...To Twilight Inc, today.

What will you do?
Spread the word to the masses.
The Llama revolution begins today.



this article to spread the word.

Believe it or not, I have no enemies on deviantART. None. I'm not saying everybody loves me, but I don't have any ongoing feuds, spammers, trolls, art thieves, or anything like that. I've been here for over four years, and these ten commandments are what keep me safely out of the flames.

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I. If someone insults you, you don't have to retaliate.

So some anonymous bozo doesn't like you - so what? Learn to let it go. Hurling insults back only makes you look like a complete idiot.

Do you ever see this scenario? Troll insults Johnny, and Johnny argues with Troll, trying to prove Troll wrong and get him to apologize. Eventually they just end up flinging variations of "your mama" at each other.

It's fruitless, obviously, because trying to get a troll to be logical is like trying to empty a bucket with a soup strainer. So all that happens in the end is that the troll is still a troll, and you end up looking like just as big a jerk as he is.

Let insults slide off your back like water off a duck. (Two water metaphors and it's only the first tip, wow!)

II. Sometimes a critique is just a critique.

Some deviant critiques you, and neglects to point out all the positive qualities in your work. Don't assume that it's because he was trying to be rude. Perhaps he just didn't see any positive qualities that stuck out to him, or perhaps someone else had already pointed them out and he didn't feel like giving empty compliments.

Most critiques aren't attacks, so learn to just take them into consideration and don't take them personally. Even if they seem unduly harsh, it's a safe bet that the commenter doesn't have a personal vendetta against you. (However, if a critique is an attack, Rule #1 applies.)

III. If you see someone has stolen art, report it and move on.

Getting up in someone's e-grill and telling them "Hey, this is stolen and I just reported you!" is about the dumbest thing you can do. The best possible situation that could arise from doing that is this - they take the piece down, and put it up again a week later. In a worst-case scenario, an all-out journal flame war begins.

There's a cool little "report deviation" button. Use it and shut up. You don't look like a hero or a vigilante or a good samaritan by attempting to warn the perp of an impending banhammer.

IV. Don't call people out in your journal or anywhere else.

This goes back to #3 - don't engage in a land war on deviantArt. By land, I mean your journal, which goes out to EVERYONE WHO WATCHES YOU. If you regret it later, there's no taking it back. Argue in notes if you have to, but the minute your dirty laundry is in print, you're asking for a shit storm, and it's rainy season.

V. Don't "leave" and come back.

I don't care how upset you are. The minute you make an angsty "leaving forever!" journal, you lose the respect of your watchers. It's a ten to one chance that you'll come back and answer comments and then decide not to leave after all after seeing the "overwhelming support" - aka, the token affections and pleadings from the innocent fans you've duped. Congratulations - you're pathetic!

If you're thinking about leaving, just do it. Don't make a big dramatic exit. At least that way you'll be remembered fondly.

VI. "Spreading the word" does NOT help.

This relates to #4 and #5. You might think you're being an awesome friend by "warning" everyone you know about an art thief or a troll, but in reality you're just getting yourself, and potentially everyone who comments on your journal, involved with said troll/thief. If you just keep quiet and keep your nose clean, there's less to worry about. Feeding the flames only causes MORE trouble with the guy.

The golden rule is report, report, report. Make sure he gets what he deserves, but do it quietly.

VII. If you get wrongly accused of art theft by a deviant, don't react at them.

Show your proof to the proper authorities and brush it off. You don't need to get angry at the person - for all you know, they could have genuinely thought it was a stolen work.

Actually, it's a compliment. Someone thought your work was so good that they assumed it was stolen! Perhaps your work was hosted on your other site, and they simply didn't realize you had multiple websites.

(Or, of course, your work might look WAY too much like another person's, in which case you should probably think about why that is.)

VIII. Don't lead (or be part of) a torch-and-pitchfork brigade.

If someone steals your art, spams your page or insults your mother, don't call all your little watchers together to flame them. They're your friends, not your flying monkeys, and while most people have good intentions, they are also far too eager to be part of a mob. It's just human nature.

Nothing good has ever come out of being part of a mob. At best you'll earn yourself a blurb on Encyclopedia Dramatica and everyone will think you're a lemming, a fanboy/girl or a brown-noser. If you lead a mob, the consequences could be more severe.

IX. Take things into perspective.

This is deviantART. Is it really worth getting all worked up about? Try to imagine yourself ten years from now - would your future self look back on how you're acting now and roll their eyes?

If you want to be successful selling your work online, do you want your past to haunt you? Do you really WANT a bunch of enemies, or do you somehow think that time will wash away all the traces of your idiocy? Think again. The internet is forever - everything you say on here will never go away.

X. Pitching a fit only works in restaurants.

Don't spam the admins with notes demanding that something be done about so-and-so. Don't threaten to "cancel your subscription" or leave or write a nasty thing about dA on your xanga.

