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
Not accepting it. Subscriber milestones are one of the best features we have on YouTube so far and you want to remove it? I'm not agreeing on that but just hope that this is a right step for the app...