Kiwi Farms
Can be anything. Cartoons, anime, toys, money, company logos, websites, etc.
I'll start.
Littlest Pet Shop
Good quality, a lot of thought put into it. I loved these growing up. Colorful, lively. The pets had a nice texture to them. The site back then was also creative.
Then BOOM. They all look like they were exposed to a nuclear power plant. They feel as bad as they look. They are oily, plastic, and overall lower quality. It's like an identity crisis. Even if you were to collect them, I don't see the point anymore due to how bad the quality is. It looks & feels like a McDonald's toy. As for their website, it looks exactly like all the other "modern" websites out there.
DeviantART
DA has gone through a lot of redesigns but Eclipse was the most major one. It may look okay but DA forced it on its user's while it was still an unfinished, buggy mess. A LOT of members left. They removed the "new deviations" tab possibly due to how much porn took over. Not just fetish art, porn. Core membership has become borderline useless and has been forced on users who do commission work. HTML customization is no loner a thing. A lot has happened.
Those are the two I cared about the most.
Honorable mention would be Carebear's modern day designs compared to back then- it looks like shit but at least bootleggers haven't overtook the Carebear market when it comes to collecting the old merch like they did with LPS.
Before
Now
I'll start.
Littlest Pet Shop
Good quality, a lot of thought put into it. I loved these growing up. Colorful, lively. The pets had a nice texture to them. The site back then was also creative.
Then BOOM. They all look like they were exposed to a nuclear power plant. They feel as bad as they look. They are oily, plastic, and overall lower quality. It's like an identity crisis. Even if you were to collect them, I don't see the point anymore due to how bad the quality is. It looks & feels like a McDonald's toy. As for their website, it looks exactly like all the other "modern" websites out there.
DeviantART
DA has gone through a lot of redesigns but Eclipse was the most major one. It may look okay but DA forced it on its user's while it was still an unfinished, buggy mess. A LOT of members left. They removed the "new deviations" tab possibly due to how much porn took over. Not just fetish art, porn. Core membership has become borderline useless and has been forced on users who do commission work. HTML customization is no loner a thing. A lot has happened.
Those are the two I cared about the most.
Honorable mention would be Carebear's modern day designs compared to back then- it looks like shit but at least bootleggers haven't overtook the Carebear market when it comes to collecting the old merch like they did with LPS.
Before
Now