What are the most cliched subjects for today's amateur photographers?

Self portraits making duck faces with the camera held at arm's length

Converse trainers

Flowers

Writing on hands

Overprocessed anything

I think a distinction should be made between amateur and beginner.

For beginners, especially teens:

Self portraits.

Anything shot from a few inches away, but scraps of paper with writing seem popular. I guess that's deep. Also adding some angst-ridden obscure song lyrics or poetry is very fashionable.

That's OK. In the 60's, almost everything I drew was hippie inspired, or Peter Max! Every generation has its trendy stuff that the old folks just don't get.

Many; for not telling all. Sunsets use to be boring, specially in black and white; not a rule of thumd though. Old are just old. But I doubt all amateurs love these two subjects; even more, they don't

Never is late; all of you are describing amateurs as teenagers posting snapshops for facebook, but some of the greatest photographers were amateurs.

Flowers, themselves, bad photos of their pets, self-portraits of them looking sad in a corner (or a friend doing it), shoes, book pages, basically anything random but shows no creativity in creating it.

"Every hot girl who can aim a camera thinks she's a photographer. Oooooooh, you took a black-and-white picture of a lawn chair and its shadow and developed it at Save-On. You must be so brooding and deep." -- Stewie Griffin.

Also pets.

1) Self Portraits.....some of my friends have FB albums DEDICATED to self portraits *ugh* its annoying

2) Upclose pictures of some kind of nature object

Also they love changing a colored photo to have an 'old' rugged feeling too it

3) The Sky

Flowers. It's annoying.

girls looking miserable is summer dresses