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« on: Yesterday at 19:28 »
Any idea why the adobe sales are so low right now? And how to get them back up? Thanks!
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« on: Yesterday at 19:00 »
It will be interesting, and curious why the theatrics, since basically both midjourney & disney, etc are funded/owned by the same main company/"investors" (i.e., the likes of blackrock/vanguard/state street/etc).
ALL "ai" (including chatGPT) is based off of massive massive theft. They are theft based services.
Seems like it more designed to make it harder for the 'little guy' to compete in the "ai" world, and fearful of potentially 'infringing' on someone's rights.
The big companies really don't care - because they are part of the same club.
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« on: Yesterday at 06:03 »
@Pacesetter... Sales... are... not quite what I was expecting. Was expecting them to go up significantly with all the work I've done. Perhaps it will still come. How about yourself?
@Stoker2014... Re: Ukraine, lol - obviously assuming you are ukranian (forget if we chatted about this), so I suppose it's only naturally to love to bask in the glory of the mass media (fox, cnn, bloomberg, etc, etc) constantly saying "ukranians are awesome, give money to ukraine" and lap it up. But you have to remember - a lot of Russians are awesome too. As are a lot of Germans. It's the political figureheads (I wouldn't call them "leaders", because most don't "lead", but rather misdirect, pursue self interesting, lie cheat & steal for personal gain, etc - very controllable in fact and for the most part puppets by puppeteers behind the scenes)... But its the political figureheads that cause a lot of angst.
Sure you can write about "the war" - but... because the media & political figureheads lie so much and try and cause problems between races & people in general... why not focus on specifically what you observe? I.e., are you 'personally' writing from a laptop with planes & tanks crushing buildings? Or is that simply what "you heard" on "the news"? Do you personally see "russians" invading, or is it ukranians being paid a lot of money to wear russian uniforms and turning on their own people - becuase of "money" - by puppeteers behind the scenese (as actually happens in not only the ukraine, but a lot of different countries as well to try and cause dissent and strife)?
Now - it's not 'just' you - I do agree that unfortunately there do see a couple people here that seem to be massively brainwashed and if one says ANYTHING against what their television has told them they can talk about, they figuratively (and probably literally) have convulsions and froth at the mouth... kind of zombie like actually...
But anyways. I personally am interested in hearing things you 'personally' witness, and insights you may have into that.
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« on: June 07, 2025, 08:33 »
the way SS pays changed about 6 months ago if I remember correctly,however it was communicated via email.
in short,now once you reach the minimum monthly payment of $25 the balance is reset on the 3rd of the month,no longer on the 1st.
"your earnings calculated" email now arrives a few hours before receiving the payment,before it arrived a few days before,at least 24/48 hours before,now instead the email arrives a couple of hours before more or less.
the times have been a bit longer,in any case the payment always arrives before the 15th of the month.
then for me nothing has changed,total monthly earnings always appears at the top right near the "upload" button.
Thing is, I never received an e-mail, nor a payment. Yet, the amount has been deducted... Have you already gotten a payment?
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« on: June 06, 2025, 22:14 »
Funny you'd mention that. I noticed the same thing today. Haven't gotten any e-mail yet, but it seems to have been 'deducted' (the earnings).
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« on: June 06, 2025, 08:12 »
How much do you get from 1 video download and from 1 image download ? Thousands of downloads that you report seem very positive.
Based on my numbers (& estimating a little bit, because I'd have to do some extra math assuming their calculations are right, and I don't feel like doing that right now) - I'd guess between $0.15 and $0.25
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« on: June 05, 2025, 09:54 »
For me, it just seems to be a generic 'quality issues'. I far as I can tell, it is good quality (I do pre-edit, inspect, etc) - so I suspect it is just a 'quota' thing.
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« on: June 03, 2025, 17:27 »
Finally a better month following three consecutive poor months with $1300 on the microstocks and bit over $500 on YouTube for $1800 USD total for May 2025.
You made $500 on youtube, in adsense in a month? How many clips? That would be like... 71k views only?
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« on: May 29, 2025, 17:30 »
I'm kind of sad right now. My weekly earnings should be higher (actually much higher than yours right now) - but... sadly the last few months have been very low. Quite concerning, don't know why. But good job. Now I need to figure out how to get my earnings not only back where they should be, but improving significantly.
