The news said that the US went into recession, this is going to make the situation worse in every way and in this microstock..../

more fake news - 2 bad quarters is NOT a recession.

Since 1978 the N.B.E.R. has had a standing group of experts called the Business Cycle Dating Committee, which decides � with a lag � when a recession began and ended based on multiple criteria, including employment, industrial production and so on. And the U.S. government accepts those rulings. So the official definition of a recession is that it is a period that the committee has declared a recession; it�s an expert judgment call, not a formula.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/26/opinion/recession-gdp-economy-nber.html

Sorry to be harsh but the quality from micros has gone from mediocre to garbage The only ones that supply to micros nowadays are bad photographers that do not find any demand of their images from no clients and amateurs that they really don't care if they make a few hundred or a few thousand a year

But as a pro endeavor any field in pro photography is much much more lucrative than stock photography or video. It is what it is.

I think it was the transition from editors at traditional stock agencies to inspectors at micro agencies that created this. Once upon a time a 10% acceptance rate after an editor or editors went through your work was considered good. Now if you get a few images rejected by an inspector it becomes a complete forum whine festival. The result is there is so much content to the point of saturation death and you get a lot of great work mixed with a lot of junk work.

That said, I am old school, and I recently took a shot with really horrible side light, nothing to be proud of in any way. Fifteen years ago I would have never even considered taking that crap shot, today I will take that crap shot and upload it. It has become one of my top sellers on SS. Each and every time it sells I scratch my head.

The old days are gone for sure, and the new days don't look promising at all, but what I do know is I will soldier on and be very thankful my career is behind me.