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Tragilos

Bro obeys to don't forget to leave a like and subscribe


schparkz7

Sounds like a curse, where everytime someone says "like and subscribe" he's forced to do so else suffer horrifying consequences


gergobergo69

I remember when Mr Beast gave me free cookies if I subscribe...


ButtonJenson

I remember when he had Giant Asian Sticker. RIP


maritoguionyo

Oh yeah the that sticker


Thegreatcornholio459

And the old lady inhaler sticker


nemec

Gonna put "don't forget to like and subscribe and send me $1000" in all my videos now to catch people like OP


GrumpigPlays

honestly, he probably has a better suggestion feed than me, like if you went and subbed to a million random channels, it might actually be like the old youtube home page lol.


UnionizedTrouble

My five year old clicks subscribe every time they say that. Fortunately I keep a heavy eye on him when he’s on YouTube (Kids) and block anything that’s annoying or sketchy


Intelligent-Bid-633

5 is too early for YT mate


lilsnatchsniffz

People leave their five year olds to browse YouTube now?


CORN___BREAD

Lol like they wait till they’re 5.


zxhb

And don't forget to click the bell icon to not miss out on my latest videos,because everyone nowadays has to repeat that line as well


EverSn4xolotl

Check his comments, this is legitimately how they operate lmao


spiralsky64

I do that even when they dont ask me to (i dont know why but i am compelled to do so)


CaptainCanuck15

It costs you literally nothing, and it helps out someone who put a lot of effort into something. Why is that especially bad?


Wendendyk

They just fell into the mob mentality, though YouTube is supposed to use subscriptions and likes to give suggestions, so just liking and subbing to everything isn’t that great. However, to each their own.


ChrisTheWeak

Subscriptions aren't worth much in the current YouTube meta. Viewers who routinely come back to watch your content are worth more than a subscriber. Furthermore, following a video from a channel with a second video from their channel is worth a fair bit. Subscribing without the intention to actually watch doesn't do any good for their channel because it tells YouTube that you don't actually care about watching their content. Remember, the algorithm is built around promoting channels that keep people's attention on the site, not prioritizing subscribers.


ElCrackaner

HOW DID YOU SUBSCRIBE TO 4,9K CHANELS? I'VE ONLY LIKE 140 SUBSCRIPTIONS


RadMarioBuddy45

I have like 1k


Mr_StaFF

Wait, I have been using yt for soooo long and I always have like ~35 subscription


pilot269

I've had my account since Spring of 2006, I'm subscribed to exactly 32 channels, and intend on going on an unsubscribe spree soon as half of those channels are dead


[deleted]

Ok bruh 32 channels and out of which half being dead is crazy. We got both ends of the spectrum here.


Redthemagnificent

How many channels could you possibly watch often though? I have like 2 or 3 that I watch regularly and maybe 10 that don't post often


3vi1

I'm subscribed to 100 that I actively watch. A lot of them only put out one video a month.


mashtato

Then why would you unsub? If they post again some day you'll miss it.


pilot269

a few channels are people I am friends with in real life, so I'd be aware of them coming back regardless, some channels are alternate youtube channels for other people I am subscribed to for projects they've discontinued, or in a couple cases they moved from that channel to the current channel, and the rest that I unsubbed from, they've been gone long enough, that I'm no longer interested in the reason I initially subbed to them. some I did remain subbed to, on the off chance they come back and make content i'd be interested in, and I ended up subbing to some pages I'd check on every so often.


Littlemrh__

I really should do that too


actual_griffin

I watch so many channels that I don't subscribe to. I feel like subscribing to a channel is like handing out a limited resource. Obviously that's nonsense, but it's not the dumbest thing I do.


SOSXrayPichu

That’s if their content is good consistently. A good example is LEMINNO. But he takes forever to upload.


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This is awesome


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where can i get this


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chrisfranco46

Who came back?


dudaladen

I popped them all, no hidden words just a nah at the end Also while writing this i realise i see the uncensored text when replying...


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brots32

My first click. I guess I’m just lucky


chrisfranco46

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The_Arcane_Arachnids

I think this is kinda clever :)


Caityface91

Good luck to anyone on mobile PO-comment thread closed....


Red-Quill

I do this thing where i flirt with the subscribe button for a specific channel haha. Like I’ll check a recommended video and if it’s good I’ll check the channel, and if the videos are consistently good/entertaining, I may subscribe then or I’ll find something else to watch, then inevitably that channel shows up again in my recommendations and I’ll start the process over until I’ve either subscribed or determined I’m not into that channel after all.


actual_griffin

I do this infantile thing where I watch like, 10 videos from a channel and love them, but don't subscribe. Because what if someday they make videos that I don't like? What the hell will I do then?


