I just watched John Green's video talking about 10 years on YouTube and he said to press the bell icon to be notified when new videos come out. This got me thinking about whether the email notification service is effective.
In my experience it is not.
When it started, I chose to be notified by a bunch of the channels I was subscribed to at the time and was interested in seeing their next videos. Over the months of having this enabled, I got sick of seeing the same people uploading new videos that I didn't want to watch. If a channel is so good that you might consider being notified by email, why would you need to be notified at all? If it's such a good channel, you would be checking that channel occasionally and looking at your subscription feed periodically for new videos.
The worst thing about the notification by email update service is that you end up not watching specific channels because you were notified so often of what sort of stuff they were uploading. If their content was often more of the same, you'd get bored of it and eventually disable the notifications. Then you wouldn't even know if their channel had improved or that the stuff you actually wanted to watch had started being uploaded to that channel again. Do you see what I mean?
It's just like when you subscribe to a newsletter and it gets sent frequently, you eventually get sick of it and unsubscribe. Maybe you lost interest in that newsletter's content. Maybe your reason for subscribing in the first place had changed. My point is that if the information keeps being force-fed to you, you will probably end up intentionally avoiding it just because it was streamlined to you for so long.
If it's really good and you love it to pieces, there's no reason to ask for updates because you update yourself.
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