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