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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_Memphis

Facebook did it, everybody copies Facebook. It's awful.

I've been looking for a term for this, thank you.

Like another commenter said, it's awful: they're visually lifeless and they don't add value in terms of being illustrative of the idea their associated text block is meant to convey, nor do they catch the eye in the first place.

You might as well have a lorem-ipsum cat picture in their place, since it has about the same utility.

It's simpler and a smaller download than the iStockPhoto of yester-decade.

Criticism would be more constructive however, if it included an example of something better.