Back in the 80′s, the “My Little Pony” franchise was aimed specifically at girls, both in toy lines and animated adventures. Flash forward to this space year 2012… And MLP is still deliberately marketed and designed with pre-teen girls in mind. Yet somehow, for reasons unknown, fat neckbeards have taken to the show like they do to Naruto and Final Fantasy.

In the face of well-deserved ridicule and mockery by the rest of the Internet at large, more and more sheltered young men are proclaiming themselves to be “Bronies,” admitting their love for the recent animated series spawned by the MLP franchise. I’m pretty sure the whole fad started off with goons ironically quoting it and putting down 5 dollars for pony avatars on the Something Awful forums, but I’ve heard people tell me it started off un-ironically on 4chan’s /co/. The fact of the matter is, it doesn’t really matter how or where it started: What’s important to note (for the purpose of this article) is that once Bronies made it to deviantART, we were all doomed to deal with some of the worst art to hit the web in a long time.

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.

We’ve written articles dealing with fetishism before. While some fetishes are inherently creepy and disgust us normal folk to our cores, some fetishes are harmless enough that we can all laugh at the expense of whoever admits to them. I contest that deviant Re-WrittenDreamer – the subject of today’s article – has a fetish belonging to the latter classification. After all; at it’s core, his fetish is all about making people laugh.

But before we get to that, we should get to know Wyatt better (Or – as he wishes the world would call him – “Dream”). Wyatt declares on his dA profile that he is 15 years old, a “total pokemon nerd” (Not a big enough fan to capitalize the “P” or accent the “é” though), and that he “freaking love[s] Scyther and Lugia.” In case you couldn’t guess, he is frequently made fun of at school, as he reveals in a deviation featuring his fursona.

Goths have been around since the beginning of time… Or since The Cure released their first album. Whichever came first. Either way, it looks like we’re stuck with them until the end of time now: A fact which is made bearable by the fact that they are incredibly easy to make fun of. In their attempts to avoid conforming to “the mainstream”, they instead conform to their own laughable standards and adopt the same laughable mannerisms as one another, effectively making them all the same as one another. Today, we’ll be picking one out of the pack, who does a swell job of representing for the goth culture on deviantART.

The name is short, simple, and manages not only to summate the user as an artist, but as a human being: “gothkids.”  If you think that only her username is creative, you have yet to experience the raw creativity of her submissions! For example, the aptly named “bdsm girl drawing.” Which – in case you couldn’t guess – is gothkids’ attempt at drawing a girl in BDSM gear and covered in a layer of cum.

deviantART is many things: A social networking site, a repository for blogs, and on occasion, an image-hosting service. The latter function, though dA’s staff has evidently been making strides towards phasing it out for years, is nothing if not well-organized. There exist a number of categories and subcategories which so-called artists can classify their work as, and which patrons to the site can browse.

There do exist a few “oddities” within the category system, which stand out as being out of place within their tier. For example: “Anthro“, which even furries will admit is a genre of of art, is listed alongside mediums of art such as “Digital Art” and “Traditional Art”. Further complicating the situation, selecting the Anthro category yields two subcategories of it’s own: “Digital Media” and “Traditional Media”. A bit redundant, isn’t it? Clearly, the Anthro category was a last-second addition, and wasn’t thought out as well as the rest of the categories of the sorting system.