DeviantArt Reviews 397

Wow. I used to be on DeviantArt a lot back in the day and recently visited the site again, and holy hell, has it gone downhill. No real relevant results show up when you do a search. Even the "highest rated" art is complete and utter crap. All the good artists are drowned out by 5 minute n00b doodles. And the worst is the explosion of adult graphic content. Every time I make a search for anything, I get random sexually explicit trash, bondage/violence and furries in between. It looks like the rules that used to allow decent nude art are now so loose that anything can slip through and even get labeled PG so the kiddies can get a good look too, but in reality it's all just full-blown porn. They just attempt to walk a fine line so they can get away with it as "art". What a load of digestive byproducts. I've never seen so much *insert expletive* explicit graphic content on this site before, it's like... all over the place. If you think a picture of a dick dripping is art, then.... I want out of this society. This trend seems to be spreading across FB, Twitter, and what have you, like a virus. The porn sick have taken over. And in this case apparently we can blame it on the platform being sold to morons with no standards. Soon there won't be a place without massive balloon tits, cuffs and collars, and brainless humping. What a damn pity. Bye, DeviantArt ;(..

Also, can I just say how annoying Trustpilot's buggy censorship is of words, considering this is a critique, not an endorsement.... Not to mention it didn't even censor some very common graphic words *facepalm*. It's near impossible to post this review.

I'm tired of the constant crap DeviantArt staff spew at me anytime I make a complaint about someone. The fact that they don't enjoy working a full day is extremely unacceptable and, to put it mildly, unprofessional! They claim to appreciate your membership in terms of money, rather than you as a person who registered an account to learn more about the website. Bullies, sexists, racists, anti-LGBTQ, trolls, and verbal abusers are free to wander on a website judged appropriate for children. And it's all because they don't like, as I previously stated, putting in long hours to keep the vulnerable members protected! Is that what you mean by a "five-star-website"? Do you honestly expect people to leave a fictitious five-star rating on this website just to keep Angelo Sotira, Scott Jarkoff, and Matthew Stephens from explaining why DeviantArt has been labelled a s***hole? Explain why people choose to leave rather than report the verbal abuse, bullying, sexual harassment, stalking, slandering, and death threats that hundreds of young and old members are subjected to.  They leave because nothing is done. No matter how many times you file a complaint about certain people, DeviantArt staff DO N'T CARE! They don't want to care about anybody, just the money. Then there are the following users who should be banned for breaking the rules: AggoThePure, AnimeCitizen, ArpenteReves, Bagelswag, BirdThatWhispers, Capt-Snowflake, Chain-Seesaw, Citrus-Chickadee, CubicApoc, Cutiefoxxo, CyberRobotnix, DumbledoreAskedCalm, Eluelar,  EyeballEarth, Fluvoxy, FuZzY-MuTaNt, Fulgur-Draconis, Hayaosensei, KaizenKitty, LimpSeatBelt, Metal-Drill68, Metal-Drill69, Pakaku, Phracker, Pirasenshi, Rathaloshunter16, ReijiTheWarlord2000, ReptillianSP2011, ScottaHemi, Shinyprowl, SilverBeastLaguz, SquishyFoxx ,ThatWasLeftHanded, The-Power-Driller, TheCunningCondor, TheDevilsTroll, TheRealInsignation, Warlord912, Wolflich, axris, blackbook668, djx214, niotabunny, olq-plo, phoenixleo and that isn't even the full list! But DeviantArt Staff protect them, because they make them money with their bull****!

Charged me membership fee even though I had cancelled it with them.

I've been a member of Deviantart for 15 years but that is going to very soon change. Since they sold to win so much has changed for the worse. Its a money site now, all they want is for you to sign up for their 'core' plan despite slashing many of the benefits and jacking up the price. Features that used to be for everyone are now only for paying members, and even then they put heavy restrictions on things. Most customization features are now gone. The site has gone completely downhill. It's not even worth it for the free profile, not since they started putting ads everywhere. Stay away, don't waste your money.

This site is full of nude photos, fetishes, you will rarely find good drawings... In short, this site has gone downhill. At that time, in 2014, deviantart was more or less normal, and now it's full of the wrong things.

This website is a bad website for professional artists. There's no quality control, meaning that something bad will get more views than professional-level art. You'll get a lot of porn, fetish art, low effort 'art', spam and even art theft. The new layout (Eclipse) copies Artstation's layout, and there's no way to turn it off.

