kkony0121 wrote:

you can use that code- someone can follow you, like… griffpatch is following you!

No. The code is to follow someone, not to make him/her follow you.

I've got the answer. Or at least what i think it is.

As people were saying, it's a deleted test account with something to do with the GDPR, a data protection thing in Europe.
Since all information about the account was deleted, the join date was also deleted, so it's reset to midnight at January 1st 2000.

(kinda off topic, but as a European, gdpr is kinda annoying lol)

tnix100 wrote:

Disc0Danny wrote:

LegoManiac04 wrote:

Za-Chary wrote:

It's a test account created by the Scratch Team.

Oh, I see.

Also, I found 2 weird things about the account!

1. You can't follow it
   
2. The comments never load
   

yes, I have noticed that. You have to break the system to make that happen. (special code)

kkony0121 wrote:

$.ajax({type: “PUT”,url: "https://scratch.mit.edu/site-api/users/followers/Scratchteam*/add/",data: {usernames: ‘yourusernamehere’}})

geez, that needs to be deleted if it can work

Boomer001 wrote:

There are more gdprXXXXXXX users. Like gdpr0000009, gdpr0000032 and a lot more.

does anyone know why the comments never load? what i mean by that is “is there some kinda code in scratch that breaks the comment section?”

does anyone know why the comments never load? what i mean by that is “is there some kinda code in scratch that breaks the comment section?”

When an account is completely deleted, it becomes a gdpr account. That means there are many gdpr accounts out there. @gdpr0000001 was the first account deleted, then was @gpdr0000002, @gpdr0000003, etc.

That user is not the oldest Scratcher. Scratch came out less than 20 years ago. I tried looking up @gdpr0000026. It had the same “creation date” @gdpr0000001 did. Same for @gdpr0000046. I tried other random combinations. They all supposedly have the same “creation date”.

The GDPR is a set of European laws that, among other things, grants users to have the right to be erased.
A Scratcher used this and their profile was reset, including the join date, to January 1, 2000.

-fdreerf

If a user wishes for their account data to be permanently erased, it is turned into gdprxxxxxxx. It is impossible to follow them. When an account becomes a gdpr, the join date is set to January 1st, 2000. The first of these was @gdpr0000001. Scratch has not existed that long.

-qrcool

Disc0Danny wrote:

Some of you may know that @andresmh was the first user in Scratch. But what you didn't know that there was a much earlier user in Scratch who joined before @andresmh, and the user is @gdpr0000001. What is exactly this user meant for Scratch? Was it was a test account or something? Do anyone know about this user?

according to their profile data, they joined during January 2000, which was before Scratch was made.

fdreerf wrote:

I don't think it's a test account.
It's a scratcher who wanted their account to be hidden, and when doing so the account's date of creation is also reset to 2000.

that makes sense

Super_Scratch_Bros20 wrote:

If a user wishes for their account data to be permanently erased, it is turned into gdprxxxxxxx. It is impossible to follow them. When an account becomes a gdpr, the join date is set to January 1st, 2000. The first of these was @gdpr0000001. Scratch has not existed that long.

So that means that gdpr0000001 was the very first deleted account. Interesting.

tnix100 wrote:

Disc0Danny wrote:

LegoManiac04 wrote:

Za-Chary wrote:

It's a test account created by the Scratch Team.

Oh, I see.

Also, I found 2 weird things about the account!

1. You can't follow it
   
2. The comments never load
   

this is also rather creepy

The GDPR accounts are weird cases, i'll explain you:
The European laws say that every account has the right to be forgotten, so to eliminate all the data about them.
gdpr0000001 was a test account created by the ST to test these laws.
The other gdpr like gdpr0000003 accounts were normal users who wanted to eliminate their data.
When someone wipes out their data, this happens:
-The pfp is changed to the default
-All the projects are eliminated, The favorites are un-favorited, the followers unfollow the account, blah blah blah…
-The name is changed to gdprxxxxxx
-the account becomes unfollowable, but there is a code to follow it, and unreportable
-comments are unloadable
-the join date is set to January 1, 2000
-The location is sat to Location Not Given

Some of those are literally deleted, like gdpr0000002, but the most aren't

Col_Cat228 wrote:

The GDPR accounts are weird cases, i'll explain you:
The European laws say that every account has the right to be forgotten, so to eliminate all the data about them.
gdpr0000001 was a test account created by the ST to test these laws.
The other gdpr like gdpr0000003 accounts were normal users who wanted to eliminate their data.
When someone wipes out their data, this happens:
-The pfp is changed to the default
-All the projects are eliminated, The favorites are un-favorited, the followers unfollow the account, blah blah blah…
-The name is changed to gdprxxxxxx
-the account becomes unfollowable, but there is a code to follow it, and unreportable
-comments are unloadable
-the join date is set to January 1, 2000
-The location is sat to Location Not Given

Some of those are literally deleted, like gdpr0000002, but the most aren't

oh i understand

Disc0Danny wrote:

tnix100 wrote:

Disc0Danny wrote:

LegoManiac04 wrote:

Za-Chary wrote:

It's a test account created by the Scratch Team.

Oh, I see.

Also, I found 2 weird things about the account!

1. You can't follow it
   
2. The comments never load
   

You also can't report the user too.

wow its unbeliveble

Oh. Wow O_O
I didn’t know that, but I guess it makes sense.
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

forever
if <> then
<[Year] = [2020]>
define Scratch 
end
endwhen green flag clicked

2i7wonderho0llama9 wrote:

LegoManiac04 wrote:

Za-Chary wrote:

It's a test account created by the Scratch Team.

But didn't scratch start development in 2003?…










and the account is 20 years old

Right - the account has a bad value in the “date joined” field. It's not really that old. That same bad value breaks the code for some of the usual profile functions, such as following.