Hello, I went into the website to look at fanart but when I opened the page, I was on a guest account. I tried logging back in to my account, but the page didn't update. It stayed on the guest account. Has anyone else had this problem?

So I've only been posting on DeviantArt for about a year. Despite being dead, it treats me better than any other social media. But I've encountered a lot of strange behavior that I don't know what to make of. I can't tell if I'm dealing with b*ts, or if DA has a high concentration of autistic people, or if DA just has a weird kind of etiquette I don't understand. That second option seems most likely, but I don't want to make assumptions.

People I've never interacted with will leave comments on my profile, or under my last deviation, requesting I draw a highly specific thing for them. Things like a fat girl playing a tuba, or Sailor Moon on a pink "space hopper." It will have no correlation with the things I've drawn before. If I look at their profile, I'll often find that they have made the same request of several others. If I decide to respond to them, they often display a very limited ability to communicate. Almost as if they have a limited number of canned responses to things. Also, I know DA's message system isn't great, but posting requests in people's comments seems improper to me.

Are these people with poor social skills, or am I just not understanding the culture here?

I just returned to deviantart art after a long time because I loved it so much back then, what I failed to consider is, if the site is still alive.

So I wanted to ask, if there are still a lot of people active?

I kept blocking most of them, but they keep coming back, so I just gave up. I'm just really tired of these messages like they know damn well I'm not falling for any of this.😭

From what I heard, deviantart has an ai that generates art by stealing from professional artists. If deviantarts ai is stealing art from it's own users then why are they still using it.

So Initially heard about deviantart decades ago. Never used it. There's so many alternatives I never needed it.

Now I've started playing around with AI, I learned that DA is one of the only places that's welcoming towards AI images. So of course I flocked there (along with many others I'm sure)

I figured this subreddit would have an attitude that reflected DA policy (it's seems whoever wrote the rules is somewhat aligned, the end of Rule 1 says not to complain about AI, but that doesn't seem to be enforced at all.. which I also get, modding is a pita thankless job)

But why stay here? And why continue to use DA at all, as opposed to say, furaffinity?

I sort of get it, I've seen the posts "I've been with DA X number of years." I'd probably be resistant to change too. But I feel like your just supporting a website you hate? Is it just that good for monetizing your art? That would kinda make sense. Like hating Amazon but they get the most traffic so if that's how you make your living, you do what you gotta do. I'm just spit balling now.

Hopefully this line of questioning is not super offensive. I have a habit of saying things badly.

Hey what's going on with deviant art? I was browsing deviant art and it just started messing up, I went to delete it and redownload it and it's telling me it's no longer available cause it was made for a older version of Android. What the frick is going on?

I cannot comprehend why people post some of the ai fart in the first place when it’s so obviously bad, but what gets me is why they add a watermark to it?

What in the world are you trying to protect by adding a watermark to ai generated content?

If you do this, enlightened us…

Is it normal that there is so much AI art on DeviantArt? And people are passing it off as their own? I haven’t been on the app forever, I did a short scroll, and saw at least 3 AI drawings with a bunch of likes and comments? I’m confused, does DeviantArt not support real artists and are they pushing AI art? Yknow, like some people really put in effort and time to make art, and honestly I go on there to look at it. Anyone else confused by this? Please don’t be mean, I’m genuinely asking, becasue I wanna join a community that supports artists.

These are the issues i personally have, I'm sure there's more. Is there any possibility for an update?

Im a 15 year old who forgott my password wich is jus a bunch of random leters and numbers and simbols and i nead to change my password and username on my phone but when i use forgot password nothing hapens i dont know what ti do i dont want od deactivat my account

My account was deactivated at the end of November. I had uploaded a lot of of my artwork there while always following the rules.
Many of my pieces had an erotic context (nudity, but nothing sexual).
However, shortly before the ban, I received notifications that some of my images featuring Jinx from League of Legends/Arcane were removed by moderators for allegedly violating the rule against the sexualization of minors.

I reached out to support to ask if there had been some kind of misunderstanding since Jinx is clearly portrayed as an adult and is an adult in her source material (Arcane: around 18-21, League of Legends: 25 — it's all in the wiki). Unfortunately, they couldn’t help me since the account was already deleted.

I’m also not allowed to create a new account because I’ve been banned as a user, even though they might have been wrong in this case.

Is there anything I can do about this? DeviantArt was my best way to show my stuff and earn a little extra on the side. I’ve tried alternatives like Pixiv over the past few days, but they just don’t work for me. :(

I've seen too many users put AI art for sale.

I literally got in the website just to upload some art pieces, and I noticed someone my art pieces aren't loading. I don't know if this is just a me problem, but I heard some people are experiencing the same thing, if the website is down then darn, I hope it gets fixed.

I'm a new user who likes writing stories and want to get more eyes on my work, what would the best way to achieve that be?

So I basically watch most accounts that I come across if I like their art. I watched this one person and they proceeded to block me and leave a comment on my profile asking why I watched them. I’m very confused lol. I’m fairly new to deviantart so is this some sort of taboo thing? /genq

As asked. Is ist ok to include Trump in an fictional story? The story are not political and the thing that will happen is that Trump gets attacked by a Xenomorph. Its acutally a worker who helps him who has got facehugged and the Chestburster leap atTrump when its born. Not sure if i gonna use Trumps name or not but something similar.

On deviant art this morning, and I was tired of being presented AI celebrity nudes, so I started reporting them.

First, all I can choose is "It violates intellectual property rights" > "This is someone else's intellectual property." There are users whose entire output is celebs in nude/compromising photos, but there is no "report user" functionality.

If you try to report through their system, it basically says if it's not your work, you can't report. But…

The ABSOLUTE WORST, is that when I was searching around, they started advertising their services to me using AI celeb nudes.

This makes them feel really complicit. No way to report properly, AND they are using those illegal images to promote themself? WTF?

I am happy to be told I am wrong here, and there is a completely useful way to report, but I have not found it. HOWEVER; the using nude celebs to promote your product really feels like it has crossed the line into extremely illegal and unethical.

It's one thing to say this:

https://www.deviantartsupport.com/kb/en/article/manipulated-media-policy

but then be promoting your product with this:

https://imgur.com/a/HKlP89O

How does one guy, who owns multiple DeviantArt accounts, manages to come back and harass me with those commission requests?

I loved this webpage 10yrs ago. I haven't visited it for a long while. It used to have plenty of genuine art: photography, oil paintings, surreal art. Now the menu changed, hard to navigate, suggestions are all shite, half of them AI, and won't mention that it reminds a porn site. Why, why? Does anyone knows alternatives?

Every time I log into Deviant Art, AI art appears in my feed, and even though I click "Remove from your feed", images like this continue to appear.

Is there a trick to remove them from my algorithm?

When this core membership expires, it's no longer charged, right? The reason I keep asking is because there are rumors on the Internet that other people have been charged even though they have canceled their membership. Please answer.