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« on: October 10, 2024, 15:42 »
Hi,
First, hope you are okay. Second... Wondering if you can comment on the following jjnfeff...... {deleted conspiracy nonsense}
Did you know that Blackrock, Bill Gates and the Rothschilds have managed to dislodge some asteroids from their previous orbits somewhere in the universe and steer them towards Earth? The particles that the asteroids contain have also been sprayed with toxins on their way to Earth in order to reduce humanity. In addition to the toxins, they have been sprayed with artificially created viruses from secret biolabs operated by the USA in Ukraine. The Bill Gates Foundation and the WHO are already producing billions of vaccines against these viruses and are expecting exorbitant global sales. The asteroids are to be steered in one of the large low-pressure vortices over the Atlantic so that the toxins and viruses are distributed throughout the air and, after impact, also globally by the Gulf Stream. After the impact on the Atlantic seabed this is the plan of this (absolutely "secret") world elite the released rare earths can be transported away by special ships. The expected profits in combination with the monopoly position are expected to bring trillions to this elite.
I have read all this on reputable sources on the Internet.
unfortunately, there are those who will take your post seriously! then there's MTG's antisemitic space laser theories now blamed for hurricanes
Yes, the laser cannons - a real problem! Equally amazing is that there are still dogs, cats, guinea pigs and tortoises - at a time when hungry people from Haiti are eating all the pets there are. Hundreds of years ago, there were people who claimed that their neighbor ate rats - if things went badly, the lady was taken away and burned as a witch. And today there is social media, where people who otherwise don't get enough attention write some garbage and get millions of likes and followers - for whatever reason. It just makes me sad! And I have no idea where it's going to end. In times when any of us all over the planet could be hit by a natural disaster of unimaginable proportions. Like recently in the USA and hundreds of other places on this planet. The important thing is: it's always down to evil forces! It's never down to us! SUVs or pick-ups must of course become heavier and have a higher engine. An electric car with less than 1000 hp - unthinkable! 95 million new cars produced on earth - every year. But it can't be down to us that everything is falling apart at the seams. There must be evil forces at play! And the fact that the election campaign in the USA now has to be fought on the backs of the storm victims makes things even worse! I am endlessly sorry for those who are affected!
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« on: October 07, 2024, 16:27 »
In the meantime, the next hurricane is building up and heading for Florida - wind speeds are currently 280 km/h.
This is not really a topic to get into "politically" or with conspiracy theories. "Milton" could lead to the next catastrophe. Depending on how the hurricane moves, this could also be the case for North Carolina.
To feign sympathy for those affected in one sentence cleverly packaged as a question and then go on to express conspiracy theories in many sentences is, in fact, completely out of order. That's why I reacted so cynically. It made me angry!
Incidentally, as a European, I don't find Wck.org ideal because a donation via paypal takes up to 45 days to arrive where it is needed.
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« on: October 04, 2024, 14:39 »
Hi,
First, hope you are okay. Second... Wondering if you can comment on the following jjnfeff...
From what I heard - the "floods" (& the reason there is deliberately "no govt help" and in fact trying to "stop" ppl from helping others) is because...
Apparently there is a company trying to "buy" the "mining" rights for both lithium & quartz (extremely profitable for the "ai" stuff/computer chips/electronic vehicles, literally worth 'billions' of dollars), and the residents were refusing to sell - so the company hired a bunch of planes to do cloud seeding to deliberatley 'flood' the mountains (which is virtually unheard of)... and they don't want other people helping them (literally trying to bankrupt the residents - "force" them out of their homes), hence no support/guard/etc - and in fact people trying to help are being 'prevented' by the national guard/fema/etc... does that sound accurate/is that correct from what you see?
