April is just a cursed month for me, isn't it?
For those of you who don't already know, just before 9:00 AM PST on April 16th, 2025, my second Deviant Art account, TheOneHungryLurker was, just like its predecessor, black-bagged and sent to the work camp/shallow grave of indefinitely suspended by the NKVDA, with no prior warning or lesser penalty, even in spite of my increased mindfulness of their stodgy, inconsistent, capricious, and frequently hypocritically enforced content policies.
My the-size-of-the-former-twin-towers-of-the-World-Trade-Center-quotation-marks "crime?"
"Attempting to evade a ban."
Apparently, also previously unbeknownst to me, the NKVDA will purge any new account you make if a previous account of yours was banned, even if it was over litigious, bad-faith enforcement of policies that proved to be so unpopular that they were revised to no longer be a ban-hammer-catching "offense." Despite citing them in the notice sent to me, this "no re-entry" policy even insinuated, let alone mentioned nowhere in their Terms of Service or Etiquette Policy.
I didn't write this sooner due to being very busy are work (Friday and Saturday were back-to-back 12+ hour shifts) and waiting on the results of my appeal, but after a curt response from either the AI or NPC "Nick," straight up asked me to snitch on anyone else who may have made a rebound account, AFTER upholding my second BS ban (nice negotiation tactics there, you feckless fuckwit; maybe read The Art of The Deal sometime, assuming it doesn't burn you eyes like a vampire staring into the sun), I've been stone-walled by silence.
I don't know if I myself was snitched out by any of the lifeless, loser spurgs I've antagonized over the years as an Eobard Thawne levels of petty slight (though I have my suspicions...), or if I fell afoul of the soulless AI that the NKVDA left in charge of content moderation, but in either case, I'm fucking done with Deviant Art. They've been persecuting blueberry inflation artists for twenty fucking years; Ive been around long enough to remember when they first started deleting Johnny Swell's posted pages of The Bizarre Adventures of Berrygirl.
You have made me your enemy, Deviant Art. I won't even help you get a single click more. I was only ever on your dog-shit, increasingly degenerating site for the (mostly) very fine people, anyway, and I will now do my part to lead away as many of them as I can, free like like the poor sods in Plato's cave, that you may be reduced to as an inglorious, ignominious, pathetic state as Tumblr, assuming you don't go the way of Sheezy Art.
Like Pontius Pilate practicing hygiene before the pharisees, I wash my hands of thee. "Deviant" Art has only ever been "deviant" like Hazbin Hotel is only safe edgy (and headed by honorless curs).
So, my denizenship on Deviant Art is done, but my time in hopefully greener pastures has only just begun. Last Christmas, I opened up accounts on both Twitter and Archive Of Our Own, but due to cramming to try and finish Christmas Eve with Genevieve and restarting the ultimately futile relaunch on DA, followed by precessions of one thing leading to another, I never got around to posting anything there. However, I have now begun to upload all applicable works to those websites as well, and they will become new mainstays along with Fur Affinity, Pixiv, New Grounds, and Itaku that will receive new uploads whenever I have them to post.
So, if you'd like to help me rebuild my following again (and reduce Deviant Shart to Deviant Fart in The Wind), you can follow me there, too.
https://archiveofourown.org/users/TheHungryLurker
And finally, speaking of murder at the hands of ideological zealots and resurrections, I wish you all (had) a Happy Easter.
