DeviantART
DeviantArt, formerly stylized as deviantART, is a social network for artists to share their content with one another, founded on August 7, 2000, by Angelo Sotira, Scott Jarkoff, and Matthew Stephens among others in Hollywood, California. As its name implies, submissions, referred to as "deviations", are not always but often of a perverted nature. It allows users to register for free and present their art in individual galleries. Users may also organize their galleries into folders. Works of all media and literature are accepted, though there is some limitation on content. The most popular artwork tend to be of the anime style, most of which are ironically posted by users from virtually every country except Japan, while they offer places for all types of art. Digital art is among the most popular but there is still a large quantity of photography, traditional art, and literature.
DeviantArt has very loose content guidelines, and prohibits what it defines as pornography while allowing sexually explicit themes so long as the specific criteria for constituting "porn" are technically avoided. Fortunately, any registered users under the age of 18, as well as those who do not have an account at all, are not allowed to view this content.
Depraved fetish art including sexualization of death and murder are disturbingly common.
Liberalism tends to be the dominant political mindset of users on DeviantArt, though the site itself previously had no official stance on the topic, and all viewpoints (as well as arguments over them) were allowed to be posted. Since the 2020s, however, DeviantArt has started censoring non-liberal viewpoints, such as opposition to Black Lives Matter and fake genders, on official Website postings from the staff concerning these issues.
In 2018, DeviantArt was acquired by the Israeli company Wix.com. On May 20, 2020, DeviantArt's user interface permanently changed to a new version dubbed "Eclipse" by Wix. The Eclipse version was infamous for being implemented despite the vast majority saying no and demanding that the original interface be preserved. Eclipse has since suffered from severe glitches, vulnerability to a wide range of spam bots, and an unfortunately incomplete form.
