As of about 3pm ET (19:00 UTC) today YouTube has started to abbreviate subscriber counts via the api. Right now it seems to be hit or miss which channels have exact numbers & which ones don't. Read this to see how to best use Social Blade going forward:https://socialblade.com/blog/abbreviated-subscriber-counts-on-youtube/ …
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To be clear, the only feature of Social Blade that is massively impacted by YouTube's change is real time sub counts. The rest of our features will still work is pretty much the same way. You can still research a channels historical performance, find channels to work with, etc.
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The worst part is
@TeamYouTube is obviously doing this to hide the fact that their recommended algorithm is biased against demonetized videos.3 replies 1 retweet 43 likes -
Reading through this again I realise I may have jumped the gun a bit. Or well, a lot, but I'm only human. Though it's no secret YouTube is slowly obscuring data more and more
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YouTube definitely loves to manipulate. Abbreviating sub counts makes that easier.
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