My side of #SSH - I can only agree with the description of the original project. It was the year of 2018 when I first created an account. Scratch was a really nice place. Even if I was new, I was super amazed at the coding. It was not because I was not used to all this effort- it was because the effort was actually put into these famous projects. I used to be really happy and motivated, inspired by everyone and every project or program they or I created. A year passed, and I was still on Scratch, happy, creating the projects that were unique and always dreamt of being on the front page. Then I snapped into reality. I was hearing about all of this #STGP and stuff. I didn't know what it was at first, but I started to learn about it. And I almost agreed. I started noticing that trending was filled with boring projects- mostly a cube jumping around avoiding red spikes and blotches everyone calls lava. (No offense.) I started losing motivation, creating boring projects because I thought the character jumping over spikes was something that everyone else loved. I wasn't having fun creating those projects, and it was fairly easy. I felt really guilty that I was creating these projects and that was not what I really loved. But someone taught me that I should be whoever I want to be and post whatever I am motivated to. It's not just one person, it's the small voices that are helping Scratch become a better place. I hope that Scratch can be like what it was in 2018 and I hope everyone can help. Thanks. :) View the original by @Supercube_123: Most of us recall 2019 - The year when Scratch is a beautiful nation. Thousands of cheerful Scratchers code, create, collab, and contribute to a prosperous society. Scratch, restated over and over again, is a place for fun and for scratchers to interact with one another. Sadly, it has been a disgusting, fame-filled hideout since 2020. It all started in the second half of the year, when rumours spread that some fellow scratchers started copying, resharing, even impersonating. The severity of the issue of generic games had only skyrocketed, despite the effort devoted by lots of kind scratchers. The Explore trending page became a place only for generic platformers and animations. Then things started getting even disastrous. For the first time ever, foul language appeared on Scratch. F4F was minted. Feedback became an advertising strategy. Spam occurred. Collabs failed. Famous and potential Scratchers abandoned the website. True talented projects were deserted. A project which only contained a square, grass and spikes could get up to 5000 loves. A platformer, an exact copy of others and only colours were changed, got on trending. Is this what we are looking for? I am writing not to spread hate, but to urge the Scratch community to Stop generic. Stop hate. Stop advertising. Stop fame. Start coding. I sincerely hope we can create a way better future. For us. For Scratch. Tags: =) Spread this message with the best you can do by adding this to related studios, etc.
