Exactly what I was telling folks yesterday. They have the ability to enact punitive measures against someone who is being defiant in a hearing. Hold her in contempt, summon officers to drag her out of the room ffs, they need to stop pissing and moaning about decorum and cartoonishly wringing their hands and fucking do something already.
Same here. I had an account since 2004 and deleted everything a couple years ago.
The only use case I had for dA after that was searching for art tutorials but it seems within the last year or so they've nerfed their search function in a huge way so I don't even visit the site anymore, I'll just DDG some keywords and add site:deviantart.com, it seems to work a lot better at finding what I'm looking for.
Some more context, Brendan Eich tenure as CEO of Mozilla lasted just 11 days due to the massive backlash which also caused half of the board to step down.
Despite it being so long ago and such a small amount donated, I'm inclined to believe that a leopard doesn't change his spots, he just hides it better now.
Even if deleting your gallery on a known AI art site (such as Instagram or DeviantART) "won't help," it is still beneficial to do so anyway, as well as no longer sharing your art on or interacting with the website that is actively feeding your work into their AI. DeviantART in particular is nothing without the artists whose shoulders they stand on and these corpo clowns need to be reminded of that.
Exactly what I was telling folks yesterday. They have the ability to enact punitive measures against someone who is being defiant in a hearing. Hold her in contempt, summon officers to drag her out of the room ffs, they need to stop pissing and moaning about decorum and cartoonishly wringing their hands and fucking do something already.