Do you think you spend too much time on DA?
Would you like to know?

A few days ago, a list was made over all known symptoms of being a DA-addict! And as you can see, a lot of deviants have contributed by adding useful information (experience? )to this list

By popular demand, the list is being put here for everyone to see


See how many of these symptoms apply to you

You know you've spent too much time on dA when:

- You submit your comments by pressing Tab + Enter

- You check your message box more often than you check the time D:

- You treat your Fella plushie like a normal human being :3

- You thank a lad at school for the devWATCH when you first become friends in offline conversation. ~ *Electromechanical

- You look at the clock and think "wasn't it 4 hours earlier before I went on dA?" ~ =Droneguard

- You know what all of the symbols infront of the names mean. like = ` $ and others. xD ~ =SasukeUchihaFangirlx

- You know 50 plz accounts off the top of your head... ~ =SasukeUchihaFangirlx

- You talk about dA to your real life friends more than you talk about real stuff... ~ =SasukeUchihaFangirlx

- You have devianart.com as your homepage ~ ~TheShinySword

- You draw a little star whit a "+" on every thing you like how it looks ~ ~Rauru-Umbreon

- The reason you do art is to send it to dA. ~ ~Salwiak
- You sit seeing if you can get your own page by clicking the random devian button ~ =DEVlANT

- You'd rather chat with your friends on DA than hangout with your friends offline. :3 ~ =JoScene

- You write your name on somthing you put your screen name and for the date you put your pass word ~ ~wolfvahn

- You're typing something else on a different website and you try to use emotes. ~ =JoScene

- YOU FORGET ABOUT COOKIES D: ~ `InvaderMar

- You own a dA shirt. ~ =dbestarchitect

- You let like around 79 messages accumulate in your hotmail box and you don't give a shit.
dA messages are So much MORE worth your attention ! Screw hotmail ! ~ *ailime

- You yell at the FireFox spell check because it doesn't recognize "emoticon" or "fave" as a word. ~ =dbestarchitect

- You know all the emoticons by heart. ~ ~xStarxWolfx

- You walk up to a person you don't know but would like to, and ask "Can I watch you?!" ~ *Miyuki1995

- You feel bad for not thanking someone for the fave ~ ~EatMyDreams

- You talk more to a friend on DA than in real life ~ ~bocker22

- You're reading the list and you dont realize ice cream is dripping all over your stuff. ~ ~aznboardergirl

- You use lol and brb in a conversation ~ ~googlememan

- It says that you have a message and there's nothing there. ~ *lovelylogan

- You have a link below in your comment signature that redirects the person
who clicked it to your Dev page so you can receive more page views ~ ~Iron-Tits-of-Doom

- You have subscribed to deviantart so that you could have a kick arse journal to show off to everyone ~ ~Iron-Tits-of-Doom

- You make emotes especially for deviantart ~ ~Iron-Tits-of-Doom

- You role play in the chat rooms, and you also save the role play chat till the next time you rp with that person ~ ~Iron-Tits-of-Doom

- If it wasn't for dA you wouldn't be drawing xD ~ ~lilpixie132

- You have a :iconyouplz: , other than your main account. ~ ~Zneak

- You watch all of your stuff that you've added to your gallery on about 13 different internet
windows to see if anyone has commented or faved it. ~ ~pandagirl9232

- You have like 1000 messages and they're all replies to your comments on something. ~ ~Czathero

- You have so many favorites you don't recognize them all. D= ~ ~XBr3nX

- Your butt starts to hurt if you're not sitting in the chair you sit on while on dA. ~ ~AmphitritetheNereid

- In real life conversation, you use "the fanfic people on dA" to back up your arguments
instead of scientists or leading experts. ^^ ~ ~antichange

- You cry cause your favorite deviant made a journal tittled "Leaving dA 4Eva!" ~ ~EatMyDreams

- You have a bot, you memorized every single command a bot can do ~ ~Iron-Tits-of-Doom

