This project has been a long time coming. Obviously, I have been wildly inactive on this site. There’s multiple reasons for that. It began when I started doing digital art. That hobby made up a big chunk of free time, and I never really posted on here (half because scratch absolutely kills the quality of the art) besides some birthday gifts. And shortly after that, I started dabbling in hand drawn animation, which obviously, is a LOT less limiting than sprite animation, frankly looks better, and, in my opinion, is more fun. It then went on with the scratch glitches, mostly the whole backdrop glitch thing (I’m fully aware of some of the workarounds for this, but I’ve still ran into issues using those). I was already really starting to feel the limitations of scratch before that point, but of course, I wanted to get Elemental done. The next nail in the coffin was the creation of my YouTube channel (@CrimsonStudios105). Once I started it, I didn’t see a big reason to continue posting my animations on here. I would still use scratch to make sprite animations, but even if you look on my channel, I only have two sprite animations. And frankly, I think they’re two of my worse videos. After months of never even really touching scratch, I wanted to attempt to make another rpg, like the one I made for Shadow week, now that I didn’t have a time limit. And I sunk hours upon hours animating the moves. Then, one day, I try loading the project, and all it does is crash scratch. Not my computer, SCRATCH would crash. Not even using turbowarp helped a thing. So that ended up being a gigantic waste of time. And that REALLY started to make me really contemplate just dropping the site.
Then, it happened. The terms of service update. I don’t think I need to say anything about this issue, obviously AI has no place in any creative space. That sealed the deal for me: I wasn’t even gonna try and make one last goodbye animation. I was done with the site. But of course, I could still see what everyone else is posting, right? Yeah, we all know about the purge. Not everyone, let me make that abundantly clear, not everyone whose projects I were interested in left, but most anyone I would actually like to see continue unfortunately left or has been inactive for ages as well. So now, there’s not even a point for me to open the website. Finally, and I don’t like feeling this way, but I feel like I’ve been left out of the loop for a long time now. There’s no denying it, my peak was a while ago, and it’s been downhill since. But as of late, it’s been especially like I’m not part of the group. I’m kinda just “that one guy who never comments, who isn’t part (and never will be a part of) the cord.” And don’t misunderstand me, that is completely reasonable. I never did this for popularity or anything like that. If I did, I would’ve quit long ago. But I can’t say it feels great to make a whole separate collabing account and never once get a response (yes, I am ), to never once be considered important enough to mention or cameo, nor to even finish a collab with. Also, let’s be real. I’m 17, 18 in a few months. It’d be weird if I stuck around much longer. I’ve outgrown this site, I’ve outgrown the projects I was making here, and I’ve moved on to bigger things. You can always see what I’m up to on my YouTube channel, and trust me, the stuff on there is way better than anything I could make here. I wish it could’ve been on better terms, wish it could’ve been less anticlimactic, but to the 3 people who care, sayonara. God bless you all.
