Please take your time to read everything below, and it is NOT TARGETTED AT ANYONE: As some of you already know, I first started scratch when it blew up (2020) on an account called @Asteroid_15. I made a few games and bad animations, and the projects others made aren't as good as a lot of the ones now. The only problem is that nowadays, the good projects are all hidden. Hidden by the scratchers who want to push their projects to the trending page by doing anything to push projects which (no offence) aren't the best. Even if the projects weren't the best in 2020, it was a good time. A good time to see scratchers do things for fun. NOT FAME. You would see good quality platformers out on trending as well as animations which were great! You would be waiting for that one animation your favourite scratcher would be making. The best part was trending. At that time, you would be EXCITED to go on the trending page and scroll on and on, playing games and watching animation! Nowadays, I am not even excited to go on trending: Same projects...No originality...Same creators...Bad projects. The scratchers were great at the time, and there are still great scratchers still! Why? Because they made projects for FUN not FAME. Okay now don't get me wrong, fame is exciting and great, like who wouldn't want to be famous? The problem is people chasing fame TOO much and leaving quality behind. But something that makes me mad and sad is FALSE REPORTING! WHY would you be SO JEALOUS that you need to take someone else's hard work down with it? And I only see mass reporting happening with (no offence) quality projects, although many great projects don't get mass reported too. An example of this is @IncognitoOrange, a skilled animator whose projects are being constantly reported. My next statement is that people are re-sharing to get high on trending. This exploit has changed the way scratchers look at trending, and how they believe the way to reach it is. The scratch team is trying on their side, but we scratchers also need to try our best to be happy with other people's success. I mean I have nothing against people resharing, it mostly people want fame TOO much. People reshare because trending glitches and their project which is meant to be there isn't, so resharing isn't always 'bad'. So...the future of scratch?? There is no way of being sure about if scratch will get better or die (not literally), but hopefully people learn that resharing and jealously only lead to people hating them. In 2020-2021, scratch had really toxic people, so much that many scratchers left, eg. . Eventually, times changed and scratch was back, but not like before. I just hope you all have learnt something from reading all the way up to here, a big thank you. Now, before you move onto the trip to 2020 (below), I ask you to do a favour. The favour is to not reshare or false report just to get on trending. For other reasons, it is okay. And PLEASE, PLEASE do not hate on people who use exploits, just calmly tell them that people will not enjoy watching their projects, they need to understand that. "Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson Now, if you want to take a trip back to scratch in the old days, or if you want to experience what it was like, here are a few projects: 1.Trailer to Scratch Murder Mystery, a gripping, suspenseful series by , who is no longer very active. Also, episodes 1, 2 and resolution and on her profile: 2. First part of The Scratch Saga, Epic series by . It was made in 2018. Wazzo is not very active at the moment. Also, parts 2 and 3 are available, but are VERY LONG so just watch the whole saga on youtube (50 minutes long). 3.Trailer to The Unfamous, and epic series by . Not very active at the moment. There are 6 parts (I think) which are very long. Grab a snack, and binge them all! 4.Profile of , a scratcher who has been on scratch from a VERY long time ago. He is not very active now, but watch his videos from the past, they are great :) 5. Profile of . He is not very active now but watch his animations :) 6.'s final project before he was banned. A very serious and heartbreaking project, please watch it :') There are so many more animators from the time on scratch such as , , , etc. You know ? He was previously . Please, if you want a time of scratch like it was, take this message seriously and spread it. Thank you <3 Stay safe, Keep scratching :)
