I've been exhausted of DeviantART and their choices through the years, I've never seen a website regress and utterly self-sabotage like this since Myspace. The recent boasting of revenue dA has made from AI cemented my feelings of how low this website has gone. A desolate platform that once accommdated creative people, and those who even made it into the indsutry, but now falling from any grace and will only be recognized as a shilling website for gentrified pattern-recognition images. Even the once prominent sonic mpreg fetish accounts understood what art is: it's a language and expression. Art isn't a destination, it's a journey, an experience, a facet of individuality of an artist. Art is how I've made my longest and most closest friendships, met my romantic partner, and proudly make it a part of my living. I started here of all places, 12 years ago in 2012 and I drew silly Castle Crasher, Alien v.s. Predator, and Warframe like crazy, this was my central hub for a very long