Trust me, no one gives a flying crap if you do. This website is massive. For every second you spend writing an angry letter, seventeen and a half billion people join up. And only like 75% of those are plz accounts.

This isn't Applebees - no one's going to give you a coupon for free jalapeno chipotle asspoppers if you're upset. All it accomplishes is pissing off the admins.

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I hope these tips are helpful to someone.

Gotten a free subscription for active use of the site
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Established that to be polite on deviantart, you must thank those that fave your work ( beginning with the discovery of the emoticon and moving onto simpler ways of thanks like )
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Made your own avatar, not just downloaded a 50x50 from any random site
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Created a signature with at least one emoticon (gone through a possible rainbow emoticon phase (usually more elaborate))
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Clicked on a stupid link in someone’s signature that promised something cool but ended up just rerouting back to the persons gallery
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Determined that the little marks in front of deviant usernames have some sort of meaning (* = ` ! etc)
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Crushed on/Admired *saturdayx or *BellZ [if a girl, or an emo boy]
                      or *kedralynn / *larafairie [if a boy, or a girl that rolls that way]

*done fanwork for any makes you even more devout
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Done up your journal with CSS if subscribed; if not subscribed, admired those who have pretty journal entries and asked to no avail how to obtain a pretty journal
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Featured thumbs from other deviants in your journal entires
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Become envious of `blackeri for mastering the Seven Deadly Sins -


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Marvelled at `foureyes square landscapes

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Said “aweeeeeee” out loud (in the head is acceptable) for *faboarts amazingly cute creatures

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Realized that you will never be as good as *BatDesignz at creating the perfect eye picture, though you will probably try anyway

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Discovered `gilad’s The Love Omen and the perfect shaped heart cloud that is impossible to recreate

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Observed just how many deviants are into anime (and actually anything Japanese)

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Found that when you put the words sex, love, heart, etc in a deviation, it’s bound to get pageviews

*this is even more true if there’s nudity/fetish-like features
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Seen the classic points of view - by *sanja
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Come to terms with the fact that the whole heart shape made in the fold of a book has been done, too many times, and should not be replicate (although if you do you’ll probably still receive a nice amount of favorites, and don't get me wrong, the following are beautiful pictures)

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Noticed that being emo is praised and that emo deviants roam the site
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Faved at least five dewdrop pictures from the millions to choose from

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Admired the numerous pictures of Polaroid pictures
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Come to terms with the fact that boys kissing boys and girls kissing girls is sex
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Posted at least once in the forum
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Accumulated over 500+ deviations in your deviantwatch box from slacking off
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Gotten to know random deviants that have amazing deviations but go unnoticed; helped to spread news of their wonderful gallery through forums/discussions/etc
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Checked out the following deviations from the amazing following deviants

~poop-art :



*girltripped :



*enayla :



`suzi9mm :



*whorer-movie :



~kittynn :



*pyromaniac :



=333bracket :



=TheTragicTruth-Of-Me :



*complejo :



`karincoma:



*acidlullaby :



`SeaFairy :



=anjali:





But the most important factor in being a true deviant is improving your artwork, interacting with others and their galleries, and having fun


* If you feel like I’ve missed something, or have a great idea of your own that would add to this article, just note me what you’ve got here

[this article in no way defines your stance as a deviant, it’s only something I wrote for fun! :]]

This includes getting more fav's, comments, and watchers. Just use one of the following techniques, or all of them if you're into it:


1- EMO technique: let other deviants sympathize with you by checking your page daily to make sure you haven't committed suicide.

Steps:
- Put a picture of you crying, cutting your wrist, or eating your own flesh as a sign of unworthiness and self destruction.
- Write more than 10 journals telling people that you're closing your account because you aren't getting enough attention.
- Tell people you've got a deadly disease, suffering from social drama, lost your eyeglasses and now your dog is helping you surf the internet.



2- Popular deviants technique: this is also called the parasite or the leech technique.

Steps:
- After finding a very popular artist, constantly send shouts in their shoutbox, with lots of icons to drag attention.
- Stare at their status, once they appear online, wait for them to submit a new deviation or a journal entry. Once they do, make sure you get to post the first comment, even if you're going to blab nonsense, just do it.
- Argue with them, criticize their pictures, even if the only photography experience you have is taking pictures of yourself with your cellphone. This will make you look like a wise ass, let other people volunteer and reply to your comments, and eventually visiting your page to see how qualified you are. Then BUMMER!



3- Basic instinct technique: in this technique, you will be totally eliminating the human mind.

Steps:
- Take pictures of a nude girl in any position. Quality of the picture doesn't matter at all. Even if you were taking a picture of your daughter, go for it, daddy.
- Take sexual pictures of people with various orientations. Straight, homosexual, bisexual, undecided, or all of the above.
- Pictures of luscious lips sucking on candy, giving the space for the viewer's imagination to wander.



