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Ever have one of these days?:
You log onto deviantART and notice you have some new messages in your inbox. excited, you look at your messages, and you see that someone new has watched you. "Oh, boy!" you think. "Someone new is watching me because they like my art!" You click on their username to thank them for the watch, or to just take a look at their profile because you like to know what kind of people are watching you. You glance over their gallery, their journal, their favorites-- until your eyes travel down to the comments on their profile, and your heart sinks.

This person has comments from different people saying "Thanks for the watch!" all spaced minutes apart. You know what this means: It's a spam-watcher who watches EVERYBODY, just to get more pageviews.

Don't you hate this? I've gotten a few spam-watchers in the past, but one unnamed spam-watcher made me laugh and groan in disgust at the same time. They had watched me a year ago, and I knew right away that they were a spam watcher. Just recently, they added me to their watch AGAIN, and I noticed that there were all sorts of people who were saying what a great person this user was. Can you say, "Getting attention for all the wrong reasons?"

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HearseGurl [2018-06-07 02:58:59 +0000 UTC]

Great stamp! And sadly, this still happens a lot, even 9 years later. :/
I am VERY picky who I watch to begin with and I only watch those I have lots in common with. I don't watch people willy nilly and have not since I started dA 16 years ago. I literally only watch like less than 60 people. I don't care about pageviews and I am Blind To Pageviews as a matter of fact and will never take it off. I am SO opposite of these kinds of people that I use these stamps all the time:       

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BludEngutz [2017-10-13 01:33:53 +0000 UTC]

yeah i don't give a shit about pageviews tbh lmao

i like finding great artists and friends here so i mean

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Tortive [2017-07-23 05:03:09 +0000 UTC]

Most of the time, I watch people because they watch me. It's a weird thank-you.

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Bart-Siimpson [2017-06-14 02:31:43 +0000 UTC]

I hate this, sometimes I get people who watch me and they NEVER favorite any of my art

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Platypusofdoom [2016-12-13 01:09:09 +0000 UTC]

...of course, that isn't to say I don't want pageviews...

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Randamu-Chan [2016-03-03 17:15:09 +0000 UTC]

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MakenMeister [2016-01-27 18:26:28 +0000 UTC]

Thanks

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paragonkell80 [2015-12-13 04:41:04 +0000 UTC]

I agreed with you non the less, my dear pal :')
could i use this? ;w;

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QuantumPinkie [2015-03-01 22:50:56 +0000 UTC]

*watches you*

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CorailJay [2015-03-01 21:04:39 +0000 UTC]

Yep. This has been happening lately Random watches from attention seekers who watch literally everyone.

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Danno1991 [2015-02-17 01:56:55 +0000 UTC]

I've been watching lots of artists recently. But that's only because they have awesome art. Plus, they seem like nice people too.

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BakingBagon [2014-07-23 17:39:35 +0000 UTC]

Car Candy

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I-S-Sketchdumps [2014-02-24 23:02:20 +0000 UTC]

Now we have spam-favers. Namely, the people with enough money to shell out on an auto-adjusting camera, who take those nifty 'perfect' pictures of everyday things. :b 

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Adreos [2014-02-06 02:28:15 +0000 UTC]

I use to look at all the people who watch me. But after a while, I stopped. When most of them just watch-bombed everyone, or watched just so I would watch them back.

The people who started faving and, more so, commenting my works, they are the ones who I peaked interest in. I knew then they at least actually watched me.

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spider123357 [2014-01-26 17:16:36 +0000 UTC]

Stupid iPad! It won't let me pick up the thumbnail! 

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sega-uranus [2013-09-02 22:06:07 +0000 UTC]

I watch every artist that destroys my self esteem

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FrozenJinga In reply to sega-uranus [2014-11-22 01:24:21 +0000 UTC]

Same with me...*casually watches you*

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moomoo-mi [2013-08-02 23:10:21 +0000 UTC]

I know I watch people A LOT but, NOT FOR PAGE VIEWS!! WHAT HAVE DEVIANTS COME TOO! GOSH!

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medli20 In reply to moomoo-mi [2013-08-03 05:42:43 +0000 UTC]

This actually doesn't seem to happen much anymore, actually. This stamp was made back in 2009, when there was a HUGE influx of people who would just watch EVERYONE on dA to increase the number of pageviews they'd get. I check all my watchers' profiles just because I like to see what kinds of things they upload, and I haven't seen anyone who actually does this in years.

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AmethystForge In reply to medli20 [2013-12-31 20:46:49 +0000 UTC]

Really?  I still see TONS of people spam-watching and spam-faving.  Been trying to ignore them, waiting for them to eventually fade away.

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Pennyadodumuss [2013-07-30 22:34:38 +0000 UTC]

I watch people so that I can learn from them.

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medli20 In reply to Pennyadodumuss [2013-07-31 01:57:13 +0000 UTC]

A very valid reason

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Kimmynn [2013-07-18 14:30:53 +0000 UTC]

So true, I only watch people I'm interested in 

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Rockabell-Neko [2013-05-19 17:15:16 +0000 UTC]

true~

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Mina-Fox [2013-05-06 18:16:23 +0000 UTC]

Totally agree. The people I watch means that I am interested in their art and are friendly. Not everyone is looking for pageviews.

