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 …
Why does Google/YouTube always need to screw things up? I blame the both of you for the "failure" of Google Plus. Thanks for forcing the G+ YouTube comments system change through so a subset of people would always have negative views of the G+ platform.