4- Silly trick technique: you got to be very creative to come up with one of these.

Steps:
- Try navigating away from your page and then back to it so that each view counts. This doesn't always work with the refresh button.
- Include a link in your signature letting other people think it's something interesting, once they click, BAM, it's a link to your page.
- Check the emoticons that start with dev, then create an account with the remaining letters. Like the person who made an account called iantart, so that when you try putting the : deviantart : icon, this will redirect you to his page.



5- Cliché technique: take the safe side and do what everyone else is doing.

Steps:
- Grab a pencil and draw Sasuke (167,406 search results for Sasuke), Naruto (559,250 search results for Naruto), or Jack Sparrow (25,916 search results for jack sparrow).
- Make dark pictures with gothic girls in black dresses on the seashore, let bats soar in the horizon and strike her with thunder.
- Take any picture that has been done a lot. Whether it was a feather with water droplets, two hands making a heart shape, piercing your tongue with needles, a heart shape with your book pages, etc… you're free to use anything you like.


Unfortunately, these annoying techniques actually DO WORK.


(Article written by ~Miss--Dee. Please the article if you like it.)

Are you a disability artist?

I got this from an Chinese art forum巴哈姆特創意漫畫大亂鬥留言板, I think it's very funny.
So I give it a translate to share with you guys on DA.
Sorry about the terrible grammar and translation Q_Q" I've tried my best.
For the people who understands Chinese, I prefer you to read through to original.

Don't feel bad if there are facts that suit you, there plenty of facts below that suits me as well.
And it doesn't mean you really are a inability artist if some facts suit you.*unless everything below suits you ?!
Just have fun read through it. XD
Gook luck, hope this gave you some help in improoving your skill!


1偷工減料當Q版
1.Jerry-build pictures, but you excuse them as Chibis

2被人看到自己的圖時會說[修行中...]做理由
2.Call yourself as "still practicing" when someone sees your works

3畫的不好時會說[用滑鼠畫的.../沒繪圖板...]這類理由
3.You use excuses like"It's done by mouse/no tablet..." when someone critiques you

4只會畫臉
4.You only know how to draw faces

5臉永遠望向同一方向
5.The faces you draw always is facing one direction

6只有頭會認真畫
6.Only draw the head seriously

7角色的分別只有髮型不同
7.Different hair style is the only way to tell your characters aprart

8分不清左右的畫法
8.No distinguish between left and right

9不會做草稿/只會做草稿
9.Only do skectches/don't know how to skectch

10用PS時不重視圖層或完全不用
10.You don't care/never uses the layers while using Photoshop

11構圖全部差不多
11.Compositions of your arts are almost always the same

12每次角色表情一樣
12.Your character's expressions are same all the time

13不會畫有動作的圖
13.Inability to draw different poses

14不會畫下半截腳
14.Inability to draw legs or feet

15不會畫俯視仰視圖
15.Inability to draw views from different angles

16同一角色在不同的構圖就會變成不同的角色
16.Same character looks different in different pictures

17只會/不會畫人,或相反
17.Only draw humans or oppisite

18除了萌繒就什麼都畫不出
18.Only draw shiny little girls *Which is called "loli"

19不會畫老人
19.Inability to draw old people

20畫不好手或手指
20.Cannot draw hands or fingers properly

21理想高但沒有行動
21.You've got a high-perfect ideal, but never take action

22第一隻眼拚死地畫但第二隻眼就作畫崩壞
22.You work very hard one the first eye but the second eye turned out to be a piece of shit

23將圖左右反轉會很恐怖
23.Flip your picture horizontal and it will became very scary

24每次都只做到線稿就完成
24.Quit everytime only the line art is done.

25不理解筋肉骨骼構造
25.Knows nothing about anatomy

26認為[所謂的五官不過是貼在臉上的肉已而]
26.Thinking that facial features are just muscles that sticks on faces

27胸部的位置很"獵奇"
27.The position of your character's breast is weird

28會畫有六隻手指的手或左右手相反
28.Often draw character with six-finger or  hands in uncorrect directions. *Unless your character is not a human

29很會評論別人的畫但自己永遠畫不好
29.Good at giving criticisms, but never be able to do it better yourself.

30本來為收集資料而收的圖最後就成了自己的屬性
30.The pictures you gather for reference ended up as your own style.

31畫畫途中會分心做其他事
31.Easily been disatract when drawing

32認為繪圖板是會令畫功進步的道具
32.Thinking that tablet is the tool to make you improove

33畫了張很滿意的圖但第二天再看時就囧了
33.Very satisfied with one of your completed hard work, but it pisses you off the next day

34一星期只會畫一張圖或更少
34.One picture one week or less.

