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!
Thanks for telling people! Seems pretty strange that when you do it without telling anybody everybody is mad about it but when you do it with telling everybody beforehand everybody is mad as well (judging by the replies to this tweet). You just can't make everybody happy.