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devianTART front page: At any given moment you will come across an asian, a camwhore, some furry art, or something "abstract".
devianTART front page: At any given moment you will come across an asian, a camwhore, some furry art, or something "abstract".
Summary of dA, wank wank wank wank
Summary of dA, wank wank wank wank
At first glance, deviantART appears to be an inspiring treasure-trove of wishful-thinking fanart and pseudo-professional "artwork."
In a nutshell
In a nutshell
An asterisk demands respect.
An asterisk demands respect.

In reality, it is one of many gigantic culture-fucks of societal degeneration.

While similar establishments like MTV destroy music by motivating the public to become wiggers and prostatots, devianTART destroys the art world by fulfilling its function of turning out furry drama whores and emo attention whores. If the art community as a whole had cancer, then devianTART would be the biggest malignant tumor of them all.

devianTART's population consists mainly of emotionally-unstable artists who aspire to move to Japan and become famous manga artists but instead they end up as Cosplay enthusiasts that earn a living off the Harajuku by exchanging odd jobs for food in the back alleys behind the clothing stores.

PROTIP: Adding Lens flares to your art will give you A+ results.

Contents

Submission Categories

Is this your popularity guide?
Is this your popularity guide?

Artisan Crafts

Before the invention of the Internets, people were rumored to make art such as Unicorn Orgy, IRL. They used boulders, ripped-up fursuits, and semen. At present, all the craftsmen who aren't dead are pot-smoking hippies who can't use computers, rendering this section totally fucking useless.

Traditional Art

By far the largest section of DA, this is where users place their painstakingly-rendered anime/furry/inflation art drawings tracings with blotchy graphite shading. Others attempt to exploit the versatility of MS Paint to project a political message of some sort. (If you click on the link, try not to shit yourself laughing. That would be rude.)

Digital Art

If you are unable to operate a pencil for any reason, this section is for you! Just fire up Photoshop, collage some random shit you found on Google Images and voilà! You're only HALF as lame as the Church of the Subgenius!

A screenshot of a screenshot of a screenshot.
A screenshot of a screenshot of a screenshot.

Photography

The skill of an average devianTART photographer...
The skill of an average devianTART photographer...
90% of devianTART camwhores.
90% of devianTART camwhores.
Thanks to the advent of ubiquitous digital image capturing, every 16 year old girl and their little brother thinks they're Ansel-Fucking-Adams (Who, incidentally, wasn't all that great a photographer to begin with). These people can't draw. To facilitate this movement, DA created the photography section. It was promptly populated by camwhores afflicted by Internet diseases. Remember, Lens flare gives you 10 times more popularity! Any and all other photographs are of uninspired things (try photographing a tree, it's sooooo deep, man) and naturally receive about 100 favorites within a few seconds of their posting. HDR photos are automatically awarded a daily deviation and receive over 9000 faves no matter how shitty they are(BECAUSE IT IS SO SURREAL LOL).

Poetry

Writings featured on DA are usually emo rants about blood, razorblades, and the relationship between the two. Written largely by 16 year old girls, they are often rendered phonetically impossible by assloads of spelling errors. Once a user submits something, it automatically turns into an "artistic expression." As a result, many devianTART poets just submit their LJ entries, which additionally guards themselves against being branded as drama whores because, you know, "I'M JUST EXPRESSING MYSELF, MAN. WHAT, DID YOU THINK JIM MORRISON WAS A DRAMA WHORE, TOO, YOU CALLOUS CRETIN?"

Prose

Prose is like poetry, only you're supposed to have spent more time on it NOBODY on devianTART knows what prose means. While poetry focuses on the surrealist interpretations of cutting, prose mentions every detail of your 30 minute cut-a-thon, and later goes into how nobody from school understands your scars, and how your gf/bf/ff left you because you're a pathetic, whiny attention whore. Any and all good criticism given of prose on devianTART will(without exception) be written off by the whiny TARD as you being abusive, since 99% of all prose on DA is apparently written by the same syphilitic leper. The truly great prose of devianTART art is overlooked because it is too long and/or too complex for the average 16-year-old.

