I got a 2-day IP ban on Scratch for promoting a glitch/exploit.

It was a very strange glitch.

Jun 13, 2024, 2:20 AM
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what glitch?

It was fixed today, but making a username such as “faviconaico” used to make the account have multiple problems.

Why that username? And how did you do the glitch?

The username causes the glitch. I don’t know why, but I think it’s because https://scratch.mit.edu/users/favicon.ico used to be the URL for the old Scratch favicon.

Oh, that’s odd. What file does it make you download?

Something like this:

(The old Scratch favicon)

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Usernames in the format of (x)favicon(x)ico were glitched.

Such as not being able to follow users/studios, being unfollowable, makes you download an image file when you click on the username in comments, being uninviteable to studios, giving a 404 page when you visit the profile, and apparently being unreportable.