- You are never away from Deviantart for more than one day ~ ~Iron-Tits-of-Doom

- You are making a list of how many signs to show how much you are addicted to deviant art ~ ~Iron-Tits-of-Doom

- You constantly think about how many messages are going to be in your box
because you are a very popular artist ~ ~Iron-Tits-of-Doom

- You have over 1k page views ~ ~Iron-Tits-of-Doom

- You have deviantart related program downloaded onto your cp/pc so that you
can have additional features on deviant art ~ ~Iron-Tits-of-Doom

- You are in more than 5 chats when you are in a chatroom, and you stretch the
page horizontally when someone uses the /whois command to look for you ~ ~Iron-Tits-of-Doom

- You play IRPG and you are on level 60 and up ~ ~Iron-Tits-of-Doom

- You watch a lot of people who watch you ~ ~Iron-Tits-of-Doom

- You use Dev's search to look for things you like ~ ~Iron-Tits-of-Doom

- You make rants about various things ~ ~Iron-Tits-of-Doom

- You use the forums, and may have more than 5 postings or so ~ ~Iron-Tits-of-Doom

- You always write in the NEWS section about current events at least once or more in a week ~ ~Iron-Tits-of-Doom

- You forget to stretch after a couple hours of chatting while in the chatrooms ~ ~Iron-Tits-of-Doom

- You log out, go to one of your own deviations and start refreshing the page every
5 seconds so it looks like you've got a lot of pageviews. ~ ~nagdabl

- You storm off onto DA because you get more respect there ~ *elbethius

- You get aggressive when on Ygallery after looking for the Add to
Favorite option for 15 minutes to add the image to DA. ~ ~Lily-L-Bell

- Instead of watching Drama on tv you come to DA instead ~ ~ShinigamiNecromancer

- You think DA is the best thing since sliced bread ~ ~ShinigamiNecromancer

- You're never logged out. ~ =Twilight-Darling

- You purposefully search for people who are violating policy and report them just for lulz. ~ =Twilight-Darling

- You're not actually on dA, you still constantly thinking about it. ~ =synconi

- You know all the emote codes by heart. ~ =iWin72

- You tell someone in real life they are as bad as -insert diviant name
here- when they do something similar. ~ ~eyesofthedark

- You actually add a sentence to this list (Like me ) ~ ~SmokingFlame

- You get out of bed on a vacation day, on a Sunday, at 5 in the morning
to check your page and messages ~ *ailime

- You google your own dA nickname ~ ~nagdabl

- Somebody says "Damn!" you say "Oh I love their chatrooms!" ~ ~Faver00

- You've fallen asleep while on Deviantart because you were on so long. ~ ~Faver00

- You took the time to think of something to put on this list. >.> ~ ~gwjunkie

- Your sole source of culture comes from DA. ~ *TibodinJay

- You would rather respond to DA comments than actual email. ~ *TibodinJay

- Your art is confined to a 50 x 50 pixel range... just in case it will work as an icon. ~ *TibodinJay

- You keep thinking, "What would a 'Red Shirt' glomp look like?" ~ *TibodinJay

- You use the deviantART search bar more than Google Images. ~ =dbestarchitect

- You have this stamp in your Shoutboard, which you got by subscribing. ~ =dbestarchitect

- DeviantART is responsible for the heavy bags under your eyes ~ =Twilight-Darling

- Your grades are going down, because you always think about DA when you are in class ~ ~Rauru-Umbreon

- You start watching a series for the sake of knowing what all that fan art of it on DA is about. ~ *DensetsuShinobi

- You anticipate how many +favs/pageviews you're gonna see when you log on. ~ =dbestarchitect

- You download all the dA skins and features from UserStyles.org ~ =dbestarchitect

- You use dA emotes and plz-account icons on MSN cos you can't live without them. ~ =DeMaulwurfn

- You thank people for the fav you always link the picture for advertisement! ~ ~SmokingFlame

