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Let me start with a little disclaimer to say that I know not everything on dA has to be Art. There are galleries stock, customization and design etc that are totally fine to be submitted to dA I can somehow foresee me maybe even deleting this rant later, but I have to get this shit out
What I am talking about are submissions (I refuse the term deviation in this context) that are doing nothing else but voicing an opinion with no artistic background whatsoever. The first time it really annoyed me was as a SOPA protest, and now it's a Fair Exposure protest. I also refuse to post thumbs of those deviations here. There are also submissions that say things like "Have Self Esteem!" and everybody totally agrees with that message and faves that thing like crazy. WTF?! I've seen several dA users do that kinda thing just to gain attention. Everyone could do that, but most of us don't, cos we know that it is bullshit and fake.
Naturally those submissions end up in Digital Art > Typography, because… you know, they contain text, so it must be Typography.
If you are confused as to what Typography is, please read this fav.me/d4ta2pl !
Those submissions are not Typography and they are even less Art. They are doing nothing else but voicing an opinion. They do not belong into ANY of dA's galleries. There is no gallery that says "hey here you can submit something that is no Art but only an opinion". Oh you know what? There are journals for exactly that kind of thing!
I understand the point they are trying to make and that they want attention for their cause. But damn, they piss me off. Why not just write a god damn journal? Do they really need to spam whole galleries? You are hurting those galleries and showing complete ignorance and no respect to the artists who actually do submit Art to those galleries. You only care for your cause and kick everybody else in the face. I am all for fighting for things, but please, stay respectful and don't justify stupid moves with your cause. Because acting like that makes you look like an asshole and that reflects on your cause and hurts it. Grow the f**k up and think before you act like a d**k.
For me, that also counts for big organisations, who for example support animal rights, but treat human rights with their feet. If you act like an idiot, I am neither gonna respect you nor your cause. It's not only about what you say, but also about how you say it. Sometimes you can get away with it, but then your argument needs to be a real killer argument.
And it would even piss me off, if not maybe more so, if I was not a Community Volunteer taking care of that gallery.
Sorry if I offended anyone
What I am talking about are submissions (I refuse the term deviation in this context) that are doing nothing else but voicing an opinion with no artistic background whatsoever. The first time it really annoyed me was as a SOPA protest, and now it's a Fair Exposure protest. I also refuse to post thumbs of those deviations here. There are also submissions that say things like "Have Self Esteem!" and everybody totally agrees with that message and faves that thing like crazy. WTF?! I've seen several dA users do that kinda thing just to gain attention. Everyone could do that, but most of us don't, cos we know that it is bullshit and fake.
Naturally those submissions end up in Digital Art > Typography, because… you know, they contain text, so it must be Typography.
If you are confused as to what Typography is, please read this fav.me/d4ta2pl !
Those submissions are not Typography and they are even less Art. They are doing nothing else but voicing an opinion. They do not belong into ANY of dA's galleries. There is no gallery that says "hey here you can submit something that is no Art but only an opinion". Oh you know what? There are journals for exactly that kind of thing!
I understand the point they are trying to make and that they want attention for their cause. But damn, they piss me off. Why not just write a god damn journal? Do they really need to spam whole galleries? You are hurting those galleries and showing complete ignorance and no respect to the artists who actually do submit Art to those galleries. You only care for your cause and kick everybody else in the face. I am all for fighting for things, but please, stay respectful and don't justify stupid moves with your cause. Because acting like that makes you look like an asshole and that reflects on your cause and hurts it. Grow the f**k up and think before you act like a d**k.
For me, that also counts for big organisations, who for example support animal rights, but treat human rights with their feet. If you act like an idiot, I am neither gonna respect you nor your cause. It's not only about what you say, but also about how you say it. Sometimes you can get away with it, but then your argument needs to be a real killer argument.
And it would even piss me off, if not maybe more so, if I was not a Community Volunteer taking care of that gallery.
Sorry if I offended anyone
What happened?!
Holy fucking shit I have not been here in a while.
Just saw on twitter a new theme was out and naturally I got curious.
Turns out in February I got a spike in pageviews, starting Feb 17th until Feb 27th, with hovering just around 1K a day and then from 1.200 on 27th to 63 on 28th
So yeah, no idea what happened, I did not get a DD for a deviation that's more than 2 years old, that I can figure out.
Also I had to delete 1K mentions, because roughly 900 of them were the same person using on a daily basis to wish people a happy birthday.
If anyone can explain this, please do, or I will forever not know.
That said, what else happened? Not
Lots of freebies on my (new) blog!
In an attempt to make the most stressful holiday of the year even more stressful I decided to have a big freebie event at my blog. Every day until the 24th I will be posting new free items for everyone to download.
Check out my blog to learn about the freebies!
Today is a special day, it is December 6th and St. Nikolaus day, so the freebie today is especially big. It contains samples from previous products I released, some new items and some old items that are available for free already.
Here's a link to the post with the big freebie!
The entire website is actually new and fresh with the blog and it's homepage. It contains all the big way
About that Kiriban... and other things first.
The Sunday through to Saturday feature is postponed for next week. I have not had the energy to focus on it this weekend. I don't want to go into detail, I think you are all aware of the horrible things that have happened in this world in the last week, and I am not one to virtue signal. Most of the time I am torn between lost for words and anger.
Meanwhile I am working on a few commissions, so at least I can get busy with that. I want to open up more in the future, as mentioned in the previous journal.
Speaking of the previous journal.
After a long deliberation I decided to not give out the points.
Why?
Because someone manipulated my pa
Kiriban caught!
I think it's time for a personal journal!
You didn't see that one coming, did you?
Obviously now that I decided to write this journal I forgot what I wanted to say.
Oh, right!
Kiriban at 333.333 pageviews!
It is about 2000 views away, which is about 20 days judging from my daily pageviews, so I suppose I will reach it end of July or early August.
If you reach it, take a screenshot and note me with it.
Actually even if you don't hit it exactly, I am probably letting win whoever came the closest.
Wait, win?
Yeah, you can win something. I've collected quite a few of points that I cannot transfer to Paypal, so I thought I should share them
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hah..late seeing this journal...
I went "Poor ^pica-ae when I saw them.
Though I do like it when users can put the message and art both at the same time than those generic ones..like =sakimichan's [link] or something along those lines....
I guess they could put it in scraps or journals...
I went "Poor ^pica-ae when I saw them.
Though I do like it when users can put the message and art both at the same time than those generic ones..like =sakimichan's [link] or something along those lines....
I guess they could put it in scraps or journals...