Thanks, since I started to create and upload almost only videos, my earnings have increased. For the images I take a couple of frames of my videos and upload them as is.
Yes, it's odd. I do videos as well in addition to images but my sales have gone down, which makes no sense. How many videos to you have?
I have about 2100 videos (motion graphics) and 6000 images.
My sales are gone down from 15/20 videos every month to almost 0 on Pond5, from may 2024, I don't know why, seems that my portfolio is hidden somewhere...
Yes, my Pond5 sales about 2 years ago dropped by about 90%. Then with the new "good news" from them about stealing another 25%, dropped (in addition to their "good news") about another 50%. For adobe, its concerning - this last week has been about 1/5th of what my sales normally would be. Quite concerning.
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« on: May 29, 2025, 07:21 »
I'm kind of sad right now. My weekly earnings should be higher (actually much higher than yours right now) - but... sadly the last few months have been very low. Quite concerning, don't know why. But good job. Now I need to figure out how to get my earnings not only back where they should be, but improving significantly.
Thanks, since I started to create and upload almost only videos, my earnings have increased. For the images I take a couple of frames of my videos and upload them as is.
Yes, it's odd. I do videos as well in addition to images but my sales have gone down, which makes no sense. How many videos to you have?
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« on: May 28, 2025, 18:05 »
Decent mid-week
I dont care about position, my focus is on earnings, maybe Im wrong, but it works for me 
I'm kind of sad right now. My weekly earnings should be higher (actually much higher than yours right now) - but... sadly the last few months have been very low. Quite concerning, don't know why. But good job. Now I need to figure out how to get my earnings not only back where they should be, but improving significantly.
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« on: May 23, 2025, 09:41 »
yes but stop pointing the finger at any specific culture,spam is done in any part of the world,as you said too.
Why? You seem to be missing the point. If 95% of your problems are caused by a specific region/culture/etc, why wouldn't you do something about it? It's like saying 'omfg! bank robbers are people too! Don't call them bank robbers! Call them financially challenged!' While yes - other people do it as WELL... The MAJORITY is caused by east indian/pakinstani/arabic spammers/scammers. That's why you have 'nigerian phone scams', and you say dont hear of... 'ukranian phone scams'... Or why people get phone calls from east indians posing as collection agencies/'tax authorities'/credit card companies/etc... and its not usually say... associated with people from barbados... because in general, people from those cultures do those things. there is a reason its called 'culture' - because its a set of habits people associated with it tend to do. Like if I say "Samurai Warrior" you probably don't think of a black midget samurai, you probably think of a Japanese samurai warrior... Or if I say "NBA basketball player" (lol while not technically a culture, more of a stereotype) - you probably don't think of 'omfg, those awesome east indian basketball players', but rather black (or sometimes white) basketball players... Anyways. Yes. The "ai" makes it SUPER easy for people with absolutely (or virtually) no creative/artistic skills, but with amazing stealing/theft/spam skills, to "compete" with people who do have skills.
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« on: May 23, 2025, 08:14 »
I have noticed that many accounts on shutterstock with stolen content from apps like Kinemaster....
And based on the portfolio names and account creation date, and same content in all account...Most of these accounts created by one person/same family members...
The worst part is that Shutterstock promoting these portfolios by keeping their content in first pages when you search "Green Screen".
Here is the list of portfolios...
https://www.shutterstock.com/g/Laju+King/video
https://www.shutterstock.com/g/Muhammad-Yousaf/video
...
It's also possible that it actually is 'different' guys - because sometimes one guy will brag about how much $$$ he is getting, and then 'share' a complete set of links and others do the same. (Sometimes on youtube, sometimes on facebook, sometimes other areas). You could be right that it is just one guy - but it could also possibly be multiple individuals spamming stolen accounts. And for cobalt/F8/zeljok that like to get morally outraged - look @ the names of the accounts. What nationality does it look like? Hmm. Thinking cap time. As for WHY shutterstock doesn't do anything... My guess is because they don't care - and they get more $$$. They only care if it affects their $$$.
