A couple things I forgot to include in my project: My sister and I, as well as people we've interacted with, have received legitimate dxxth threats for our religion, by people who we had barely spoken to. Scratch was meant to be a safe place for all races, sexualities, gender identities, disabilities, statuses, and religions. It is not. I reported these threats and the scratch team did nothing. This same individual continued to make similar threats to others and to my knowledge, was never banned. I had someone I was debating with about a Warriors ship threaten to self ☠️ because of the opinion I had. In what was previously a pretty civil conversation, mind you. Scratch has gone bad. I don't know how to fix it. Without a massive overhaul in management and moderation, I don't think it's possible on a large scale. All this being said, I love to code here. It makes me really sad that I can't, because to do so is to consent to being scraped for training. I'm tired of it. I'm done. This is not scratch. And whatever it's become, my life has become too busy to fight against it. I hope this isn't the end, though. I don't plan to give up forever. I just need an indefinite break to learn how to manage my life as I move into adulthood To those who want to continue the fight, keep protesting against it this crap. Do not feed into the toxicity. At all. And if you post art, use nightshade or foxglove (anti AI poison) so that they can't safely train on it. Protect yourself. And this may go without saying but don't post pictures of yourself. We already know what happens when people with AI can get access to your image
Song is They Don't Care About Us by Michael Jackson (RIP legend) Thumbnail by me obviously I will probably be on for my birthday, and likely Michael Jackson's birthday too, to make some sort of memorial project for him (no I haven't seen the movie yet, I started hyperfocusing on him long before I knew that movie existed lol)
