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ABSOLUTE CINEMA! JUST AS PLANNED

its been public for 15 years (i guess)

i mostly know scratch from the fake geometry dash website that uses Geometry Dash v1.5 by griffpatch and other famous level recreated by "Apple iPhone AT&T TieWaterCable115" (iPhone_ATT_TWC115) so idk if its gonna die (childrens keeps falling for them)

5:02 kids will be inspired by what they see on the explore page. when all they see is slop, they'll make slop as well. obviously there's exceptions but it is objectively a bad thing to flood a site about creativity with mindless generic copypasted games. the claim that scratch is on a decline isn't in reference to the number of users, it's about the quality and the creativity of what's being made along with the terrible moderation.

I’m pretty sure that the reason why Scratch declines in June/July is that during those months, it is summer so kids play other games with all their free time or go outside. Kids usually play Scratch at school to pass the time.

My school blocked scratch because my friend was on it 24/7

so what happened was someone said "scratch is dying" and then, BOOM! someone made sprunki which made incredibox blow up which is on scratch

I agree Scratch is not dying, but I do have a small complaint about the moderation system. The community guidelines and ToS just say that everything really needs to be appropriate for "8+" (Scratch's demographic), but they don't go into specifics. The guidelines being so vague has caused problems, considering that people have different standards on what's appropriate for 8-year-old kids. This especially causes issues in other countries, where the general standards for kids content are completely different from the United States' standards, where Scratch is based. For example, in Japan, if you watch anime, even ones that are aimed at young kids (example given: Sonic X), you'll find more things like suggestive content, blood and violence, and substance use, because in Japan it's considered okay for kids to see that. As a weeb who has explored the Japanese side of Scratch, I found this game which the name of translates to "Real Gun Game." As it suggests, it's a game where you use guns to shoot people. When I read the "Notes & Credits" box, it said that they re-uploaded it either three or four times. Lots of the comments were people being confused on why the project had been taken down, and even the project creator didn't seem to really understand. I can't confirm this anymore, because searching for the project no longer yields any results, whether using Scratch's built-in search feature, or Google with site filters applied, so I think the Scratch Team took it down again. I've also seen screenshots of people receiving messages from the Scratch Team about their projects violating the Community Guidelines, again, on the Japanese community. What really surprised me was that despite the fact their Scratch language was set to Japanese, the messages they received from the Scratch Team were entirely in English. The messages seem like a template that's re-used, so I don't see why they couldn't just translate the template into every language that Scratch supports. TL;DR: Scratch's community guidelines only clue on what is and isn't allowed uses words that rely on the user's personal opinion; Scratch's moderation also sometimes doesn't work as well when it comes to foreign and/or non-English speaking users. Just my small rant about why (imo) Scratch's moderation is a bit weird. (Especially when you consider certain swear words are allowed on Scratch, and the fact that Scratch has said they will never block them.)

0:05 sick inanimate insanity mouth.

Scratch is an educational tool for schools. You're meant to learn from it then go learn proper programming IDEs and languages that you can use outside of a childrens website lmao

You just summoned the osc

If anything, Scratch seems to have massively grown! Sometimes I feel embarrased about still using it, because I never truly grow out of things [I've been on Scratch since 2015]. Alright, so the website may not be dying, but the community feels like it's changed. The community feels like it's meaner; for example, some random 14 year old spammed my replies with "womp womp", said he lost brain cells because I'm a furry, [I'm not even a furry, my featured project was about how not all animal drawings even are furry. Shows how literate people today are] insulted my drawings despite his mascot being one of those generic vector box body people, and misgendered me on purpose. In the summer, some 16 year old [had 2008 in the username] said they were tired of dealing with kids on Scratch and thought I was 9-10. Back when I first joined Scratch, NO ONE was like this! My earliest projects were nothing but recolored remixes, premade sprites, and poorly drawn wolves yet no one ever treated me poorly. Old projects get new comments from kids younger than it just saying "cringe", which hurts my heart. The community during the 1.X days and 2.0 were more accepting and kinder, from my experience and observations... **Virtual sigh**

Personally when I say scratch is dying, I'm not talking about the size of the userbase, but the quality of the platform and moderation. Scratch has made an absurd number of unpopular changes to the platform and while some of these changes are harmless like the color changes, others are a larger problem like the experimenting of AI. I don't want scratch to cater to my needs as a programmer because that's what gives it it's charm and if people don't like it, they can use turbowarp. Scratch getting more popular is in my opinion what's killing it. Understaffed devs and mods trying to accommodate to this massive influx of it's user base at the expense of some of it's older users up to 5 years back. More people to moderate means less time to moderate properly which leads to many unfair bans or quiet changes to things that were previously allowed and less of a likelyhood emails will be answered. More people to appeal to means that more accommodations can be made, but not very timely and has cause a lot of instability in the past. I loved when they moved to scratch 3.0, but hated how that negatively impacted vectors (seriously the way they render vectors now is just sad). I didn't like the changes to studios cause it was too bulky and it seems a lot of autistic people agreed with me. The comment limit is awful, and manager options being degraded with the introduction of the owner role has limited collaborative creativity. I hated when the explore page started filling up with generic platformers, cause even though they've always been there, it was never to an absurd degree and it seems like people always came up with some unique idea for a platform and there was so much more variety, now I don't even go there anymore cause it isn't worth it because of how many people abuse unsharing and sharing a project to get back at the top. I hate that C2A is somehow not being banned by scratch team yet somehow making a project that educates on how C2A is not proper credit if you're not naming names gets marked NFE. It's to the point that every scratcher I know, new and old, has to sneak around on discord just to get anything done without ST breathing down their neck. Automoderation is fine in my opinion, but the punishment used to not be so harsh if you accidentally triggered the bad word detection, now it's an instant comment pause for each mistake you make, even if it's not obvious what's inappropriate. It used to be that on the first couple times, it would just tell you that something in the comment was inappropriate and then just pause commenting after too many attempts. The only thing I can really applaud scratch on is that at least they don't have a grooming problem which is amazing for such a large platform.

