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
Literally everyone told you that this is a shitty idea. But then again, Youtube is incapable of listening to feedback. Then again, they're completely incompetent 9 times out of 10, so it's not surprising.