BTW I DESPISE Deviantart's current layout. That is all. EDIT: A comment mentioning something in Erik(MollyHaleIsMyFriend)'s past has gained some traction in the comments, I removed the comment because it left out very vital information, so people took it and ran with it, but let me address it here: I usually do a ton of research for these vids, but I potentially missed this part of Erik's story, and then I found out the entire story is told by Erik himself and buried deep on his website. You can read it here: archive.li/vWoUu Basically, According to Erik, he befriended a 6 year old girl and potentially became obsessed with her, at least that's what it comes off as. We are going off of purely Erik's own words here, this person might not even really exist. Is it creepy? Absolutely. But the thing about this is: According to Erik, this happened 26 years ago, in 1998. I was a drooling baby when this was happening, and Erik was around 17-18 when this happened, if its the truth. But to me, from the way he tells the story, I don't think he was fully aware of what he was coming off as, I don't think he was able to comprehend that what he was doing was bad, if he's like this at 44 years old imagine what he was like at 18. He apparently didn't do anything malicious to her as far as we know, its all his own words. I don't mean to pin the blame on his condition, but the man is clearly still stuck in the past and still thinks he's kid-like. This happened when he didn't even have a presence online at all, so really, it has nothing to do with his deviantart days. If this was a reoccurring issue, like he was constantly trying to befriend kids like this, I would be more concerned. But if it was a one off 26 years ago then it looks like its staying as a one off, and in the 26 years since i'm going to assume whoever Erik is in care of right now has him on a tight leash and prevents something like this from happening again. If he ends up on a criminal watchlist i'll eat my own words. You can view all of this however you want, I can't stop you. Also yeah i briefly mentioned the "chocolate wagon" fanfics in the video, yeah that's concerning and i'd still say its probably best someone has a leash on him.
Jesus Christ why does it feel like I keep seeing you in EVERY comment section, literally everywhere I go I cannot escape your Red Velvet profile picture and I really dont think I can ever find a video without at least ONE comment from you
“Kill your ego.” That may be the greatest piece of advice that could be given to anyone getting online or posting something for the first time. Don’t let that ego take over. It’ll ruin you and other people’s perceptions of you.
It's like every type of art you do, no matter what, like directing movies, writing books or drawing, there's always room for improvement, always. When you stop trying to improve, you stop being an artist.
Also every artist has their Dunning-Krueger peak, where they think they're amazing but it's actually false confidence in their abilities built on early improvement. The earlier it happens the better because it allows you to humble yourself and allows you to keep improving rather than plateauing early. However if you never gain this self-awareness, you end up like Dobson or Chris-Chan where you are literally incapable of improving because you believe you've already mastered the craft.
i was in Conceptart around that time. It was actually very annoying how serious people were trying to get advice on their work but no one replied but everyone on the forum instead focused on bait threads by weird DA people. Some users even called it out, CA posters really loved the drama.
Not to mention, there are countless cases of people who stagnated at best and destroyed their careers at worse because they were incapable of keeping their egos on a leash.
I'm a Registered Behavioral Technician (RBT) and I work with those on the spectrum on a regular basis. Cases like MollyHaleIsMyFriend are pretty common when it comes to those on the lower end of the autistic spectrum. It's not that their brain doesn't accept new information, but that old habits lack diminishing returns. Eric could, hypothetically, watch the same handful of cartoons and gameshows forever since that is what his brain has decided to focus on. That familiarity and rigidness is something that clients work to break from and it can be a difficult process without professional help. In his post you showed about him wanting to be an adult, he makes mention of some physical quirks that he claims to have gotten over such as no longer biting his fingers, rubbing his hands or stomping his feet when he gets up. And good for him! It means on some level he is improving, but you're correct in that in his age he'll likely be dependent on others for the rest of his life which is sad because he does show interest in being independent. I can only hope his family and those in his support system are treating him with dignity.
“physical quirks”? You mean STIMS which are normal and natural and don’t need to be “trained out” for the comfort of neurotypicals. ABA is CONVERSION THERAPY.
It seems to me that his obsession with being 4 years old forever is because something really nasty happened to him. He hasn't grown since then and people started treating him differently and he doesn't want that. He missed when him behaving like a 4 year old wasn't super weird. Especially the heavy nostalgia and "car floor" memories... Just a traumatized man.
Chase was a 13-year-old kid. Everything he did needs to be put through the context of him being an actual child. He absolutely did not deserve any of what happened to him.
@@j.2512 they mocked his art and made death art of his oc, if that happened to me at 13 it would've traumatized me for the rest of my life. maybe it's different for non-autistic people, i wouldn't know
@@CrazyGreenFluff Maybe things would've been a little different if he didn't lied about his age... even if his art proved evidence against him being an adult.
True, being bullied by a bunch of faceless goons was terrible. But: he lied about his age, never refuted or came clean about it, got a girlfriend (apparently) that thought he really was eighteen and kept the schtick up until people got bored of him. Didn't help his case. His misadventures in ConceptArt were well deserved, though. Kid needed a reality check.
God, the whole Chase the Hedgehog segment just made me feel kinda sad. The kid had an ego, but he's 13, and at that stage of development it makes sense why he'd act that way. I just hope he is living a fine life now.
@jimbabwe3 I'm 13 turning 14 next month, but how do i know I'm not gonna become one when i turn 16, becoming one is genuinely terrifying to me, i don't want to become one because i don't want to become a bad person
@@obnox1ous_3fe420 I'm going to be real with you, lots of groomers and people like this become that way because they're terminally online and suffer a p- addiction. The combo make it so you both have no real limits and you thrive for novelty (which will end up in you dabbling into the illegal) So just keep it simple: and always have more IRL friends than internet friends alright... and just block people that can't behave lol
If you want to get creeped out on DeviantArt just search any celebrity's name and you'll find some of the most unholy Photoshops within the bounds of human comprehension
Around 2010 I was making wallpapers and once or twice I got comments, that with my limited English skills, I understood the person was mad at fanart or sth
As someone who now is interested and loves Eurovision, while years before I encountered that kind of art with other famous people and those things settled me out, well... I just pray they had not touched the contest with this level of madness because oh lord (and wouldn't brave myself to find out...) ._.
I think one of my favorite things I ever came across from MollyHale was a picture of homer simpson standing in a library with the text "I am going to yell in this library!" And it has never left my mind in the few years since I have seen it.
@@Faust03 I am glad I haven't just imagined it... Do you have the Deviant Art link. or a link to the file itself? I need it. Edit: Never mind I found it
I remember seeing that exact same image a year ago and it has not left my mind, im glad someone else actually acknowledged it cause I couldve sworn I dreamt it
I think the saddest thing about Deviantart in the modern day is that AI art hit the Deviantart community like fucking crack. The odd charm of seeing a bunch of very amateurish, odd, and borderline nonsensical art is almost completely gone as people nowadays just flood the site with literally thousands of AI-generated images that somehow all manage to look exactly the same on a daily basis.
Ironically, if you go to a 100% AI images site like CivitAI, you'll find much higher-effort images there. Including some of the... weird stuff. "Shrek and Mario giving birth to baby Sonic"-type stuff.
@@Lar_me civit is absafuckalutely cursed beyond anything you could find on deviantart if you disable the all the filters and sort by new. nobody should have this much power
what confuses me on deviantart is all the "kids" that have extremely weird fetishes, like, I didnt have a fricking fetish when I was 12, feel like those are actually grown ups creeping on children tbh
There's a part of me that wants to know what the Man of Shad would have done with the request and another, much saner, part that can't think of anything it wants to know less.
@@lunaitc Meh. Liking drawings of Women that like bread and destroying the enviroment is slightly more normal than literal p0rnographic art of kids (the stuff that Shad made). keyword: "slightly"
@@molanohouse I think liking women with bread is far more normal than cp. As for environmental destruction, that is every millionaire's, billionaire's, industrialist's and major corporation's wet dream.
@@molanohouse Yeah women with bread and the destruction of our ecosystem (aka every billionaire's dream) is very sane and innocent when compared to.... Y'know.
I’m usually not bothered by weird drawings of any fictional characters, since ultimately it’s not real, no matter how strange, weird, or creepy… But people like SolidMario concern me because I doubt he has a solid grasp on the difference between fiction and reality, and it’s definitely believable that his drawings reflect desires beyond the realm of made-up fantasy.
Honestly part of me thinks something happened to him as a child, but due to ASD he struggles to find a proper way to process it. I've seen Lolisho but I most of it never really meditates on the subject in any serious sense, and having dealt with CSA, it never really bothered me in the same way as the stupid bart comics. Frys weird "friendship" with bart and the way solidmario talks to "bart" reminds of the way my abuser dealt with me, trying to justify his actions by by "wholesome" context, letting me play his 3DS and then asking to see my "peter" as a "trade" like's just a casual thing to do with "friends".
Having the Joker blurt out, “I’m going to drink ocean water” will always and unironically be a million times better than anything from Folie a Deux. I am not exaggerating
The murrlogic1 part made me laugh because some years ago he made an interview with a Colombian youtuber called Zebitas Martinex when he explains everything about his Wonder Bread kink, his lore, the lolcow status and how everything got up to the legend he is ua-cam.com/video/esB3DFqUQP8/v-deo.htmlsi=OAIO2bwoa9Ta5PuH here's the link for those who want to see it Also, Murrlogic once explained that his fetish started because when he was having sex with his ex girlfriend, he touched her boobs and tried to relate the texture to something really soft and the first thing he thought... was Wonder Bread. And the rest is just history
I thought his fetish came from that Dexter episode where Dexter imagined Deedee gleefully destroying his lab with a chainsaw and an evil grin on her face
Si tuviera una moneda por cada vez que Zebitas da a conocer a un lolcow en la esfera hispanohablante, tendría dos monedas. Y es curioso que pasara dos veces.
True. Plus Murrlogic also went on a channel called PCP Podcast and gave a reason for the wonderbread thing. I’ll recount what he said here, based on my memory. Ok so basically when he went on PCP podcast, a lot of the time was dedicated to the hosts, Ben Saint and Trixie (formerly known as Digibro) trying to figure out if he does it for sexual reasons. Murrlogic passionately argued that in the present time it was not for sexual reasons but when he first started, yes it was for sexual reasons. Murrlogic recounted this gigantic story which involved him being unemployed and getting set up with odd jobs by the unemployment agency. One of those jobs set him up as a Farmhand where he was working alongside this other unemployed lady his age (so like early 20s). He basically told this whole story of how him and this lady had a friendship that eventually led up to them attempting a relationship, which he fumbled horribly (basically the first time they cuddled he got weird). He said his love of women buying wonderbread was inspired by this chick. However he also gave an explanation to another common theme of his commission which is women destroying the environment / running factories. He said that this part of it for him was something he found to be sexually arousing because he loved the idea of a typical American housewife who destroys the environment or something. He also told a really creepy story of how when he was a kid he had a crush on Dede from Dexter’s Lab cause he loved seeing her destroy Dexters Lab. I’m gonna stop recounting what Murrlogic said on this podcast at this point cause it’s gotten creepy. It’s up to you guys on if this is him meming. I’m just the messenger sharing what I heard him say on this podcast.
there are still a few good artists like Alexisj153984, Chris-theKid, JJSponge120, Tehnutball, and Tumfuleri, but they really should make their artwork more availible on other platforms.
