Tahlian-DA

I appreciate it, but I think it's wasted as I don't use any of the features that core offers (aside from the Protect feature). It could've been given to someone that needed it.

Wish there was a feature where you could accept it or decline it.

I really don't want to come over as ungrateful, but I personally wouldn't even recommend this as you're giving money to Wix.

https://twitter.com/Tahlian1/status/1712069057338314798

I'm getting tired of DeviantArt deleting my images for "sexualizing minors". I get it, Tails' canon age is 8, but I don't see the sexualizing part. He's portraited as an adult here for safety sake and there's nothing erotic about this. I'm still disputing the claim here, but I know I'm not getting this piece back. Because DA told me in the past that "Anything deemed to be minors is permanently removed without a second look". I just wrote asking what the problem is, because I don't see the issue here, I wanna know what exactly is sexual here. I don't know what is wrong and I'm so tired of this vague bullshit. In fact, I don't even like this picture that much, I don't really care about it. But there's similar images on my gallery, and I want to know if those are breaking the rules too then.

I'm not going to go on a rant on DA's issues anymore. Been there, done that. But I am questioning the fact of archiving purposes on DA. I prefer to put my art everywhere possible and without too much of editing, I don't like to censor my art. But I do it so people know that there is a new picture out there. Also, to make it easy to find it again and see what other art existed during that time period.

A large portion of my early art is gone as I was only posting on Tumblr and DA back then. Tumblr doing the stupid porn block and DA doing a big wipe removing half of my existing gallery. This is why I started to upload on InkBunny, Furaffinity and Newgrounds. And even these sites have a problem with some of my artwork being uploaded.

I hate the fact that Twitter is becoming the better art site. It's not even the purpose of that site. It's horrible to track down someone's art on that, it has no archiving purposes. But at least I can post my art there and not have it taken down (minus some Nintendo art).

An image that I commissioned from JKLind featuring his Daisy and my Felicia talking to each other has been taken down on basis of "Sexualizing Minors". Both characters are adults (Daisy is 25 and Felicia is 23). Both are short, but stacked, i.e., Shortstack, and were fully clothed without any kind of erotic tint. Whoever was looking at this piece has never seen any kind of short person in their life. After disputing it and even sending a mail to the customers support with both characters refsheets included, DeviantArt has simply given me the automatic reply finger and said: "the character(s) appears to be too young, tough luck".

Now I'm no stranger to this rule, half of my gallery got nuked back at the start of 2018. A lot of people I know have had a similar fate. But I'm getting really tired of DeviantArt's flawed "Sexualizing Minors" rule. I get that you don't want any kind of controversial art involving minors, but... You're not even allowed to age up a fictional character to 18+. Even if you make them a 100 years old, it will be taken down from the moment you add some boobs or a bulge because "You're sexualizing minors." ~DeviantArt. Oh, but it's perfectly fine to have said underaged fictional character shown as their canon age in sexual/fetish art such as: Foot fetish (tickling, licking and worship), (messy) diapers, inflation, bondage (tied up/gagged), hypnosis, etc. Not to mention literal porn of underaged characters on DeviantArt.

It's right here in their own rules. Look up "child foot tickle" (or don't if you want to keep your search history clean). This is all being allowed despite it being a very clear example in the rules. There's plenty of this rule breaking art out there where a moderator had to step in to make sure that the maturity flag had to be enabled. You're telling me that they looked at Amy Rose having her feet being licked while nude and said: "Ah yes, this needs mature tag, my job here is done."

This double standard is really tiring. I know that DeviantArt has limited resources for a moderator team, but a lot of the mods are corrupt. They're very biased and will ignore your report of literal porn images, because they're part of that fandom or just like the art. "An erect dick with semen and penetration? No that's totally fine! Let me just disable the report button now." ~Mod.

I've lost faith in DeviantArt a long time ago. And time and time again they're just hurting the artist on their site:

• Eclipse reducing visibility.

• Removing customization and existing features and make it a Core benefit.

• Working with NFT's.

And the latest craze: AI art and the support for it. I'm tired of seeing these so called "artists" pop up in my feed and make money and fame with stolen artwork and minimal effort. They create 20 soulless images a day and get 10k+ followers in record time. Meanwhile the hardworking artist may not even reach that number after 10 years. Sadly DeviantArt isn't going to do anything about them because it brings in money. All these AI artists have Core/Pro/Pro+ and do subscriptions/commissions/adopts and DeviantArt will get a cut from that.

I've seen a lot of good artists leave the site behind. And I'm still on DeviantArt despite all of these things. That's because I do have a sizable following on here. I prefer to share my art as much and everywhere I can. I hate censoring my art for stupid reasons (*cough stupid rule cough*) but will try to oblige to said rules.

HOWEVER! My patience is running low. A piece I got from one of my favorite artists got taken down for bullshit reasons. How long before they look at Felicia and claim she's too young looking? I won't abandon this site, but damn if this hasn't been pushing me so close to it. For now I'm just going to continue my usual interactions with this site: Upload my art and look at the comments you guys leave behind. Seriously, the comments are pretty much the only reason why I post here.

Still... DeviantArt needs to fix this train wreck of a site. Actual artists get shafted by AI "artists", good art gets taken down unfairly while spam and actual harming imagery gets left untouched, even when reported.

DeviantArt really needs to take their own rules serious. But sadly they won't. Because if they actually did, they'd probably nuke half the site. That's how bad it really is.

I'm doing a signal boost here for my friend Zebjo.

https://twitter.com/zebjzz/status/1658466222659325952

A DA user going by the name @FTgg223 has been reuploading models from @zebjzz on Twitter. No credit is given and the Mega links are not the original ones. I've been blocked by this user after politely asking them to stop reuploading these as Zebjo didn't want these posted on DA. If you can, please report this user. But please do not harass them as this won't do anything.

Sorry that I haven't been active, this is because I'm still in the hospital, and certain sites are blocked on the hospital wifi, but I managed to bypass it.

December 20th I went to the hospital to get rid of a problem in my back, but the first operation failed, 27th was a second attempt but that one failed too

Yesterday January 6th I had my third one and that one was a success. The problem is removed and hopefully no other area starts to act up. If everything goes right, I should be home in a week or 2 as I need to learn to walk again.

Hopefully I'll be back soon to work on art.