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
This is pretty stupid. Even though creators can still see the sub counts, it still takes a lot of joy away from both creators and subscribers in seeing milestones being reached. It's pretty much taking away a lot of excitement for no reason.