Is there a regular subscriber purge?

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KiddieToysReview

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Hi folks,

Something happened today that happened a few weeks ago.
The number of our subscribers dropped by 10, and channels that we have been subscribed to have been unsubscribed.

A few weeks ago we lost about 30 subs in "the purge event", thankfully today it was only 10. Most of the subs came back and a handful actually messaged and told us they did not unsubscribe manually.
What I find annoying is regular channels that we watch and interact with we are now unsubscribed from. So we have to go manually and subscribe.

What is the rationale for YT to do this every few weeks? Surely doing this to channels that support and interact with each other is not the right thing to do to encourage community spirit? Interested to hear about others if you have the same experience every few weeks?

Thanks!!
 
Is there a debug mode or some error/log files we have access to somewhere through the Creator Studio?
Probably not without a telnet session into the YT servers (how I miss that csh and vi) :-(
 
Not that I would know of. You could try to bring the issue up in the official help forums.
 
Wow, I wasn't aware that this was a thing. I see in the analytics that every so often a few subscribers poof due to being inactive, but didn't know there was a bug anywhere in the mix. Eggggh...
 
When it occurs, it seems to occur on Tuesdays and always at the same time. If you check the monthly sub stats of big channels on Socialblade, you'll see the red negative sub count between 11pm and midnight on various Tuesdays.

Example: yesterday, pewdiepie "lost" 14k subs between 11pm and midnight. -> http://socialblade.com/youtube/user/pewdiepie/monthly (in the right sidebar)
 
I have this bug too, I seem to have lost a couple hundred thousand subscribers and YouTube wants to make me earn them all back.
 
Crown said:
When it occurs, it seems to occur on Tuesdays and always at the same time. If you check the monthly sub stats of big channels on Socialblade, you'll see the red negative sub count between 11pm and midnight on various Tuesdays.

Example: yesterday, pewdiepie "lost" 14k subs between 11pm and midnight. -> (in the right sidebar)
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Isn't that just a socialblade thing? It does that with views too but it doesn't match the youtube stats. At least not mine.
 
Furry Gurus said:
Isn't that just a socialblade thing? It does that with views too but it doesn't match the youtube stats. At least not mine.
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The thread is about sub counts not view counts.

SocialBlade sub counts are realtime stats updated every hour. YouTube analytics will show the total sub count for the current day approx 2 days later.
 
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