After many years of being member at dA 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.

I joined back in early 2000s due to… I joined back in early 2000s due to illness I was inactive for few years, I logged back in a few days ago and here are my observations. 1: its full of potentially illegal porn or underage anime girls and illegal Ai porn including beastie and furies. there are people who upload deep fakes of celebrities also 2:the DA forums are full of trolls and cyber bullies. when I returned the first thing I was greeted by was some creepy artist : Bartales that posts nothing but creepy images of children. 3:when you report images of minors DA staff ask you for proof as in they want you to prove that the artists uploaded minors before they will do anything which is wrong on so many levels. Avoid like the plague unless you are rolf harriss and if thats the case you are sick.

0/5 as an art site, 1/5 as a porn site. I quit DA a couple of years ago after being a member for 11 years, in hopes of returning when they sort out their problems. Unfortunately the site has become even worse in this period. Problem 1: PEDOPHILES. On a few occasions, AI-created nudes of children or outright child porn have appeared on my home screen. The moderators are slow to respond to reports so each time I've also made a report via cybertipline.org. Despite that, the problem persists. Moreover, the site is absolutely crowded with sick individuals who post dirty comments and engage in disgusting public conversations under any images of children no matter how innocent the content itself. Usually these people only favorite two types of content: pornographic or erotic photos and all types of images of young kids. I've taken this issue up with DA via reports, but each time they've failed to react in any proper manner. The site should be used as a 'gold mine' by law enforcement! Problem 2: PORN. Although they claim that porn has no place on DA, they host thousands of hardcore pornographic files at any given moment. In a few of the cases, the porn images are already reviewed by staff and cannot be reported again. They're also very inefficient at blocking porn uploaders for good, as often the exact same obscene images crop up by tens of different accounts, which takes me to the third issue. Problem 3: SPAM. The site appears to have no filters in place to tackle spam automatically, allowing users to spread all kinds of suspicious and harmful links with no restrictions whatsoever. This is of course taken advantage of by crooks on a massive scale. Reporting an account has little effect because by the time it gets taken down, multiple clone accounts spreading the same links are already created, kind of like beheading a hydra. Problem 4: STOLEN CONTENT. This problem is gargantuan on DA. There are probably millions upon millions of images stolen from around the web on that site, with some pirate accounts boasting thousands of stolen images. Pointing this fact out to the staff via reporting the content has no effect at all. To test it, I once reported about 50 gifs by an account that has uploaded 8,2K snippets from random porn videos over a period of 10 years, boasting 12K followers on their account. I provided each report with the explanation that the account only uploads pirated content. Not only did the account remain active with no restrictions, the exact same reported images were also kept untouched. Problem 5: INEQUAL RULES. The staff appears to turn a blind eye to the rule violations of paid Pro/Core accounts, allowing them to upload unacceptable content even when reported. On paper, a paid account doesn't have these privileges, but as ineffective as the reports are on DA, I've found that reports against paid accounts are even more so. I'm not even going to discuss the rest of the problems in detail, like the absolute lack of quality control and a tolerance for the so called 'barely legal' anime drawings. DeviantArt clearly doesn't give a crap about art anymore which is a shame because it was a great safe platform in my developing years as a young artist. I'm sad to say that I would not recommend the site to anyone anymore. Instead, I would suggest that all parents block this sorry mess of a website on the computer of their children to keep them safe from the lurking creeps and criminals who have found a welcoming home on DA.

Greedy for money, useless membership, stupid ToS Greedy for money, removes pretty much all mature content. Has insanely stupid ToS regarding nudity and intercourse. Core membership is useless, and why would anyone buy one piece of art for $5? People still upload ripped content (especially real person photoshoots) Favorites can't be set to private, even if you remove the widget from your page people still can access it with the typical /favorites link

deviantart staff are very scummy corrupt people DA staff literally scam and steal people's money I was one of the victims they would steal your cards, private information, anything to make a dime then ban you, they love stealing your information and refuse to say anything, its utterly a scummy and illegal tactic they've been doing for years, and I'm surprised no one has filed a lawsuit against the site and company behind it.