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As someone who has used DA for literal years, DA is less of a website for artists and more of an image hosting site where people just upload whatever the fuck they want to. Ostensibly it's targeted towards artists but the vast majority of the people who use it are low functioning autists who make shit like picrel where it's just them putting crusty jpegs of whatever characters they like on a canvas. Right now most of the people still using the site are pissed off at AI slop as if this stuff hasn't been a plague on the website since basically it's inception. If it's not stuff like this it's more low-functioning autists who have an incredibly basic understanding of how to draw and just use it to draw low quality fetish art, people like that usually have hundreds upon hundreds of what is basically the same subject matter over and over again with barely, if any improvement on their art over the span of years. There's also a host of other problems with DA.
>The aforementioned AI slop
>Art theft is a huge problem. People will just upload people's art from whatever other site and upload it
>The community itself is just bad, it's mostly little kids who are obsessed with whatever brainrot slop is popular like fnaf, sprunki, dandy's world, what have you, it's not at all a community for serious artists or even casual ones who just want to share their art to likeminded people
>The type of shit that usually gets popular isn't anything interesting, or pretty/cute to look at executed well but usually just cursed fetish art drawn by niggas who can barely draw. Other platforms are genuinely better if you're actually a decent artist.
>There's this shit called 'llamas' which are basically just useless profile points but you get alerts for them in the same place you get alerts for favorites and comments. It's always pissed me off to no end to have notifications on DA and its just some faggot giving me a llama. At some point they had the sense to disable llama notifications but I still somehow get them from time to time.
I really only still upload because there's a charm to me in uploading on such an ancient website but it's had these issues since before I started using it, and that was 12 years ago. Kill me. The only real upside is the moderation seems decently lax and you can get away with some pretty spicy/chuddy stuff even if there are a lot of lgbtbbq teeny boppers who use the platform still, but then that's just xitter.