I’m going to be part of the boycott team from the weekend feb 1-7, I suggest you look up my new social to see where I will be active! read more about the boycott here: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/1270264768 So I’m sure all of you have heard about the ai drama thats going on right now. And I’ve already seen projects saying that scratch is going downhill or that we don’t need to worry about any of this. I’m not sure whose side I’m on. I definitely don’t want AI stealing my art and using it without my consent. That is my main goal. But everything here so far seems to still be up in the air. I’m not sure if there really are ai bots that can take my art or if everyone’s freaking out over nothing. Why would scratch change the TOS? Idk. Why should we care if ai takes art made from children to train itself if the art here apparently isn’t worth it? Idk. I honestly have no clue as to what to think of all this. But I do want to be safe. I won’t be posting anymore art related projects until this gets fixed. Not until it blows over and gets swept under the rug. Until it’s fixed. I want scratch to be a safe environment, and right now it’s not proving it can be. But I still want to share my art. I’m going to look into getting some protection for my art so nothing can steal it. I don’t want to take any projects down really, but I also don’t want my art stolen. So. Um. This wasn’t planned. As you can tell XD but as I’m taking a break for a little while, I didn’t want to leave you all without any context. And I still want to post things as I’ve mentioned. So. In the coding of this project, I will be sharing the name of my recently created yt channel. Ik. I was going to wait until I hit 500 followers but obviously things are changing. I’ve been much more active there with posting art and relatable shorts, and maybe… I’ll move there permanently. Who knows. This is still all up in the air. But I’m not letting scratch stop me from sharing my art and having a creative outlet. Ironically.
To sum up what I’m doing: I’m not posting anything art related until this ai mishap is fixed. Not blown over. Fixed. And for now, I will be posting more on yt, with my art. I will also be finding a way to protect it better so that nothing can steal it. As for my comic… I really want to continue it. I promised myself early on that I wouldn’t discontinue it like other comic artists, but… the future of the comic might not continue here. Idk. Really idk about anything here. But I want to continue to make art, and scratch just doesn’t seem like the place for that right now. I miiiiight make a dubbed version of my comic to post on yt if all things go south. I’ve been toying with the idea since making my channel, and I think it would be fun. I want my comic to survive somewhere, so I might be moving all my chapters there for people to watch/read. To those of you still reading, I am truly sorry this site has come to where it has, even though this isn’t my fault. Scratch was everything to me when I was younger, and it still is. But I think part of me is ready to move on if I have to. I won’t be leaving completely, as I still want to chat with friends who can’t access yt and find out how this whole drama thing with ai ends. But most of my content might be moved somewhere else. It’s been real. It’s been fun. But nothing lasts forever. I’ll still be around to chat and update you all as I go. —Ferny
