Do shutterstock inspectors ever look at keywords ?
They are so picky about caption for editorial but keywords it appears anything goes.
Has anybody ever had a rejection for keywords at shutterstock.

I don't think they do. I've only has stockfresh ask me to amend my keywords once and I think IS do that also.

I've had images rejected for keyword amendments at IS but never anywhere else......

Druid

Once last year as a noob, but I really keyword spammed it. Now, never, but I also don't spam, I usually just add 4-5 that i wouldn't on IS, since they'd probably reject it for irrelevant keywords (though they're never completely irrelevant).