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
There is no genuinely good reason for this. Mental health is important. But making an arbitrary change, and posing it as a step towards helping creators, is going to do nothing. At all. Don't do this. This is only going to affect viewers of the channel, not the creators.