DeviantArt Reviews 397

Please remove AI “art” generator you bitchy company

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.

The terrible website is awful-you can't using the website version on mobilephones at all.

I have been emailing Deviant Art on their help email address and their account recovery email address for months now. I'm still await a response..

I'm hoping in that time that the customer support team have been trained to fully, especially with account recovery, as I do not see deviant art being a web host to artists much longer, given how poor the reviews had been consistantly for years now. Deviant Art's existence depends heavily on having genuine artists using their website in a satisfied manner. This should be the priority.

Would also be very useful to provide a ticket number to such email enquiries.

Do not send them a photo of your ID - this is rectless for them to even ask of a website user and even though they would be held liable for what happens to it, it's never something to be asked for via email especially by people one has never met.

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.

A week ago, I joined DeviantArt and created an account. As an SEO specialist with over 15 years of experience, I chose the username "seospecialist" for my account. I also uploaded some pictures that I had created for websites. However, after a few days, I received an email from DeviantArt informing me that my account had been suspended. The administrator's comment simply said "spammer." I'm genuinely confused about why they took this action against me, and I find their decision disrespectful and lacking in decency. It's important for them to learn to respect their users and make better decisions regarding their accounts. I feel like they are not treating me as a human being. It's not my fault that they have a lot of spammers on their website, but it becomes my problem when they treat me poorly.

After many years of being member at dA, I've quit more than 4 years ago for good after one disaster layout after another. Not to mention, the owner and the other admins doesn't give a crap about anything and on top of that, they're outright enabling cyberbullying and allowing grotesque pornography and way too many ppl should had been banned forever. Also let's not even mention ai, something that many artists and designers were against it from day one.

But really though, Deviantart should have had their website completely shut down for a long time ago. Ut no longer has purpose. Most serious artists has left this website for years.

Deviantart is a nice site, nice look, nice customization, nice UI. There are a lot of nice artists on deviantart and it's a pretty easy place to begin your art career. Core is really expensive though. But there is a lot of disgusting fetishes on deviantart, and there's a lot of pornographic content on it too. It has really big advantages, like how easy it is to start and account on deviantart and get watchers, but it has very big disadvantages too, like the amount of pornographic content there.

I think deviantart shouldn't allow pornographic content on its site but its actually encouraged it, with the release of their ''private collections'' feature. It's quite a disgusting place and a cesspit for fetishes. But....If you stay away from all of that and set your settings to standard or safe mode, deviantart becomes a pretty nice place. So my advice is that if you start an account on deviantart, stay away from the cesspit of fetishes and pornographic material on the website and do not associate yourself with those things. Deviantart is a nice place if you aren't associated with those stuff and there are a lot of nice art works on deviantart. You should definitely check it out but just be cautious. Keep your settings on standard or safe, never on mature.

Since my review in 2021, things have gotten worse for DeviantART. From NFTs and AI "Art" to users that are blatantly grooming minors in the open via "Slice-Of-Life" Diaper Fetish RPs, Request Spammers and Art Trade Scammers, the site has become motivated by greed now.

Protection from NFTs? Only if you have Core Membership permanently

AI "Art"? Turn a blind eye to the possibility of AI generated Child Porn

Grooming Minors out in the open? Excuses as varied as "I HAVE AUTISM", "I'M TEACHING KIDS HOW TO CARE FOR A DISABLED PERSON" and "RPS ARE EDUCATIONAL". Even if it's a Fetish RP, the same excuses are always used to excuse the fact certain users *CoughClubCough* are using their RPs to groom minors (This is coming from someone who is autistic, and who never used her autism as an excuse)

Request Spammers? I encountered one last August, and they spammed another user's Journal with requests by using Sockpuppet accounts

Art Trade Scammers? As long as money isn't used, then it's fine. Same person as the Request Spammer

Another thing: Unless you have Core, the new features the site implements are only for the benefit of the 1% of users. Watchers Only Galleries, Premium Galleries, Llama Farms, Adopt Sales and Profile decorations are Core Only features, and at least half with the Pro are AI "artists" who charge $2000 per Premium Gallery for generated "art", and $5000 for a Premium Gallery consisting of AI generated "literature".

I was a user on DA for five years it was on this site that I first started writing fan fiction which gave me the confidence to write my own works I feel what killed this site wasn't just the fact that the owners became greedy but also they allowed trolls to attack other users in January of this year my account was closed down due to trolls currently beside focusing on building my following up with my writing I am also looking for another site like DA. This site is infested with trolls the admins are useless and will do nothing

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.

Trash pit cesspool for people who glorify blatant mass-scale plagiarism and hate artists. They're not on artists' side, they're incredibly greedy.

If they wanted more activity on their site, they should've spent money on making it not janky and broken for once, instead of making a glorified plagiarism algorithm while stabbing the backs of their countless users.

This is just a pornography site masquerading as an amateur art site. As a serious artist it is degrading to share my work on a site where weirdos go to masturbate. The constant pushing for meaningless subscriptions is relentless. Just avoid this site

I'm a beginner at this point and I found the community to be really engaging. This is one place that is packed with tutorials, inspirations and even brushes and other resources. Nice place to showcase your work.

I used deviant art 7 years ago and it was a such good design sharing website. At this time it was a free website with so many contents. Now, everything is about money and subscriptions. But even with the core subscription, it's very bad. Very bad.
I guess the creators sold the website and now, the new owners want to make money with.
Let's say it is dead.
RIP Deviant Art. I will move for a better design sharing website.

These people claim that they are open to all art. I've had an account with them for about a month. I've posted some art work and the next day I get a notice that it was a violation to their "sexual terms and service". it's my 3d character clothed posing that's it. after reading through the terms several times I see nothing that violates the terms and service. after trying to contact and ask them if it can be pointed out, I get no response, and the only response I did get was a bot. now its at the point where they are making excuses and calling a "etiquette policy" again reading through it it has nothing to do with what's in my photo, there is clearly worse things on that site than what I posted and that stuff has not been taken down. I'm currently looking into new sites that are modern and supportive being a paying customer for that account I should NOT have to fight to keep my art work up. whoever runs this site needs to give it up to someone who knows what they are doing.

very cool, i use it to post AI art and it is good. it has alot of features and though there are SOME NSFW and Pornography on there, it is not enough to ruin it.

No matter what I do, even by pressing "see less like this," my homepage is flooded with NSFW drawings and even images that are....revealing. It's disgusting. They just came to my homepage for no reason at all.

My account on this site is probably my oldest active online account - I made it all the way back when I was a teenager. Sadly, it has gone downhill. Since eclipse began the site has become a mess and has lost features I enjoyed like the random deviation button and searchable favorites. The interface is so confusing now that watching people is pointless to me as I can't figure out how to actually see my feed anymore. They also put a limit of how many people you can block which sucks when the site has a very large amount of hate propaganda, rape porn, torture porn, child fetishization, etc that I don't want to have to see while browsing. Apparently they recently got in hot water for letting AI software steal people's art as well.