- You've memorized all the CSS codes, like <div class= . ~ =dbestarchitect

- You used every emote on the full emote-list ~ ~ELStalky

- You're ill for one day, and when you get back on to dA, you have over 100 messages/deviantations ~ ~Larka-the-Wolf

- You put dA with a little "d" and a capital "A" ~ ~Larka-the-Wolf

- You have a second account just so you can watch/ fav yourself and give yourself more pageviews ~ ~bubblepup13

- You would rather argue behind your keyboard than face to face confrontation. ~ ~Lancorz

- You begin to picture people's faces as emoticons. ~ =Retermined

- You have shortcuts on your desktop to devART, Submit Deviation, and Notes. ~ `xero-sama

- You submited two or more questions to this ~ ~wolfvahn

- You made your avatar from scratch just for this site ~ ~wolfvahn

- You've read this entire list and realize that you have done at least 2/3 of everything listed ~ *relashio

- You make your status 'invisible' because the total time that you spend on DA is embarassing! ~ *relashio

- You keep thinking 'I should be doing my homework now' when on dA, and its true ~ =tsemalon

- You know more people on dA than in Real life ! ~ =tsemalon

- You try to use plz icons on other websites. ~ ~kunoichiXassassin

- You knew the Gallery Directors, MN@s, and other staff before they were staff. ~ =shadowed-light-waves

- "/me is amused." is grammatically correct. ~ =shadowed-light-waves

- You "tab" another person's username in a chatroom, even if there are
only two of you in the room. ~ =shadowed-light-waves

- You wonder why unsubscribed users stamps. ~ =shadowed-light-waves

- @MNBot has talked to you in #devart. ~ =shadowed-light-waves

- dAmn resets, and you smile at the chaos and confusion that follows. ~ =shadowed-light-waves

- "so i herd u liek Mudkips! Mudkips! Mudkips!" ~ =shadowed-light-waves

- You eagerly await the Daily Deviations, and probably suggest them too! ~ =shadowed-light-waves

- You know what Greasemonkey, dAx, Zikes, tiny dAmn, and dAmn.pwn are, and
you are quite a fan. ~ =shadowed-light-waves

- You were devastated when you lost your "damn thumbs"...and overjoyed when
you got them back! ~ =shadowed-light-waves

- The phrase "/admin update privclass Guests -images -smilies -objects -avatars" is
just plain cruel. ~ =shadowed-light-waves

- Watching a complete stranger doesn't seem creepy at all. ~ =shadowed-light-waves

- You truly hoped there would be 1,000,000+ people in one of those dAmn
Channels and were sorely disappointed.... ~ =shadowed-light-waves

- "It's about the art. Not the Pageviews" ...but you still get excited when someone
gets a Screenshot of your kiriban... ~ =shadowed-light-waves

- Exclamation marks are bad things... ~ =shadowed-light-waves

- You constantly refresh the page to see if you have gotten more pageviews. 8D ~ ~flyingdown2011

- You send a note to a invisible deviant just so you can know if he/she reads it or online. ~ ~flyingdown2011

- You want to actually meet the deviants in real life. ~ ~flyingdown2011

- You uses deviants' deviations as inspiration to draw or cosplay. ~ ~flyingdown2011

- You learned many stuffs from deviantART that you've never heard of before. o_o ~ ~flyingdown2011

- You costantly view the "Today" page to see what journal you can comment on. ~ ~flyingdown2011

- You've made custom msn avatars from plz accounts 'cause you can't make
conversation without them. ~ ~Sam-Reynolds

- You read this, and realize that EVERY SINGLE ONE applies to YOU. ~ ~candracar272

- You've read this journal all the way through ~ ~candracar272
- You keep watch on your messages to see if updated. ~ ~candracar272

- You call you friends by their Deviantart user names. ~ ~Little-Puppy

- You've herd that they liek mudkipz. ~ ~antichange

- You refuse to go to sleep until you get a certain number of page views on a new
artwork, even if it takes spending the wee hours of the night staring at the computer
screen, repeatedly pressing refresh. ~ ~antichange

