Hello scratchers. You're probably reading the title and think it's another joke, no I will retire from Scratch now. Quitting? No, I'm retiring. I will still sometimes check my messages and respond to comments but I will not be making projects ever. I am working on a Scratch saga called Scratch 4.0 (which will be animated in Scratch but published on YT) so I will no longer contribute to the site. Why? I mean, the site is kind of dying (more with the famous animators) and I don't really see a reason I should stay. I mean, I've come a long way, I've made amazing friends along the way and stuff, but from now, I will be fully moving on to comics. I've been drawing comics since I was 8 years old and I really like it. I'm evolving in life, I have other stuff to worry about, my grades, my exams, my other activities in life, and most importantly my future. Scratch was so much fun as I can remember it, and I admire my fan base to this day, I learnt so much here, how to animate, how people work, how to draw, but I must go. As for the Q&A Answers for those whom I did not respond to, I'll respond in a comment. Another reason: With the rise of AI, I've given up. This was not the Scratch I grew up with. The only thing that could maybe revive me, would probably be the release of Scratch 4.0, since the moderation is so distant lately. But here's one last thing, I brought up all of the errors of the site to the Help Email of Scratch and to @Ceebee, you know what happened? The Help Email left me of READ, I'm not even kidding, and @CeeBee straight up DELETED MY COMMENT. I mean, if she didn't respond, I wouldn't be shocked, but to the point of ignoring your problems and deleting them that's crazy. Also, I'm not exactly admired as I used to in my golden age. So I feel like I don't matter to this community now, and by all rights, I wish to move on. But none of that will ever remove my beautiful memories of watching my friends succeed on this platform, the first time I got top loved and trending back in 2023, my evolution, my first contest win and so much more that no AI bot can replace. With AI, Scratch Membership, broken trending, Scratch being just fat on GREEDY, it's lost everything I loved... The reason I quit and I come back is because I want to relive my childhood again, my golden ages, but since everything changed... I can't Now don't get me wrong, sometimes change can be good. But in the case of Scratch, it's not going uphill any time soon. I'm starting to learn JavaScript instead of Scratch and planning to dive deeper in the world of computer science instead of animation, but Scratch is an obstacle. Hence, my retirement... So finally I'd like to give my thank yous: or thank you for teaching me how to animate. , thank you for helping me improve my art. thank you so much for being my first follower and watching my content since the start. Thank you for being an awesome friend. And now to all of my friends who helped me along the way: (the goat who got me to 1000 followers) or Also I haven't mentioned this for those of you who know nothing about me, I was and I made most of my friends there, I was an animator. Link to my webcomic: https://tapas.io/series/humansvsaliens Happy memories are the only thing that cannot be replaced. Please keep in mind that when the Scratch 4.0 releases, I will return to test it, then I will release a few projects and then retire. -Luno Thank you :)
