Additional clarification:
No one lost a verification badge today–If you received an email that your channel will no longer be verified, this was just an advanced notice & you can appeal
The checkmark has never appeared on YouTube mobile channel pages (this will be added soon)https://twitter.com/TeamYouTube/status/1174735005215420416 …
Your making the change to help out Mainstream Celebrities and Big Companies, who are not what built your platform in the first place, all this tells me is "You mean nothing to us"