I joined deviantart in 2008 where back then, Deviantart is much better than today one(even when I was more immature person(whose drawing skills aren't as good as my current self) back then) from old deviantart has good and supportive community, among others At the time of myself got harassed by hungarian (probable)Kiwifarms-using Rationalwiki user for my fan ideas slapping IRL conspiracy theories into massive multifandom crossover, Deviantart got bought by Wix(where this buyout did reinforces *Dead internet theory* not only Wix is also AI company) where it's engine are too shallow for classic Deviantart so eclipse make deviantart worst website ever Not to mention Fill-in memes(in good artsites, this is undeniably more of a copyright infringement than fanarts that drawn from scratch, unless using pictures that users drawn from scratch), hate arts, rampant Cyberbullying, and Spambots outnumber living users that active in deviantart currently did make deviantart goes to hell don't get me wrong, DeviantArt(back when it's good) did make me draw better, and I got bunch of online friends from this site, even when fair amount of them did left deviantart for better or worse
Old DeviantArt had its own unique charm.
I joined deviantart in 2008 where back then, Deviantart is much better than today one(even when I was more immature person(whose drawing skills aren't as good as my current self) back then) from old deviantart has good and supportive community, among others
At the time of myself got harassed by hungarian (probable)Kiwifarms-using Rationalwiki user for my fan ideas slapping IRL conspiracy theories into massive multifandom crossover, Deviantart got bought by Wix(where this buyout did reinforces *Dead internet theory* not only Wix is also AI company) where it's engine are too shallow for classic Deviantart so eclipse make deviantart worst website ever
Not to mention Fill-in memes(in good artsites, this is undeniably more of a copyright infringement than fanarts that drawn from scratch, unless using pictures that users drawn from scratch), hate arts, rampant Cyberbullying, and Spambots outnumber living users that active in deviantart currently did make deviantart goes to hell
don't get me wrong, DeviantArt(back when it's good) did make me draw better, and I got bunch of online friends from this site, even when fair amount of them did left deviantart for better or worse