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Unsplash Is Officially Dead — Here Are the Smarter Alternatives
In the last few weeks, Unsplash doubled down on its losing strategy. It created a mass exodus.
When a great company gets bought by a big company it dies.
Big corporations only understand dollars, not users. It’s annoying as f*ck. Time and time again acquisitions happen and the original business is destroyed. Photo site Unsplash got bought by Getty Images.
It took less than a year to wipe them out.
Why Unsplash kicked ass
Before Unsplash the world was full of stock photo sites.
The images were typically cheesy. There’d be like a dude in a suit jumping in the air and pretending to love his job. It got boring real fast.
Unsplash came on the scene. Anyone could take a beautiful photo with their camera and upload it for free. These images became a honey pot for online writers who needed a nice picture under their headline.
For years Unsplash had the market cornered. They could do no wrong.
The acquisition from hell
Then Getty Images bought Unsplash and it took no time at all for them to stamp their unique flavor of sh*t…
