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DeviantArt has very loose content guidelines, and prohibits what it defines as [[pornography]] while allowing sexually explicit themes so long as the specific criteria for constituting "porn" are technically avoided. Depraved fetish art including sexualization of death and murder are disturbingly common.

DeviantArt has very loose content guidelines, and prohibits what it defines as [[pornography]] while allowing sexually explicit themes so long as the specific criteria for constituting "porn" are technically avoided. Depraved fetish art including sexualization of death and murder are disturbingly common.

Liberalism tends to be the dominant political mindset of users on DA, though again the site itself has no official stance on the topic, and all viewpoints (as well as arguments over them) are allowed to be posted.

Liberalism tends to be the dominant political mindset of users on DA, though the site itself previously had no official stance on the topic, and all viewpoints (as well as arguments over them) were allowed to be posted. But recently, DA started censorsing non-liberal viewpoints, such as opposition to [[Black Lives Matter]], fake genders and [[neurodiversity]].

On May 20, 2020, DeviantART switched to the Eclipse version made by WIX. The Eclipse version was infamous for being implemented without any say from the users (and in fact, the vast majority saying "no" to adding it in at the expense of the old site being permanently taken down), as well as being forcibly added-in while still suffering from severe glitches and a blatantly incomplete form.

On May 20, 2020, DeviantART switched to the Eclipse version made by WIX. The Eclipse version was infamous for being implemented without any say from the users (and in fact, the vast majority saying "no" to adding it in at the expense of the old site being permanently taken down), as well as being forcibly added-in while still suffering from severe glitches and a blatantly incomplete form.