When these things happenning I think that it is really the end�

I never use my mobile phone to take pictures, but last week I have decided to make a little experiment.
So I took three picture with an old Moto G2 with a very bad 8 Mpixels camera, and after a little post production I have uploaded them on Shutterstock, just to see what will happen.

Well, all three have been accepted.
I am speechless!

I attach some crop @100% of the images.

Really, today they accept even this $hit (noise, artifact, blurred/out of focus, etc.)?

When these things happenning I think that it is really the end�

I never use my mobile phone to take pictures, but last week I have decided to make a little experiment.
So I took three picture with an old Moto G2 with a very bad 8 Mpixels camera, and after a little post production I have uploaded them on Shutterstock, just to see what will happen.

Well, all three have been accepted.
I am speechless!

I attach some crop @100% of the images.

Really, today they accept even this $hit (noise, artifact, blurred/out of focus, etc.)?

It is likely that SS is damaging its global reputation, by accepting crap.

However, I wonder if you can actually damage your personal reputation (with some buyers at least), when you lower standards.
Hard to tell.
But I can imagine that some buyers can stop coming back to look for fresh stuff from a specific author (validated through previous purchases), when the "fresh stuff" is, in fact, just "fresh crap".

Last week I checked one of my decent-selling niches, and found that out of the 100 images on page 1 of most popular, 80�EIGHTY�were simple vectors from one new contributor. They were all slight variations of the same drawing. All 80 pushing the high-quality best-selling images right off the front page.

But now someone will tell me I must have been wearing a tinfoil hat at the time, or that these EIGHTY nearly identical drawings were popular because customers really needed 80 almost identical vectors, not because SS is purposely pushing lower-royalty images to the front and killing higher-royalty sales.

Believe it or not - in some ways the new "crap" is becoming the new "quality" - simply because *so* many amateur photographers "take pictures" and consider themselves a "photographer" - these are the people going into the work force, being hired - and the ones making the decisions on what images to buy.

They are more "familiar" with crap-style images, because it "feels" comfortable/what they are used to when they take pictures -therefore they judge it to be more "natural" and "accepted"...

So........ that's why it is being accepted, and that is why people are buying them.

First it was accepting fuzzy small cell phone photos from a tiny plastic lens. Realistic / authentic my ass. Then retro Polaroid and film flare, filters from Hell. If this crap is actually selling better, that's even worse news?

My mocking, in calling this kind of junk Crapstock was just a joke, now it's real. 

I cannot disagree with anyone. But. Just a question. Chichikov why did you submit these? just curious. and are you gonna delete them? And as a side Note some of my current "last year or so" Best sellers are cellphone Pics and Trust I NEVER thought I would say that.. Theres a lot of very good tricks and also some amazing apps for cellphones.if you use a off camera shutter release. DA Voice 5 Bucks. and a hand held monopod. Don't touch it and you would be surprised.tapping On the darn thing is what kills it.

The answer is at end of the second line of my first post
I was just curious to understand with my own experience, and my own bad photo, how bad it has became today.

I know that some smartphones have a good camera and can give good results. But her we are speaking of photos shot with a really bad (and old) one.

Now I will wait some time (one month?) to see if one of these images will sell (I hope not - lol)
Then I will delete them.

Vote Adobe.

Whatever happened to the guy with 30,000 photos of a bag of pot?  Is he still there?

I think he moved to Colorado and is now eating his props.

It's interesting with SS.  For many years their standards were way higher than what buyers care about based on images I see in ads or hanging on the walls of businesses.  Now they have gone too far the other way.  I assume their thinking is that with their amazing search algorithms the buyers will decide so that the cream rises to the top and the dreck sinks into oblivion.  Either that or they just got tired of hearing contributors whine about rejections.  Be careful what you wish for.

Chichikov!!     god help you mate if you start a thread like this! BEWARE! soon you have the entire amateur ghostbusting brigade telling you, you are lying, scheaming and   imagining things!

You are right though they accept anything and I mean anything since they are surviving and relying on these sort of members and images. Pictures means assets and the more assets the better, especially in the eyes of the share-holders.

Its common knowledge but I recon 70% of their entire library could go into the dustbin. Same with all agencies actually.

Shutterstock is selling every year more and more to customers. For sure nothing going wrong. Nobody destroys his own company.

This is just a typical thread that people assume that own images are the best by saying other new ones are crap. Also they want shutterstock for themselves. You can always submit on Stocksy or similar sites if you think.your images are so amazing.

Shutterstock is selling every year more and more to customers. For sure nothing going wrong. Nobody destroys his own company.

This is just a typical thread that people assume that own images are the best by saying other new ones are crap. Also they want shutterstock for themselves. You can always submit on Stocksy or similar sites if you think.your images are so amazing.

Why you think Stocksy or Offset are any different in the core?? haha man you want to take some business classes!..." destrying ones own company"  ones own??  its not its thousands of share-holders which puts a completely different angle on every single thing! and as Paws say! it might just suit them and for various reasons to accept any old image, god knows its paying off!

Shutterstock is selling every year more and more to customers. For sure nothing going wrong. Nobody destroys his own company.

This is just a typical thread that people assume that own images are the best by saying other new ones are crap. Also they want shutterstock for themselves. You can always submit on Stocksy or similar sites if you think.your images are so amazing.

https://www.dreamstime.com/poznan-poland-february-cover-humana-organic-baby-food-jar-wooden-table-humana-organic-baby-food-image110969228

not even white balance and exposure correct...and you talk about quality? portfolio like yours show the level reached by microstock.