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Roffling all over the wanking world ([info]adora_spintriae) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2004-10-31 10:13:00


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Battle of the Art Sites
Okay, so everyone knows deviantArt. dA has been around a while, and changed in certain ways over time from when it first popped onto teh intraweb. It's gained members, and lost members, but is still one of The Big Dicks of art-sites online, and prides itself because of this.

Enter SheezyArt WARNING: NOT WORKSAFE. A much smaller, less hardcore/serious/professional kind of site, that caters to certain branches of art that tend to be scapegoated and attacked on dA a lot (read: furry, porn, anthro, porn, manga/anime art, fanart, porn, etc).

Many people on Sheezy seem to have been expressing some frustration with dA through their art and journals etc. Channel Cat comes out and says "Please stop, we don't want an art-site war."

Wank Ensures.

Some individuals who are disgruntled with dA express why, mkinne responds. More wank, with Godwin's Law being broken many times in reference to the dA staff. People who have had run-ins with the staff at dA give examples of why they left. mkinne is diplomatic.

Snowolf steps up to the plate.

Over at dA, a thread is created, bashing Sheezy. Individuals who call themselves "deviants" can't handle teh pr0n. SA supporters are told to STFU and not be deviant from the accepted generalisations of the thread. Resident elitists spout common dA rhetoric. And general wankery continues on and on and on, until the thread is closed, even with the original poster expressing surprise that it went on for so long.


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[info]wankismyfandom
2004-10-31 03:57 am UTC (link)
Damn, that was a lot of horrible little emotes. Also, I like the whole "I walked around with a cocked and loaded gun OMG PH33R M3" section.

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[info]squib
2004-10-31 09:08 am UTC (link)
Yeah, I do that every time I visit my father-in-law in Syracuse. It's called a target-shooting range. ;) I bet this guy is on about something similar...

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[info]drworm
2004-10-31 04:12 am UTC (link)
I found this particularly entertaining:

Shrug all you want, Rome though it was something special too... you will fail and it won't be very long.

Hehe. If it's big and successful, the Rome comparison always pops up...

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[info]telophase
2004-10-31 04:40 pm UTC (link)
Not to mention Rome was around for several hundred years, so the comparison breaks down a little. That's long enough, sez I.

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[info]drworm
2004-11-01 01:53 am UTC (link)
I've noticed no one ever brings up the British Empire in this context. So... is Rome acceptable evil now? Or what?

I figure they both had a good run. Everything ends. People move on. *shrug*

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[info]adora_spintriae
2004-11-01 05:53 am UTC (link)
So... is Rome acceptable evil now?

OF COURSE! Cos they had like... gay people... and stuff... LOOK! A SHINY THING! *runs away while you are distracted*

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[info]khym_chanur
2004-10-31 04:21 am UTC (link)
"Sheezy"? Is that supposed to be a combination of "Shiny" and "Sleezy"?

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[info]plazmah
2004-10-31 08:05 pm UTC (link)
My first thought was someone saying "fo' sheezy my neezy." My second thought was "WTF?"

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[info]radiotrash
2004-11-02 05:08 am UTC (link)
XD!!!

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[info]c_chan
2004-10-31 04:32 am UTC (link)
(read: furry, porn, anthro, porn, manga/anime art, fanart, porn, etc).

I think you forgot to mention porn.

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[info]combledore
2004-11-01 01:13 am UTC (link)
Anthro?

*is afraid to ask*

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[info]adora_spintriae
2004-11-01 05:41 am UTC (link)
Usually defined as "Like Furry, but not as... furry". ie- humans with animal ears, as opposed to animals with human features. Y'know, catgirls n shit.

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[info]combledore
2004-11-01 07:26 am UTC (link)
Oh. Okay. Thanks!

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[info]radiotrash
2004-11-02 05:11 am UTC (link)
Actually I always called my 'furries' anthros. Cause the word furry irks me to hell. x_X

And anthro is actually the correct term for it. Er, using the dictionary definition anyway.

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[info]rogue
2004-10-31 04:36 am UTC (link)
Silly me, I thought people used sheezyart because it loads quicker and has no adds.

I use DeviantArt (not so much anymore, as my connection hates it), and I have never had a problem with an administrator. I've uploaded things that violated their TOS - it was deleted, and I was given a polite, if short, explanation, and was asked not to do it again. I've also uploaded things to the "wrong" section, and was again, given an explanation about why. I think the issue that people have is that they run around acting like asshats, then don't understand why the admins are less likely to be civil with them. Regardless of how the administrators conduct themselves, they seem to try to be running a professional enviornment - people who do not behave accordingly are going to be treated with less respect. So I really think these people freaking out and calling them names should just settle down.

