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Reasons why I hate deviantART:

One: The ‘Cliques’

Everyone has a clique; heck I even have one though I don’t exactly know what one it is. Perhaps it’s the “I’m not conforming to any of your stupid cliques” clique. But it seems to me that it’s nothing but one great big high-school popularity contest, with the people who choose the most popular little group being more successful. You’ve got the EMOs who for the most part compete with trying to seem more suicidal than anyone else. You have Furries and Otakus who have the rest of the internet to roam, instead they just pollute an ART site with ‘art’ that has plenty of specific hosts elsewhere all over the internet; or are they having problems finding one? But no, they’d rather flood deviantART with their banality clogging it up for people who come here cause there’s no other place for the them to exhibit their work on the internet! Oh, then it’s me who’s closed-minded and small; cause I condemn them for making an endless stream of crap that’s all the same! All they ever do is make their little drawings and fanart to satisfy the needs of their clique; which further stagnates an already insipid environment. Try something new for once in your miserable little lives! Shut off the TV, stop speaking with your friends and dunk your bucket deep within the well of your soul and if what you pull out of there is Kawaii or a Fox with boobs, just hang it up. But if what you pull out looks like it might be the cover of the new Tool album, you’ve found your calling. Can’t you understand that I just can’t take it anymore? Spice up your freaking art man.

These Furries and Otakus are typically despised by a group that pretends to be completely opposite from them; when really what they are is just another group of ‘outraged’ small people. These people like to show that they listen to Bjork and Radiohead, and can name dozens of classical artists; it helps make them feel better than everyone else. Sometimes they also find their snobbery in more modern forms of art. There’s the Tim Burton snobs, Beck snobs--you name ‘em. The ones who I have come into contact the most with are the music snobs, specifically Death Metal snobs. Arrogant twats chewing me out for not ‘exploring the genre’ enough, acting as if I don’t know about music; that somehow I’ve never heard ‘real’ metal. Now I never really can honestly listen, cause I’m going to have to think about these supercilious sacks of crap every time I try to have an unbiased listen to the massive guitar and throat-scream attack of death metal! Seems to me that’s all these little groupings are for, just to make people feel all-superior for no damn good reason. Well fuck these arrogant bastards! I’m better than them.

Two: Arrogant Snobs in Forum and Comment zaniness!

That would be bad enough, if they just existed elsewhere, but these people will never freaking quit; especially when they’re in a public forum. Never once have they ever taken up my offer of a private note argument, cause that’s never the reason why they confront you. Their sole purpose for communication with you is to make you seem stupid to everyone else. Obviously this leads the argument quite astray from the main points originally put forth. Some of these people even go so far as to have a little ‘reasons why I’m better than you’ essay which they copy-paste directly into your fucking art space. Especially little pricks with political axes to grind; especially the right-wing scumbags who infest the world. This is why all my work pertaining to politics and society are comments disabled, just to keep the ego-tripping little twats off my homepage; I’ve never had them note me. It’s all about image with these people, they’re as superficial as it gets. All they want to do is appear more intelligent than you, not actually be smarter than you are. Smart isn’t what it used to be anyway; Smart these days is a blender, they ought to really have more ambition than that. My working theory about these irritating dicks is that they have some kind of inferiority complex, similar to the Holy Rollers (who I’ll be getting to). It’s always the last word with these people. They’ll keep up a nasty conversation for years (no joke) just to make sure that they have the last word and don’t end up looking like the ignorant pricks that they really are; which they end up looking like anyway. Fuck these arrogant bastards of society, and fuck them for thinking they’re better than me.

Then there’s the Holy Rollers, fuck ‘em. To them I present a real target, for I am an atheist, a non-believer put here by Satan himself to temp the pure into sin. Perhaps I’m a bit to blame for proclaiming my atheism in my signature for a few months. But goddamned it, these people never learn anything! Their minds never evolve past their childhood levels; perhaps that’s because they don’t believe in evolution, they don’t reap the benefits. Oh yea, and while you’re at it don’t believe that the earth orbits the Sun, cause there’s just about as much scientific evidence for that as there is for evolution. You’re at the center of the universe, cause God put you there! Hahaha. “I am your lord thy God”, I’ve heard that from the mouths of many people; non of them were my lord. My mind’s not for rent by any God or government; so back the fuck off.

