My thoughts are that the accounts are actually bots, the bot just made a lot of accounts, but the user ID?, A GLITCH or the bot leet the server (hack the server) if it's not a bot, then

My Scratch Account has a 7 digit ID. Almost all my online accounts has a 7 digit ID :\

7 my lucky number confirmed

Due to the nature of how the accounts aren't “valid” Scratch 2.0 accounts (due to less than 3 char usernames) and all the times being the same, I'd say the ST manually added them to the new database, rather than using an automated system to transition.

That would explain the user IDs somewhat as well, if they were manually moved, they could have had IDs moved around as well (for whatever reason).

InterestingUsernames wrote:

As you may know, there are accounts on Scratch with only two letters in their usernames (aa, hi, k9, me). I decided to look deeper into this using the Scratch API.

aa, hi and me
Looking at the join dates of these users, we can see that aa, hi and me all joined at the same time.

aa: Joined 2013-05-08 at 16:58:35.000Z
hi: Joined 013-05-08 at 16:58:35.000Z
me: Joined 2013-05-08 at 16:58:35.000Z

OK, this could just be a coincidence. I decided to look at the user IDs

For anyone who doesn't know, the lower your user ID is, the earlier you created your account. For example, someone with user ID “123” would've joined earlier than someone with ID “12345678”.

aa: ID: 392
hi: ID: 2641
me: ID: 4036

The times suggest that they all joined at the same time.
The IDs suggest they all joined at different times.
However, there were much more than 4036 users at that time.
I decided to check the projects on hi's profile.

First project: Created October 9th 2009
Second project: Created March 21st 2011

WHAT? These dates suggest that the user “hi” had both their join date and username reset (I assume the same goes for aa and me).

k9
Joined: 2007-03-20 at 15:15:29.000Z
User ID: 6595

The only odd thing about this account is that the join date and user ID don't really match up. Apart from that, it seems like a fairly normal account.

a and r
There are two deleted accounts with only 1 letter usernames, a and r. They have a similar story to aa, me and hi.

a: Joined: 2013-05-08 at 16:58:35.000Z
r: Joined: 2013-05-08 at 16:58:35.000Z

a: ID: 389
r: ID: 4899

The join dates and IDs don't match up again…

Conclusion
aa, me, a and r are extremely, extremely odd accounts.
hi is even weirder…
k9 is not that odd of an account, but there's still some mystery behind it.

Any theories/definite answers? Post about it!

Also, check out my studio if you want. I document Scratch's rarest usernames, like the ones in this post (NOT namesnipes)

I hope you all have an amazing day, bye now.

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It's really weird, I went to research and found some weird things…

thecorgiqueen12 wrote:

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It's really weird, I went to research and found some weird things…

please dont necropost

So I did some research on this topic. It seems there was 3 ways the accounts were made.

1. Scratch's databases went down, resulting in people making account less than 3 characters. But the problem is with this theory, accounts joined a few days(i'm assuming) after each other. So this way is unlikely.

2. Scratch had ONLY a 20 character limit. There wasn't any restrictions for 3 letter users back then. There is also a problem with this theory too. People would make one letter and two letter accounts almost immediately. So this way is ALSO unlikely.

3. These were actually accounts that could have been glitched to get these usernames. When we bring up the “Location not given” and two letter locations, This is a likely way that these accounts were made. We've seen two letter locations right? So there could, COULD have been a way to change scratch's code and have 2 letter usernames. This could've been patched or this way wasn't used at all.

The reason why the join date was reset to the day Scratch 2.0 released was because the API's glitches were fixed, and reset invalid usernames to the Scratch 2.0 date, and removed invalid users from the API. But we can still see that users like “hi” actually are still found on this website. “a” is also found in the website with its follower count. (Here's the link:https://scratch.mit.edu/users/a/followers/ ) Scratch Team may have more info on this glitch/feature. You can also use the (user)/users/followers to find the accounts as well. It could be just a glitch like “Location not Found” or actually a intended function. Who knows, we can probably replicate it, but idk for now.