I the recent months I've seen a high number of regional sales, I have a feeling that they did something to algorithms to cause this, like to show buyers from a certain region images from contributors from the same region. Does that make sense? Anyone else notice it? And I'm not talking about region specific images. It could be a sheer luck but still I find it strange.

No I haven't. Doesn't mean it's not true. Could be that you have regionally oriented images and they are featured, while mine are not?

Random when I felt like saving a screen every couple weeks, this year.



Humans tend to see patterns in their mind, where there are no patterns. That's why we are creative, inventive and can visualize. Most animals are mostly instinctive. If I say to you, think of the song, Eleanore Rigby, can you hear it and the lyrics, from memory?

https://www.rmg.co.uk/discover/explore/the-moon/man-in-the-moon-faces

Why do we see a face on the moon or other patterns? Why do humans see constellations? Why do stock artist looking at a map see download patterns, with a limited 20 dot map? 

It's strange cause I'm from Serbia and as you imagine it isn't a particularly developed marketplace for stock images, well until recently it seems.
Maybe they are experimenting with small markets only, who knows, yet it's really strange to me.