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« on: May 23, 2025, 08:12 »
it's always better now with submission limits.
a few days ago i was reading about someone who uploads 100 contents a day,sometimes getting rejections of 90% but other times rejections of 50% or less,so in the end he gets approvals for more than a thousand contents per month,which in my opinion is too much.
it's too much because sending 100 contents a day means that these contents are poorly made,from every point of view,even from the indexing point of view,because there simply isn't enough time to create and send 100 contents a day.
Even if you use an AI for indexing,the results should be checked,because there are many errors in the generated results,and so,whoever uploads 100 contents a day only creates a big mess in the library and sends contents without actually creating anything,imo.
these limits are necessary,so I'm happy that they have finally been implemented.
Unfortunately - submission limits don't really 'hurt' anyone except for 'honest' people... The east indian/arabic spammers/scammers find different ways - and in fact - I think it was actually ON this forum (or maybe it was in discord) that one east indian BRAGGED about how he was simply getting CHILDREN to give them his "id" (he paid them I think $5) - so he could create MULTIPLE accounts (at that time I think he bragged about having 10 accounts) - and submit that way. Look @ country of registration. Pakistani/East Indian? Reject - or put severe limits on the account until it has been 'proven'. Do the same thing CREDIT card companies do. They don't blindly accept ANY transaction for fear of being accused of being "racist". They care about $$$. And they KNOW its a poor risk to accept certain transactions from certain countries, and/or certain nationalities. That being said - sadly now a lot have been 'imported' into Canada & the US to run the same types of spam/scam operations... so not 'as' easy - but still doable. SUPER easy way of stopping the spam/scamming - and yes, it is primarily east indians/pakistanis + several of the arab nations. Of course OTHER people do it too - but in general significantly much less than these particular cultures seeking 'get rich quick' schemes...
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« on: May 23, 2025, 08:05 »
The ignore button, so useful
Where do I find that button? I can see it could come in handy.
Lower right of a post. next to report to moderator.
You can reverse it anytime. Sometimes I do, then I usually put trolls back on ignore.
Makes life a lot easier.
lol trolls are people like f8/zeljok/and sometimes you too cobalt, who ... instead of thinking, have conditinoed like pavlovian dogs and acting 'morally righteous' to ignore the obvious. stating a fact, the fact being that east indians/pakistanis in general are stealing your portfolios, is not 'trolling'. but - ALL of you should stop whining like little children then when your content DOES get stolen, because... it seems - you think by pretending it doesn't happen and being 'morally outraged' that somehow magically that fixes things. it doesn't. stop accepting people who don't have ethics, and in general - yes, east indians/pakistanis, and many of the arab states. that's just how they "do business". its their "culture". get educated on it. it will help you.
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« on: May 21, 2025, 09:45 »
To lack of education I would also add below average IQ level. But it's better to stay away from such topics and focus on positive discussion instead
Personal attacks? Sounds like you are lacking in IQ, not I, just a way for you to avoid thinking because you are throwing a childish tantrum. When you are ready to think like an adult, let me know. Name calling is such a waste of time, and just shows your lack of intellect. Did you even BOTHER to investigate any of the statements? (Rhetorical question based on your response). You really should try thinking. It's good for you.
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« on: May 21, 2025, 09:42 »
Exactly which of the 22 official languages in "East" India are you referring to?
Your rant is racist and shows your complete lack of education as well.
Sigh. Quite an ad hominem response from an unedjoocated delerict. You & others who simply pretend to be moral grandstanders screaming 'racism', when logic fails for you. An empty accusation to avoid thinking. Did you even BOTHER to think, & look into it? Why do you get so 'triggered' instead of thinking? Is it because the t.v. didn't give you permission to do so? Anyways, start with Hindi & Punjabi. Punjabs tend to do more of the theft & stealing, but certain parts of Gujarat aren't much better. (In fairness I should add pakistanis tend to have the same kind of 'business ethics', or lack thereof).
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« on: May 20, 2025, 19:00 »
What concerns me is this "Your submission limit is based on a variety of factors related to your account, performance and approval rates. " Especially the last one when we have all been on the rejection roulette wheel.
Telling us there is going to be a submission limit that is based on an individual "calculation" does not help us plan our workflow without given us our individual information. What exactly do they mean by "performance" as well???
