SRSLY.
EDIT: Yay for vagueness.
But yeah I think it's the end of my teather here at deviantART. I've been wanting to leave for a few months due to it's changing. Maybe i'm just getting old and not fitting into the site anymore? Or maybe deviantART staff just don't know how to handle the community anymore. Yeah that's probably it.
Anyway. As deviantART once was, my place to be and meant so much to me, i'm not sure my treasured daily deviations can be deleted. But the rest I will probably take down. Yes yes, i'm being one of those dramatic people! Well i'm not really. I can't stand it here anymore. I don't want to insult the staff, because y'know, there are far worse things going on in this world, and they haven't done anything
wrong persay, it's just they've aggrivated and frustrated a lot of their dedicated community members and artists. At these current times, I'm stressed, the world is very stressed, about money, the economy. DeviantART used to be my haven to get away from the 'real world' but now I find deviantART just adds to the madness. It used to be a community, but now, no matter what the staff say or tell you, I feel it isn't, and so do a lot of people.
I honestly used to get to pissed and irate when people complain about new deviantART changes, when they were creating the new pages, the new dAmn e.t.c - And I stuck by dA the whole time, because I treasured this place, and I would get annoyed with those who would complain. But now, I find I cannot stick up for their decisions anymore. Instead of a community, they now see this as a company.
I honestly understand that they need to make money, really I do. But who doesn't?
The
worst, absolute
worst thing you can do to a community, is do something to piss the entire community off then basically turn around and say 'deal with it'. Pfft. Good luck keeping your members, really.
I just think the advertisement and promoting has gone a little over the top, and they've gone a bit ahead of themselves. I feel bad, as they were probably excited to introduce the new features and what have you. But I think people need to understand that not everything works out to plan and that sometimes you do have to go back. The customer is always right

One thing I do find a little amusing, is that they have
so maybe people working for them, for free. They have a ton of adverts on the website. devwear. Subscriptions and god knows what else they do. I could be wrong, and some admins may post here and shout at me, to tell me how wrong I am blah blah (but we will never have real proof)...but I do honestly think they make a hella lot more money than they 'lose'.
For fuck sake. Why does everything have to be about money.
I pretty much live off no money. When I worked I never really wanted my pay, I never felt I deserved it, I hated taking my paycheque. I haven't worked for about 3-4 years. Money helps ofcourse it does. But there is SOOO much more to life. Like,
ART. dollaART sounds about right these days.
May aswell take of the keywords for google search 'art community', because that is now false advertising.
I'm sorry to any staff that i've upset, pissed off, or you've felt i've given wrong information - this isn't a personal attack to any specific staff member.
But this is how I feel, and how a lot of the
community people feel.
Instead of making money, at the end of the day I truly believe you are going to lose money.
It's just far too much.
deviantART, don't make me do this

I don't
really want to leave my watchers, and the people whom I watch.
But I just can't stand you anymore! BRING BACK THE COMMUNITY.

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