Subscription Glitch

On February 8, 2017, a huge glitch was exposed related to subscriber counts, this affected many channels during the time.

Finding the Glitch
During the time while Tana Mongeau was being affected by IDubbz's content cop, A small channel by the name of BlackscreenTV lost 22k subs while livestreaming their live sub counts, after realizing this, he tried to find out what was happening, then BSTV found out that if one person was to unsubscribe from a channel, instead of losing the normal 1 sub, it lost 2 subs.

Hardest Effected Channels

 * Tana Mongeau lost 1.6 Million, Her channel was at 2.4M then went down to 831k at lowest.


 * PewDiePie lost 618 Thousand, His channel was at 53M and went down to 52.4M at lowest.


 * DramaAlert lost 400 Thousand, His channel was at 1.7M and went down to 1.3M at lowest.


 * LeafyIsHere lost 238 Thousand, His channel was at 4.5M and went down to 4.2M at lowest.


 * h3h3Productions lost 140 Thousand, His channel was at 3.2M and went down to 3M at lowest.


 * BuzzFeedVideo lost 83 Thousand, Their channel was at 11.7M and went down to 11.6M at lowest.


 * BlackScreenTV lost 31 Thousand, His channel was at 30k and went down to -1,555 at lowest.


 * YouTube (Spotlight) lost 29 Thousand, Their channel was at 25.52M and went down to 25.49M at lowest, but went back up to 25.52M before others got their subs back which is most likely YouTube testing ways to rollback the glitch.


 * OnisionSpeaks lost 3.4 thousand, His channel was at 1.913M and went down to 1.91M at lowest.