=Saving Scratch - A Speech= [Hate] Ok, we get it, there is lots of hate in scratch right now, there’s a lot of mass reporting, copying, disrespect, theft, let down, sadness, depression and more. But you know what? What are we doing to stop it? We say we want to save scratch, but we are too scared to face what we want to become the best it can be...we SAY that we want to make scratch a better place, but we don’t actually DO anything...we just say it. People keep leaving because “Scratch is dying” or “This hate is too much” or “Scratch isn’t the way it used to be” but guess what? Who made it that way? It was us. You blame the haters, but haters hate because they know we get affected by hate...our responses to the haters are worse than what they actually say. Sure hate can be hard to take, but it’s life...experiencing hate is a recipe for success, do you think Michael Jordan experienced a perfect career with no hate? Of course not. Everyone will get hate, whether you like it or accept it or not. You can leave scratch but you can’t leave life...some of you want to be engineers or artists or animators, but to get to what you want to do, then you will need have hate. I love hate! Now I don’t like hate to be brought on others, but hate shows me where I can improve. Haters don’t realize that they are helping us more than harming us. They tell us what we are bad at, so what we do is that we improve and then guess what? They have nothing to hate on. You see? Instead of being sad and leaving because you can’t take the hate, use the hate as motivation, I was once affected by hate but I had to understand that hate is going to happen, and it’s my choice whether to be it’s prey, or you be hates predator...which one will you choose? Yes I know mass reporting can be extremely discouraging because I’ve experienced it and it doesn’t feel good, but I had to persevere and understand that it will happen sometimes whether I like it or not. So instead of leaving scratch and making it die more, let’s band together and face the hate as a team, teamwork makes the dream work, and in this case, making scratch a better place again is the dreamwork! So let’s band together and let’s face the hate, if we work together as a team. We can do it, when you receive hate, no matter how harsh it is, you ignore it and use it as motivation! “We are strongest when we are together” -Shadow 2020. Hater’s opinions don’t matter! Do what YOU enjoy doing it, as long as it looks good to you, that’s all that matters! I hope this helps you all and make you look at scratch differently because scratch isn’t a bad place, it’s just some things that need to be fixed, and the people that can fix it, is US the scratch community. Fight for what you love and what you want to become a reality! One more thing, if you don’t want people to steal your things or recolor you things, don’t share it, according to the ST when you share a project, you are making it open to anyone to be able to use what you use, so don’t get mad at people who steal, because notices WHY they steal, it’s because they like your style of art/game making/animating! That’s all :) Thank you for your time :)
