I know, it is funny.

Probably a lot of people didn't "get" the difference - so I can see people who go the subscription route (paying $30 for 100,000+ clips) getting a little annoyed thinking "wait! I hafta pay 2x that much just for a SINGLE clip?".

(I've used their services as a customer, and I admit - when I first was using it - I didn't understand that it was "contributors" that had submitted the majority of the content. I thought storyblocks "employees" had taken 100,000+ videos - and was a bit annoyed because I thought they were trying to upsell me to get the "good" stuff.

Many times there would be a clip of a model that wasn't "exactly" right - and then I'd noticed a "perfect" clip - but it would be $79 to get it. I didn't (at that time) understand that it was a "contributor" who had taken 10-15 different videos, and that storyblocks had just purchased the one clip to include in their 'unlimited' marketplace).

But - once I got it - it wasn't a big issue. If there was a clip I REALLY wanted, I would pay the extra.

So it's just a bunch of B.S. rhetoric on SB side, they just want more $$$, for less work.