Desktop Capture

Need to imitate talent? Just hit printscreen.
Need to imitate talent? Just hit printscreen.

Most DA users are just not up to speed. Unable to produce even the most crude stick-figure depictions of "tasteful" furry or Invader Zim fanart? No need not feel left out! Simply mash your overly large, greasy thumb onto the printscreen key will capture your amazing desktop! Now you can receive praise and glory based on your interesting desktop background and show everyone online that you are a cool cat with all the latest icons. Firefox is mandatory; don't even bother otherwise. Also, lacking a World of Warcraft icon loses you serious points.

In order to boost your hxc points, having your icons in no particular order helps you score, too. Remember, organization is for n00bs!

Flash

Why DA decided to host Flash-based animations is anyone's guess. The only users who submit Flash works on DA are failures (and divas) who couldn't get on AlbinoBlackSheep or even Newgrounds. The majority of these creations usually involve ninjas or absolute shit such as dress up games.

Fractal Art

If there's any art that does not require actual talent, it's fractals. To put it simply: Push button, receive blobs of colors.

Types of TARTlets (Deviants)

TARTlets (or "Deviants") can choose what kind of Deviant they want to pretend to be by choosing from a drop-down menu. They are listed here in order of increasing offensiveness.

Regardless of type, however, all TARTlet usernames must have references to wolves, the moon, Sonic the Hedgehog, or end with -chan.

The Artist (Artifex Faber)

Constantly banhammered for displaying none of the above characteristics and wanting a place to share their art, the Artifex Faber population has experienced a sharp decline, becoming an endangered species relegated to a life of struggling to feed and clothe themselves and their 17 year-old, 8-month-pregnant girlfriend. Many have fled DevianTART to more quality-oriented art sites like Storm Artists. However, it is still believed this form of Internet artist will become extinct by next year.

The Addict (Sucis Chumpicus)

TARTlets who spend all day on devianTART in the complaints forum or the help with life forum complaining about how much everything on devianTART sucks.


The Attention Troll (Gobblus Atticus)

Those who make dA slightly more interesting, providing comments of both controversial and plain annoying natures to provoke responses from those who are willing to post multitudes of journals (i.e furries and any other member of the 'whores' family, such as Favewhores, dAmnwhores, etc.). This specific type of troll originates in the forums, sometimes from other sites, and they most commonly evolve out of sheer boredom. A common characteristic is to stalk admins who then reject them; leaving the troll in a state of site-hatred, often fleeing to ED and making pages concerning the admins.

The Favewhore (Amorae Ubiquitus)

A Deviant who goes around adding every single submission of another's gallery into their favorites gallery, and everything that goes into their message inboxes. Amorae Ubiquitus usually has little or no deviations, or fucking huge galleries full of crap made in MSPaint, or stolen art.

Typical comment by these douchebags: "OMG LIEK KAWAIII NEKO DESUDESUDUES!!111"

The Wallpaperist (Muro Faber)

Deviants who believe that running a random script through a 3D-gen program and adding text makes them "interesting". The most common specimens of Muro Faber are 13-year-old boys, who just don't know what the fuck "interesting" is, or 20-year-old boys who still think it makes them "interesting".

The Litigious Crumpet (Imma Gonna Sue-a Ya Assa Offa)

Artist whom will go batshit insane if any of her pwecious images have been severely altered (i.e. turned into an icon for a forums board or even passed around period, because whats even worse than having your images cut-up by MSPaint?) and threatens to sue people utilizing the oft-abused weapon (and often yiffed by Furries) called the Digital Millennium Copyright Act" (DMCA).

The 20+ Retard (Sophmorus Obsoletus)

boh3m3 devianTART
boh3m3 devianTART

A Deviant who claims to be over 20 years old but draws and types like a 3-year-old.