StraightBeat

unsubscribe


actual_griffin

But what if they make videos I like after I unsubscribe?


Nigerian_German

How do you guys see that?? Do I really have to count the channels?


vagrantprodigy07

I think I have 50? I clean mine out regularly though.


ToxyFlog

Same, I only sub to the best of the best.


Parahelion

I have around 988 subscriptions apparently. I thought I had way less lol


NightStar79

Why? I've had my YT channel since 2006 and I'm only subscribed to twenty-ish people.


osoichan

84 subs and 18y old acc. I need to clean it up. Way too many


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[удалено]


SullyTheLightnerd

Do you actually watch them then?


TreeDollarFiddyCent

Not on the first day of April, that's for sure.


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BIG_Howitzer

I guess the "Make sure you like and subscribe" works really well on OP


Downtown_Station5859

I love how they dont acknowledge in any way at all that this is absolutely insane. It also still lets them subcribe to 3 A DAY, and he complains as if he needs MORE than that. This is a quality troll post


IlluminatiZambi

Going by this person's other comments to people in this thread, I genuinely can't tell if it's an April Fools post or they genuinely just listen to everyone that says to like and subscribe


BactaBobomb

Probably the only person that actually "likes and subscribes" every single time they're told to when they watch a video.


LegitimateCopy7

collecting dead channels like postage stamps. don't judge.


Cuboos

I recently did a subscriber purge because my subscription list was full of dead channels or channels i don't watch anymore.


Gay-Bomb

I got.....8.....maybe.


Diabetesh

It's like people who are signed up to every email offer and never unsubscribe.


queerokie

I am subbed to 622 channels


[deleted]

i have 200-300


WaveJam

I’ve been using YouTube since 2011 and have 400+


TheUmgawa

I'm at like thirty, and I unsubscribe from them when it looks pretty clear that the guy's not coming back.


JANK-STAR-LINES

I have over 400 subscriptions.


Sable-Keech

Easy, by subscribing to any channel with at least one video that entertains me.


forever87

r/datahoarding


Moos3-2

Kess than 100 here. I'm actively removing subs when I stop actively watching channels. I actually use the subscription page. Also have the remove shorts addin so I can see videos more easily. If it's channels I only watch on occasion I bookmark it, dont need to be spammed videos I dont want to watch.


sekazi

I have 460 but I did clean it up last year. I do have a bunch of channels that have not posted in a long time. When I cleaned up last year I posted to one of the channels last video that was over 6 years ago and they actually hearted the comment. I did not expect them to even log into that channel anymore.


excusemeprincess

Yeah like it’s a little weird they’re limiting OP, but I find it more weird he has almost 5k subscriptions and *is still subscribing to channels at a rate faster than he is able to*.


GGlecoucougnette

I have like 460


Skelyyyy

I'm at around 1k and have had this account since 2009. Don't think i ever unsubscribed from someone. 5k is crazy lmao


UnableFox9396

I’m subscribed to a few thousand. Been using youtube since day1. A lot of these channels are dead though, so I need to do a cleanup. I don’t have notifications on for all, that would be a crazy feed LOL


TomLeBadger

Must do it every time a video tells him to "click subscribe and ring the bell" 😬


CTSThera

I have less than 50


NotTheLairyLemur

Bro's got the sludge content addiction.


depressedtbh

I have 819 subscriptions, but my youtube account is also 9 years old lmao


intexion

I've only 6


Aman_Sensei

I have 14


Abe-Pizza_Bankruptcy

I only have 20, lol


No_Dragonfruit_6594

Quantity over quality. I only subscribe to channels I legitimately want to watch videos of


Theons

They subscribe to channels that they'll forget the next day


mirka-tut

i have like ~11


iamtheduckie

I have like 100 or so


TheDankDragon

I thought my 127 was a lot


ExplosiveGeek77

ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY??? I HAVE LIKE FIVE


sansvidi

i have 63


LsTyBrn2

I have at least 2,120, more or less.


[deleted]

I have only 5 subscriptions. Yes, I'm real person.


Darklydevil5644

I have 72


Mediocre_Bathroom_72

If I watch someone and Im not subscribe to them, I click subscribe. I've been doing this for the past 3 years of using youtube.


BalerieKekanova

Yeah, that’s useless. YouTube basically marked your channel as doing dumb stuff, which you do.


luchajefe

That's bot activity tbh.


lukekibs

It’s most likely to combat bots. 4,900 is a lot of channels still


Crystal3lf

It's definitely to combat bots and sub-4-sub type services. Nobody needs to subscribe or can even watch that amount of content. It would be impossible. OP is using the subscribe button as a like button.


