THE DEVIANTART PURGE (OVER 100K PIECES OF ART LOST FOREVER)

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KrimsonKatt
Gamedev by sunlight, magical girl by moonlight
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So, you all probably don't know this, but the site DeviantArt is currently in the process of a massive site-wide purge. This is akin to the great Tumblr purge and exodus of 2018, only on a slightly smaller scale. Basiclly, overnight without any warning, multiple major artists in the genderbend art scene got their entire accounts nuked and permabanned. The reason was according to DA for "posting content sexualizing minors." They did nothing of the sort. What they ACTUALLY did was post (mostly) SFW or heavily censored NSFW images of transformations involving FICTIONAL underage characters. And no, I do not mean lolis. I mean fully physically developed anime characters that just so happened to be canonically underage. Like, in the 15-17 age range. This most infamously includes the majority of human characters from Pokemon and My Hero Academia, who have been the main target of the mass purge. The purge is growing in size every day and I'm not completely up to date of how many users have been permabanned, but the list is growing and it's growing fast. The art isn't even NSFW (mostly) and the characters aren't lolis/shotas, just people transforming into dawn, misty, or serena from Pokemon or a genderbend comic about Deku from MHA turning into a girl. Once again these characters ARE NOT REAL and DO NOT LOOK LIKE KIDS, yet DA is going after transformation artists and SPECIFICLY transformation artists and using these characters as a crutch to mass ban that genre of art from their website. There is also the fact that the majority of these artists are also trans (mostly trans girls) so this may be a purge based on transphobia and other forms of hate.

If you didn't know already, I use DeviantArt frequently (my @ is/was KrimsonKattTG) and post a decent amount of genderbend art on there. I have around 800 followers on there. The problem comes that I have posted multiple genderbent arts of Pokemon characters and other "underage" characters according to DA despite them being not real and looking and acting like adults in canon, and are only underage because anime is wildly unrealistic age-wise. DA also does not accept excuses of "aging up characters." If they are under 18 in canon then they are banned. The worst part is that a lot of these post I made involving "underage" characters (which were SFW mind you, no nudity or sex) were commissions. People paid me to make and post them and now I'm being banned for them. Once again, THE ARTWORKS WERE COMPLETELY SFW. The only ones I did that was even mildly NSFW was the ones I did for Pyra and she is over 500 years old. (mental age is unknown, though she certainly isn't a child)

In short, I need to find a new website to post my art, but I don't have many options. Twitter is a hellsite run by billionaire man baby Elon Musk and is currently in the process of imploding, and Threads is too early in it's life to be reliable. There's no way in Tartarus I'm posting on a furry art site like FurAffinity or Weasyl, as I'm not a furry and neither is my art. Newgrounds is probably the best option, but that site doesn't have a mobile site or app and is very laggy and unpolished, heavily limited reach since the majority of people only use social media on their phones now. Tumblr is a no-go since I'm not sure what the status of their infamous NSFW ban is, and Insagram and Facebook are also off the table because my family is on there, uses it religiously, and all follow me. I don't know Japanese so sites like Pixiv or ArtStation are also out of the question. And there's no way I'm posting on a porn site like R34 because once again, 99% of my art is SFW. I have no idea what to do. I need to leave DA ASAP and repost my art somewhere else, but I have nowhere to go. I obviously can't post it here since this place is for free indie games, not for art of a mildly erotic manner. Anyone who has any experience with art, where should I go to post my stuff? Any site I should know about so I could switch? Thanks.
Could you try Mastodon? Internet is falling apart lately people need to build their own infrastructure.
You could try Cohost as well Imo, thats a decent site, not really an art site though... just a twitter esque one...
Oh! There is Itaku I think! I quite like that one! Very sleek art website!
KrimsonKatt
Gamedev by sunlight, magical girl by moonlight
3326
Sorry, but it's kind of hard to trust new account with no pfp and zero makerscore. Makes me feel like they're just bots.
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