Usually, these ‘Christians’ are also part of the right-wing scumbag crew as well; spreading their propaganda far and wide, especially in the forums. They’re just like the aforementioned arrogant twats except they have even less to be proud of. Oftentimes they’re from either from the midwest, or the south and have a slowness about them that supports the dumb hick stereotypes; which they’d be the first ones to complain about; jumping on the big anti-stereotype bandwagon that all the cliques are riding on. In fact over-sensitivity to stereotypes is a great part of their stereotype. “You’re just being offensive and using stereotypes!” What each and everyone of the scum protests when you call them on the fact that they’re nothing but evil right-wing sacks of shit. Then they go and pretend to enjoy you, “You’re only hurting your own cause, keep doing what you’re doing!” Haha! Fucking ignorant bastards, hit me with something I haven’t seen before! Oh wait, you don’t have enough imagination for that! Why the hell are you pretending to be an artist anyway? Cause you’re not! You’re just a another worthless American idiot spewing out all the jingoistic bullshit you ingested from the evening news. Fuck all these conservative boneheads and fuck them for ruining my country.

Three: Incompetent backwoods country Cops for Admins.

I post a photo manipulation of George Bush, portraying him as the slime that he really is; it’s up for a few days right until I get into a disgusting argument with a disgusting worm of a right-winger; that night it’s taken down. I go give the admins a major chewing out demanding to know why. Reason number one: It was too offensive! Political expression in the United States of America is too offensive to stay up on an art site in the Internet; where is fucking freedom? So then I get another answer from someone higher up, saying that the first reason given was a mistake that it was taken down because of copyright infringement; when pictures of Bush are commonly in the public domain. So you can’t even get a strait answer from them as to why your Deviation’s being taken down. I happen to believe the first reason given, at least that’s the reason why it was reported. For there’s thousands upon thousands--even millions--of deviations on dA that violate copyright infringement in some way or another so you tell me it’s just a random report that got me fucking nabbed? This was nothing short of a political hit; which when you bring it up to the chaw-spitting admins you’ll only get ridiculed; cause they’re the cops of the corporation, they’re the enemy. One time, before this incident I started a thread about abortion, it was offensive of course, but it’s meaning wasn’t; it was sarcasm. Killed! Then I check out the admin that robbed me of my rights as a free citizen; turns out the guy’s a major fucking holy roller. I called him on this, leaving a simple message reading “Interests: God, Theology, now I have my explanation.” Asshole fucking writes me three big paragraphs on how I’m just a little punk out to be extreme, that I ought to calm down or he’ll get me banned from this worthless fucking hole. Called me a conspiracy nut, and that fellow atheists reported me in--how he knew they were atheists I wouldn’t fucking know, so I suppose he just made that shit up. “Oh yea,” he said, “Punks like you just come and go, you’re nothing special. It’s my job to handle this site of over a million people..blah blah blah!” And now you know why I say all the admins are on major fucking ego-trips. Cocky arrogant fucking bastards. I didn’t respond to him, I figured I only had to type out a sentence and he had to write all that shit out; the effort wasn’t worth it. Yet I did go to the dA help page to look for button to push that’d take me to a screen where I could report abuse by the admins; haha, it wasn’t there. Nobody ever polices the police. How seriously this prick took his job is testament to just how much of a corporatized nightmare deviantART has become.

Four: For-profit failure of integrity.

