[ALARM RINGING]
[Kite-Man]: "Hey, check out this awesome picture I found on deviantART!"
Oh, yeah, what is it?
Looks like I'm making another deviantART video...
[IHE Theme]
deviantART is the gift that keeps on giving.
I've covered it before, but I didn't go quite far enough into the rabbit hole of what the site can truly be like.
So I want to dive back in and get totally lost in the dark, dark depths
of what this weird art website can offer.
I have a special, unique kind of hatred for this kind of stuff.
It's almost more of a 'curiosity killed the cat' situation.
Except...instead of being a cat,
I'm...
Sonic the Hedgehog and I've been eaten alive by some...
fan-created Sonic character.
In an attempt to organize the pure insanity, I've split this video into a couple of little sections,
starting with
my extensive, kind of sickening, yet fascinating...
favorites list.
[IHE as Trashman3000, voice cracking]: "What are you doing?"
[IHE as Furry-boss-monster]: "I saw the favorites tab and was very, very confused-"
[IHE as Furry-boss-monster]: "and seeing no confirmation to the 'it's all ironic' comments"
[IHE as Furry-boss-monster]: "is making me sliiiiiiiightly concerned."
[IHE as OzoneOne]: "Welp."
[IHE as OzoneOne]: "This seems like an appropriate time for me to clear my browser history."
Every time I go on deviantART, I happen to find something new
to put into my infamous favorites list.
Oh, yep, yep, that's going in.
I just want to preface that I do think that creativity and expression is a good thing.
It's just for there to be majestic, mind-blowing masterpieces of success,
there also has to be...
whatever this is.
It takes big...
big swollen balls to put anything you've created out there onto the Internet
to be seen by strangers...
Weird creepy strangers...
That doesn't mean it can't be funny, though.
I'd show the entirety of my favorites list,
but problem is a lot of it simply isn't allowed on YouTube,
so...
you can seek it out if you think...
you'd be ready for that.
But instead I'd like to introduce you to a very professional art show of sorts,
hosted by my cousin who's an art critic.
Take it away, 'I Art Critique Everything'!
[HEAVY STONE SCRAPING SOUNDS]
[IACE - weird snooty accent]: "The top five pictures on deviantART hosted by me,"
[IACE]: "I Art Critique Everything."
[IACE]: "Number Five."
[IACE]: "At number five, we have a gorgeous piece celebrating the return of legendary Family Guy character, Brian Griffin."
[IACE]: "If you were previously unaware, there was an episode of the aforementioned show, 'Family Guy',"
[IACE]: "where Brian was hit by a car and violently died."
[IACE - occasionally misprounces words]: "He was brought back to life a couple of 'episoudes layteuhr'."
[IACE]: "And that is what we see 'heeuh' in this beautiful drawing."
[IACE]: "It celebrates life,"
[IACE]: "love,"
[IACE]: "dogs,"
[IACE]: "and I guess Christmas."
[IACE]: "A truly emotional..."
[IACE]: "delicate and heartwarming piece."
[IACE]: "It reminds us that life is fleeting"
[IACE]: "and that we'll probably never be as rich as Seth 'MacFahlane'."
[IACE]: "Which, I don't know about you, makes me a little bit miffed."
[IACE]: "Number Four."
[IACE]: "I would be remissed to exclude a clever play on two of everyone's favorite characters of all time."
[IACE]: "Here we see a bold and dramatic photograph of someone dressed up as a Darth Vader minion."
[IACE]: "Or, as the creator insisted on naming it..."
[IACE]: "Darth 'Mignon'."
[IACE]: "or 'Mignon' Vader."
[IACE]: "They couldn't quite make their minds up on which to choose."
[IACE]: "The costume is curvaceous and vibrant,"
[IACE]: "and is very clearly a statement on how Hollywood is so devoid of 'ideauhs'"
[IACE]: "that we're still clinging on to an icon from the 70s,"
[IACE]: "'along-seeide', an animated chicken 'nyugget'."
[IACE]: "With 'gyoggles' on."
[IACE]: "Number three."
