My first reaction when I bumped on this was : WHAAAAAAT ?

And I guess that this would be funny if it isn't so tragic. 

I feel need to share this with all people that are creative hard working stock content creators which are faced with multiple unexplained rejections recently.
Well well....While you/we work hard Adobe accepts this kind of content with both hands :

https://stock.adobe.com/ee/images/a-person-holding-a-colorful-handmade-sign-reading-merry-christmas/1848828545

This whole portfolio is full of such "creative" s**t.  --> 

https://stock.adobe.com/ee/contributor/210134730/rokonuzzamnan?load_type=author&prev_url=detail

It is a disgrace what are Adobe moderation and acceptance standards nowadays.   

P.S.  Of course that usage of F.C. Real Madrid logo, Adidas logo and emirates airlines logo is violation of a intellectual property but hey....not for all of us. It is obviously that this guy have more protection from Adobe than pandas in China.   

It's the exact collection of assets we were told not to submit. 

lol while it is 5800 spammed east indian contents - 'some' of the images I could see having commercial value. but 5800 of nearly identical stuff, with groups of 30-40 images being nearly identical? dunno about that.

feet with sandles.

feet with sandles and a christmas sign in july.

feet with sandles with christmas sign covering your crotch, feet with sandles with christmas sign revealing your crotch...

welcome to.. "diversity".

(and special msg just to cascoly - for when you reply and act indignant and scream 'raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaacist!. whatever. use your brain. look and see what is REALLY going on.)

I'm speechless, I have a nearly 95% or 100% rejection rate lately due to "image quality". Never faced before but this is wow another level.

Quote from: SuperPhoto on January 05, 2026, 20:04
lol while it is 5800 spammed east indian contents - 'some' of the images I could see having commercial value. but 5800 of nearly identical stuff, with groups of 30-40 images being nearly identical? dunno about that.

feet with sandles.

feet with sandles and a christmas sign in july.

feet with sandles with christmas sign covering your crotch, feet with sandles with christmas sign revealing your crotch...

welcome to.. "diversity".

(and special msg just to cascoly - for when you reply and act indignant and scream 'raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaacist!. whatever. use your brain. look and see what is REALLY going on.)

This is real junk.
I was disappointed of getting a lot of similar and quality rejections but seeing this feels cheated.

I still think that kind of ACCEPTED content is nothing more than insult to hard working contributors which invested in a gear, time and knowledge.
Of course that I understand that Adobe are feeding their Ai monster with this kind of s**t but hey....does it really have to be in a collection ? 
Shoulder to shoulder with other content ? ? ? ?

Also tons and tons of unexplained rejections while this kind of content  is accepted > https://stock.adobe.com/ee/images/happy-new-year-message-written-in-colorful-letters-in-a-lush-green-rice-field/1799673856   HOW ?  Adobe, do you really think that this should be accepted ? What your moderators are trained for ? While you autoreject Ai program rejects normal work ? 

P.S.  Funny thing is that Adobe removed first linked photo from this post in hours time after i posted, also removed almost all images where adidas logo or  "adidas three stripes" (trademark) can bee seen while acc is still active and full of "images".

Well, I guess I can use this to show how "tolerant" adobe is with newbie content...

If they reject any of my camera work and this gets accepted, it really makes you wonder.

I have to wonder if it's nothing more than random reviewers being very tolerant?

Quote from: wds on January 06, 2026, 20:47
I have to wonder if it's nothing more than random reviewers being very tolerant?

In every business malicious people will try to get in and fulfil their needs. I come from the financial world but I guess it's everywhere the same as long as money is to be earned or stolen.
Why not become a reviewer and approve the crap your friend/accomplice is supplying? And maybe tweak his position in the search algorithms?
Not sure how many reviewers a stockcompany has, or if they have outsourced it but maybe it's difficult to keep an eye on it.

Quote from: SimonSays on January 07, 2026, 21:41

Quote from: wds on January 06, 2026, 20:47
I have to wonder if it's nothing more than random reviewers being very tolerant?

