Heads up, Creators: On Dec 13-14 you may see a noticeable decrease in your sub count as we remove spam subscriptions. If spam is removed, you'll see a YouTube Studio alert: https://goo.gl/qGDBvX This should help give you confidence that the subs you do have are real fans!
Now I'll never get to the 3k subscribers needed to get my AdSense back. Thanks YouTube. Keep up the good work. I didn't want to get there without real humans anyway. I'd never appreciate the money otherwise.