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YouTube is going to be shaking things up when it comes down to those live real-time subscriber
counts weve been seeing a lot of lately.
It was used often in the race between Pewdiepie and T-series and ultimately will block analytic
sites such as social blade.
Their main focus is to prevent people from seeing the loss of subscribers to any given
channel after a major controversy.
I suppose it makes sense, the last thing they want is to be advertising people disliking
content on their platform.
Instead of the usual exact count we see when visiting a YouTubers channel you will instead
see the flat amount.
So if someone has 5.5 million subscribers it will probably just flatten it to 5 million.
This block is coming from a perspective of wanting to stop this competitive nature of
fans watching a subscriber count to see who is winning or losing in whatever drama is
happening.
In a recent blog post by YouTubes product team they acknowledged this change by saying
- Subscriber counts are extremely important for creators.- adding that this new change
is to create more consistency everywhere.
Now its important to note that websites such as social blade wont just be out of business
from this change.
Instead a YouTube spokesperson told the Verge that those analytics sites will update at
the same increments as the other surfaces.
Websites such as Social Blade have been a widely used tool for other creators to throw
mad shade at specific YouTubers by displaying their subscriber count loss.
Its been used to taunt such creators as PewDiePie, James Charles, Tfue and many more.
There is even channels that are solely dedicated to showing these live-stream subscriber battles
via social blade.
Most likely any of those third party channels will take a serious hit from this change.
Its still not known as to whether or not this decision comes from the fact that a lot of
the creator community has used this to their advantage to not only make content, but slander
other creators.
What we do know is that its happening and other platforms are seemingly following suit.
We already have Instagram testing out the hiding of likes on photos for mental health
reasons and even Reddit is looking at giving moderators the option to hide their comment
scores and voting numbers.
For Reddit its an attempt to stop the pile on effect of just liking a comment because
its near the top.
Twitter is also taking a look at stopping the display of the number of retweets or at
the very least playing it down in the same way YouTube is doing with their subscribers.
According to YouTube this new feature will be implemented in August.
What we want to know though is how you feel about these new blocking numbers feature thats
been happening on all platforms.
What do you think are the pros and cons of this happening?
Now lets check out some of your comments from the video titled - If you see a rubber band
on a door, call the police.
Tarik says - Please dont turn into the Bright Side with those titles
-Didnt even realize we were aligning with that movie on the title, but im pumped for
Bright side none the less
Clavis says - Me.
Hello, - Police.
Theres a rubber band on a door!
Police wtf?
If a 911 operator says wtf to you, you definitely called the wrong emergency line, that or you
need to move.
Classy Seal says - All The Robbers Watch These Types Of Videos
-Im sure they do which is why theyll realize they cant get away with that trick any more
Hue Hue says - Cut it with a knife.
That way they cant do it again.
-Yeah that, or you can change your door knob
Hi Its Me Paul says - 1.41 is there any better phrase you could have used than rubber band
around my knob Johnny?
-Ummm thought about it and that was the best way to describe it
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