In November 2006, deviantART enabled a new option for users to submit their works under Creative Commons license, which gave the artists the right to specify how their contributions can be used and shared by others. Later that same month, deviantART user switched submitted a mascot artwork of a robot cat named "Fella," which went onto win the site's contest and became adopted as the official mascot of deviantART.Īs the community continued to grow, one of the co-founders Matt Stephens proposed a plan to expand the scope of the site from application skins to a general art community. In less than a year after its foundation, deviantART was officially incorporated in April 2001. The site was well-received upon its launch and quickly gained a strong and loyal user-base as well as a team of voluntary moderators. In the beginning, deviantART was designed as a place to upload and share custom designed skins for applications, similar to other projects like Winamp Facelift, Customize, Deskmod, Screenphuck and Skinz. Launched on August 7th, 2000, deviantART was founded by Scott Jarkoff, Matthew Stephens, Angelo Sotira and others as part of the Dmusic Network, a larger network of music-related websites and blogs.
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