As a Sonic artist on DeviantArt, I constantly either see "fill-in memes", fetish art, NSFW stuff, shitty artwork, and good art (very rarely). Also remember to never turn on "Mature Content".
fun fact: deviantart started as a website for the skinning community (as in, people who would make skins for programs such as WinAMP back when customizable programs were the norm, not the other kind of skinning) and only became an art website when people started hosting regular art on there.
Oh my god, I was so fixated on the absolute weirdness of DA to a detrimental degree. I read "skinning community" and thought of something horrendous tied to that... I forgot about the page customizations from days of yore.
The whole “deep desktop customization” aspect actually was still rather prominent and active, at least back when i used the site for those purposes sometime before 2021. Compared to other sites i honestly thought it was the “best” area to find all that stuff in one place at the time, Not really something that AI could easily interfere with, but I wouldn’t be surprised if that + other shitty site additions practically killed off the remaining community now
That explains why the old profile info had dedicated sections for "Skin of choice" and "Shell of choice" back in the day. I joined long after it became primarily for art so I had no idea.
@@renhaker yeah the skinning community there remained for most of DA's life AFAIK, not sure about now though because of all the ai art and junk, perhaps that scared them off too.
I remember when I was a kid in school whenever we got to use computers I would Google adventure time characters and I’d always find fat fetish art, I found it really funny in an innocent “lol they’re fat” way. Wacky that fetish art like that can be so easily accessible to anyone.
The same happened while i was searching for chowder or Pokémon images on Google And that popped up in the normal search I got images of chowder having something with schnitzel or however it's spelled I got pictures of Lugia wearing diapers Edit: forgot to Say that happened like 14 years ago when in was in middle school, things were Even less filtered than today
Literal same thing happened to me. I was looking up pictures of Rosalina for a project and saw art like that. Mind you, it was like the 3rd image that loaded on school-mandated safe search
@@peluquin98Gardevoir was my fav pokemon when I was 8, one day I wanted to look up fusions with it bc i rlly liked pokemon fusions and the first goddamn thing I saw was BOOOOOOOOBS
Inflation crap is NEVER tagged properly, and when you ask these people to gatekeep kids from their fetish content they'll hit you with the "you'll never stop us UwU". Yikes.
@@xord6286 “Look Pim, I know it's our job to help this guy and everything, but I think this guy's a lost cause. He's obviously made up his mind, why don't we just cut our losses and get out of here.”
Reminded me of shouting that line when I shot a dude on Tarkov with my buddy a month or two ago. It was funny as hell. Bro even said Charlie's line after.
I remember looking up Krystal the Fox (for totally safe reasons) when I was in middle school and found one of her in Smash Brothers activating her "final smash", where she got big and swallowed her opponent At the time, my still semi-innocent brain wondered if that was an actual ability she had.
i have LITTERALLY been quoting “sitting in back of cars is fun to do, and i love doing, and have since i was 5” from mollyhaleismyfriend for YEARSSSS and no one ever gets me. i feel seen
EDIT 2: read redfox's comment. im not googling it to confirm bc of personal triggers. however this is getting left up because they guy still DOES have autism and my point stands. please be nice to NORMAL autistic people, especially if they are lower functioning or post cringe stuff online mollyhaleismyfriend kinda hits hard as an autistic person. it's a noted thing in a majority of autistic people that we like looping and repetition (i believe this is also just common in children, but yadayada i dont wanna do a bunch of adhd parenthesis) and while his nostalgia isn't my own, i can understand that addition to it. its like a warm blanket where you can feel safe. i often find myself rejecting seeing a new movie to watch ones from my childhood again and again. rather than watching a new show, why don't i watch futurama for the 7439573th time since i was a sentient child. for someone that is a higher level (lowfunctioning) on the scale, and the scary state that the world has been in for decades, i really... just really can't blame him. autism doesn't let you grow out of things, and if i was in his place, you can bet i'd've probably been doing this stuff too. just... not for the same stuff. this but its all early spongebob and legend of zelda its very brave of him to post it online for others, even if one may find it weird. guy just wants to be happy as far as we know, and i wish i could have that too (eric please dont turn out to be weird plsplsplspls) edit: i paused the video to leave this comment after that and i feel like mentioning futurama i cursed myself for what came after💀
yeah i can't bring myself to see him as like...dangerous or malicious. it's weird from an outside perspective yeah but the comfort of repetition and routine (and yes, nostalgia) are really familiar to me as an autistic guy his pictures almost seem like a visual form of stimming if that makes sense? like editing them as a visual/mental stim? i'm not great with words but that's how a lot of the stuff he uploads comes off as to me it bugs me when people see benign weirdness on the internet and jump to "this person is obviously some kind of abuser or creep because they are Weird™️" lmao sometimes people are just harmlessly strange because that's what makes them happy
As someone born with autism, I can relate to that too. Yes, I have a dA account but I hardly use it. I feel for the guy and I hope that mollyhaleismyfriend will be okay. He's just harmless. Simply harmless. Nothing else.
Yeah, I mean honestly as someone high functioning, the stuff he does feels like certain aspects of me dialed up to eleven. He was probably as old as those kids when his brain latched onto them, and unlike him, they couldn’t grow up.
@@rubyy.7374 At least when I had my disability, I had to grow up. I had to harden myself and prepare for the worst. I will get a job eventually because YT just loves to fuck us creators over. I only hope that the guy will be okay.
Ok but like he is actually concerning though. I know people with ADHD and they are normal humans who do normal human things. This guy is actually concerning. I would not trust him around kids.
Murrlogic1 has called on the podcast The DickShow multiple times. The gist of it: • He's really, really fat • he's grown up in an orphanage • he was kicked out of a halfway apartment for orphan teens for overstaying his welcome at 25, you are supposed to leave when you're 20) • he now can't afford basic shit, the podcaster's donated some clothes for him • He has explained the origins of his wonderbread thing, but I forgot.
Chasethehedgehog: A kid who had way too big of an ego Murrlogic1: Someone with very a specific fetish who apparently has way too much time and money on his hands. MollyHaleIsMyFriend: A guy with weird fixation who may or maybe not be dangerous. SolidMario: An actual child predator who goes on online meltdowns.
For Wonderbread guy, Channel called skumbagovich has interviewed with him and another guy who has similar fetish they sorta explained that it's about power dynamic things. Girl who love whitebread add up with Rich and Evil-ish tone with sub tone of the totally disrespect for the environment. Basically Domant and corruption and the bread just where their mind land on. it's so deep and complicated, my brain can't comprehend.
That sounds like severely crossed wires. Interesting, but it sounds like someone dropped a solder blob on their circuitry more than a relatable explanation
Oh, hey, I've seen that video. To those reading this comment, y'all should watch skumbagovich, her content is really interesting, for lack of a better term.
Mollyhaleismyfriend reminded me of another obscure deviantart user by the name of Timbox who’s another lolcow who obsessed with 2000s cartoons and animated children the same way as Mollyhaleismyfriend
@@molanohouse Is Newgrounds bad? Sure. Is Newgrounds anywhere near Devientart? Absolutely not. Nothing can reach the levels of awfulness of Devientart.
From what I’ve heard, Murrlogic specifically uses Wonder bread because of how processed and unnatural it is which adds to the whole pollution thing that is already there with the deforestation and factories.
The thing about autism is that "normal" things just don't give you the satisfaction it should do, but instead becomes completely uninteresting or even uncomfortable at times. So when you find something that provides you with a genuine sense of satisfaction and comfort, in a world that otherwise seems so dull, it can become a source of obsession because your brain is starving for any kind of rewarding experience and will want more of that experience and will never get tired of it. I'm on the higher end of the spectrum (luckily) so this is not so extreme for me, but I still kinda relate to guys like MollyHaleIsMyFriend.
i think it's interesting that i have autism and i have my special interests, which are all art and specifically oc related. i too will watch the same things i grew up with over and over again, i even have a ps2 and a wii so i can still play all of my favorite childhood games. however, i turned my fascination for cartoons and fictional characters into art as a hobby, starting when i was around 8 [2008] and continuing to present day. in fact, i am even creating an animated cartoon that's about to have its 4th episode :D
Playing armchair psychiatrist here about Solidmario, i think this guy was molested as a child and that explains why he is the way he is. Does it make it okay? No, obviously not but I can’t help but pick that up from the text in the images and the situations bart is put in in his artwork. (24:21) It feels like the abused continuing the cycle of violence and expressing their desires in their art. I think solidmario needs serious mental health help, if not for him, for the safety of others around him.
Man, I remember a decade ago finding a guy on DA going by the name Brutesworld. He would upload upwards of 40 low quality drawings a day of Incredible Hulks dressed up like fratboys beating up women (with the disclaimer that the women were actually enjoying it). He one day up and deleted his presence and the only proof I have of his existence is a cropped reaction image made from one of his pieces. If he's out there and he reads this: I hope you're okay.
Shadman saying no to a fetish piece and saying he's a weirdo is funny to me. I may not know why that dude wants wonder bread shopping fan art, but at least it's not having real life and animated kids drawn in a gross sexual manner the way shadman does.
Seeing that comment thread between solidmario and "bart" was like watching a schizo converse with the voice in his head but i could hear the voices too.
Did NOT expect to see my old deviantSHART thumbnails grace one of your videos, but here we are. EDIT: Just finished the video. I forgot just how much of a freak show deviantART was back in the days. I'm kinda glad I didn't run into MollyHale or SolidMario during my time doing deviantSHART because hoo boy, I don't think I could've done them justice. I do hope you do a follow-up at some point, because there never really is a bottom of the barrel when it comes to this site.
This is entirely unrelated, but I love your deviantSHART videos. They were always fun to listen to while drawing or doing homework, and they got me through a tough time in my life. Hell, I even took some of the advice you gave to the weird crossover artists and applied it to my own crossover art. Because of that, I wanted to thank you personally for making a series that helped me in more ways than one and was overall an entertaining watch. And yeah, I could totally see you making a video on MollyHale and being more than confused, lol.
26:44 people who use their autism, adhd, or neurodivergency as an excuse to do/say awful/disgusting things are one of my least favorite people in the entire world. I have autism and adhd but I wouldn't do shit like this! I had a friend (who i believe was 16-17 during this story) who was on a bus with one of my classmates who kept touching her inappropriately even when she told him to stop. When he got in trouble for it rightfully so, he blamed it on his adhd, ignoring the fact that my friend has adhd. He didn't get sent to the principal's office because he's "special needs". It isn't the first, nor do I think it'll end. Sorry for the yap session, it just really pisses me off.
