Pulled the plug on deviantArt today. (Patreon)
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After thinking it over since September, I finally decided that my art shouldn't be making money for deviantArt/Wix anymore. They introduced a bot that checks incoming submissions, and it flagged an image of Ayane as "underage". When I contacted them to protest this (Ayane has been around for 7 years and none of my creations represent minors), they cited their "no appeals" policy and essentially said the work was underage because they say so. I suspect that a malicious user fed my images to their bot by reporting my deviations. A number of posts had disappeared over the months leading up to this. To make things worse, I learned that offending images and information is sent to a certain organization concerned with real crime against real children. I found the whole situation disgusting, unjust, and insane. I make imaginary representations of sexy women, and have zero interest in minors.