This is the DevianTART administration's way of telling you "Get the fuck off of our website you fucking... NORMAL PERSON!"
This is the DevianTART administration's way of telling you "Get the fuck off of our website you fucking... NORMAL PERSON!"

The Flash Maker (Fulgore Faber)

13-year-old boys who make boring looped Flash Animations of random subjects that consist of five frames and run for ten seconds. Otherwise, they make countless dating game simulations featuring stick figures or tracings from Dragonball Z so that they can fap to them. These TARTlets usually belong on YTMND or Newgrounds but some migrate to DevianTART for additional attention-whoring.


The "Draw Something Else Already" Fetishist (Copaepastus Unoriginus)

People who make and submit absolutely nothing but pictures that portray their main fetish(es). They're much worse than your typical tartlet, especially if they consistently rub said fetish(es) into other people's faces.

dAmnwhores (Audarae Filia)

13-to-16-year-old girls who frequent devianTART's chatrooms. Unlike the forums, the CHAT is teh most denjerus place in devianTART. dAmn (devianTART massaging network) is inhabited by camwhores, pedophiles, azns, white men, crackwhores, stoners, filipinos and George W. Bush.

The Camwhore (Vidarae Filia)

16 year old girls who've evacuated from MySpace shutdowns and timeouts in favor of the devianTART shutdowns and timeouts. They herald their existence by flooding the front pages with crappy webcam shots of their ass and graduate to posting thinly-veiled shots of their vagina under the pretense of 'Artistic Nudity'. Naturally, they get almost as many Daily Deviations as The Pornographer.


The Pornographer (Penis Puer)

Photographers who are convinced that a few nudies in their gallery is "AWESOME, HOLY SHIT, DID YOU SEE THOSE TITS!?" will get a Daily Deviation every week and vigorously defend their right to post their boobs, their sister's boobs, their dog's boobs, your mom's boobs, Janet Jackson's uni boob, or whoever's boobs until kingdom come. Emo boys also fit into this group because they believe that taking a sepia-toned picture of their ugly face and greasy hair and blasting it with the dodge tool is "hot" or "artistic." Then they upload their abominations to the nudity section, much to the pleasure of Ville Valo fangirls. Swedish dickheads like Yoshaki and Limpurtikles seems to enjoy watching 16 year old girls getting tied up.


The Drive-By Propagandist (Shitbaticus Insanicus)

These cunning devianTARTlets spew their unwelcome propaganda on their galleries and journals, and attempt to silence anyone who dares question their backwards logic.

The Sonic Recolourist (Velocitas Colorare)

These so-called 'artists' take screenshots from Sonic the Hedgehog games and shit all over them to form pink Sonics, yellow Sonics, blue Tailses and lime green Shadows. (See Also: the cross-over effects of the emo movement evidenced by Mario's fabled brother "Luigi" shifting from his classic green composure to the less Nintendoesque "Pink vs. Black" so favored by said fucktards - user LironDe /Removed/) They are easily enraged by statements that contradict the "incredible originality and brilliance" of their artwork and are quick to accuse others of "stealing" their "Green Sonic" fan-character, despite the fact that Sonic artists are only aware of 8 colours (black, white, red, green, blue, pink, yellow, and cyan.)

The Fandom Retard (Maria Suezae)

Branca, self-proclaimed wife of Stuart Tusspot, from Gorillaz.
Branca, self-proclaimed wife of Stuart Tusspot, from Gorillaz.

These people only go around drawing animu, making flashy animu "art" of characters fucking their mother's sister's brother, creating sophisticated, stylistic portraits of males from Shojo such as Fruits Basket and joining crappy clubs but insist they're not furries or retarded. For most, this is a temporary larval stage lasting until the age of 16 and metamorphose into MySpace whores, furries or pedophiles. They can usually be found plagiarizing, defending and kissing the ass of people who fit in The Popular Ass category, or, rarely, like Zeriara, becoming jealous of them and drawing kill art of their characters.

Typical fanart request.
Typical fanart request.