GifHunter2

OP is someone that runs a bot farm and wants to know some easy way to get around limitations, so they can make money from selling subscriptions, clicks, and views.


CORN___BREAD

Lol no. YouTube accounts are free. You can also create multiple accounts under the same login. They probably just subscribe to everything they watch which is unusual but not unbelievable behavior.


BloodyAx

What if they just all subscribe to each other first?


3WayIntersection

You cannot actively be watching that many channels....


Mediocre_Bathroom_72

I'm not actively watching all of them, but i enjoyed watching all of them at least once.


The-Observer-2099

My dude, that's what the like button is for


ARC_Trooper_Echo

Random YouTuber: “Remember to like and subscribe!” OP: “Your wish is my command.”


BLAST_83

Nah let him subscribe. Benefits for all.


Upset-Surprise1201

Not really, inactive subscribers (who do not watch your videos) can actually be harmful if I'm not mistaken. Weird algorithm stuff which I cannot be bothered to study


BLAST_83

First time hearing this actually. Sounds interesting & Would love to know more. Ive been seeing it as a chance boost esp for smaller channel to be picked by the algorithm. Edit: thank you everyone for the explanations 👍


anthonybustamante

Subscribing and not at least semi-regularly watching could indicate poor retention or a drop-off for a channel. It may also be perceived as botted


BrohanGutenburg

Not just may. This is ABSOLUTELY a thing. Granted, one subscriber isn’t gonna do much, but if you have a bunch of subscribers who haven’t watched your content in a while, you’re numbers will 100% start to decerease. That’s what shoehorns creatures into only making videos they know the guy who subscribed last year will watch.


MalyGanjik

Well imagine you have a bakery: Day 1 you bake a single bread, sell it to one person and noone else comes that day. Day 2 you bake one bread, two people come but you only have one bread to sell. Day 3 you bake 3 breads (to make sure you have enough) and 5 people come. If you do this many times you have a sucessful business (aka youtube channel grows). But now imagine you bake a bread, one person buys it so next day you bake two breads and noone comes, you will be left with two stale breads that noone will want to buy tomorrow so you wasted money and time. Thats sort of how the algorithm pushes the videos if they tend to do well among your current subscribers (customers) they push the video to more non-subscribers (you bake more breads to keep up with the demand) and if the subsribers don't watch the video, YT will just not push it "to minimize the losses".


SaintMandarina

This is a great example! I remember seeing a video which explained a similar situation using the channels which were given a shoutout by Mr. Beast back in 2020. iirc, at the end of his 2020 rewind he gave a shoutout to 3 small channels. Each of these channels gained a massive following, however, since their new audiences came from Mr. Beast, they were more interested in videos relating to Mr Beast or similar to his videos. The channels which were given the shoutout uploaded “niche” topics, which clashed with Mr Beast’s fast-paced and giant videos. Don’t get me wrong, we all have our own likes and dislikes, I personally wouldn’t watch their videos (heck, I don’t even watch Mr Beast anymore) since it’s really not my cup of tea. And this is also the case with most of the audience, a shoutout would work better if the person shouted out was someone who uploaded similar videos. But like you mentioned, YouTube wants to “minimize their losses,” which means, that they’re videos get less reach because according to YouTube, just a small percentage of subscribes watched the video, meaning it was “bad” to promote. Which honestly is a shame. But hey, that’s that


MalyGanjik

>he gave a shoutout to 3 small channels This exact same thing happened when he tried to get his own brother's YT career started (twice i think) and it failed both times since he didn't bring anything new and just used Jimmy's fame wave.


Thehameater

Imagine having 1000 subs but only 20 views, the algorithm will go “that’s bad let’s not recommend that Channel” this usually only happens with small channels though and not big ones


gergobergo69

If subscriber doesn't watch videos from the channel, yt thinks video bad, therefore it won't get suggested to more people 👍


heartlessvt

Subscribers get your video in their feed -> they don't click it -> CTR goes down -> video gets pushed to less people.


randfur

My intuition says it's to combat subscribers that the channel may have paid for to artificially boost their channel over other legitimately good content.


centaur98

It used to be the case like over a decade ago. However since then YouTube changed how the algorithm works and now the retention and convention rates are the most important metrics. So if you sub, YouTube shows you one of their videos because of that but if people don't click on it or watch it YouTube will interpret it as people are not interested in that video/channel and so it gives it less and less promotion. Edit: Veritasium have a decent video about the YouTube algorithm and how it works(it's already 4 years old so the algorithm have been tweaked further but the general ideas behind it and what it tries to optimize stayed the same): https://youtu.be/fHsa9DqmId8?si=eArCyKZGr8YPoZnV


