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YouTube bug results in huge subscriber count losses
- iopred 10y agoThe fact that people aren't immediately aware that this is a bug fills me with sadness.
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- Fej 10y agoI wonder which straw will be the last. Google has been treating YouTubers like garbage. There's no end to the (completely justified) complaints. It's not frivolous stuff. Example: sometimes people get seemingly randomly unsubscribed from channels. No explanation from YouTube for this.
- tqkxzugoaupvwqr 10y ago> sometimes people get seemingly randomly unsubscribed from channels. No explanation from YouTube for this. I heard the same from a few YouTubers. I cannot say if true or not, but there are multiple complaints from small and large channels. These YouTubers only knew this happened because subscribers wondered why videos of those YouTubers stopped popping up in their feed. When they checked, they found they were unsubscribed. In one case, the dad of a YouTuber was randomly unsubscribed from that YouTuber. As far as I know, YouTube occasionally runs a spammer purge program. They always claimed no real accounts are affected. But how can they know? On one side, YouTube tries to foster original content, but how can people trust them with their livelihood if they constantly have to fight an uphill battle against YouTube’s purge and ranking algorithms? And if something happens to you as a small-time YouTuber, you have nowhere to complain at YouTube.
- Nexxxeh 10y agoThere is some suspicion that one of the issues at play in the subscribing issue is a visual/front-end problem. The already-subscribed user is presented with a "subscribe" button instead of "unsubscribe". They think they aren't subscribed, click the button, which then actually unsubscibes the user.