YouTube to now show rounded off public subscriber counts starting this August
FirstpostYouTube channels that have subscribers below 1000, they will still show the exact subscriber count. YouTube has turned into a battlefield for many YouTube channels in the recent past, especially for channels like Indian Music Company, T Series and PewDiePie These channels are busy fighting over subscriber counts. For example, now if a YouTube channel has 133,017 subscribers, the subscriber count will read “133K” until the channel reaches 134,000. YouTube also understands that “subscriber counts are extremely important for creators and fans alike” and according to them this change is “create more consistency everywhere”. These sites include Social Blade which shows real-time subscriber counts and gives clear insight with regards to for the increase and decrease in the number of subscribers on a particular channel.