vvv PLEASE READ ALL THE WAY THROUGH vvv Hello everyone. As you can probably see from my profile, this is my first project in over a year. I haven't had the motivation to create anything in a while, especially since I've been figuring out my identity and all that annoying stuff. What's really been getting me down is how... rude a lot of the community here has been. I'm not saying it's everyone, but I'm not saying ST has been doing a lot about it either. There's five examples on my project (two of which from the same conversation) if you just click. I've reported all of these, but none of the scratchers actually got what they deserved for it. Some is just simple: 'bad' (which I didn't really care about but I still worked really hard on that project), while others are full explanations for why they're just being straight up mean. So I'd like to make a few clarifications. 1. I do know Japanese. Not 100% fluently, but it has been my passion for years and years and saying I'm 'gloating' just isn't true?? Sure, on that project I did comment on it in both English and Japanese, but the only reason I even commented in English was to get people to stop saying that they should bleach their eyes because of an ANIME DRAWING. It was repetitive and annoying, and I know that everyone was just being insufferable on purpose. I understand that I should not have fallen for that bait and commented on it. I should've just left it alone, but that isn't an excuse for people to just attack me and say I'm just using Google Translate. Like, no I'm not?? 2. I'd like to speak about the one that the lovely @LUWINZ has posted. I would like to specify the context for this. They were not being straight up mean, it ended up being resolved in the end, so please do not tell them--or anyone on here--that they were. They were trying to correct the writer of Eternal Apprentice (please read it, I highly recommend) that it is actually "a herb" and not "an herb". They were from Poland, but I nevertheless got a little confused and tried to correct them. So this isn't entirely their fault. But the way they started being just a teensy weensy bit rude when I was trying to have a polite conversation was a little disheartening, making me actually stop the argument, make an excuse that I just "liked debating", and get off the project entirely (by going to the next chapter of EA, of course). Just... use tone indicators, okay? I'm not mad anymore, I would just love clarifications when writing so as not to seem aggressive. 3. Maybe @ryann_noor88 is right. Maybe because I want to hypothetically save a falling cat (who happens to be Feathertail), that makes me a furry. Of course it doesn't. That makes me an actually good person. This person had the "well it's not my cat so it's not my problem", and when I asked if what if it was their cat, trying to pursue knowledge as to why they even decided to comment here at all, they accused me of being a furry because I clicked on that project. If you look up 'save this cat' on the search, a billion of the same project will pop up. A lot of people would save a cat because they're good people, not because they're furries. So maybe, before you accuse people of something (especially of being gay, a furry, etc), how about actually knowing what the term means or doing research? Thanks so much. If you've read this far, thanks for reading. But some of you may actually be wondering "What's the 'announcement' part of it? That's not an announcement, that's just you being upset at a bunch of strangers on the internet." Well, I'm glad you may or may not have asked. Ok soooooo I'm leaving Scratch. I will not be doing RPs or MAPs, sharing projects, or loving/favoriting and commenting on anything. I may log on every once and a while to play a game when I'm bored because school has surprisingly not banned Scratch yet, but I probably won't be there to talk. Sorry. This has been really hard to announce because I love all the people that have been supporting me and can't bear to leave them. But I'm not even sure what I'm doing Scratch for anymore. I haven't shared projects. The only thing I've done is like and favorite, and this is the first time I've shared a project or changed my pfp in a while. I code projects, only to just not share them because I feel horrible about them or just because I never have the motivation to finish them. And these annoying people with annoying opinions are just draining me of everything. I'll officially leave on September 17, so I'll try to be as active as I can until then. This has been a pain to write. Maybe when I'm older and wiser I'll be okay enough to join again, but I'll be using a different account that I'm only going to tell my closest Scratch friends. But that's just a maybe, so for now, goodbye.
Credit to @AlexAnimatesAgain , @LUWINZ , @sheepbrain , and @ryann_noor88 for being examples. Wait did I really just share this--
