Well, I just broke my own rule and uploaded 3 illustrations after noon on Friday. And sure enough, 2 were rejected. Why do I break my own rules .... why, why, why?

lol

I'll call this the "We don't give a $h1t" collection

Good finds! I've posted 3 of them in the AS Discord #qualitycontrol channel.

istock/Getty sales are doing well for me and I think I made the right decision to start uploading there again after a hiatus of many years. I figured if every other agency has dropped to their level then there�s no point in me ignoring them anymore. I refuse to let them have my 4K videos though, so I downsize them to HD before uploading. Not sure if this strategy make sense, but videos on Getty are so severely undervalued to most customers and I don�t want my 4K animations that took a lot of work and rendering selling for 2 cents.

As for stills, they are selling really well on iS/Getty compared to other sites and I am thinking about Photo Exclusivity, however I am getting a high amount of image rejections on iStock and barely any rejections on other sites. I am mostly submitting digitally rendered abstract fractal backgrounds and the rejections tend to be for the reason that there isn�t a clear concept or narrative element. These rejections seem to be very inconsistent and subjective depending on the reviewer. My abstract images that make it through iStock review are selling well, however the rate of rejections is one reason I�m holding back from exclusivity at the moment.

Also, about the keyword thing, I was submitting some content several weeks ago and I kept noticing that the keyword suggestions on the file upload page were vastly inaccurate. It was like they were the keyword suggestions for some other image entirely. There was absolutely zero relationship to my images, whereas normally I would see at least some accuracy but this was very unusual. It wasn't a big deal for me as I write my own keywords but as I found it highly unusual, I tried to send a support ticket about this bug but there was a technical issue and my query couldn't be sent. By the time I was next uploading content, about a week later, the keyword suggestions were back to normal.

Are the dollar signs are a mistake in the transcript, where it says, "The average number of new contributors every month has also doubled over last year. We went from $2.4 million in Q1 to $2.7 million contributors in Q2. This is the largest uptick we have ever had in contributors in the 20-plus year history of Shutterstock. As a result, our content library is now at $784 million licensable assets making Shutterstock the world's largest licensable and ethically sourced creative content marketplace." ?

That image was less than a week in the queue.

Haven�t those of you uploading been waiting 3-4 weeks?

That will be because AI can now be submitted as Photos so long as it looks like it could have been taken by a camera, and people are reporting 1 week review times in the Photos queue.

To be fair to all contributors, please allow 3D artists to also submit their photorealistic renders as Photos.

The collection is now over 11 million gen AI images (there are more but they're not marked. I can't know which the 11 millionth is, but how about this one of a waterslide no one should ever go on:

The death trap water slide has now been removed since I posted it on the Adobe Stock Discord 

Adobe Stock has a Discord server for contributors and it now includes a "Quality-Control" channel where contributors can post links to images that should not have been accepted in the first place, and these will be passed on to moderation for re-consideration.