Original upload date: December 11, 2020
Please read all of this. I hope y'all understand. Thank you! Hi there! Red here. You might know I've been inactive for a couple days and not changing my profile picture. Sorry about that. And no, I wasn't banned, or had internet issues, or anything like that. I have some other reasons. Which is why I'm making this important announcement. I guess I'll start from the beginning, lol. I think around May, I had already been using my profile picture, created by @Ipzy's icon creator, for a while. When I was bored, I made different versions of it. I had a version with a mask for a while, then I participated in a trend at the time and replaced my face with Lancer's from the game Deltarune. Then I made a version with cat ears, then a version with a mustache and monocle, and then I started changing my profile picture daily. At the second day I believe, I made a project showcasing my profile picture collection. I continued to add on to it, and I continued to have different profile pictures every day. It was fun. At first. It gave me some recognition, too. But sometimes I'll get overwhelmed with all the icon ideas and having to make one everyday. Eventually, it kinda became to much for me. Then I think in around August, I reverted my icon to my defaut for a while, and I said I was taking a break. Then October came around and I had a new and improved profile picture collection project. In the project, I said: "So, I was getting a little swamped with school and life and I decided to stop changing my profile picture daily for a while." Well, that was nothing more than an excuse. I'm sorry. School had started way earlier, back in July for me. And my real life was going okay. What I was really swamped with, was Scratch. Gmho sorry if I'm making this sound really dramatic for no reason. xD So anyway, I changed my profile picture daily for a while. But soon, I was starting to feel the same overwhelmingness all over again. And it wasn't just from this. It was also from owning a sticky, being promoted to manager in a studio, and the collapse of collabs. But to be honest, it was mostly from this. Then eventually, I would just be in my room being happy. Playing videogames or whatever. And then I'll think, "Oh shoot, I have to make a profile picture for tomorrow," which stressed me out. I couldn't enjoy myself. Let me put it this way: Getting on Scratch was starting to feel like a chore. And if it was becoming a chore, then why should I get on anymore? (Yo that rhymed B)... kinda) Yet again, sorry for being so overly dramatic lol. But that's really how I felt. I started to think, "What's wrong with missing just a single day?" But when I did that, I'd get comments like "When are you going to change your profile picture?" and that made me feel pressured as well. There were also little things that stressed me out. For example, there's this bug in my Profile Picture Collection Part II that I can't troubleshoot for the life of me, and that duplicates every icon 5 times, causing me to eventually hit the clone limit very early on. (I would've hit it at about slightly over having 50 icons.) Another thing is, I was being known as "The guy who changes his profile picture every day," which I guess makes sense, but it made me feel like I had a reputation to keep with this whole profile picture thing. And also, I didn't want to be know as "The guy who changes his profile picture every day." I wanted to be known for making games, good games, and coding. It's in my name, xXRedTheCODERXx. That's why I chose that username those 3 years ago. And then a couple days ago, I just gave up. I went inactive until today. Sure, you may call me lazy or something, but I don't really care. I don't enjoy changing my profile picture everyday anymore. So I'm not going to anymore. And that's that; I won't let anyone affect my decision. I hope you all understand. Ugh, here I go again, being as dramatic as soap opera. Or something. I've never watched a soap opera before, but you know what I mean. :P Anyway, on to the actual announcement. So yeah, I won't be changing my profile picture daily anymore. I apologize for people whose icon ideas were never turned into real things. I will, however, still be doing special icons for holidays. Changing my profile picture everyday took up too much of my time. But now that I won't be doing that anymore, I'll have time to be doing things I actually enjoy on Scratch! :D I'm going to work on being a good forum helper, being a good sticky owner, and making fun games here on Scratch. So that's my plan for now. After reading my entire life story, I hope everybody understands. :P Thank you for reading all of this, and Scratch On! =^..^= P.S. I will probably unshare this project as well as my profile picture collections sometime in early 2021. jk i was actually permanently banned for saying ok boomer and then i appealed today and got unbanned (that was a joke btw)