The moderators are lazy and don't consider hiring more people. If you take art seriously, don't use DeviantArt. Try something like Artstation or Pixiv.

I'm an artist on Deviantart.com and have been for over a year now. Many of my followers have told me of art they had banned for no good reason. Many have pointed out that it seemed some religious zealot complained, or someone against gay art or violence of even imagined kind. DA is not worthy of monetization by any means. What they promote is NOT what do in practice. If you are an artist, pass you will not have to endure what others there are going through now. DA promoted itself as a haven for gay art and yet they have shown they hate gay art and gay artists. I have found a new art website which was founded by DA artists tired of the BS. Some of us have begun moving there, myself included.

Absolute awesomeness
The best art on the internet.
They ban toxic a**holes and it's a great thing.

this site is FULL of sexual fetishes with cartoon characters for everyone to see, since eclipse began the layout is so bad both in mobile and computer i had to stop using this crap website, the staff do nothing, there is accounts stealing art, harrasing other users, and it does nothing, they only care about their lil stupid events where u get a ugly gif in your page, most of the user base is: really sexual artists, fetish artists, and request beggers, do not use this site, its awful and the staff does nothing to fix it

Devianart is bad because they make dogs seem like perverts by ripping girls panties and pants off

This user you should avoid is Arura zone he makes gross art ruins series like

Tomb raider , korra , overwatch , fall out ,etc.

Never go there

I used DA since 2004 and it was a great place to meet other artists and just have fun posting art. I dont care about high quality or low quality art. it was a community. But then the layout changes started 3-4 years ago and I didn't it. They should go back to the old format/layout. I get that things have to change eventually to keep up with the times, but most of the older artists who used DA in the early 2000's till 2014ish have moved on to other platforms. Tumblr started out good also but it's lost many artist users as well. For me I prefer Instagram to post my art now. Bottom line i just miss the communication with other artists and forming connections through our art and fandoms like the old days. no one bothers to comment either these days.

Becoming a member of DeviantArt became one of the worst things I've ever done in my life.

Let us just say, DeviantArt was FAR different in 2007 than it is today

I could go all day with what is so wrong with the website - shady, uncaring, and abusive staff, toxic prejudicial bullies, some of whom pretend to stand for "justice and equality", parading under it as a shield to subjugate dissenters and the different, stalkers who falsely flag not your deviations or articles, but also spy on your other social media such as your Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, DIscord, LinkedIn, and try to shut them all down.

Worst of all, these "social justice" parasites will even target your own business(s) and their pages to get them shutdown, and sometimes harass anyone they know is working for you or your business. This especially the case with the fetish groups on the site, particularly Girls Wedgies. Apparently one of the moderators, TheFairytaler from the DeviantArt group claimed they had a feud that lead to division between their Discord comrades and the main DA group. Yet, despite this and while it is true that it was mainly from the Discord that they have coordinated attacks against me (and others), some of those same abusers are still in the DA group, and some of them are admins of that same group, indicating that moderator was not telling the entire truth. Apparently there are many lies of omission. The worst part is DeviantArt's own staff are VERY WELL aware of this and deliberately chooses to do nothing, or worse, condone and endorse their behavior.

Because of their continuously aggressive actions, I had to create an article defending myself against their extremely defamatory allegations against me just to get them to leave me alone. Members of Girls Wedgies claimed that I was an angry divorced man who abuses his wife, and sought to commit genocide against all women. One of them, Derrick better known as ArseneArts or MundaneArsonist lied that I pressured him to draw art "for a woman I was stalking". In my article, I also disclosed evidence proving the wedgiérs have a very clear history of false-flagging the social media of those they hate in order to silence them or "shut them up". It also revealed that for all the lies they made against me, it turns out THEY themselves are guilty of committing and endorsing sexual crimes, including bypassing laws in their local areas to sexually molest women. However by accident, I managed to unravel that there was an underage activity scandal happening in Girls Wedgies as well, which lead to some kind of civil war between their moderation. Yet despite this, they still engaged in underage art and predatory behavior, including loli content.

