Episode 24: Deviant Art Pros

This week, the Art Pros podcast about Deviant Art's unapologetic weirdness and the artists who continue to keep the community alive. Some people question the content on DeviantArt, while others embrace it as a place to connect with likeminded creatives alienated from the institutional gatekeeping of Fine-Art. The truth is, the culture of our world wide web has changed since it's early form between the '90s and early 2000s. The first users who logged on cultivated communities and open forums to share information and collaborate with each other. It was what the early version of dial-up internet was born to do. Today, the internet is so fast and accessible people are afraid it might cause cancer. The internet is simply a different beast. Web forums have been swallowed alive by Reddit creating a homogenous culture, and sincere interactions have been reduced to smashing the like button. DeviantArt might look weird on the surface, but it's merely a reflection of the internet's past. When the internet was young, less saturated and full of oddballs who wanted to go online to share information and contribute to their niche community. It's a living fossil from the days when surfing the web actually felt more like surfing than it does riding a rocket-propelled self-driving jetski in a crowded ocean. Extended prose of this topic can be found on our website www.artprospodcast.com [follow us on IG @paid.artists]+++[donate to our patreon at patreon.com/artprospodcast]+++[artprospodcast.com]+++[[email protected]]