When I sometimes visit DeviantArt, I lost interest to browse good arts there, and I even wanted to commission artists there to draw my OCs for me. Now it's just filled with AI art... these people who post their content wanted quick money and popularity to gain benefits for their own. And even if you try to tell them to pick a pencil, they won't care. They'll use these AI generators and post it on their gallery as if they made it for themselves when they just prompt it, and even have the audacity to do an art trade. Would you willing to do an art trade to a person who uses AI gens to "make" their own art?

Few of my friends there at DeviantArt seem to like AI art, mostly NSFWs of thicc girls. I feel sad and depress knowing that they like it and they think that it's all good and there's nothing bad on AI art. My friends even fave it. I think few of my friends don't know what is powering these AI art gens, I don't have to explain to them and felt more depressed thinking that I should adapt it or get left behind.... That's just hurt me even more. I felt like my friends betrayed me... again....

I've stayed at DeviantArt for so long that I don't call it a home anymore. I really want that garbage site to get shutdown soon enough.... Sadly, Artstation is also the same, the professional artists there that I used to know deleted their works and accounts because of AI art. And like them, they also want Artstation to get shutdown or fall; possible to sue them too I hope. I don't know why am I still living in this dreadful world, and I really don't know if the government would take any actions against the people who are building these AIs.

I am still trying to get to use Newgrounds but I will say it's more easy and manageable than DeviantArt, I hated when they changed their layout to Wix and it has so many bugs and the chat is also crappy.