I left Deviantart because of how just fucking horrible it is...
Scammers, horrible people, DA staff doing stupid shit and promoting AI like it's their life blood and putting AI garbage generators on a huge pedestal for making a shit ton of money making garbage than real art and it fucking hurts real artists that make genuine art that are struggling to fucking live in this economy. "All art is welcome" my fucking ass DA. Anyway rant over, I'm gonna be posting more often in my Newgrounds now. It's about time I started actually posting my art there.
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Don't have a Deviantart? GOOD. NEVER POST YOUR ART THERE.
Deleting my DA by the end of June. — a journal by Laughter-Lust on DeviantArt. Published: 2026-05-31 · Likes: 0 · Views: 18
Beforehand, I regretted leaving DA in the first place. I desperately wanted to cling onto the audience I'd built for myself there. I still cherish the genuine connections and friendships I've made because of that site. And in this modern age of censorship, I was afraid that I'd run out of spaces where I can actually share my art with like-minded kinksters.
But now, I'm regretting allowing myself to stay attached to a site that I feel has largely hindered my growth as an artist in the past couple years. I keep falling into the mental trap that I have to just, keep doing things the way I always did with my creative process, because that's what got me success on there. To this day I still get people referencing and faving ~10-year-old works, when I have tried so damn hard to take strides to develop my characters, stories and worldbuilding past that. I'm watching my friends in the kink art community move on and gain success and much more fulfillment with their new social media handles.
I know I could just go through my gallery and prune out more old art, but that brings me to the other main reason I've come to this decision:
I cannot, in good conscience, continue to support a website that allows and even encourages & monetizes AI generated images.
The amount of AI dudebros I've gotten fav'ing my works, and/or trying to play devil's advocate in my comments, is embarrassing. Like whine and mansplain all you want, no-one out there can change my mind on this. This shit is killing the planet.
I'll still be active here of course, since it's the main place I'm gonna be yapping about my OCs. But the best places to see my uncensored works are gonna be my FurAffinity and Bluesky (both listed in my pinned post).
And if there ever arises another NSFW-friendly, anti Gen AI site, I'll likely jump on board there too. I refuse to let this 1984, Puritan-pearl-clutching censorship climate on the internet squash my creative drive after I've fought so hard to climb out of the mental pitfalls that it sunk me into.
❌🔞MINORS AND NO AGE IN PROFILE DNI. This is a NSFW blog, you will be blocked on sight. (More DNIs in Pinned post.)🔞❌
Bro, I was in DA until a 37-year-old manchild cartoonaboo send death threats and edgy insults without learning his lesson all because I simply told him that he needs to accept other's opinions.