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| In this case study I attempt an answer to the question: 'What is it like to become a member of deviantART?' I intended for it to be amusing; I hope I've succeeded. |
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deviantANXIETY, A Case StudyYou've joined to become a great artist, or to show the world that you're a great artist. You've joined to ogle all things kawaii. You've joined to troll the forums, or the chatrooms, or both. But above all, you've joined to become a llama baron: you've got your heart set on obtaining a golden llama badge, and nothing's gonna stand in your way.deviantANXIETY, A Case Study by *twicehalf
You've added a couple of people to your deviantWATCH whose art you're somewhat interested in. Or perhaps you added them because you thought that they were cute, or because you liked their avatars, or because they offered you some advice, or because they helped to allay the awkwardness you felt on joini
deviantANXIETY, A Case Study, Part IIYou should congratulate yourself on confronting your previous problems. However, new problems have arisen, and these cause you more anxiety.deviantANXIETY, A Case Study, Part II by *twicehalf
For you, deviantART has now acquired not just the status of an opiate, but of a religion (which are only the same thing if you believe Karl Marx) - you regard deviantART as a monolithic, abstract entity which claims to love you and which is prepared to punish you - by way of suspending or even permanently banning your account - if you should do anything which displeases it. As such, you feel guilty for acknowledging that you have new problems; but you can't ignore the fact that overcoming the old ones w
deviantANXIETY, A Case Study, Part IIIYou've been here for so long that you're a veteran. You've acquired a set of impressive but questionable statistics, having burned through many an account, and repeatedly promising your exasperated watchers that each account-change was the last. If only the account name-change feature was available earlier, you could have saved your friends, and yourself, a lot of trouble. You've no idea where your original account is, or in which year you joined.deviantANXIETY, A Case Study, Part III by *twicehalf
You're full of tales about such defining deviantART moments as the birth of Fella, the fall of jark, and +spyed spurning his $ in favour of +. You don't remember if you witnessed them or only read
| In this case study I attempt an answer to the question: 'What is it like to become a member of deviantART?' I intended for it to be amusing; I hope I've succeeded. |
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