Google secretly deletes inactive YouTube accounts
Many YouTube content creators are scrambling to bring their subscription numbers back to where they were prior to this purge.
If you’re a YouTube content creator, like we are, then you may have noticed your subscribers has dropped substantially. Don’t worry - you did nothing wrong. Unfortunately for content creators, Google has decided to remove inactive YouTube accounts from its database today.
The YouTube inactive account purge occurred at 1am PT this morning, and Shacknews’ YouTube channel was hit particularly hard as we lost over 1,000 subscribers as a result. As a result of today’s purge, an average of 1% to 2% of subscriptions have been lost by content creators. YouTube itself lost 40,000 subscribers, while PewDiePie lost 613.000 subscribers.
YouTube has yet to make it public knowledge that it deleted inactive accounts today, but if you look on Twitter, many users are sharing information as to how many subscribers they lost in today’s purge. That's not all as a number of stat-tracking websites have been crashing for the majority of the day due to the purge.
If you’re a YouTube content creator that was hit with today’s purge, feel free to share your experience in the Chatty. Hopefully Google will reverse its decision to remove inactive accounts, or at least reconsider what kind of account is inactive.
Also - if you have yet to subscriber to our YouTube channel, now would be a fantastic time.
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I saw some you-tubers in tears because they reached a Sub goal only to have it being taken away. Not sure if it's worth crying over, but it does suck. Personally I think Youtube should just flat out delete any channel dedicated to Minecraft Let's plays, if they want to do something useful in the YouTube community.
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my noby noby boy video i took 7 years ago better still fucking be there
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGJ6Y-P34-c
oh man it is. crisis averted. -
User counts should always be active users not people who signed up at some distant time in the path.
Maybe Google should alter YouTube so that subscriptions are almost removed from your account after 2 years if you haven't watched the groups videos in that time. This would stop zombie accounts being counted as active users on channels.
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A lot of people have their egos wrapped up into how many follows/subs they have.
You are right. I want to know how many people are actively watching Shacknews content.
Losing subscribers hurts the people who make "I just hit 13000 subs!" celebration videos. They are fragile, special, little butterflies and Google hurt their feelings today.
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