Heads up, Creators: On Dec 13-14 you may see a noticeable decrease in your sub count as we remove spam subscriptions. If spam is removed, you'll see a YouTube Studio alert: https://goo.gl/qGDBvX This should help give you confidence that the subs you do have are real fans!
so this is just another attempt to keep small channels down and to avoid paying upcoming creators. usually it's not the creators fault if spam accounts subscribe to their channels and imagine how many will now fall below the 1000 subs threshold again after struggling for long.