It's huge news. Other big players are joining in. Buyers will be annoyed as hell.
Jon says he does not want our content on Twitter. That goes for the big players too.

My conspiracy theory is that Facebook is about to buy Shutterstock and wants the prices pushed down so that they can give our stock assets away to their advertisers.

That's why FB was so quick to gag the Inside Imaging article. Also would explain why SS seems to have lost the plot wrt to dealing with their contributors. It's FB pulling their strings now.

How do you know that? It is interesting. Because I got an impression that FB blocked that article automatically alerted by word boycott.
Regarding AfricaStudio, it is big news indeed. I wanted to compare it with YuriArcurs decision to leave years ago, but I think it is even bigger having in mind the sensitivity of the situation.

I was thinking Adobe wanted to buy Shutterstock, but Facebook makes more sense.

An impending sale or merger makes sense, because the immediate effect of the change in payout would be Shutterstock suddenly looking a lot more profitable on paper.  Not for long, but, maybe for long enough.

That is HUGE!

These big guys deserve props for taking decisive action - it would be so much easier for them to leave their ports on and just stop submitting, and try to wring whatever�s left!

Makes me wonder if SS DIDNT make any special deals with ANYONE.
They really are taking a TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT stance.

Ja, that's what they tried to sell us, right? The word "boycott" did not appear in that article. They went pretty quiet after that. Did you note that the second article by chance did? I managed to forward that on my profile no problem. It's still up on my FB account - no auto algorithm stuff there.

Try it for yourself.

My guess is that they worked overtime to squash the story that way. Nah, guys, it was just these fools not knowing how our automatic algorithm works . . .

Note that the whole thread disappeared on our FB page? That was after I asked them some really hard questions.

Spooky stuff.

You are right, really spooky. Thanks for gathering all the info.

That is HUGE!

These big guys deserve props for taking decisive action - it would be so much easier for them to leave their ports on and just stop submitting, and try to wring whatever�s left!

Makes me wonder if SS DIDNT make any special deals with ANYONE.
They really are taking a TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT stance.

It is not how big productions work. They can't stop working just like that. They have a lot of expenses, employees, models,
photographers, contracts, offices, debts for equipment, props, vehicles etc. They are better finding another agency, My guess they will go Getty exclusive now.

Uncle Pete, I have no idea why would anybody not believe me. I'm 55 years old, professional photographer, feeding my family, high school educated. Why would I come to a forum with a fake news?

It wasn't not believing, it was a matter of making it easy to see that 0 = zero. Just like the screen captures of Jon's tweets. For the record, in case anyone went to look... they don't have to go look. I went and searched all over Twitter, found nothing. So lets say something changes? OK here's a picture of what it looked like.  Nothing personal.

That is HUGE!

These big guys deserve props for taking decisive action - it would be so much easier for them to leave their ports on and just stop submitting, and try to wring whatever�s left!

Makes me wonder if SS DIDNT make any special deals with ANYONE.
They really are taking a TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT stance.

We'll never know, but I had a few people say they "heard" about the email. I asked some pretty successful artist friends and not one said that they got that email with the special offer. Which was supposed to be, old rates until January 2021.

Anyone here who got the email?

Quote from: pics2 on June 24, 2020, 07:22

Uncle Pete, I have no idea why would anybody not believe me. I'm 55 years old, professional photographer, feeding my family, high school educated. Why would I come to a forum with a fake news?

It wasn't not believing, it was a matter of making it easy to see that 0 = zero. Just like the screen captures of Jon's tweets. For the record, in case anyone went to look... they don't have to go look. I went and searched all over Twitter, found nothing. So lets say something changes? OK here's a picture of what it looked like.  Nothing personal.

I know, don't worry, not a big deal

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Posted in the other thread but I'll post it here too. I just noticed the �SSTK paid out $1B to creators� in the screen capture

Nice semantic trick he's pulling now they managed to rebrand themselves from being agents (which in any meaningful way is what they have always been).

I think he means artists have paid out many billions of dollars to Shutterstock for marketing their work for them and $1B to him personally. What an ingrate.

If you believe in conspiracy theories - take a look at this thread.
Somehow I missed the response between the two last posts when I was screen grabbing.

Then "poof" the whole thread went missing. Gone from the group FB page.
Apparently, if you are the thread creator on FB, if you delete it all disappears.
Our "Facebook employee" took their own thread down when I called them out.

What do you guys make of this?

If you believe in conspiracy theories - take a look at this thread.
Somehow I missed the response between the two last posts when I was screen grabbing.

Then "poof" the whole thread went missing. Gone from the group FB page.
Apparently, if you are the thread creator on FB, if you delete it all disappears.
Our "Facebook employee" took their own thread down when I called them out.

What do you guys make of this?

why black out the name? which group is this,?