UPDATE SEPTEMBER 2023: Hiiii, itsa me again. I'm not making a return, nor do I really want to. I've spent over a year pretty much moving on from Scratch, and establishing a life outside of it. I cannot see myself returning for good, ever. There's still a lot of stuff I just cannot get past with Scratch, hence why I'm preferring to stay offsite. I'm an adult now lol, I've finished my GED and am focusing more and more on living outside of the internet, reclaiming what I didn't really have as a lonely teenager on the internet. I will definitely be popping in every now and then, however! I do still love returning once in a while to see what I've missed. So, if you have anything you wish to tell me, please comment it here! Just note that it might take me a while to get back to you, whether it be weeks or months, but I will definitely get back to you as soon as I read it! :) If you guys still want to support me offsite, you're more than welcome to! Feel free to ask me for my socials, I'll be sure to give 'em to you, but I won't give out anything that I deem to be a bit too personal, so yeah. Basically just the general socials where I post my art and the like. ^^ But yeah, that's about all I wanna say haha. ----------------------------- (INITIAL DESCRIPTION OR WHATEVER IDK) Hi. Just thought I'd post something here, seeing as a lot of people would probably want to know about it. I'm leaving Scratch. It's more than likely that I'll stick around for just a little while longer, however I've realized that it's time I say goodbye to this site. For good. I have only a few reasons to leave, but it has been on my mind for quite a while. Reasons: Art theft Bad memories Politics and other stuff like that yep, that's about it when it comes to reasons. I'm going to be unsharing all of my projects (excluding MAP parts and stuff I made for contests and so forth) I do not want to explain my reasons beyond the fact that art theft has been quite rampant lately, and I fear that my art will be taken and used without proper credit. Even if one of the rules is to 'embrace remix culture' I've been uncomfortable about that very fact. It just doesn't give me a sense that my art is MINE. To add to that, people can take ideas that I came up with, myself, and use it without even crediting me, which I don't appreciate considering I put a lot of effort into my stories. I've also had quite a few people encouraging me to leave Scratch, seeing as they've personally witnessed my mental health deteriorating. After some self-reflecting, I have realized that, at this point, Scratch is just extremely detrimental to my mental health, due to the fact that there are a lot of things on here that are constantly upsetting me. Suffice to say, a lot of the events that have been upsetting me just led up to this decision, so yeah. I need to take care of myself and move forward in life, and I feel like this site has been hindering that. I'm graduating, I'm growing older, and I want to focus on things outside of social media, too. I am still going to do my best to stay in contact with any friends who want to still be around me, however I would prefer to move contact to other sites, as I do not want to be here. Please ask me if you want my socials, I will gladly give them to you, however I'm not giving it out in public because of personal reasons, which is also another problem with why I'm leaving this site. Also, if anyone asks what my socials are on other sites, please don't tell them. Again, personal reasons. It does kind of suck, considering the large following I had gathered over the past year of my activity here, but at this point in time I think my mental health is much more important than trying to keep a following here. Besides, if y'all are still interested in my content then, again, don't hesitate to ask for my socials. So yeah, uh... this is it, then. I hope this made sense haha. This is mostly farewell then. Have a good journey, y'all.
