Currently, public sub counts are abbreviated in most but not all places across YouTube. In August, we’ll make this more consistent by always showing abbreviated sub counts publicly. Creators: You’ll still see your full sub count in Studio! Learn more → http://yt.be/help/abbrev-count …pic.twitter.com/pmaKk4EU4k
This is a really bad decision, it’s better for us to be able to see both. One for making it clean and one for seeing all the statistics is a very nice thing to have on the current version of YouTube.