While I usually never make these types of posts on here, i'd like to say a few things to anyone who has noticed or used the recent "put the dog down" hashtag that has been going around recently.

For some context, a few users have been using this hashtag as a sort of way to end what they call the BisketDog Era. BisketDog was a fangame developer who had gotten some popularity on scratch (and I do actually mean scratch itself, as some people consider being just posting a scratch game on Gamejolt and getting popular as being popular on scratch itself) and had been considered to be what is considered the standard for how people think of scratch fnaf fangames.

Now, to be all honest, while the way people think of scratch fangames is an actual problem within the Fnaf Fangame community, the ways this hashtag will attempt to "solve" this really isn't something I see working at all.

Simply attempting to tear down the fangames of someone who has no current relevance to fangames will not cause anything meaningful. Regardless of any impact they had on the past, no matter how large or small, does not guarantee they still keep relevancy.

Like I said, the base goal of improving the standard for Scratch Fangames isn't bad in the slightest, but along with what I said in the last paragraph, some people are trying to turn this into a thing of "Only the people using this hashtag are the ones making bad fangames" and overall are just missing the entire point of what the hashtag is attempting to accomplish.

I discussed with @MakyrStudios about an ultimately much better solution to fix the problem that the hashtag aims to solve. Instead of trying to go after some old bad fangames that used to be popular, we can instead work towards making scratch fangames more mainstream.

We must unite to make sure that what deserves to be popular is what gets widely known. Work together, not try to put people apart. Share this around, spread the word, together we can show that there is a good way we can go about doing this. Lets fix this problem that the community faces, once and for all.

Edit: Since people have started saying #BisketSweep I guess I might join in too.