In 2003 deviantART was revealed to have been a for-profit corporation all along. Features that were once free began to be taken away from users, offered to be given back for a price. All over the corporate spirit has consumed this site; which, by the very fact that it’s an art site should be a not-for-profit organization, instead of the business that it is now. A bunch of suits came in and took over. In the legal agreement there are loopholes allowing them to screw artists over letal fees; the only reason I don’t take everything down is that I’m not good enough to steal. But there’s no suing these people, cause deviantART is the kind of place that hires an army of lawyers help them get away with all the wrong-doing they’re doing. And here’s the real tragedy; only true artists will really get screwed. Cause artists aren’t lawyers, they’re the farthest thing from it. Artists don’t read legalese; this is why so many good musicians get royally screwed by the record corporations, the enemy of everything that is free and artistic in life. DeviantART becomes more like a record corporation each and every day of operation. Instead of being a not-for-profit friend of the artist, it has become a money-grabbing fat-cat corporation; the enemy of everything artists are supposed to adore. Microsoft now has a counterpart in the art-site world, for deviantART has become like Windows 95--convoluted, bloated, bureaucratic and slow. Just as in America, the corporate spirit at the top has trickled down all the way to the bottom. Once I saw a daily deviation that was a work commissioned by the Coca-cola corporation! I was so fucking appalled. Sure it was excellent work, but it was to sell soft drinks! “Coca-cola loved it! And so do I!” was the caption I believe. Go find yourself a soul! Goddamned it. Whatever happened to art being the serious exploration of the human soul? Oh wait, businessmen don’t have fucking souls; and neither does deviantART. Fuck all these businessmen and fuck their ideas about art!

Five: Snubbing of writing.

Poetry was actually being debated as to whether or not it should be an art category. Repeatedly writers are not taken as serious as visual artists. The most mediocre, insipid visual artist will be more popular than the best of writers. How would I know this? First hand experience. I know quite a few writers who are tremendous artists but are wallowing in obscurity; which is a real drag cause deviantART is one of the few art sites that even displays writing (one of the reason’s why I’m compelled to remain, and I’ll get to those later). This is more about the community than the people farther up, but they’re guilty for promoting visual art without written word as well. Visual art and written word are distant relatives; the beginnings of written language were primitive hieroglyphics, visual symbols arranged into narratives. No good writing can go without using visual analogies, and most visual arts tell stories. So why all the snubbing? Nobody takes the time to read in this MTV flash-visual era, not even for poetry. Written word, one of man’s greatest achievements is being shat on by people who only think of things that they can see. Writers have more power than visual artists. Did Shakespeare draw little stick figures of Hamlet and King Richard III depicting what the actors were to do and say? No! He wrote out the plays. Writing can depict human existence from a narrative angle that visual arts simply cannot. Yet it is reduced to bottom-feeding scraps while some Anime/Furrie fanboy’s raking the hits in. Heck, I doubt if anyone will even read this. Fuck all these lazy assholes.

Six: Why I stay plus the finishing.

So, as I’m predicting many of you will think, why do I even stay on as a creature in this hopeless fucking hole we call dA? Well, there are a few good things left. I have quite a few friends who feel much like I do on here, I hang around for them. One of my goals in life is to rail against the corporatizing of the human spirit, and what better place to do that than on an art site overcome with the very thing that I despise? This place is a shithole, all the more reason I am needed. Besides, it’s not like there are any good alternatives; they’ve got a monopoly that would make Microsoft proud. Believe me, if an art site comes along, or perhaps just a writing site, that offers the features I need on a not-for-profit basis and actually has a decent number of users, I’ll be over there digging it instead of writing stuff like this. We can do better than this, look at sites like Wikipedia; they have thousands upon thousands of users but they manage to keep their integrity (and they’re non-corporate status). But all my words will fall on willfully ignorant ears, as dA has an army of fanatics to defend it, pitiable whelps hopelessly inured to the corporation. They’ll have nothing more to say about my dissent than “Love it or leave it!” but that’s the same thing the right-wing scumbags of the earth tell me. Well I’m not going to leave until you learn how to swim; see you down in Arizona Bay!

Fuck all these preachers, and fuck their god!
Fuck all these over-dramatic Poe wannabes!

LEARN TO SWIM!

Fuck all these Administers,
Fuck all their rules.
Fuck all you fanboys and
Fuck your inferiority complex.

LEARN TO SWIM!

Fuck smarmy businessmen
WITH BULLSHIT AGENDAS.
Fuck these pitiful,
Half-ass ‘intellectuals’

Learn to swim...

Don’t just call me pessimist,
Try and read between the lines...