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it genuinely upsets me so much how DeviantArt turned to AI and using past people’s content to plug into their shitty algorithms because we have lost so much art from it. One of my favorite artists has been posting online for 10+ years and I used to love looking back at their DeviantArt bc it’s where they started, and even if everything didn’t stay up a lot did, and I’d been a fan for 5 years so there was a lot of nostalgia in it too. Now I can’t, because they wiped everything from their page in fear of having their art stolen for AI. I loved looking back and seeing my favorite artists grow and improve and I just…can’t anymore. Because DeviantArt was the art website for so long and not only does no one use it now, no one even kept the old stuff up. They don’t have an instagram or twitter or even tumblr that goes back that far—and even if they did, it wouldn’t be nearly as easy to sort and see as DeviantArt