What has my "account" got to do with my uploading ability? We all have "accounts" some upload, some download, some upload and download, some only have software. It is our registration with Adobe .... does that information have bearing on our ability to upload? In other words priority will be given to those who have the newest version of the software and both buy and sell? Clarity is needed or it is just more obfuscating!
Lol - since it seems everyone's "approval" rates were like 20-30%... I'm assuming recent roulette things don't necessarily factor in, because "everyone" would fall into that category... I suspect Adobe was like "Holy $hit we have a lot of crap submitted in the last few months... Okay - we seriously need to clean up this $hit, and do something about it going forward". I suspect "that" is what the massive rejection rate was all about, esp. because now they have said for new submissions they are going to throttle it a bit based on past performance, etc... Which probably means people with 5000 pineapple images will no longer be able to spam 5000 pineapples.. or the people who consistently spammed 15 finger pictures now won't be able to continue spamming that - and might actually need to 'edit' images first...
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« on: May 20, 2025, 18:56 »
this is another good move against spam.
Yes it is. And absolutely no room for racism of any sort.
But it lacks clarity. Why not just explain what's going on. Individually Pro-rated based on rejections, port quality (?), number of downloads, date when Everest was first climbed, ... Adobe is great agency and very successful, but would be even better with bit more transparency
Lol, definitely not 'racist'. See above comment. And why you don't join some east indian forums to SEE what they are doing. OR. Learn to speak the language. OR. If you are too lazy to do that - use an equivalent google translate to see what they are doing. Lol - its EXACTLY what they are doing. And the SUPER funny thing is - pretty much every culture except 'european/caucasian' cultures have NO issues of being what you define as "racist" whatsoever. Unfortunatley - schooling, and "edjookashun" have taught you to be that way... and you don't even realize that. Anyways. Simple solution. a) Look @ country of registration. b) Look @ date of registration. c) Look @ how much spam is produced. And... while it is more work to reference "family" accounts (more work) - look @ the "race" aka "culture" there. The east indian CULTURE (in general) is basically to see how much you can scam&spam all at once. The arabic CULTURE is a little different - but in many ways similar - if you can scam someone - its just considered you are a 'good businessman' and the person you 'scammed' was too dumb to know the difference. BTW - do you know just how many arabic people LOVE to bully people in business (i.e., real estate as an example) - and then cry the "OMFG! RACIST!" card if someone calls them out on their bullying tactics? Anyways. It's a cultural thing. It's just what they do. So if one wants to stop the spam/scam/stealing of entire portfolios, dont' accept registrations from those cultures. And fun fact - its pretty much only "western" cultures that have been "trained" to act that way. "They" would have no issues whatsoever taking stuff from you - and its part of the reason why so many people 'cry' in this forum that 'OMFG! ANOTHER PERSON STEALING A PORTFOLIO!"... look @ the account holder name - they are so lazy many times they don't even bother disguising it. Anyways. It's just a fact.
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« on: May 20, 2025, 18:49 »
@SuperPhoto
your speech sounds a little racist.
let's just say that those who upload a lot get a lot of rejections,especially these days with the new review.
so those who upload a lot start to lower their submission limit.
this is another good move against spam.
Lol, not racist, its the truth. Sad though you feel the need to "label" something instead of observing the simple truth that is right in your face... BUT... that's what 20 years of "schooling" is for, not to "educate" you nor to get you to think for your self - but - for your masters to tell you how to respond and train you like a pavlovian dog. But... you don't seem to see that. Again. something staring you right in front of your face.
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« on: May 20, 2025, 15:23 »
To solve the problem, why not apply these criteria:
Is it an east indian/arabic spammer? Doesn't reside in the USA/Canada (sadly though a good portion of both east india & saudia arabia has been relocated to canada & the usa the last couple years, so perhaps also do it based on whether or not they are east indian).? Account created on or after January 2023 when "ai" was announced? Mmkay. Limit 10 items.
Problem solved.
I'd say (very educated guess based on actually having seen certain stats), 90% of the "problems" are from those two specific groups, esp. after 2023.
(Not to mention of course, them finding other ways to spam by making 10 accounts each w/10 family members, 10 friends, etc, or just stealing complete portfolios from other places and trying to pass it off as their own).
