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When someone clicks subscribe, it doesn't mean they're going to stay forever.

I lost over 839,000 subscribers on my YouTube channel, Think Media.

We're actually going to be talking about five takeaways of how do you handle unsubs,

how do you handle unfollows?

And I feel the responsibility to earn my subscribers' trust and respect every day. Why do people unsubscribe?

As soon as you're liked by one person, you're immediately not liked by somebody else because people are different.

And how do you protect your mental health as you're building your brand, building your YouTube channel?

Like, I like to remind myself that YouTube isn't everything.

Social media isn't everything. I lost over 839,000 subscribers on my YouTube channel, Think Media.

That's the equivalent of eight silver play buttons. I grew up in a small town called Arlington,

Washington that had a population of 20,000

people, and that's the equivalent of being rejected by them 42 times over. That hurts.

And so in this episode of the Think Media podcast, we're actually going to be talking about

five takeaways of how do you handle unsubscribes? How do you handle unfollows? Why do people unsubscribe?

And how do you protect your mental health as you're building your brand, building your YouTube

channel, and ultimately wanting to make a difference on YouTube without ultimately being

destroyed by the pain that can come with building a YouTube channel? And so I'm back with Melissa. How's it going?

It's going great, Sean. I absolutely love this topic because there has been so much that we can learn from

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