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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Subscriber count is kind of a bad metric. Most youtubers know that most of their viewers aren't subscribed, and that most of their subscribers don't watch all of their videos. It's a lot more useful for small channels that don't get recommended to randoms, but the bigger the channel gets the worse it is as a metric.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Subscriber count is kind of a bad metric.

How about floatplane subs?
https://grafana.elizabeth.codes/public-dashboards/10023c4c479744e191760225708c0124?orgId=1&from=now-36h&to=now&refresh=5m

Cause it looks like that over the past 36 hours they've lost >3000 subs there... which IIRC is a paid service.

Edit: Another way to look at how much they've lost is ~10%

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

where did this data come from?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can view the current sub count if you have a floatplane account (even if you're not subbed to them). This appears to match the number I see on their profile. So I would presume it scrapes their site for it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Makes sense, thanks!