I’ve been around these woods since long…
I’ve been around these woods since long before the $37M Wix era—back when "Deviant Police" were breathing humans you could actually argue with, and you could turn a favorite photo into a physical calendar or a sturdy coffee mug. I still have the mugs and calendars featuring my beautiful wife to prove it. Lately, I’ve traded the old-school darkroom for the digital frontier of AI-generated art and technical upscaling. But while the tools have changed, the spirit hasn't. I’m still a fan of cinematic drama, vintage aesthetics, and calling out corporate absurdity when I see it. If you’ve ever been "Nicked" by a bot or missed the days when a critique came from a person instead of an algorithm, this is for you. I have been on Deviant for over 13 years and I have seen the changes. Some forever not for better, as John sang, but the AI Bots with a lack of Human interaction in the submissions process are ruining this site for me. An image I sent to customer service of two images side by side; the images are exactly the same except one has text and the other does not, the image with the text was blocked, yet the image with out the text was fine. But when I brought this obvious error to DA's attention, the response from Nick is a copy n paste response that this is final and there will be no further review. Nick ryhmes,,,,, with everything you need it to (wink, wink) You obviously didn't bother to even look at the damn image! Plus, when you set up your loaded images to sell as either Premium or Exclusive, people just go into your Shop and take them for FREE! And if you load images into your Subscription Tier, it also loads into your Feature gallery, even though you left it UNchecked! The DA instructions to prevent this says to click on the Who Can See This? button and click, Only Subscribers, but there is no such button that I can see. If it is there, it is way to hard to find. When I need help on DA, I go to Gemini because it is way to hard to get a human contact through DA. I have told them about that years ago, saying they need an easy way to contact them, and they always respond with instructions on what I have to do, instead of hearing my point. I'm here for the art, the technical "glitching," and the occasional reminder that behind the prompts, there’s still a guy with a guitar and a memory of how things used to be.