Did you know that Blackrock, Bill Gates and the Rothschilds have managed to dislodge some asteroids from their previous orbits somewhere in the universe and steer them towards Earth? The particles that the asteroids contain have also been sprayed with toxins on their way to Earth in order to reduce humanity. In addition to the toxins, they have been sprayed with artificially created viruses from secret biolabs operated by the USA in Ukraine. The Bill Gates Foundation and the WHO are already producing billions of vaccines against these viruses and are expecting exorbitant global sales. The asteroids are to be steered in one of the large low-pressure vortices over the Atlantic so that the toxins and viruses are distributed throughout the air and, after impact, also globally by the Gulf Stream. After the impact on the Atlantic seabed this is the plan of this (absolutely "secret") world elite the released rare earths can be transported away by special ships. The expected profits in combination with the monopoly position are expected to bring trillions to this elite. I have read all this on reputable sources on the Internet.
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« on: September 29, 2024, 16:11 »
.....
The first human VIRUS discovered was the yellow fever VIRUS* (an RNA VIRUS) - discovered in 1901. Like all other VIRUSES, it is visible under an electron microscope. Electron microscopes have been around since the 1930s, when 3D software for computers did not yet exist. ....
but the first vaccines were used in the 18th century, before viruses were known - they used cow pox to vaccinate (from the latin for cow) against smallpox, and pasteur pioneered the use of other vaccines against disease such as rabies in the late 19th century
science often progresses without knowing the underlying facts - eg, mendel described genetic inheritance more than 100 years before we knew about DNA
I just wanted to point out that there are viruses. And that people who claim there are no viruses are living in a parallel world. If these people are asking others to use their brains, they should first take a good look at themselves. But these people have gone underground anyway because they still have to search for certain TV shows that probably never existed ;-)
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« on: September 28, 2024, 05:53 »
It is important to know that Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg and Dr. Mike Yeadon submitted a petition to the European Medicines Agency long before, on December 1, 2020, to stop ongoing clinical trials by Biontech and Pfizer on their coronavirus vaccines. The petitioners' arguments include the lack of long-term studies and the threat of side effects: In studies on mRNA vaccines against CoronaVIRUSES in cats, for example, a so-called antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE) had occurred, causing the cats to die on subsequent contact with the VIRUS. ...
And yet, health care recommends that weak and old people be vaccinated every year. If weak and old people do not die, then Covid vaccines are safe. This is like the best testing of the vaccine, on the weak. How can you compare people with cats, this is nonsense. The vaccine is designed for people, not for cats.
Separate vaccines should be developed for cats and dogs. I may be wrong, but there is a difference between a human and an animal, right? 
You didn't understand. My point was that Yeadon, for example, initially spoke out against further vaccinations against a VIRUS and recognised its existence crystal clear, while later claiming that VIRUSes don't exist. And all of a sudden there are people who believe the latter... The fact that vaccines were first tested on animals should also be familiar to you by now, right? As far as RT is concerned, you're right. That's exactly why I wanted to say that RT has also become entangled in complete contradictions. I thought I had made that clear.
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« on: September 27, 2024, 17:41 »
You are mistaken. However, if you don't believe you are - explain why.
You don't believe there is a virus, inspite of a mountain of evidence to the contrary.
This claim comes from the former Vice CEO of Pfizer Dr. Mike Yeadon as well as two other doctors Thomas Cowan and Samantha Bailey. Yeadon recently claimed that the Covid VIRUS does not exist. That there is no VIRUS at all. It is important to know that Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg and Dr. Mike Yeadon submitted a petition to the European Medicines Agency long before, on December 1, 2020, to stop ongoing clinical trials by Biontech and Pfizer on their coronavirus vaccines. The petitioners' arguments include the lack of long-term studies and the threat of side effects: In studies on mRNA vaccines against Corona VIRUSES in cats, for example, a so-called antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE) had occurred, causing the cats to die on subsequent contact with the VIRUS. ... Quelle: https://www.bundestag.de/resource/blob/827940/cb0f78bdc022e555dc0b10aa6eb5a10f/WD-9-119-20-pdf.pdfIn 2020, the Russian broadcaster RT told the "Corona Committee" - which includes Wodarg and Yeadon - that there would be no second Corona wave: "In addition, "over 80 percent of people" could possibly already be immune to the VIRUS "because of its relationship to other cold corona VIRUSES". Anyone who uses their brain will see the contradictions in all these statements in which Mr. Yeadon has become entangled. First there are VIRUSES, even a Corona VIRUS, then suddenly there are not.  The first human VIRUS discovered was the yellow fever VIRUS* (an RNA VIRUS) - discovered in 1901. Like all other VIRUSES, it is visible under an electron microscope. Electron microscopes have been around since the 1930s, when 3D software for computers did not yet exist. * In 1951, the microbiologist Max Theiler received the Nobel Prize for Medicine for his vaccine against yellow fever developed in 1937.
