Scratch is dead to me, switching to AI to train from artists, and strict moderation is driving artists and coders away from the website. The community is a shadow of its former self. There's nothing left. My friends and I have moved on with our lives or are currently living in different places. I've been driven away from creating projects due to personal issues and toxic moderation. The passion for scratch has died, I come back time to time to see little change. Without my friends it's empty. Maybe it's time for the new generation to discover scratch I hope for a better future where creativity thrives than the same slop in the featured page. I've been here 6 or 5 years, banned too many times to count just because of projects alone while more graphic and hate speech projects stay up. I hate to leave a place I've been so committed to, where I began my first WC RP. I've grown much older now and I realized there's no point in returning. Some people still reach out to me, but unfortunately, I don't remember a single one of them. No more projects left, no more stories left to tell. No more comics to share. I've moved on to other socials, living my life the best this economy will let me. I fear this may be the last time I'll ever log in The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth
