It used to be the premier platform for comic and cartoon fan art, particularly fetish art. Now no one seems to use it anymore, and the artists who remain post very seldomly.
Fetish art is what killed it artard
I thought people dropped it because they were saying that you don't have rights to the stuff you post and that they were going to use the stuff for AI training
>>155662865I think that, and they have AI moderation that randomly bans people all the time
>>155662833It was quite literally got bought by an isreali company back in 2017They also kept making terrible UI updates and then they went HARD on AI art and started by making it an apt out instead of an opt in for your art to be used for AI training (I THINK they reverted this but I don't recall) which caused a pretty big exodus because surprise surprise, no one wants that shit.Their moderation also went to shit and random arts will be removed for no reason. I know some vore artists got nuked yet others just didn't. Same with mind control artists. Also there are a LOT of scammers and art reposters these days.I still go to DA because there are still some people I know who mostly post their art there, but basically everyone else is multi-posting on other platforms and just uses deviantart because they've had an account for a decade.
>>1556628332010's1. Selling of people's art without permission to venders.2. UI redesign and scrapping features2020's1.Allowing AI2.Scambots in DM's3.Requiring an email for the first time to make an account.4. Needing to pay to change your name.5. Allowing porn on the platform officially but, only if being sold6. Failing to uphold that last part.It's just one controversial decision after another. The users aren't even the one's doing it. These UI decisions were completely avoidable.
>>155663022The final straw for me was them encouraging you to augment your uploads with AI. Its like they want everyone to be Indian
>>155662851Fetish art was the only reason anyone used it to begin with. It’s right there in the name.
>>155663121For me it was needing an email to even upload to STASH! I had multiple DA's i put up when i was a kid. Each sta.sh was 2 GB of free data hosting. Videos, art, memes. I sat on a fortune of free data storage. Then the email thing went out and it all went away. What a waste.
>>155662833They started allowing AI slop
>>155663389there was alot..and I mean holy crap, there was so much inflation stuff, like what even the hell.there were so many others but thats what I noticed the most.
>>155663223Literally nothing wrong with AI
>>155663743kill yourself.
>>155662833>All these retarded answers not one addressing the real reason why deviantart fell offThe new retarded owners tried pushing deviantart into a Artstation wanna be. Then they put the final nail into deviantart's head by letting it get flooded with ai jeet slop
>>155663749Rude
>>155662851But isn't it funny when you find a really specific one? Come on, you found one of those galleries, haven't you?
>>155664023I’ve stumbled upon a few that will haunt my nightmares forever
>>155662833The UI update was a big blowthen AI did a huge fucking blowand now there are weekly download limitsJust awful now
>>155663022the more I think about it, the more similarities I see between deviantart and fanfiction.netolder names in the game that just massively shot themselves in the foot to the point where only scammers and crossposting ride-or-dies still use them
>>155663753There’s a toggle to filter AI but it doesn’t do anything
Too many people doing weird role play
>>155662833I wish DA was still good AND I could find fart porn there
>>155665806Kill braptards. Behead braptards. Roundhouse kick a braptard into the concrete. Slam dunk a braptard baby into the trashcan. Crucify filthy braptards. Defecate in a braptard's food. Launch braptards into the sun. Stir fry braptards in a wok. Toss braptards into active volcanoes. Urinate into a braptard's gas tank. Judo throw braptards into a wood chipper. Twist braptard heads off. Report braptards to the IRS. Karate chop braptards in half. Curb stomp pregnant braptard women. Trap braptards in quicksand. Crush braptards in the trash compactor. Liquefy braptards in a vat of acid. Eat braptards. Dissect braptards. Exterminate braptards in the gas chamber. Stomp braptard skulls with steel toed boots. Cremate braptards in the oven. Lobotomize braptards. Mandatory abortions for braptards. Grind braptard fetuses in the garbage disposal. Drown braptards in sopa de macaco. Vaporize braptards with a ray gun. Kick old braptards down the stairs. Feed braptards to alligators. Slice braptards with a katana.