In every business malicious people will try to get in and fulfil their needs. I come from the financial world but I guess it's everywhere the same as long as money is to be earned or stolen.
Why not become a reviewer and approve the crap your friend/accomplice is supplying? And maybe tweak his position in the search algorithms?
Not sure how many reviewers a stockcompany has, or if they have outsourced it but maybe it's difficult to keep an eye on it.

Yes, maybe not specific contributors but lets say, if they are obviously from your home country. These should have never been passed, at least not so many of them. They are terrible, too many similar, too many similar to others, terrible editing. Either that or last day on the job, get all the money for all the clicks and approved images, if they are paid by the image.

Whaaaat??? covers it.

Quote from: Uncle Pete on January 08, 2026, 17:08

Quote from: SimonSays on January 07, 2026, 21:41

Quote from: wds on January 06, 2026, 20:47
I have to wonder if it's nothing more than random reviewers being very tolerant?

In every business malicious people will try to get in and fulfil their needs. I come from the financial world but I guess it's everywhere the same as long as money is to be earned or stolen.
Why not become a reviewer and approve the crap your friend/accomplice is supplying? And maybe tweak his position in the search algorithms?
Not sure how many reviewers a stockcompany has, or if they have outsourced it but maybe it's difficult to keep an eye on it.

Yes, maybe not specific contributors but lets say, if they are obviously from your home country. These should have never been passed, at least not so many of them. They are terrible, too many similar, too many similar to others, terrible editing. Either that or last day on the job, get all the money for all the clicks and approved images, if they are paid by the image.

Whaaaat??? covers it.

I don't think they are obviously from my home country. Here it's mostly imported people that do this in the financial world. But with Microstock it's world wide and I imagine they will try everything as long as money is to be made. That is their prerogative right? Like the emails you get each day promising you loads of money.

And yes, Whaaaat??? covers it.

Quote from: SimonSays on January 09, 2026, 18:44

Quote from: Uncle Pete on January 08, 2026, 17:08

Quote from: SimonSays on January 07, 2026, 21:41

Quote from: wds on January 06, 2026, 20:47
I have to wonder if it's nothing more than random reviewers being very tolerant?

In every business malicious people will try to get in and fulfil their needs. I come from the financial world but I guess it's everywhere the same as long as money is to be earned or stolen.
Why not become a reviewer and approve the crap your friend/accomplice is supplying? And maybe tweak his position in the search algorithms?
Not sure how many reviewers a stockcompany has, or if they have outsourced it but maybe it's difficult to keep an eye on it.

Yes, maybe not specific contributors but lets say, if they are obviously from your home country. These should have never been passed, at least not so many of them. They are terrible, too many similar, too many similar to others, terrible editing. Either that or last day on the job, get all the money for all the clicks and approved images, if they are paid by the image.

Whaaaat??? covers it.

I don't think they are obviously from my home country. Here it's mostly imported people that do this in the financial world. But with Microstock it's world wide and I imagine they will try everything as long as money is to be made. That is their prerogative right? Like the emails you get each day promising you loads of money.

And yes, Whaaaat??? covers it.

From the collection, the people, the attire and locations, where would you guess this account is located? If the reviewer is in the same place, or same country, they might be giving all the uploads a free pass. That's what I meant by home country, not you specifically.

Quote from: Uncle Pete on January 10, 2026, 16:07

Quote from: SimonSays on January 09, 2026, 18:44

Quote from: Uncle Pete on January 08, 2026, 17:08

Quote from: SimonSays on January 07, 2026, 21:41

Quote from: wds on January 06, 2026, 20:47
I have to wonder if it's nothing more than random reviewers being very tolerant?

In every business malicious people will try to get in and fulfil their needs. I come from the financial world but I guess it's everywhere the same as long as money is to be earned or stolen.
Why not become a reviewer and approve the crap your friend/accomplice is supplying? And maybe tweak his position in the search algorithms?
Not sure how many reviewers a stockcompany has, or if they have outsourced it but maybe it's difficult to keep an eye on it.

Yes, maybe not specific contributors but lets say, if they are obviously from your home country. These should have never been passed, at least not so many of them. They are terrible, too many similar, too many similar to others, terrible editing. Either that or last day on the job, get all the money for all the clicks and approved images, if they are paid by the image.

