daemonysh:

papermonkeyism:

It seems like that one old “DeviantArt is EEEEEEVUL! All artists beware!”-post from like two years ago is making rounds again, and I’ve been getting tagged to it. 

So just for your information, here’s DevArt’s own post about that situation, and here’s the artist in question who’s design got used in the post explaining the case.

Thanks for the concern for my art’s well being, but there’s really no need. That fearmongering reblog about the situation is just reading the legal text in a really provoking way (dA’s user agreement text looks intimidating, I know, but it’s pretty much just because dA needs your explicit permission to use your art in their site = your own gallery/other people’s faves; needs the permission to let dA to edit your art because it needs to do that in order to make thumbnails, and there’s also a clause that lets dA to have those “share on tumblr/facebook/whatever”-buttons next to your art. Yes, it needs you to agree to the site’s basic functions with the user agreement, that’s legal text for you.)

More people need to see posts like this, because that panic post is drivin’ me nuts with how many re-blogs it’s getting

Take everything you see with a grain of salt before jumping to conclusions.  I’ve fallen victim to dumb shit like this.  It’s only human.  Doing your own research is always good.  Don’t listen to everyone hyping the thing.