The Fatass(AKA 'Fat/Inflation Artist') (Fattius Asinus)

These so called 'Fat-Admirers create inflated or grossly-overweight depictions of pre-existing or original characters with MSPaint's curve tool, or are manually drawn in pencil. They will ruthlessly defend their "art," calling their personal army of friends for support at the first sight of a negative comment. Unfortunately, Fatasses continually subject innocent people to Eyerape with their awful artwork, and must be stopped. These fuckheads really need to draw something else for a change.

The Furry or "Anthro Artist" (Yifficus totalis)

These usually cause the most drama by whining about how much everyone hates their fursonas and getting their art stolen by ten year olds because only THEY own the copyright to lemurs/huskies/redpandas/ad infinitum, so they delete everything only to make a new devianTART account soon after.

The Cosplayer (Imbicilae in Costumus)

These TARTlets are actually stupid enough to get a professional photographer to take pictures of their fantastic costumes their comatose grandmother made them. The average age of the cosplayer is 24. Not surprisingly, some cosplayers give up their heterosexuality to fit in with their chosen character, and, knowing many TARTlets, will give up theirs to be like their idols. Too bad they don't have a professional photog.

Unless you're a famous cosplayer of EPIC WIN, you can attract photographers pornographers armed with HUEG cameras to shoot you more than OJ Simpson can. A perfect example for this kind of cosplayer is Alodia or blackmage9 - a coswhore who is freakingly famous in her country and also some sort of a celebrity in the internet. Alodia is about to dominate the world with her "kawaii" (a.k.a. sexual charm) talent to seduce every stalking fucktard so they can buy her prints and bid a shitload of Jewgold for all of her used stuff.

A subset of this TARTlet is the The Poseur (Passuer Imagica Thuivery) who is stupid enough to plagiarize a set of images from the same cosplayer (preferably famous or in professionally-made attire), or a combination of several different cosplayers' images, regardless of nationality, body type, facial features, or even gender. The best part is that people accept the dupe as genuine, leaving rave comments and expressing their appreciation of the imposter's "talents."

The Popular Ass (Popularium Asinus)

Deviants who have more than a million pageviews and as a result, have their heads stuck up their ass. They're usually this popular because their galleries are full of Kingdom Hearts, Sonic, Furry, Pokemon, Disney, Super Smash Bros., Anime, Narutard and hentai "fanart" and they regularly threaten to leave about thirty times per week.

Posting criticism on their page results in immediate attacks by their Personal Army of retarded fans, which shows that devianTART is a place full of Idiots and Fail.


The Emo Poet (Plagiralus Emotalis)

These are the people who are too stuck-up to bother with either Myspace or LiveJournal because they believe they are artistic (When in reality they are autistic.). They can often be found redistributing copypasta from vampirefreaks, trying to seem hardcore. A recently discovered relative of this species is Monglus Canus, commonly know as the Dogmongler.

See: Poeticirony

The Emographer (Vidarae Filia Emotalis)

Similar to the Emo Poet, these deviants deem themselves superior to their MySpace/LiveJournal counterparts, but does not differ a lot from their roots, as they enjoy posting pictures of them cutting themselves and then sucking up all of the pity that the internets has to offer.

The HXC Moshgrapher (Br00talis XXXila)

Moar 13-year-old boys who who upload photographs of themselves and their HXC mosh pit crew fighting ghosts at local hardcore shows. Normally stolen from Destroy All Lines, These emo zubs will threaten with gangrape and epic flaming if their lens flare spin kick br00tal XXX mic steal pics are criticized. Note the sweat, blood (from razors) and semen on the lens.

ED Crew (Anonymus Lulzae)

The lurkers of deviantART who dig up all the glorious lulz and tell the truth about this place. Be they banned or spurned, these dedicated men and women pursue their intended targets with constant vigilante and unwavering dedication.

