YouTube will no longer publicly exhibit complete subscriber counts for stations with 1,000+ subscribers.
Beginning in August 2019, YouTube will begin showing abbreviated subscriber counts everywhere a channel's numbers are displayed.
This change will also impact third parties using YouTube's API Services.
Creators will continue to have the ability to access their precise subscriber counts in YouTube Studio.
YouTube notes more specific details will be shared directly with creators before August.
The company didn't mention the reason why this change is being made, but anyone following recent occasions on YouTube could likely make an accurate guess.
Without getting too much into the specifics, I will state the YouTube community has developed an alarming obsession with other channels' subscriber counts.
So much so that if two YouTubers are feeding, users will set up live feeds showing that the other users' readers count going up or down.
Perhaps more alarming is that these feeds draw thousands of simultaneous viewers.
Rather than creating complete subscriber counts available to the general public, YouTube is probably trying to put a stop to this obsession until it becomes much more problematic.
Beginning in August 2019, YouTube will begin showing abbreviated subscriber counts everywhere a channel's numbers are displayed.
This change will also impact third parties using YouTube's API Services.
Creators will continue to have the ability to access their precise subscriber counts in YouTube Studio.
What will this look like?
- Exact subscriber counts will be revealed for channels with less than 1,000 subscribers.
- For stations with more than 1,000 subscribers, YouTube will abbreviate public contributor amounts on a sliding scale.
Here is what that means:
- 4,227 readers will be exhibited as"4.2k" until the channel reaches 4,300.
- 133,017 subscribers will be displayed as"133K" before the station reaches 134,000.
- 51,389,232 subscribers will be exhibited as"51M" until the channel reaches 52,000,000.
YouTube notes more specific details will be shared directly with creators before August.
The company didn't mention the reason why this change is being made, but anyone following recent occasions on YouTube could likely make an accurate guess.
Without getting too much into the specifics, I will state the YouTube community has developed an alarming obsession with other channels' subscriber counts.
So much so that if two YouTubers are feeding, users will set up live feeds showing that the other users' readers count going up or down.
Perhaps more alarming is that these feeds draw thousands of simultaneous viewers.
Rather than creating complete subscriber counts available to the general public, YouTube is probably trying to put a stop to this obsession until it becomes much more problematic.
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