[Man of Steel OST - Flight Plays]
[IACE] "'Numbbear' two."
[IACE]: "Remember..."
[IACE]: "Spy Kids?"
[IACE]: "Remember..."
[IACE]: "The massacre in France in December of 2015?"
[IACE]: "Well, I...
[IACE]: "doubt you ever consider combining the two, did you, you bunch of 'simpeeltons'?"
[IACE]: "Here we see a tasteful and subtle use of a fan design Spy Kids original character,"
[IACE]: "wishing 'the-ohts' and prayers to our allies overseas"
[IACE]: "for the ghastly atrocity."
[IACE]: "This may lead you to ask..."
[IACE]: "Who?"
[IACE]: "Whee-aht?"
[IACE]: "Where?"
[IACE]: "When?"
[IACE]: "And 'whe-aye'?
[IACE]: "But I think this one..."
[IACE]: "speaks for itself."
[IACE]: "Number one."
[IACE]: "Top art critics all around the world are divided on this controversial but thought-provoking piece."
[IACE]: "I think it's fair to say that no 'singgel' person"
[IACE]: "can fully 'understee-and' or even begin to 'compreheend'"
[IACE]: "the levels of complexity and artistic design"
[IACE]: "that has been considered for this perplexing and quite frankly mind-blowing work of art."
[Piano music you'd hear at an art gallery]
[IACE]: "With what appears to be a gargantuan, swollen, green creature playing baseball..."
[IACE]: "Like all good works,"
[IACE]: "it's pretty much entirely incomprehensible."
[IACE]: "I showed my very good friend who studied art history at Oxford 'Universiti-eurh'"
[IACE]: "this mysterious image to see if he could help me figure out what was going on 'heeuh'."
[IACE]: "But unfortunately,"
[IACE]: "his 'wee-ife' recently informed me that he'd clawed his own eyes out."
[IACE]: "I'm sure the cause, was unrelated to this beauty..."
[IACE]: "of an image."
[IACE]: "So those are the top five pictures on deviantART."
[IACE]: "You may now go back to your..."
[IACE]: "regularly scheduled programming."
Obscurity, obscurity, obscurity.
If I've learned anything about deviantART, it's that obscurity is kind of irrelevant.
We're talking about a place where it's easy and common
to stumble across things such as photoshopped images
of Iron Man with 'Tintin' character, Captain Haddock's face?
How do you even think of that?
Well, how about this one where someone recast 'Justice League' with random cartoon characters?
There's Superman as Ariel from 'The Little Mermaid',
and Cyborg as Po from 'Kung Fu Panda',
and so on?
The deeper you go, the weirder it becomes.
I once found a post that was a user replying to questions that people had left for their original character to answer.
One of those questions was,
'Do you ever have a fight on someone and they try, but you succeed?'
To which the original character, which I guess is based on the 'Phineas and Ferb' platypus replied with,
[Deep-Voice Platypus]: "I try not to fight unless I have to."
[Deep-Voice Playtpus]: "Or if I'm dealing with my nemesis. As for the success rate..."
[Deep-Voice Platypus]: "Heh."
[Deep-Voice Platypus]: "It depends really."
How the hell are you even supposed to react to something like that?
Oh, here's a good one.
'Kylo Ren mourning over his late dead friend'.
And guess who his friend is?
His friend is the Storm King from the 'My Little Pony' movie.
Right.
Speaking of 'My Little Pony'...
How about a 'Dead Space' Necromorph,
but a pony?
Trust me, and there is... there's weirder than this.
How about a death battle between Gazelle from 'Kingsman: The Secret Service'
and Mercury Black from that Rooster Teeth show?
No, is that not,
that not far enough for you?
Okay how about this one?
Queen Sonica.
You really do not want to go down the Sonic rabbit hole.
That one really is never...neverending.
You can blame Lord Bung for me finding this following one.
But there's this one account who specializes in taking screenshots from mostly animated movies
and completely warping them into either being totally abstract,
or just making the characters fat as hell.
My personal favorite is the 'Happy Feet' collection.
[IHE Baby Penguin Voice]: "Even if we're fat, we can survive this."
