I will click a YouTube link if I really want to see the video but I really prefer not to. I’m an email guy. I want to get curated email from good writers in my inbox and read it when I’m in email mode. I don’t want to go into YouTube or any other platform if I don’t have to. Ads algorithms and I have to find my way back to email. So in-line pics or animated gifs are my happy place. That’s just me, thanks for asking and I look forward to going through your past writing. Really love your philosophy about this, 100% resonates. Thanks for giving back cool art.
I worry that there's not really a perfect answer for people who read the blog as emails. Embedded YouTube videos have the problem that, like you mention, they're not truly embedded and clicking on them takes you to YouTube.
The problem with GIFs is that emails are size-limited. A friend told me that one of the GIFs in my previous post ("Get better at frisbee without leaving your room") didn't load inside of the email, but worked fine on the website.
So I'm not sure if there's any perfect solution that leaves everything in-email for articles like this that rely on embedded clips. In my opinion, the best thing to do is just read my posts on the web. There hopefully shouldn't be any ads/algorithms when you're only on my Substack, at least... But let me know if you have any other ideas that might avoid all these drawbacks.
I will click a YouTube link if I really want to see the video but I really prefer not to. I’m an email guy. I want to get curated email from good writers in my inbox and read it when I’m in email mode. I don’t want to go into YouTube or any other platform if I don’t have to. Ads algorithms and I have to find my way back to email. So in-line pics or animated gifs are my happy place. That’s just me, thanks for asking and I look forward to going through your past writing. Really love your philosophy about this, 100% resonates. Thanks for giving back cool art.
Really appreciate the feedback!
I worry that there's not really a perfect answer for people who read the blog as emails. Embedded YouTube videos have the problem that, like you mention, they're not truly embedded and clicking on them takes you to YouTube.
The problem with GIFs is that emails are size-limited. A friend told me that one of the GIFs in my previous post ("Get better at frisbee without leaving your room") didn't load inside of the email, but worked fine on the website.
So I'm not sure if there's any perfect solution that leaves everything in-email for articles like this that rely on embedded clips. In my opinion, the best thing to do is just read my posts on the web. There hopefully shouldn't be any ads/algorithms when you're only on my Substack, at least... But let me know if you have any other ideas that might avoid all these drawbacks.
Thanks again for the comment~