- It's your home page on firefox! lol ~ *lovelylogan

- Your typing skills got better because of DA. ~ ~Faver00

- While you're on DA you forget about all the people who are yelling at you to get off the
computer to go somewhere. ~ ~Faver00

- You fall off the chair because you were laughing so hard thanks to the "Lol Corner" updates. ~ ~Faver00

- Your face actually looks like this: @w@ ~ ~swiftnoise

- You meet someone new in person rather then exchanging numbers/email you ask
if they have a deviant art account. ~ ~LydiaRayne

- You've been late for work/school/plans because you just had to check you page. ~ ~LydiaRayne

- You freak out when your subscription is about to end and start asking others to subscribe you. ~ ~izzi-the-Great

- You see "You have no new community messages." but you still press
"Update message centre" five times in a row to make sure. ~ *Oktanas

- You going to the toilet at 2:00 in the morning, but you stop to check DA for new
messeges and you spend couple hours whit out going to the toilet. ~ *Oktanas

- You notice that a lot of the people on here are only 14 ~ ~InTheEveningPhotos

- You spend your spare time away from the computer thinking about
who's updated and weather or not anybody has left a comment ~ ~wolfvahn

- If their was a book entitled how to get more page views you would buy it. ~ ~wolfvahn

- You created a list in your journal about way's to tell if you spend to much time on DA ~ ~wolfvahn

- Ever since you found DA you've turned paler ~ ~wolfvahn

- You spend time to actually make a fanart for your favourite dA artist! ~ ~SmokingFlame

- Emoticons start saying things back to you. ~ ~Mike2468

- You randomly start laughing in the middle of the night because of something you read on dA. ~ ~Zguns

- Someone says/does something incredibly stupid, you mentally say :iconfacepalmplz:. ~ ~Zguns

- You start judging actions by how many Faith in Humanity points they would make another user lose. ~ ~Zguns

- You start imagining people in real life as avatars... and freak out when they get a haircut. ~ ~Zguns
- When you're a fan ~ *Traconian

- You use Emoticons as periods. ~ ~Slightslinger

- Your never idle. ~ ~Slightslinger

- You\'ve spent more than an hour writing a reply. ~ ~Slightslinger

- DA gos in to maintenance mode you keep ing so you know when its over. ~ ~Slightslinger

- You schedule your life around dA. ~ ~Slightslinger

- A new Emoticon comes out you know it that day. ~ ~Slightslinger

- You Google your user name and your page is the first hit. ~ ~Slightslinger

- You forget to eat.

- You\'ve spent days getting your avatar down to 15kb so it still looks good. ~ ~Slightslinger

- Most every thing you say starts with\"So I was on dA and...\" ~ ~Slightslinger

- You submit at least ten facts to this journal. ~ ~Slightslinger

- You have a favorite Emoticon. ~ ~Slightslinger

- You\'ve done all the tags. ~ ~Slightslinger

- Every message you write has at least one Emoticon. ~ ~Slightslinger

- You don\'t give a shit about Gmail. ~ ~Slightslinger

- You hate Myspace and Facebook, dA is all you need. ~ ~Slightslinger

- You use Href so you links can have names. ~ ~Slightslinger

- You\'ve bookmarked you Deviants page. ~ ~Slightslinger
- You use plz accounts. ~ ~Slightslinger

- Your sleeping schedule culminates to 2 hour intervals to check on your Deviant Art. ~ ~y0urstalker

- Talking to your friends, you often talk about "a guy on deviantART
was telling me that..." or "so-and-so's pageviews are..." ~ =dbestarchitect

- You don\'t understand why people are giving blank stares when you show them your new dA shirt. ~ =dbestarchitect

- You make yourself a bowl of Raisin Brand Crunch and after a while of looking
at dA, you take a bite and ask yourself "Where'd the crunch go?" ~ ~Czathero

