History Website / Scratch

* ImageLinks/CosplayFanArt: The Scratch Design Studio, [[https://scratch.mit.edu/studios/2106460/ In the Spotlight]], allowed people to design the Scratch characters cosplaying as characters of another popular media.

* "VideoGame/AlexDangerDice"

'''Scratch''' is an educational [[UsefulNotes/ProgrammingLanguage programming]] site created by Lifelong Kindergarten Group at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It was intended to be an easy introduction to programming for children, with its own visual programming interface of the same name. However, due to its social media features, such as sharing projects and commenting, [[NetworkDecay it's seen as a]] (mostly) non-educational site for [[MultipleDemographicAppeal kids (and teenagers)]], where people can share projects from games to animation to art. It's still a nice place for basic coding, though. Scratch is also infamous for its [[ChildrenAreInnocent strict]] and [[JaywalkingWillRuinYourLife overprotective]] moderating.[[note]]This is done with good intentions, as Scratch promotes itself as a well-reputed coding platform for children of all ages and doesn't want to deal with the wrath and angry complaints from MoralGuardians about how their children found some super scary project online. However, this is regarded as a huge pain in the neck by older users, who are used to intense yet kid-safe content, and think that Scratch is willing to scrub the site down to the point where toddlers can browse it unsupervised.[[/note]]

* NetworkDecay: Major Shifts That Fit example. Like said above, Scratch was intended to be an educational site where young kids would learn the basics of [[UsefulNotes/ProgrammingLanguage programming]] and create their simple web projects. Because of the ability to upload and share projects with others and several other social media features, Scratch is now treated as generic work-sharing site, mostly by the older users. In other words, Website/{{Newgrounds}} for kids. However, most projects utilize code and Scratch is still a popular software/website for teaching programming languages.

** Because of how referrals to some sites based on private chatting, such as Website/{{Discord}} and Website/{{Amino}}, are censored, as one of the ways for Scratch to avoid any risk of blame from a MoralGuardian when a child goes on there and gets sexually preyed upon, it's cumbersome to refer to literal discord or the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' character, or amino acids.

Website/AprilFoolsScratchWiki is the [[SillinessSwitch silly version]] of [[TheWikiRule its wiki, Scratch Wiki]].

* ObviousBeta: When Scratch 3.0 was officially released in January 2019, the Bugs and Glitches forum filled with many major bugs 3.0 carries, such as projects and their descriptions not saving, laggy editor, the program screwing up with large projects, and [[PortingDisaster 2.0 graphics being blurry in 3.0]], compared to the smooth launch of 2.0 back in May 2013. Some even wondered if the Scratch Team listened to them during the beta testing. Even to this date, there are still frustrating bugs people are willing to report.

--> ''"Imagine, program, share"''
--->-- The site's motto

** Scary projects that are taken down and later remade to be acceptable for Scratch may result in LighterAndSofter and NightmareRetardant. [[https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/55418564/ Here are two]] [[https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/24141158/ good examples.]]

See also Wiki/AprilFoolsScratchWiki, the [[SillinessSwitch silly version]] of [[TheWikiRule its wiki, Scratch Wiki]].

** The official wiki also throws off April Fool pranks by replacing several articles with satirical joke articles. Read more about it [[Wiki/AprilFoolsScratchWiki here]].

* SturgeonsLaw: Since this site has a large amount of kids and amateurs, poorly-made and simple projects are common. However, [[SoBadItsGood they may bring up laughter to even those who have disgust for poor works.]]

* MultipleDemographicAppeal: Scratch, in short words, is supposed to for everyone. It attracts kids with a cheery design, cute official characters, and an easy way to create games and animations, while it attracts teenagers and adults with focus on coding and a large community.

* TheChewToy: Countless "Beat up"[[note]]No, not BeatEmUp[[/note]] projects where you click buttons just to induce agony in the targeted character. Taken UpToEleven if there are more than 20 buttons. A popular example would be [[https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/1546376/ Beat Up Sonic]], with a giant remix tree

** A lot of these exist on Scratch. Just do a search for a name of a video game and you'll likely get a Scratch recreation of that game. However, a ''VideoGame/PacMan'' remake resulted in [[ScrewedByTheLawyers a DCMA complaint from Namco]].

* ''WebAnimation/BrokensStrangeAdventures''

** Because of how referrals to some sites based on private chatting, such as Website/{{Discord}} and Website/{{Amino}}, are censored, as one of the ways for Scratch to avoid any risk of angering a MoralGuardian when a child goes on there and gets sexually preyed upon, it's cumbersome to refer to literal discord or the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' character, or amino acids.