Smaller numbers of submissions must be going thru faster.

I just had 1 video reviewed in a couple days and a small batch of images took about a week.

I have 8 vectors that are waiting for 2 months now. Today I'm also having trouble uploading, a circle spins for a couple of minutes then I get a message there's something wrong with the eps file.

Did anyone give a reason for this long wait time?

They must be using AI for approval curation to faster reduce the backlog.   But it's making a lot of errors.

A large percentage of my last image submission was not approved due to "Intellectual Property Refusal".
A house cat with small vaccination/ID tags hanging from its collar? Or boxes of whole pineapples or dragon fruit?   

No brands, logos, people, property, etc in the images.

An experienced human curator's eye would never reject them but AI isn't smart enough.

the reviewers are real people,not AI,and in my opinion they also do an excellent job from what I see.

My theory on the files left on hold is that either there is no imminent need for these files,they are nothing new,or enough of the same files have already been approved,or an already high overall number of files has already been sent,they are not to be rejected,the quality is ok,but they can be left waiting for a while.so are put on hold.

Personally,if from a batch of 50 for example,40 are approved and 10 are left waiting,after a couple of weeks of waiting I generally delete them from the queue,if not before,except in extraordinary cases,because in my opinion it means "ok,that's fine,there's no problem with the content,but you can do better"

as far as I'm concerned,the reviews make me understand better how I should behave,and what can I improve.

it may happen that something is missing,they are human too,but I also think that if there is an animal with an extra leg but the overall content is of quality,it passes the review also in light of the fact that customers can use generative edits.

in short,in my opinion if the content has no technical problems and does not break any rules,at most it is put on hold,but in the end it is approved.

regarding the uploading problem,I also encountered the "fake" problem.

it's a fake problem,because it makes you believe there is a problem but in reality there isn't,because the error red banner appears and the contents don't seem to be uploaded,but just close the page,wait 30 minutes maximum,even less,reopen the page and the uploaded contents are among the new uploads.

Review time for editorial can be less than 24 hours.
My only gripes regarding reviews is for non-editorial times can be very long (although that appears to be improving?).
Also, the non-specific rejections.