I am not, what you might call, a “fan” of Silent Hill. In fact, it is my firm belief that Silent Hill is one of the most insulting video game series ever made. I’ve played trough nearly all of the games, and found them to be nothing but pretentious messes of broken and unplayable mechanics, terrible design choices, empty and meaningless “symbolism”, and vain attempts to be “stylistic” or “edgy”. Hell, the Silent Hill movie is probably the most tolerable thing to ever come out of the whole franchise.

I never could understand how a series, this far up it’s own ass, could possibly gain the insane amount of fame, success and critical acclaim that it has, but somehow Silent Hill managed it. It has attracted masses of pretentious idiots to buy into it’s pseudo-intellectual bullshit, because they’re all desperate to feel smart and intellectual about their precious fucking video games, which is why they all flock to Silent Hill and then go around proclaiming how “Video Games are art because Silent Hill exists”.

So, today, we will be taking a look at DevinatART’s selection of Silent Hill fan art. Just like the series they are based on, pretty much every piece of Silent Hill fan art, that I could find, is terrible. All of it depicting either the author’s favorite female character or their favorite pairing, with some “cool effects” thrown on top like making it black-and-white, or adding white marks and scratches to the edges to make it “stylistic”. Or, hell, sometimes they don’t even put in effort to do that much. I’ve picked out some of my personal favorites, which we will take a look at now, together.

This article was originally intended to be released near the beginning of December, but I got lazy. My bad.

As we are in the midst of December right now, I decided to try something a little different. Let’s call this, the first ever DCQC Christmas Special.

Now is a time, when the world is getting into the Christmas spirit. It is a festive time – a time of giving, to be with the ones you love, to eat, drink and be happy together. Even though it may be cold and snowing outside, you can cuddle together, with your loved ones, around a fire and open presents for each other. You take a sip of hot chocolate and for a moment, for just one moment in the whole year, it seems that all is well in the world.

I imagine that for talented artists, feelings and emotions like this can inspire some amazing works of art. So, since I am feeling all warm and fuzzy inside myself, I have decided to look at some of DeviantART’s more festive offerings, as a treat for you. So, I did a quick search for “Christmas” and looked at the more recent uploads. Consider this my christmas present to all of you. : )

Today’s article is brought to you by forum poster “PockeyAndHentai”, and was originally posted in this thread.

Much like the furfags, weebs, and other undesirables of our world, fat ugly girls also turn to deviantART to escape their miserable lives. Today, we’re going to talk about a very SPECIAL group of camwhores known as “gamer girls.” You wouldn’t think that having a gallery that consists mostly of bad photoshops and amateur modelling would draw much attention, but among the other social rejects that populate dA, gamer girls actually manage to find the attention they so desperately seek.

Their self esteem is so far down the shitter, that just a few pageviews are enough to satisfy them, and some of them even develop full blown GOTIS. Gamer girls believe that the combination of having a nasty fish vagina and a Nintendo Wii actually makes them special. In reality, they have no talent, online or otherwise. They forget that no man IRL will ever touch them.

Get ready to feast your eyes on some true ~*~GaMeR ChIcKs~*~!!!! <3

For some time now, people have been requesting a “spiritual successor” to our Designing Your deviantART Profile article, which was written in a mock “dA tutorial” format. In it, I walked readers through how to design an obnoxious profile similar to those of many other tartlets. In today’s article, I present to you another tutorial-esque piece, walking you through how to identify deviantART users with “fucked up fetishes,” from little more than a mere glance at their galleries or their favorites.

It is my hope that this checklist is formally adopted by some psychiatric institute, and used to diagnose individuals as what we in the industry like to refer to as “sick fucks.” Failing that, I am also content posting this on deviantART and hearing angry feedback from furries, voreaphiliacs, and other assorted sick fucks. If you know someone who may have what constitutes as a fucked up fetish, I urge you to send this checklist to them, and to let me know they respond to it. Remember, the first step in any rehabilitation / self-help program is admitting you have a problem: If they should deny that their fetish is an issue, it is simply denial in action.

(Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Admins)

Over a year ago, I uploaded a JPG of the Mona Lisa to my deviantART account, and titled it “my anime dream girl.” Over the course of a year, it received a scattered few comments, including one by dA admin $Stykera, who saw it for the obvious joke it was and left it up. On the 14th of April 2011 – seemingly out of nowhere – I started receiving angry comments en masse. Tartlets were furious that my act of art theft had remained unchecked for so long, and began to voice their complaints to me… And to Stykera.

Commenters were unable to fathom how Stykera – a deviantART administrator – could have seen my submission and not immediately have deleted it. Many cited deviantART’s policy against “Art Theft,” and claimed my work was a clear example of a violation. Stykera attempted to explain to the angry masses that the Mona Lisa isn’t protected by copyright: It belongs to what is known as the public domain; and as such, my submitting it does not actually constitute as theft. Amazingly, this response failed to satisfy enraged users, and the empty threats continue to pour in.