YouTube to Remove Full Count of Subscribers

YouTube posted on their support forum as a heads up with what will happen to the subscriber count in the coming days. They have decided to remove the full count of subscribers and change it to round up ones. All of this is happening is because people are spreading hate with real-time subscriber counts and comparing them to each other. This happened with PewdiePie Vs T-SERIE, TATI VS JAMES CHARLES and many more youtubers.


YouTube on Thread Says,

Currently, all creators with over 1,000 subscribers see their subscriber counts displayed differently in different places across YouTube desktop and mobile apps. In some cases, the subscriber count is abbreviated (e.g., 133k) and in other places, we display the full count (e.g., 133,017).

So what exactly will this look like? For channels with fewer than 1,000 subscribers, the exact (non-abbreviated) subscriber count will still be shown. Once your channel passes the 1000 subscriber milestone, we will begin to abbreviate your public subscriber numbers on a sliding scale.






According to the blog post, the 1,000-subscribers change will take effect "on a sliding scale." These are the example mentioned by the company:

• If a channel has 4,227 subscribers, the public subscriber count will read “4.2k” until the channel reaches 4,300.
• If a channel has 133,017 subscribers, the public subscriber count will read “133K” until the channel reaches 134,000.
• If a channel has 51,389,232, the public subscriber count will read “51M” until the channel reaches 52,000,000.

This Decision will mainly affect SocialBlade as YouTube has tweeted this about the third party using APIs to track subscribers.

To confirm, third parties that use YouTube API Services will also get the same abbreviated public counts as you'll see on YouTube.

TeamYouTube also says,
Currently, public sub counts are abbreviated in most but not all places across YouTube. In August, we’ll make this more consistent by always showing abbreviated sub counts publicly.

You can read more info on this official thread by google
https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/6543166

They have twitted their concern about this subscriber situation and things are not good. They are not getting replies.

Regarding the abbreviated sub counts. We wanted to take a second & thank you all so much for the overwhelming support. We've reached out to YouTube a couple of days ago to talk to them about this but still haven't heard back. We found out about this just like you from a tweet.

— Social Blade (@SocialBlade) May 23, 2019

Another Tweet from SocialBlade says

YouTube claims this change is to "create more consistency" and (via Creator Insider) that this is in line with instagram, facebook, and twitter. Though we prefer seeing the full numbers on YouTube we're 100% fine if they want to change their site to have abbreviated numbers.

— Social Blade (@SocialBlade) May 23, 2019

Real-time subscriber counts will be a past

People are really angry and are showing support for SocialBlade. Below are some of the tweets that you can look into.

No one:

YouTube: Lets abbreviate sub counts so no one will know a YouTubers sub count and so that we kill off one of the most useful statistics sites for YouTube!#SaveSocialBlade

— Wilki (@Wilki_oof) May 24, 2019

Youtube bad #SaveSocialBlade pic.twitter.com/r3UbLPBrbs

— TheFatMaster3 (@TheFatMaster3) May 24, 2019

How am I supposed to view my favorite channels subcounts if socialblade doesn’t show them smh #SaveSocialBlade pic.twitter.com/3PSyOgaS1X

— pokegaymon (@gengar_loli) May 24, 2019

YouTube creators: hi YouTube can we have a better copyright system

Yt: no. Instead, we’ll delete your channel

Creators: that doesn’t...

Yt: we will also completely change our YouTube studio.

C: w..why

Yt: we’re taking away live sub counts

C: ... I ..#SaveSocialBlade

— Graice (@graicekay) May 24, 2019