Bored and talentless members post photos of themselves
Bored and talentless members post photos of themselves

Cheerleaders of Anonymous (Anonymus Lulzae Pussia)

Some users of devianTART, being namefags of sorts, fear teh banhammer, but will indirectly participate, or at least cheer, from the sidelines as frontline Anonymous kill the faggotry with fire. True Anons are encouraged to rape them until they stop being pussies and join in the fun. Some even act as if they knew anonymous all their lives.

Levels of TARTlets

lolly This demonstrates where the subscribers' money goes
lolly This demonstrates where the subscribers' money goes

~Members

Also known as "normal" TARTlets, they are ubiquitous, and can be found in even the deepest pits of devianTART. Members are mostly whiny little bitches, furries and fags that post everything about their lives in their journal on a daily basis. This group mostly consists of retards who assume that posting shit fan art every single day of their pathetic lives will make them famous. They also hope to be promoted to senior members or admins, but don't realise that even devianTART rejects retards as potential material.

*Subscribers

Although rare, this level contains the closest thing to real artists that devianTART has. These people are fucktarded enough to give devianTART money in return for additional features, and their payments form the bulk of devianTART's income. The adminz treat them as if they were their children, protecting them from anything that might harm them, but once they realize the truth and show signs of it, the moderators will drop the banhammer on them before they can spread the truth. Once banned Subscribed TARTlets will beg, scream and cry for their money back, only to be told to STFU and GTFO.

=Beta Testers

Beta Testers are a sub-species of Subscribers and are also a source of devianTART's income, but instead of getting more goodies than the subscribers, they actually work for devianTART by testing their new features. The only reason anyone would choose to be a Beta Tester would be for the symbol.

`Senior Members

This is a typical admin and Senior Member relationship
This is a typical admin and Senior Member relationship

Senior Members are either really old people who have been TARTlets for at least 100 years or former adminz. Noone really likes seniors but they pretend to like them in order to become Seniors themselves. The rules are simple on how to become a Senior Member on devianTART, mostly because the adminz were too fucking lame to come up with anything more original than ripping off Fight Club [1].

There are two types of Senior Member on devianTART: The Attention Whores who think they are PILLARS OF THE CUMMUNITY and must sexually involve themselves in everything and everyone. These members are easily noticeable by their appearance everywhere and their constant positive attitude towards everything. They would smile, even in the face of a nigger who was about to rape them and steal their car.

Then there are the Internet tough guys who like to run around and troll everything they can find. You'll often see them in the forums or chatrooms telling people to "fuck off" or "take the knot." But the moment one of their adminz friends are attacked, they rush in head first. These Senior Members are the worst kind, since no matter what they do or whoever they butthurt, they will not be banned EVAR because they perform various sexual acts for the adminz.

Getting the Most out of Deviantart

As Deviantart is full of wonderfully talented artists who dedicate their lives to the pursuit of Brilliance, many Lulz can be achieved through complimenting their artistic superiority and suggesting they take their art to somewhere it'll be appreciated the most: conceptart.org. Several known Tartlets have easily been milked for lulz by their surprise at constructive criticism. (See chase; or Snapesnogger).

1. Browse Deviantart and target artists with characteristics similar to that of the aforementioned lulzcows. If You Are a Retard and cannot identify them, they are listed here: -Unjustified self importance -Assburgers Syndrome -Anime artwork -Fantard of any kind -Crybaby -THIS IS MY STYLE!!!111oneoneeleven -Pokemon -Countless other signs of Retardedness or Fail, which to any ED user, should be abhorrently apparent by now.

2. Follow their activity on conceptart.org. The most commonly predictable trait exhibited is posting shit in the finally finished forum. Here, Admins and partially skilled professionals will give honest critique (And yes, I am too lazy to continue referencing)) and from here the lultrain leave the station when any Tartlet will either 1. Defend their art, 2. Tell the admins how mean they are, 3. Masturbate 4. Tell themselves they are talented and eat a tub of Ice cream, 5. Or just write it off and continue posting their Epic Failures.

