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!
YouTube, you're really starting to make your platform worse. At this rate, people will start turning to other websites just to avoid your platform screwing them over. How about instead of focusing on messing with subscribers and notifications,you focus on fixing what needs to be?