Coming as someone with a mental defect (I don’t want to mention it), using your mental disability as a crutch or an excuse to do shitty things or even using it as a personality trait is one of my biggest pet peeves with mental health.
I actually have autism myself and the only time I used it as an excuse was to defend myself from someone who was harrassing me for oversharing in a video game never in my life did I ever think that people would use that as an excuse to do deplorable shit
I am an aspie and my stupid father hit me in the head with a wooden chair and let me tell ya, using that as an excuse is the most ignorant thing you can do, it's annoying and it also pisses people off, you're not alone in this one man, it also drives me mad on a personal level
I remember as a kid I found out what DeviantArt was, so I looked up what the word "Deviant" meant, and it scared me away from ever going onto DeviantArt as a kid.
18:57 I remember hanging out in mollyhaleismyfriend's thread on the Kiwi fruit farming forum back in the day. The thread ended up being more about his trolls than Taz because at the end of the day, he's just harmlessly falling into repetition and his own world because of his neurology. Glad to see that he hasn't done anything horrible since I last saw him. Godspeed Taz, keep making your incomprehensible art.
Sometimes I wonder where these lolcow-kids from days past are now. I mean Chase is like 30 now, but I bet he still has some sleepless nights because he remembers the cringy stuff he pulled back in '06. Lots of normal people sometimes have these memories of something embarassing they once did as a kid pop into their heads but it must be much worse when you did all that publicly, with a lot of it still archived.
I've had this theory about Erik/MollyHale: The images where it's just a character doing something, like eating french fries while sitting on the rear floorboards of cars, crossing the street alone, and drinking ocean water, are all things that a parent would actively prevent a child from doing, since they're all dangerous. Some autistic people have a tendency to be stubborn, to defiantly do something they want to do while ignoring demands against it, unless given an understandable, quantifiable reason not to do it. Maybe Erik, at whatever time his mental development froze, wanted to do those things, got reprimanded by his parents, and in his defiance, made all those images of cartoon characters doing those exact same things, as if to say "SEE? ALL MY FRIENDS ARE DOING IT, AND THEY'RE FINE, SO I CAN DO IT TOO, MOM!"
This reminds me of when a Harry Potter book ending was leaked online. And the first thing I did after finding out was post it on an infamous-ish DeviantArt user named Snapesnoggers profile.
@@savageinkstudios2969 yeah, i read she was a teen back then. all she did was post really weird yaoi of her own characters , but she never did anything bad to anyone . Yet full grown adults made it their goal to non stop harass her .
Back before DA is what it is I posted a picture of Pyramid Head I drew, I was extremely proud of it. I got about 50 comments claiming I traced it, I think it was some kind of raid because it was the only thing I put there, my account wasn't even filled out. That was my first and only experience with DA. I have nowhere else to tell this story so I'm just putting it here. I didn't trace it, I never even played the games, I just thought the character was cool.
probably wasn't a raid, every deviation showed up on the front page , it was actually a good system when the site was new, it guaranteed pretty much anything would get seen but it also caused stuff like your experience
I honestly stopped caring about people being mad if art is traced. I trace only the outlines for references of character poses and proportions, and as long as you aren't copying, you ain't done wrong.
20:51 I'm austistic too and I can totally relate to how he feels about not being able to work 9 to 5. I'm not low functioning, or at least I am the way people would expect a higher functioning autistic to be like, however working 40 hours per week for me is too mentally draining. Unless there is a job somewhere that doesn't feel like being splashed with water non-stop for 8 hours straight, I have to do with welfare. Now don't get me wrong, in my situation I'm not that less independant than if I was working a minimum wage job, and I understand that with the prices rising up most people won't be able to buy a house anyways, but even as a kid I had dreams of finally being able to afford the things I want but couldn't have because you know I am a kid and as a kid you don't have money, however it does enrage and saddens me that it might never happens because you can't save money while on welfare and you can't make more money than what they give you. Maybe one day I will get monetized on UA-cam or make enough money selling things online but for now Im prepared to grieve my hopes
Hey I checked some of your videos and you might want to check out a software called Kuadro. It's free little program that allows you to manage your reference images in a pretty neat way. Essentially you can overlay the images on your screen so you no longer need to tab out when you want to take a glance at a reference. Anyways, good luck! Your art is really nice, I hope you find a way to make a living out of your craft one day.
Why give up and grieve? Allah has prmosed to provide for all of His creation. Do you see how the birds go out in the morning searching for food and they find it? He provides them that food. Think of yourself as one of those birds. When you have faith that God will take care of you, you find peace.
I'd like to point out that Murrlogic did try to commission Shad for a sexually explicit scene unrelated to wonder bread or deforestation but Shad just didn't see the appeal of the kind of "toxic yuri" korrasami he wanted him to draw.
Murrlogic was also banned from Funnyjunk of all sites, specifically for uploading full episodes of cartoons to the site and taking up a lot of server space with them.
i never see him mentioned anywhere and it kind of weirds me out so i wanted to mention this one guy i remember from my deviantart days. there was this prolific DA user back in the day (i think his username was mike something? his icon was a loop gif of anna from frozen clapping) who'd comment on just about everything and occasionally would gift young artists like one or two points, which probably made him popular since points were like gold to kids back then lmao. it wasn't weird to really anyone back then but when i look back i remember him almost exclusively interacting with kids and their art/ocs? either that or regular DA standard fetish art/weird inbred images that were hard to discern if it was fetish content or hyperfixation content (a la mollyhaleismyfriend). i think he tried to establish himself as like a big brother figure to young DA users but he was just so weird. i have an odd memory of the one time i interacted with him directly outside of him donating a point to me. when i was around 13-14 i tried taking emergency commissions to raise money to get out of a bad living situation and someone started claiming i was a scammer/lying about my situation to get points, and mike jumped in also implying i was a scammer bc i'd gotten a commission some time prior to the post. i explicitly remember him telling me to get ahold of and post/send him legal documents proving i was a ward of the state and only then would he *maybe* believe me, at the time i was astonished mostly bc i didnt understand why he thought i'd have access to those things (and how he made it sound like even if i did there was still a chance he wouldn't believe me) but when i looked back on it years later i realized just how creepy it was that a 30 something year old man was telling a kid less than half his age to post/send him personal and potentially identifying information to prove they weren't scamming people out of like 20 cents. his account got either banned or deactivated ages ago but if anyone else recalls him please back me up i know im not crazy
As someone on the autism spectrum myself, I have to agree that the Eric guy appears to be harmless. I actually am not comfortable making fun of his stuff since he's clearly just indulging in his special interests, which I can relate to. I hope he's doing OK now.
as someone who still posts my art to deviantart (i mainly use it as an archive rather than an actual site to find artists) occasionally my art will get favorited and I get to bear witness to some very gross and scary faves lists. someone even linked my art to be used as a reaction image to foot fetish, very weird
I use DeviantArt same as you too, but it's hella disgusting to find horrible art that young kids can stumble upon and see the moment they explore the website
I'm Autistic, definitely. But you'd probably refer to me as someone who's more "higher functioning." I've been in the rabbit hole of hyper-fixations and having characters who I really like, but trust me, a lot of us are "normal". The Erik guy is pretty innocent and out of context, people may find it weird, but in reality, he doesn't seem to be hurting anybody. (ATLEAST THAT WE KNOW OF.) I like that you added the Bart Simpson guy as a contrast. But again, that's incel behavior and a completely different rabbit hole.
i feel kinda bad for the MollyHale guy like the dude is just really autistic and people decided to Bully Him over it like yeah it's weird but dude isn't hurting anyone
@@RF-INF Yes, it's now either about the pseudo-philosophical meanderings or the emotional whims of some pretentious rando who only knows thinking in themselves lol
That Solid Mario guy is a really creepy person. Not just from his art but also the fact of how much he’s into Bart Simpson. For a comparison I’m an artist on DA who mostly likes to draw Princess Peach with Plastic-Man’s powers, but even then even I wouldn’t defend myself if I did the stuff SolidMario did.
You are from the Elastic Girls community on DA? Those are cool. (Shout outs to the Melodia and Donna Limber Comics) And I mean, at least it's a Wacky concept that has been seen sometimes in Mario games (Specially recently in Wonder) But SolidMario is a Real Creep!
@@monstercombo007 thank you so much for liking the stretchy community theirs some really great artist on their like Lunaticus, Derffg and Youxe. I'm glad you like the concept of my stretchy Princess peach I call Plastic Peach and I hope you and many others keep enjoying the stretchy girls and you have an amazing day too. ^w^
@@monstercombo007 that's really good to know that you like the stretchy girl community. it's really nice to see that outside of DA it has a positive look to most people. I hope you keep enjoying all the stretchy girl artists on their and I hope that you also have an amazing day too. ^w^
If it wasn’t blatantly obvious, when Bart Simpson replied to Solidmario’s comment. It was probably SolidMario on a second account since Bart probably wouldn’t agree to a full fledged movie night or something.
As someone who post my drawings on deviant art‚ yeah‚ there's a ton of weird shit there that I don't know why they are not a joke in a South Park episode
Trying to get consistent at drawing and gain a follower base, I made a deviantart account and made a post basically saying I'd be doing free requests within reason. Now, I had already known of da's reputation, so I explicitly said I wouldn't do anything if it was nsfw or anything. Eventually I got what I thought was a seemingly innocuous request of like "oh can you draw x character doing this random thing" and it was only after I did it did I learn that the person's entire favorites tab was that EXACT thing over and over again. I got duped by a deviantart fetishist and didn't even know it because to me it didn't *feel* terribly lewd, but they probably saw it a lot differently. Another friend of mine, who is a much better and more consistent artist, fell for the exact same thing and drew somebody's OC doing laundry. I had hoped it normal, but when the entire gallery is fictional characters washing clothes?
i remember being asked for a picture of certain female characters wearing hats and blushing. If they didnt specify the "blushing" part i wouldn't think it was a fetish but, well, what else could it be really
There was a guy a few years ago on Tumblr who would go around asking or commissioning practically every artist to draw fictional characters shaving/be shaved. But like specifically their faces? Now whenever I see art of someone shaving, no matter how innocuous, I get a bad taste in my mouth. But hey on the plus side, a lot of the artists were quick to call him out on his true intentions.
I have a vivid memory of 8-year-old me going onto DeviantArt, and immediately seeing berry inflation on the front page. I've never been on the site since.