35有開網站放自己的圖但一直沒有更新
35.You have a online gallery but never manage it.

36畫エロ(色情)圖但最後會變成グロ(獵奇)圖
36.You tried to draw porns but it turns out to be eye-harming disgusting utter shits.

37覺得沒有才能再多努力也沒用
37.Thinking that it's useless trying harder to improove

38其實根本就不會畫圖...
38.Actually you don't even know how to draw .......

Do you think you spend too much time on DA?
Would you like to know?

A few days ago, a list was made over all known symptoms of being a DA-addict! And as you can see, a lot of deviants have contributed by adding useful information (experience? )to this list

By popular demand, the list is being put here for everyone to see


See how many of these symptoms apply to you

You know you've spent too much time on dA when:

- You submit your comments by pressing Tab + Enter

- You check your message box more often than you check the time D:

- You treat your Fella plushie like a normal human being :3

- You thank a lad at school for the devWATCH when you first become friends in offline conversation. ~ !Electromechanical

- You look at the clock and think "wasn't it 4 hours earlier before I went on dA?" ~ `Droneguard

- You know what all of the symbols infront of the names mean. like = ` $ and others. xD ~ ~SasukeUchihaFangirlx

- You know 50 plz accounts off the top of your head... ~ ~SasukeUchihaFangirlx

- You talk about dA to your real life friends more than you talk about real stuff... ~ ~SasukeUchihaFangirlx

- You have devianart.com as your homepage ~ ~TheShinySword

- You draw a little star whit a "+" on every thing you like how it looks ~ !Rauru-Umbreon

- The reason you do art is to send it to dA. ~ !Salwiak
- You sit seeing if you can get your own page by clicking the random devian button ~ $DEVlANT

- You'd rather chat with your friends on DA than hangout with your friends offline. :3 ~ ~JoScene

- You write your name on somthing you put your screen name and for the date you put your pass word ~ ~wolfvahn

- You're typing something else on a different website and you try to use emotes. ~ ~JoScene

- YOU FORGET ABOUT COOKIES D: ~ `InvaderMar

- You own a dA shirt.  ~ ~dbestarchitect

- You let like around 79 messages accumulate in your hotmail box and you don't give a shit.
    dA messages are So much MORE worth your attention ! Screw hotmail !  ~ !ailime

- You yell at the FireFox spell check because it doesn't recognize "emoticon" or "fave" as a word.   ~ ~dbestarchitect

- You know all the emoticons by heart.  ~ ~xStarxWolfx

- You walk up to a person you don't know but would like to, and ask "Can I watch you?!"  ~ *LittleMae

- You feel bad for not thanking someone for the fave  ~ ~EatMyDreams

- You talk more to a friend on DA than in real life  ~ ~bocker22

- You're reading the list and you dont realize ice cream is dripping all over your stuff.  ~ ~aznboardergirl

- You use lol and brb in a conversation   ~ ~googlememan

- It says that you have a message and there's nothing there.   ~ ~lovelylogan

- You have a link below in your comment signature that redirects the person
    who clicked it to your Dev page so you can receive more page views  ~ ~Iron-Tits-of-Doom

- You have subscribed to deviantart so that you could have a kick arse journal to show off to everyone ~ ~Iron-Tits-of-Doom

- You make emotes especially for deviantart ~ ~Iron-Tits-of-Doom

- You role play in the chat rooms, and you also save the role play chat till the next time you rp with that person ~ ~Iron-Tits-of-Doom

- If it wasn't for dA you wouldn't be drawing xD ~ ~lilpixie132

- You have a :iconyouplz: , other than your main account. ~ ~Zneak

- You watch all of your stuff that you've added to your gallery on about 13 different internet
    windows to see if anyone has commented or faved it.  ~ ~pandagirl9232

- You have like 1000 messages and they're all replies to your comments on something.   ~ ~Czathero

- You have so many favorites you don't recognize them all. D=  ~ !XBr3nX

- Your butt starts to hurt if you're not sitting in the chair you sit on while on dA.  ~ ~AmphitritetheNereid

- In real life conversation, you use "the fanfic people on dA" to back up your arguments
    instead of scientists or leading experts. ^^   ~ ~antichange

-  You cry cause your favorite deviant made a journal tittled "Leaving dA 4Eva!" ~ ~EatMyDreams

-  You have a bot, you memorized every single command a bot can do ~ ~Iron-Tits-of-Doom

-  You are never away from Deviantart for more than one day ~ ~Iron-Tits-of-Doom

-  You are making a list of how many signs to show how much you are addicted to deviant art ~ ~Iron-Tits-of-Doom

-  You constantly think about how many messages are going to be in your box
     because you are a very popular artist ~ ~Iron-Tits-of-Doom

-  You have over 1k page views ~ ~Iron-Tits-of-Doom

-  You have deviantart related program downloaded onto your cp/pc so that you
     can have additional features on deviant art  ~ ~Iron-Tits-of-Doom