3. Laugh.

Comments and Favorites

You'll see this when giving a deviant an opinion.
You'll see this when giving a deviant an opinion.
The usual reaction to someone's opinion. Note the cry for help and the number of comments received.
The usual reaction to someone's opinion. Note the cry for help and the number of comments received.
Commenting on a deviation means giving a completely dishonest opinion of it - if the deviation happens to be just a pile of MSPaint shit, the comments it receives usually say: 'I dig your style' or 'This is so awesome FAV'D++'. Meanwhile, a Favorite is used when a deviant can't even be arsed to write a single word.
This amazing piece of functioning feature is brought to you by the deviantart programmers.
This amazing piece of functioning feature is brought to you by the deviantart programmers.

Commenting the Wrong Way

"I must say, this is a striking image. It possesses such a bright, color-rich atmosphere and I just can't take my eyes off of it. However, I think you could have invested more time in defining the proportions during the early stages of the work because one of the girl's hands appears slightly larger than the other, even though it's further away. You may also want to consider the placement of light sources in the picture before applying the shading. While the light really brings it to life, it's coming from the wrong direction. Setting that aside, I think it's a beautiful picture. Keep up with the good work!"

Or

"This seems to have taken a good amount of time and I've seen improvement in your work. The only thing I can mention is the proportions are a bit off. I saw a lovely tutorial on proportions with expressions here [link]
Good luck and I think with a little more work you'll be even better! :)"

Commenting the Right Way

  • "cool."
  • "First comment!"
  • "OMG SOOO CUTE!! *hugs*
  • "AAAAAAAAAAH THIS IS SO WRONG!!!ONE". (Add more than 20 emoticons of your choice for full effect.)
  • "SUGOI KAWAII DESU NE!"
  • "This bad bad! But I like cause is sexy. They go bed and sex! :D "
  • "Yaoi! Yay! But Inuyasha is mine!"
    Deviantart is not about the art, it's about the comments.
    Deviantart is not about the art, it's about the comments.
  • "I love that show!"
  • "(:"
  • :iconlarryplz:
  • "A++++++ WOULD FAVE AGAIN"

Viewing Hidden Comments

The TARTlets have the power to hide any comment that may embarrass them from the public. Because of deviantART's competent and caring development team, there is a way to bypass this:

  1. Right-Click on some TARTlet's user page or journal submission.
  2. Select "View Source"
  3. Search for "Hidden by Owner", "Hidden by Admin" or "Flagged as Spam"
  4. Scroll down a few lines
  5. Start blackmailing

Lazier way for FailFox users:

  1. Click View
  2. Highlight Page Style, and select No Style

Pageviews

Attention Whores can drop $20 to have their userpage spammed until 500 dorks click it! This is a real ad made by the admins.
Attention Whores can drop $20 to have their userpage spammed until 500 dorks click it! This is a real ad made by the admins.
They cut the bullshit and just want your monies NAO
They cut the bullshit and just want your monies NAO

Aside from drawing animu, the primary goal of a TARTlet is to obtain pageviews. Remember, kids: Attention is the most vital commodity of survival to the emofur girls that comprise the bulk of devianTART's population! Let's look at the following equation that was developed through intensive research:

Page views = Attention = LIQUID SEXXX

Pageviews are a terrible drug that can drive a TARTlet to engage in all sorts of lies, trickery and treachery. The quest for pageviews creates great banquets of the drama on DA, where TARTlets pull all sorts of stupid shit such as faking a mass suicide. Scientific research has proven that TARTlets cannot reach orgasm without first acquiring over 9000 views of their traced fanart. This TARTlet even made a detailed guide on how to be a more effective, attention-whoring cunt. This guide contained far more effective tactics and strategies for obtaining pageviews.

Of course, 99% of all human beings who are too fucking lazy to survive TL;DR ramblings, can just check out this submission for a brief explanation on how to become popularrr on devianTART.

Daily Deviations

Just like winning the lotto, except your chances are improved by asskissing and the prize is in pageviews and flames, not money. Daily deviations (DDs) are arts that have been featured for 24 hours, give or take a day or two depending on the server lag. Considering the quality of the daily deviations chosen (see right for an example), it’s no wonder that most admins with DD-picking privileges complain about being inundated with suggestions. Fits that DDs are visible on the dA footer, which is kind of like the asshole of the whole site.