MollyHaleIsMyFriend feels relatable to me. I am autistic and developmentally behind/stunted and the repetitive behavior hits very hard to me, as well as the nostalgia. A lot of people get annoyed with me because I tend to repeat my favorite topics over and over for weeks, months, even years. I love talking about it and its hard to break that because I genuinely have no clue what else to talk about unless it is interesting to me, even then I'll eventually go back to speaking about my fixations on repeat. I hang on to my past as well and enjoy speaking about old cartoons I watched and vintage toys and everything SpongeBob and my favorite places and books and DVD movies. While the guy has made questionable posts, from what I am observing I don't think this guy is malicious. I very much think he is just developmentally behind and his mind is on loop from a very young age, like mine. I would like to note that if anything is wrong with my comment or if I said something wrong or didnt make sense, please let me know. I struggle with speaking sometimes.
28:03 the sad/frustrating thing about all these situations where a severely autistic person is held accountable for their actions & apologizes is that they view their life through the lens of a cartoon/tv show/anime and just regurgitate what somebody from their favorite show would say. they don’t actually feel any remorse/understand what’s happening. they’re just mirroring how fictional characters act bc it’s the only way they know how to interact with other ppl/handle certain situations.
15:51 I ALREADY KNOW THE ENDING OF TAIL CROSSES THE STREET ALONE.....HE GETS RAN OVER BY EGGMAN'S TESLA AND FUCKING DIES....AND THEN HE COMES BACK TO LIVE BECAUSE HE IS INMORTAL
I remember the Sylvanian Families toys being advertised. They were cute anthropomorphic animals in a human-like society in an idyllic village in the forest, sort of like animal crossing. No idea there was a cartoon let alone with human characters
Years ago I used to post my art to DA, and it got a small audience of fans , which I found odd cause even back then I considered my art to be by all account mediocre. But it's when I actually started looking up the people who like my art and interacting with them did I realize what was going on. The people who liked my art where into such weird and frankly disturbing fetishes. They started asking me for commissions and trying to get me to RP with them that I eventually had enough and nuked my own profile. I've never posted my art online again.
I remember an account I came across on deviantart where someone had thousands of images of celebrities photoshopped with no mouth. They had been posting consistently every day for at least a decade. Still haunts me to this day.
Oh, I remember that guy. He wrote little stories underneath about them choosing to be "sealed" or whatever. He was also into people fusing their hands onto their breasts. Anybody remember Fontpeter? I remember him more, with the girls with no heads, or photoshopped into flesh colored flowerpots or urinals. And the guys who photoshopped celebrities with feet for hands.
@@moonlightmalaise2564 Foot fetish next level: what if more than two feet? And humantaurs. Centaurs for people who aren't into horses. I love humanity.
Mollyhaleyismyfriend was posted on a discord I frequent a bit ago and I was absolutely taken aback by his bio, and it was crazy to hear that you'd also said you were making a video on him. Crazy stuff lmao
I don't have a problem with fetish art as long as it's marked as mature and that the kink itself isn't harming anyone or has underage characters in it. But the majority of the fetish art online isn't even filtered, and kids can access it very easily. ESPECIALLY on DA. I'm tired of seeing crowds of people saying good things about kids being in fetish art. It's disgusting
In regards to where Murrlogic gets the obscene amount of money to commission one specific thing, you'd be surprised how many people with very niche interests work in incredibly well paid jobs
BTW I DESPISE Deviantart's current layout. That is all.
EDIT: A comment mentioning something in Erik(MollyHaleIsMyFriend)'s past has gained some traction in the comments, I removed the comment because it left out very vital information, so people took it and ran with it, but let me address it here:
I usually do a ton of research for these vids, but I potentially missed this part of Erik's story, and then I found out the entire story is told by Erik himself and buried deep on his website. You can read it here: archive.li/vWoUu
Basically, According to Erik, he befriended a 6 year old girl and potentially became obsessed with her, at least that's what it comes off as. We are going off of purely Erik's own words here, this person might not even really exist.
Is it creepy? Absolutely. But the thing about this is: According to Erik, this happened 26 years ago, in 1998. I was a drooling baby when this was happening, and Erik was around 17-18 when this happened, if its the truth. But to me, from the way he tells the story, I don't think he was fully aware of what he was coming off as, I don't think he was able to comprehend that what he was doing was bad, if he's like this at 44 years old imagine what he was like at 18. He apparently didn't do anything malicious to her as far as we know, its all his own words. I don't mean to pin the blame on his condition, but the man is clearly still stuck in the past and still thinks he's kid-like. This happened when he didn't even have a presence online at all, so really, it has nothing to do with his deviantart days.
If this was a reoccurring issue, like he was constantly trying to befriend kids like this, I would be more concerned. But if it was a one off 26 years ago then it looks like its staying as a one off, and in the 26 years since i'm going to assume whoever Erik is in care of right now has him on a tight leash and prevents something like this from happening again. If he ends up on a criminal watchlist i'll eat my own words. You can view all of this however you want, I can't stop you.
Also yeah i briefly mentioned the "chocolate wagon" fanfics in the video, yeah that's concerning and i'd still say its probably best someone has a leash on him.
Much like new reddit, it sucks
Real. The new layout's dogwater.
tell me about it. You can't search for collections anymore!
Same
at least you can change the color scheme back to the retro colors, but yeah the new layout is kind of poopy
To be fair, the piece where Joker says "I am going to drink ocean water" is pretty amazing and hilarious.
"Strange byproduct of a hyperfixation or meticulously-crafted shitpost" would be a very fun game show
@@MacCoalieCoalson Legit would be a great and funny show.
@@MacCoalieCoalson scarily enough sometimes it's both neither
I feel like that’s something he would say.
i swear same dude made an image of trump in an electric chair with max from dragon tales making a guest appearance
That artwork with Caesar Romero Joker yelling “I’M GOING TO EAT OCEAN WATER” is the most in character thing Erik has ever created
Jesus Christ why does it feel like I keep seeing you in EVERY comment section, literally everywhere I go I cannot escape your Red Velvet profile picture and I really dont think I can ever find a video without at least ONE comment from you
this makes me wanna check out the 60s batman show honestly, I've never seen it before
@@AbrasiousProductions It's fun if you embrace the campiness of it all
It became my personal inside joke after I saw it
@@Fireafyanimations299 because you both clearly are men with exquisite tastes
“Kill your ego.”
That may be the greatest piece of advice that could be given to anyone getting online or posting something for the first time. Don’t let that ego take over. It’ll ruin you and other people’s perceptions of you.
He was excellent with the advice but chase being a kid wouldn't actually take it seriously
It's like every type of art you do, no matter what, like directing movies, writing books or drawing, there's always room for improvement, always. When you stop trying to improve, you stop being an artist.
Also every artist has their Dunning-Krueger peak, where they think they're amazing but it's actually false confidence in their abilities built on early improvement. The earlier it happens the better because it allows you to humble yourself and allows you to keep improving rather than plateauing early. However if you never gain this self-awareness, you end up like Dobson or Chris-Chan where you are literally incapable of improving because you believe you've already mastered the craft.
i was in Conceptart around that time. It was actually very annoying how serious people were trying to get advice on their work but no one replied but everyone on the forum instead focused on bait threads by weird DA people. Some users even called it out, CA posters really loved the drama.
Not to mention, there are countless cases of people who stagnated at best and destroyed their careers at worse because they were incapable of keeping their egos on a leash.
I'm a Registered Behavioral Technician (RBT) and I work with those on the spectrum on a regular basis. Cases like MollyHaleIsMyFriend are pretty common when it comes to those on the lower end of the autistic spectrum. It's not that their brain doesn't accept new information, but that old habits lack diminishing returns. Eric could, hypothetically, watch the same handful of cartoons and gameshows forever since that is what his brain has decided to focus on. That familiarity and rigidness is something that clients work to break from and it can be a difficult process without professional help.
In his post you showed about him wanting to be an adult, he makes mention of some physical quirks that he claims to have gotten over such as no longer biting his fingers, rubbing his hands or stomping his feet when he gets up. And good for him! It means on some level he is improving, but you're correct in that in his age he'll likely be dependent on others for the rest of his life which is sad because he does show interest in being independent. I can only hope his family and those in his support system are treating him with dignity.
consider reading that one comment about him... its disgusting
“physical quirks”? You mean STIMS which are normal and natural and don’t need to be “trained out” for the comfort of neurotypicals. ABA is CONVERSION THERAPY.
@@eiffeltower2479is that the real eiffel tower
It seems to me that his obsession with being 4 years old forever is because something really nasty happened to him. He hasn't grown since then and people started treating him differently and he doesn't want that. He missed when him behaving like a 4 year old wasn't super weird. Especially the heavy nostalgia and "car floor" memories... Just a traumatized man.
honestly would not be surprised if Eric/MollyHaleIsMyFriend is a case study of trauma's effects on the autistic brain
Chase was a 13-year-old kid. Everything he did needs to be put through the context of him being an actual child. He absolutely did not deserve any of what happened to him.
not much happened to him. It makes for a funny story really.
It does but also, kids can't get away with everything.
Don't bully kids, but don't let them get away with everything just bc "they're a kid"
@@j.2512 they mocked his art and made death art of his oc, if that happened to me at 13 it would've traumatized me for the rest of my life. maybe it's different for non-autistic people, i wouldn't know
@@CrazyGreenFluff Maybe things would've been a little different if he didn't lied about his age... even if his art proved evidence against him being an adult.
True, being bullied by a bunch of faceless goons was terrible.
But: he lied about his age, never refuted or came clean about it, got a girlfriend (apparently) that thought he really was eighteen and kept the schtick up until people got bored of him. Didn't help his case.
His misadventures in ConceptArt were well deserved, though. Kid needed a reality check.
God, the whole Chase the Hedgehog segment just made me feel kinda sad. The kid had an ego, but he's 13, and at that stage of development it makes sense why he'd act that way. I just hope he is living a fine life now.
I honestly hope he's much better, at least he didn't get fucked over by peds like alot of kids these days😞
@@ayeslpirninsev how do you know he didn't become one of them when he grew Up (i hope he didn't)
@@obnox1ous_3fe420how do I know you’re not a ped
@jimbabwe3 I'm 13 turning 14 next month, but how do i know I'm not gonna become one when i turn 16, becoming one is genuinely terrifying to me, i don't want to become one because i don't want to become a bad person
@@obnox1ous_3fe420 I'm going to be real with you, lots of groomers and people like this become that way because they're terminally online and suffer a p- addiction. The combo make it so you both have no real limits and you thrive for novelty (which will end up in you dabbling into the illegal)
So just keep it simple: and always have more IRL friends than internet friends alright... and just block people that can't behave lol
Every MagicMush video:
The first topic: 😆!
The second topic: 🤔?
