I think it is, to be honest.
I have run into a lot of unprofessional "photographers" who simply do bad work - poor exposure (under/over on everything); have slanted horizons; add super big, super dark vignettes to everything; have super grainy photos because they try too hard to make an HDR out of something that shouldn't be an HDR; etc, etc, etc.
And these people are all popular. There is this one guy I had a reaaaaaally bad run-in with this weekend and he has nearly 500 fans on his Facebook page. Why? I don't know. Everything he posts is super dark, is poorly edited, and a lot of it has camera shake or is simply out of focus... But people tell him how "great" his stuff is, and he is invited to photograph events (probably because he does them for free!).
And he's super unprofessional in demeanor as well!
(We both took photos at the same public event last year. His were all as I described, and mine were, well, better... He is friends with the event staff, so when I posted a link to mine on the Facebook page, he had them delete the link... 3 times. Then this year he sent me a message and told me to leave my camera at home because he's the official photographer of the event and I just get in his way and that is why his stuff is all bad. And it didn't end there... It got worse, but that's a rant that's not for here...)
And yet this guy still has over 500 likes on his page... People love it. Don't know why.
