possibly the last thing I post here. Or maybe I'll post it off site? Idk if other places do that kind of competition.. maybe I'll bring the custom there and it'll be cool and revolutionary! /silly I've deleted the animatics and art dumps Im actually proud of and am moving the animatics to another site. That being the place known for "anons" "asks" and "bl0gs" where my user is @ frosty-violet, you'll know it's me by my main OC Violetripple in the pfp like she is on here Even if what has been said about the personal coding bot assistant is actually what's happening and there is nothing generative, I still feel like a line has been crossed in me being comfortable being here. I worry it could become that later, however irrational that may be (I do have anxiety after all). Rest assured I'm not getting rid of everything I've ever done (it's being saved and moved or left here bc it's old and lowkey doesn't look that good or won't make sense outside of scratch), and I will not stop creating! It's too fun! It will just be somewhere else where I don't feel an overwhelming anxiety at the thought of posting anything because I think I'm going to be stolen from. That was already a problem before this whole thing, as I've had serious anxiety over the fact that I technically have no real ownership of anything I post here and I can't do anything about a random kiddo yoinking my art. So it's for my mental health too at this point. But I don't want to delete everything, because my favorite part about this site is the idea that just like I was inspired by so many creators here, someone is inspired by my content. I want to be the reason someone draws something, because that thought warms my heart. Also tho, I've reached the threshold of that point that a lot of artists here reach where I simply want to explore darker themes in my art and stories that are not seven year old friendly, so I'd have had to move for that anyway, and I was planning to transfer my favorite animatics to wherever I move to have something to post lol And I'm excited to go somewhere where more people know about/are into some of my more "niche" fandoms (like the pokemon S/V dlc, wilderlore, whitepine, wolfwalkers, Puyo Puyo Tetris, Disney Fairies, Aphmau, Kn!fetrick, Prodigy math game, etc) and I might have more of an audience for the fan content from those that I post I know that for someone with 600 followers I really don't have a huge active audience or a ton of online friends/mutuals, and maybe I'm just yapping into the internet void, but I'm posting this anyway. I'll still pop in to look at messages and other people's content, I just likely won't post anything new on here unless I find a DTA or MAP or smth that I wanna enter reallllyyy bad lol Thanks for reading if you did find this, I appreciate you greatly and hope you have a wonderful time -Puppa/Frosty/Violet
