I had a picture deleted. A drawn picture of two anime men having sex.

What the hell? I can understand the site not wanting "porn". But what about all the other pictures that are nothing but naked women and people fucking.

I have nothing against erotic photography. In fact I love the photographers here on DA. The outfits, the poses. They are all amazing.

And the artist here are great.

But its the little guy like me that gets shit on.

I don't drawn SUPER COOL AWESOME, so its ok to boot one of my pictures? What the fuck?
I don't have a shit load of pageviews or make prints so the site can make money, so I don't matter.

This site isn't fair. It hasn't been fair for a long time. No one here cares about the artist. They care about pageviews, money and if something is pretty or not. This place isn't about free expression, or artist talking to other artists. Hell this place isn't even fun anymore.

Honestly, if they had just said "Hey throw up a mature warning" I would have been more than happy to do it. If it had just been a warning, I wouldn't care. I understand that some people just don't want to see that shit.

But its not just me. I've had friends get HARASSED because she drew a yiff picture. I have seen a million freaking yiff pictures on DA. But because she wasn't some fan-fucking-favorite she got harassed. If they had just said "Yo. No yiff." She would have taken it down... but not she got comment after comment then it got taken down.

Why the hell is it ok for the artists to get harassed like this?!

I know I'm not the only one. And I don't want to make it seem like I'm just blaming it all on the Good artists, but thats just how it seems to me.

If any of you have the same problem, share your story.

But as for now I am leaving.

1 week. This is your warning.

This isn't a "you have one week to stop me." No no... this is a "Get the pictures you like, read the journals that made you laugh. I'm gutting my gallery, leaving just the bare min. then leaving."

And lastly if anything I've said here is wrong. Tell me. Be nice about it please. But Please tell me. Explain whats going on here. The reasoning behind why the site is doing this and why its letting the users be assholes to each other. Please give me your opinion on this.

Please be respectful.

So like I said... until then share your story about "Artist Abuse" I'll be around taking things from my gallery and setting it up for the shut down. For the next week.

Thanks DA! I did love you.
But the people here ruined it.