I ran a journal a few weeks ago about a particular piece of work that received a Daily Deviation but the ratios of views to favs was well out of line.

Journal can be found here: [link]

Weather you agree with the piece or not is not what I am looking at in this news item, its the running theme of the comments and I quote:

"I can understand that but there are some images on here that are no where near this type of quality with 100's of favs, sometimes I wonder how much art is actually looked at here?"

"From what I've seen running around dA, I hardly think quality is important to them. I but if there was a sweet kitten near him or some anime book, it would have more faves, though."

"Sheesh.. "only" 165 favourites. I'd destroy carbon based life forms for those numbers. I average 1.something per image, and my best has 16, i think.

It's a brilliant image, but, frankly, most of the favouriting is done by people that want fluff, not great art. Why do you think "MySpace" self portrait nudes by 19 year old girls get 500+ faves? Most people wouldn't know art if it dressed in dayglow orange with a neon sign saying "Fuck it, I'm art" on them. Then again, most people couldn't find a clue if they were a clue covered in clue pheremones in a field full of clues during clue mating season.

Let's face it, dA faves are dominated by plagiarised fan art, horrific manga/hentai, home made porn and stolen images. All we can do is try to be candles in the dark, during a hurricane."

"Oh, this is a really strong and out of the ordinary photo. I didn't notice it, thank you for sharing! I just faved it. I'm not surprised it didn't get a lot of favs. I think it's intentionally disturbing, upsetting. Most people on deviantart prefer kitties and hamsters"

"and porn made by frustrated exhibitionist people..."

So the question I ask is where is dA heading? Does it make business sense to allow the site to become yet another social site such as Myspace? Or will serious art start to come to the fore again?

Myself I think that maybe too much concentration is in running a business at the moment, if it continues then maybe those that are serious in what they do will look elsewhere to display their art, where will that leave dA?