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Yeah, again, inside the post I don't mind that much, but at least put some effort on the cover and creating your own identity.
It's funny, some times I'm like "didn't I vote this post already?"

That's true. Some dump whatever they want without considering the general impact on their content. It kind of shows one's personality.

Like you, I often say, "damn, didn't he/she already use this a million times already?"

It also is a down side of using only free stock images. They are just a handful so people ends up using the same ones. Now with free AI, just by stating it is AI generated, people could create nice covers too.

Another truth. I think it's a matter of how we utilize what's available to us and at least add our own personality to it.

I just like creating my own templates and using them for a while with some element that varies, and then create another one, like my posts have seasons haha

And that is being creative, making things your own :)