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DeviantART was a great website now in decline. DeviantART on the surface looks like a normal website like YouTube for artists. But actually it's a horrible porn site filled with fetishes and child groomers. The site does little to nothing to stop it's lurved users and their strange obsessions. This would never be a problem but DA is a 13+ website. Where people think mature filters are somehow censorship. Not kid friendly. So if you think seeing furry $#*!s of Sonic the hedgehog is ok be my guest.

DeviantART is home to toxic trolls, crybullies, and was full of far right/neo-fascists until DA realized it's a private website and hate speech is against the rules. But with that being said you will never get reported for having shown a picture of a swastika or Hitler. Edgy 16 year old girls run the site like they are principle.

DA has gotten worse. Modern DA has the worst interface ever. UI designers. If you are reading this. We don't want OUR websites to app friendly. DA has axed soo many features. Why oh why can't I search my favorites? They completely deaded the website. Made it very spam filled. I cannot reply to a comment because it takes forever to find it under the mounds of coomer spam of favebot accounts. If you like instagram this interface is perfect for you.

The paywall is so dense on DeviantART since Wix.com bought it. I have to pay to change my name. Sounds reasonable. But now? I have to pay just to see stats? HMMM?! Nowadays you can make a fave folder and it privates it from people seeing it. You must pay for it. It tried pitching this. We tried pitching this so many times and yet DA would never cave in for some reason.

Beyond that, if one can't get money you can always do points commissions. A fairly useless crypto-currency that no one wants. Users can perform art trades or requests. But watch out for scammers.

Lately, DA has been filled with AI art by people with no talent. Has even implemented an AI art generator when people PROTESTED profusely! We said no and they didn't listen.

Thinking about talking to the mods for help? Thinking again. They just have an FAQ list. No one is there to help you. This site isn't run by humans. No tickets or nothing.

Is it better than Pixiv? No. Is it better than Furaffinity? Absolutely. Now go post your fugly Prisma colored pencil drawing of Goku X Spiderman you dork!

DeviantArt is downright very toxic, extremely atrocious & absolute total abhorrence, and I'm NOT very kidding!

DeviantArt was far, far, FAR completely different in 2006-2007 than it is today as of 2023; since this website was first founded WAY back in August 2000, and I could go all day with what was so completely horribly wrong and frustrating with this art community website nowadays…

This art community website contains an alarming amount of depraved highly inappropriate & disturbing cruel fetish art that many kind of people are submitting on this site featuring: furry porn, rape, inflation, vorarephilia (also known as "vore"), kidnapping, and corrupt sexualized versions of female characters that are a great way to completely ruined your artistic interests. It keeps coming up in Google images with more disturbing ruinous deviations! Not only that, this website's rules are completely non-existent, the moderators from the DA groups are very bad at their jobs and they NEVER listened to feedback from the other artists on their platform. DeviantArt ALSO contains cyberbullying, sexual harassments and death-threat allegations against other users, crimes against women and kids, art tracers & thieves (users who are stealing art from your profile). Plus, there were also a ton of bugs that never got fixed and these annoying problems keep coming up everywhere. Furthermore, the Eclipse version and it's A.I. Tool that they introduced and recently released as of today, are absolutely horrible; both in mobile and computer, and it's staff are shady, very abusive, uncaring, unprofessional, and deliberately chooses to do absolutely nothing, or worse, condemning or endorsing their behaviors.

Moral lesson of this story, whatever you do:
Do not join that art community site and it's disgusting nightmarishly disturbing fetish communities like the plague at all costs. TRUST NO ONE! Even those who claimed to be on your side and cared on that site are very likely just trying to manipulate or harass you and betrayed your trust, only to feed information to the VERY SAME criminals behind your back. NO ONE ON DEVIANTART CAN BE TRUSTED! DeviantArt is certainly not for children. It is not for teenagers, female artists and young adults in its 20's. It is also not even for adults, including parents and guardians. It is for absolutely NO ONE but total abhorrence asylum-breed evil cruelty degenerates, creepy demented sociopathic pedophile deviants, horrible low-life mentally-ill highly unstable sexual-sadism perverts and underaged manipulative & narcissistic predators! After all, when it gets into the edge of absolute extreme breaking point where many fetish artists AKA "DeviantArt artists" making/creating deviations of drawings of Bart Simpson naked getting sexually abused & molested by Edna Krabappel, to furries, to millions of sexual/inflation fetishized versions of cartoon/anime/video game characters, and to two of the most infamous users on this site named "Kphoria" & "brain3times3" creating the majority of deviations containing vorarephilia (vore) & pregnancies. If you want to save your child from life-long paranoid trauma,I STRONGLY RECOMMEND AND HIGHLY WARNED YOU to NOT to join that website. If you want to post your more creative, more friendly and more very sustainable non-fetishized art on a different art community site, go to ArtStation or NewGrounds instead. Hell, even Instagram is WAY more art-friendly than this ugly godawful degenerate nasty piece of s**t site.