The last topics: 😐...
so real
I love that
Like hbomberguy on steroids lol
Everybody gangsta until MagicMush hits you with the content warning
@@henrynelson9301yes indeed
If you want to get creeped out on DeviantArt just search any celebrity's name and you'll find some of the most unholy Photoshops within the bounds of human comprehension
Oh freaking sweet, horrors beyond comprehension
Around 2010 I was making wallpapers and once or twice I got comments, that with my limited English skills, I understood the person was mad at fanart or sth
Poor emma Watson seems to be the epitome of this. Unfortunately probably due to her child acting years. Nasty
Or Loud House. The worst one I saw was all the sisters except the baby pregnant, with Lincoln most likely the father. 🙃🔫
As someone who now is interested and loves Eurovision, while years before I encountered that kind of art with other famous people and those things settled me out, well...
I just pray they had not touched the contest with this level of madness because oh lord (and wouldn't brave myself to find out...) ._.
“every little girl is a kind of cheese” hit me like a ton of bricks
He ain't wrong, though.
I don't know what that means. I don't want to know.
I kind of want to know what that means but at the same time I don't.
im so cheap slices of american cheese coded
I’m no longer a little girl so does that fucking mean I’m MILK??? AM I STONE?? WHAT AM I IF NOT CHEESE
I think one of my favorite things I ever came across from MollyHale was a picture of homer simpson standing in a library with the text "I am going to yell in this library!" And it has never left my mind in the few years since I have seen it.
That is my desktop wallpaper lmao
@@Faust03 I am glad I haven't just imagined it... Do you have the Deviant Art link. or a link to the file itself? I need it.
Edit: Never mind I found it
@@doktawhawee9870 I don't have any links to it, sorry
but you did say you found it so that's good
I remember seeing that exact same image a year ago and it has not left my mind, im glad someone else actually acknowledged it cause I couldve sworn I dreamt it
I think the saddest thing about Deviantart in the modern day is that AI art hit the Deviantart community like fucking crack.
The odd charm of seeing a bunch of very amateurish, odd, and borderline nonsensical art is almost completely gone as people nowadays just flood the site with literally thousands of AI-generated images that somehow all manage to look exactly the same on a daily basis.
Ironically, if you go to a 100% AI images site like CivitAI, you'll find much higher-effort images there. Including some of the... weird stuff. "Shrek and Mario giving birth to baby Sonic"-type stuff.
@@Lar_me civit is absafuckalutely cursed beyond anything you could find on deviantart if you disable the all the filters and sort by new. nobody should have this much power
what confuses me on deviantart is all the "kids" that have extremely weird fetishes, like, I didnt have a fricking fetish when I was 12, feel like those are actually grown ups creeping on children tbh
@@Lar_menone of us like AI dawg stop trying to plug that!!!!
@S4NSE Tbh I don't know if that's due to predators or just grown adults with the mental capacity of 12 year olds, probably a mix of both.
Not gonna lie, I think Murrlogic dodged a cannonball getting his commission rejected by Shadman.
There's a part of me that wants to know what the Man of Shad would have done with the request and another, much saner, part that can't think of anything it wants to know less.
@@lunaitc Meh.
Liking drawings of Women that like bread and destroying the enviroment is slightly more normal than literal p0rnographic art of kids (the stuff that Shad made).
keyword: "slightly"
@@molanohouse I think liking women with bread is far more normal than cp.
As for environmental destruction, that is every millionaire's, billionaire's, industrialist's and major corporation's wet dream.
@@molanohouse Yeah women with bread and the destruction of our ecosystem (aka every billionaire's dream) is very sane and innocent when compared to....
Y'know.
@@molanohouse Not sure why you say slightly when the stuff Shad draws ranges from legal gray area to being actually illegal
The fact chasethehedgehog was uploading his ms paint art to a professional art website will forever be funny to me
ChaseTheHedgehog is 100% a troll ain't no way he was being unironic 💀🙏🏽
Oh hello moot
who tf is moot
@@pikminologueraisin2139The founder of 9Gag
@@PeasMinistercreator of 4chan
I’m usually not bothered by weird drawings of any fictional characters, since ultimately it’s not real, no matter how strange, weird, or creepy…
But people like SolidMario concern me because I doubt he has a solid grasp on the difference between fiction and reality, and it’s definitely believable that his drawings reflect desires beyond the realm of made-up fantasy.
I think this guy might go along well with chris chan and the dimension merch stitch
@@D00M89-jq7ymWho is dimension merch stitch?
@@D00M89-jq7ymWho is dimension merch stitch?
Honestly part of me thinks something happened to him as a child, but due to ASD he struggles to find a proper way to process it.
I've seen Lolisho but I most of it never really meditates on the subject in any serious sense, and having dealt with CSA, it never really bothered me in the same way as the stupid bart comics.
Frys weird "friendship" with bart and the way solidmario talks to "bart" reminds of the way my abuser dealt with me, trying to justify his actions by by "wholesome" context, letting me play his 3DS and then asking to see my "peter" as a "trade" like's just a casual thing to do with "friends".
Having the Joker blurt out, “I’m going to drink ocean water” will always and unironically be a million times better than anything from Folie a Deux. I am not exaggerating
Dr Pavel, I'm CIA
@@buzzlightyear3657 He wasn't alone.
The murrlogic1 part made me laugh because some years ago he made an interview with a Colombian youtuber called Zebitas Martinex when he explains everything about his Wonder Bread kink, his lore, the lolcow status and how everything got up to the legend he is
ua-cam.com/video/esB3DFqUQP8/v-deo.htmlsi=OAIO2bwoa9Ta5PuH here's the link for those who want to see it
Also, Murrlogic once explained that his fetish started because when he was having sex with his ex girlfriend, he touched her boobs and tried to relate the texture to something really soft and the first thing he thought... was Wonder Bread.
And the rest is just history
I thought his fetish came from that Dexter episode where Dexter imagined Deedee gleefully destroying his lab with a chainsaw and an evil grin on her face
we're going back in time to the time murrlogic had sex with his ex to get wonder bread OFF the menu
Si tuviera una moneda por cada vez que Zebitas da a conocer a un lolcow en la esfera hispanohablante, tendría dos monedas. Y es curioso que pasara dos veces.
I was thinking of that exact interview
True. Plus Murrlogic also went on a channel called PCP Podcast and gave a reason for the wonderbread thing. I’ll recount what he said here, based on my memory. Ok so basically when he went on PCP podcast, a lot of the time was dedicated to the hosts, Ben Saint and Trixie (formerly known as Digibro) trying to figure out if he does it for sexual reasons. Murrlogic passionately argued that in the present time it was not for sexual reasons but when he first started, yes it was for sexual reasons. Murrlogic recounted this gigantic story which involved him being unemployed and getting set up with odd jobs by the unemployment agency. One of those jobs set him up as a Farmhand where he was working alongside this other unemployed lady his age (so like early 20s). He basically told this whole story of how him and this lady had a friendship that eventually led up to them attempting a relationship, which he fumbled horribly (basically the first time they cuddled he got weird). He said his love of women buying wonderbread was inspired by this chick. However he also gave an explanation to another common theme of his commission which is women destroying the environment / running factories. He said that this part of it for him was something he found to be sexually arousing because he loved the idea of a typical American housewife who destroys the environment or something. He also told a really creepy story of how when he was a kid he had a crush on Dede from Dexter’s Lab cause he loved seeing her destroy Dexters Lab. I’m gonna stop recounting what Murrlogic said on this podcast at this point cause it’s gotten creepy.
It’s up to you guys on if this is him meming. I’m just the messenger sharing what I heard him say on this podcast.
Deviantart went from actual art and then turned into only 3 things: fetish art, ai slop and unfunny memes
there are still a few good artists like Alexisj153984, Chris-theKid, JJSponge120, Tehnutball, and Tumfuleri, but they really should make their artwork more availible on other platforms.
Or, it's unfunny fetish AI slop... with a moustache!
If you're (un)lucky, you might get all three!
going ot the site without login is one way to see the good stuff
Exactly.
I had no clue about the origin of "I am going to drink ocean water", caught me off guard and I spat out my drink
Also the image of the modded Sims game at 2:04 is where the "God i wish that were me" came from. Yes, really
ocean water?
OCEAN MAN
TAKE MY BY THE HAND LEAD ME TO THE LAND
THAT YOU UNDERSTAND
13:42 Murrlogic clowning on verbalase over the hazbin hotel thing is the funniest shit
Verbalase spent $50k+ on ONE animation, to be fair
@quaygrass6212 which he regrets obviously
@@Rocketluxtop 10 moments that nuked someone’s career.
@@quaygrass6212remember calobi productions?
As a Sonic artist on DeviantArt, I constantly either see "fill-in memes", fetish art, NSFW stuff, shitty artwork, and good art (very rarely). Also remember to never turn on "Mature Content".
I can always rely on Magic mush to talk about the most disturbing and horrific thing I’ve heard about with Banjo Kazooie music in the background
Because Banjo Kazooie music slaps
And donkey Kong country music too
@@liammcnicholas918play the clip of the chief saying “oh god it’s good”
fun fact: deviantart started as a website for the skinning community (as in, people who would make skins for programs such as WinAMP back when customizable programs were the norm, not the other kind of skinning) and only became an art website when people started hosting regular art on there.
Oh my god, I was so fixated on the absolute weirdness of DA to a detrimental degree. I read "skinning community" and thought of something horrendous tied to that...
I forgot about the page customizations from days of yore.
The whole “deep desktop customization” aspect actually was still rather prominent and active, at least back when i used the site for those purposes sometime before 2021. Compared to other sites i honestly thought it was the “best” area to find all that stuff in one place at the time,
Not really something that AI could easily interfere with, but I wouldn’t be surprised if that + other shitty site additions practically killed off the remaining community now
That explains why the old profile info had dedicated sections for "Skin of choice" and "Shell of choice" back in the day. I joined long after it became primarily for art so I had no idea.
@@renhaker yeah the skinning community there remained for most of DA's life AFAIK, not sure about now though because of all the ai art and junk, perhaps that scared them off too.
with that context the name deviantart sounds kinda cool now
I remember when I was a kid in school whenever we got to use computers I would Google adventure time characters and I’d always find fat fetish art, I found it really funny in an innocent “lol they’re fat” way. Wacky that fetish art like that can be so easily accessible to anyone.
The same happened while i was searching for chowder or Pokémon images on Google
And that popped up in the normal search
I got images of chowder having something with schnitzel or however it's spelled
I got pictures of Lugia wearing diapers
Edit: forgot to Say that happened like 14 years ago when in was in middle school, things were Even less filtered than today
Literal same thing happened to me. I was looking up pictures of Rosalina for a project and saw art like that. Mind you, it was like the 3rd image that loaded on school-mandated safe search
@@peluquin98Gardevoir was my fav pokemon when I was 8, one day I wanted to look up fusions with it bc i rlly liked pokemon fusions and the first goddamn thing I saw was BOOOOOOOOBS
Same here. I remember searching for images of Springtrap to use as a reference only to find that sort of stuff. Real classy, Google.