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oh yes
[info]rogue
2004-10-31 04:36 am UTC (link)
[/wank]

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(Anonymous)
2004-10-31 07:39 am UTC (link)
I have totally been waiting for someone to post something about SheezyArt here. It's been a cesspool of wankishness. Wankishness and sweet sweet porn.
-Xax

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[info]sarajayechan
2004-11-01 01:06 am UTC (link)
...
Xax...why does that name sound oh so familiar? :O

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(Anonymous)
2004-11-01 01:11 am UTC (link)
I'm infamous! Or, uh, not. I dunno, but probable cause is 'cause I've got several comments in some of the above-linked Sheezy Art news posts.
-Xax

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[info]sarajayechan
2004-11-01 01:15 am UTC (link)
No, seriously...I knew a guy named Xax years ago. (Though his full handle was Xaxoquall...so you probably aren't them)

Heh, has SA or DA mentioned anything about the little "war" going on? :P Or are they blissfully ignorant?

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(Anonymous)
2004-11-01 01:27 am UTC (link)
Well, I only recently aquired this handle, so I must have an evil twin out there somewhere.

I think the extent of 'offical' notices has been Channel Cat's news post. Well, and his activity on the Anti-SA forum posts on Devart. The only DA admin activity that I've seen has been badmouthing SA in the Anti-SA forum posts, no big sitewide posts... yet.

It's extra fun when the mods themselves are slinging mud around!
-Xax

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[info]big_bad_wolf
2004-10-31 02:04 pm UTC (link)
Blah blah blah wank, yes, all very well, but what I want to know is WILL IT CRASH MY BROWSER LIKE DEVIANTART DOES? Hmmmm?

</ wank>

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[info]phosfate
2004-11-01 11:35 pm UTC (link)
Word.

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[info]pirotess
2004-10-31 04:14 pm UTC (link)
Aw, I was enjoying being on SA too! The porn is a definite plus. Then again, all of the recent cross-pollination (with loads of DA members and even admins opening SA accounts) was leading up to this anyway.

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[info]rogue
2004-11-01 05:11 pm UTC (link)
Porn is always a plus. I mean, I had a rough night, had to get up way early, and what do I get when I check SA? Endless naked pretty boys. That's better can coffee, dude.

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[info]sarajayechan
2004-11-01 01:05 am UTC (link)
Oi.
Why am I not surprised?

*is getting an SA account and keeping her DA one. That'll show em!

Or something*

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[info]adora_spintriae
2004-11-01 05:55 am UTC (link)
You deviant rebel, you.

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[info]sarajayechan
2004-11-01 06:07 pm UTC (link)
XD

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[info]moonjaguar
2004-11-01 03:17 am UTC (link)
Lately it all looks the same to me, whoa-oh..!
(hell, I got a drawing I did when I was 11 on deviant of all things and nobody blinks. It's not porn but there was a time when when DA was, well, not the place to post preteen doodles).

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[info]virago
2004-11-01 04:07 am UTC (link)
So does the "evenmoredeviantArt" joke get made once a day over there, or only every other day? ;)

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[info]mistressrenet
2004-11-01 02:42 pm UTC (link)
What's a dead horse for, if not for beating? (Oh, wait, wrong wank.)

Icon so pretty.

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[info]sarajayechan
2004-11-01 06:08 pm UTC (link)
Individuals who call themselves "deviants" can't handle teh pr0n

*cracks up laughing*

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[info]annabelle_lee
2004-11-01 07:30 pm UTC (link)
Sheesh, what a fucking blenderful of spooge. I wish I could have popped into that thread and given the obligatory "Would you like some cheese with that pissy whine of yours?"

Why is it, though, that anime fans can tell each other to use the backbutton and the wank ends, but you get some glorified dick "original arteest" who can't even bother doing that? (the dA admin and half the wankers on the thread, that is.)

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GIP!
[info]julia
2004-11-01 08:40 pm UTC (link)
I... it.. Jin! Touya! That's just an awesome icon.

<.< *scurries away*

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Re: GIP!
[info]annabelle_lee
2004-11-01 11:37 pm UTC (link)
Aw, thanks. I swear, if anything can make me squeal like a batshite fangirl, it's Jin/Touyaness. ^___^

[randomly goggles appreciatively at your icon] Pron is right. Daaamn!

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redwarrior
2004-11-03 10:44 pm UTC (link)
You know what?

I looked up "sheezy" on UrbanDictionary.com, and it defined it as being slang for "shitty". Now I can't help but laugh...

And the DA elitists should STFU. A lot of my friends and I draw anime fanart, and it takes just as much talent to draw it as an original piece of art. Or do you say Picasso and MirĂ³ aren't art?

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