Some of you might have seen this coming, with all my hiatuses and stuff, but yeah. I’m leaving scratch. I might check back on it occasionally, to announce anything significant I might be doing offsite (such as releasing my new comic!), or to check in with friends who don’t have accounts elsewhere, but for the most part I’m not gonna be here anymore. It’s funny, I never thought this day would come, but it did… Why? Well, first, I’m honestly just getting too old for Scratch. I’m 16 and the main age group of people here is quite a bit younger, and while it’s totally fine to stay on scratch for a long time, and if you’re as old or older than me and still enjoying Scratch, that’s great! It’s just that I’ve been here for like almost 5 years and just have gotten a bit tired of it, you know? Second- this is the main reason- Switch tired me out. It’s pretty much just my fault that this happened, but it getting popular also had influence on this. It’s mostly because i didn’t have a buffer (drawing multiple updates in advance in case of not being able to post an update on time for whatever reason), tried to make myself draw more than I could in a month, not enough preparation, and just, well, a lot of pressure I guess. And also because of Jerry, somewhat- I’ll talk about that in the next paragraph. I was also starting to become unsatisfied with my art style, which didn’t help. I loved the thick lines for a while but they started to feel limiting, but then I didn’t know what to change to and it made me not want to draw the chapters. Thankfully I changed that now though! Okay. About Jerry. He was really funny at first and I thought he was a great inside joke, and the fact that so much fanart of him was being made was really cool! But then he just became the only thing people would talk about, it almost seemed like some people cared more about him than the actual story I was trying to tell. (But again, it was my fault for spurring it on with Chapter Jerry and with putting him in every chapter lol, I can’t really blame you all) Though there were a lot of negative aspects to making Switch as it continued, this doesn’t mean I hated it all! Seeing everyone’s reactions, fanart, and everything really made my day and it was just so exciting to see it become popular, and I’m proud of myself for sticking to it for so long- I’ve never had a comic that lasted this long before; like genuinely, I’m really proud of myself. And a few minor reasons too: annoying moderation, some select commenters that quite got on my nerves… games in the art tab- /hj This doesn’t mean I hate or resent scratch, or any of you all in any way though. I’m genuinely so glad I joined scratch- I made so many fun memories here that I really cherish, learned a lot about the online art community, and many artists here influenced me a lot and gave me inspiration that i may not have found otherwise. I was also able to build a following over the years, which has genuinely been so amazing! Like, over 4k followers!? I remember when I was ecstatic to get 100! I can’t thank you all enough <3 Even though I’m leaving, don’t be too sad! Like seriously, I’m not dying, I’m not leaving the internet lol- You can find me on DA (BerriKitten), YT, TH, and ArtFight (PeriluneStar)! (Abbreviating most of these just in case scratch team comes after me lol) I’ll be posting on all of these from time to time, and on Artfight I am going to be VERY active in July- feel free to attack me or just say hello in the comments during that time! The other sites will be less consistent because I haven’t gotten super attached to any of them yet and I haven’t been posting anywhere at all these days anyways… I’m touching grass I guess XD (hoping to post more yt videos tho, if I could motivate myself to actually record and edit them…) Well, with that, I’d like to say goodbye to Scratch. Thanks for everything, guys :]
