Trivia / DeviantArt

• Banned in China: The site was once temporarily unblocked in China from 2016 to 2018, yet there were still Chinese DeviantArt users on there.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: If a piece of art goes missing for some reason and you don't have any contact details of the artist nor know any particular fan of them, chances are that you'll never see it again.
• No Dub for You: Since its inception over two decades ago, DeviantArt has never had any form of language support other than English, forcing foreign users who aren't very good at said language to use Google Translate. To compound this fact even further, before the site's Eclipse rebranding in 2019, the restriction extended to foreign characters being disabled in deviation titles. And everyone there knows of the implications that could happen from forgetting crucial accents... Thankfully, this has been lifted.
• Why Fandom Can't Have Nice Things:
  • Because of art theft going rampant, and the moderators' inability to handle so many theft reports, they're now limiting reports to only the original authors of the stolen work. The problem is that art thieves tend to steal from other websites, like Tumblr and Pixiv, and because of the Language Barrier, the lack of a way to communicate the original authors outside of DeviantArt, and in some more extreme cases, the artist being dead, combined with the price rise on premium subscriptions (now named Core), many users of the website are not taking this measure very well. Thanks to this issue, many users concerned with art theft will add large watermarks (whether it's their own or the DeviantArt default) to their images, including Fan Art.
  • A long time ago, DA's April Fools pranks used to be far more elaborate, either involving changing everyone's avatars to something or pretending the site was undergoing a massive change with a new feature. However, either because people found the pranks unfunny or even offensive for some, while others completely took it for face value and thought that the 'update' was completely legitimate,^note One of the most notable instances was April Fool's Day 2008, where everyone's avatars were temporarily changed to the same animated "so i herd u liek Mudkipz" avatar,◊ which prompted such a huge backlash that DA prematurely ended the joke well before the day was over in the U.S. DA has more or less relegated April Fool's Day to a glorified drawing contest involving some form of internet meme.

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