There’s likely less activity in June and July, as that’s when kids aren’t in school. A lot of kids don’t have access to a computer when they aren’t in school, so they can’t use scratch very much during those months.

I left for penguinmod because the moderation was…. interesting… to say the least Spam accounts saying “return the n(ot nice word)s to Africa where they belong!!” don’t get banned while stuff like gore does.

i didnt know I_LIKE_YO_SCRATCH was that famous

as a guy who likes scratch I would say that its more a less age and it being difficult for others to learn like myself there's still quite a few incredible scratch videos that make people be inspired to use scratch well then they use and they don't like it. The thing is that you have to be nessceairly have to be good to use it so I don't understand why they say its dying its not

If you guys want to make violent games or say cuss words on scratch, go on cocrea

8:58 I think it actually does, because if you put a wait 0 secs block in a loop it'll make it slower

I have the source code to the Original scratch website, I think I'm gonna try to get it running at some point

Finally! A fresh perspective about the website that isn't just, "SCRATCH IS DYING!" it really is a breath of fresh air.

scratch is objectively dying and has been for years stealing isn’t being punished, there’s no active mod team, the mods there are are just figureheads, scratch hasn’t changed in 5 years despite countless flaws and annoyances not even addons can solve, the community is filled with degenerates and early onset degenerates, everyone on the website is either an asshole or inactive and the design is ass so no, we’re not just “growing up”

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> Remember when we thought Among Us would never die out? I don't know what kind of example that's meant to be because Among Us is still very much alive and well and popular. Same for Pokémon GO. People just aren't talking about it because that gets you made fun of in 2024

I love how you put gameplay of your own games instead of random trashy fps or roblox because honeslty i hate those 😭

the reason why june and july is very high us because SUMMER VACATION!

Yes, completely.

I've been waiting for someone to make a video just like this.

Finally a guy with common sense

Rlly good vid! I honestly thought this channel had like at least 20K subs, please keep making vids!

4:20 To be fair, among truly never died. People still play the game, there's still memes, the vague appearance of the bean is iconic and it is getting an animated show

TF2 had a similar problem with png zip bombs, except it would automatically load a sign image and crash everyone's game. a way for Scratch to solve this is by uncompressing into a bmp file, and checking for large file sizes when uploading.

I don't use scratch though I'm aware of it. I'm happy to see how positive this video was though. Kinda a breath of fresh air compared to a lot of people making videos putting innocent things down from the perspective that they're just better than that thing or the people who use it.

im not that experienced with scratch or scratch youtubers, but, you are underrated, u deserve more popularity

wow, an arch user likes your channel :)

the guy who made that specific video also runs _PAID_ Scratch courses that's... really scummy ⟩:[

If you find Scratch límited, congratulations, that's the goal Using Scratch serves as a tool to learn basic programming and then move on to a REAL programming language It's like complaining that a airsoft gun doesn't have enough firepower, THAT'S LITTERALLY THE GOAL

I've used scratch for 8 years, and basically everyone that I knew in the early days has quit. But new ones keep coming, you just don't interact with them that much. These people think the entire website is dying just because their friends quit. Scratch is mandatory in many schools so new users keep appearing, that's also why activity halts in June, when vacation starts for a lot of people. And yeah, I also don't get people who get mad because scratch bans their projects. If you want to make an actual game, use an actual programming language. It's like getting mad because your calculator won't play Fortnite. And yes, generic platformers were a thing in 2016. Same for low quality animations etc etc., basically nothing has changed. Except the amount of Japanese projects lol. I joined back when Scratch was a lot less popular than it is now, so maybe Japan haven't heard of it yet. Maybe the ST are just weebs or smth

the bad part of Scratch is that it has more limitations that it need, the 300 clone limit, only running on cpu (which should be changed as soon as possible),and just running bad in general

Scratch is limited, that's the point. Since it's limited, when you create a good project, you'll feel more proud of it. That's the purpose.

you should upload episodes here I'm not on scratch

I still use Scratch to this day, it's nice or GUI design and I like combining it with my Python scripts :3

they are doing they’re best for the site, but honestly sometimes you can use Gandi if you want to upload projects that don’t follow the terms and conditions of Scratch. scratch is perfect the way it is

legendary pull from the algorithm knowing a soscer made this

as someone who joined scratch since they were 7 in mid 2016, yeah, scratch isn't actually dying. but the moderation side kinda is. i still miss 2016 scratch tho. back when i was just having fun making logo projects/remixes without a care in the world. i'm still a fan of logos today, but not to the point where it's an obssession. and i've also been a member of the numberblocks community since around september of 2019. (wow, 5 years!!) 2019 was the last decent year for me tho, until... *cough cough* 2020. especially late 2020. but i don't like to talk about what happened in 2020, so let's just not talk about that. currently, i make numberblocks memes now. (i'm a certified numberblock memer !!) and i also now compose music (mainly FNF music), and other stuff. i remember my first oc on scratch in 2016 being a dark blue rectangle with cyan text that says my old alias (which i will not tell you what it is), which currently still exists today! only that the text is white and now says my current alias (bluecoolman280). my scratch acc is ois_b4 if any of u ppl want to check out my projects. thanks !!

One studio I’m in on Scratch has new comments every few seconds. It certainly is NOT dying.

part of the "here before scratch 3" gang???

it's not dying, it's just shit for people who want to actually code

Yeah it's true-a!