YouTube subscriber count abbreviations: Difference between revisions

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==Controversy==

The announcement was heavily controversial, especially in the statistics community, mostly due to live subscriber count websites such as [[Social Blade]] and Livecounts.net, would no longer be able to track live subscriber counts.<ref>https://socialblade.com/blog/abbreviated-subscriber-counts-on-youtube/</ref><ref>https://x.com/jaubreyYT/status/1174172975714713600</ref> ~~One creator stated that they "appreciate seeing 1207 and then later 1208 and not 1.2K."<ref>https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/6543166?hl=en&msgid=15889455</ref>~~ SMii7Y, a popular creator on YouTube, stated on Twitter that "YouTube's abbreviated [subscriber count] update is actually the dumbest [...] thing I have ever seen."<ref>{{Cite tweet|url=https://x.com/SMii7Y/status/1179254786434244608|name=SMii7Y}}</ref>

The announcement was heavily controversial, especially in the statistics community, mostly due to live subscriber count websites such as [[Social Blade]] and Livecounts.net, would no longer be able to track live subscriber counts.<ref>https://socialblade.com/blog/abbreviated-subscriber-counts-on-youtube/</ref><ref>https://x.com/jaubreyYT/status/1174172975714713600</ref> SMii7Y, a popular creator on YouTube, stated on Twitter that "YouTube's abbreviated [subscriber count] update is actually the dumbest [...] thing I have ever seen."<ref>{{Cite tweet|url=https://x.com/SMii7Y/status/1179254786434244608|name=SMii7Y}}</ref>

The decision to truncate the counts on the public API was also heavily criticized,<ref>{{Cite YouTube|url=https://youtube.com/watch?v=i5XjFEKb4u8&t=60|t=60|title=The moment Live SubCounts got abbreviated|author=Subscriber Battles|date=September 17, 2019}}</ref> with creators in the statistics community stating that it was completely unnecessary.

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 ==Controversy==
-The announcement was heavily controversial, especially in the statistics community, mostly due to live subscriber count websites such as [[Social Blade]] and Livecounts.net, would no longer be able to track live subscriber counts.<ref>https://socialblade.com/blog/abbreviated-subscriber-counts-on-youtube/</ref><ref>https://x.com/jaubreyYT/status/1174172975714713600</ref> One creator stated that they "appreciate seeing 1207 and then later 1208 and not 1.2K."<ref>https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/6543166?hl=en&msgid=15889455</ref> SMii7Y, a popular creator on YouTube, stated on Twitter that "YouTube's abbreviated [subscriber count] update is actually the dumbest [...] thing I have ever seen."<ref>{{Cite tweet|url=https://x.com/SMii7Y/status/1179254786434244608|name=SMii7Y}}</ref>
+The announcement was heavily controversial, especially in the statistics community, mostly due to live subscriber count websites such as [[Social Blade]] and Livecounts.net, would no longer be able to track live subscriber counts.<ref>https://socialblade.com/blog/abbreviated-subscriber-counts-on-youtube/</ref><ref>https://x.com/jaubreyYT/status/1174172975714713600</ref>  SMii7Y, a popular creator on YouTube, stated on Twitter that "YouTube's abbreviated [subscriber count] update is actually the dumbest [...] thing I have ever seen."<ref>{{Cite tweet|url=https://x.com/SMii7Y/status/1179254786434244608|name=SMii7Y}}</ref>
 The decision to truncate the counts on the public API was also heavily criticized,<ref>{{Cite YouTube|url=https://youtube.com/watch?v=i5XjFEKb4u8&t=60|t=60|title=The moment Live SubCounts got abbreviated|author=Subscriber Battles|date=September 17, 2019}}</ref> with creators in the statistics community stating that it was completely unnecessary.