I’ve been around these woods since long…
I’ve been around these woods since long before the $37M Wix era—back when "Deviant Police" were breathing humans you could actually argue with, and you could turn a favorite photo into a physical calendar or a sturdy coffee mug. I still have the mugs and calendars featuring my beautiful wife to prove it.Lately, I’ve traded the old-school darkroom for the digital frontier of AI-generated art and technical upscaling. But while the tools have changed, the spirit hasn't. I’m still a fan of cinematic drama, vintage aesthetics, and calling out corporate absurdity when I see it.If you’ve ever been "Nicked" by a bot or missed the days when a critique came from a person instead of an algorithm, this is for you.I have been on Deviant for over 13 years and I have seen the changes. Some forever not for better, as John sang, but the AI Bots with a lack of Human interaction in the submissions process are ruining this site for me. An image I sent to customer service of two images side by side; the images are exactly the same except one has text and the other does not, the image with the text was blocked, yet the image with out the text was fine. But when I brought this obvious error to DA's attention, the response from Nick is a copy n paste response that this is final and there will be no further review. Nick ryhmes,,,,, with everything you need it to (wink, wink) You obviously didn't bother to even look at the damn image! Plus, when you set up your loaded images to sell as either Premium or Exclusive, people just go into your Shop and take them for FREE! And if you load images into your Subscription Tier, it also loads into your Feature gallery, even though you left it UNchecked! The DA instructions to prevent this says to click on the Who Can See This? button and click, Only Subscribers, but there is no such button that I can see. If it is there, it is way to hard to find. When I need help on DA, I go to Gemini because it is way to hard to get a human contact through DA. I have told them about that years ago, saying they need an easy way to contact them, and they always respond with instructions on what I have to do, instead of hearing my point.I'm here for the art, the technical "glitching," and the occasional reminder that behind the prompts, there’s still a guy with a guitar and a memory of how things used to be.
Kenny Perschau
trash website
trash website, they remove your page after months of work with no warning and some bullshit generic bot messaging, you cant talk to a human
Jeffrey Trexler
I saw willies
I thought the ad said it had free robux :(
Fortitude Productions
I have been falsely accused of a rule…
I have been falsely accused of a rule violation of underage sexual content based on a false report. I have the evidence proving my innocence of the rule violation (I sent them an affidavit, evidence from AnimeGenius, and evidence of somebody bragging they will false report me) but so far, my account has not been reinstated, and I have asked for my account DATA as I have months and months of hard work on my DeviantArt account I may never get back. I filed a complaint with the BBB and written blog articles about this problem. DeviantArt bans people over false reports without actually reviewing over the evidence. I sent them proof, evidence. My character has a disclaimer statement saying my character is an 100 year old angel girl nudist character. She clearly is an adult character. I have evidence I asked AI to generate "adult" character images, not minors. I didn't violate their rules because the accusation is meritless. I been banned from their platform due to a false claim against me.
Brianna Hill
They are Robbers
They are Robbers. Just Robbers. They stole me nearly 300$. They canceled my account. Which had a value of 300$.Just Robbers
Sebastian Theurich
I can't even sign in
Access to this page has been denied because we believe you are using automation tools to browse the website.-- Is that the point of using a browser
UserOfflineReviewer
Expulsion from deviatArt!
I was a victim to deviatArt on 12/1/25, when the website expelled me, due to my "erotic" artworks on underage/minors, which they were not!After nearly eighteen years, that website threw me under the bus and painted their heart black, w/ all these rules!
cubanangel
This website is absolute trash
This website is absolute trash. Some sellers are just stealing art and selling it, showing zero respect for the original creators' hard work. They're just money-hungry and disgusting. The platform doesn't even care—they just let them keep profiting from it.
瑋瑋
every time i visit it i get bombarded…
every time i visit it i get bombarded by h*nt*i and p*rn which is something i find annoying but it is probably my brother's account but i sometimes see stuff i wish i just hadn't seen
Tobias ter Brugge
A 'monthly' subscription that charges…
A 'monthly' subscription that charges renewal 10 days in advance, otherwise making me immediately lose access to what I paid for if I decide to cancel automatic renewal: if this isn't a joke I don't know what is
Icen Knight
An actual nightmare
Oh man, where do I even begin? This website is absolute hell. It's filled with LITERAL predators and fetish artists that ruin any fictional character that exists for 0.1 seconds. For some reason, fetish artists get protected and treated like toddlers for everything they do, even if that means drawing a young character in the most disgusting way possible and somehow not get called out for it. Did I mention the comments? Every comment I see on something bad, the average comment is always, "Hot!" as if these people have never seen a female before. Every comment will always be about compliment the art, rather than calling it out. Not only is that bad, DA is constantly spammed with AI. If you were to confort a fetish artist for drawing something disturbing, you'll get attacked by freaks saying that your wrong, even though what they're doing is wrong. I really don't know why, but DA users extremely obsessed with pregnant women and other things that involve fatness. I highly doubt there's any normal people on this website, because if they're is, the chance of finding a normal artist would be the same chance as winning a lottery. Lots of the people on this website are stupid as hell, and apparently common sense doesn't exist on here. And another thing, who the hell let their children on this website???? I'm not joking when I say that kids shouldn't be on this website, they really shouldn't. There's so many dumb kibs on this website that they even got influenced by these fetish freaks and started being apart of it. I'll never forget that day when I confroted a nine year old for drawing a character with a giant gluteus maximus and called me slurs over it. This is truly the golden age of our generation! I know cyberbulling is a bad thing and that nobody deserves it, but these people on DA clearly deserve to be made fun of. I know there's NSFW artists out there that do these kind of things too, but I mostly have beef with the fetish artists. I believe that not only does fetish artist on this platform deserve to be harassed and called out for their disgusting actions, but publicly executed and embrace the absolute worst for their lives. These hypocrites are the reason why art should not exist.