Regarding McCreepy the Frog… moonbeam13 initially awarded the DD. Much butthurt ensued, both at the ‘artist’ and the DD selector. The next morning, moonbeam13 posted a journal explaining that she didn’t mean to award it a DD - it was to test out the new DD system, and she hadn’t removed it properly before going to bed. She then removed the DD. Soon after, Purpleblur re-awarded a DD to McCreepy the Frog, just to assert that mod powah is absolute and to stick it to the whiny bitches that actually wanted to see art. This makes it the only piece on dA that was deliberately featured for 48 hours straight, and thus the most important Daily Deviation to exist.

Getting Banned

Official Banning System of the devianTART Staff
Official Banning System of the devianTART Staff
"Posting this in your devianTART gallery will get you banned in under 30 seconds, or your money back!"
"Posting this in your devianTART gallery will get you banned in under 30 seconds, or your money back!"
Like ED, being a moron is a banable offense on DA, but not if you make enough Sonic OCs.
Like ED, being a moron is a banable offense on DA, but not if you make enough Sonic OCs.
Using memes is also a bannable offense on DA.
Using memes is also a bannable offense on DA.

There are various ways in which you could get your ass banned from devianTART. They include:

  • Making a favorite category called "retarded crap" then adding every deviation to it.
  • Making any kind of comment, positive or negative, on a Daily Deviation (Usually a piece of porn that's featured for a day)
  • Don't suck Japan's dick
  • Being a bad reference to the site
  • Putting crap in the wrong category.
  • Trolling. (That's an easy one, especially now that tartlets don't have to BAWWWWW to the mods every time due to the recent addition of a "Report Spam" button)
  • Promoting warez.
  • Labeling another deviant as "bitch." (see: Bleedman)
  • Jokingly referring to another deviant as a "godless devil-worshipper."
  • Having ever visited any *chan board
  • Pointing out the really very manly mustache that the admin chix0r has.
  • Linking to ED articles with the aim of potential lulz.
  • Asking people if they liek mudkip (ref)
  • Opposing animal abuse (see poeticirony)
  • Being a fan of EncyclopediaDramatica. The moderators will get even more upset if you mention it on DevianTART, particularly on the profile of a moderator.
  • Questioning anything on the site
  • Contacting someone who has blocked you (place of contact has to be outside of their userpage, thus making the Block system utterly worthless)
  • Trolling the forums complaining about how Fanart should not be featured. (Which it should be killed with fire in the first place.) Be prepared for incoming eBaumfags, weeaboos, and artfags. Many lulz and drama will ensue.


Many potential lulz exist when doing any of the above. The users and administrators do not like criticism of any form, people who are opposed to anime porn, and people who are in touch with the outside world. They prefer the type of people who will throw away money for the site (this act has been named "subscription")

It should be noted that if you laugh too hard at the artists on their site, you will be banned in spite of your subscription status. If you're a masochist/have nothing else to do with your life and decide to make a new account after getting banned, then the admins will hunt you down and ban your new account in between sucking Snapesnogger and Teruchan's dicks. In other words: why the fuck are you making a new account there in the first place?

