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. Creators: You’ll still see your full sub count in Studio! Learn more → http://yt.be/help/abbrev-count …pic.twitter.com/pmaKk4EU4k
Many more bad decisions have been made over the past decade, of course, that was just the "abbreviated version" *ba-dum tsh* But you did give us the ability to customize video playback speed, so you got that going for you, which is nice....