As I'm sure all of you have seen in your inbox by now, deviantART says it has started a dating website, deviantHEART. I will admit that I actually believed it for a moment before realizing it was past midnight.
Sounds like a great idea if you ask me. What could possibly go wrong on a dating site directly connected to a website whose majority population consists of minors? It's not like any of them ever lie about their age in order to bypass COPPA and mature content filters. This blatant oversight -- which is par for the course whenever dA introduces something new -- is what makes this prank so believable.
I'm sure DeviantHEART would be a fabulous place for 14-year-olds to find their soul mates.
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Removing the April Fool from this and looking at it as a concept in general, though? With the general attitude and maturity level of the majority of the users on this site, I wouldn't want to use a dating site directly connected to it. Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of perfectly fine people on this site... but for every decent adult here there's about two dozen brats, snowflakes, and/or psychos, children AND adults included. A dating site for artists and creative types is definitely a great idea and I would consider tossing out a line into such a thing, but... not if it's connected to a site that is so overly associated with kids. lol
That and calling it deviantHEART probably wouldn't be the best move if they'd want to attract professional adult artists who aren't already members of deviantART. There's nothing there to communicate that it's a dating site for artists. If you remove yourself from deviantART in general, deviantHEART just sounds like a place for people with kinks to meet. XD
But I digress.
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GOOD JOB, $TAFF, YOU FINALLY THOUGHT OF A GOOD APRIL FOOLS JOKE.
It isn't stupid or annoying like every other thing you've ever done that screwed around with icons and pop ups and troll face abuse, so that will surely throw a LOT of people off. The fact that it is believable that deviantART WOULD do something like that makes it even better.
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A New Thorn and DeviantART Protection
Yes, I'm still alive. 2021 was far more kind to me than 2020 was, but that's not saying much. Blah blah blah, my mental health has been in the toilet, blah blah blah, y'all likely aren't interested in that. lol As for the new thorn? NFTs. From the moment I first heard about online artists having their work taken and minted/stolen without their consent to be sold on NFT marketplaces like OpenSea, I knew I would eventually get hit. I just didn't anticipate it happening so soon. A few days before Christmas I was notified by one of my very longtime followers over on Insta that two of my old Inuyasha pieces, Can't Take it In -- Colored and Winter Gift, had been stolen and listed on OpenSea. Then on Christmas Eve I was informed that a third piece, Midnight Moon: Renji, was also stolen. I found out about that one because of deviantART Protect. I know I've bitched and complained about CORE ever since it was instated for it not being worth the price tag (and I still don't really think it
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I just had to get that old entry off of my front page since it was over a year old.
My life isn't a hellscape anymore.
I'll type something more significant later. lol
Surgeries, tragedies, why I'm not at A-Kon 2018
I've gotten a few inquiries from people about whether or not I'm at A-Kon right now because they couldn't find my table, and the unfortunate answer is no, I am not there. I had to withdraw. For the first time in 13 years. And it is killing me softly.
As I've said in my last two journal entries here, I'm far more active on tumblr now. If you follow me over there then you probably know about this stuff, but for those who don't, my personal life has been a hellscape since October 2017. At the beginning of October I blew out one of the discs in my lower back and had to suffer through six solid weeks of level 11+ pain before I was finally able to
Heeeey another year with no journal. Also: Tumblr.
But there's been art! Lots of figure skating art! Yeah!
If you're not into Yuri on Ice, though... sorry. Can't help ya.
And I'm not really sorry.
The main point of this post is to remind anybody who still watches me here on dA that I have a tumblr account where I am far more active. It's right here, also as KrisCynical.
I'm going to be uploading the old InuKag artwork that dA axed all those years ago due to their asinine "epilogues don't count" witch hunt policy very soon. So if you're not into Yuri on Ice -- which is what my blog is primarily about along with some politics -- there will be some Inuyasha thrown in there as well. All of my
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Haha I like your review of it. If they did ever implement something like that DA would definitely lose a lot of artists since it would be the next FB/Myspace/exciting social networking site with .5% art hehe.