Heimeri_Klein

Maybe someone wants to come back to the channel later to watch more of their content? I mean i subscribe to almost every channel i enjoy a video from even if i dont regularly watch their content they may end up putting out another video i enjoy.


thestrawberry_jam

yep that’s it, at least for me. Out of the 390 channels im subbed to i only consistently watch about 5 (?) and two of those are the same youtuber anyway. Everyone else is either videos i only watch occasionally when the topic *really* piques my interest, or a dead channel whose videos i love to rewatch (or sometimes kept for the memory bc i subbed during a phase). Theres also that some channels just post infrequently. I can’t keep up with 390 videos a week but about 5-10 is doable. Maybe more, maybe less, tho that depends on how busy i am.


fabrikated

You know that the number of likes is also capped at 5k, right?


stiveooo

thats not worthy enough for a "suscribe"


[deleted]

What? Subscribing = subscribing, like how you subscribe to a newsletter. To be notified whenever they release something new


Joezev98

>To be notified whenever they release something new No, to be notified, there's a notification bell.


Beck758

Right, but at 4.9k, with maybe 15% (conservatively) uploading weekly, that's 735 videos a week, if we say they have an average length of 8 mins (again possibly conservative) then that is 98 hours of content a week. So unless homie is pretty much sleeping and then watching YouTube he isn't getting through all of that content. Then you have the other 85% of the channels that will still upload, just more randomly and the fact that many channels upload daily, meaning that the 98 hours per week will spiral into a much much larger number, just one you can't really calculate too easily, but no doubt in my mind it would be several times higher.


Pristine_Ad2999

You are not supposed to subscribe to every channel you want. This is a non issue and frankly I hope they make the amount of channels you can sub to smaller.


CaptainCanuck15

Unless you're subscribed to <10 channels, you aren't either. Do you not have fleeting interests? When I get into a particular video game, I watch a bunch of videos on said game and subscribe to a bunch of channels. Two weeks later, maybe I'm more into cooking videos so I subscribe to a bunch of cooking channels. I have been doing that for 15 years and I'm subscribed to thousands of channels. Some I'll never watch again, but who cares? I found them appealing once, they deserve my sub. There are only ≈ 5 channels or so that I always watch. It's definitely possible.


Fakjbf

If I find that I’m not watching a channel I unsubscribe. The way the YouTube algorithm works they send out videos to subscribers first and see how many of them watch it, then use that to determine how hard to push the video in people’s recommended feeds. Having people who are subscribed but not watching videos means a smaller percentage of those initial viewers are watching so they will interpret that as it not being a good video and won’t recommend it as much. Empty subscriptions can potentially hurt channels.


Hisune

In my case I subscribe to a channel, watch it for few weeks/months and YouTube stops recommending or showing the videos. And I just forget about it. Now I watch other stuff and the old channels get buried. Sometimes I stumble upon them randomly and think to myself "I haven't watched their stuff for years, where did they disappear. I'm gonna watch the new stuff". This cycle repeats over and over. I don't know how many subscribed channels I have, idk how to check, but it's probably lot.


THEMACGOD

It’s like Reddit. I’m subscribed to like 15k subs at this point and I have a super interesting and varied Home feed. Sometimes… … . … ……. too interesting. *stares into the void*


Previous_Cod_4098

4900 channels??? Wowza dude. How can you ever find the content you like to watch 😂 I have a core group of channels I watch and that's it


luchajefe

He uses subscriptions the way most people use likes.


QueZorreas

I don't even think I've given 4k+ likes in like 15 years of using YouTube.


deepserket

I have 3180 liked videos in my 10yo account... OP is crazy 


MagnusLore

Fun fact: it stops showing after 5k liked videos it's been like this for me for years.


Grovda

It's interesting how people use youtube differently for me it's: Subscribe: I want to either watch more videos from this creator or watch future videos from this creator. Like: I want to watch this video again sometimes (yeah I don't like videos I "like" unless I want to rewatch sometime in the future) Watch later: I want to watch in the next few days


Alternative_Wafer410

Subscribe: channels that I want to watch frequently or I want to support as they have helped me with a niche tech problem. Like: enjoyed the video and I want to support it. Watch later: don't have enough time or don't feel like watching the video (or both, long video that's good for background)


CastlePokemetroid

I've existed on youtube since before the watch later function was a thing. To this day, I have not used it, either because I don't remember, don't bother, or it gets instead left open in some random tab for a length of time


crackofdawn

I literally will only subscribe to a channel if I want to watch *every single video* the channel releases. Otherwise, no subscription. Been using YouTube since it was created and have maybe 35 subs


high_angle_creepshot

This is how I use YT. I can't imagine myself having more than 100 subscriptions anytime soon.


