They've really gone too far with these new gallery ads. I can no longer stand them.
Not only are they visually displeasing and distracting, but I don't want to have my own work so closely associated with advertising which I do not endorse and have absolutely no control over just so I can gain a bit of exposure. It's just not worth it for me.

I am also of the opinion that deviantART do not offer enough useful features to make it worthwhile subscribing, and since I cannot otherwise remove these annoying ads from my gallery, I am going to remove the gallery from the ads.

I'm really sorry to anyone who might miss seeing my work, but you can thank deviantART for that.

If they wanted more people to subscribe they should work on improving things for subscribers and give them something more for their money. Instead they are trying to pressure people into subscribing by making the galleries of non-subscribers look less appealing, and I think that's wrong. Since the content and the selling point of this site is almost entirely user-submitted I really think they should start treating their users a little more like people. One day they will learn this the hard way. After all we don't need deviantART, deviantART needs us.


500+deviantions and scraps.. it'll be a shame to phase them out after almost 6 years, but it's better than turning my work into just another revenue generator.. especially a revenue generator for other people.

I don't want to keep on complaining, it's not worth my time or my energy.. instead I'm going to do something about it.. and this really is the only viable solution.

Thanks to those who enjoyed looking at my artwork over the years. It's been fun.