Yep…I stopped using it years ago. It turned to…yknow.
And now suddenly it seems artists have migrated to it again.
Lots of occult and magickal art (when not downright sigils).
I think it has revived thanks to AI though…but the artists could have been using it long before. I just stopped going long ago. Artstation was the place. Then they left cause AI.
Hell…even tumblr was good back in the day. I use pinterest that just has old tumblr stuff xD
And then there is twitter, weibo and chinese places that don’t have a friendly UI.
Anyways…yeah I go to increasingly darker places in the interwebs thinking the old stuff is dead. But it’s not. Good.
Deviantart is still hard to navigate and finding the artist you want may be a headache. I can’t even filter the results.
I think I quit when I found a guy that painted using his own blood and “pain” xD
It is just the fast consumption/doom scrolling culture that has ruined everything, really.