All right:
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So I read this. I read this three times. I read it again to try and understand it.

I finally untangled most of it, though I still don't understand it all.

It comes across as this:

"People who help us higher-ups out are geniuses, and if they shit on you, you lowly would-be artist, you deserve it because they're correcting a 'social disorder' within deviantArt and are actually fostering your creativity. It's love, so eat shit, asshole."

Anyone else see something wrong with this?
Anyone else have a problem with this?

dA has a hurt-comfort fetish.

I will probably get banned for this journal post, but I'm going to say it, because I'm deviant--yes, I said that.

The point of that ridiculously long and convoluted journal was this: apparently, we're all supposed to love one another. If we love one another, it'll be great.

I don't think that's the idea I got.

I got the idea that those of us who don't suit the leaders, organizers, volunteers, and other "geniuses" are just full of entitlement and deserve to be shut up.

Apparently, the Chosen Ones can do no wrong, no matter how nasty their responses are to other members of the community.

Let me say that again: the journal in question stated over and over that the volunteers and assistants to dA, the Chosen Few, are members too--perhaps even members first--and the rest of us need to realize that.

I have rarely read something so full of hypocrisy and reversed thinking. If someone can explain it to me, I might retract this. Sorry guys, but I think this may be what makes me leave dA. I'm just too entitled to be here, I think.

"Fostering Creative Genius"? Try again, dA. If you want to foster creative genius, learn some interpersonal skills. Actually be supportive for once in your damn existence.

I love how I got this journal right after an announcement about "rebranding" dA.

Corporate as ever.

It's not about the art anymore.