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
You have some of the biggest creators on the platform telling you this is a bad idea, you have viewers (like me) telling you we don't want it, god dammit YouTube just listen to your platform for once or eventually a new platform will rise