>>155665873Gas chambers? Will it be your gas, handsome?
>posted it again
>>155662833>What happened to DeviantArt? Lol I dunno
>>155662851That and Leftist Autism and AI slop
>>155662851Fpbp
>>155662833>horrible moderation that will have legitimate artists' art taken down for no reason and they can't do anything about it>doubling and tripling down on pushing ai art>horrible design changes and removing features>you need to buy a premium account to sell art on there so they're getting money from you twice>twitter is better for artists because more people will see their work even if it's a worse art sharing siteIt's nothing but self inflicted injuries when they should've been working on making their website better. If they made no changes for the past 20 years they'd be much better off than now.
>>155663121How many bots are on this site nowadays? I get thousands of views per upload on my more recent stuff, but only a few dozen faves and maybe one or two comments. It's as if most of site's traffic is just AI running amok.
>>155668415>>horrible moderation that will have legitimate artists' art taken down for no reason and they can't do anything about itThat loud house amazon comic series got taken down and I don't remember the artists name. i cri
>>155662833It got less user friendly and kinda what >>155662851 wrote.Too many fanfiction artists and wannabe creatives.It muddy the appeal.>>155668548Dont over estimate the bots. Often users just browse and download pics. Why log in and even write a comment? Most see it just as a pocture book. How many read a book and feel like writing a letter to the writer?
>>155662833Lack of moderation and their new algorithm means your front page is constantly bombarded by low functioning autists posting the same photo or cartoon sceencap over and over, any art that does catch your eyes is stolen by a "reuploader" who "doesnt know the original artist sorry" so you cant find more work like it, and also tons of promptslop
>>155662833They bent the knee to payment processors and censored a mega asston of art for no reason. Then, they jumped on the AI train. You're more free on twitter than you are on deviantart these days. That's just fucking sad. The purges are what killed it. If you like any character one single day under 18 they rape your account and leave you gaping on the sidewalk whether you age them up or not, but sometimes leave it alone. It sucks. Ruined by retard little kids going on crusades and making shitty art.>>155662851Fetish art is in deviantart's dna. Its in the name.
the site is hanging on by a thread
>>155668415hop on newgrounds
>>155663743Fuck yourself.
>>155669703Newgrounds is a fucking ghost town. That site is nothing but reposts of stuff from twitter, and mobile game demos.
>>155662833yeah but it's a good place to pick up autistic chicks
>>155669739Only nitpick about NG is that verdammt .webp format
Maybe it's time to start using blogs and web rings again? Never go to the front page of anything just go directly to blog and block AI, Autists, thieves etc.
I haven't had any trouble with it, aside from having a few Star Butterfly pics deleted. A few of my best clients contacted me through dA.
>>155662833Hey I like it :^) yeah no, it's filled with bots. 43 watchers, 500 favourites and barely 2 people made a comment about the actual content.https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zmcEuocbSMAPH0Cdu0neR7qOYrOad6dB_PXEnPRM24YThe problem with DeviantArt is that it's got no filters and no standards. It's the SFW version of Paheal, where anyone can post any shit.If I want actual consistent quality with ACTUAL SIMILAR ART I'M LOOKING FOR then I go to Pinterest. When you click on Pinterest on a specific art you get a similar art style, design, clothes, you don't wake up with fart fetish stick figures next to Sakimi-chan/League of Legends tier art.
>>155662833if you don't post a fetish of something then it's worthless other than that it's just a den of AI and art thievery
>>155662851you saw only the fetish art because it was all that was left of it when the 'normal' artists moved to tumblr
>>155662851Homegrown fetish art is what made DA fun to visit. Seeing a 30-something yr old with debilitating autism try to express what turns him on was part of the freak show. It's when DA started encouraging those same retards to crank out thousands of AI smut images every day is what killed it.Also DA's search feature sucks ass, and I'm pretty sure that's by design.
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