Hot Topic ** YouTube reduces sub counts ** (all discussion goes here)

Tyhd said:
That's what I'm asking
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I just looked at a channel who has put all of their videos to private and hasn't posted in years, and they haven't lost any subscribers for today.. o.0 I'd have thought that their viewers would be inactive since there's nothing to watch anymore, but apparently they flew under YouTube's radar.

I was searching for previous YTTalk sub removal topics, and I found one from this past April. I'm not sure if there really were that many people who became inactive between April and now, but I guess it is what it is. Watch time is more important anyway. ^^ I suspect YouTube has different criteria to choose from when they do their sub cleaning, and I guess they were kind of strict this time.. =/
 
anyone noticed if they've been unsubbed from anyone they watch?
ive got over 300 but it seems even the most inactive are still there, i can't fully tell is all 100% are though thanks to there being 10 years of my favourite channels on there lol
 
KatyAdelson said:
I just looked at a channel who has put all of their videos to private and hasn't posted in years, and they haven't lost any subscribers for today.. o.0 I'd have thought that their viewers would be inactive since there's nothing to watch anymore, but apparently they flew under YouTube's radar.

I was searching for previous YTTalk sub removal topics, and I found one from this past April. I'm not sure if there really were that many people who became inactive between April and now, but I guess it is what it is. Watch time is more important anyway. ^^ I suspect YouTube has different criteria to choose from when they do their sub cleaning, and I guess they were kind of strict this time.. =/
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There has to be some anomalies. No system can catch everything. The fact that the channel itself is pretty much hidden prolly helped it get missed.
 
ive found this piece of info from reddit:

"This won't be for everyone (looks like it's mostly gamers) as it looks like it has something to do with YouTube gaming. Back in April YT Gaming got released in Indian, Philippines and several other countries. Anyone who was already subscribed to you that was from one of those countries that then joined YT Gaming would count as a double sub. That bug was fixed fairly quickly so there wasn't much of a fuss.

Now take a look back at June 14th (E3 opens) I'm not sure if YT Gaming did anything special but allot of gaming related YouTubers including myself had a huge sub boost. It looks like YouTube is only now fixing this problem."

Now I don't believe it myself, as I found no increase on the 14th, the 14th-16th was actually pretty low,
but any info is worth checking out with your own accounts I guess.
I hadn't known about the double subs in april, so thats interesting to know.
 
What do they consider inactive subs? abandoned accounts? Or subs that haven't clicked your video in a long time? If it's the latter then i should have, and would have been happy to see a much more accurate number of subs but i literally didn't lose anything lol.
 
Lightsen said:
ive found this piece of info from reddit:

"This won't be for everyone (looks like it's mostly gamers) as it looks like it has something to do with YouTube gaming. Back in April YT Gaming got released in Indian, Philippines and several other countries. Anyone who was already subscribed to you that was from one of those countries that then joined YT Gaming would count as a double sub. That bug was fixed fairly quickly so there wasn't much of a fuss.

Now take a look back at June 14th (E3 opens) I'm not sure if YT Gaming did anything special but allot of gaming related YouTubers including myself had a huge sub boost. It looks like YouTube is only now fixing this problem."

Now I don't believe it myself, as I found no increase on the 14th, the 14th-16th was actually pretty low,
but any info is worth checking out with your own accounts I guess.
I hadn't known about the double subs in april, so thats interesting to know.
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They've been doing purging for more than a few months though
 
It's not a purge. Total Subscriber count was increasing subs like crazy since the beginning of the month. Crearly it was a bug because there was a large discrepance between Youtube analytics and Socialblade data. In my case according Youtube analytics data I was gainig +600 subs per month, but in the other hand according Socialblade data my gaining was 1500 subs/month. So, today that Youtube has fixed the problem my public subscriber count has dropped 880 subs..
 
i am guessing an inactive sub is someone who either never uses youtube anymore (quite unlikely) or they do use it, but they either don't log into their account anymore or have created a new one, thats my only explanation

By the way @Lightsen I am so sorry that you have lost over 3000 subs thats so awful :(
 
Youtube is changing indeed but I hate inactive subs and what's Youtube doing this to hurt us.
 
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