Just wanna say sorry in advance. To all my friends, don't worry there's still 5 months left until I make my final decision. So why am I planning on leaving? Well lemme explain 1. Haters/Drama/Impersonators Honestly Scratch is so toxic for no reason. This is literally a kids coding website and there's haters on here? And there's people who cause drama just for clout and attention. It's all so stupid. No joke I swear I always get a notification for a new follower and it ends up being a hater, either my hater or one of my friends. I find it so annoying, like do these people seriously have nothing better to do with their lives? 2. Friends So many of my close friends have left. Ariah, Ariana, Sierra, Kaylin, Sahara, Myla, Danica, Sofia, Gia, Gina, Jules, Leena, Maddy, Lily, Reya, Alissia, Should I keep going? No but seriously I was so close with most of them and scratch just doesn't feel the same without them. Especially since I met most of them in the beginning of my time here. 3. Fame/Followers I feel like so many on scratch care about followers and fame. Like not by friends but random people would comment on my profile (when comments were still turned on) and even on my alts. They'll be like "Could you follow me on all your accounts?". Yea I understand it could be to grow their account but half the time those people have a bio, profile picture and banner. No projects or anything like that. It doesn't make sense. Some people work so hard to get views on their projects and get followers and then theirs people who joined scratch like a few hours ago and already have like 200. 4. Mental Health Issues Scratch is getting toxic as we all know and it causes a lot of mental health issues that not many people talk about. And I swear to god every time someone talks about them, the ST always removes their projects. But seriously, scratch has a huge impact on your mental health. Not just me but so many big scratchers who have now left also mentioned how many mental health issues scratch can cause. I've also had friends who have mental health issues because of the toxicity of scratch. 5. Lack of Motivation I've been losing a bunch of motivation to post and honestly just being active on scratch. Taking that hiatus for summer felt so good, even breaks on the weekend feel so good. If I were to leave I probably wouldn't have the urge to come back so yeah. If I leave I'm definitely not coming back Once again I still haven't made up my mind. I'll tell you if I'm staying or leaving around the time of my birthday. If I do leave I will write some paragraphs to my friends. I'm probably not gonna delete my account either, just not be active. Alright well It's currently 11:06 so I'm gonna head to bed, Good night! <3