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« on: September 27, 2024, 02:40 »
Haha re: your statement "Anti-vaxxer is not allowed to write in this thread! ". So anything that does not tell you to get injected makes a statement an "anti-vaxx" statement?
No, I only mean those who write such nonsense and rubbish as you.
Incidentally, your television is also telling you to chop off your body parts to become "trans", it is telling you if you are caucasian not to have children so you can give all your money/etc to black/east indian/arabic/etc people who are having 5-15 children EACH to collect 'child payments', it is telling you to become gay,...
Okay, since you are so well informed and do serious research, could you please post the links to the reputable TV channels or programmes where we can watch these facts? I haven't seen this anywhere on television myself. So please enlighten us so that we can draw conclusions about the rest of your reputable sources...
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« on: September 26, 2024, 10:50 »
Do you know what the biggest poison of modern times is? It's the belief of some people that absolutely everything they see on TV is a lie, while at the same time they believe that everything their algorithm bubble finds for them on the internet is the pure truth.
These are often the people who believe that injected particles are meant to track and control them. Meanwhile, they voluntarily disclose millions of pieces of data about themselves every day. They sit in their car, in their smart home or use their smartphone or PC and only trust their social media channels controlled by algorithms - and are not even aware of the extreme extent to which they are being tracked and controlled/manipulated there. These people swear that the virus only exists to make a handful of people rich. At the same time, they make people rich who claim the opposite and get paid handsomely for expert lectures, advertising on their social media or YouTube channels or through donations, for example.
These people are advised to use their brains!
Hi Wilm,
Some broad, random assumptions you are making here... How did you arrive at your conclusion that it is "the" biggest "poison"? Lol... Does that mean...
a) By your statment, that you believe everything on t.v. is truth?
b) Interesting you think it is a 'bubble' that 'finds' info for people, when generally those that have come to realize what is really going on actually seek out information, do critical thinking and reasoning, as opposed to having information spoonfed. Does that mean your algorithmic bubble custom tailored to you is accurate?
c) You are making some broad & inaccurate assumptions about what people do and don't disclose. As an aside though - in general - I do agree too many people do post waaaaaay to much about themselves on social media, and have illusions about 'privacy' simply because say something like 'facebook' has 'privacy' settings. (They obviously do not really understand how data sharing/storage/etc really works behind the scenes).
It seems you 'kind' of might have a cursory knowledge of some things going on, but just choose not to really investigate any further...
a) No. b) I read in many bubbles. But I am absolutely aware that I also primarily get the information that the algorithm selects for me. I try to avoid this by questioning it. c) I don't know the objective truth either - I can only try to get as close to it as possible. However, I wonder why there are contemporaries who believe that they know the ultimate truth.
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« on: September 26, 2024, 04:16 »
Do you know what the biggest poison of modern times is? It's the belief of some people that absolutely everything they see on TV is a lie, while at the same time they believe that everything their algorithm bubble finds for them on the internet is the pure truth.
These are often the people who believe that injected particles are meant to track and control them. Meanwhile, they voluntarily disclose millions of pieces of data about themselves every day. They sit in their car, in their smart home or use their smartphone or PC and only trust their social media channels controlled by algorithms - and are not even aware of the extreme extent to which they are being tracked and controlled/manipulated there. These people swear that the virus only exists to make a handful of people rich. At the same time, they make people rich who claim the opposite and get paid handsomely for expert lectures, advertising on their social media or YouTube channels or through donations, for example.
These people are advised to use their brains!
