I learned web design on deviant art
Sad to see it go this way
Comment on The Death of DeviantArt and the art-site shaped hole haunting the Internet -- Multi-hyphenate
pyrinix@kbin.melroy.org 3 days ago
They've committed themselves to AI art, that's how dead it is.
I remembered fond memories predating that period though. The chat room community was at once, very large. The chats still in fact exist, though, they've really tucked them away in a corner. Still have friends from there, still have seen so much talent come through there.
But you won't ever tell anymore what AI is and what AI isn't, because they've welcomed AI with open arms for a while. DeviantArt has truly backstabbed so many artists, without a care.
Oh and their logo is stupid as shit, looks more like an X than DA.
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
Mikina@programming.dev 3 days ago
I had no idea, and this hurts. I have a few, but fond, memories about DeviantArt when I had a short phase on highschool where I was drawing for a bit (which was more than 10 years ago). It didn’t last long, but DeviantArt was a large part of it.
Hearing they are commiting to AI art - THE platform for actual artists (at least it was, 10 years ago), who AI hurts the most, is insane. That’s pure betrayal. I hate this.
pyrinix@kbin.melroy.org 3 days ago
Yup. They have an AI Art Generator called 'Dream Up' and it does exactly what you think it does.
So you can just make an account now, not caring about actually drawing or rendering anything, but you can just generate art. It's crazy.
ech@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
It doesn’t generate art, it generates content.
Akasazh@lemmy.world 2 days ago
It degenerates art
mybuttnolie@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
my first pc was a vista laptop, i downloaded some awesome windows themes and cursors from deviantart. once i tried to replace the start menu orb, but the image file i replaced must’ve been the vista logo that comes up at boot. it didn’t boot anymore.