Found this in my trash and reshared it cs i made a point Okay, so allow me to rant about another thing... (if you actually read the title it doesn't say small anymore lol) I only ranted about this because many other people have not done this and think its okay when its not. There is this thing called pcm ( profile chain mail ) and its a certain type of project where they make you put it on your profile in the "featured project" section. I have seen a lot of these, and I'm gonna explain why its not okay. Stuff below Usually, they say "I bet 95% you won't put this on your profile but the 5% of people with a heart and a backbone will." Its an easy way to guilt trip a lot of people by saying they don't have a heart, or aren't kind enough, or other things that make you feel insecure and upset. That's why it can be seen on so many profiles. Its basically a chain of remixes and drags more people into it. The thing I mostly hate about it is that it makes you seem like a bad person, not by guilt tripping, but by the actual text. They can be found saying "See that boy you BULLIED? He has an abusive mother." or, "See that girl you CALLED FAT? She is overdosing on diet pills." The capitalized words represent all the things a bully or a bad person would do. They also use realistic situations that actually happen. The main goal of pcm is to "spread the message". Every pcm project has a main message that they want to spread. I get that you want to spread the message, but why do it in a form of chain mail? Why make it so that it makes people feel bad about themselves if they don't have it on their profile? Easy. Chain mail. Chain mail is used to spread messages or scare people about certain things. They usually use fake lies to make other people spread it. For example, "You have gotten bad luck! Spread this to 5 other people and the bad luck will go away." Since there are many young kids on scratch, they and the website are perfect targets to use chain mail on. Most kids don't know about chain mail, so if they see some, then they will most likely do it because of the message. Most chain mail users main goal is to scare young kids or spread rumors/messages. Some kids know about chain-mail and avoid it, but it can give you a fright sometimes based on what it says. I have had my own experience with chain mail, so I want everyone to be safe. Anyways, back to pcm. It can mostly be about scratchers and to unban and block them. Some people even go that far with making ACCOUNTS to unblock/unban them. Scratch bans/blocks people for a reason. They must have a reason to ban/block them, right? What if they were doing something bad and then pretends like they are innocent? It all goes to hate to the scratch team. I prefer to mind your own business, and move on with your day because you never know what that person did. They can literally be a 41-year old man pretending to be a 12 year old girl saying that he got blocked/banned and he didn't do anything. People know that it can be something like that, but these people are surprisingly GOOD at it. Anyways, I'll type more later because I'm tired... Also, an example of chain mail is on my profile, only accepted it because i was planning to do a project like this.
