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What prompts some deviantART users to deactivate their accounts? Perhaps some give up on art altogether, and look to erase all trace of ever having had an interest in it. Maybe some tire of the constant coddling and blind approval from their peers, and move to a site where they may actually receive the constructive criticism they desire. More often than not, however; tartlets shut down their accounts in an attempt to evade trolls (Or, at least, what they consider to be trolls).

The subject of today’s article claims his latest account to be his “10000th”. Obviously, this is an exaggeration: My estimates peg this as his 6th or 7th account (Give or take 2). His last account went by the name of King-Kaz, during the life of which he opened his new GAKING account; the subject of today’s article. I will attempt to detail GAKING’s activity over the course of the past three weeks: From the date of the account’s registration to the day I will be posting this article.

Today’s article was suggested by deviantART user midnight-oyl. If you are interested in suggesting an article, please consult this page.

Valentine’s Day is quickly approaching.  Those of us who aren’t completely detached from society will have – or at least find – something worthwhile to do during this commercial holiday: perhaps partaking in a romantic dinner with a loved one; maybe a movie – or possibly something much more intimate.  Of course, some would rather surround themselves with friends and enjoy the company and conversation that would ensue.  That’s all swell and good, but we’re on the Internet: a place where escapism is cherished among those whose only friends exist on a screen.  These cretins have merely their favourite fan fictions to indulge in every day of their miserable lives.  Further down the path of complete lonesomeness are those who are so isolated that they have no more than their role-playing pals to confide in.  Such individuals are burdens on society; thankfully, they’ll never have the opportunity to reproduce (God willing).

Assuming you’re not a complete idiot, you’d have realised the preamble to this article is meant to describe today’s DCQC subject: MangaSarah (otherwise known as Sarah Brooks).  It should come as no surprise when I tell you that everything in MangaSarah’s gallery is complete and utter shit.  Not a single picture is salvageable.  I could say that selecting the images for this article took no effort at all, but I’d be lying – everything is terrible, therefore literally everything in her gallery was a candidate for being covered.  It’s bad enough that she considers herself an artist, too.  Artist gets tossed around more than the word troll on the Internet these days.  But I digress, the issue at hand is not simply what Sarah fancies herself as (although it certainly is an issue), but more so what she has produced to be of such distaste to the Internet art community.  Anyway, without further ado, please enjoy the generic manga-inspired works of art Sarah has graciously provided to the Internet and all of its lonely circle-jerking inhabitants.

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

Sonic the Hedgehog fans are some of the worst people you’ll find on the Internet. Sonic the Hedgehog fans who masturbate to pictures of him and his friends (i.e.: practically every furry in existence) are the worst people you’ll find on the Internet, bar none. Enter KnucklesFan01, an allegedly thirteen year old furry with more Knuckles the Echidna dolls than sense in her head.

As you may have gathered from her username, KnucklesFan01′s favorite Sonic the Hedgehog character happens to be Knuckles the Echidna (Who, as you may have gathered from his name, is an echidna). In the games, Kunckles apparently has the hots for a bat named Rouge the Bat. As such, KF01′s fursona is an echidna, who’s own fursona is a bat. If your brain hasn’t imploded into itself after trying to figure that bullshit out, feel free to take a look at this first piece from KF01′s dA gallery.

Today’s article is brought to you by forum poster “Natter45,” who made the curious decision to talk about his own artwork in this article.

Nice to meet you! My name is Liam Davis, also known as Natter45 on deviantART as well as FurAffinity. You may not know, but I’m kind of a big deal on the Internet: I am the creator of the EUROPEAN FURRY WRESTLING LEAGUE, one the most intense and well-respected furry wrestling leagues in Europe. I love wrestling. And I LOVE furries. So please do not mistake my furry wrestling skills.

I’m here to introduce you into my fine arts. I draw. Ah yes, I draw quite well. And since I’m unemployed because I blame all my problems on my Asperger’s syndrome, I have all the time to draw what I want and enjoy all the fine beverages. Beer and furry pictures have one thing in common for me – I have a very special taste concerning them. But you’ll see when I take you through the diverse wonderland that is my art collection. Let’s go!!

It’s not at all difficult to find terrible art on art-dedicated websites, especially when the website in question happens to be deviantART: just browse through the recent submissions, for fuck’s sake!  You can refresh that page all day and not once come across a page that’s filled – top to bottom – with decent to exceptional art.  This isn’t some revelation I’m presenting to you here, it happens to be a well-known fact that dA is a cesspool of terrible art.

To put it simply: deviantART is not a place where good art goes to die, but more so a place where the concept of art as a whole goes to die.  dA’s habitual nature of allowing bad art along with the accompanying bad artists to thrive is seen clearly in the deviantART community’s forceful assimilation of turning all members into the back-patting-let’s-be-friends-disregard-all-criticisms-be-nice pillars of goodness and all-that’s-rightness.

In fact, deviantART should hardly be considered an artistic community, rather more of a social networking site used solely for the acquisition of e-pals; drawing shitty pictures is simply used for conversational purposes. The front page of deviantART – which displays the newest submissions – encourages such terrible artists to join dA merely because they observe shitty Sonic the Hedgehog recolours and decide to “give drawing a shot”.  The drug of every artist constantly being congratulated on every piece of bad art they shit out runs deep in the blood of the dA community.