im sorry for the delay in posting this and for the lack of explanation when i closed the server initially, in short im not doing well at the moment so i had a difficult time getting this out. So basically faccfc is closing and here’s why + my personal statement on it for those who dont know, fanboy and chum chum fan club, or faccfc, was originally created as a rant studio for my friend my’t. her accounts kept on getting banned before becoming scratcher, and so i offered to create a rant studio for her to use. over time the studio developed into a bigger community, and i created a server offsite for it, blah blah blah here we are. im here to discuss the closure, im not here to discuss any specifics on discourse (cant think of a better word right now sorry) because number one a great deal of it isnt appropriate for scratch, number two im trying to be careful not to instigate anything further, as that would be counterproductive to the point of closing it in the first place. additionally i am not willing to explain any discourse to anyone who doesn’t already know offsite. personally, im just not in the headspace for it. im not here trying to gatekeep info however, so if you are truly dying to know i’d suggest you contact someone else in the server. im not here to play the blame game either. again i closed it so that the issues would stop, i dont want anyone pointing fingers, let it die. its no ones fault, its everyones fault, take this either way, but we are not playing the blame game. first and foremost it was a pretty stupid idea to create a faccfc based server to begin with. i didnt have any ill intent, i really just wanted to create a server for my friends from faccfc to hangout, but i really should have been thinking realistically. the studio was growing very quickly and honestly it was more than i could handle. i never anticipated any of this, as i stated above the studio was created to be a rant studio for my’t and i thought that was all it would be (not anyones fault). i had too much on my plate and i kept on shovelling more on there and that is my bad and i shouldve been more honest with myself about what i could handle. there were already many issues in the faccfc studio at the time and throwing a server on top of that mess was pretty stupid. im sorry. the place has gotten to the point where its hurt too many people. it would be selfish to keep it up. i should have never allowed faccfc to grow as much as it did in the first place. in the studios case specifically, it led to people being harassed. i do not want to keep up a place that fosters that type of behavior. faccfc went from my’t rant studio -> place for people to complain -> bigger community and i think that place for people to complain -> bigger community bit was really where things started to go wrong. it was a place that was built on complaining and negativity, there was no way it would go well and it grew to be such a negative environment, and im sorry i let that happen. additionally, as i stated above, the server was created as a place for people to have fun with friends. over time the server felt like it strayed far from that. towards the end it wasnt very fun anymore and there was a lot of fighting, which isnt the type of space i’d like to own. not to make it all about me but it was a lot of work to manage and keep up and it was very stressful, but i was okay with that at first because i felt it was something that we could move past and it would be worth it in the long run. however it has become apparent to me that it isnt, and i dont want to continue dealing with this if it isn’t going to be worth it, nor do i want to just resign and pass the burden onto other people. all that will result in is more people getting hurt. i am so very sorry to anyone that was hurt as a result of something that occurred in the studio or server. i dont have any intention of ever bringing it back. as i said, its done too much harm for it to be okay for me to keep it up. personally i’d like to move on from it, i spent far too much time worrying about conflict on scratch dot mit dot edu so i’ll probably start to try to withdraw from scratch in general. maybe i’ll just go get a real job now or something. i wont act like i hated faccfc. i loved that place to death and i loved our community and i worked really really hard for it, i really did. im thankful for the friends ive made there and the fun times that were shared and the lessons ive learned and so much more. big thanks to glados and my’t for running the studio with me, big thanks to all the moderators in the server for being a big help, big thanks to all my friends for always being awesome, big thanks to all the members of the studio / server for being a part of our community, big thanks to anyone who ever gave faccfc feedback for helping me learn and grow. i am so thankful for everyone that was part of our community and i love ALL OF YOU!!!! romeo OUT