STAY AWAY FROM THIS WEBSITE AT ALL COSTS!

Evidence photos in bottom:

There's really nothing to add that's already been said. Lets put aside all the fetish art and sexually explicit imagery because that can be any site you go to for artwork.

1) Piss poor moderation if it's even existent at all: This allows several bad actors to get away with harassment and other forms of cyberbullying. It doesn't help when people have discriminating views and often have fragile egos when it comes to their artwork.
2) Layout sucks, hard to navigate: Way before recent times the navigation wasn't great, but everything was categorized in a way that made sense. Now it's trying too hard to be like instagram.
3) Money matters more than the user. It pushes for you to get a membership to get features that don't even matter let alone get you artwork noticed. Even then, it doesn't matter if you do because it shoves it down your throat to a point where it's going to cost you more money than it's worth and that's far worse than having to pay for an adobe subscription.
4) Lastly, the community is non-existent. Sure you could go to the forums and have some conversations but they won't do you any good given the first point that's highlighted. It's also tough to even build up a following there compared to other sites that are in existence.

The thing is I'm not the only one who had these issues and I'm actually glad that I walked away when I did. I'm not saying that this reflects the entire community, because there are people there who actually make good art. The problem however is when you have a good majority of users who only care about themselves and would rather push you to the point where you're better off going elsewhere.

But it's hard to get noticed when the site has a bias toward users who have either been there for a long time or have more of a professional background experience. It's harder for underground or unknown artists to get a following there and I'd rather go to other sites instead of DeviantArt. Sooner or later Deviant Art is going to lose a lot of it's business with everyone if it doesn't take actions to improve the community more than anything else.

If you want a site to build a following, you're better off going to Newgrounds, ArtStation, Hell even Instagram is more artist friendly than this site.

This is a problem i've been facing since March 2021 - about abusive reportings from anonymous bystanders. My artworks are solely targeted against adult audiences, with emphasis on Pinups of cartoon/ videogame characters. All of my content is properly tagged as Mature - or even explicit if needed - to avoid unwanted attention from users outside of my scope.

However, someone desperately wants me gone. This anonymous user (or even staff member) is indescriminitely flagging my content as containing "underaged characters on sexual circunstances". The thing is, none of the characters portrayed are younger than eighteen year old, having official guides and websites to confirm their assigned ages.

Deviantart gives the opportunity of claiming the deleted artwork. And even after justifying properly that the guidelines weren't violated and showing the links to official websites, they denied and left me there with my hands tied. In total, i've sent three e-mails to their staff desperately seeking some competent help, all i've received after 2 weeks waiting were robotic/ automaton messages saying, in short: "We believe your content violated the guidelines, heres a link about sexual content policies, thank you for your comprehention".

I was finally starting to grow on the platform, and now i don't have any security about posting my pinup arts there. Someone can just go, report, get my art deleted, and just keep going until all my hardwork is gone.

It's a decent platform to post art. However, has no security, no staff help or support, not an empathetic human being to shed some light into my problem. Wouldn't recomend Deviantart to anyone, unless they want to feel frustration, dissapointment and disgust.

I've been better treated in other platforms day one than i've been in DA for ten years. So yeah...

DeviantART USED to be great, it was an active community and was really user friendly. It USED to be super easy to navigate and was very visually appealing.

But then it got a terrible new update, which made it both challenging for old users to navigate, and new users. I was happy using DeviantART for about six years, and ever since the new update called Eclipse came out, it completely ruined it for me. It is clunky, cluttered, slow, and over all just a huge mess. I feel as though DeviantArt is no longer for all users and all types of art, but only the professional artists who want popularity, they cared more about the website looking "nice" (which it doesn't anymore) than making it fun and easy for all artists.