46 Rules of DevianTART

  1. DeviantArt is serious business
  2. One day, I’ll be a great manga artist
  3. The longer the journal entries, the better my art becomes
  4. The more flashing friend icons, the better my art becomes
  5. Tracing and recoloring is the same as using a reference
  6. Blurry MySpace pictures of myself, taken without even using the timer mode are art
  7. Photoshop filters are the same as photography skill
  8. Lens flare makes EVERYTHING better!
    Lens flare makes EVERYTHING better!
    Lens flare makes EVERYTHING better!
  9. Critics are only critical because they are jealous of my stick figures
  10. All male game or anime characters are in love with each other
  11. All characters split into two versions when entering DeviantArt: normal and furry, and the furry version is always better than the regular one – cat ears are obligatory
  12. All characters have child-like alter-egos, which I prefer, but not because I’m a paedophile
  13. People don’t know there’s a Full View function, so I must inform them of it, and demand that they use it every time I upload something, no matter how crappy, by commenting “FULL VIEW PLEASE!!!!!!”
  14. The whole world is only waiting for one thing: seeing me naked
  15. It’s art if I say it is!
  16. 2,000 pageviews means I have to make a kawaiiiii picture thanking people for looking at my other kawaiiii pictures, preferably with as many hearts as possible
  17. Being on DeviantArt means I am special
  18. It’s not paedophilia when I draw it
  19. Comments any less positive than “OMG awesome!” must be considered flames, and even the slightest bit of criticism is worth starting a fight and getting banned over
  20. The DeviantArt comments system is a great chatbox, especially if it’s someone else’s page!
  21. There is nothing wrong with inflation art
  22. If I fave one of your pictures, you have to fave one of mine, no matter how terrible I am, otherwise you’re ungrateful
  23. Everyone is interested in my private life, so I must spam my journal full of uninteresting junk (see #1)
  24. If people troll my account due to a mention in ED, I must throw a tantrum, threaten to hex them, say they’ve fallen into my trap, bawl to the moderators and/or threaten legal action and claim lawyers are already on the case
  25. I have more pageviews, therefore my art is better than yours
  26. Making alternate accounts praising my main account is a brilliant tactic
  27. Copy-pasting an “I like your art” comment on loads of Random Deviant pages without looking at the art is a brilliant tactic
  28. Making a thread in the ThumbShare forum, dedicated only to me with the sole intention of throwing my own art into everyone's faces is a brilliant tactic
  29. No matter how crappy my art is, and regardless of the fact that no one would hang it on their wall to save their lives, I must still make all my art available as Prints
  30. The human body is beautiful and never pornographic, even if it’s being penetrated anally by a furry’s cock
  31. My profile icon flashes or moves, that means I’m a better artist than you
  32. Submitting Deviations without commenting anything more than, “me again”, “lol”, “...” or “meh” is artistic
  33. Poetry isn’t artistic if it doesn’t have elementary school rhymes and isn’t about razors or angst or slitting wrists
  34. We’ve made porn of it. No exceptions.
  35. There will be fav w/o comment drama. No exceptions.
  36. Art memes are fun, and when they say I must tag three people, I must always tag EVERYBODY!!!11!
  37. The cool kids set themselves to invisible
  38. I must threaten everyone who might possibly steal my art with physical violence, even though I’m behind a computer
  39. Snape is perfectly capable of getting pregnant
  40. I AM Asian. Really. Can’t you see the painted cat eyes and the V-sign I make with my fingers?
  41. My desktop picture must contain a World of Warcraft-icon, and the wallpaper may under no circumstance have the correct aspect ratio
  42. I paid money for my account, so everything I made has just become better than everything you’ll ever make
  43. Even though I spend every minute I have on DeviantArt, I must still complain how much it sucks as often as possible.
  44. I must always be proud of making the first comment, even when I have nothing more to write than, “First comment!”
  45. I can always delete my account and make a new one
  46. It was an accident retard



April Fools 2008

On April 1st, 2008, the devianTART crew, in a fail attempt to seem "Internets hip", decided to make an April Fools Joke by turning everyone's icon (including those who lacked one) into Mudkips. Unfortunately, they failed to realize that not everyone on their site is a sick fuck weeaboo who spends his free time in the basement fapping to Mudkip pr0n.

Almost instantly, whiny teenage emos overran the Help Desk, Help Chat and Complaints Forum, asking essentially the same thing: "Why is my icon a Mudkip?" When these butthurt "artists" attempted to revert their icons back to normal in order to accurately reflect their individuality and unique-isity, their efforts were met with a strange error message:

 
 
u dont liek mudkips?
 

 


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