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You know, as of recently i've found Deviantart to be less and less engaging to participate in. I've been posting less drawings in here than i used to and nowadays i kinda just use it to pull up my own drawings when the occassion calls for it as well as look up references and drawings from other artists i like (mostly the latter). That is, only for me to realize last night that the search bar on the favorite section is gone and this really affected me since now said references and drawings i like are now lost to the thousands upon thousands of stuff i faved over the years.

I've stuck with Deviantart ever since i first got here in 2016. For years it has been my main social media and i made so many friends, foes and everything in between during that whole time. It definitely has been a coming of age type journey and it shaped me both as an artist and as a person in more ways than one (for better or for worse). Even the whole Eclipse thing from years ago didnt bother me as much as a lot of other people have said (or maybe i was just too uninformed/naive to see what was really wrong with it). Either way, Deviantart has been the core of so many memories and self growth for me yet i've becoming more and more distant towards recently and this one detail about the fave search bar not being there anymore was the final nail on the coffin.

Now i wanna make abundantly clear that im NOT shutting down this account. If anything im keeping it as a history record for the sake of posterity so that people as well as myself can look back into my origins and how i've grown since (the fact i cringe when looking back at my older stuff tells me how big was that personal evolution). That and i still have a few friends and acquaintences here that i still wanna keep in touch with.

This is also NOT me saying that i'm removing my social media presence entirely. In fact, there's one place where you can find my latest activity as well as much more varied content than what you're used to here: my Instagram. I can say my lack of activity on Deviantart is more than compensated by my activity on Instagram. There has been a lot of things over there that made my attention shift towards it such as the bigger social interaction, attracts a generally bigger crowd than in here since its more mainstream, a much more dynamic posting system, more variety of the content i make such as videos, photography, memes and even animatics, among others, and despite it developing sort of a bad reputation with its infamous lack of support towards artists i just find it a lot more fun to be in than in here. I actually had an even bigger success back when i first got Twitter back in 2020 but after the shitshow that i had to deal with during the events of me doing that i decided that the part of me not wanting to be a part of the constant toxic and political climate over there is A LOT bigger than the one of me craving for popularity and internet likes and thankfully the whole political climate is not as pronounced on Instagram.

So yeah, if you happen to have an Instagram account or gonna make one just so you can keep in touch with me there you can find me as chalicopithecus. I actually managed to get over a thousand followers there these last few days which is what i never quite got from Deviantart and i´m actually preparing a special thing to celebrate that milestone.

It has been quite a journey for me here. It is time for me to have another.

Thank you for everything Deviantart.

Farewell, old friend.

Description
You know, as of recently i've found Deviantart to be less and less engaging to participate in. I've been posting less drawings in here than i used to and nowadays i kinda just use it to pull up my own drawings when the occassion calls for it as well as look up references and drawings from other artists i like (mostly the latter). That is, only for me to realize last night that the search bar on the favorite section is gone and this really affected me since now said references and drawings i like are now lost to the thousands upon thousands of stuff i faved over the years.

I've stuck with Deviantart ever since i first got here in 2016. For years it has been my main social media and i made so many friends, foes and everything in between during that whole time. It definitely has been a coming of age type journey and it shaped me both as an artist and as a person in more ways than one (for better or for worse). Even the whole Eclipse thing from years ago didnt bother me as much as a lot of other people have said (or maybe i was just too uninformed/naive to see what was really wrong with it). Either way, Deviantart has been the core of so many memories and self growth for me yet i've becoming more and more distant towards recently and this one detail about the fave search bar not being there anymore was the final nail on the coffin.

Now i wanna make abundantly clear that im NOT shutting down this account. If anything im keeping it as a history record for the sake of posterity so that people as well as myself can look back into my origins and how i've grown since (the fact i cringe when looking back at my older stuff tells me how big was that personal evolution). That and i still have a few friends and acquaintences here that i still wanna keep in touch with.

This is also NOT me saying that i'm removing my social media presence entirely. In fact, there's one place where you can find my latest activity as well as much more varied content than what you're used to here: my Instagram. I can say my lack of activity on Deviantart is more than compensated by my activity on Instagram. There has been a lot of things over there that made my attention shift towards it such as the bigger social interaction, attracts a generally bigger crowd than in here since its more mainstream, a much more dynamic posting system, more variety of the content i make such as videos, photography, memes and even animatics, among others, and despite it developing sort of a bad reputation with its infamous lack of support towards artists i just find it a lot more fun to be in than in here. I actually had an even bigger success back when i first got Twitter back in 2020 but after the shitshow that i had to deal with during the events of me doing that i decided that the part of me not wanting to be a part of the constant toxic and political climate over there is A LOT bigger than the one of me craving for popularity and internet likes and thankfully the whole political climate is not as pronounced on Instagram.

So yeah, if you happen to have an Instagram account or gonna make one just so you can keep in touch with me there you can find me as chalicopithecus. I actually managed to get over a thousand followers there these last few days which is what i never quite got from Deviantart and i´m actually preparing a special thing to celebrate that milestone.

It has been quite a journey for me here. It is time for me to have another.

Thank you for everything Deviantart.

Farewell, old friend.