Everything takes so many more clicks than it used to, everything is so much more complicated than it needs to be. It is super slow and takes so long to load, sometimes when I just have DeviantArt up it crashes my laptop because of how slow it is.
Searching and browsing is no longer as fun as it used to be, the stats are no longer fun and easy to understand, favouriting things and adding them to collections takes so many more clicks and is just a hassle.
They got rid of SO MUCH customization, it is no longer fun to customize your profile because you can do so little with it, there is nearly no reason to become a core user anymore besides uploading videos, but customization was important to so many users and it's just not there anymore. You can only have three custom boxes TOTAL in DeviantArt Eclipse. You used to be able to have more, but for some reason we just can't have them anymore. For non-core members we can have one custom box, but even then it's pretty pointless and can only be on the left side of your page for some reason. You can no longer get rid of the about section from your page, which is annoying especially if you'd rather have a custom box as your about.

There is no reason to be a core anymore.

There is empty space EVERYWHERE. The font for everything is so much bigger, especially for status updates and journals, so now you'll have a much longer page where you have to zip down a lot more than you should have to, only a little bit of stuff can fit on your page at a time.
Deviations are way smaller than they used to be, which is weird because they should be big because... well they're kind of the main focus of Deviant*ART*
They got rid of categories, so it's harder to find things you're specifically looking for. It's much harder to add emoticons now too, it used to always be there, take like one or two clicks, and you could add a bunch without having to click too much. Now, we have to click a button, slowly have it load up while a bunch of them are resized to look really low quality, click one, have the menu of emoticons drop down and then have to keep on doing that. *One at a time*
You can no longer easily add someone's icon by typing something like: iconusername:, now you have to click so many more times and they're in the same place as emoticons, except it takes even MORE clicks. They got rid of so many useful features for no reason.

Over all it is a really sad and disappointing update, they could have done so so much better, but they went with this. It's terrible. It doesn't even look like DeviantART anymore, it looks more like an artstation rip-off trying to look super 'professional' but failing. And the team have looked at a much better update mockup by one of their users, which many people agreed with, and declined it and didn't make any better updates to Eclipse.

It feels like the team doesn't listen to the community, they didn't consider any of the old users when updating Eclipse, therefor tons of old users have left. I stayed to see what improvements they'd implement, but I've seen close to NOTHING. They didn't even fix the customization, or add easier ways to add images/stamps to journals or your profile, which has been a known issue for like two years. They've added some pointless updates that have nothing to do with what tons of users have complained about, like when they added notifications not deleting after you replied to them, which they quickly got rid of. So pointless.

I'm so sad to see DeviantART turn into this terrible DeviantArt Eclipse mess... They completely ruined DA for so many people and now tons of users have moved elsewhere. They 'fixed' something that wasn't even broken in the first place.
It feels like the Team behind DA just doesn't listen to anyone.

When I first used DeviantArt, the site was filled with wondrous works of art ranging anywhere from classical paintings, portraits, anime, fanart (traditional and digital), you name it. I could literally spend hours browsing art and sharing some of mine as well, no matter how talented or professional I am. The community felt alive as users were friendly and vibrant and some gave heartwarming comments as they shared their work, creating friendships that strengthened the artsy atmosphere the site was intended to be.

However, DeviantArt seems to have lost the vibrant atmosphere, and is now filled with nothing but My Little Ponies, Furry Anthropomorphics, and inapproriate posts of cartoon nudity. There is also a big number of fetish art and adult content subject matter that some are highly offensive. The art that I see don't appear as fresh or attractive (no offense), but somehow gains attention to a sick minded, dirty community. To make matters worse, the staff don't seem to care about the inappropriate material users are posting and refuse to look into the situation at all.
There have been cases of stolen and/or reused artwork from previous artists and no credit has been given. I used to have an account but deleted it after seeing the dramatic, upsetting change. I feel bad though, as there are still some good art out there that deserve some love and praise, but for me, I feel unsafe and awkward if I hang around too long.

If you are looking for an art site to browse, share, and buy art, I highly recommend using alternative options. ArtStation in my opinion is an excellent choice. It is not just an online art sharing site, but also a site where aspiring artists can find potential jobs. The staff are most of the time helpful and they strongly value security, privacy, and satisfaction. I've met some amazing people on ArtStation and their works are incredible. In terms of the art content, there is little to barely any inappropriate material, however; there will be a viewer discretion message on some pieces if an artist(s) chooses to give viewers a precaution; which I find is very necessary and helpful.
A lot of people that I know of have moved away from DeviantArt to ArtSration, and they're happy that they did so.

Newcomers to DeviantArt, be prepared lol.

