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So true! The best art is posted there! You should follow me! We can trade art! Best community!

>>7953631
Is it still feeding your art into their slop machine, are they still being flooded by slop images? If so, even if it's a better experience than twitter or insta, I'm not returning - it's the principle of the thing.
I'm glad you're happy though, anon.

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>>7953672
>bigkneelover

>>7953674
The whole internet is being fed at all times no matter where you post it. It really doesn't matter, AI has proven unable to make real new art that passes for an artist's genuine production even with loras and shit. It just looks AI.

As for dA, yeah, the galleries and groups features helps a ton in getting seen as autists can check other autists galleries for new faves. I have a couple old niche fandom things and keep getting a dozen new likes a day just by circulating that way.

>>7953631
It's the only site I post to atm.

>>7953631
I only use deviant art for niche degenerate pornography.

>>7953674
What this anon said
>>7953691

Also, what ive learned being a porn addict is that your never satisfied. Im not even uloading porn or fetish shit. It is fan art though. What I gather, people will always want new art. Be it from a machine or a human, as long as it captures their attention.

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>>7953631
>>7953672
The fetish autism acts like a filter that renders the ecosystem free from corpos, e-celebs, and normies. Without them burying everything, basic tags like "OC" or "animation" are actually visible. Anime and comic cons used to be viewed as weird cesspits for cringey losers too, and what happened when they went more mainstream? They lost their soul. Yeah there's a mountain of issues DeviantArt has but it's the only site that feels like you're not just throwing pictures into a void.

DeviantArt went to shit after they have been acquired by Wix. I already quit when they tried NFT scams.

>>7953758
all the interenet sucks now even here

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>>7953631
Its gay.
It sucks.
It blows.

...

I still love it though.

>>7953875
this

>>7953875
people suck now more than they ever did
weirdos were just cringe back then, now you have to be careful if they don't show up at your house and gun you down for implying you didn't like their horsecock femboy gay pansexual wristcutting humanized tank porn

>>7953631

deviantart has a lot of /pol/tard and reddit arguments, and a lot of "memes" made by gen alpha, but it's the one place left that specialized in general art for all skill levels. it seems like most platforms for art these days are either shitty algo-based twitter clones with lossy compression or they're tailored specifically to furry or anime girls. i post most of my art on itaku.ee these days, and i host the big stuff in mega links, but i still regularly use deviantart for a lot of nerd stuff.

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>>7953631
Deviant art is kind of like /ic/ but not nearly as bad

>>7953631
>>7953691
I noticed. Is how the old internet used to work without algorithms. I cant believe I forgot about it. Its really the asnwer to the algorithm problem having it decide for you. As it kills so many artists from being discovered.

Being able to follow a group or even follow someone elses favorite folder is how discoverabiluty used to be found. Outsourcing it to users instead of some esoteric code made by some pajeet.

I take it these mass social media algos are designed the way they are for political purposes. Leaving it to the masses creates things they cant allow.

I just made a deviantart account and uploaded a drawing. Two people commented on it and welcomed me to the site, and some random strangers gave me llama badges. How quaint.

>>7955043
Also, I created it last night, and now this morning the site is suddenly loaded with gay pride flags in the official site UI as opposed to being only posted by users. Not really my cup of tea, so I'll be deleting the account. But I can see how that kind of site would be good and useful for certain kinds of people.

>>7953631
It would've been alright if they didn't accept slop

>>7955128
Who doesnt accept slop? Internet is a slop machine. Always has been.
You want curation? Go to an actual gallery, museum or he the change you want to see.

>>7953631
A piece I did a couple of years ago got on the daily deviation page, it got like 2 million views, some favourites, follows and comments and included in some tards post and I literally felt nothing. I stopped caring and posting on social media like a year ago and it's made me better and happier with my art when I'm not constantly chasing numbers and trends and made me focus on what I want to draw instead

>>7954886
Yeah the "geniuses" atop entertainment industries can't create shit organically and are still seething about having to entertain Limp Bizkit (and having to kill Tupac for speaking against their sponsored party), so now they don't even let us interact with other real people online most of the time. It's all botted and curated shit meant to sell specific mindset to specific peoples.

>>7955043
>spawncamped by bots
Don't reply. Don't even visit their profiles. Don't interact with them in any way.

>>7953631
>Post Something
>less views
>uploaded late and more view grew and gain new faves
Question: is Deviant Art is filled with bots or the website still haven't died yet?

>>7953631
The search function sucks ass so I dont really like it.

>>7955071
The typical song and dance corpos do. I'm not even sure if they actually give a shit.

>>7955299
I'd expect an art site, that caters to artists, to not fuck over said artists.

>>7955299
>Who doesnt accept slop
Furaffinity straight up bans all slop. You might not like furries but at least they care.

>>7956604
Yeah but this is only an acceptable suggestion if you draw fur shit

>>7956684
It can't be helped

>>7955614
I have over 10k view on one of my drawing and 0 comment or favorites.
it's all bots. dead internet.

(no the picture isn't particularly incredible or anything, but if 10k actual people saw it, I believe there would have been at least more than 1 who'd react, even in a sort of "huh cool faved" brainless way.)

>>7956882
Deviant Art counts anytime the thumbnail is presented to user in feed, suggestion or search as "a view". Pixiv counts only the times the thumbnail is clicked open as a view.

Deviant art is just a hangout for juveniles that don't know any better/doing it for the retro factor and nostalgia riddled boomers. It killed itself off and any goodwill with its community because it made decision after decision to choose money over its base ultimately selling to a company that just periodically rips all the images its users upload, packages it and sells it to the highest bidder.

>>7957131
this. The site just functions as a data farming operation atp if it isn't clear with how AI slop has infested and overrun everything. As a matter of fact labeling your art as "not AI" is just a way for you to tag your art so that their system knows what to rip and sell to AI companies. Shit site needs to die already

>>7957131
>>7957134
DA brings me most comms, monthly supporters and engagement