Additional clarification:
No one lost a verification badge today–If you received an email that your channel will no longer be verified, this was just an advanced notice & you can appeal
The checkmark has never appeared on YouTube mobile channel pages (this will be added soon)https://twitter.com/TeamYouTube/status/1174735005215420416 …
YouTube may as well be a paid for streaming site at this point, I swear to god the only reason I’m still an avid YouTube watcher is BECAUSE of the smaller creators and watching them struggle over and over because of these god awful people running yt doesn’t make the viewer happy