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So yeah. I'm leaving. I'm not going to make this a sob story, because it's not that. I met a lot of great people through Scratch. I made a lot of great memories. This site has inspired me to make art, and I thank it for that. But all good things must come to an end. Here are the reasons why I'm leaving the website. Please take everything I say with a grain of salt. 1. Motivation and Life Over the past year, my motivation for projects started dwindling. I dont have a phone, and it was a lot harder to make projects on my crummy tablet. My uploads went from frequent to once a month if I was lucky. My grades are dropping, and im trying to start a buisness. I simply don't have time to put the effort into making silly projects anymore. On top of that, why post projects here when I dont get likes or views. So yeah. I have no time or motivation for projects. 2. The Community and Site A majority of the Scratch community is wonderful. Wonderful, creative people. But a majority of this community are children. Children who are still learning how to respect other people and their art. Something I hope the Scratch Team enforces is that retracing, stealing, and recoloring art shouldn't be allowed. It's spitting on the original artist that put tons of hours into the piece, and can encourage selling stolen art, which is illegal. If children want to trace art for practice, they shouldn't post it online. Finally, because this community is mostly children, the only things that get popular on the site are either quick, simple animal animations, games, and other things children consume. Therefore, animations with lots of effort and thought put into them can get drowned out by the games and simpler projects. I have seen this before. 3. My account this account is just- like- so boring, you know- the boring oc, the awkward username, the most dull shade of orange, a strange combination of trying to seem mature and also trying not to seem over-mature combining to make a weird personality, all the self-insults, all the insecurity, all the rants, hiatuses, stuff like that- it just feels messy, and even if I did want to be famous, it would defintley not happen. so basically, I don't really like this account anymore and don't want to be stuck here. it used to be something I loved, but checking and replying to messages and making projects has become torture/work and yeah, that's basically it I might come back one day, post an project or two. Who knows? But as of right now, I don't plan to. See y'all on the other side. <3