SPREAD: no, DEVIANTART WON'T shut down- here's whyEDIT Aug 6th, 2015: THE RUMOR WAS OFFICIALLY DEBUNKED! THE SITE IS NOT SHUTTING DOWN!Also, I heard from a reliable source that DA is NOT in any kind of financial trouble to begin with! I made this journal entry in the assumption that deviantArt was trying to cover up for potential losses but that has since been proven to NOT be the case! They merely want more income, but are not covering up for losses.EDIT 2: Jul 18th, 2016:The journal I linked above has since been deleted as the group itself is gone; but basically, the founder of dA himself said dA IS NOT shutting down, and actual information found online (with charts) proved that financially speaking, dA is doing just fine.So, no need for any kind of panic! I wrote this journal originally to adress the uproar that followed when people were signing the petition against CORE approximately a year ago, frightened that dA might be losing money and hence be closed down. This assu