Whaaaat??? covers it.

I don't think they are obviously from my home country. Here it's mostly imported people that do this in the financial world. But with Microstock it's world wide and I imagine they will try everything as long as money is to be made. That is their prerogative right? Like the emails you get each day promising you loads of money.

And yes, Whaaaat??? covers it.

From the collection, the people, the attire and locations, where would you guess this account is located? If the reviewer is in the same place, or same country, they might be giving all the uploads a free pass. That's what I meant by home country, not you specifically.

Considering that there is a common knowledge that two "outsourcing companies" work as moderating "team" and one is located in Serbia and other in India I strongly think that you are right.
This account screams India as location.
My opinion too is that someone deliberately approved this and that is only reason why this junk is in collection.
   
How much insult is this to ALL ,FAIR, CREATIVE, HARD WORKING contributors ? Well....that is another story.

Honestly, this is getting really frustrating. When obvious junk gets approved and good work is rejected for "quality," it kills motivation.

We had a real case: a client who sends us files for keywording (tags) (the files were genuinely strong and had real sales potential) stopped sending material for a while after a wave of unexplained rejections. It completely discouraged him.

In my opinion, the review system is simply overloaded: when too much low quality content is submitted, a lot of it gets approved without proper checking. And contacting support is basically pointless they dont react to this.

Has me think the people contributing this junk are the same people from those 'countries' that work in large teams and using a pile-on strategy where even 90% of their 10s of thousands of uploads are rejected but 100s or 1000s are accepted.

Has that account been taken down?
Both links are showing 'Page not found' right now, for me.

Quote from: ShadySue on January 12, 2026, 18:24
Has that account been taken down?
Both links are showing 'Page not found' right now, for me.

Ooooops .... Adobe removed this content. 
Which only screams that they did investigation and something was "rotten in the state of Denmark" or in other words ....it seems that "conspiracy theory" about moderators and contributors from same country wasn't just a theory. 

Quote from: Madede on January 11, 2026, 21:39

Quote from: Uncle Pete on January 10, 2026, 16:07

Quote from: SimonSays on January 09, 2026, 18:44

Quote from: Uncle Pete on January 08, 2026, 17:08

Quote from: SimonSays on January 07, 2026, 21:41

Quote from: wds on January 06, 2026, 20:47
I have to wonder if it's nothing more than random reviewers being very tolerant?

In every business malicious people will try to get in and fulfil their needs. I come from the financial world but I guess it's everywhere the same as long as money is to be earned or stolen.
Why not become a reviewer and approve the crap your friend/accomplice is supplying? And maybe tweak his position in the search algorithms?
Not sure how many reviewers a stockcompany has, or if they have outsourced it but maybe it's difficult to keep an eye on it.

Yes, maybe not specific contributors but lets say, if they are obviously from your home country. These should have never been passed, at least not so many of them. They are terrible, too many similar, too many similar to others, terrible editing. Either that or last day on the job, get all the money for all the clicks and approved images, if they are paid by the image.

Whaaaat??? covers it.

I don't think they are obviously from my home country. Here it's mostly imported people that do this in the financial world. But with Microstock it's world wide and I imagine they will try everything as long as money is to be made. That is their prerogative right? Like the emails you get each day promising you loads of money.

And yes, Whaaaat??? covers it.

From the collection, the people, the attire and locations, where would you guess this account is located? If the reviewer is in the same place, or same country, they might be giving all the uploads a free pass. That's what I meant by home country, not you specifically.

Considering that there is a common knowledge that two "outsourcing companies" work as moderating "team" and one is located in Serbia and other in India I strongly think that you are right.
This account screams India as location.
My opinion too is that someone deliberately approved this and that is only reason why this junk is in collection.
   
How much insult is this to ALL ,FAIR, CREATIVE, HARD WORKING contributors ? Well....that is another story.

First of all, YES. How does this trash get passed, if there isn't some sort of lame review outsourcing. If you see it and can find it, the buyers can also.