LOL WUT, a THOUSAND?! You have my pity for going through all that. XD Once I came back after a few weeks and had it up in the six-hundreds... I just deleted like all of the new dA updates from the people I watched and responded to comments. XD
lol I had you tube set to email me when a bunch of people upload videos, but youtube updated, so I don't need that feature... thus, 960 unread emails. At least i could delete emails fifty at a time, saved me three hours of work. lol