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!
It's hard to be or stay motivated in Youtube nowadays after those. If you're working on a new algorithm someday, you have to make it show also small channels. Every search etc I make it's always big channels and small channel prob page 5 or 8.