Considering DeviantArt has a history of and a very strict policy against underage content, with even a questionable policy against age-ramping in deviations, one would think they'd understand my article and actually side with it for the most part, and especially do something about the offenders in question, right? Instead they demonstrated just how little they truly care for human safety, let alone child safety, by silently rummaging through my St.ash. purging any and ALL of my evidence regarding the wedgiérs as well as two separate groups of scammers who have committed fraudulent crimes against me, and then they suspend me for 2 weeks. All without any warning or notice outside of being suspended for "invalid use of profile"! No prior notice or time to backup my evidence from the Stash, or that what I did was even against their rules (which I last I check actually was not initially). When posting my ticket about it, the admins demonstrated just how utterly brain-damaged they are in understanding or listening to my situation. and to worsen things, decided to suddenly update their policy immediately to prohibit users from making articles to defend themselves from defamation under the guise of "internet or journal drama"! They are scummy and pathetic!

Moral lesson of this story: Avoid that site and the fetish communities like the plague. Trust no one. Even those who claim to be on your side or care on that site are likely just trying to manipulate you and exploit your trust, only to feed information to the VERY SAME criminals behind your back.

NO ONE on DeviantArt can be trusted! DeviantArt is certainly not for children. It is not for teenagers. It is not even for adults. It is for no one but sociopathic and narcisistic, asylum-bred manchildren and womanchildren and creeps with a lust for underage.

If you value your sanity, reputation, dignity, the protect and preservation of your social media, and/or the sanctity of your business (whatever industry you work in), STAY AWAY FROM THIS FREAK-CIRCUS WEBSITE AT ALL COSTS!

Deviantart is a terrible art site. At this point if you are considering taking art seriously try art station. The majority users on the site don't care about quality in art. Low effort artwork gets more attention than professional like artwork. Deviantart isn't for serious artists anymore. The site is full of porn, fetish art, low effort artwork, drama, spam accounts, and trolls. I don't recommend anyone to use this site. The moderators are lazy and do not care about their users. My advice for artists looking to post your art online try pixiv, join art discords, tumblr, Twitter and sketchers united.

I used to like DeviantArt, I had put together a favourite page sometime ago that I intended to use with relevant permisions. However after an extended illness (years) I come back to find the site has changed completely. Gone is the simple to navigate site I knew and instead is something that find very difficult to use and I have tried. My favourite page is no more and although I found some stock images of the model I wanted pictures of and had featured a lot on my favourite page, most of her pictures that were on DeviantArt before are missing now.
To be honest nothing about the way the site is now seems as good as before, I don't even like the way it looks (I miss the green)!
It is sad that something that worked so well has been meddled with for no sensible reason. I always say: If it aint broke, don't fix it!
I will try to find a new platform to use, also I'll try asking the model directly if she would send me me the pictures I want for my project. From my point of view it seems like DeviantArt is probably finished. I was going to leave just one star but that seems a little too mean as clearly the site is working for some people.

“We live in a Society, where Honour is a distance memory.”

-Joker, the trailer to the Snyder Cut

Ok I am a user on this site. Why am I still on that site? Well I have a good friends on that site and I’m doing my best to avoid the drama. But I’m not going to sugar coat it this next part. The staff is the worst. I seen bad users who steal and harass good users, even the ones who call them out or criticize them. This site is like Gotham City without Batman, but replace the whole Gotham City police department with the police from the Simpsons.

You know that meme where that dog is in a burning room and the dog says. "This is fine." The dog is the Deviantart staff.

The staff refuses to accept that their own website died due to corporate greed and not listening to what their users want. I use it for a portfolio but I don't use it to socialize with other artists anymore, as most people's profiles are dead due to lack of interest. I actually don't have a problem with the new layout, but if they actually looked for their opinions of all artists instead of just overly popular ones, then they'd probably be as popular as what they used to be, they could easily be a replacement for Tumblr or Instagram if they worked harder at it and did some research.

