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!
Let’s hope you get T-Series’ spam bots, especially. Artificial growth is bad enough, but when it’s a corporate husk that pays to outshine hard-working content creators, that’s a bad example for what’s allowed and even encouraged on the platform.