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LavenderLushPuppy [2013-03-29 00:15:18 +0000 UTC]

thank you for making this stamp <3

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XxRachelWolfxX [2013-03-24 01:22:44 +0000 UTC]

Im sort of new here. Great advice. It will help in the future.

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rsunicorns [2013-01-28 21:45:46 +0000 UTC]

i watch a lot of people and i have lots of people saying" oh thank you for the watch!" but i am not a spam-watcher! i am just nice and everybody i am friends with is freinds with someone else and then i am like oh, who is that? so i check out their art and i am like wow you are good and so i watch them! and then they say thanks! but i am NOT i repeat N-O-T a spam-watcher just because they have thank you for the watch on thier page does not mean they are a spam-watcher!! do not make those generolizations! it is just plain rude!

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medli20 In reply to rsunicorns [2013-01-28 22:07:05 +0000 UTC]

...Okay but I wasn't talking about people who just happen to watch a lot of people or have a lot of "thank you for the watch" messages on their page?? I was talking about people whose pages are full of "thank you for the watch" messages all posted minutes apart.

Spend a little more time reading the description the next time you decide to victimize yourself and accuse me of being rude.

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rsunicorns In reply to medli20 [2013-01-28 22:09:52 +0000 UTC]

i read that i remember reading that so dont accuse me!! (i wish i hadnever posted a comment i am not good at stuff like this )

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medli20 In reply to rsunicorns [2013-01-28 22:12:26 +0000 UTC]

Well it sure sounded like you didn't because you decided to go off on a lengthy rant about "THIS IS NOT ME AND THESE ARE REASONS WHY THIS DOESN'T APPLY TO ME STOP MAKING GENERALIZATIONS."

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rsunicorns In reply to medli20 [2013-01-28 22:22:53 +0000 UTC]

i am sorry..... i know i am a jerk.....no one likes me...sorry...........i am just a selfish brat.........i hpoe you dont hate me.........although you probably do........im sorry...........bye......did i mention you were one of the people who is friends wth one of my friends?.........cause i know i have seen youre icon before.........we can just forget about the whole thing if you want.........and start over.......im sorry......

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medli20 In reply to rsunicorns [2013-01-28 22:24:42 +0000 UTC]

It's fine; I'm sorry if I came across as brash; today hasn't been the best of days for me.

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rsunicorns In reply to medli20 [2013-01-28 22:26:14 +0000 UTC]

its ok i forgive you....i agree with youre thing i hate people like that..

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akirasakura531 [2013-01-27 17:05:11 +0000 UTC]

May I ask how I to use it?

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ShyDarkie In reply to akirasakura531 [2013-03-11 16:03:54 +0000 UTC]

copy the thumb and paste it on your profile/journal etc

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Gwiazdkax3 [2013-01-01 12:22:43 +0000 UTC]

Awesome, use it on my page

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HaloneWolf [2012-12-25 10:16:50 +0000 UTC]

hate fav whores i have someone who favs and favs and hardly ever comments :/

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ZeFlyingMuppet [2012-12-19 23:16:31 +0000 UTC]

So true ;_; I hate watchwhores.

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Reb789 [2012-12-15 16:42:18 +0000 UTC]

I sometimes get someone asking me if I can watch them when I don't know them because they are new to my gallery, so I'm using this stamp

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Substitute101 [2012-12-03 19:34:41 +0000 UTC]

i'm not sure if i've ever gotten someone like this(i don't really pay attention) but it would explain why i have only one actually active watcher...*sigh*

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BluePeriwinkle [2012-11-12 17:42:24 +0000 UTC]

I like to favorite mass things, only if I like it. Sometimes I may just leave a comment there if I have to say anything about it ^^

I think some of my watchers are spam-watchers because I don't see them favorite ANYTHING IN MY GALLERY. Why watch me if you don't like my art?
But my friends talk to me ^^

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KiwiJr [2012-10-07 07:57:05 +0000 UTC]

True, so true!

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WisteriaCrown [2012-08-30 18:11:00 +0000 UTC]

*sigh* and then there are the spam watchers who not only watch everyone, but also mass fave every little bitty thing all their mass watched people do, and you know they're never looking at it. I've had a few like that... it's frustrating. You look in their favorites folder and they've fav'd like 100+ things in half a day.

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KiwiJr In reply to WisteriaCrown [2012-10-07 07:57:52 +0000 UTC]

I sometimes do a massive fav, but I do take a look of what I fave

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new-blader [2012-08-10 09:58:45 +0000 UTC]

I Really agree about it

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Ira-Zombeh [2012-07-29 21:48:53 +0000 UTC]

What really bites is some you thank for watching you and they reply with "Your welcome. could you add me back plz?"

Ugh.

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medli20 In reply to Ira-Zombeh [2012-07-29 21:58:59 +0000 UTC]

That's why I stopped verbally thanking people for watching, and switched to thanking people with llamas instead.

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IchigoMintBunny [2012-07-24 00:30:10 +0000 UTC]

SO TRUE.

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unycorn [2012-07-07 22:44:39 +0000 UTC]

agree !

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