I haven't used #deviantart in years, yet a big part of my journey is documented there.
Conversation threads with friends three pages long underneath my early awkward steps into art.
The works and words of people who made a huge impact on me who have since passed away or disappeared from my life.
I hear they changed the controversial move of needing to #opt-out manually to not have ones work used by their #AI but that it even happened in the first place makes me consider deleting my account. 😭
@Sukeile just op out deleting would be a mistake. You have memories there and pretty much an art diary, they did a scummy move that's for certain ! Like it's not scary enough already .
@Zolah I'm pretty sure I have most of the artwork saved in other ways but the real loss would be the comment logs.
I still return sometimes to reread old conversations.
@Zolah I saw and I'm glad.
Still feels like damage was done but I might just be having an unusually pessimistic day. 😅