How do I change my username?
This is one of the most asked questions on Scratch. You cannot change your username. The servers cannot handle it.

LionHeart70 wrote:

Useful guide!

I'd like if you could clarify this is a guide, though, I almost came down here to say that it's not possible.

-ShadowOfTheFuture- wrote:

Nice guide! Now hopefully people will actually view this.

Although you might want to change the title, the way it's phrased makes it sound like you're asking if it's possible to change a username instead of providing a guide.

wWSunPandaWw wrote:

Awesome guide, I'm reporting for an ITopic.
However, you might wanna change the title. I did click on this expecting “hoo boy, time to answer this question again…”. Just putting in a “–GUIDE” would be satisfactory.

FloatingMuffins wrote:

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FloatingMuffins wrote:

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_nix wrote:

Another option is to “start over” – it's similar to option 1, but instead of remixing/reuploading all your old projects, you just don't. That's what I did when I moved from liam48D to _nix - I made a note that my new main account was _nix, but I didn't bother bringing over all my old projects. It was sort of refreshing to be working from a relatively blank slate / project list, too

MasterCoder0 wrote:

You can't. You can make a new account tho. And you can change your email associated with your account, you can change your password, and change where you live.

Paddle2See wrote:

Excellent guide! I've added it to the Helpful Topics list. Thanks so much for taking the time to put this together

FloatingMuffins wrote:

There are so many scratchers that are unhappy with their usernames. So I created this guide on what to do in this situation.

How do I change my username?
This is one of the most asked questions on Scratch. You cannot change your username. The servers cannot handle it.

So, what are my options?
Well, your options are VERY limited but here they are:

1. Change to another account
You could do the following:
1. Create a new account.
2. Remix over all your projects.
3. Tell your followers about your new account and put a link to your new account on your old profile.
4. Add yourself to all studios you were curating.
5. Follow all studios, discussions and users you were following.
6. Favourite all projects you favourited.
7. Close comments on your old profile.

You will lose all views on projects, followers and all other statistics so you may want to go with another option.

2. Operate a “two account system”
You could create another account and use both your new and old account. E.g. use one for forum posts and the other for projects, use one for animations and the other for games etc. This is alternative to switching over to another account because switching over to another account is a lot of work.

3. Clean slate
Your interests may have changed since you created your account. For example your username could be footballlover78_1 and your profile pic could be a football and all your projects could be football related. Now you may have no interest in football. You also may not like the projects on your account. Or you may feel you have not got a good reputation on the website. In these situation you could start on a clean slate. This is where you start a new account but don't transfer anything over and you don't tell the community about your new account.

4. Stay with your username
You may not like the options above so you could just stay with your username.