DeviantARTFrom WhatPort80 DeviantART is at first look an inspiring treasure-trove of wishful thinking fanart and pseudo-professional "art pieces"; however, in reality it is a gigantic society degenerating culture-ruin. As MTV is to destroying music and turning everyone into wiggers and prostatots, devianTART is to destroying the art world, and turning us all into furry drama llamas and vain emo idiots. If the art community as a whole had cancer, devianTART is the biggest most malignant tumor of them all, rivaling even facial tumor guy of the YouTube fame. DevianTART attracts mainly emotionally unstable 16 year old girls who all have dreams of one day moving to japan, and becoming famous manga artists.
History  The site was launched in 2000 on what they call their "Yellow Day" (ie birthday) and is undergoing a war on who originally founded it. There are three main creators but the most well-known one is "Jark", a total loser whose immature behavior is imprinted on the TARTlet community. He lives in Japan - working as a Gehsia - and thinks he is a yellow alien Users can submit works of art and browse through 100's of art submissions but to join the site you must accept specific terms (such as the faulty TOS). If you have ever visited any chan board EVAR, you are not allowed to be a member of devianTART, because the mods and admins have declared an e-war against anonymous. With devianTART, the process of one actually maturing into a better artist is stagnated, and in most cases is actually reversed. This is caused by the fact that ANY such honest constructive criticism is branded as "trolling". You wont find proper color themes, Lighting techniques, and knowledge of basic anatomy here... no sir. Being an artist in the minds of devianTART users, is drawing the same traced 3/4 angle views of their favorite animu characters with little variation. These aspiring "artists" will continually turn out anthropomorphic artwork and miscellaneous Animu, and be showered with praise, hugs, and kawaii emoticons by equally emotionally damaged idiots. Just like any dark corner of the internet such as pro-ana sites, devianTART nurtures this unhealthy and downright wrong behavior. This constant ego inflation makes devianTART one of the biggest sources of egotistical, self centered, whiny little jerks the internets have ever seen. The drama escalates when these people graduate from high school and enroll in art college, hoping for a career in Graphic art. When they submit their fanart to their teachers, they get the shock of their lives when they are finally told to learn some basic drawing techniques before handing in another under-drawn over-rendered piece of crap. Of course they run crying back to their LiveJournals & the "understanding" devianTART hugbox community until they become extreme examples like Snapesnogger. PROTIP: Adding Lens flare to your art will give you A+ results. SubmissionsArtisan CraftsBefore the invention of the Internets, people were rumored to make art from boulders, toothpaste and ripped-up fursuits. All the craftsmen who aren't dead now are pot-smoking hippies who can't use computers, rendering this section totally useless. Traditional ArtBy far the largest section of DA, this is where users place their painstakingly-rendered anime/furry/inflation art drawings with bad graphite shading.  Digital ArtIf, for some reason, you are unable to operate a pencil, this section is for you! Just fire up Photoshop, collage some random crap you found on Google Images, and voilà!  Photography  PoetryThe emo writings featured on DA are usually about blood, razorblades, and the relationship between the two. Written largely by 16 year old girls, they often feature misspellings which are for the most part phonetically impossible. Once a user submits something it automatically turns into "artistic expression". This has caused many to just submit their LJ entries as poetry, which additionally guards against being branded as a drama llama because, you know, "I'M JUST EXPRESSING MYSELF, MAN. WHAT, DID YOU THINK JIM MORRISON WAS A DRAMA LLAMA, TOO, YOU CALLOUS CRETIN?" Prose
 Commenting the Wrong Way"I must say, this is a striking image. It's rich with color and such a bright atmosphere, I just can't take my eyes off of it. However, I think you might want to improve on the way you drew the girl's hands, one of them is slightly bigger than the other. Also, you may need to consider more about the light sources. While the light really brings it to life, it's coming from the wrong direction. Setting that aside, I think it's a beautiful picture. Keep up with the good work!" For more examples on commenting incorrectly: Because DevianTart is a serious business Commenting the Right Way
Pageviews Aside from drawing animu, the most important thing to tartlets are those things called page views. As mentioned before, the main DA userbase are emofur girls who survive on attention. From this equation we can see that page views and attention are interchangeable:
Forums DevianTART also has forums, where a lot of the drama takes place, since a forum is one of the best ways to get your opinion heard and subsequently be flamed for having such a stupid opinion. There are at least 100 different forums, and you will be expected to post in the correct one or risk being mocked and/or banned.
April Fools On April 1st, 2008, the devianTART crew, in a fail attempt to seem "Internets hip", decided to make an April Fools Joke by turning everyone's icon (including those who lacked one) into Mudkips. Unfortunately, they failed to realize that not everyone on their site is a weeaboo who spends his free time in the basement. Almost instantly, whiny teenage emos overran the Help Desk, Help Chat and Complaints Forum, asking essentially the same thing: "Why is my icon a Mudkip?" When these butthurt "artists" attempted to revert their icons back to normal in order to accurately reflect their individuality and unique-isity, their efforts were met with a strange error message:
When the dA staff realized they were in the middle of a public relations nightmare, they quickly reverted everyone's icons and hid their heads in the sand until everyone put away their torches.
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