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The Death of DeviantArt and the art-site shaped hole haunting the Internet -- Multi-hyphenate (torrent-empress.leaflet.pub)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 21 points 10 months ago (4 children)

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.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months 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.

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