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« on: September 25, 2024, 17:22 »
Thank you very much for your help in all those past years, Mat! All the best for you!
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« on: September 23, 2024, 04:35 »
I'm surprised this seems rather confusing for a lot of people? I believe I even read where it stated what the weekly sales rank is?
It's simply your rank, in terms of downloads - relatively to ALL the other contributors - for that week. Lifetime rank is simply for all contributors over the LIFETIME.
So, if you get more downloads than more people - your rank goes up. If other people get more downloads than you, your rank goes down.
So you 'could' be ranked #1, if for example you had '3' downloads, and 'everyone else' had 1. Or, you could be ranked #10000 if you had say 1000 downloads, but 'everyone else' had 1001+...
Really quite simple. Your weekly ranking is just simply how many downloads you've had relative to everyone else in the system.
of course,but why is there anyone who thinks the opposite? 
I think we all bounce between 2 values in the rankings.
if your ranking value is an average of 30,000 you can probably bounce between 40,000 and 20,000
if your average value is 20,000 you probably bounce between 15,000 and 25,000
if your average value is 1000 you probably bounce between 800 and 1200
the higher you go,the less variation you have in the rankings,simply because there are fewer contributors at the top.
I don't know whether the ranking follows sales or money,I have some doubts about it,it probably follows both the number of sales and money.
Weekly rankings will vary based on what seasonal content you have. Like the movement of the tide and over time, you see the patterns in the data.
Lifetime rank for a change.
Great numbers!Congrats! When did you start? And how many files do you have? Sorry, maybe you've already written that and I've forgotten.
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« on: September 21, 2024, 10:37 »
I'm surprised this seems rather confusing for a lot of people? I believe I even read where it stated what the weekly sales rank is?
It's simply your rank, in terms of downloads - relatively to ALL the other contributors - for that week. Lifetime rank is simply for all contributors over the LIFETIME.
So, if you get more downloads than more people - your rank goes up. If other people get more downloads than you, your rank goes down.
So you 'could' be ranked #1, if for example you had '3' downloads, and 'everyone else' had 1. Or, you could be ranked #10000 if you had say 1000 downloads, but 'everyone else' had 1001+...
Really quite simple. Your weekly ranking is just simply how many downloads you've had relative to everyone else in the system.
Correct!
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« on: September 20, 2024, 10:13 »
slightly off topic but just curious... how many downloads do you need to get a lifetime rank? Unfortunately, I can only help with 2 numbers here (my account and my wife's account), but maybe we can narrow it down:
-> 811 downloads do not give a lifetime rank, shows "---"
-> 10.776 downloads shows the lifetime rank "10.950"
As you know I had my 44.444 th download in September - lifetime rank 2.880 And you've read about another contributor: 65.200 downloads - lifetime rank 1.820
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« on: September 20, 2024, 09:58 »
Slightly below average for me.
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« on: September 13, 2024, 15:26 »
Thanks, would you say focusing on real photos is a waste of time ? Or doing Ai at the moment is the best option?
This is like asking which camera should I use to get more sales.
You should focus on content and genre, you can have great sales with real photos and ai. Most agencies dont even take ai and still people have sales.
The majority of sales in the industry are real images, not ai. ai is a niche.
Why dont you follow the various newslettersd and blogposts of agencies what they recommend to shoot?
They put a lot of effort and research into these newsletters.
Sadly, most producers never read them. They just sort by downloads where that is possible then try to copy the exact image.
Then complain they are not getting sales.
Look at subjects you understand really well, try to find what is missing. Then shoot that.
And get inspiration from the newsletters. The agencies want to make money, they recommend what people like to buy. They give great tips for styling and current trends too.
... the larger agencies (tend to be) pushing the "d.i.e." crap ("diversity, inclusion, equity") - which actually really has absolutely nothing to do with "equity", etc - but rather the people behind blackrock/vanguard attacking the christian/caucasian family unit (trying to 'encourage' boys/girls to cut off their body parts to become 'trans', or samesex, i.e., depopulation)... you don't really see them pushing "gay east indians" or "trans arabic women with hijab" people, it is primarily targeted at white people.
