part 2: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/1377720729/ tw: violence, religion, threats 1. scratch really needs to go back to doing regular maintenance, any day id take that over random glitches popping up everywhere and taking months to be fixed 2. kylie jenner and hailey bieber must feel so powerful being able to post literally anything and have it become a huge trend among the influencer girlies with no personality who think lululemon and chipotle are "nerdy" 3. strict parents not only create sneaky kids who are afraid to ask for things they actually want but future adults who have the mentalities of kids because they were never given opportunities to develop independence and to become properly educated about the world 4. at what point do things like monitoring your child's screen time and internet activities just become compulsions, which are when you have a fear of something bad (but usually far-fetched) happening so you have to check over and over to reassure yourself the thing isnt going to happen. rest assured most teenagers with common sense are going to know what to look out for on the internet, probably even more so than you 5. also, parental controls don't teach kids anything and the proper way to teach kids how to use the internet responsibly is to just educate them 6. parents lumping doomscrolling and using genAi with things like calling friends and creating digital art/music all under "screen time is bad" makes them look uneducated 7. american schools aren't safe enough to ban students from having their phones with them 8. a celebrity being media trained doesn't mean they have to sacrifice their authenticity, but media training is unfortunately associated with huge exploitative corporations so 9. businesses Ai generating images for their ads/menus/etc is especially stupid because first it looks like crap and second more often than not it ends up driving potential customers away 10. every time i have ever heard the word "woke" unironically it's used as a way to excuse not treating someone with the basic kindness and respect everyone deserves regardless of whether you agree with their ideas or not 11. roblox isn't going to shut down because a handful of people didn't play it for one day, boycotting never works unless it's nearly the entire audience all refusing to engage with a thing until change comes, which could be weeks or months at least 12. this is mainly about ships but if any detail in a piece of media is "heavily implied" it's canon, girl have you ever done a literary analysis before 13. there's a big difference between people who are "self-diagnosed" with a mental disorder after seeing one post that may or may not have accurately described the symptoms, and people who don't have an official diagnosis but have extensively done their research on the symptoms of something 14. it's way harder than it should be to get an opportunity to be officially diagnosed with anything 15. natural doesn't always mean healthy and artificial doesn't always mean unhealthy 16. conservative religious people who are against counterculture need to understand that some form of that is most of the time how their religion started 17. homeschooling does create weird socially outcast kids but that's better than having them worry about shootings all the time 18. i don't want male main characters introduced into female-led pieces of media, they'll just become the most popular characters immediately and the fandom will flood with people who only care about shipping the male characters together and sending death threats to anyone who doesnt. also, female-led pieces of media are just rare 19. "i feel so old, 2030 is closer than 2020" breaking news, local old man discovers this thing called the passage of time. there's also this thing called living in the present and trying to enjoy life as-is but i guess yall havent heard of that either if you wanna talk about 2016 more 20. dark skin isn't harder to draw than light skin and people saying it is are just racist and looking for excuses 21. ik scratch wasn't made for chatroom studios but they should acknowledge the fact that they exist and provide the managers of such studios with better tools for yknow managing them 22. kids shouldn't be on any website without a block button and scratch not having a block button after all these years is actually diabolical 23. pineapple doesn't belong on pizza
