Something Vile, This Way Comes

Good News, Everyone!

Deviantart is changing. Soon everything you know will be doomed. Up will be down. Down will be sideways! Everything as you know it will be gone!  
The wonderful staff of dA will take away your beloved deviantART and replace with something else. It will be something cunning, something vile, something… devious. This new thing will challenge all that we hold dear and nothing will be done to stop it.

Oh one can whine, one can bitch, one can post the most melodramatic journal ever known to man, but it changes nothing. It’s still coming, and you will stand there and take it while screaming bloody murder the whole time. Why? Because it’s deviantART and heaven forbid anyone should ever actually leave this place.

But fear not, for the staff will quell your anger with pretty CSS-enhanced news articles that make everything look sexy and amazing. hq will post a wonderful blog that details just how awesome this thing is and that you will learn to love it,  and possibly cherish it. And their predictions will come true, because try as you must, they still own your soul.  Of course there will still be the silly people who try to resist, threatening to actually leave their beloved internet home. What they seem to forget is that famous Borg saying, resistance is futile.

Now let’s be honest here, I may. Is it really all that bad? Seriously? Is the world really going to end because one single website decides they want to make a few changes, for better or for worse? Of course not. In the fact the simple notion that such doom will fall upon us, is utterly ridiculous and completely blown out of proportion. Perhaps if people took the time to calm down, there would be less melodrama, and more people taking the time to do more useful things with their time. Perhaps they could try creating more suggestions, scripts that enforce the features they want, talking the staff and asking if there’s anything that can be done. The point is, just because deviantART changes one thing, or hell, the entire website with each new version, does not mean you need to go off the deep end. As Bobby McFerrin once said, don’t worry, be happy.

And one final thing... U MAD?