Most of us recall 2019 (not me, unfourtunately-) - The year when Scratch is a beautiful nation. Thousands of cheerful Scratchers code, create, collab, and contribute to a prosperous society. (Oh, that was awesome, I think. Gosh, why does nobody listen to me-) 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. (Exactly. Now someone supports me!) 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. (Exactly. No good coding because people are trying to get famous >:( ) Then things started getting even disastrous. (Yeah, urghhhhhh) For the first time ever, foul language appeared on Scratch. F4F was minted. (I used to do it but stopped because I finally understood the crisis available. I ask everybody who does F4F to me to UNFOLLOW me) Feedback became an advertising strategy. (WHAT HOW?!). Spam occurred. (Well I mean- spamming is okay if the profile allows it?). Collabs failed. (*sigh*) Famous and potential Scratchers abandoned the website. (What about griff? And seriously?). True talented projects were deserted. (Aaaaaaaaah!) A project which only contained a square, grass and spikes could get up to 5000 loves. (But if it isn't generic-). A platformer, an exact copy of others and only colours were changed, got on trending. (I saw this on another project-). Is this what we are looking for? (NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO) I am writing not to spread hate, but to urge the Scratch community to Stop generic. Stop hate. Stop advertising. Stop fame. Start coding. (YEEEEEES) I sincerely hope we can create a way better future. For us. For Scratch. (YEEEES) @Supercube_123 Tags: #SSH #MSB Spread this message with the best you can do by adding this to related studios, etc.
Original by @Supercube_123, I added my thoughts in the description (in these parentheses) and kind of-
