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There's a brick and mortar retail problem in these dinosaur sites no one wants to address. In DeviantArt's glory days, 50% of the content was derivative fan ar
by pipeline_peak 2y ago
There's a brick and mortar retail problem in these dinosaur sites no one wants to address.
In DeviantArt's glory days, 50% of the content was derivative fan art. Machines are pretty damn good at making things that already exist.
That's not a direct contributor to the demise of an image sharing site, no matter how much DeviantArt dresses itself up as a Web 2.0 era hub. "It's like a virtual silk road specifically for artists all over the world!", wonder how long that can stand in the age of monolithic social media platforms. Sites which are more than capable of serving what DeviantArt specializes in.