DeviantArtReviews 161

One of the best websites I've ever tried. It helped me making New Friends and Being more creative. And I also feel more Happy since I opened an account in November 2020. I Almost immediately maked New Friends and meet people from all the world from the Us to Israel. The people on the site are Nice. I don't say too much cyberbullying like many people say. And I don't see many porn pictures like many people say. Also like the new layout and I Don't Get Why It's so hated. I write short Pokémon stories on the website. My account on deviantART is called the-italian-vaporeon. Great website for expressing opinions Show Your Creativity and making New Friends

This used to be an art community where I was proud to draw for but not anymore. It is a shell of what it once was.
The site has been irreparably torn by the toxicity, drama. And neglect from the staff. The user base has become dangerous and unpredictable. Some of them are alt-right or even Nazis. (i am not kidding) At this point attempting to talk to users or work with them only puts you at risk for getting hurt.
This site must be avoided at all costs. Go to art station, twitter, or even Fur Affinity if you want to have an enjoyable art experience.

Deviant art is stupid. You're banning me cuz of underage? Srsly, u gon nuts or something? All ages can SHOW AND EXPRESS THEIR ART. Ya, ur probably doing this, cuz ur site is very inappropriate. So many inapporpriate users in da. So many. I can count a few million idiot. I confronted you, sent notes, NO REPLY! Don't treat me like $#*! and crap. You must take my suggestion to make two sections in deviant art, for adult and kids. Or else, consider trying to bann inappropriate deviants other than sitting back and just banning innocent deviants, just cuz of underage bruh. Too many nudes and just- EWWWW! PLEASE FIX THIS $#*!. ITS AFFECTING MY MENTAL! MOREOVER, I MADE A RLLY SUCCESSFUL GROUP AND NOW YOU TOXIC IDIOT BANNED ME, AND I CANT WORK ON MY GROUP.!

I remember the old classic Deviantart. Since the new updates things have changed, also not to mention it's pretty weird now. The Staff doesn't help you and don't care what problem you have. I've had an account for 9 years that I believe was hacked and they couldn't help or believe the account is indeed mine and I know my information is correct. So much hard work and dedication to that account lost... I'm disappointed is this company.

I don't understand why dA gets so much back lash i'm 15 and on A SCHOOL LAP TOP. Meaning if porn was on dA it would be BLOCKED for me. I have met so many wonderful people including professionals who give me suggestions to better my self. Yes i get it the new style (eclipse.) is not what your used to somethings have gone down hill. But from much of what i read i have no problems with the biggest most annoying thing i have found is every so often the chats act up.(not the comments they are fine.) so hike up your big boy pants and get out or get over yourself. DA over all is still an amazing place for artist especially young ones to show there work. AND HELL! If kids under the age requirement are on dA its not there fault pay attention to your children! Then you will not have these problems. Any weasels have a nice day y'all.

The staff ruined the site with the new awful, broken buggy and messy design, deleted all the characteristics that made the site remarkable and now they are unfairly and blatantly forcing us to use it when almost all of us were fine with the old design. And as if all that were not enough, they blatantly ignore their community. It's simply outrageous and shameful. That shows that they're a bunch of shameless coward arrogant inept incompetent morons. They don't deserve respect.

I've been a member of the dA community since 2009 and honestly I loved it up until the moment WIX bought them out. At that moment the staff just stopped caring. They offer beta testing for website updates but don't bother to even reply to the reviews given to them by their beta testers. They've even blocked the option to share public opinions of the websites updates. Everything they've done the past few years just sceams that they don't care anymore.
Their new website layout isnt the worst thing in the world, but its buggy and not ready to leave beta testing. Its not even original, they are just taking the coding from a different website WIX runs and copying and pasting it with little to no changes.
They do nothing to prevent art theft in their community, and they allow trolls and bully's to run rampant in the community. You cant even report art theft unless you pay a $10 fee to file legal action to take down the stolen art.

They don't even support their young artists and new members to the community. They host contests but the same 10 or so famous artists win each time. They only feature art from their long standing big named artists repeatedly so it is next to impossible to make a name for yourself in the community.

I could go on for days with a long list of reasons the WIX takeover has ruined dA, but bottom line is that it isnt worth bothering to make an account on this website anymore unless you want to be ignored by staff and dont want to be taken seriously as an artist.

