DesireeU

It honestly feels surreal typing this, but I guess all good things must come to an end. Like many other artists here, it's my time to leave dA as well. It's definitely a bittersweet decision, deviantArt has been my first true "digital home", where I made longlasting friendship, shared my art for the first time, and managed to reach my dream of sustaining myself with only art as my job. I have so many memories about this place. But I come to realize that place doesn't exist anymore, dA now feels so empty, an echo of what it used to be. I took the hit and stayed here when Eclipse dropped despite hating it, but I see no point in staying here anymore. The fun is gone, artists aren't really interacting anymore, and it's become an AI-plagued hellhole ---I've tried to look at dA's main page more frequently in the past couple weeks, to see if I could find some new artists to follow, but 80% of posts are AI "art", it's awful... I think the realization came when yesterday I got locked out of