Inflation crap is NEVER tagged properly, and when you ask these people to gatekeep kids from their fetish content they'll hit you with the "you'll never stop us UwU".
Yikes.
"I AM A FAN OF CARTOON KIDS" has the same vibes as "I LOVE KIDS CHARLIE I LOVE KIIIIIIDS!"
SMILING FRIENDS SPOTTED??
SMILING FRIENDS
@@xord6286 “Look Pim, I know it's our job to help this guy and everything, but I think this guy's a lost cause. He's obviously made up his mind, why don't we just cut our losses and get out of here.”
Reminded me of shouting that line when I shot a dude on Tarkov with my buddy a month or two ago. It was funny as hell. Bro even said Charlie's line after.
Charlie's response to that in sf is pretty much what people assume of this guy lol
I remember looking up Krystal the Fox (for totally safe reasons) when I was in middle school and found one of her in Smash Brothers activating her "final smash", where she got big and swallowed her opponent
At the time, my still semi-innocent brain wondered if that was an actual ability she had.
Normally, if someone is like "for safe reasons", I don't believe it. But yours is a special case.
Deviantart is the arkhan asylum of internet
aslume*
@@INspectre691Is there a reason for you spelling asylum like that, or are you stupid?
Okay then… who’s its equivalent of The Joker?
ARTham asylum
why doesnt the jonkler draw his own art?
i have LITTERALLY been quoting “sitting in back of cars is fun to do, and i love doing, and have since i was 5” from mollyhaleismyfriend for YEARSSSS and no one ever gets me. i feel seen
SAME AND EVERYONE THINKS IM WEIRD FOR DOING IT
I need to start
new vocal stim unlocked
EDIT 2: read redfox's comment. im not googling it to confirm bc of personal triggers. however this is getting left up because they guy still DOES have autism and my point stands. please be nice to NORMAL autistic people, especially if they are lower functioning or post cringe stuff online
mollyhaleismyfriend kinda hits hard as an autistic person. it's a noted thing in a majority of autistic people that we like looping and repetition (i believe this is also just common in children, but yadayada i dont wanna do a bunch of adhd parenthesis) and while his nostalgia isn't my own, i can understand that addition to it. its like a warm blanket where you can feel safe. i often find myself rejecting seeing a new movie to watch ones from my childhood again and again. rather than watching a new show, why don't i watch futurama for the 7439573th time since i was a sentient child. for someone that is a higher level (lowfunctioning) on the scale, and the scary state that the world has been in for decades, i really... just really can't blame him. autism doesn't let you grow out of things, and if i was in his place, you can bet i'd've probably been doing this stuff too. just... not for the same stuff. this but its all early spongebob and legend of zelda
its very brave of him to post it online for others, even if one may find it weird. guy just wants to be happy as far as we know, and i wish i could have that too
(eric please dont turn out to be weird plsplsplspls)
edit: i paused the video to leave this comment after that and i feel like mentioning futurama i cursed myself for what came after💀
yeah i can't bring myself to see him as like...dangerous or malicious. it's weird from an outside perspective yeah but the comfort of repetition and routine (and yes, nostalgia) are really familiar to me as an autistic guy
his pictures almost seem like a visual form of stimming if that makes sense? like editing them as a visual/mental stim? i'm not great with words but that's how a lot of the stuff he uploads comes off as to me
it bugs me when people see benign weirdness on the internet and jump to "this person is obviously some kind of abuser or creep because they are Weird™️" lmao sometimes people are just harmlessly strange because that's what makes them happy
As someone born with autism, I can relate to that too. Yes, I have a dA account but I hardly use it. I feel for the guy and I hope that mollyhaleismyfriend will be okay. He's just harmless. Simply harmless. Nothing else.
Yeah, I mean honestly as someone high functioning, the stuff he does feels like certain aspects of me dialed up to eleven. He was probably as old as those kids when his brain latched onto them, and unlike him, they couldn’t grow up.
@@rubyy.7374 At least when I had my disability, I had to grow up. I had to harden myself and prepare for the worst. I will get a job eventually because YT just loves to fuck us creators over.
I only hope that the guy will be okay.
Ok but like he is actually concerning though. I know people with ADHD and they are normal humans who do normal human things. This guy is actually concerning. I would not trust him around kids.
Another hobby that people still use Deviantart nowadays that isn't mentioned is to upload MikuMikuDance assets like 3D models and motion files.
yes but that is very tame considering the users mentioned in the video
Bowlroll is another place people use for mmd assets, by the way. Deviantart would be my go-to if the sukone tei models on there looked good
Murrlogic1 has called on the podcast The DickShow multiple times. The gist of it:
• He's really, really fat
• he's grown up in an orphanage
• he was kicked out of a halfway apartment for orphan teens for overstaying his welcome at 25, you are supposed to leave when you're 20)
• he now can't afford basic shit, the podcaster's donated some clothes for him
• He has explained the origins of his wonderbread thing, but I forgot.
I feel sorry for the guy honestly
Going on DeviantArt is like doing a Reddit 50//50 but you aren't told the options
Never thought of it like that, but that's pretty accurate.
HAHAHA
I'd say the same for all art sites, tbh.
Especially Pixiv. Some of the crap on there is the stuff of NIGHTMARES
Chasethehedgehog: A kid who had way too big of an ego
Murrlogic1: Someone with very a specific fetish who apparently has way too much time and money on his hands.
MollyHaleIsMyFriend: A guy with weird fixation who may or maybe not be dangerous.
SolidMario: An actual child predator who goes on online meltdowns.
ChaseCHADS mindbroke Black Buster critic
I cannot see any reality where Murrlogic1 is not just trolling. None. He has to be trolling.
@@Ayahuasca98lmao ill never forget that iconic debate over consoles between the BBC and reviewtech, shit was hilarious back then
A perfect downward trajectory of awful. Only getting worse and worse overtime.
Honestly murrlogic's shit just makes me laugh because of how fucking out of nowhere it is
For Wonderbread guy, Channel called skumbagovich has interviewed with him and another guy who has similar fetish they sorta explained that it's about power dynamic things. Girl who love whitebread add up with Rich and Evil-ish tone with sub tone of the totally disrespect for the environment. Basically Domant and corruption and the bread just where their mind land on.
it's so deep and complicated, my brain can't comprehend.
That sounds like severely crossed wires. Interesting, but it sounds like someone dropped a solder blob on their circuitry more than a relatable explanation
Oh, hey, I've seen that video.
To those reading this comment, y'all should watch skumbagovich, her content is really interesting, for lack of a better term.
@@kentuckycryptidthe female Whang!
@@hilotakenaka I also recommend Whang, as well.
I think he was on The Dick Show or The Biggest Problem in The Universe
Mollyhaleismyfriend reminded me of another obscure deviantart user by the name of Timbox who’s another lolcow who obsessed with 2000s cartoons and animated children the same way as Mollyhaleismyfriend
Really sad how Deviantart fell from grace, especially with all the ai slop they’re doing right now.
tbh, it had fallen from grace waaaay before Ai slop. The sad part is now Artstation has gone to shit too
How can you watch this video and conclude that AI art is such a giant step down? 😂
No way wonder bread guy came back out of the woodwork to dunk on Verbalase
Professionals have standards
@ I guess he couldn’t hide away forever
@@salt_factory7566NAHHH
thats why wonderbread guy the goat
@@salt_factory7566murlogic1: for a thousand years I lay dormant
Posting on DeviantArt is like constantly living in an area full of radioactive substances.
right now DeviantArt is filled to the brim with AI art.
Yeah... Planning to abandon it and move completely to Newgrounds
@@movagalbastompNewgrounds isn't good ethier, I'd say kinda worse in some ways.
@@molanohousehow is it worse?
@@molanohouse Is Newgrounds bad? Sure. Is Newgrounds anywhere near Devientart? Absolutely not. Nothing can reach the levels of awfulness of Devientart.
From what I’ve heard, Murrlogic specifically uses Wonder bread because of how processed and unnatural it is which adds to the whole pollution thing that is already there with the deforestation and factories.
I bet you anything he is a unhinged Right Winger.
how does a fetish even occur? maybe he's a nepo baby of an indutralist and this fetish is natures ways of cursing his parents
The thing about autism is that "normal" things just don't give you the satisfaction it should do, but instead becomes completely uninteresting or even uncomfortable at times. So when you find something that provides you with a genuine sense of satisfaction and comfort, in a world that otherwise seems so dull, it can become a source of obsession because your brain is starving for any kind of rewarding experience and will want more of that experience and will never get tired of it.
I'm on the higher end of the spectrum (luckily) so this is not so extreme for me, but I still kinda relate to guys like MollyHaleIsMyFriend.
i think it's interesting that i have autism and i have my special interests, which are all art and specifically oc related. i too will watch the same things i grew up with over and over again, i even have a ps2 and a wii so i can still play all of my favorite childhood games. however, i turned my fascination for cartoons and fictional characters into art as a hobby, starting when i was around 8 [2008] and continuing to present day. in fact, i am even creating an animated cartoon that's about to have its 4th episode :D
Playing armchair psychiatrist here about Solidmario, i think this guy was molested as a child and that explains why he is the way he is. Does it make it okay? No, obviously not but I can’t help but pick that up from the text in the images and the situations bart is put in in his artwork. (24:21) It feels like the abused continuing the cycle of violence and expressing their desires in their art. I think solidmario needs serious mental health help, if not for him, for the safety of others around him.
Man, I remember a decade ago finding a guy on DA going by the name Brutesworld. He would upload upwards of 40 low quality drawings a day of Incredible Hulks dressed up like fratboys beating up women (with the disclaimer that the women were actually enjoying it). He one day up and deleted his presence and the only proof I have of his existence is a cropped reaction image made from one of his pieces.
If he's out there and he reads this: I hope you're okay.
i shouldn't laugh but jesus christ lmfao
Holy shit lmao. I need to see that reaction image
If he made that art today I garentee it would be posted to twitter with the caption "based" above it.
Please upload that reaction image somewhere.
@@PublicEnemy442 If that's not based then I don't want to be based anymore.
Visited DA 5 years ago, it was mostly softcore pr0n & nude photography.
Visited DA this year & it's almost all AI generated art.
If you are going to DA without a map youll just get lost in the fetishes
I usually only go to artists i know
And repetitive 'what if' and reaction fill-in memes.
the site has been dead for well over a decade. Everyone serious about art moved on in the late 2000s
@@j.2512I tried using it in 2015 and it already felt dead back then. Some good artists here and there, but it felt like a street at 11pm on a weekday
Here’s a tip
Apparently there’s an option where you could disable Ai Art being actually SHOWN to you thankfully
Shadman saying no to a fetish piece and saying he's a weirdo is funny to me. I may not know why that dude wants wonder bread shopping fan art, but at least it's not having real life and animated kids drawn in a gross sexual manner the way shadman does.
Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made A Good Point
> at least it's not involving kids
Did you not see any of the commissions that feature kids
@@liammcnicholas918 I mean unless the wonder bread shopping is linked to consuming poor people I don't know how you top shadman lol
@Clownacy I put real life kids at the end because I seen Pacifica.
@@OwlQueen375 It's basically the equivalent of the Devil himself rejecting your deal because he thinks you're weird.
Seeing that comment thread between solidmario and "bart" was like watching a schizo converse with the voice in his head but i could hear the voices too.
Did NOT expect to see my old deviantSHART thumbnails grace one of your videos, but here we are.
EDIT: Just finished the video. I forgot just how much of a freak show deviantART was back in the days. I'm kinda glad I didn't run into MollyHale or SolidMario during my time doing deviantSHART because hoo boy, I don't think I could've done them justice. I do hope you do a follow-up at some point, because there never really is a bottom of the barrel when it comes to this site.
This is entirely unrelated, but I love your deviantSHART videos. They were always fun to listen to while drawing or doing homework, and they got me through a tough time in my life. Hell, I even took some of the advice you gave to the weird crossover artists and applied it to my own crossover art. Because of that, I wanted to thank you personally for making a series that helped me in more ways than one and was overall an entertaining watch.
And yeah, I could totally see you making a video on MollyHale and being more than confused, lol.
YOURE STILL ALIVE???
You seem like a cool guy. Subbed
@@LeoFan93 Wow, I'm a huge fan! Nice to see you're still around!
I'm happy to see you're still doing well, LeoFan93. I watched your videos a ton when they were still new. Can't believe it's been 10 years already.
26:44 people who use their autism, adhd, or neurodivergency as an excuse to do/say awful/disgusting things are one of my least favorite people in the entire world. I have autism and adhd but I wouldn't do shit like this!
I had a friend (who i believe was 16-17 during this story) who was on a bus with one of my classmates who kept touching her inappropriately even when she told him to stop. When he got in trouble for it rightfully so, he blamed it on his adhd, ignoring the fact that my friend has adhd. He didn't get sent to the principal's office because he's "special needs". It isn't the first, nor do I think it'll end.
Sorry for the yap session, it just really pisses me off.
Coming as someone with a mental defect (I don’t want to mention it), using your mental disability as a crutch or an excuse to do shitty things or even using it as a personality trait is one of my biggest pet peeves with mental health.
I actually have autism myself and the only time I used it as an excuse was to defend myself from someone who was harrassing me for oversharing in a video game
never in my life did I ever think that people would use that as an excuse to do deplorable shit
@HolyFlare484 real
That's pretty disgusting. That ticks me off too.
I am an aspie and my stupid father hit me in the head with a wooden chair and let me tell ya, using that as an excuse is the most ignorant thing you can do, it's annoying and it also pisses people off, you're not alone in this one man, it also drives me mad on a personal level
I remember as a kid I found out what DeviantArt was, so I looked up what the word "Deviant" meant, and it scared me away from ever going onto DeviantArt as a kid.
When I told my parents I uploaded some of my art to DeviantArt they flipped and got super worried and now I don't blame them
Man, that is the best decision you could have made lmao
I always browsed it for phone and pc wallpapers
Never fell into the kinky side let alone knew it existed
Thank God 😂
@@cantbehelped sigma parents
Such a Devious word....
18:57 I remember hanging out in mollyhaleismyfriend's thread on the Kiwi fruit farming forum back in the day. The thread ended up being more about his trolls than Taz because at the end of the day, he's just harmlessly falling into repetition and his own world because of his neurology. Glad to see that he hasn't done anything horrible since I last saw him. Godspeed Taz, keep making your incomprehensible art.
"i feel like i need to take a shower after reading that"
relatable, man, i felt like my soul was touched innapropriately
“I’M GOING TO JAIL!”-Every single MagicMush fan watching this right now
The SolidMario segment was scarier than every screamer in the last video holy shit
4:16 i unironically love the design of that Mush Sonic lol
Yea it is pretty great. It really hurts to be this hip
Im pretty sure thats just the sonic adventure 2 art
Just pallete swapped
@@JanJansen985yeah but maybe it’s the goal
@@JD-iu6rv it's epic in a autistic way!
@@micjimster4845 So true
Sometimes I wonder where these lolcow-kids from days past are now. I mean Chase is like 30 now, but I bet he still has some sleepless nights because he remembers the cringy stuff he pulled back in '06. Lots of normal people sometimes have these memories of something embarassing they once did as a kid pop into their heads but it must be much worse when you did all that publicly, with a lot of it still archived.
I've had this theory about Erik/MollyHale: The images where it's just a character doing something, like eating french fries while sitting on the rear floorboards of cars, crossing the street alone, and drinking ocean water, are all things that a parent would actively prevent a child from doing, since they're all dangerous. Some autistic people have a tendency to be stubborn, to defiantly do something they want to do while ignoring demands against it, unless given an understandable, quantifiable reason not to do it. Maybe Erik, at whatever time his mental development froze, wanted to do those things, got reprimanded by his parents, and in his defiance, made all those images of cartoon characters doing those exact same things, as if to say "SEE? ALL MY FRIENDS ARE DOING IT, AND THEY'RE FINE, SO I CAN DO IT TOO, MOM!"
This reminds me of when a Harry Potter book ending was leaked online. And the first thing I did after finding out was post it on an infamous-ish DeviantArt user named Snapesnoggers profile.
Snapesnogger. Now thats a name I haven’t heard in a long time.
She didnt deserve the hate she got. The internet did her so dirty, and the hate did irreparable damage.
@@savageinkstudios2969 yeah, i read she was a teen back then. all she did was post really weird yaoi of her own characters , but she never did anything bad to anyone . Yet full grown adults made it their goal to non stop harass her .
a wild oldfriend appears
Snape kills dumbledore
Back before DA is what it is I posted a picture of Pyramid Head I drew, I was extremely proud of it. I got about 50 comments claiming I traced it, I think it was some kind of raid because it was the only thing I put there, my account wasn't even filled out. That was my first and only experience with DA.
I have nowhere else to tell this story so I'm just putting it here. I didn't trace it, I never even played the games, I just thought the character was cool.
Man I highly recommend playing the games, some of the best survival horror games ever imo especially when it comes to the story.
@@SleepyMook I definitely will. Hopefully all the lore videos, Let's Plays, movie I watched didn't ruin it for me.
probably wasn't a raid, every deviation showed up on the front page , it was actually a good system when the site was new, it guaranteed pretty much anything would get seen but it also caused stuff like your experience
I honestly stopped caring about people being mad if art is traced. I trace only the outlines for references of character poses and proportions, and as long as you aren't copying, you ain't done wrong.
“I need my autism appeased” is going STRAIGHT to my vocabulary
20:51 I'm austistic too and I can totally relate to how he feels about not being able to work 9 to 5. I'm not low functioning, or at least I am the way people would expect a higher functioning autistic to be like, however working 40 hours per week for me is too mentally draining. Unless there is a job somewhere that doesn't feel like being splashed with water non-stop for 8 hours straight, I have to do with welfare. Now don't get me wrong, in my situation I'm not that less independant than if I was working a minimum wage job, and I understand that with the prices rising up most people won't be able to buy a house anyways, but even as a kid I had dreams of finally being able to afford the things I want but couldn't have because you know I am a kid and as a kid you don't have money, however it does enrage and saddens me that it might never happens because you can't save money while on welfare and you can't make more money than what they give you. Maybe one day I will get monetized on UA-cam or make enough money selling things online but for now Im prepared to grieve my hopes
Hey I checked some of your videos and you might want to check out a software called Kuadro. It's free little program that allows you to manage your reference images in a pretty neat way. Essentially you can overlay the images on your screen so you no longer need to tab out when you want to take a glance at a reference.
Anyways, good luck! Your art is really nice, I hope you find a way to make a living out of your craft one day.
try speedrunning
Why give up and grieve? Allah has prmosed to provide for all of His creation. Do you see how the birds go out in the morning searching for food and they find it? He provides them that food. Think of yourself as one of those birds. When you have faith that God will take care of you, you find peace.
I'd like to point out that Murrlogic did try to commission Shad for a sexually explicit scene unrelated to wonder bread or deforestation but Shad just didn't see the appeal of the kind of "toxic yuri" korrasami he wanted him to draw.
Saw Mush uploaded, stopped doing curls, threw my dumbbells across the room, and grabbed my phone. I regret nothing.
Real homies pump iron while listening to Mush
@@wild_burnnew workout playlist is just gonna be mush videos.
Saw Mush uploaded, threw my couch out of the window, punched my wife, and grabbed my balls. I regret nothing.
bro out here lifting in Paradise, AZ 💀
bro thinks he postal dude🙏🔥🔥🔥💀
1:18 that is very unlikely, a lot of artists really despise how pro AI generated art deviantART has been getting
Yeah I've seen a mass exodus of the site from a number of people.
Murrlogic was also banned from Funnyjunk of all sites, specifically for uploading full episodes of cartoons to the site and taking up a lot of server space with them.
i never see him mentioned anywhere and it kind of weirds me out so i wanted to mention this one guy i remember from my deviantart days. there was this prolific DA user back in the day (i think his username was mike something? his icon was a loop gif of anna from frozen clapping) who'd comment on just about everything and occasionally would gift young artists like one or two points, which probably made him popular since points were like gold to kids back then lmao. it wasn't weird to really anyone back then but when i look back i remember him almost exclusively interacting with kids and their art/ocs? either that or regular DA standard fetish art/weird inbred images that were hard to discern if it was fetish content or hyperfixation content (a la mollyhaleismyfriend). i think he tried to establish himself as like a big brother figure to young DA users but he was just so weird.
i have an odd memory of the one time i interacted with him directly outside of him donating a point to me. when i was around 13-14 i tried taking emergency commissions to raise money to get out of a bad living situation and someone started claiming i was a scammer/lying about my situation to get points, and mike jumped in also implying i was a scammer bc i'd gotten a commission some time prior to the post. i explicitly remember him telling me to get ahold of and post/send him legal documents proving i was a ward of the state and only then would he *maybe* believe me, at the time i was astonished mostly bc i didnt understand why he thought i'd have access to those things (and how he made it sound like even if i did there was still a chance he wouldn't believe me) but when i looked back on it years later i realized just how creepy it was that a 30 something year old man was telling a kid less than half his age to post/send him personal and potentially identifying information to prove they weren't scamming people out of like 20 cents. his account got either banned or deactivated ages ago but if anyone else recalls him please back me up i know im not crazy
As someone on the autism spectrum myself, I have to agree that the Eric guy appears to be harmless. I actually am not comfortable making fun of his stuff since he's clearly just indulging in his special interests, which I can relate to. I hope he's doing OK now.
