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
@TeamYouTube, please reconsider this change. It's unnecessary and only hurts everyone involved. This will not help with stress (in fact it may worsen it), it may even stunt channel growth by a ton, & it takes the celebration away from hitting a milestone by a ton.