I’m considering leaving scratch. I have lots of stuff to do, and if I finish RE:COIL, I will continue on my hardest project yet, C-Raft. However, I don’t want to spend months of work, just to have next to no views on the project. I know popularity isn’t the main goal in scratch, but after spending 2 full years spending blood, sweat, and tears working on project just to get barely any result, I may leave scratch, move on to Java/Python (which I already know), or share projects much less often. I have a myriad of other reasons that I will not add in this announcement, as I don’t want to make people angry or confused. I've tried making art (though I'm not very good), going on the Forums, focusing on quality, making several suggestions, and helping scratchers. I've done collabs, making wallpapers, trying quantity > quality, commenting on several projects, and am part of a studio with my close friend (@27shamikk). Despite all of that, my only followers are my classmates from 5th grade (which were there when I made the account) and 2-3 random followers. 1 year ago, I averaged about 20 to 30 views (my friends averaged about 50 to 100 which was crazy to me) and now they only have 1, 2, and every once in a while, 10 views. I need to take several long breaks to keep up with friends, tournaments, and school. My views are drastically decreasing, and I'm wondering if I even have a a voice in the scratch community. My forums posts, despite my best efforts, don't usually get viewed at all, my comments are buried under the piles of advertisements and F4F's. The suggestions are usually forgotten after a week or so. The collabs that I do usually benefit the other person that I work with while my own account barely grows. I've tried everything to grow even just by one follower. I've looked up several tutorials on "How to get famous in scratch" (which usually don't help that much) trying to get featured, trying to get someone, anyone to just notice me. Just the fact that you are taking time out of your day to read this message, makes me extremely grateful. If I leave, I will not delete my account, and may view projects from time to time, but I will not have time to work on any more major projects. In many ways, RE:COIL is an experiment. If I work extremely hard on I project, then this is what I get. C-Raft will be enormous, and I’ve barely started... I would like to continue, but I don’t want the project to have no views. I want to leave an impact on the scratch community, even if it's not that big. I'm not asking for 1000 followers overnight, but I want something after 2 full years working on scratch. I've tried a lot of things to gain a little bit of fame. I'm running out of ideas on how to get more popular. I know some people are already typing in the comments or on my profile like "hey, scratch isn't about popularity, so this announcement is trash!!!!!". I know. But after so much hard work, I don't feel like I'm growing at all. I've always hated advertising, because most people just want to gain views off of people who accidentally clicked on the links and benefits off of the project's views. Same with F4F's, the only reason why they followed you is because they expect a follow in return. As much as I absolutely despise these ways of gaining fame, it often seems like the only way to get popular is to do these things. I’m sorry if this announcement disappointed you, but seeing other users get tons and tons of views with far smaller projects, I feel like I am limited to 10 or so views even if I try my hardest. I will definitely finish this Stick Figure Game (which I will rename to RE:COIL) but I am unsure about C-Raft. Seeing that my views went from 30,20,10, then 1 or 2, makes me wonder if anyone even likes or even views my projects. I know I have a lot to improve, but with hours poured into this project alone, I may lose my motivation to continue creating projects. I know I’m not a griffpatch, but I feel like I deserve a bit more that what I currently have. To be frank, I would be perfectly fine having projects having 10 or 20 views but not with 1 or 2 (1st view is from me and 2nd view is normally from my close friends). Anyway, congrats if you read the whole thing, I know it’s a lot to read and probably understand (I’m not the most talented writer out there) but I’ve been wanting to get this message out for a while. That’s all and keep scratching!
Goodbye (Maybe?) Only time will tell...
