ryan b.

DeviantART was a great website now in decline. DeviantART on the surface looks like a normal website like YouTube for artists. But actually it's a horrible porn site filled with fetishes and child groomers. The site does little to nothing to stop it's lurved users and their strange obsessions. This would never be a problem but DA is a 13+ website. Where people think mature filters are somehow censorship. Not kid friendly. So if you think seeing furry $#*!s of Sonic the hedgehog is ok be my guest.

DeviantART is home to toxic trolls, crybullies, and was full of far right/neo-fascists until DA realized it's a private website and hate speech is against the rules. But with that being said you will never get reported for having shown a picture of a swastika or Hitler. Edgy 16 year old girls run the site like they are principle.

DA has gotten worse. Modern DA has the worst interface ever. UI designers. If you are reading this. We don't want OUR websites to app friendly. DA has axed soo many features. Why oh why can't I search my favorites? They completely deaded the website. Made it very spam filled. I cannot reply to a comment because it takes forever to find it under the mounds of coomer spam of favebot accounts. If you like instagram this interface is perfect for you.

The paywall is so dense on DeviantART since Wix.com bought it. I have to pay to change my name. Sounds reasonable. But now? I have to pay just to see stats? HMMM?! Nowadays you can make a fave folder and it privates it from people seeing it. You must pay for it. It tried pitching this. We tried pitching this so many times and yet DA would never cave in for some reason.

Beyond that, if one can't get money you can always do points commissions. A fairly useless crypto-currency that no one wants. Users can perform art trades or requests. But watch out for scammers.

Lately, DA has been filled with AI art by people with no talent. Has even implemented an AI art generator when people PROTESTED profusely! We said no and they didn't listen.

Thinking about talking to the mods for help? Thinking again. They just have an FAQ list. No one is there to help you. This site isn't run by humans. No tickets or nothing.

Is it better than Pixiv? No. Is it better than Furaffinity? Absolutely. Now go post your fugly Prisma colored pencil drawing of Goku X Spiderman you dork!

I joined FA when I was 15 and I thought it was good, in hopes I was going to meat my friend there, but no! It turned out to be a massive huge piece of crap.

FurAffinity is so $#*!ty and old. It wants to be DeviantART but it can't. It runs like it's 1997. So many crashes when I upload art. It won't take high res art. And if you want to decal your page you better understand HTML because it's just too hard.

-Community-
Well as you know. They are furries. So it's either a hit or miss. Mostly miss because these people are just cringeworthy in everyway. They tell you everything about there lives and must have to spam there horrible fetishes everywhere. It's not a safe place for kids. If you kid isn't easily influenced then he may go on. There is so much porn and gay furries. It's truly terrifying. You wonder what got into these people or what there mental issues are to make them be like this. If you are anti social online, you better watch out for this site.
Such a toxic place. It makes 4chan look like heaven.

If you're into furry art there are many venues that you'll like.

Final verdict: It's a lot to take in. So i'd rather stick with DA. IMVU bought FurAffinity for $50,000. Must of been easy for them because that sites cheap as hell.