Deviant Art
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Type of site
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Art display/Social networking service |
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| Available in | English |
| Area served | Worldwide |
| Owner | Wix.com, Inc, |
| Created by | Scott Jarkoff, Matthew Stephens, Angelo Sotira, and others |
| Slogan(s) | Where art meets application! (2000-2014) The world's largest online art gallery and community (2014-present) |
| Website | DeviantArt.com |
| Alexa rank |
 165 (April 2017[update]) |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | Optional |
| Launched | August 7, 2000 |
| Current status | Active |
DeviantArt (deviantART from 2001 to 2014, sometimes abbreviated "DA" by members) is an online community. The website was launched on August 7, 2000, by Angelo Sotira, Scott Jarkoff, Matthew Stephens, and others. Artworks are organized in a category structure, including photography, digital art, traditional art, literature, Flash, filmmaking, skins for applications, operating system customization utilities and others, along with downloadable resources such as tutorials and . Additional features include "journals", "polls", "groups" and "portfolios".
DeviantArt, Inc. is headquartered in the Hollywood area of Los Angeles, California, United States.Fella, a small, devil-esque robotic character, is the official mascot. The domain deviantart.com had at least 36 million visitors annually by 2008. By 2010, DeviantArt users were submitting over 1.4 million "favorites" and 1.5 million comments daily. As of July 2011[update], it was the 13th largest social network with 3.8 million weekly visits. As of January 2017[update], the site had over 26 million members and 251 million submissions. On February 23, 2017 the company announced it was being acquired by Wix.com in a $36 million deal.
DeviantArt started as a site connected with people who took computer applications and modified them to their own tastes, or who "deviated" the applications from the original designs. As the site grew, members in general became known as "deviants" and submissions as "deviations". DeviantArt was originally launched on August 7, 2000, by Scott Jarkoff, Matt Stephens, Angelo Sotira and others, as part of a larger network of music-related websites called the Dmusic Network. The site flourished largely because of its unique offering and the contributions of its core member base and a team of volunteers after its launch, but was officially incorporated in 2001 about eight months after launch.
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