Abbreviated public subscriber counts are gradually rolling out starting next week. We heard a lot of feedback from the community following our announcement in May – we’ve updated our original post with more info here → https://yt.be/help/LF4J
Do you not get how stagnant a channel will look because of this? Visible growth is so important in not only giving creators a sense of accomplishment but to getting other people interested into that content. Abbreviated counts carry so much less weight and importance visually.