-  You are in more than 5 chats when you are in a chatroom, and you stretch the
    page horizontally when someone uses the /whois command to look for you ~ ~Iron-Tits-of-Doom

-  You play IRPG and you are on level 60 and up ~ ~Iron-Tits-of-Doom

-  You watch a lot of people who watch you ~ ~Iron-Tits-of-Doom

-  You use Dev's search to look for things you like ~ ~Iron-Tits-of-Doom

-  You make rants about various things ~ ~Iron-Tits-of-Doom

-  You use the forums, and may have more than 5 postings or so ~ ~Iron-Tits-of-Doom

-  You always write in the NEWS section about current events at least once or more in a week ~ ~Iron-Tits-of-Doom

-  You forget to stretch after a couple hours of chatting while in the chatrooms ~ ~Iron-Tits-of-Doom

- You log out, go to one of your own deviations and start refreshing the page every
    5 seconds so it looks like you've got a lot of pageviews.   ~ !nagdabl

- You storm off onto DA because you get more respect there  ~ ~elbethius

- You get aggressive when on Ygallery after looking for the Add to
    Favorite option for 15 minutes to add the image to DA.  ~ *Lily-L-Bell

- Instead of watching Drama on tv you come to DA instead   ~ ~ShinigamiNecromancer

- You think DA is the best thing since sliced bread   ~ ~ShinigamiNecromancer

- You're never logged out.    ~ ~Twilight-Darling

- You purposefully search for people who are violating policy and report them just for lulz.    ~ ~Twilight-Darling

- You're not actually on dA, you still constantly thinking about it.     ~ `synconi

- You know all the emote codes by heart.  ~ ~iWin72

- You tell someone in real life they are as bad as -insert diviant name
    here- when they do something similar. ~ ~eyesofthedark

- You actually add a sentence to this list (Like me )  ~ ~SmokingFlame

- You get out of bed on a vacation day, on a Sunday, at 5 in the morning
    to check your page and messages  ~ !ailime

- You google your own dA nickname   ~ !nagdabl

- Somebody says "Damn!" you say "Oh I love their chatrooms!"  ~ ~Faver00

- You've fallen asleep while on Deviantart because you were on so long.  ~ ~Faver00

- You took the time to think of something to put on this list. >.>  ~ ~AverageUnknown

- Your sole source of culture comes from DA.  ~ ~TibodinJay

- You would rather respond to DA comments than actual email.  ~ ~TibodinJay

- Your art is confined to a 50 x 50 pixel range... just in case it will work as an icon. ~ ~TibodinJay

- You keep thinking, "What would a 'Red Shirt' glomp look like?" ~ ~TibodinJay

- You use the deviantART search bar more than Google Images. ~ ~dbestarchitect

- You have this stamp in your Shoutboard, which you got by subscribing.  ~ ~dbestarchitect

- DeviantART is responsible for the heavy bags under your eyes   ~ ~Twilight-Darling

- Your grades are going down, because you always think about DA when you are in class  ~ !Rauru-Umbreon

- You start watching a series for the sake of knowing what all that fan art of it on DA is about. ~ ~DensetsuShinobi

- You anticipate how many +favs/pageviews you're gonna see when you log on. ~ ~dbestarchitect

- You download all the dA skins and features from UserStyles.org ~ ~dbestarchitect

- You use dA emotes and plz-account icons on MSN cos you can't live without them. ~ `AndyGassner

- You thank people for the fav you always link the picture for advertisement! ~ ~SmokingFlame

- You've memorized all the CSS codes, like <div class= .  ~ ~dbestarchitect

- You used every emote on the full emote-list   ~ ~ELStalky

- You're ill for one day, and when you get back on to dA, you have over 100 messages/deviantations  ~ ~Larka-the-Wolf

- You put dA with a little "d" and a capital "A"  ~ ~Larka-the-Wolf

- You have a second account just so you can watch/ fav yourself and give yourself more pageviews  ~ !bubblepup13

- You would rather argue behind your keyboard than face to face confrontation.  ~ ~Lancorz

- You begin to picture people's faces as emoticons.  ~ ~Retermined

- You have shortcuts on your desktop to devART, Submit Deviation, and Notes.   ~ `xero-sama

- You submited two or more questions to this  ~ ~wolfvahn

- You made your avatar from scratch just for this site  ~ ~wolfvahn

- You've read this entire list and realize that you have done at least 2/3 of everything listed ~ ~relashio

- You make your status 'invisible' because the total time that you spend on DA is embarassing! ~ ~relashio

- You keep thinking 'I should be doing my homework now' when on dA, and its true ~ ~tsemalon

