EDIT: so saw the update and that our art is likely not going to be used by scratch’s ai. I’m going to potentially keep using scratch for the occasional unfinished animation I finally worked up the motivation to finish, but I’m leaving this project up. In my heart, I’ve already been officially gone for a while now. ————— Hey so everyone by now has heard of scratch’s new ai policy and I mean let’s be so honest, I have not been active on this site. I don’t think I’m still in contact with anyone on here that I couldn’t contact offsite. If you want my Toyhouse, just message me. But yeah this ai thing is super depressing. I spent most of my childhood on this website and I can’t even make an official leaving project like I was planning because I can’t post any more of my art. I’m not sure if I’m going to unshare all of my art because I really don’t want to but I do plan on being a professional artist in some form so maybe it would be for the best. I’m not sure. I also can’t entirely tell if unshared projects are included in the ai training, but I’m assuming they are, which also really sucks since there were some animatics I was working on. But yeah not sure how to really end this on a positive note. To be honest, I used scratch mostly in a really negative point in my life and more than anything I’m glad it’s over. But scratch often brought me a lot of joy, comfort, and community in a time of instability for me. It helped me to learn a lot about myself (I discovered I was queer while on scratch) and it was a constant in a very formative part of my life. I’m much older now, it’s been almost six years since I started. It’s amazing to look back and see how far I’ve come. In some regards, I’ll always miss those times, but I’ll also always be glad I don’t need to rely on the support of strangers and I can talk to my family and friends now. I really wish you guys the best if anyone even remembers me. I promise I remember you. I hope you continue to fight on scratch or leave to better platforms, or simply have a good life. Never stop creating! For the final time, With all my heart, I love you all, Lynx <3
Notes and credits Thank you to Mystery of StrikeClan/Mystery of the Two Clans roleplay. That was the first online roleplay I was ever in and the first time I had truly fleshed out a character. I was very lonely during COVID and it meant a lot to me to be a part of something. (Fallen Wish- Tribe of Falling Petals. 2/23/21-(technically she never died but the roleplay kind of died out in 2022)) I still remember when I thought you were famous haha. You should’ve been, you deserved it. Your animations inspired me so much and thank you for being my first favorite scratcher (and appreciating my really cringy fanart) fellow venti x lumine shipper! I remember how much you inspired me to create and how kind you were every time we interacted @ _-Flora_Night-_ Silver wow, you were always such a good friend to me and I always looked up to you so much. You left a long time ago but I loved roleplaying with you as Fallen Wish with Sea Song. in the least romantic way possible, roleplaying with you was how I realized I was queer. Genuinely not romantic but doing a lesbian cat roleplay was the thing that made me finally realize, so I really appreciate that. That is a really weird sentence especially since you’re still on this site I think but like thank you wow I just checked your profile and for some reason I thought you left but nope you’re like totally still here. I think we were briefly friends but I don’t entirely remember? You definitely comforted me at least once on a vent and that meant a lot to me, so thank you I think we met through . We had a lot of very random but sitll fun conversations and I liked you a lot. Didn’t last long but it still made an impact to me for probably being my best friend of all time on here, glad we’re going to still both be on th lol so no huge dramatic speech but still, you’re amazing ily <3 , we never interacted too much here but also th friends so yeah you’re very cool Recounting all the people (there were also WAY more, just a complied list) I met on here is actually making me so emotional. In truth, I was already gone, but I will still miss the scratch community. Just a few small words or interactions have always made my day. I was inspired to learn how to draw digitally and formulate my style from scratch. I also taught myself how to animate. Scratch was really a place where I grew and grew up. Thank you to all of you for building this community <3
