Hello Scratchers (or whatever it is you're called now)
So, I have a confession. I said it in the title, so let's just get this out of the way:
I impersonated Griffpatch twice 4-5 years ago. I think the account name was something like “Griffpatch-world2” (and the other one i don't remember the name for)
I'm sorry about that, even though that was my younger self (he was a bit of a mean guy) that doesn't excuse my past behavior.
Anyway, onto my suggestion.
Basically, usernames should immediately ban/block signing up for a account with a username if it matches a popular Scratcher or popular person in general that's likely to be impersonated.
For example= Will-Wam, Sharkyshar (oh my GOD i have nostalgia from her), MrBeast, and of course, Griffpatch.
I don't know if you do this, but just leaving it here if you don't.

The problem is this: “WIlI-WAM” looks a lot like an uppercase version of “Will-Wam” but the second L in “will” is actually an uppercase I and not a lowercase L

Just use contact us for impersonation, sometimes they may use a popular scratcher's username to express their liking of them (for example, @griffpatch-1st-fan)

goodone0, I like your idea. Now we just have to think about how to do it. Maybe we could train AI to filter out these usernames. However, I am not confident that this is possible and that it may take lots of money to create and train the AI. For ChatGPT, I am not talking $100, $200, or even $500. To train ChatGPT 4.0, it took around $63 million! For people in other countries and not in the US (like me!), that is around £47,968,200 or around 57,021,300 Euros! That is just training the AI alone. Not even a rich person can afford that easily, let alone Scratch. Though AI may get cheaper, we are going to have to wait for that (unless we have a time machine that can travel into the future, which no one has invented yet). Anyways, back to the topic, the idea is good, but we need a way of doing it. And it needs to be affordable for Scratch. We could also use non-AI alternatives, but they may be less effective.

C2PasswordManager wrote:

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Not everything needs AI. If you place those words in the filter, any instance of them will be blocked out

But what if griffpatch, will-wam, or sharkyshar wants to make a new account? Maybe its unlikely, but griffpatch did make one not that long ago. Your idea is really good, but idk if we should limit the abillity for famous scratchers to make alts.