I consistently hear people on YouTube complain that the subscribe button doesn’t do anything for viewers, now that channel notifications are controlled by the bell. But it does do something: it puts the videos from that channel in your subscription feed, which is readily accessible on all versions of YouTube. So why do people act like it doesn’t exist? I think it’s super convenient, especially if you’re subscribed to a ton of channels and don’t want your notifications feed flooded with new videos.
Man, the bell doesn’t even fuckin’ notify me of new shit. That was the point of subscribing in the first place: So I don’t have to come and check the channel for new content all the time. It would just fucking tell me.
That’s my experience as well, the bell has never functioned as I thought it would. But it may be user error on my end, I’ve never been able to get a notification for Instagram Live either.