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Let's examine Spyed's vision of the future, shall we?

A future where the site is wading in money, brought in by the thousands and thousands of successful artists who give freely their own work, so that strangers on mobile phones can buy a random deviant's piece of art for their wallpaper.

A site where the popular and most bestest artists EVAR are the ones who pull in the big fish - the ones that pay the bills. And those of us who've paid for subscriptions just to sit on our laurels and not DO anything spectacular (be it because we've got such severe carpal tunnel syndrome that we can't pick up a pencil without a week's worth of pain, or because we're just not that talented, or just because we want to BROWSE the site and help our friends out by hooking them up with other artists) - we become the 'bottom of the barrel'. Those who need JUST a little poking, prodding and YELLING IN A BULLHORN at us to MAKE us into 'good, popular, moneymaking artists'.

Look.

Artists have always been notoriously BROKE. "Starving artists."

Some of us are brilliant artists who can't afford food let alone a subscription - getting online via a library or a school lab. Will THEY see profits from this site in Spyed's future? No. Why?

Because there is no money here. There is business dealing, sure. There are probably sucker investors that Spyed has convinced his ideas are valid.

However, he never has considered, by the way he posts in his journals, how the average deviant feels about this all.

There are more than one MILLION individuals on DA. That's about the same as the population here where I live, in Sunny San Diego.

And look at the problems that politics in the hands of big business have brought our city council: The mayor, only called so because he forced an issue of 'but they didn't fill in the BUBBLE even though they took the time to WRITE IN my opponent's name', having resigned from his post months early. The deputy mayor, TWO DAYS LATER, convicted of financial crimes. Leaving the city council - already known for being corrupt and in the pockets of the local construction and parking companies - to hold a new election...

Now ... I don't want that to happen to DeviantArt. Why should it?

We KNOW who started it. Jark and Matteo.

Not Jark and Spyed! Such a bold faced lie, right there where people might swallow it whole and choke on it.

Anyway. Look, Deviantart is an ART site. It's like an art commune, out in the desert, where a bunch of hippies first started showing their stuff to each other - and it blossomed into something like Burning Man, with thousands of artists coming together and jamming until the sun comes up...

Only... Look at Burning Man and see the same kind of domination starting to creep in. It's SO expensive to go there now. Used to be free. (I could be wrong. It used to be cheap.) Look at how almost all 'big corporate attitudes' have ruined what used to be small-towns, mom-and-pop businesses, the Walmart phenomenon is pervasive. It does not make that piratical business attitude RIGHT. It only drives home that Spyed is lying - to himself mostly - about this community and what we really are.

We don't need 'Scaling'.

I don't need a den mother telling me I need to 'pull my weight' in this community. I post my art, and I give lots of comments (10 to 1, I can't recall my exact gallery stat) and I try to help those artists who I think are going to benefit from some critical talk. Like most of us, I post because I feel good about a piece and I want to show it off. That's what this site is for. Not to make money for a couple people.

If I wanted to make money off my art, I'll get a CafePress account, thanks.

Description
Let's examine Spyed's vision of the future, shall we?

A future where the site is wading in money, brought in by the thousands and thousands of successful artists who give freely their own work, so that strangers on mobile phones can buy a random deviant's piece of art for their wallpaper.

A site where the popular and most bestest artists EVAR are the ones who pull in the big fish - the ones that pay the bills. And those of us who've paid for subscriptions just to sit on our laurels and not DO anything spectacular (be it because we've got such severe carpal tunnel syndrome that we can't pick up a pencil without a week's worth of pain, or because we're just not that talented, or just because we want to BROWSE the site and help our friends out by hooking them up with other artists) - we become the 'bottom of the barrel'. Those who need JUST a little poking, prodding and YELLING IN A BULLHORN at us to MAKE us into 'good, popular, moneymaking artists'.

Look.

Artists have always been notoriously BROKE. "Starving artists."

Some of us are brilliant artists who can't afford food let alone a subscription - getting online via a library or a school lab. Will THEY see profits from this site in Spyed's future? No. Why?

Because there is no money here. There is business dealing, sure. There are probably sucker investors that Spyed has convinced his ideas are valid.

However, he never has considered, by the way he posts in his journals, how the average deviant feels about this all.

There are more than one MILLION individuals on DA. That's about the same as the population here where I live, in Sunny San Diego.

And look at the problems that politics in the hands of big business have brought our city council: The mayor, only called so because he forced an issue of 'but they didn't fill in the BUBBLE even though they took the time to WRITE IN my opponent's name', having resigned from his post months early. The deputy mayor, TWO DAYS LATER, convicted of financial crimes. Leaving the city council - already known for being corrupt and in the pockets of the local construction and parking companies - to hold a new election...

Now ... I don't want that to happen to DeviantArt. Why should it?

We KNOW who started it. Jark and Matteo.

Not Jark and Spyed! Such a bold faced lie, right there where people might swallow it whole and choke on it.

Anyway. Look, Deviantart is an ART site. It's like an art commune, out in the desert, where a bunch of hippies first started showing their stuff to each other - and it blossomed into something like Burning Man, with thousands of artists coming together and jamming until the sun comes up...

Only... Look at Burning Man and see the same kind of domination starting to creep in. It's SO expensive to go there now. Used to be free. (I could be wrong. It used to be cheap.) Look at how almost all 'big corporate attitudes' have ruined what used to be small-towns, mom-and-pop businesses, the Walmart phenomenon is pervasive. It does not make that piratical business attitude RIGHT. It only drives home that Spyed is lying - to himself mostly - about this community and what we really are.

We don't need 'Scaling'.

I don't need a den mother telling me I need to 'pull my weight' in this community. I post my art, and I give lots of comments (10 to 1, I can't recall my exact gallery stat) and I try to help those artists who I think are going to benefit from some critical talk. Like most of us, I post because I feel good about a piece and I want to show it off. That's what this site is for. Not to make money for a couple people.

If I wanted to make money off my art, I'll get a CafePress account, thanks.