So as we all know we are finally in the year 2025, you know at first i at least things couldn't get any worse in the beginning, somehow things obviously get worse! you know i at least gonna make a journal about this shit because it's gone to the point that the whole point of this journal post is to HATE it and it still makes me mad about it. For over the past years 6 years ago i was pretty interested drawing art back then when i was young at that time i really did not know how to sketch or even learn how to make poses until i slowly started improving my art. Usually some of my old art that i made weren't that great however at least i appreciated the progress i have made through out the years has helped me improve my art slowly as i learned how to sketch, add colors and details.
Recently we have been seeing influxes of AI generated slop around the internet not just on the internet but also being used by greedy capitalist corporation companies like Coca-Cola, Pringles and ect. for their commercial instead of paying people to make commercials for them, not only that it's even more fucking worse and this is probably the thing i hate the most there are also AI generated cat story brainrot videos everywhere on YouTube Shorts, Instagram Reels especially TikTok as well with the cat meow parody of the song "I'm Unstoppable" by Sia being played over, and over, and OVER AGAIN. It's gone to the point it is impossible for me to avoid because i keep seeing it everywhere every time i scroll down through the reels being recommended to me by Instagram's algorithm it self.
It's gone to the point where people have stopped caring about the harm that is hurting and affecting human artists, HOWEVER when people like my self who are real artists criticize this problem, there will be people out there who are AI "enthusiasts" themselves or defenders by saying "Who cares! It's not a big issue!" it IS an issue. AI isn't just hurting human artists, it's also stealing artworks from an artists without their CONSENT, without their permission whatsoever. Which is what social medias like Instagram and Twitter aka. Elon the dumbass Musk is doing which is using people's posts to train their AI. I feel like it's pretty safe to say we are TIRED. TIRED of all of our work being taken away by AI slop and not to mention people giving these AI accounts that are most likely being run by private business companies that are using these AI cat story videos they are posting for money.
AI is ruining the internet.
AI is ruining art and creativity.
AI is ruining people's jobs.
AI will NEVER replace human's creativity whatsoever. AI "art" needs to be STOPPED.
I have been wanting to talk about this ever since i left DeviantArt and also considered a former DeviantArt veteran user, so i wanted to talk about my experience there and things that has affected my mental health and a lot of awful and bad event and situation that has destroyed me in the past ever since i joined it. Back around 2015 i originally joined DeviantArt because of Undertale that was growing in popularity at that time including FNAF. I saw many fan arts of Undertale and FNAF that was going around everywhere as well as speedpaint videos that were around YouTube, i was only 15 years old at that time since that time i wanted to draw art just like the artists that i used to look up to that i liked as a kid. When i joined the site i didn't know what program the artists that were using to draw art since i was pretty young to understand how to sketch and do poses at the time so instead i used MS Paint to draw my art at that time when i was pretty obsessed with Undertale and the OCs people most commonly being sans skeleton clones including frisk/chara clones. Which is what led me to make my own version of my OC which is my fox OC that would eventually become my fursona that would lead me to become a furry who was just nothing but the copy and rip off of Frisk as main character in Undertale as well as Chara who is antagonist.
For over the past years i would eventually stop labeling my fox sona as Undertale OC and instead become my fursona. This is where things would get worse for me as there would be trollers or even bad people would harass me, bully me as well as mock me as well as comparing and judging my fox fursona by comparing my sona to Tails a sonic character from sonic franchise series even through their design didn't have same design and had completely different design. Not only that. Some trollers have went out of their way to draw NSFW artwork of my fursona without my consent whatsoever despite the fact i was literally a minor and even editing it out by putting memes around it. The amount of attacks, harassment and bullying i received this would lead me to have anxiety attack and i was autistic. It was was pretty tuff for me to try and get some sleep at that time because there was drama that was happening around me where everyone was against me for something i didn't do at all. There wasn't anything i could do whenever i would apologize people would never forgive me at all. I showed my full real name publicly there which would lead to bad people including trollers finding my facebook page and posting one of my old childhood photos of mine when i was a baby at that time by using it for really disgusting things by editing it out and putting it as their pfp. Eventually the situation would end as people would realize what they have been doing to me is wrong and destroying my mental health. But the damage has been done.
Since then ever since all of this has ended, DeviantArt Eclipse would be introduced in 2017 which could mean it would be considered the downfall of the website it self. The website has went from being a community for artists to showcase their effort into their artwork to now becoming a website of fetish artworks of characters who are children being fetishized by full grown ass mans who are from 30s and 40s who are literal creeps, which has lead me to get exposed into it without mature content warning whatsoever in early days of DeviantArt, And of course it's now filled AI generated slope. The website is now filled with mostly fetish artwork and just cursed images as well as unfathomable non sense, The amount of people dedicated to making cursed images just keeps going to this day while artists are leaving the platform and finding alternatives like Sheezy.Art, Instagram, Bluesky. Since things have been collapsing all these traumas i have experienced as a kid ever since i joined it i would move to Instagram and slowly start to grow there as well as improve my art slowly.
While there were a lot of bad apples that occurred there im at least glad there will people there who supported me and were very nice good people there who liked my art that was badly drawn anyway, as well as people giving my advice and help as they need for me to make my art look better. Speaking of which. I'm genuinely glad that DeviantArt has died and decided to leave it completely after all of this trauma i experienced and im also glad that i have joined Sheezy.Art that is better then DeviantArt.