Becoming a member here was one of the worst things I have ever done in my life. I first joined November 28th of 2020 and everything had went great up until March of this year. I made friends, I saw good art, made art etc. Even prior to March when things were still good, there were weird things, I saw bullies and someone even offered to send me nude images which of course I blocked that person, which is when I started getting suspicious. About March, the things that started to happen, were that I started to encounter more bullies and other things, it was also during this time where I started to encounter toxic fandoms and hatedoms, mainly of my favorite childhood shows. There were many things, but the most notable one was The Looney Tunes Show. I started to encounter its hatedom on that site almost 24/7 and on April 1st, I encountered a nostalgia blinded user named T5-Comix-Cartoonz(Salim Al Mumim) who drew hate art out of the show which some people liked. I also encountered a user named Fastsonicous who is an art thief and nostalgia blinded person who constantly rants on Mystery Incorporated and attacks the fans that like it, he is also a bully and harasses others, he even talked about me behind my back after drama me and him had that he initiated. Ive generally been bullied because about the hate art, there was this one user named DisneyEquestrian2012 and he agreed with the hate art and put a chainsaw next to the comment, I called them out due to how childish that was and they said “This show is not good and it will never be good so tick off”. For some reason, people on the site hate popular shows, are very opinionated and feel the need to express their thoughts rather than keeping them to themselves. I really don't know why the site is called DeviantArt, people don't even use the site for art, they use it as a social media site, talk about shows, make reviews, bully others etc. And when they do make art, its always cringe, porn or hate art. The worst part is that I saw some of this stuff was happening in 2011, which makes me think that this stuff was happening 2001-2010, which makes me ask “Was this ever a good site and for real artists”? The amount of drama on this site is also a big factor here and people constantly poke their noses where they don't belong like Fastsonicous. There were many times I wanted to deactivate but I hesitated which resulted in me staying. Heck, even the day I deactivated which was May 26th, I hesitated because I had friends and there was a sad emote saying “You wont be able to be in the DeviantArt community”. But then I thought about it. “Wait the DeviantArt community, isnt that the same community that”, destroyed my childhood, destroyed my personality, destroyed me as a person, destroyed my reputation, destroyed my entertainment cartoon life, turned me into a fanatical and obnoxious cartoon fan, almost destroyed my love of anime due to that, almost destroyed my dreams of wanting to voice in cartoons, caused me to know about The Looney Tunes Show's hatedom etc. A friend of mine made a thing for my friends to interact with me on Discord and YouTube, but only a few came and I assumed the others wouldn't come because it was weeks later so I just asked him to delete it. The site is also responsible for stress that I held from March all the way until late June. As of June 27th, Ive been happy again. But a bit of the stress is still in my head which really shows how bad my experience on the site was. Its really sad because I wanted to join this site since 2016 after seeing amazing Sonic renders. I don't recommend this site to anyone, there are bullies, nostalgia freaks, pedos, fetish fans, people who ignore the site's actual purpose, and a lot of drama between the good users and bad users. For the sake of your life, reputation and sanity, never join this site. The staff also does nothing as I once sent two reports ticket about someone and they said “Block them if you haven't” and they do nothing. Even some of my friends had nearly gotten me involved in drama and did some of the things that the bad users did. This site is also the reason I have refused to join places like Twitter. I have heard that Twitter is better, but I remember when I first joined DeviantArt, I expected nothing to go wrong and look what happened. I don't want the same thing happening again. In fact, some of the bad users like Salim Al Mumim are on Twitter. Plus I have seen toxicity on there too, but not to the same extent as DeviantArt. If you are considering finding people who use a site for art, try ArtStation. DeviantArt is where toxic fandoms and hatedoms reside the most. Toxic cartoon fans are scattered across it. I hope November 28th of this year leads me to something better. November 28th of 2020 led me to dooms that I never should've experienced or dealt with. Of course, leave it to 2020 to do that.

I wish I had been told that at least 80% of the website's members are mentally disabled adults. I'm not making a joke or a insult, this was my literal experience. I had no clue whatsoever. So be prepared and understand what you are signing up with. Do not be like me and have a experience similar to thinking you are going into a lecture hall and walk into a special education room. Again, I am not trying to insult anyone or making light of any health issues, it is just good to be aware of what you may want or may not want to do.

I cannot stress this enough. The website is TERRIBLE. And I’m not just speaking subjectively. Not only is the layout clunky and uncomfortable to use but the amount of drama and cyberbullying I’ve had to put up with are one of the reasons I hate the website.

I remember first joining DA in 2014 to follow my favorite artists and was my browser to visit then. As of now, there are no words to describe just how awful it is. And don’t get me started on the staff; a friend of mine was sexually harassed by a user. We reported all of his comments but staff did literally nothing about it and the abuser went unpunished.

One time I was accused of art theft simply because I drew a character in a similar pose as another piece which I was not aware of. The accusers even made an entire call out journal in hopes of getting me reported. Nobody owns a pose, that’s ridiculous! Just a site littered with cyber bullies and cancel culture. For the sake of your sanity, do not join this website.

New Layout is so bad and clunky and nothing is in the normal place the files and folders don't help because u cant tell what you clicking on and finding anything is a chore. Its all just so bad.
should have kept classic