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Why?


The way I used to use DevArt was mostly for photo edits. I mostly used real images from free stock accounts to do so.


In the past, others have asked me to take down old gallery entries, while even DevArt destroyed/lost many others or simply decided I had not enough permission...


In any case, the point is that I was using someone's likeness (with permission) and the changes proposed by DevArt about training AIs with its contents means the usage of someone's photos on it... Something which is icky, from my own beliefs and for which I know nothing about legal ramifications.


So I've decided that I will not be responsible if DevArt ends up using the likeness of a model that graciously provided their likeness for my pieces to be used by a machine generated monstrosity. All pieces with images of real people (edited or not) have been deleted.


I will not delete this account... Not yet anyways.


Hey! This account has been with me for half my life now...

Call it nostalgia, maybe.


I will not be posting anything meaningful or that uses someone's resemblance explicitly and, depending on how things go with DevArt's decisions I might or might not come to it.


My art is somewhere else but, alas, a billionaire bought it and it's now more of a cesspool than it was before. A blue birdy told me so. Crying.


I might even dust my old blog... And when or if I do, you'll be sure to know :)


Much love!

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... and lots of effort.  Soon, I'll transplant my creations elsewhere :)

Once my own garden is finished, you are all invited, of course!
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"Hate art".  

It strikes me as utterly disgusting how some people can glorify horrors of which they know nothing of.   I find it almost funny how they need to explain their "deviations" to somehow avoid getting under the once proficient ban-hammer (now reduced to a mere joke). *Almost* funny.

I also find almost funny how they don't want to partake of this "multiculturalism brainwash" but also use it to shield themselves from critiques or opposing points of view and demand that their views be respected by others. I said *almost*.

I think it's rather sad, though, to discover that what you thought was a good place for art has somehow transformed into something that's willingly accepting "hate art" entries and then does nothing about them.  More so when, even if you try to report something, the usual answer will be that in their view (DA's admins and staff) that is not hate art.

Which then prompts the question: Why?

Why isn't DeviantArt doing anything against it?
Why there's cases of clear policy violations just closed without any action taken?

Yeah, moving pixels on a screen, painting guts and spewing hate is easy... While sitting on your ... meh I won't even bother.  Why? Because: fuck your dreams, hate art poster, that's why!

Personally, I consider this strike two for DeviantArt, and as soon as I find a suitable replacement, I'll be exiting stage left.

Thanks, good night.
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OH I GET IT!

1 min read
"Emotive portrait" is deviantart's way to say "NUDES"...

I get it...

























NOT!
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I fell in love once and almost completely,
she's in love with the world,
but sometimes this feelings can be so misleading...

Can't think of anything to do, yeah,
my left brain knows that
all love is fleeting.
She's just looking for something new,
said it once before,
but it bears repeating.

Also....
www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5Kf4z…
Whoa... I know, right?  Speechless!
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