Does keeping your subscriptions private make any difference?

[ChristineElisabeth]

Thanks for the information I actually thought when you have them as private no one could see them including the people you're subbed to, that must've been the old version of YouTube xD I'm so behind time on these things

So did I.

 

[CynicalChinchilla]

I keep them private because I don't want the kind of content I consume to intersect in any way with the content I produce. Same reason I keep 'Liked Videos' and stuff like that private. I use my Youtube account for consuming content as well as creating it, and I don't want anyone watching my content to then go and be like "why do you watch all this random garbage" or worse "hey I saw you subbed to this person, my content is similar, sub to me!"

I feel like it takes away from what I'm trying to present/convey with my channel.

edit: Then again, my actual sub count is private, too. Maybe I'm just a really private person. I don't like there to be information about me I can't control directly.

I, too, keep all of YouTube 'likes' private (nobody else's business knowing all my 'quirks') - although I do retweet quite a number of videos links that I've watched from people I follow via twitter.

I show my favourite channels on the right-hand side of my channel, though - randomised each time for all to see.

 

[KatyAdelson]

When I like a channel, I sometimes check out who they are subscribed to. There's a high chance they are subscribed to channels that I'd also find interesting. I've found some really neat channels by doing that! It's kind of anticlimactic when I click to see their subscriptions, and it's blank.. I keep mine public because although it might not help my channel, it might help someone I'm subscribed to!