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r/art is an internet forum on Reddit dedicated to art discussions and the sharing of artwork. As of January 2023, it has over 22 million members. [1] It is the largest art-related forum on Reddit. [2] [3]
r/art was created in 2008. [1] In 2014, it was made a default subreddit, which meant that all Reddit users were subscribed to the forum by default. [4]
In 2015, the moderators of the subreddit shut the forum down in protest of the firing of Victoria Taylor, then an employee at Reddit. [5]
In 2023, in response to Reddit's new pricing policy for third-party APIs, the subreddit restricted posts to protest the decision. [6] It was one of the largest subreddits to do so. [7] After Reddit staff threatened to remove moderators who did not re-open their subreddits, r/art re-opened, but continued its protest by allowing only pictures of John Oliver. [8]
A study in 2022 found that approximately 10.15% of discussion on r/art were "toxic comments", using a sample of 1,021,702 comments. [9]
In 2015, the online art magazine Hyperallergic described r/art as comprising "mostly artwork uploaded by artists of all skill levels requesting feedback, with few discussions, questions, and articles scattered in between these personal submissions". [10]
In late 2022, the moderators of r/art removed the artwork of Ben Moran, a Vietnam-based artist, and banned them from the subreddit, citing the artwork's resemblance to artificial intelligence art, which is unallowed on the forum. When Moran contacted the moderators to complain about the ban, the moderators stated: [11]
Moran was then muted from messaging the subreddit moderators. As of January 7, 2023, they remain banned from the forum. [11] The subreddit moderators have stated that to "reverse course now... [would mean that] online trolls get to dictate the state of the community." [12] Visual artist Ron Cheng cited the incident as an example of modern illustrators being less able to create photorealistic work due to comparisons with AI art. [13]
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