Drake Spawn
Horrible SUPPORT
Horrible SUPPORT. Wrote them email already two WEEKS ago, because I lost access to my profile and need help. Meanwhile my subscriptions are taking money, but I cant do anything. I dont know if they will ever reply to me. Its really BAD!
Tomáš Vorel
A good platform if you want to buy arts…
A good platform if you want to buy arts and support artists. However there are a lot of AI generated content and sometimes people don't point about using AI in their works.
Duke Savage
Smut, Creeps, Subscription BS
There is way too much crap on the platform with AI Slop, Unnecessary Sexual Content, and low quality content. Also selling your art on DeviantArt is a waste of time due to their really obnoxious subscription preventing people like me who are poor from selling their art.
Matthew
absolute innapropriate expirence
i just started deviantart pretty recently however upon searching 1-2 pages of content, it gets filled with ai and horrendously disturbing content that is vastly innapropriate for the people who see them, and this website is heavily unhinged and has almost no moderation behind it, dont trust this platform, and its fully filled up with weirdos making potentionally sensitive content.
Samudalm
Has its problems, but my experience is good
Been active there as a creator for over a year now, and I can say mostly good things from my experience, though there are definitely issues.The site is fairly easy to use (both as a user and creator) and easy to get started there and develop an audience. Mature content rules are much less dumb and hypocritical than on most platforms these days - it feels like one of the last remaining platforms that understands there are things in between "SFW" and "porn" (with a clear Mature category, which exists for a reason). Decent tools to find what you want as a viewer or be found as a creator.The biggest issue currently is that AI "art" should be separated by a much thicker line (you can mostly filter it out, but while browsing suggestions etc. you often run into it), and the rules definitely feel unclear at times - I have seen adult creators complain that some of their not-so-explicit work got taken down, while there's definitely stuff on DA that's hard to call by other name than porn that stays without problems. I still prefer this over the pearl-clutching and corporate appeasement everywhere else, but there is a lot to improve here.Also, what made me write this review - I mistakenly had membership renewal enabled and it was refunded without much hassle when I asked for it. I expected way worse with how greedy platforms are these days, so that's a huge plus. (Though here another caveat: the support usually takes a couple of days to respond, they are not very fast.)So unless something suddenly changes, I think the 1-star reviews are far too severe, and I think "got a refund when I asked for it" is a pretty good test of user-friendliness. Far from perfect, but not at all bad imo.
Vincent
i tried to get help with my account but…
i tried to get help with my account but they are not a answering all i wanted to know was why i couldnt buy adoptables all of sudden and there was no offical notice as to why and they are a horrible company now
cool guy
Avoid
Avoid. Thry never cared about nudity before on my profile page pr picture or gallery but all kf a sudden they suspended and deleted my whole account with zero warning. Which os ridiculous especially as I stated on my profile page that this os temporary and will delete literally tomorrow 30th Nov or early December myself. They had no right to delete my entire account and gallery without permission and no warning first. For example, delete any photos on your profile page etc. They must deleted the entire thing especially ehen I was getting lots of views snd watchers, it's pathetic snd disgusting. I will avoid this BS from now on. It's unprofessional, unpredictable and untrustworthy.
HMHK
DeviantArt has Gone to Hell Since the Wix Buyout
DeviantArt has basically gone to hell ever since Wix bought them. That's really sad because it used to be a great site. But now days? Literature is unreadable because of site design changes, groups are impossible to find or browse, most customization features are gone, notifications don't work correctly anymore, the chat feature doesn't work right, and the new image search feature is basically completely broken. To make matters worse? Customer support is completely unresponsive to tickets.Needless to say, I will NOT be renewing my DeviantArt subscription. Nor will I ever buy any other product from Wix.
SwiftHorse
Absolute cinema
"Forgot password""Reset password""Check email"(Nothing)(Repeat)"You are locked out of the account"
Yeah
