TeamYouTube recently announced on Twitter that they plan to abbreviate subscriber across all of YouTube. 

https://twitter.com/TeamYouTube/status/1130882313066180610

What this means is now, instead of showing the full subscriber count when you see a channel, you only see how much they have up to the nearest 1000, 10,000, 1 million, etc.

What does this mean for everyone? From now on, you will never be able to see an accurate subscriber number for a channel besides you own. No longer will there be sites like SocialBlade that carry real-time statistics on subscriber numbers, because the meta data will not be available to the general public.

Want to watch subscriber counts between PewDiePie and T-Series? Enjoy it while it lasts, because once August comes, it will be gone.

I could go on for awhile about why this will hurt smaller channels (like my own) because of people not seeing an accurate subscriber account, but I think you get the picture. This is just one more thing YouTube has done to devalue what subscriptions mean and how they function on the website.

It's time to get involved and to our put our foot down. As creators, we've put up with a lot of stuff from YouTube, but when they have so much stuff to fix on their website, and instead they do this, you know that the time has finally come to make our voice heard and bring about reform.

So sign the petition. Share it on social media. Tell your subscribers, Discord members, Twitter followers, Twitch viewers, your grandma (the ones that knows how to work a computer) to sign this. Let's make our voices heard creators, and let's do something to protect the integrity of the platform and the art form that we love.