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General Stock Discussion / Re: Yes, you can make up to 10 cents a day in the Microstock industry
« on: February 05, 2022, 22:30 »
I made a dollar a day once. Them were't days.
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General Stock Discussion / Re: Yes, you can make up to 10 cents a day in the Microstock industry« on: February 05, 2022, 22:30 »
I made a dollar a day once. Them were't days.
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General Stock Discussion / Re: Your top 5 places where you Sell vectors ?« on: January 29, 2022, 18:13 »
No GraphicRiver?
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General Stock Discussion / Re: NFTs and License Terms« on: January 27, 2022, 01:05 »
Yes, that's the one! It was essentially exactly the same as a charity auction... just that none of the money went to charity!* But you get all of the below, plus the NFT and the physical display/box etc. It went for $177,777 in the end.
"In the case of Murray's NFT they also get two tickets to Centre Court for the 2022 men's Wimbledon finals, a chance to play tennis with the 34-year-old and signed souvenirs". *JUst seen this bit, so some of the money went to charity: "WENEW will receive a portion of the proceeds, but the majority will go to the people involved in making the moment". 179
General Stock Discussion / Re: NFTs and License Terms« on: January 26, 2022, 18:52 »
One NFT was by a tennis person and you got to shoot some tennis with them on the Wimbledon pitch for an hour or so. Can't remember who, I don't know the names. Maybe the Scottish one. Or the slightly older English one.
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General Stock Discussion / Re: NFTs and License Terms« on: January 26, 2022, 13:22 »Are there actually any NFTs for anything physical? Beeple sometimes includes physical items with his NFT's... https://niftygateway.com/itemdetail/primary/0xd92e44ac213b9ebda0178e1523cc0ce177b7fa96/2 Most are all just digital but I've heard of quite a few with physical stuff as well. 181
Shutterstock.com / Re: 10 cent SODs?« on: January 26, 2022, 13:16 »Who cares what Shutterstock are paying, because whatever it is, anyone with half a brain can see that Jon Oringer and his side kick Stan Pavlovskare are ripping off those who upload. Ok, I'll ask myself. Is 10c acceptable? Well you need to qualify it with a timescale to start with, or it means absolutely nothing. But hey, that's not important right... who cares if anything we say works or makes sense... as long as we can proudly shout our anger from the rooftops to anyone who will listen, right?! But I digress... ok, 10c a second are we going for? That works for me! 10c a sale after expenses? Well that generates Coca Cola billions of dollars a year... so 10c sounds wonderful! But let's go out on a limb and assume you're taking about the most common lowest denominator when it comes to earnings... per hour. Ok... so full time that would equate to $17.33 month. That's a pretty terrible salary. But we don't get a salary. You know that, right? Also, hardly anybody earns less than $17 a month (unless they have a super small portfolio or only submit to all the wrong agencies), and SS aren't paying us 10c an hour. Or anything 'an hour' to be fair. You can pull out your false equivalencies all you like, and you're welcome to hate SS and not submit to them, but there's no need to keep banging on about it at any opportunity. You're like the stereotypical embodiment of a vegan... Me: Hello, do have the time? You: Jon Oringer is a Crook Me: Erm... what?! I think you should remove all your content from SS to reduce your stress levels and avoid being seen as a hypocrite. Take up yoga, try some meditation, cut down on your Microstock Group visits and you'll probably reduce your odds of hypertension considerably. *I've not really encountered this stereotype and I think there's nothing wrong with being a vegan... just to be clear. 182
Shutterstock.com / Re: Drop in sales - is it only me?...« on: January 26, 2022, 03:53 »
I really do hope that's aimed at H2O! I had hoped the severity of the comment would make it clear I was being sarcastic, while also giving H2O a 'dose of his own medicine', while also highlighting the irony of his severe aversion to SS even though he still sells his content there! 183
Shutterstock.com / Re: Drop in sales - is it only me?...« on: January 25, 2022, 18:13 »
Oh and I made Level 1 instantly. What can I say... I'm just that good!
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Shutterstock.com / Re: Drop in sales - is it only me?...« on: January 25, 2022, 18:12 »
You still have your portfolio on SS?! My God, man... I can't believe you're contributing to the wealth of Jon and Stan and are supporting their criminal ways by allowing them to sell your content and get richer off it. Where are your morals... your ethics?! You should be ashamed of yourself. 185
Newbie Discussion / Re: Happy SS Reset« on: January 24, 2022, 09:41 »
To be fair, they've mathematically engineered it so you don't get less than 10 cents (i.e. if a Level 5 is still getting 10 cents, that means a Level 1 should be getting less than 4 cents if they're purely going on percentages). While that's far from a positive thing, I guess it is... well... something.
