WARNING
This is a rant!

I've been a member of DeviantART for five years now... Although I'm not intentionally trying to be one of those people who start out with "Back in my day..." it is something that has to be said. Has to. I'm sorry.

A few years back... hell, even one year back, you could go to the 'recently submitted deviations' and you had a great chance to see something interesting! Something with personality! Now, when I visit the recently submitted deviations, I'm practically spammed with things that you'd expect to see on Myspace than on an Art website! I admit, I still do find some wonderful pieces on DeviantART, however it seems that finding them amongst a sea of raw (and poorly composed) snapshots, rough doodles, and nudity is a growing challenge! I admit that nudity can be very artistic, but taking a random snapshot of a nude woman in a random pose with no attention to lighting, composition, or theme is just pathetic. Do you expect to get favorites because people look at it and scream "OMG BOOBS"? I understand taking a snapshot of yourself for a DeviantID or a scrap, but don't fill deviantART with poorly taken photos of you staring at the camera and trying to be cute. That's what Myspace is for. The doodles, if you're still working on them, post them as WORK IN PROGRESS and stop wasting my time. Otherwise, put them in scraps. I don't want to see what you scribbled out on the side of your math test last week if you didn't put any real effort into it. If all you can do is doodle, then more power to you. If you really did put effort into it, I have no problem with it. Good for you!

There... I'm done. -_- Happy Easter.