To some extend, it didn't bother THAT much how deviantART has become some kind of big kittypic-fail-pop-elitist-fail myspace-facebook-wiki-youtube trashcan. Not enough to really cause anything but a lack of interest. I still posted a few things and came on this site about 2-3 times a year.

Now, deviantART introduces some kind of portfolio thing. It's great and shiny and clean. Basically you pay a small amount of money (for the dA branding-free version) and you put your stuff in a cheap customizable tabbed glorified agenda.. and there you are, you've got a portfolio.

As a graphic/web designer, to me this is a huge failure.

For one thing, a couple of us are going to hav to find another way to pay the rent, because who needs expensive professional work when you can just upload a few JPGs into a customizable template?

Then there's the true failure: web farms. What i call web farms are sites like myspace, youtube, deviantart, etc. where people willingly stack themselves in a tiny bit of a url to e-exist. I find them hostile or maybe just sterile.

I'm not angry or anything, I just don't see anything in here that ressembles in any way the deviantART I joined in 2003. I may not be uploading anything more to this site, ever again. If you're on my page and I've removed "everything" but this journal, then it seems I decided to take that away, too.

If you need me I'll be in real life.