Ain't nothing more mysterious in the universe than the autistic brain
as someone who still posts my art to deviantart (i mainly use it as an archive rather than an actual site to find artists) occasionally my art will get favorited and I get to bear witness to some very gross and scary faves lists. someone even linked my art to be used as a reaction image to foot fetish, very weird
I use DeviantArt same as you too, but it's hella disgusting to find horrible art that young kids can stumble upon and see the moment they explore the website
you honestly shouldn't use DA, you are feedding AI, use Cara or a personal website
@@j.2512 my drawings aren't that good for professional work
I use deviantart to browse the site and pretty much upload pngs I find on Google
Used to use DA when i was young, then switched to Newgrounds
I regret nothing
(edit: HOLY FUCK DO I NOT REGRET LEAVING, EUGHHH)
molly hale is my friend is some who suffered ego death on the floor of a car and has been stuck silently screaming in that moment for decades
I'm Autistic, definitely. But you'd probably refer to me as someone who's more "higher functioning."
I've been in the rabbit hole of hyper-fixations and having characters who I really like, but trust me, a lot of us are "normal".
The Erik guy is pretty innocent and out of context, people may find it weird, but in reality, he doesn't seem to be hurting anybody. (ATLEAST THAT WE KNOW OF.)
I like that you added the Bart Simpson guy as a contrast. But again, that's incel behavior and a completely different rabbit hole.
Im a really big fan of The Simpsons and Futurama, hope this video has some good stuff about them!
And then you have no words after seeing it.
So true Madotsuki
i feel kinda bad for the MollyHale guy like the dude is just really autistic and people decided to Bully Him over it
like yeah it's weird but dude isn't hurting anyone
"Art...Art never changes"
Ron Inflationman
No.
Art has changed. It’s no longer about nations, ideologies, or ethnicity.
@@RF-INFNow, it's about the money.
@@RF-INF Yes, it's now either about the pseudo-philosophical meanderings or the emotional whims of some pretentious rando who only knows thinking in themselves lol
@@RF-INFYeah. Think post-WW1 with the dada's (partly) or surrealism
That Solid Mario guy is a really creepy person. Not just from his art but also the fact of how much he’s into Bart Simpson.
For a comparison I’m an artist on DA who mostly likes to draw Princess Peach with Plastic-Man’s powers, but even then even I wouldn’t defend myself if I did the stuff SolidMario did.
You are from the Elastic Girls community on DA? Those are cool.
(Shout outs to the Melodia and Donna Limber Comics)
And I mean, at least it's a Wacky concept that has been seen sometimes in Mario games (Specially recently in Wonder)
But SolidMario is a Real Creep!
@@monstercombo007 thank you so much for liking the stretchy community theirs some really great artist on their like Lunaticus, Derffg and Youxe.
I'm glad you like the concept of my stretchy Princess peach I call Plastic Peach and I hope you and many others keep enjoying the stretchy girls and you have an amazing day too. ^w^
@@monstercombo007 that's really good to know that you like the stretchy girl community. it's really nice to see that outside of DA it has a positive look to most people.
I hope you keep enjoying all the stretchy girl artists on their and I hope that you also have an amazing day too. ^w^
If it wasn’t blatantly obvious, when Bart Simpson replied to Solidmario’s comment. It was probably SolidMario on a second account since Bart probably wouldn’t agree to a full fledged movie night or something.
I, for one, am extremely shocked that a site called Deviant Art became a home to... deviant art...
As someone who post my drawings on deviant art‚ yeah‚ there's a ton of weird shit there that I don't know why they are not a joke in a South Park episode
If people saw it and found out they're real, Deviantart might run into some...problems. Well deserved, mind you.
they were, south park did an episode mocking deviantart fujoshis that shipped craig and tweak
The closest we got was some of the art in the episode Tweek x Craig came from deviant art.
@@j.2512 and then they ended up doing exaclty what those fujos did and completely forgot they were supposed to be mocking them
@@flaco3462 such is life
Trying to get consistent at drawing and gain a follower base, I made a deviantart account and made a post basically saying I'd be doing free requests within reason. Now, I had already known of da's reputation, so I explicitly said I wouldn't do anything if it was nsfw or anything. Eventually I got what I thought was a seemingly innocuous request of like "oh can you draw x character doing this random thing" and it was only after I did it did I learn that the person's entire favorites tab was that EXACT thing over and over again. I got duped by a deviantart fetishist and didn't even know it because to me it didn't *feel* terribly lewd, but they probably saw it a lot differently.
Another friend of mine, who is a much better and more consistent artist, fell for the exact same thing and drew somebody's OC doing laundry. I had hoped it normal, but when the entire gallery is fictional characters washing clothes?
one of the only places where you can find people with fetishes that are just people doing normal daily chores
i remember being asked for a picture of certain female characters wearing hats and blushing. If they didnt specify the "blushing" part i wouldn't think it was a fetish but, well, what else could it be really
I once had someone request I draw Sailor Jupiter turning into a jack in the box.
There was a guy a few years ago on Tumblr who would go around asking or commissioning practically every artist to draw fictional characters shaving/be shaved. But like specifically their faces? Now whenever I see art of someone shaving, no matter how innocuous, I get a bad taste in my mouth. But hey on the plus side, a lot of the artists were quick to call him out on his true intentions.
Fetish farming is an actual travesty.
“There’s no laws against drinking ocean water, Batman”
I find really ironic that Shadman was perfectly okay drawing really fucked up things but drew the line at some guys really specific “kink”
It’s because he didn’t understand how that could be considered sexual
I have a vivid memory of 8-year-old me going onto DeviantArt, and immediately seeing berry inflation on the front page. I've never been on the site since.
A weaker willed person would develop a fetish then n there. Unless....
@@Pes._Nah, bro, I've got a stronger will than that.
Honestly, learning about Soildmario makes me very glad my comfort character is an adult...
@@DestinytheSirAaronfangirl2006 mine is too but they're debatable
Same, mine is Elsa : )
Like specifically Frozen 2 Elsa
@@rayesoucy1491 elesa from pokemon is one of them
MollyHaleIsMyFriend feels relatable to me. I am autistic and developmentally behind/stunted and the repetitive behavior hits very hard to me, as well as the nostalgia. A lot of people get annoyed with me because I tend to repeat my favorite topics over and over for weeks, months, even years. I love talking about it and its hard to break that because I genuinely have no clue what else to talk about unless it is interesting to me, even then I'll eventually go back to speaking about my fixations on repeat. I hang on to my past as well and enjoy speaking about old cartoons I watched and vintage toys and everything SpongeBob and my favorite places and books and DVD movies.
While the guy has made questionable posts, from what I am observing I don't think this guy is malicious. I very much think he is just developmentally behind and his mind is on loop from a very young age, like mine.
I would like to note that if anything is wrong with my comment or if I said something wrong or didnt make sense, please let me know. I struggle with speaking sometimes.
The second I saw Bart Simpson in the thumbnail, I knew HE would be in here. The first horror cow I ever heard about!
Not gonna lie, though, Fry'd definitely make a better father figure than Sir Strangles-A-Lot.
"His brain is on an endless loop." Now that is both sad and kinda horrific, but if he is happy and hurts noone, *knock on wood*, then good for him.
28:03 the sad/frustrating thing about all these situations where a severely autistic person is held accountable for their actions & apologizes is that they view their life through the lens of a cartoon/tv show/anime and just regurgitate what somebody from their favorite show would say. they don’t actually feel any remorse/understand what’s happening. they’re just mirroring how fictional characters act bc it’s the only way they know how to interact with other ppl/handle certain situations.
So what do we do? Is there a solution to this?
15:51 I ALREADY KNOW THE ENDING OF TAIL CROSSES THE STREET ALONE.....HE GETS RAN OVER BY EGGMAN'S TESLA AND FUCKING DIES....AND THEN HE COMES BACK TO LIVE BECAUSE HE IS INMORTAL
peak fiction
To this day, as a multifandom fanartist on the internet, the WonderBread Guy story echoes in my mind every time I hear about that bread brand
"You Call This a Utopia?!" is a terrifying music choice for this slop 😭
I remember the Sylvanian Families toys being advertised. They were cute anthropomorphic animals in a human-like society in an idyllic village in the forest, sort of like animal crossing. No idea there was a cartoon let alone with human characters
They still make the toys! They're called Calico Critters in the US, and I also had no idea there was a cartoon of them.
Everything I've learned about DeviantArt has been without my consent.
You chose to make a YT account
You chose to watch this video.
That could be said for the internet as a whole really
Years ago I used to post my art to DA, and it got a small audience of fans , which I found odd cause even back then I considered my art to be by all account mediocre. But it's when I actually started looking up the people who like my art and interacting with them did I realize what was going on. The people who liked my art where into such weird and frankly disturbing fetishes. They started asking me for commissions and trying to get me to RP with them that I eventually had enough and nuked my own profile. I've never posted my art online again.
I remember an account I came across on deviantart where someone had thousands of images of celebrities photoshopped with no mouth. They had been posting consistently every day for at least a decade. Still haunts me to this day.
Oh, I remember that guy. He wrote little stories underneath about them choosing to be "sealed" or whatever. He was also into people fusing their hands onto their breasts.
Anybody remember Fontpeter? I remember him more, with the girls with no heads, or photoshopped into flesh colored flowerpots or urinals. And the guys who photoshopped celebrities with feet for hands.
@@liamannegarner8083 how… how does someone even develop an interest in that. W-why? Humanity scares me.
@@moonlightmalaise2564 Foot fetish next level: what if more than two feet?
And humantaurs. Centaurs for people who aren't into horses. I love humanity.
Triggered something inside me when you referred to them as deviantart "users". Deadwing dork has forever changed what I think about when I hear "user"
Mollyhaleyismyfriend was posted on a discord I frequent a bit ago and I was absolutely taken aback by his bio, and it was crazy to hear that you'd also said you were making a video on him. Crazy stuff lmao
My art is forever immortalized in the Google image search results of the Empress Bulblax and I thank DeviantArt for that. It's pretty damn funny.
I men Empress Bulblax feels like she'd fit in there
Which art?
It’s called *Deviant*art for a reason
I hate the fact that I saw the Wonder Bread in the thumbnail and could immediately tell who you were going to talk about.
I don't have a problem with fetish art as long as it's marked as mature and that the kink itself isn't harming anyone or has underage characters in it. But the majority of the fetish art online isn't even filtered, and kids can access it very easily. ESPECIALLY on DA. I'm tired of seeing crowds of people saying good things about kids being in fetish art. It's disgusting
I agree,fetish art isn't necessarily bad but children shouldn't see it or out of their way to search for it complain about it.
@supershituttp7425 Exactly!
Ban children from using the internet. Done
@@FrenchThottyAmeliapretty good idea
What do you think @@electricrage272 ?
In regards to where Murrlogic gets the obscene amount of money to commission one specific thing, you'd be surprised how many people with very niche interests work in incredibly well paid jobs