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
that seems inconsistent. isnt the whole point making it consistent? why dont you just have everything in 'k', e.g. someone with 19 million subs would show up as '19000k' and someone with 1 sub should show up as '0k'