brokentoy

I never unsubscribed from photobucket's emails, even after I let my account lapse when they hit everyone with the USD400/year price tag lockdown uhhh (checks) eight years ago. So I would periodically get emails begging peeps to come back, and it's been funny to see the tone change.

The emails used to be:

Warning: Your account is over the free tier limit.

Keep your account active.

Urgent: Keep your account active.

You've become inactive.

Do you want to keep your photos?

Do you want to keep your account?

Action required.

Warning: Your photos may be subject to deletion.

Your account has been deactivated.

We can't keep waiting for a response from you.

This May Be Your Last Chance.

They kept on with all those warnings, sending anywhere from 2 to 6 emails a month with the same text to let you know.

And then! About a year ago the emails changed to:

A private space for your family's most precious moments.

Did you forget about the [xxx] photos in your account?

Do you want to recover your old photos?

We can't keep waiting a response from you.

Again and again, until the emails got another tone change about three months ago in August, to:

Aren't you curious to see your old photos?

Your memories are still here.

We found photos you probably thought were gone.

A little piece of your history.

A message from your past self.

Your old selfies are now fossils.

This one might bring a tear to your eye.

A glimpse into the good old days.

The past is calling (and it has photos).

Somebody's doing something!🤣 I'm just surprised they're still around, and the price tag is now USD80 a year, or USD8 a month, so I just might sign up for a month and download everything for reorganizing. I did download the most critical stuff way back when, but it might be fun to redo my old pic-heavy posts. Maybe.