I have become ridiculously fed up with deviantART's policies and stance on tracing and fan art. A long time ago, I left Elfwood because they started giving the same treatment to fan art and other art as dA is giving fan artists now. The fact is that when I joined dA back in 2001 (under my first account), they had policies in place that protected artists and brought down tracers.

I am not going to support deviantART when they're treating their legitimate artists, fan artists like crap, and allow thieves and tracing. I don't particularly like Y!Gallery's allowing of furry and shota work on their site, but I prefer Y!Gallery's Zero Tolerance of tracing and underage users. They may be assholes, but I prefer assholes to slackers any day of the week. I don't really draw or write about girls very often, so that's fine with me.

Until I find an artist's community that I can post my art for free, without being lumped in with tracers and thieves, a place that allows original content as well as fan art, whose policies are strict against tracers and art thieves, I'm going to be sticking with Y!Gallery.

I hate to say this to all you kind folks that make deviantART a great place, but I'm packing it up and calling it quits here.

Take care of yourselves.