Simply because:
a) They (in general) don't care about quality, so you get the 6-7 fingers, 2 eiffel towers, etc, etc. They just want MONEY MONEY and spam as fast as they can.
b) Not just for photos/videos, etc - doing the same thing on amazon. I'm part of several author groups and you wouldn't believe the amount of crap in general they post - because they want to get rich quick with amazon stuff. Titles like "How to masturb___e better, step by step techniques", or "History of The Florida Eiffel Tower", or just chatgpt spam using prompts like "Write me a 200 page book, complete with pictures, title page, and table of contents, on __subject__". Amazon for the most part seems to be accepting the garbage (they don't care, as long as they get paid) - but if the east indian/arabic spammer gets too extreme, then they deacivate the acct - and usually the east indian/arabic spammers come in crying wondering 'what happened'. Some of them even completely rip of well known company titles say like Disney titles, and try and makei it "Snow White and the Eight Dwarfs" or "Alice in Wonderland Part II", and act all confused why amazon has an issue with blatant copyright violations.
THAT is the group causing the most problems - so - simply limit it to 10 submissions from them. IF they prove they don't steal, take time to make sure there's not 7 fingers, etc - gradually increase it. But right now that's a lot more work than its worth - and most don't usually improve - they just look at a new way to 'spam/scam/steal' in the system.
Thanks.
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« on: May 20, 2025, 10:05 »
Twitter ended up cancelling monetisation payments to a number of India based accounts because of the spamming. They were acting as group viewing, liking retweeting each others tweets, tweets were mostly nonsense.
Not really related but genuine twitter posters saw their earnings reduced.
Well, that is where most of the spam/theft comes from. a) They (in general) don't care about quality, so you get the 6-7 fingers, 2 eiffel towers, etc, etc. They just want MONEY MONEY and spam as fast as they can. b) Not just for photos, etc - doing the same thing on amazon. I'm part of several author groups and you wouldn't believe the amount of crap in general they post - because they want to get rich quick with amazon stuff. Titles like "How to masturb___e better, step by step techniques", or "History of The Florida Eiffel Tower", or just chatgpt spam using prompts like "Write me a 200 page book, complete with pictures, title page, and table of contents, on __subject__". Amazon for the most part seems to be accepting the garbage (they don't care, as long as they get paid) - but if the east indian/arabic spammer gets too extreme, then they deacivate the acct - and usually the east indian/arabic spammers come in crying wondering 'what happened'. Some of them even completely rip of well known company titles say like Disney titles, and try and makei it "Snow White and the Eight Dwarfs" or "Alice in Wonderland Part II", and act all confused why amazon has an issue with blatant copyright violations. THAT is the group causing the most problems - so - simply limit it to 10 submissions from them. IF they prove they don't steal, take time to make sure there's not 7 fingers, etc - gradually increase it. But right now that's a lot more work than its worth - and most don't usually improve - they just look at a new way to 'spam/scam/steal' in the system.
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« on: May 20, 2025, 09:39 »
Easiest solution is:
Is it an east indian/arabic spammer? Doesn't reside in the USA/Canada? Account created on or after January 2023 when "ai" was announced? Mmkay. Limit 10 items.
Problem solved.
I'd say (very educated guess based on actually having seen certain stats), 90% of the "problems" are from those two specific groups, esp. after 2023.
(Not to mention of course, them finding other ways to spam by making 10 accounts each w/10 family members, 10 friends, etc, or just stealing complete portfolios from other places and trying to pass it off as their own).
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« on: May 20, 2025, 07:47 »
Ugh.
a) The "giving pledge" I think is the WEF/UN/crap (run by the people who did the convid scam). Yeah, bill melinda gates foundation garbage.
b) eyeroll to seeing the 'buzzwords' "sustainability", "inclusive capitalisim" (what), used by some of the other 'plegers'... and lol - read this letter by the canva people, the planet is not "dying" (fyi, planet has been around a lot longer then they have), but funny.
If one has incredible wealth - it is much better to CREATE your OWN organization and direct those funds - instead of giving it to some random strange. Many of the so-called charities/foundations/etc actually do a lot of evil (more accurately, the executives at the top). So instead of 'giving away' your wealth - create your own organization and do something with it. SOOOOOOO very stupid.
And yes, agree with the above post. Pay creators, don't steal from them.
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« on: May 13, 2025, 09:59 »
So how is the start of everyone's week looking right now?
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