Trends

A Forum Trend is a trend that is created and spread through a forum topic/post or signature. They often spread fast due to the small community of forumers. Often, trends are meme-related, or are popular all over the internet, like Rickrolling.

## Evil Kumquat

Several users have replaced their signatures with messages saying their signatures were eaten by an evil kumquat. This trend was created by cheddargirl during the Scratch 2.0 beta. Scratchers got scared and started spreading rumors. To stop this all mess, cheddagirl finally stated that there is nothing that eats signatures:

*"There's really no such thing as an evil kumquat (unless you count all the accounts claiming to be one). I was just being too lazy to reconstruct the old sig I had from the 1.4 forums after the image hosting site I used was no longer supported, so I just went with the idea of blaming it all on an evil kumquat."*

This brought an end to the mess. But many joke studios and accounts were created relating to the kumquats

## Support words

In the Suggestions forum, there was once a trend where people would use a specific word for "support" instead of using the word "support" itself. Then they'll put the "translation" in their signature, many by saying "[random word] = Support". The words that people used were completely random, and if they supported a suggestion, they would post that word instead of the generic support. The trend is now rarely used after a Scratch Team member told people that it was confusing and advised people not to use it

## Semicolon Signature

In September 2013, a small and non harmful bug on the Scratch website resulted in a small semicolon that appeared at the bottom-left corner of every page. It became popularized very quickly, and after its removal people began placing the semicolon into their signatures in remembrance. After a year, the semicolon is still present in some signatures of active users on the forums, even some Scratch Team members. Here is an example of a semicolon signature

## If you see this signature while scrolling

This trend involves a signature containing the following content:

***If you see this signature while scrolling,***

***(a picture)***

***You have been visited/greeted by (someone)***

***(someone) will come to you***

***only if you comment "Thanks (username)" on my profile***

There have also been variations of this trend, such as where the "only if" phrase is removed, or no image at all. Some also replaced X with their own username.

This was started by the user Zro716 and has spread slowly. The consequences of this trend is that the profile comments may be filled with comments saying "Thanks X!" or depending on what the signature requests users to do, which can be annoying and considered spam, which is why it's recommended to only use this trend temporarily.

## "thisandagain pls explain"

"Thisandagain pls explain" or "thisandagain plz explain" is a catchphrase about a former Scratch Team member, thisandagain, that has become a recurring phrase and even a small meme in the Scratch community, usually in the Advanced Topics community. The phrase is thought to have originated from Scratch user \_\_init\_\_ of the Advanced Topics in this post. The phrase has also been parodied.

## "Ninja'd" Posts

When two or more users make very similar posts in a short amount of time (usually in the Question about Scratch), they might edit their post and say "Ninja'd by (username) )", "ninjaed", or something similar to that message. Ninja's happen when a user starts typing a post, but when they submit the post, another user has already written something similar. This is common on the internet and many other forums do this as well

## Username Signing

Some users add a blank line and then type their name (or some forum of nickname) after the main post content to "sign" their posts. It was started by the user Sigton. This trend isn't very popular, but a lot of the people who did it continue to do it to this day

## Internets

Sometimes, a user will ask for "Internets" in their signature. Internets come from the site Internometer A user might put in their signature "Like this post? Give me internets!" and it would contain a link to a page for others to give the user an "Internet"

## Rickrolling

Rickrolling is a prank and an internet meme involving using a type of bait and switch with a disguised hyperlink (sometimes called clickbait) to the Rick Astley song "Never Gonna Give You Up". During April Fool's Day 2017, this trend was very popular around the Scratch Forums.

## Citation Needed

Sometimes on the forums, especially the Suggestions forum when somebody exclaims a fact that isn't backed up with proof, users simply say 'Citation Needed'.[*citation needed*] This has been popular with photoshopped images of the word Citation Needed, or simply just a large word. However, this is usually looked down upon because some users find it offensive/mean.

## "Nothing is permanent"

On many forum topics, users make a post, and later replace it with "Nothing is Permanent". Because it is very hard to see the original post, the only thing people see is "Nothing is permanent". It is also common to post "Nothing is Permanent" as the first post, without making any edits

## "Search \_\_\_ to see my posts"

In various signatures, a user will include a string of letters and ask them to search that string. If you search that in google, it would come up with the user's posts as the keyword is in their signature, therefore showing every instance of that signature.