Abbreviated public subscriber counts are gradually rolling out starting next week. We heard a lot of feedback from the community following our announcement in May – we’ve updated our original post with more info here → https://yt.be/help/LF4J
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Maybe, make it a setting! You can already choose to completely hide your sub count, so insead of forcing something that nobody wants, make it optional, at least. Yes, the feature will still exist, but it won't be forced 
2:10 AM - 1 Sep 2019
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