- The only reason u wake up in the morning is to see if u got new message son DA ~ ~googlememan

- You know all of the code (or whatever they are) for emotes!!!! Especially the ones from users! ~ ~Jaddasroots

- Your signature says "FAQ #3307: How can I get more pageviews?" with a link to your page? ~ =dbestarchitect

- You put :dev___: on job applications under name ~ ~Kerwinm12345

- You say "colon hug colon" ( ) in real life! ~ ~AnimeGoCrazy

- You get home from school, run inside, drop your bag, dash to the PC, bring
up dA, and find out if anyone posted new art. ~ =dbestarchitect

- You've started using "&#34" and "&#39" instead of apostrophes and quotation
marks because of the FREAKIN glitch. ~ =dbestarchitect

- You start wishing some of the emotes used as Moods would be available as
regular emotes, like :eager: ~ =dbestarchitect

- You've downloaded all the scripts and styles for dA ~ =dbestarchitect

- Your parents' voices are faintly speaking, way, way far away. ~ =dbestarchitect

- You suddenly realize you've ed about 42 new things that weren't even in your devWATCH. ~ =dbestarchitect

- All of your ideas are organized into newest, popular, prints, and daily devations... ~ ~king-newmic

- You cant remember what the sun looks like. ~ ~king-newmic

- You have the slightest break, you dash to the PC to check your messages. ~ =dbestarchitect

- Your dreams are brimming with plz icons, emoticons, people, and deviations. ~ =dbestarchitect

- You're reading this incredibly long list realizing your ass hurts like hell but don't care at all! XD ~ ~kat-a-rina-damarcy

- You message people to view your page ~ =ScreamingGerbil

- You correct people when they put da, because you know its dA. ~ ~Slightslinger

- You have a forum. ~ ~Slightslinger

- You comment on the same journal multiple times. ~ ~Slightslinger

- You have or want a subscription. ~ ~Slightslinger

- You've spent over 20 minuets writing your signature. ~ ~Slightslinger

- You know too many symptoms of a dA addict. ~ ~Slightslinger

- You over 100 people. ~ ~Slightslinger

- You dominate someones shout bored. ~ ~Slightslinger

- You get banned and just make a new account. ~ ~Slightslinger

- You describe conversations you've had on dA to people you know in real life. ~ ~Slightslinger

- You can't find any new stamps. ~ ~Slightslinger

- You use half the Emoticons daily. ~ ~Slightslinger

- You read the whole list ~ ~wolfvahn

- You finish looking at your deviants, you go looking through the popular and go on a favorite spree ~ ~EdenHall

- You type in ::\'s you end up typing :icon ~ ~EdenHall

- You cant remember what a car is XP ~ ~kat-a-rina-damarcy

- All of the chicks you flirt with are from dA. XD ~ =ThornedVenom

- You start imitating the emotes on dA in real life. ~ =LeftyLike

- You check eah deviant that has written all these posts ~ ~tomeksz

- You know which deviant has written more than 10 posts ^^ ~ ~tomeksz

- You get a note from your mother saying "it's time for dinner " ~ *Oktanas

- You get up at 4am in the night to catch kiribans ~ ~UchihaNatsue

- You update your journal everyday ~ ~UchihaNatsue

- You actually tried reading the small comment in the journal which
says "This comment is soo small that if you are able to read it without
cheating, then you are a cake! :3" ~ ~SmokingFlame

- You check this list everyday and you try to find something new to add to this list. ~ ~SmokingFlame

- You love the cursor used in this journal and you always watch it open it's mouth ~ ~SmokingFlame

- You take the time to write out all of the symptoms and growing... ~ ~codeslacker

- You look at your art and think; "Is this good enough to put on dA?" ~ ~Lune-kyou



So... did you find out if you're an addict?

(all the deviants who "discovered" the symptoms have their name added next to them )