Quote from: Mantis on July 10, 2020, 11:42

Quote from: PokemonMaster on July 10, 2020, 01:49

A brief translation:
1. Install Tampermonkey, Greasemonkey or whatever monkey is native on your browser.
2. Get this script https://openuserjs.org/scripts/fokas.pokas/ssRemover - there's a simple Install button in my case.
3. Go to Catalog Manager
4. See the grey button "Delete Images" near the Add to Set, Create Set, on top of the page
5. Select images, press the button
6. There will probably be a counter at the bottom of the page. You should wait for the countdown end and report of success. Or just wait long enough.

You can also see the pics in the post. It may be helpful.

THIS IS AWESOME.  300 images gone in 5 minutes.....only 5500 more.  I just do not trust SS with my content and using "disabled" numbers as part of their portfolio count.  I do not care if I lost positioning/ranking of my images. I have images that have made me $2k. I'll just re-upload later if anything positive changes enough to warrant resubmitting.  But for now, at the end of today I will have removed 6,890 assets from SS, both video and stills. I will keep my account open, but with no content.

Sweet!

Positive changes ... yeah, I guess it�s possible, but not very probable. They have shareholder mouths to feed and toys to pay for. I did the same as you, deleted but kept my account open. Though I did leave one image in my account, but they deleted it.    😯 I want to be able to see if any rejects mysteriously appear.

I, too, will leave one image and one video.  One thing I noticed was a lot of images reappeared after deleting them.  Perhaps just system issues because I don't think they keep rejected files longer than a few weeks, then they get wiped off the servers.  Sad time as I have 13 pretty productive years with SS.  The income was over a grand a month and helped pay for a lot of stuff without me having to pilfer my savings.  But I have accepted that those days are long gone and do have a plan to get that money back through other channels.  We'll see but glad I have a day job.

It looks like the script does not work for video.  But done with my images.

Quote from: blue on July 09, 2020, 02:37

Quote from: Mantis on July 08, 2020, 07:56

I'll just take the time to do translate on each paragraph.

Or you can just copy/paste the url into Google Translate and get the whole page translated
https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=fr&sl=ru&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Ffokas-pokas.livejournal.com%2F1894.html

That link goes to a page in Russian. Not much help.

It's time consuming but I am kinda having fun doing it manually.  Seeing an image that made a lot of money then deleting it feels good because I know it is going to cost Shutterstock.  I am about 600 images into 7000.  Just do a couple of hundred a day.  Ironically, since I started deleting I have only made two 10 cent sales today.

I have decided to delete my content on Shutterstock, not just disable it. Someone wrote a script that can do it for me. One by one would take forever.  Can anyone share what that script is and how to use it please?

So far I am better off with the new price structure of SS, in spite of many 10 to 17 cent sales.

Why should I boycot SS or even close my account? Why not accepting the 10 cent sales? I do, and I don�t care what will happen next year, because nobody can forsee the future.

You have already made your position clear in other threads. You LOVE Shutterstock.  You make more with the royalty cut.  We've heard you before.  Now, me personally, I don't believe a thing you say, but why do you insist on continuing to troll this forum?

Someone pointed to SS employee reviews on Glassdoor a week or so ago but I could not find a reference to Comparably

https://www.comparably.com/companies/shutterstock/ceo-rating

Mr Pavlovsky does not seem to be loved by his minions: as CEO bottom 5% in similarly sized companies in NY area and in USA generally.

After a minute or two a pop-up appears asking you to rate Shutterstock either as an employee or a customer.

My guess is that he is short term.  He was put in the position to pre SS to be sold/acquired. I have been there.  Temporary CEO's are often put in place to foster the sale, which means get the books looking good, get the company a pretty as a picture (no pun intended) from an acquisition perspective.  Once done, he's done, and walks away with a much bigger chunk of change than what is in his current compensation package. Everything that is happening just makes me think there is more to this move.  It's short term thinking. 

Someone at Stock Submitter Coalition captured the tweet below before it was deleted. It's a chilling reminder of what we are. We are the slaves, and we should keep working no matter what the pay is. I'm no Communist, but this is the very reason why Karl Marx published Das Kapital back in 1867. We are back in the same situation as industrial workers of the 19th Century together with Uber drivers and other participants of the growing gig economy.

"You have the freedom to work, to create value, as much as you want. We have the obligation to pay you as much or as little as we want, if at all, whenever we want."

It's time to create a new United Artists, a new Magnum Photos, a new artist owned cooperation to sell our content. We are many enough to do that, but we would need to organise and establish a management group to lead such a project.

Great. That's all Needed to know. Now going to delete assets one by one and close my account.  What this does show, though, is that they knew this would get ugly and always knew contributors would remove content. They banked on that 300 million images keeping them afloat and this shows that they could care less what we do and, most importantly, it shows they never cared about contributors way back when....why do I say that? It's the same captain of the ship who is telling us, daring us, to remove content. Your wish is my command dickhead.

