DeviantArtReviews 162

DeviantArt is a very toxic website and is full of fetishes. Even though DeviantArt has a setting where you can disable mature content, some fetishes will still be uncensored. There's also lots of p_rn on this website as well as lots of perv_rts in the community, so beware of disturbing content, especially if making a YouTube video on DeviantArt!

These people claim that they are open to all art. I've had an account with them for about a month. I've posted some art work and the next day I get a notice that it was a violation to their "sexual terms and service". It's my 3d character clothed posing that's it. After reading through the terms several times I see nothing that violates the terms and service. After trying to contact and ask them if it can be pointed out, I get no response, and the only response I did get was a bot. Now its at the point where they are making excuses and calling a "etiquette policy" again reading through it it has nothing to do with what's in my photo, there is clearly worse things on that site than what I posted and that stuff has not been taken down. I'm currently looking into new sites that are modern and supportive being a paying customer for that account I should NOT have to fight to keep my art work up. Whoever runs this site needs to give it up to someone who knows what they are doing.

Deviantart used to be a great place for artists of all types and mediums to post art. Only complaints about the old days were the art thieves, which are of course still present on any platform.

Now the site, ever since the switch that no one wanted, runs like garbage and has turned more into a fetish art site. Despite the ToS restricting certain types of content it still runs rampant on the site as a whole. As the website is thirteen and up one would thing that isn't a problem, right? Wrong as anyone can make an account claiming they are over eighteen to see the eighteen and up content. Artistic type medium for adults has always been accepted and I even appreciate it, but some of this "art" being made now is not that.

Basically, the site now lacks proper moderation, and lacks proper maintenance for it's functions and appearance. I miss the old days so much!

I joined this website somewhere around in april, at first I didn't really know what else there was. But then as soon as I got deeper into this website for 5 minutes, things started to turn into a slow turn in a bad side. Meaning that I was already seeing things I should not have seen. Things such as nudity and inappropriate behavior. Also a lack of use of vulgarity. I know this is a place to show your art and all, but at this rate its like its mostly a mental asylum. As if I'm the only normal person here. Honestly, this app would do a lot more better if there wasn't such horrible recommendations and such fetish farming. I really hope this website would possibly get deleted, and all the people making such cursed things would finally go outside and experience nature. Instead of just being on their phones and seeing things they shouldn't be looking at.

Hi, i've been on deviantart since before eclipse, and let me tell ya nothing was this bad. I can forgive needing to re-add features, and a month without a certain bug getting fixed... BUT IT'S BEEN ALMOST 2 YEARS! All subgalleries in newly made folders dissapear in edit gallery mode, I've contacted deviantart support so many times and nothing has changed. I can edit the subgallery upon creation, but the moment i exit and re-enter, they seemingly don't exist in edit mode. You can see the subgallery in normal view, I can put art in it, it's there, it exists.
Oh, let's not forget they're going to switch to web3 which is block chain dependant. Unsecure, slow, nft ridden and full of con men and scam artists saying "It's the future of the web." I'm so close to leaving entirely, I'm only staying for one reason. I can't make an art role playing group like I can on deviantArt.

Screw deviantart, screw blockchain, and screw two years of bugged galleries!

This $#*! and her friends trolled me, reported me and got my account suspended. This Is not the first time these people have trolll people. Look at their previous post. If you're still at deviant art, troll these people and report them for trolling other usernames and pissing them off.

Deviantart is a good place if you want to promote your works somewhere, considering how the site is centered around business rather than community-orientated.

Unfortunately, the bad outweighs the good. I feel the layout is a generic a copy of Behance, notes and chats suffer from glitches, the notification system is confusing as hell — every time I have to clear messages by ticking a box until that stupid red blob is gone. Additionally, I don't know where some links are until I hear it from someone else, like manage deviations.

I also don't get feedback on my work unless it's fanart, fetish, or if I feature it in groups. Other than that, your chances of getting some exposure is slim.

My own profile will also be assaulted with ads that promote Core membership, which is just unwarranted. It's also worse that Deviantart offers PRIORITY customer service to core members, meaning if you're a regular member, it will take unnecessarily longer before you're finally being attended to. What if something happened to that member that needed immediate attention?

The users there are not who you'd want to interact with in real life either. I also got a response from someone saying they would have liked me if my profile pic didn't feature an anime character. What does that even mean?

I deactivated my account a week ago, and I'm probably never returning. Somehow it has too much and too less going on that it's not easy to take it seriously.

It happened last year, quit within couple of months because a certain person made fun of one of my works one time. Besides the bullying one of the most infuriating problems is that if your not doing pornhub fetish crap or fancy rich people digital art then you basically don't exist. I do art the old fashioned way with pencil on paper, I don't know how that digital stuff works and don't care. It's nearly impossible for someone starting out to get recognized.