- You know more people on dA than in Real life ! ~ ~tsemalon

- You try to use plz icons on other websites. ~ ~kunoichiXassassin

- You knew the Gallery Directors, MN@s, and other staff before they were staff. ~ ~shadowed-light-waves

- "/me is amused." is grammatically correct. ~ ~shadowed-light-waves

- You "tab" another person's username in a chatroom, even if there are
   only two of you in the room. ~ ~shadowed-light-waves

- You wonder why unsubscribed users stamps. ~ ~shadowed-light-waves

- @MNBot has talked to you in #devart. ~ ~shadowed-light-waves

- dAmn resets, and you smile at the chaos and confusion that follows. ~ ~shadowed-light-waves

- "so i herd u liek Mudkips! Mudkips! Mudkips!" ~ ~shadowed-light-waves

- You eagerly await the Daily Deviations, and probably suggest them too! ~ ~shadowed-light-waves

- You know what Greasemonkey, dAx, Zikes, tiny dAmn, and dAmn.pwn are, and
    you are quite a fan. ~ ~shadowed-light-waves

- You were devastated when you lost your "damn thumbs"...and overjoyed when
   you got them back! ~ ~shadowed-light-waves

- The phrase "/admin update privclass Guests -images -smilies -objects -avatars" is
    just plain cruel. ~ ~shadowed-light-waves

- Watching a complete stranger doesn't seem creepy at all. ~ ~shadowed-light-waves

- You truly hoped there would be 1,000,000+ people in one of those dAmn
    Channels and were sorely disappointed.... ~ ~shadowed-light-waves

- "It's about the art. Not the Pageviews" ...but you still get excited when someone
    gets a Screenshot of your kiriban... ~ ~shadowed-light-waves

- Exclamation marks are bad things... ~ ~shadowed-light-waves

- You constantly refresh the page to see if you have gotten more pageviews. 8D ~ ~flyingdown2011

- You send a note to a invisible deviant just so you can know if he/she reads it or online. ~ ~flyingdown2011

- You want to actually meet the deviants in real life. ~ ~flyingdown2011

- You uses deviants' deviations as inspiration to draw or cosplay. ~ ~flyingdown2011

- You learned many stuffs from deviantART that you've never heard of before. o_o ~ ~flyingdown2011

- You costantly view the "Today" page to see what journal you can comment on.  ~ ~flyingdown2011

- You've made custom msn avatars from plz accounts 'cause you can't make
    conversation without them.   ~ ~Sam-Reynolds

- You read this, and realize that EVERY SINGLE ONE applies to YOU.  ~ ~candracar272

- You've read this journal all the way through  ~ ~candracar272
- You keep watch on your messages to see if updated.    ~ ~candracar272

- You call you friends by their Deviantart user names. ~ ~Little-Puppy

- You've herd that they liek mudkipz. ~ ~antichange

- You refuse to go to sleep until you get a certain number of page views on a new
    artwork, even if it takes spending the wee hours of the night staring at the computer
    screen, repeatedly pressing refresh. ~ ~antichange

- It's your home page on firefox! lol ~ ~lovelylogan

- Your typing skills got better because of DA.  ~ ~Faver00

- While you're on DA you forget about all the people who are yelling at you to get off the
   computer to go somewhere.  ~ ~Faver00

- You fall off the chair because you were laughing so hard thanks to the "Lol Corner" updates.  ~ ~Faver00

- Your face actually looks like this: @w@  ~ ~swiftnoise

- You meet someone new in person rather then exchanging numbers/email you ask
    if they have a deviant art account.  ~ ~LydiaRayne

- You've been late for work/school/plans because you just had to check you page.  ~ ~LydiaRayne

- You freak out when your subscription is about to end and start asking others to subscribe you.  ~ ~izzi-the-Great

- You see "You have no new community messages." but you still press
   "Update message centre" five times in a row to make sure.  ~ ~Oktanas

- You going to the toilet at 2:00 in the morning, but you stop to check DA for new
    messeges and you spend couple hours whit out going to the toilet.  ~ ~Oktanas

- You notice that a lot of the people on here are only 14   ~ ~InTheEveningPhotos

- You spend your spare time away from the computer thinking about
    who's updated and weather or not anybody has left a comment  ~ ~wolfvahn

- If their was a book entitled how to get more page views you would buy it.   ~ ~wolfvahn

- You created a list in your journal about way's to tell if you spend to much time on DA   ~ ~wolfvahn

- Ever since you found DA you've turned paler   ~ ~wolfvahn

- You spend time to actually make a fanart for your favourite dA artist! ~ ~SmokingFlame

- Emoticons start saying things back to you. ~ ~Mike2468

- You randomly start laughing in the middle of the night because of something you read on dA. ~ ~Zguns

- Someone says/does something incredibly stupid, you mentally say :iconfacepalmplz:. ~ ~Zguns

- You start judging actions by how many Faith in Humanity points they would make another user lose. ~ ~Zguns

- You start imagining people in real life as avatars... and freak out when they get a haircut. ~ ~Zguns
-  When you're a fan ~ ~Traconian

- You use Emoticons as periods. ~ ~Slightslinger

- Your never idle. ~ ~Slightslinger

- You've spent more than an hour writing a reply. ~ ~Slightslinger

- DA gos in to maintenance mode you keep ing so you know when its over. ~ ~Slightslinger

- You schedule your life around dA. ~ ~Slightslinger

- A new Emoticon comes out you know it that day. ~ ~Slightslinger

- You Google your user name and your page is the first hit. ~ ~Slightslinger

- You forget to eat.