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General Stock Discussion / Re: NFTs and License Terms« on: January 23, 2022, 13:08 »What I would be interested in and where NFTs would make sense to me is if the contract is written that every time the NFT is resold I get a percentage. That's how most of the marketplaces do it... the original author gets 10% of any future sales, so it can amount to several times the original cost of the item. Especially if they increase in value over time. 'With real copyright protection...' would be the thing though. Unless there's something going on that I've not heard about, that doesn't really exist at the moment. The much-vaunted decentralized nature of the blockchain, and the lack of oversight, regulation and middlemen might be a good thing for financial freedom and impartiality... but it means that anybody can easily mint and sell anything, whether it belongs to them or not. 188
iStockPhoto.com / Re: Views versus sales, what is your ratio« on: January 19, 2022, 18:09 »
About 25%, give or take.
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iStockPhoto.com / Re: December sales are in« on: January 19, 2022, 18:08 »
Yeah, second best month of the year for me... was quite surprised as December and January are usually my worst months.
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Shutterstock.com / Re: SS annual plan fraud« on: January 12, 2022, 03:38 »
Fighting fraud with fraud... that's the way to do it!
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Shutterstock.com / Re: I reached level 2 today! How is your progress?« on: January 12, 2022, 03:34 »I don't submit to thieves so I could care less what level I am on! You couldn't care less... i.e. it would not be possible for you to care any less, about what level you are on, than you do currently. 192
Adobe Stock / Re: Property releases for illustrations« on: January 09, 2022, 22:12 »
What's odd about it?
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Shutterstock.com / Re: I reached level 2 today! How is your progress?« on: January 09, 2022, 13:52 »I watch someone's videos on YouTube where he looks inside large abandoned houses in Canada that had been empty for years. He never seems to run out of houses to explore. I wouldn't take that to mean anything significant though. Is it Abandoned Urbex Canada? If it is then I mean, 14m houses in Canada, 86 videos total... that's 0.0006% of total houses in Canada. 194
General Stock Discussion / Re: 7 Reasons Why Microstock Photography is (Probably) a Waste of Your Time« on: January 09, 2022, 13:40 »
That's a hell of a lot better! The thing with deep fakes though, is you're applying an actual face into an actual scene... I'm not sure they've ever done it with a CG face. The reason it can look so real, and will continue to improve until it's indistinguishable in a very shot period is that you're just cutting out a real face and sticking it on someone else's face. To create an entirely new face out of nothing is a lot harder. But yeah, 10 years might be overly pessimistic. or optimistic... whichever way you look at it!
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General Stock Discussion / Re: 7 Reasons Why Microstock Photography is (Probably) a Waste of Your Time« on: January 09, 2022, 05:47 »
They look impressive, but only from a distance! Strange hair and wonky eyes. While it's heading in the right direction, and I have no doubt they'll be indistinguishable from a real human in ten years or so, they're not quite there yet. And you'd have to add fake shadows when comping them in a scene which is notoriously difficult to do well. Interesting stuff though.
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General Stock Discussion / Re: Selling digital drawings« on: January 05, 2022, 22:49 »
While plenty of people are making money from EFT's, I'd say the majority aren't. If you're famous, or have 100k plus followers on IG, then you might do pretty well.... but I really can't see the average guy on the street making all that much, if anything, from them. Aside from maybe a handful of rare exceptions.
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General Stock Discussion / Re: Selling digital drawings« on: January 05, 2022, 03:42 »
I think you'll find it's 0.02 to 0.25 ETH... which would make it $90 to $950.
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Shutterstock.com / Re: First full year of the "levels"« on: January 04, 2022, 13:17 »Agencies and Designers are not going to be buying from a company that shafts their contributors. Well the last full year of revenue before they were shafting us... was $623m. And the first full year of revenue after they started shafting us was $666m. Not to mention the totals for 2021 are looking to be even higher. So did these agencies and designers not get the memo, or are they just still willingly buying from a company that shafts their contributors? 199
Shutterstock.com / Re: First full year of the "levels"« on: January 03, 2022, 08:16 »
I may be the anomaly, but the reality for 99% of contributors to SS is that they earn money from being on SS... and 100% of those that aren't on SS, don't earn money from SS.
If you think that there's been some kind of, or will be some kind of, mass exodus of buyers from SS due to a relatively small percentage of contributors leaving (or that lost earnings from SS will automatically be made up elsewhere), then you might be the one who is being naive. Sure, my earnings might dwindle over time... they might at any agency, and that can be reviewed on an ongoing basis, but in the meantime I'm earning money from the time I'm spending uploading, so nothing will come back to bite me. And they're not dwindling now... I made a decent amount more last year then I did the year before. And if you think my post was 'talking up' SS then... well, that's just strange. 200
Shutterstock.com / Re: First full year of the "levels"« on: January 03, 2022, 02:47 »Anyone who is still uploading to help these two is insane. I completely agree, anyone who is still uploading to help these two might very well be insane. But you'll find that the majority of people are still uploading to help themselves (rather than those two)... which is considerably less insane. Them getting rich is only a side effect of something I do that benefits me, it's not why I do it. |
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