YouTube Question YouTube has deleted half of my subscribers?

[rollingbricks]

I started regular uploads on my channel in February. Since then, my channel has started to grow day by day. A month ago I heard some crazy success stories about #shorts so I just tried. My first short was this:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUOHhkH8nkw

and for my surprise it generated 30K view within a few hours. My subscriber count went up from 114 to 410. I was happy but also a bit afraid about how this might looks from YouTube perspective when it's time to apply for monetization. I swear I didn't hire bots to boost my view counts, in fact I thought it's due to the growing popularity of shorts. Anyway. Today I logged into YT Studio and noticed that half of my subscribers has just gone overnight. When I go to the channel page it still shows 525 but in analytics it's only 230. I also can see this difference at the video's analytics vs video page. Does anyone know what's just happened? Is it possible that YT rated my subscribers/views false and just removed them? If so, will I get in trouble when it comes to monetization?

 

[DIMTIPS]

Wow. That sounds scary. Sorry I cannot help but sure someone in community will respond.

 

[Beanie Draws]

Well, on your youtube button it's still showing the subscriber count you reported, so maybe YouTube was having a buggy day. It happens sometimes, especially in analytics, you will see days where it will bug out and not show any analytics.

I had a strange day this year where none of my comments were showing up despite actually having comments, so some days it takes YouTube a little longer to wake up in the morning.