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 …
Either the “creators” that YouTube consults before making decisions like this one are just incredibly stupid, or they don’t exist and YouTube just says that to provide some form of justification for their shitty choices. Either way what the fuck YouTube?