- You've spent days getting your avatar down to 15kb so it still looks good. ~ ~Slightslinger

- Most every thing you say starts with"So I was on dA and..." ~ ~Slightslinger

- You submit at least ten facts to this journal. ~ ~Slightslinger

- You have a favorite Emoticon. ~ ~Slightslinger

- You've done all the tags. ~ ~Slightslinger

- Every message you write has at least one Emoticon. ~ ~Slightslinger

- You don't give a shit about Gmail. ~ ~Slightslinger

- You hate Myspace and Facebook, dA is all you need. ~ ~Slightslinger

- You use Href so you links can have names. ~ ~Slightslinger

- You've bookmarked you Deviants page. ~ ~Slightslinger
- You use plz accounts. ~ ~Slightslinger

- Your sleeping schedule culminates to 2 hour intervals to check on your Deviant Art. ~ ~y0urstalker

- Talking to your friends, you often talk about "a guy on deviantART
     was telling me that..." or "so-and-so's pageviews are..." ~ ~dbestarchitect

- You don't understand why people are giving blank stares when you show them your new dA shirt. ~ ~dbestarchitect

- You make yourself a bowl of Raisin Brand Crunch and after a while of looking
    at dA, you take a bite and ask yourself "Where'd the crunch go?" ~ ~Czathero

- The only reason u wake up in the morning is to see if u got new message son DA ~ ~googlememan

- You know all of the code (or whatever they are) for emotes!!!! Especially the ones from users! ~ ~Jaddasroots

- Your signature says "FAQ #3307: How can I get more pageviews?" with a link to your page? ~ ~dbestarchitect

- You put :dev___: on job applications under name ~ ~Kerwinm12345

- You say "colon hug colon" ( ) in real life! ~ ~AnimeGoCrazy

- You get home from school, run inside, drop your bag, dash to the PC, bring
   up dA, and find out if anyone posted new art. ~ ~dbestarchitect

- You've started using "&#34" and "&#39" instead of apostrophes and quotation
    marks because of the FREAKIN glitch. ~ ~dbestarchitect

- You start wishing some of the emotes used as Moods would be available as
   regular emotes, like ~ ~dbestarchitect

- You've downloaded all the scripts and styles for dA  ~ ~dbestarchitect

- Your parents' voices are faintly speaking, way, way far away. ~ ~dbestarchitect

- You suddenly realize you've ed about 42 new things that weren't even in your devWATCH. ~ ~dbestarchitect

- All of your ideas are organized into newest, popular, prints, and daily devations... ~ ~king-newmic

- You cant remember what the sun looks like. ~ ~king-newmic

- You have the slightest break, you dash to the PC to check your messages. ~ ~dbestarchitect

- Your dreams are brimming with plz icons, emoticons, people, and deviations. ~ ~dbestarchitect

- You're reading this incredibly long list realizing your ass hurts like hell but don't care at all! XD ~ ~kat-a-rina-damarcy

- You message people to view your page ~ ~ScreamingGerbil

- You correct people when they put da, because you know its dA. ~ ~Slightslinger

- You have a forum. ~ ~Slightslinger

- You comment on the same journal multiple times. ~ ~Slightslinger

- You have or want a subscription. ~ ~Slightslinger

- You've spent over 20 minuets writing your signature. ~ ~Slightslinger

- You know too many symptoms of a dA addict. ~ ~Slightslinger

- You over 100 people. ~ ~Slightslinger

- You dominate someones shout bored. ~ ~Slightslinger

- You get banned and just make a new account. ~ ~Slightslinger

- You describe conversations you've had on dA to people you know in real life. ~ ~Slightslinger

- You can't find any new stamps. ~ ~Slightslinger

- You use half the Emoticons daily. ~ ~Slightslinger

- You read the whole list  ~ ~wolfvahn

- You finish looking at your deviants, you go looking through the popular and go on a favorite spree ~ ~EdenHall