It has been 1 year since I last reviewed the site. It still is amazing me with how much worse it can get. I have opted to abandon my account long ago after dreamup came in.
I cannot trust the platform to host my content when it neglects to offer legitimate safeguards to my content as an artist. I even tested it with one of my pieces protected by their 'DeviantArt Protect' services with a buddy and it cannot even do the job of informing a user when their content is being stolen.
Logging in makes me see a cesspool of NSFW content, even though I set my account up to not show it, including blocking AI-generated content, but it does nothing.
I know it is a heavily beaten horse, but holy $#*!, why must all the NSFW content involve minors?! If you want examples, there's written accounts of these things in various other reviews for this website.

One horse I am surprised that has not received much of a beating however was the curation of the home feed. Let me sum it up for you: 20% people using DA as imgur, 20% NSFW, 25% poor-quality content, 10% ads, 15% stolen art, 5% good art, and 5% that bounces between everything else. The image host and poor-quality crowd also take up a decent chunk of the NSFW media crowd on here too btw.

In my previous review I mentioned that most content is paywalled, and yes, it still is. The AI tools want core (their subscription service), making money off your work requires core (Adopts, premium content, subscriptions, and I won't be surprised if they come for coms too.) Want stats? Too bad, the valuable stuff costs you some dough (and it also takes forever to check). Most of the profile customization requires Core, and it is far more limiting than the custom HTML of the old days.

Horrible horrible site! Your photos will be shown all over Google search, even if you have private adult content! I cannot say enough bad things about DeviantArt. The platform has malfunctions everyday and hardly works I would choose zero stars if it would let me!

I've left the site after discovering countless causes of children in fetish artworks,
I go to report it and nothing ever happens.

Then next time i look into it i seen the underaged report section greyed out saying staff have reviewed.
-pokemon kid getting his face shoved in a girls arse as she farts loudly with a lewd face
-literally naked child model for a dancing program called MMD with textures and all
-countless stuffing fetish artworks showing kids eating way too much and getting bloated burping loudly as a fetish artwork.
-a five nights at freddy fetish artwork depicting the child from security breach being swallowed by the female night guard. Involving children in vore is fetish content involving children and yet its not removed from DeviantArt.

I get you're a Deviant we all are.
Just keep the children out of it... okay sweetie?

Meh they don't care.

Even when im not logged in with an incognito browser i see child fetish content from this site.
They need to clean their act up and stop hiring moderators who allow CP material on their site.

Despite the people's overexaggeration with the new layout, seems like it's not as bad. Although the new notification system needs to be tweaked a little so it's not confusing to use.

This site is totally racist, and targets Black artist... ESPECIALLY Black men that choose to post nudes! I have seen PLENTY of non Black deviants with porn pics, erect penises, women spreading their vagina, and even a few showing penetration, and body fluids! They're allowed to remain, yet as soon as I post a nude, they remove it, even though I label my photos as mature! I feel unfairly targeted by this site, and honestly it should be shut down if this is their M. O!

Everywhere you go, nudity and violence and overall disturbing themes appear, with or without an account you're getting spammed with these images, which are getting promoted instead of the people that actually work hard on their work. And even though there's a button to sensor this kind of content, there's still very much disturbing stuff. If you're a serious artist looking to make a living out of this, please pick another website. I will say though, that the HUD and the way you can join groups in kinda nice. Hope this gave some insight.
(The image below shows just the tip of the iceberg of what you will see on this website, and this is taken from scrolling down the website main page for 20 seconds)

Getting my auto ship food this past delivery was a horrific experience, I am sad to say. First attempt initially was lost in transit and I had to call for a replacement. My second arrived (pics sent to rep and customer service) punctured, no box, with holes punched in the bag and appeared to have been tampered with. Again spent time emailing pictures and frantic about running out of food. Third bag... and it arrived again, outside the box, NOT air tight and also has holes in it. I was sent 2 4 lb bags to get Duke through. I must tell you I was beyond frustrated. I was no compensated for my time or hassle and honestly with the last error, the customer service agent acted like I was in the wrong. It was disappointing. I sent a very detailed email to customer service... including pictures, tracking information for UPS for YOUR convenience. No one has contacted me... besides this survey... or offered me any further information or support around what went wrong. This is concerning, given the reputation of life's abundance. Thought someone should know my experience. Thank you. 1

I spent a grand total of five minutes on this site.
When I confirmed my e-mail address I realised I wrote a typo in my username. Okay, I'm going to quickly fix it...
No way! They wanted me to pay for change my username. Seriously? XD
"Alas", I had to deactivate the account before I even could take a look around. I can't believe it exists.

Occasionally I participate in their forums. They seem to use different standards depending on your political stance and easily give in to request from more liberal members to close a thread if the content is not to their liking. Liberal members however do not seem to suffer so much from these interventions. Though it is to be expected that art community usually tends to be on the more liberal/leftist side I still find it disappointing that the staff sometimes have it hard to hide their personal political preferences.