Usually these announcements put a shiny positive PR spin on a negative change, but it doesn't seem like they could even really find a positive spin for this one

Usually these announcements put a shiny positive PR spin on a negative change, but it doesn't seem like they could even really find a positive spin for this one. Sounds like YouTube has decided that with the huge size of the site now, it's too much work to verify every account above 100k subs, so from now on they'll just be doing it when they personally see one that they think needs it. I see some English channels already complaining about this change, but I can imagine it'll be even worse for large foreign channels.