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Why does every tech reviewer on YouTube have thousands of unread emails?

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Seriously, every time I watch a review or tutorial on YouTube, and the reviewer shows their iPhone, they always have many hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of unread emails. I get nervous if I have double-digits, LOL! Seriously, though, why is this such a consistent thing that you see? Do they all sign up for every spam list in the world or something?

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I am not a famous youtuber and have about 1,900 unread in my personal email. My work one, which I check everyday, currently has 63 unread emails.
 
usagora said:
Seriously, every time I watch a review or tutorial on YouTube, and the reviewer shows their iPhone, they always have many hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of unread emails. I get nervous if I have double-digits, LOL! Seriously, though, why is this such a consistent thing that you see? Do they all sign up for every spam list in the world or something?

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They might think it is fashionable, showing off their laziness that they think is being passed off as busyness.
 
TSE said:
I am not a famous youtuber and have about 1,900 unread in my personal email.
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See, I don't get that. Why have an email that you apparently never or rarely check? LOL!
 
TSE said:
I am not a famous youtuber and have about 1,900 unread in my personal email. My work one, which I check everyday, currently has 63 unread emails.
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Not something I would publicly broadcast but we are all different.
 
Expos of 1969 said:
Why do you subscribe if you apparently have little interest in reading what you receive?
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The email is probably 15 years old or so. In 15 years I subscribed and accessed many things. Many of the websites I subscribed to certainly sold my address to other websites. Which in turn sold it to other websites. Compound it through the years, and now I get so much spam it's too much to keep under control. Those things I am interested to (some newsletters etc), will be forwarded automatically to another email address, which is where I actually read most of the stuff.
 
Clearly, what all these people need is an automated email reader. Not something to read or respond to every email, just something to go through the inbox and mark every email as Read. So it's probably not so much an email reader as an email deadheader.
 
Over time, I've noticed that the spam (advertising, etc) emails I receive seem to be getting more and more frequent.

I've started to unsubscribe to as many as possible, and also to change the settings on things like credit card accounts so that they don't send (as many) emails that I'm not interested in.

Easy to get a pile of unread emails, though. I don't think it is necessarily an ego thing or anything like that, although in some cases that could be true. I think it is just as likely that it happens over time and simply isn't managed well. If by 'managed well' one thinks that means keeping the number of unread e-mails low.
 
yaxomoxay said:
The email is probably 15 years old or so. In 15 years I subscribed and accessed many things. Many of the websites I subscribed to certainly sold my address to other websites. Which in turn sold it to other websites. Compound it through the years, and now I get so much spam it's too much to keep under control. Those things I am interested to (some newsletters etc), will be forwarded automatically to another email address, which is where I actually read most of the stuff.
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Good to use disposable emails for subscriptions so they can be deleted if needed.
 
Not a YouTuber, but I have around 14k unread emails, because I've been lazy to unsubscribe from stuff.
My work mail has around 400 unread emails too.
 
iHorseHead said:
Not a YouTuber, but I have around 14k unread emails, because I've been lazy to unsubscribe from stuff.
My work mail has around 400 unread emails too.
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LOL. We have to read e-mails within two working days where I am. No matter what the ? volume of incoming mails is.
 
VulchR said:
LOL. We have to read e-mails within two working days where I am. No matter what the ? volume of incoming mails is.
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Technically we have to as well, but none of my coworkers read everything either. It's impossible.
Once I was on a vacation for a month and I had over 1000 emails. I just pressed ctrl+a and marked all as read.

Many of the emails are tickets assigned to your team + Teams notifications and passwords expiring etc, so it's easy for important emails to get lost as well, but I mean it is what it is. It's very easy to get 14k+ unread emails.
 
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I might have more unread than most:
 

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Most people do, from what I've seen. My friend and his girlfriend both have hundreds of unread ones. They let them pile up and don't scroll through them all.

Those of us who make sure that inbox reads 0 at all times might be in the minority.
 
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ThisBougieLife said:
Most people do, from what I've seen. My friend and his girlfriend both have hundreds of unread ones. They let them pile up and don't scroll through them all.

Those of us who make sure that inbox reads 0 at all times might be in the minority.
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It depends on what you’re email is used for. My work email: goes to 0.
My personal email: goes to 0.
My spam/subscriptions/public email: could reach 1,000,000 and I wouldn’t care.
 
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It depends on what you’re email is used for. My work email: goes to 0.
My personal email: goes to 0.
My spam/subscriptions/public email: could reach 1,000,000 and I wouldn’t care.
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Yeah, I think my main reason for leaving nothing unread is OCD. Seeing a number there is like a blemish that I need to get rid of. I have two emails linked to my Mail app (excludes work/school email). That's why I'm constantly unsubscribing from things to make sure I get fewer emails. But even so I look through my emails at least twice a day and get that inbox to 0 constantly.
 
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My phone only receives emails I want. Other email goes to an inbox I look at through webmail when I need or want to. I subscribe to very little.

At work it’s different of course. I read my emails as they come in. Then triage them based on the level of importance I give them.
 
Email can become too much at some point. I wish there was innovation with email because Mac Mail, Outlook, they just can scale to today's email. Nobody has cracked it.
 
Those who do not regularly check their email inbox are the ones who cry foul when authorities and people come calling because they was sent an important email and they never bothered to reply.
 
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