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Why does every tech reviewer on YouTube have thousands of unread emails?
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Because to me it seems incredibly bizarre to have 13,000+ unread emails, as I would expect it would seem to most people. Even if you had an email account you use for "junk", why would you want that cluttering up your notifications by adding it to your Mail accounts on your iPhone? Or if you needed to have it in there for whatever reason, you could create a rule on that account's mail server to mark all incoming mail as "read" automatically, etc.
I don't "care" as in I'm bothered by it. I'm simply curious. After all, they are putting these videos out to the general public showing this. It's not like I'm going looking for it.
Obviously many people. Don't paint with such a broad brush. Plenty of good reviewers out there. And often it's not a review, but how-tos, tip/tricks videos, problem-solving, etc.
There’s some good content out there. Most of it is rubbish though. The worst of them all being unboxing videos. Who wants to see someone unbox anything? I’d put it right up there with watching people play video games and taking selfies.
I don't always watch unboxing videos, but when I do, I mute the audio and play my own background music: Beethoven's "Ode to Joy".
It's rare, but when the "Freude, schöner Götterfunken" crescendo hits at exactly the right time, all is glorious bliss, oh my droogs.
It's rare, but when the "Freude, schöner Götterfunken" crescendo hits at exactly the right time, all is glorious bliss, oh my droogs.
The weird uppityness about OP’s question in this thread is puzzling. Why are people so personally offended a youtuber has lots of emails? Anyway, not many people have tried actually answering your question, so I’ll throw out a few reasons. (Full disclosure: I’m not a youtuber, but I did upload some AMVs and videos as a middle schooler lol.)
1) (Applicable to everyone.) Some people get a lot of emails and feel too overwhelmed to sort them.
2) Youtubers can get a lot of notification emails from their channel if they never bother turning them off, including, but not limited to:
4) The mail app has all their inboxes, including the email(s) they use for junk. My gmail with my youtube account attached to it is like that.
1) (Applicable to everyone.) Some people get a lot of emails and feel too overwhelmed to sort them.
2) Youtubers can get a lot of notification emails from their channel if they never bother turning them off, including, but not limited to:
- notifications for comments
- milestone statistics for views and sub counts
- personal messages from fans and other creators
- personal messages from sponsors who afaik can get reaaally overzealous about securing a sponsorship
4) The mail app has all their inboxes, including the email(s) they use for junk. My gmail with my youtube account attached to it is like that.
You nailed it.
I actually know a ‘Youtuber’ who has a fairly large channel on a personal level (He documents short films/has a small LLC), and a lot of the replies that are directed with his username attached, are notifications of emails that are pushed. But if he replies to the messages, obviously it’s direct through the messaging through YouTube.
Unboxing videos are satisfying. That’s all there is it to it. Sometimes you want to see the product in someone’s hands before purchasing. Could be a symptom of consumerism too, but it’s also completely harmless.
You generally watch Let’s Plays for the personality of the streamer, not the game by itself. Or maybe you watch because the player is really skilled at the game and you are not.
I’ve never seen a youtuber post themselves taking selfies… maybe that’s a thing on tiktok or instagram, but I don’t go there.
We’re all different I suppose. I don’t watch unboxing videos or gamers play with themselves. I’m obviously too old to get it.
Some of you have PhDs in reading things that aren't there. Uppityness? Personal offense? Seriously? I just find it odd that I see hundreds and thousands of unread emails consistently in these sorts of videos when they show their home screen. It's natural to be curious about something so extreme like that. It just seems strange that even if one or more of those things you mentioned were the case, why they would bother to even add that account to their iPhone, as it simply muddles up notifications for accounts they actually check/monitor.
I disagree that most is "rubbish". And just in case your question wasn't rhetorical, TONS of people love watching unboxing videos - thus their popularity. You probably watch videos that I would ask the same question about. As you said in a later comment, we're all different.
Indeed. No need to come off as judgmental then. I admit that unboxing videos fall into a different category from traditional content. It's like a new form of window shopping where you vicariously experience the satisfaction of opening a new product without actually having to buy it yourself. Apple products with their clean packaging lend themselves to it really well. I watch unboxes occasionally, but only when I'm really craving a product or I want to see what it looks like on video.
I don't think you're too old to get it. It's just not your thing, and that's fine. There are plenty of internet things I don't get either, like most of tiktok. It's hilarious how youtube is the "old guard" of social media now.
I didn't mean you specifically, OP. There are definitely people in this thread randomly assigning judgement to people (actually, mainly youtubers) with a lot of emails. It's weird to me too because I clear my (main) inbox all the time and hate having notifications like that, but I also don't get a ton of emails and definitely don't use apple's mail client. However, my gmail's a mess, it'll stay a mess, and I refuse to allow the badge notifications for it show up.
Some people do not care about them badge numbers.
As for the reasons, I have no idea why specifically. Everyone has various levels of organization. My desktop was horrendous until a few months ago.
Thanks for your clarification. Without that clarification earlier, your sentence ("The weird uppityness about OP’s question") definitely came across as assigning uppityness to my question (vs. uppityness about responses TO my question).