- You type in ::'s you end up typing :icon ~ ~EdenHall

- You cant remember what a car is XP ~ ~kat-a-rina-damarcy

- All of the chicks you flirt with are from dA. XD ~ ~ThornedVenom

- You start imitating the emotes on dA in real life. ~ ~LeftyLike

- You check eah deviant that has written all these posts ~ ~tomeksz

- You know which deviant has written more than 10 posts ^^ ~ ~tomeksz

- You get a note from your mother saying "it's time for dinner " ~ ~Oktanas

- You get up at 4am in the night to catch kiribans ~ ~UchihaNatsue

- You update your journal everyday ~ ~UchihaNatsue

- You actually tried reading the small comment in the journal which
    says "This comment is soo small that if you are able to read it without
    cheating, then you are a cake! :3" ~ ~SmokingFlame

- You check this list everyday and you try to find something new to add to this list. ~ ~SmokingFlame

- You love the cursor used in this journal and you always watch it open it's mouth ~ ~SmokingFlame

- You take the time to write out all of the symptoms and growing...   ~ ~codeslacker

- You look at your art and think; "Is this good enough to put on dA?"   ~ ~Lune-kyou



So... did you find out if you're an addict?

(all the deviants who "discovered" the symptoms have their name added next to them )

According to the following story ( [link] )that is how you get more popular. I am here to tell you all the evils of how to NOT have the pageviews or the allmighty popularity.

-ehem-


--Do Original Artwork--
Heaven forbid you make something that's not a fanart. Not drawing fanart will clearly result in millons of faves, and I mean... who would ever want such a thing? So... draw your own characters, create your own style, put time and effort into your work and you're golden! Such things will never result in any kind of attention, so you're good.


--Be Nice--
If you're nice to people, you'll get less attention. Since blocking and hiding any comments that offer advice on how to get better result in more love, you must always be nice and honest. Hiding comments and never asking for critiques makes you seem all mysterious and junk which is strangely attractive. Don't do it...


--Never Trace--
Thats the easiest way to get yourself up in the clouds of godly popular artists here on dA. Tracing Naruto screenshots will get you billions of faves in the first three seconds, so in that case stick to being original and creative even if you did draw fanart.




So what did we learn from all this?


To sum everything up, you have to be creative and original. Best thing you can do, is actually be a good artist and create wondeful pieces of art like nothing enyone ever seen before. With perfect anatomy, creative concepts and eyecatching colors. If you can do all that you will never EVER reach popularity... But I can tell you one thing... You will most definitely will be respected more. You'll actually get somewhere with your art.





I am very dissapointed with DeviantArt at the moment... I believe it should be changed to DeviantSpace... It's not about art anymore, it's about who gets more pageviews and who gets more faves on their traced 'artwork'.


Sure... if all you want is fake adoration, then go ahead and follow the simple rules listed in the link above. But if you are an artist and you take pride in your work... then keep doing what you are doing.

Thank you for reading. Thank you for understanding.

Some ideas for a mischievious day...

> Post on your friends DA pages 'omg congrats on the DD!'. They will definately spend time looking through all their things to work out what the hell you are talking about.

> Use the mudkips avatar

> Convert your entire journal text into Russian and tell people somethings wrong with the font you are using.

> Make a list of all of your DA friends. Then remove them all til tomorrow and tell them you cannot associate with fascists any more.

> Post something in the artistic nude section that ISNT porn. It'll confuse the hell out of most people.

> Thank people for faves they haven't given you. [random deviant button!]

> Play the opposites game. Using for and vice versa.

> Ask a few of your friends what the 'tick' or the 'hat' by their name means, and did they get promoted?

> Post on someones page (preferably ^Beccalicious) that you are their biggest fan and you have seen them in all of their movies.

> If you have less than 1000 page views post a journal about how people don't give ' popular artists' like yourself enough respect. Blather on about how you worked hard for your page views and its not your fault that your pretty.

> If you have more than 5000 page views post a journal about how no one listens to you and the voices in your head told you it would be like this here. Make repeated references to a colour, doesn't matter which one, but make sure its excessive. Blue.

> Take a photo of a feather that DOESNT have a droplet of water on it. Title it 'A dry spell' and post it to macro photography.

> Tell everyone who mentions April Fools day not to be so stupid. Reminding them that it is in fact Thursday. In October.

> Make a new collection titled 'Things I hate' and put everything you collect today into it.

> In your latest journal reference a poll that you never had. For example "Thanks for all your kind comments and votes, I've decided that it is a good idea to go ahead with the gender reassignment, thank you so much guys!"

> Do nothing. Then go prank mad tomorrow, and when people say 'but its not april fools' say 'I KNOW!! THATS THE APRIL FOOL!'

> Find as many 'myspace' photos as you can in the photography section and reply 'Oh my god the lighting is amazing, shame about the model'


.... I do not recommend trying some of these, heh, the comments about the artistic nudes and macro photography sections are jokes!

Remember to abide by the DeviantART terms and conditions! And be nice to each other... that means don't listen to these suggestions!!