Can someone message me that script for removing images? Thanks in advance.

People need to realize just how bad this deal is! and if you think you are good now welcome to January!! When their Staff takes a 50% pay cut in January then they can come talk to me! You see the pain is just starting and the good new is you don't have to take it!!! I am uploading amazing exclusive footage to Pond5 right now!

I am experiencing January NOW. My work is no mas;). Honestly I am looking for a new home for "certain" clips (probably go exclusive on P5 with some) and some of my more creative stills (which I will apply at Stocksy and see what happens).  That is for starters, but even though I have given up on SS, I have NOT GIVEN UP ON EXPOSING THEM.  We need to tighten the screws, to your point.

Quote from: Hildegarde on June 17, 2020, 19:10

NYT (New York Times) wants to know if workers are paid fairly.  Might be a good chance to have NYT look at Shutterstock and what they just did.



https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/17/opinion/are-you-paid-fairly-for-your-work.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

I filled out the form. I think it's important that people know that artists are still being ripped off by their representatives, as has been the case for a long time in all sorts of industries, most famously the music industry, but certainly in the visual arts as well. Though we might not be official employees of the company, the fact remains that Oringer became a billionaire by underpaying the artists his company represents, and Pavlovsky is cutting already measly royalty rates even further to get his multimillion dollar bonus.

I also filled out the form. Can't hurt.

Um, I am not reactiviating my portfolio at all.  None of this 1-week stuff.  That won't do a thing to SS.  They need to be hit hard and choked of content permanently. For those doing a temporary closure, that does not help with the long-term impact we're looking to achieve.  All SS does is wait a week.  Bang. Images reactivated.  No, we need to strangle them of really well done, salable content to the point where their stock price falls significantly (and remains weak), Investors flee, the board removes Stan, and nobody wants to buy SS if they go up for sale.  That takes discipline and commitment.

I am part of the Shutterstock-Bigstock bridge and I would not put it past SS to leverage BigStock photos to sell to customers when they can't find certain content on Shutterstock. For some of us, our content that was on SS is still available on Bigstock.  I just requested my whopping $48 and will be closing my Bigstock account next.  I simply would not put it past SS to pull in images from that collection to supplement the missing content from SS's collection. 

Just a heads up on the potential.

Disable.
Delete.
Spread.
Don't listen to dumb ones.

I'll be there in spirit.  Already disabled 7,000 assets.  Hoping for a flood of good, quality work being killed tomorrow (June 15th).

I am doing illustrations only. I found my nitch with conceptual vector based illustrations with main emphasis on education, medicine, politics, social issues like injustice, poverty and environmental conflicts like global warming, pollution and so on.
When I check the internet, I find that I have a specific group of regular customers.
Shutterstock enables me to live an independent and self-sufficient life. It makes me absolutely happy when I see my images traveling around the globe.

If it makes you that happy have you put your work on freepik? I'm sure you will be very satisfied with their distribution of your work. 

Quote from: Snow on June 09, 2020, 10:38

Quote from: astockphotographer088 on June 09, 2020, 08:24

Quote from: Justanotherphotographer on June 09, 2020, 08:19

People aren't being lazy. Step back and listen to the people better qualified to know what's going on, even if you are the Braveheart of grade school bog roll. Your methods are entirely invalid, providing self selecting data for your spreadsheet only lends legitimacy to a very flawed method and will give a very skewed impression of what is going on.

Especially now that you have annoyed so many people that the only ones that will fill out your form will be ones that agree with you.

When you were showing an average of 20/30% drop for level 5 from subjects you were saying, to paraphrase, "well I have only seen a drop of 5%, that feels more accurate to me". I mean what the heck.

Dude, show your rpd then. You had an equal chance as mine to be included in the spreadsheet. My rpd calculations that accurately reflect the -% in earnings were made public. Yours were not. I'm certainly not the one hiding something here. If you want to make me understand, use the 3rd grade math suggested in that post and go prove your point. Your number of "votes" is determined only by your level. I think this forum needs to serve it's purpose and be trully informational.

I get that you try to be professional about this.
I don't get why you are acting like a crusader though trying to convince people things are not as bad as it seems while we're looking at half our normal income. I don't think that'll work mate.
Nothing against you, do keep at it but I doubt you will change a lot of minds

Take care!

I was trying to convince everyone to measure how much bad it is, never trying to convince anyone whether this is good or bad, because only the January reset alone makes it bad enough. But I received everyone's response by now, I'm done in here. Good luck to everyone with their peeing against the wind tactics.

I don't need you or your wonky stats to tell me how bad my sales are. All I have to do is look at my sales and the 60% plus decline.