#artists on deviant art

[morbid-romance]

[Transi by Bathoriya- DeviantArt]

[thedailyplatypics]

ARTISTS, STOP POSTING TO DEVIANT ART

(Gen Ai/BDS)

Learned today that DeviantArt is owned by Wix, an Israeli company listed under boycott by the BDS Palestinian human rights organization.

Under Wix, who acquired DeviantArt in 2017, DV has been pushing Israeli occupation propaganda and allowing Generative Ai to completely takeover the platform and be sold on it.

It’s clear that under Wix, DeviantArt DOES NOT CARE whatsoever about the art or the artists it was originally created to cater towards. It only cares for profit.

Even if you are not well-versed on the current politics surrounding the Israeli Occupation and the erasure of Palestine for some reason, everyone can agree that Wix has changed DeviantArt for the worse and the best case scenario is that they sell it to someone who actually cares for art, not profit.

I absolutely adore to death so much of the art there, but for now I will stop posting my art there and I suggest that other artists do the same. They DO NOT DESERVE YOUR ART.

Please transition towards using alternatives like Tumblr, Insta, Twitter, and Newgrounds. Newgrounds especially is the best alternative to DeviantArt. Please suggest other alternatives as well.

[silna-pdf]

I have no new art today, so heres Connor portraits from last month. Love him, as usual

[slobber-teeth]

SNIPER TF2 TEETH‼️‼️

something like this, right??

[kotori-mochi]

Another good reason to leave Deviant art.

Besides them making it clear that A/I generated images are allowed on an ARTIST PORTFOLIO SITE. They are now straight up promoting it and using it for profit.

We can see this in their new post on twitter

How they gain profit from this is as shown in their video ( Link ). They talk about subscriptions and how if you join as one of their sellers. You too can make thousands with stolen work. Also note they do get a percentage of the profit the seller makes.

So if you need any reason to delete your account on DA, here another reason too.

I deleted mine about 2 years ago. The moment they decided to make their own A/I generator, I was out.

Alternatives?

Inkblot art: they don't allow any A/I generated images.

Thats the only site I can think of at this time but other things you can do is join an art discords that are pro human artist.

Or post your work on your social media, make sure to glaze them ( glaze is a program that will make your art work, photos, just images in general, hard to replicate in an A/I generator) and make a site for your art portfolio.

[triaelf9]

EW okay so some rando gave me a diamond badge (no one I know, looks like someone using up all their fragments randomly) which what even is that and it gave me a free month of core membership & THIS dropped into my inbox and what the FUCK

Why the HELL would I want THAT GARBAGE

So anyway, glad I canceled my subscription back when things started going south and stopped uploading there b/c like this is what your dollars go to, you pay to use their art theft machine. COOL.

DisGUSTING.

[curiositysavesthecat]

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[kyl3dawolf]

9 11 by hanamio-chan, 2009

[thirtythreedeer]

redraw 2010 -> 2023

[sincerely-sam]

Random stamp dump!!

[eyelessdraws]

being a clinically depressed 10 year old on the internet in 2007 (nov 2023)

[lokorum]

commission of beautiful atlas that belongs to @gayonwords and i had a lucky opportunity to draw!! ฅ^•ﻌ•^ฅ  

[lemon-rats]

I made this sketch that’s a little messier than usual

But it’s Gavin(Redacted) and Freelancer so I think I can let my messiness slide

[slobber-teeth]

i can do it to you gently, i can do it with an animal’s grace

[horrorlocke]

World of darkness sketch dump <3

[vyrtuosoart]

Did a lot of remastering of old pieces so now I'll be actually actively posting

Guess who learned that scanning and editing art was a thing