Deviantart Reviews

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For professional artists this is a poor website There is no quality control which means that low-quality art will receive more views than high-quality art Pornography fetish art spam and even art theft are all common The new layout Eclipse is identical to Artstation s and there is no option to disable it Seriously the moderators are so f ing lazy that they refuse to hire more staff Don t join DeviantArt if you re serious about your art or creative writing Because they also get this ALLOW paedophiles stalkers racists sexists homophobes bullies and trolls to join And when they ve done something that would see them be arrested for offline the Staff just ignore it and give excuses

Not an art website

Despite the name Deviantart is not an art website It s a pic-dump flooded with images stolen from other websites AI generated pictures spam fetish content and even child pornography The images you see as a visitor are hand picked and do not represent the content shown to you once you sign up and log in There is no system in place to battle any illegal content with just a hand full of staff members relying entirely on the users to report illegal content while reporting illegal content is made as difficult as possible and in many cases is only possible if one s own copyrights are being violated To make things worse there are close to no consequences for people who violate DA s own rules as reports complaints are ignored on a regular basis Apart from that every gallery on the website is AI controlled meaning users have little to no control over the images they are shown by the system DeviantArt s own AI image generator called Dreamup which is being advertized as an ethical AI was trained with literally millions of pieces of art used without consent of the artists which is why DA has been sued by a group of artists

The decline of a great site

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 consumers It s simply outrageous That shows that they re a bunch of shameless coward arrogant inept incompetent morons They don t deserve respect

Tried tested and concluded the site to be no longer for artists

I have been on this platform for over 12 years now The community and interactions were good I am not going to repeat what others are talking about Only thing I am going to say dA changes their policy often regarding adult material on the fly take no action against spammers and scammers heavily invested in using AI nft through user submitted content and now trying to monetise the site with every bad decision possible They do put up social defences even though they are NOT liable to follow through those promises And as an artist me and other small time ones barely receive any interactions if we don t have AI or fan artworks or nudity or general fetish tagged in our works I am not sure why this is the case but observing this for over four five months I came to conclusion that the algorithm may be broken As a core member I find this to be simply unacceptable On top of this now there are reports of tr0lls making throwaway accounts and harassing people through dms I guess dA has came a long way We will have to see where it goes from here

i used it to share my art and it did

i used it to share my art and it did the job sure but recently i needed to create new account but to my suprise the domain i use is apparently invalid DA tells me to use more trustful domain while theres nothing wrong with this one just horrendous the site fell of theres ton of weird stuff and moderation isnt something breathtaking

Worst customer service I have ever encountered

DeviantArt has hands down the worst customer service I have ever encountered of any company on the Web And that is not an exaggeration If you submit a ticket you will be VERY VERY lucky if they ever respond If they do respond it will most likely be weeks or even months later Of six tickets I have submitted over the past 4 years I have gotten three responses Two of those responses came over three weeks after they were submitted One came two months later It s a completely despicable insult to DeviantArt s dedicated user base to even claim that they offer customer service and frankly I m not sure how much longer Wix which now owns DeviantArt can sustain such a large community without artists users leaving in droves for one of the many competitors emerging every month I am so angry about it I am on the verge of closing my account and I ve been an artist designer on the site for almost a decade with over 5 000 followers on DeviantArt It s a disaster I ve been trying to get a simple problem fixed with DA s incorrect stats on my subscriber base a bug that is depriving me of money every week but after 3 years of trying to get them to fix it zero I m fed up

not good

WAS once a decent site very dead now due to the atrocious new layout after being bought from another very trash site too All the originality and creativity from the original site has been stripped away by a very basic and ugly cluttered layout Utterly horrid decision on their layout which was heavily criticized from the start No more customization way too cluttered and all the art categories were removed Very glitchy too Utter garbage

Copyright infringements are glorified original art is banned

In short this is a piracy site run by the typical American we want your best your money We give a about ethics or morals as long as we profit Well known art paintings digital and real photographs and more by artists alife and dead are published by what at times seem to be bot-accounts to keep the site busy Copyright is claimed for everything be it outright copy and paste or some computer auto-generated pixel hell Again the site is American support is high-horsed arrogant and most of the time strictly dumb Yet they don t care about their own country s ruling about generative AI art Real artists - especially those starting out - STAY AWAY from sites like this You can only be as good as the neighbourhood you choose THIS is a SCAM community

The fetish art has gotten outta

The fetish art has gotten outta control These images are on the first page and usually featured Nsfw art is also rapid on the platform nowadays The suggested collections recommend inappropriate artwork Why do I keep having inflation next to my own Pokemon artwork which is PG It makes me anxious How does the algorithm determine it anyway Why can t people just mature it too Children can t consent to see it Why does 2021 just suck for the site It s like they ll never learn

Disastrous Customer Service

This is the most terrible customer service I ve ever encountered Whenever I ve created a ticket expressing a problem the response is always predictable and generic - it feels as if my issue is dismissed and ignored A guy named Nick on their team shouldn t even be in customer service His lack of professionalism is incredibly evident For those of you reading my experience I d advise you to do as the masses and proceed to a better option