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@TeamYouTube How does it stop anything? James Charles lost 3 million subs, abbreviate that its like 12M to 9M or whatever he went to. A YouTuber with 51k subs can get canceled down to 50-49k. It means nothing? Only thing it stops is people seeing how close you’re from a milestone