DeviantArt strives to be a community accepting of a wide range of creative works and support freedom of expression, but with themes involving negativity, we place boundaries to divide content and posts into acceptable and unacceptable categories, as the DeviantArt Terms of Service specifically prohibits certain types of offensive or objectionable posts. 

Posts can be classified as hate speech due to a focus which attacks a person or group on the basis of race, religion, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, disability, or gender. Hate speech can be a comment, a gesture or conduct, writing, or image submission which incites violence or prejudicial action or because it disparages or intimidates a protected group, or individual on the basis of one of the previously mentioned qualifiers of race, religion, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, disability, or gender.