[IHE Baby Penguin Voice]: "Come on! Let's pick up the pace."
What is with this fat obsession? I just don't get it.
To help prove just how inside baseball deviantART can get with this weird treasure trove of confusing and awful,
I asked my Twitter followers to name me some obscure franchises and properties.
I'm going to search for some of them and see what the results are.
You know what, I'm gonna start this off with the Will Smith movie, 'After Earth'.
We're off to a good start then.
I guess there are people out there who like this property enough to sit down and spend...
time dedicating artwork to it.
So Chris Ray Gun recommended the 'Butt-Ugly Martians', you know that classic that everyone loves.
[Toe typing sounds]
Well, there's a surprise.
deviantART hasn't forgotten about 'Butt-Ugly Martians'.
Even got a 'Butt-Ugly Martians' and 'The Cramp Twins' crossover here.
LateNightGaming recommends 'Jay Jay the Jet Plane'.
He was kind of the first anthroplane in a way.
[Spongeplush typing sounds]
Well...
We've got a...
animal with plane wings. We got them right here.
'Jay Jay The Jet Plane's Mom'.
Alright.
And the dad. That's nice, a whole family of planes
Got him as an emo.
We got...
Mm...ugh...
*tsk*
Yeah, I think...I think this is a success.
The king of obscurity, ashens, recommends 'Pole Position'.
I haven't even heard of that one.
[more typing sounds]
Ponies.
Fat, swollen woman.
Porn.
Furry porn.
Ah, there we go.
There's some...
some fan art of 'Pole Position'.
Lord Bung recommends 'The Legend of the Sky Kingdom'.
Wait...
What is this?
Well. I searched 'The Legend of the Sky Kingdom'. Not seeing anything.
Well, it looks like Bung wins a sticker for this one. I don't see nuttin'.
You defeated deviantART.
I'm gonna take my own suggestion of the 'Clangers' and see what comes up.
[more typing]
Yeah, there are many, many 'Clangers' results.
Pyrocynical did a good job of ruining my thread by putting a picture of PewDiePie in it.
So let's search for PewDiePie. Why not?
Obviously, there are a lot of results.
Got a good 'Family Guy' meme here
You got one of PewDiePie peeling his own skin off.
Okay, that's enough of that one.
Okay, Quinton Reviews has 'Squirrel Boy'.
[typing sounds] Squirrel...
[typing sounds]
[typing sounds] Boy...
7000 results.
But...
None of these seem relevant. They just look like nonsense
We've got some 'Ice Age' fan art there.
Just a lot of furry...stuff.
Because I guess, animal...squirrels.
Lots of squirrel fans?
Not seein' any squirrel...
man or whatever the hell it was called
Looks like Quinton wins as well.
This memer put 'Hunt Down The Freeman'.
But you know what? I'm gonna search it.
Has anyone done any 'Hunt Down The Freeman' artwork?
Well, there are 150 results.
Well, there are some good memes here.
Oh...
Of course,
a pony with the most classic quote
from 'Hunt Down The Freeman'.
I'm gonna go off this now.
Let's pick one more here. I'm gonna go with...
Tony Lloyd here with, uh...uh...
'Delgo'. That epic looking film.
God, it looks brilliant!
'Delgo', come on...
178 results.
Doesn't look like anyone in the world is a fan of 'Delgo'.
Oh, no, there's a screen there. But it's called 'Animated Atrocities'.
Well, I did some more digging and found this.
Uh...
I guess that counts?
I suppose deviantART is the place you can go to express whatever strange fantasy or bizarre idea
you have floating around in that nutty ol' head of yours.
Hell, even my old stuff I used to put on there is pretty wack.
Like this thing.
A lot of what's on here is pretty good,
but a hell of a lot of it is embarrassing and bad.
Every time you doubt your own artistic abilities or feel like you're stuck in a rut,
I recommend having a long browse at deviantART.
Because while it sucks that there are so many people who are much better than you,
it's nice to remind yourself that there are also a lot of untalented,
useless people who have no idea what they're doing.
And by comparison, make you look bloody impressive
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