Eyes to read
Well... It happened. The Erika animutation that has survived for three years (somehow) is fully removed from Scratch. For those of you who don't know, this animutation contained a really offensive war song related to WW2 Germany. I do not condone or support the actions of that group, nor do I fall under any particular community which may lean towards said group. This happened to be a one-off thing I made whilst I was young and uninformed about the original song's purpose. For those people who have not seen this animutation. The story mainly revolves around Freddy Fazbear and a bunch of other characters goofing around. And at the end, DanTDM destroys Freddy with his blue laser attack (think of it like a gaster blaster) and he disintegrates into a pile of ash. Outside of the unfortunate song choice, the animutation had nothing to do with said group For some context on why I made this project. A United Nations event was happening in my school back in 2023, where we had to cosplay a country of our choice. My country of choice is Germany, and I wanted to create an animutation to commemorate this event. I asked one of my classmates whom I trusted back then to choose a song, and he said to go with "Erika". Now at the time, I only saw of it as a german march song, so I took it for granted and started work on the animutation. I would finish it at around October, post it onto the animutation studio, and leave it as that. Now even after the event had fully finished and I move onto the year 2024, the project itself somehow blew up on it's own. I recall opening my Scratch and seeing many likes, favorites, and comments from that animutation. I even remember seeing my project as the first search result when you search up "Erika". Of course, the comments were either joking, trolling, or... downright malicious that I had to intervene and delete them. It wasn't until the search result for "Erika" was completely blacklisted on Scratch, and you could no longer search for this project I thought it would be the end for good. But just as I returned home from a family meeting, I opened my Scratch and saw that the "Erika" project was deleted by the Scratch Team themselves. I thought for the longest time, my project staying up meant that it didn't break any rules. But I guess the Scratch Team did not see this project until now.. To end off this essay, I apologize for creating an animutation which may have offended some people, or at least the Scratch team that deleted the project. I do not wish that this change gets reverted, and the project stays up on the Scratch site. But I will instead try to host the animutation onto my website. Purely for archival purposes and no other agenda stuff
