Lucain24

I think I'll start off with it's my birthday today, and I think this is my final update on this site.

I've been a deviant since 2010, and it's...completely different when I first came in. The atmosphere and the way we moved was not like this. I...don't want to leave, but this website is no longer my home.

When I finally came here I was just looking for some art for a series that I read, I ran into spirapride and their art of Okami, then I got curious and started to dabble into more art and then I was showing off my poetry.

I made friends and lost some friends too. I roleplayed, commissioned artists. I had drama and close calls, I dated and I left here. It was all the same, deviantart...was my home. If I had a bad day at school or work, this is where I came to escape. This to me in my mind was my second home.

November 24, 2013 I got my very first Daily Deviation.

To some it was nothing more than a little award and maybe a few congrats, to me...it meant so much more than that. I worked hard to earn something that I thought to be impossible, and I had achieved it. I had a chip on my shoulder ya know?

June 19, 2014 I had received my second daily deviation. At this point I thought that I was gonna be here for the rest of my existence. I fully embraced being on this site and there was no turning back. I paid for that 7 year subscription and bit the bullet. I was home now, this was the place to be.

During that year there were changes to the U/I and I was getting used to it. The old symbols were disappearing and the new stars, badges, and flames came about. I of course refused to have a plain old star, so I opted to get a flame. 7 years...that was a commitment. A commitment that I was willing to take indeed, cause this was my home after all. I would suggest Daily Deviations left and right, I was up for Senior Member and I really wanted to make a difference.

2016-present shit started to change...and I mean... the whole thing. I feel like 90% of us didn't want...the future that is to what deviantart was going to become. Sure there are that small marginalists, okay cool. Not...a lot of us wanted any of this. The changes and the downgrade dA had taken wasn't enough to shake me, but it was enough to where I didn't....feel like this was my home anymore. People migrated to Discord, Twitter, FaceBook, Furaffinty, and so on. So many of us...left, and others came and went.

I feel bad honestly, the new kids coming into deviantart will never know what it was like here in those days. The joy of having a simplified system for messaging. Just knowing where it came from and where to click. Seeing who's been on your page but was too shy to say hi, so you clicked their icon to say hi yourself. They're never gonna know the way that message boards would put up your birthday on the side, so when you log in on your special day there would be floods of people wishing you a happy birthday, even the artists you admired would drop a small birthday wish because who doesn't like that?

I'm emotional because this isn't my home anymore, I miss my home, my deviantart. OUR deviantart. I'm still Lucain24, but this is not...dA. I would fight tooth and nail if I could, but again it would be meaningless. Just like the 90% of people who didn't want this site to change the way it did.

This new deviantart is...soulless. There's no love or life as it used to be...it's gone.

For the first time in 5 years... I may not renew my sub to this website. My flame...is dwindling. I'll miss my fire...the love I had for this place, the meaning of being... a deviant.

Care to join?

https://www.twitch.tv/lucain24