Artists are leaving DA due to Account Bannings

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Spider Tree 2 Prologue 25: Alucarda's Promise by UndercityIV
Leaving might just be the best thing to do....I rather just exit than to give these people over here at DA the benefit of banning and suspending me for asinine reasons. 

It seems that DA is starting to ban and suspend accounts again
based on recent information I've gathered yesterday and earlier today...I have read three recent journals by three different artist who are no longer posting anymore artwork here because DA is banning and up to their usual suspension tactics again. What this means is that even if you are producing non pornorgraphic loli or shota, prepare for DA to come after you eventually.

Got anything that contains any kind of sex that is not heavily censored to make it look less obvious that sex is occuring? They are coming for you. 
Will they target the violence next? Perhaps, or maybe they won't. All I know is if I remove my art, it's going to put a huge damper on things...I spent many years building the type of reputation that I Have here at DA. Sure I've made a few enemies along the way in the past, but I have far more allies than I have enemies. So my DA life has been rather okay....up until now where my fellow Deviant are being removed and losing all of their hard work including some of the important bonds they may have made with the friends they've met here.


Now I already wrote about this in a previous journal about how I was planning to replace several works I already pulled from here, but to be honest...I am considering leaving myself if DA doesn't get better because I can't stand all the censoring, the shady stuff that they're doing due to some moral code they have against certain art. They don't even allow Adult Baby Diaper art! Now that's not something I specialize in but I don't want someone saying "oh look a woman with a baby bottle in her mouth wearing a bib and diapers, let's suspend that account." -rolls eyes-

Its just that under these circumstances sites like PiVix are the only options artists have left, but because it's based in Japan and protected no one outside of Japan has any authority to tell them what type of art they can or cannot post there.

My issue is I don't like Pivix because people have to make an account to see your art on their site. I'm also not a big fan of Patreon either. So if no one makes an account you're just there taking up space....It's not the best place to get fans seeing how the majority of users are mostly Japanese over on Pivix. I did try the site once or twice and I lost patience with it. Plus it was just boring in general...I don't want to abandon this site...But the way they are doing this, they might eventually ban me for something and I might not even know what the hell I did "Wrong" that caused me to get banned. They can ban my writing, they can ban something else. I wouldn't know. So if I have to pull a huge chunk of my art...Then that's going to reduce the number of favs people added by favoring that particular art piece. 

While art will still appear on my Tumblr, it just isn't the same....I prefer the use of DA because of how the galleries are set up, how easy it is to write stories to my art. It's not as clustery as Tumblr, Tumblr is not an art site, TUmblr is a site intended for blogging like what Xanga use to be. So I really don't like posting art on Tumblr for the simple fact that it's just a terrible place to host art that DA finds in violation of their tos. Now I'm stuck between either not using DA at all, or just replacing all my art with PG friendly versions. 

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Vazarush's avatar
Thanks for posting this.  One reason why I have been a bit more conservative her at DA is I realize that some of my topics/ideas are on the edge: see Censorship.   I like the community, I like the tools and the format.  And for the reasons you suggest those other sites just don't work for the visions I have.  Just going to cross my fingers, but I am sure they will come for me someday.