ok basically this is just a bunch of thoughts ok first is followers can we all agree that how many followers you have does not mean anything about you as a person or how good you are at scratch dont treat people with more followers differently because its just a number also stop acting like people with more followers are greater than you because they are still just people and most people will say that followers are not whats most important but then they go ahead and make all these projects celebrating having many followers and they make a big deal about getting more followers ok continuing on this we have got the problem of unoriginality people make unoriginal low effort projects and keep making them day after day, not learning anything or having fun but just constantly making projects because they feel like they have to do it so they will get more followers just stop, okay stop making platformers that say "art by ____ music by ____ code by ____ " and then when they get thousands of loves and favs but the person didnt evenmake anything they just took someone else platformer code and music from yt and art from another platformer and made a generic project that already exists and people somehow dont recognize this and many times i see people making the excuse "im not good at art so i just used someone elses" but you cant be good at something if youve never done it, just practice and you will get better my personal thinking around using other people's code is like this - its ok if you use a tutorial because that teaches you and you still make the code yourself, someone just shows you how. but for anything else, you should know what every block of code does dont backpack others code without looking at it and understanding how it works or you wont get better okay now originality and effort of projects i know i already talked aobut this but i wanna go back to it: there used to be lots of platformers that got popular even though they were low quality and all the same then it was scrolling platformers now multiplayer scrolling platfomers its still the same, they are low effort, use stuff from other people and arent unique if you want to know when its ok to make a platformer heres my thinking > you have to make the code yourself no backpacking > draw everything yourself > add some special thing to make it unique like a special ability > you should have to press the left key at least once beucase im tired of platformers that can be beaten with only right and up keys the whole time ok im tired of talking about that now we can do reporting stop mass reporting its dumb idk why it happens theres literally no reason ive never seen a project get mass reported that deserves it but every day multiple projects that dont desrve it get reported stop also, stop reporting people in general instead talk to them by reporting them you are shutting them out and not trying to understand their opinion also, stop making studios telling people to report someone you only need to report someone once, many reports is just spamming the st and making it harder for them also stop hating on hate accounts it makes me really upset to see when a hate account pops up and says somethnig mean to a famous person (obviously this is wrong, dont do it), but instead of trying to talk with that person the famous scratcher acts all victimized and then gets their followers to all go and report the person then i see there will be dozens of people defending the famous scratcher and they will be saying really mean stuff to the hater, like saying they are trash or shouldnt exist, this is really rude and unacceptable however they never get banned for this, only the hate account ok thank you for coming to my ted talk
