DeviantArt Encourages People to Liek Mudkips
By Giania • Apr 4th, 2008 at 7:22 pm • Category: Anime, Memes| Hot: |  |  | | | |
April Fools’ Day, one of the most loathsome and wasteful days the calendar year has to offer, has come and gone. Most everyone seems to have survived, thankfully.
DeviantArt, known for being a haven of artists producing works ranging from hackle-raising (no pun intended) furry fan art to really good photography, decided to celebrate this traditional day of asshattery by pranking all of its users. The accomplished this feat, not by Rickrolling everybody and their brother, but by taking care of exposing the masses to another already-mostly-expired internet meme.
For the duration of April first, all DeviantArt user pics were changed to a looping animated gif of a Mudkip, which displayed the phrase “so I heard you like mudkips??”. (Well, more or less anyway.)
A lot of people seemed to be under the impression that DeviantArt had been “hacked” by 4chan. A lot of other people didn’t seem to mind at all. Indeed some even seemed to embrace the siren song of the anime rendition of an axolotl forever om nom nom nom-ing in their profiles and various visited pages.
It was of course only a joke and DeviantArt returned everyone’s avatars to normal when it was April 2nd. April Fools’ Day was pretty uneventful for yours truly, I think I would have liked to have had a little omigod hax! rather than an entire day of waiting for someone to do something awful to me. Anybody out there get meme bashed or otherwise tricked this past April 1st?
I like deviantART, but sometimes the kiddy gimmicks on their site annoy me. Could be because I’m in my 40s. Have you tried Myartspace? I placed a url in the space.
Looks like it’s down for repairs at the moment. I’ll give it a look. Though truthfully I don’t have much need for art distribution sites, as I don’t really do much art or photography myself. I know lots of folks who do though. Probably worth checking out, if only to recommend.
I like both deviantart and myartspace as well as artwanted. The people at myartspace have been working on implementing their e-commerce stores which I’m very excited about. That is probably why they were down when you tried. If you just dabble with art you might want to join a forum like wetcanvas. The only downside of myartspace is that free members don’t have personalized urls. Only their premium members can have personal urls.
I like dA a lot…I didn’t have one during the mudkipz thinger but my friend told me and it sounds a lot more fun than this year’s prank. big letdown after the so I herd u liek mudkipz controversy
Great articles & Nizza eine Website ….