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Users could leave constructive criticism under people’s art and write messages on each others’ profiles, long before Facebook was invented. In its heyday, DeviantArt was home to a tight-knit community for artists of all skills. “The aim is to be DeviantArt for the next 10 years, not the past 20,” Sotira says. Now, after its acquisition by the website-building platform Wix in 2017, the site’s perennial army-green design is being revamped with a sleek new layout called DeviantArt Eclipse. But CEO Angelo Sotira, who co-founded the site when he was 19, maintains that the platform is very young, at least when you look at the age of its users and how long they’ve been making art. To paint a picture of the era it was born in, the online creative community was originally started in 2000 to share skins for media players like Winamp. In social network years, DeviantArt is ancient.
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