I am surprised nobody speaks deeper about the community. Maybe because cartoon, videogame fans and furries are taboo outside the web. Then the serious art is closer to most people which is understandable, even though some prices are really over-the-top (400 dollars? You cannot be serious) since the art doesn't have specific purpose like design on cups or T-shirts. I'm trying to keep my eyes on this category and not accidentaly look at the other group. Of course among the fan communities there are lot of overfantasizing fanfictions and lot of sexual fanart in very provocative poses but people used to be more self-aware and joking around was on daily basis. Even though there were some unpleasant closed-minded elitist know-it-alls who could bring a "maturity" card out of the place. That was some 10 years ago and more. Now the fan communities are lot more reserved and serious about what they are doing, often anti-social, hiding strong SJW mindset behind their smiles and it's all filled with early teen request spammers. There are possibly sane people but are more reserved than similar bunch used to be. But then again the professionals don't really make up much of communities since there is as expected no time for that. They are usually polite and I respect them for what they are doing. Many make tutorials and some can be very helpful to motivate you to continue and get better in art (Hyanna-Natsu is an angel) if the time allows it. Still I've encountered enormous hypocrisy over NSFW stuff from the staff, like an innocent nudity of a 17 years old may be taken down if she isn't a Pokémon trainer or stuff like that but lot of questionable fetishes stay there. It's a strike. Then dA made a huge change to the layout which started out as promising but ended up with less of possibilities and the only way to switch to the original is to be online. They risked a lot but it's still there. If they remove it, they are damned. Also I saw some masterpieces with just 2 ciphers of favourites nowadays which is a huge shame, fanarts are much bigger magnet for users. But I don't really understand how people are saying there is no freedom of speech when you can say practically everything. Well, look at MugenArchive and compare it in this aspect. Don't get shocked.

It's pretty sad when the dA staff only care about the Eclipse and their users on their when I first got my account on dA when I was 13 years old the staff was more serious about cyberbullies, trolls, art theifs/tracers, ect banning them ASAP but now that's the NEW Eclipse is in the picture the staff picture up us users and dumps us in the trash like we're nothing this site is toxic one of my friends we're banned for a troll that sent in a FAKE report that they no proof and she got banned because they can't handle of the proof held against her when today she finally got banned because of their age!

I've had to deal with two users one is named Arty harassered me and his partner in crime Spy made call posts then Spy made another 3rd account named Max to witch hunt us down I've tried to ban these two with proof but staff did nothing about them the staff is always on the trolls side and NEVER on the good user side and makes the good user who's reporting the misbehaving user look really bad (I wish I could swear rn while writing this but I will not!)!

This site contains: Cyberbullies, Trolls, Art Theifs/tracers, Porngraphic, Stalkers, Scammers, Hackers, ect everyday when I'm on my account everytime turn around if it's a new user toxic causing trouble if you tried telling the dA team they won't take your side even if you have proof their just ban you and have the misbehaving user get away with their crimes YOU DA STAFF NEED TO IMPROVE YOUR RULES LIKE IT OR NOT!

IF YOU DON'T IMPROVE YOUR SITE OR YOUR RULES YOUR SITE IS GOING TO STARTING TURN INTO MYSPACE (Because no has Myspace anymore) this site is EXTREMELY TOXIC!

I'll give your site 0 reviews it should be shut down FOREVER and never be put up again until staff know how to do their job correctly or get new workers and fire current workers who are just LAZY and do nothing!

The site also accuse users who did nothing wrong and ban them when they didn't break any rules! Don't use DeviantArt it's called: deviantARToxic!

Ever since Deviantart forces everyone that uses the site into subpar eclipse mode in may 20th of 2020, the site has become Ghost town full of Spambots(from favebots to scambots), even before DreamUp AI Art outrage so my work never got enough exposure it deserves.

Rampant cyberbullying there did makes deviantart users that commits suicide IRL did outnumbers Deviantart users that dies from Old Ages at very least ten to one, cuz Deviantart staff can let cyberbullying runs rampant there(worse they can take sides with bullies instead of victims)

The failures of other deviantart alternatives from either Artrise's Stillbirth and Buzzly Drama can makes people stuck in Deviantart.

More things that make Deviantart goes downhill further: "Help Welcome new Deviants" notifications(I'm glad we can recently switch off this), people that use too many alternate accounts to either block-evades to making trouble there, Broken main search bar of Deviantart(whatever we type anything there, at least 8000 deviations(that mostly unrelated to whatever we looking for) pops up for results), Groups being abandoned, Loud House Fandoms, etc

At least we still have upcoming Artspacious as well Inkblot.art, newgrounds, pillowfort, cohost.org, side7, and so on