Wix took over in 2015. And that's when everything positive become the opposite. I wish I could give 0 stars because they don't deserve any at!

If you get bullied, the staff won't help you. If your art gets stolen, your DMCA reports gets ignored, if you get scammed, it's your own fault. If you contact the staff, you MAY be lucky if they answer you next month. Mostly they don't answer any ticket or you get a copy/paste answer that will never help.

I was harrassed and stalked and dA did absolutely nothing to help me. All my tickets were ignored. They simply said opinions are allowed to have.' Calling bullying opinions is already 1 thing but totally ignoring the facts what is truly playing on this site is another thing.

The unproffessional staff ignores the so many art theft on this site or any violating user in general. Deviantart is turning into another Photobucket or Imgur, raining screenshots, $#*!ty sonic art, so many pornography, disgusting fetish art and more. Criminals can do what they want here, they never get punished or banned. Even if users report them many times.

Some criminals are even protected by the staff. The biggest example is Art thief Nads6969. https://www.deviantart.com/nads6969 stole from 100 different artists, received over 50 reports and more then 6 DMCA reports and she's still active on dA. WHY does the staff not care? It's our money they only care for.

According to the rules, childporn and underaged nudity is against it and even against the law. DA does not care. They ban users that reported such images instead.

The only way to make them see is to bring them to court. It's truly sad to see such a good site going to hell. It deserves to be shut down forever.

All you have to do is give an opinion or just simply be different and that's enough to tick somebody off! I've seen people get away unpunished with posting autism comments, such as calling something they don't like autistic or autism or even outright hate speech against autistic people, such as how autism is apparently synonymous with mental $#*!ation (it's not), and popular users may be the nastiest people alive! They can get away with writing a polemic journal against you, effectively sending their MASSIVE fan base after you to attack you, that actually lead someone I once followed into suicide! I even reported that this person caused their death and the staff heartlessly DID NOTHING! This murderer is still roaming free on the site after what they've done.
And trust me, suicides by bullying are VERY common on this site!

The new reworked site is horrifically stupid, though it still allows the hoes to sell their dirty under pants and filthy photos that are in no way artistic nudes-- where kids are, good going deviant art you now are amongst the ranks of myspace. This site has very little to do with real art especially these days. There is a big difference between artistic nudes and flat out porn shots, don't even waste your time reporting the insertion photos, deviant art is nothing but a hack, porn site at this point, a decade ago it was contests and fan art, now just wow how low you have sunken, not to mention the pedos trying to lure children for nude drawings? WTF?

Not a real art site since it was purchased and changed ownership. A lot of pedophilia, fetishism, and perverts and cell phone shots of cam girls T&A. If you don't believe me, just look at their front page or in the search engine or the other previews about this site from other members at the bottom of the page. And forget about reporting this stuff to DA staff, you will be the one to get in trouble.

The major famous artists that used to use this platform moved on to places like Artstation. Real artists are no longer celebrated. This company only follows the money now. I wouldn't want to associate my art with this place. Not too mention the virus and spam for sex messages you receive in your inbox daily... Now with eclipse rolling out, they're trying to be like station's jealous little sister by mimicking them, but DA's quality of art will never amount to Artstation. Eclipse is basically shiny pretty bows and gift wrapping to a pile of perverted poo.

I was deceived by DeviantArt after I bought a large, 30x40 inch printed image (Rainbow Metatron's Cube), worth about 63 Euro, made by Lillyas (https://www.deviantart.com/lilyas/shop/ prints).
I received an incomplete image, cropped on the sides, without any value.
Both the author, Lily Andrea Seidel and the seller, DeviantArt, consider it a mistake, and refuse to replace the broken, already paid product.
It is clear that both DeviantArt and Lily Andrea Seidel cheated me and took my 63 euros abusively.

It used to be much better at one time than it is now. While some good art can still be found there, it takes more and more effort to find it. The main problems now are that they do little to nothing about SPAM messages, chain-letter type messages and other garbage like that which merely misuse the comment-feature. But the overall atmosphere of the site has declined as well. Only positive and/or popular comments and opinion are allowed; any form of constructive criticism or, for that matter, any dissenting opinion of any kind, is not tolerated and even censored in some cases. It is highly ironic that a website ostensibly for creators to display their work should have evolved into an environment that is so averse to the expression of different opinions. PC Groupthink is increasingly the mindset there.