Are you serious?
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« on: September 11, 2024, 04:14 »
You are boosting the theory that anyone who started uploading 20 years ago has a forever advantage in the algos. 
I have a doubt in this theory as well. Since I was in 800 position after only 4 months of uploading very few files. However, I do have a question, what does the lifetime position mean? Im 12,000 something now. Whats yours? May be it does point to the length of being a contributor and adds to the formula somehow?
Your lifetime position indicates that a good 12,000 contributors have achieved more downloads and/or revenue* in total than you since they started selling images on Adobe Stock / fotolia. *In my opinion, it could be a mixture of both, as otherwise contributors with a pure video portfolio could not be compared with contributors with a pure image portfolio if this rank is based on downloads only. But it could also be that one video download is equated e.g. with 10 image downloads so that the statistics are comparable. My best lifetime position I ever had was 1,120 years ago and since then I've dropped to 2,880, losing 10 places every two or three weeks.
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« on: July 30, 2024, 04:42 »
makes sense now. Here is my history to see if this helps you on your goal. I started in 2011 with $654 for that year. My 2nd year I made 247% more and as you can see my gains continued for awhile and then the wall hit me. Now I am losing each year. It was fun while it lasted.
Year Income %
2011 $654
2012 $2,268 247%
2013 $7,778 243%
2014 $15,778 103%
2015 $26,433 68%
2016 $33,937 28%
2017 $35,238 4%
2018 $33,370 -5%
2019 $25,804 -23%
2020 $22,790 -12%
2021 $22,504 -1%
2022 $18,532 -18%
2023 $15,582 -16%
are those numbers only for adobe, or all stock combined?
is the large loss in the last two years mostly from shutterstock? (not your fault)
how much did you upload and how many new concepts or genres did you expand into?
how are your videos doing?
Thank you for sharing real numbers. It is extremely valuable even if our ports are all so different.
I'm sure that this is Adobe/fotolia only.
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« on: July 30, 2024, 00:58 »
If we soon discover cave paintings from the stone age as brand new images in the database, we know that the review is taking too long. I have uploaded a few new images when Ramses II was still going about his government business - they are still waiting for the review.
but those were the glory days of papyro-stock - when we were paid 1 loaf of bread and a pint of beer for each papyrus sold
Ja, thats true!
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« on: July 28, 2024, 13:54 »
I uploaded a panorama photo today as editorial that could of passed for commercial but I couldn't let this one wait as it is more time sensitive.
It was reviewed and accepted in just a few hours.
Sorry, but that's not how it works! You can't just take a photo of me and put it online without a model release and my permission! I didn't even notice that you had a camera in your hand. That's stalking! What's more, the photo isn't even recent - it must have been several months ago! I don't look that attractive anymore! The waiting for the Review is wearing me down!
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« on: July 18, 2024, 01:13 »
Miserable month for me!
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« on: July 15, 2024, 13:23 »
ok,this explains everything! 
those files have now sold so many times in the golden years of 2012 that they will always be ahead.
the time since you are a contributor also counts on Adobe,in fact I believe that even if I stop uploading now and then come back in 5 years and start uploading again,I will earn much more than now,simply because in the meantime 5 years have passed.
I have to disagree. I've been doing this since 2009 and have many images with more than 100 downloads. Most of them disappeared from one day to the next due to an algorithm change - this also applies to images with more than 250, 500 or 1000 downloads. There are images where I can understand why, because the style, visual language or zeitgeist has changed. For the majority of images, however, it has nothing to do with this - they were simply sorted to the back.
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« on: July 14, 2024, 13:42 »
If we soon discover cave paintings from the stone age as brand new images in the database, we know that the review is taking too long. I have uploaded a few new images when Ramses II was still going about his government business - they are still waiting for the review.
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« on: July 14, 2024, 13:31 »
Here are my stats this week: position 5060 with almost 700 files.
Pretty slow week, I've seen my position already dipping below 4000 in the past.
Definitely not bad, considering that you only have 700 files online. They must be good images.
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