TheHungryLurker 2025-04-21 11:57:31

So, first of all, I did attempt to appeal the ban of the old account, which was banned over an overreach of their own policies that proved to be so unpopular that they revised them in between my first account's banning and the opening of my second. Second, I wasn't "hoping I didn't get caught,' because I didn't even know rejoining was a "crime" one could be purged over, which Is why I made no attempt to conceal who I am. Third, I didn't "brute force" my way back on, because I waited over eight months before I opened my new account, AND had most of my art reposted in a "teaser only" thumbnail if I thought it might even remotely piss off the NKVDA. If anything, my only "crime" was being too honest and trusting, foolishly believing acting in good faith would be respected and reciprocated.

Deviant Art is such a ramshackle abomination of stitched-together necrotic body parts that I'm surprised it's even still functioning at all, especially if it's as susceptible as you say to a sock drawer raid, like when 4Chan closed the pools in Habbo Hotel. And Hell, if even 4Chan can get hacked, and for the foreseeable if not indefinite future, rendered completely defunct, then Deviant Art -- a site filled with such incorrigibly retarded code monkeys that its Chat feature was in Beta for FOUR FUCKING YEARS and yet they STILL never got it to function properly -- then the whole site could probably collapse by the malignant codebase equivalent of a stiff breeze.

But why go back to that cesspit at all? A fair question, with a simple answer; the people.

Despite as dog shit and dysfunctional as Deviant Art's despotic kakistocracy undeniably is, for some baffling reason, it still remains the single largest website dedicated solely to hosting art in the world (excluding Twitter, since it's primary purpose isn't art posting), and even with the drastic reductions in discourse compared to its hay-day (before Twitter brainrot took over), still arguably remains the highest for engagement, if you can cultivate a meta of open discussion around your content. In spite of the deluges of dross posted to DA on a daily basis, there are still a lot of very talented artists and writers with both beautiful and scrupulously salacious works that I regret not setting aside the proper time to bestow upon them the praise they deserved. I met a lot of great and creatively-minded people who were and are both an inspiration for me and who I was an inspiration for, some of which have even become good friends. I had shockingly deep, personal, and profound private conversations that you wouldn't have even thought possible from people who's accounts are mostly dedicated to inflation fetish art of women turning into gigantic blueberries with giant breasts.

If I had as little engagement on DA as I did on Itaku, or frankly, here, then it wouldn't have been such a big deal, but my first DA account had almost twice as many more followers than all of my other accounts, combined. And the worst part, is I never even got to say "goodbye" to any of them.

There are a lot of good people on DA, but DA is the fucking matrix. I hope and intend to draw those people away, that the asshats and AI will be erased... puns only slightly intended.

Now to ask a question of my own, what brought you here to comment and inquire in the first place? You're not a listed follower of mine, and you don't appear to have an interest in blueberry inflation.

TheHungryLurker 2025-04-21 17:33:56

I need to clarify that I didn't have to wait eight months for a reply to my appeal for my first account. I received it within a day after I filed it, which was denied, then I waited eight months before opening a new account, which the NKVDA banned anyway. I do, however, strongly suspect that the task of reviewing appeals has also been delegated to an AI as well, based on the almost identical times in which both replies were received, the robotic language, and both being signed by "Nick." I'm almost certain there are multiple dystopian fiction novels where the highly demanding job of judgement being delegated to soulless computers is a major a plot point.

Furthermore, within just the last week, I've seen AI generated images of sexualized depictions of Ann Takamaki and May the Pokemon Trainer on DA. On principle, so long as they're appropriately aged up, I wouldn't have a problem with that, except for the fact that I in part got fucking banned for posting those two, while said AI slop of at least delete-worthy content was (I presume) generated BY THEIR OWN AI. It is becoming evermore abundantly clear that DA's one only policy on content moderation is: "BEEP BOOP. FUCK YOU. PAY wE/Us."

There are only a few artists who solely post to Deviant Art. Almost everyone else has at least one secondary site, Twitter if nothing else. The more prevalent factor is that the vast, overwhelming majority of art audiences are almost exclusively silent-mode lurkers, or fav-and-runners, and I know, because I thanked almost every single person who ever faved one of my works. But every like/fave/repost/whatever is essentially acting as free advertising. To me, one of the primary functions of art should be to enrich those who witness it, so art without an audience is a candle under a bushel basket. To my dismay, one of the largest audiences is still on DA, despite DA itself taking its users and the content they produce wholesale for granted. Any organization that ungrateful doesn't deserve to have what it does.

I wasn't accusing you of judging me in undo scrutiny, merely legitimately curious as to what drew you to my little corner of this site. I actually wasn't aware that new journals are all dumped into a single feed. There really must not be a whole lot of users on this site if I was able to find my own fifteen-hour old post in under a minute of scrolling, are there?

You might not have a problem with what I draw, but DA does. They have only ever disdainfully tolerated inflation/expansion content, despite the in-joke of the internet being that's where you go for that kind of content, and I think its admins and execs have always hated that... despite the fact that they put the fucking word "DEVIANT" in their website's name. Turns out, "Deviant" (Sh)Art is only "deviant" like Hazbin Hotel is only safe, feckless immature teanager who only swears when their parents aren't around "edgy."

Thanks for the advice, I'll have a look through it when I have more time. I've always wondered why I generally go so unnoticed. I've assumed for the longest that that it's because of how infrequently I upload, but then comes someone like Jinxed-Juice (whose work I do immensely enjoy), who makes the same kind of content I do and uploads even more rarely, then amasses a following in only a few months what took me over a year to accumulate, and I wonder if I've just been fucking cursed to go largely unseen.

First video: "First, pick an adjective! Second, pick a noun! Third, combine them!"

Me, [definite article][adjective][noun]: ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9v7UjO498E

Your welcome for the indulgence. I enjoy talking for too long, too much.