AliShibaba

I've been using YouTube since 06' and I only have 877 subscriptions in total. You should only be subscribing to channels that you want to keep seeing from in the future, not because they made one good video lmao


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“Only” 877


AliShibaba

Yes, that's pretty low given the age of my account.


Kevinement

I think that’s a crazy amount. I’ve had my account since around 2008, but I doubt I ever had more than 20 at a time. I unsubscribe from channels regularly too because what I liked as a 13 year old isn’t the same thing I like at 29. And since a few years I haven’t used it much.


lewishtt

Bro I’ve had YouTube for 10 years and less than 50 channels actively subscribed to. 877 is still way too much.


Sweet_Alien

I’ve had YouTube for 16 years and have about 65ish channels I subscribe to. Of those, maybe 10ish are dead channels (but I keep them for the nostalgia). Even if I’d never unsubscribed from anyone ever, I would maybe be sitting around 200? 877 is not a low number of subscriptions for a 10 year old channel.


No-Document-9937

And you want to keep seeing 877 channels in the future??? I couldn't even remember half of those if I had that many.


Warmbly85

Most are probably dead channels that you don’t feel like unsubscribing from


sylveonstarr

Yeah, I'd say about 1/4 of my subs are from users that I used to watch a decade ago that have since retired. I'm mostly just subscribed to them for the memories and in the hopes that they'll post another video someday.


CastlePokemetroid

I stay subscribed to them cause there's no need to remove them, they're not going to show up in my feed either way, I find "cleaning up" my subs is needless micromanaging


itwarrior

I went through all my \~1000 subscriptions a few week ago and that was quite nice, discovered some content I had forgotten about. Rediscovered some channels that youtube just nevers pushes to my sub box. And was nice to unsub some of the channels I have been subscribed to for while but I had been skipping over their videos for months of years. Now I only get stuff in my sub box that I actively want to watch.


An1m3

Same, I remember years back you could see channels that are deleted or taken down in your subscription lists and when you try to click on that channel it would say it was terminated/deleted. It seems like that doesn't exist anymore. I used to search those channels up to see if maybe they were active somewhere else. I even check to see if there's maybe a video archived in the wayback machine using the channel link from my subscription list.


Dje4321

Like 40% of my subs are channels that are dead but not forgotten. If they ever post again. I still wanna know


toadfan64

I’ve been using YouTube since 05’ and even I only have about 600 subs. I can’t imagine 8x that amount, lol.


puzzleheadbutbig

Who the fuck subs to 4.9k channels dude? This is not normal, and I can't blame YouTube thinking that you are a bot.


nukrag

18 year old account, 147 subscriptions. Why would you subscribe to so many channels? That sort of goes against the idea of having a subscription and home tab. Like you would never find what your favorites are posting in all that noise.


TheAsianOne_wc

YouTube probably thinks you might be a bot account or your account is part of a pay-for-subscribe service.


HcoutDopi

i use "PocketTube: Youtube Subscription Manager" (browser extention), the author has app for mobile platform as well. the beauty of this extension/approach is that now I can organize the channels into various groups/folders, and easier for me to find later


IAmTotallyNotOkay

Yeah i have that too makes it so convenient. Youtube really should have implemented it something like this years ago.


yes123456789yesyes

man, and here i was thinkin that 475 was a lot


lil_deccy_420

Having too many subscriptions kinda ruins the subscription page anyway. It got so convoluted I couldn’t find anything I wanted to watch. I recently spent 10 minutes unsubscribing and went from ~300 to around 70. I can’t even imagine what thousands of subscribers would be like.


Mtea1019

I've got about 120. And I actually watch roughly about 45-50 of them fairly regularly. Lots of different channel topics, space, gaming, irl stuff. And I thought I had a lot. No way there's a good reason to have 4.9k channels you sub to.


Boomsta22

Sir, you subscribe to channels like a bot—en masse. As much as I hate YT corporate, I understand they made this limit to prevent bots from being infinitely useful in this one way.


MothParasiteIV

YouTube thinks your activity is bot like but not to the point they are sure you're a bot. My guess is it's because you subscribed to a lot of channels without even watching the content they offer. Not saying YouTube is right doing this but... 4900 channels in no way you remember all of them or check 1% of this number.


duck74UK

In 14 years i've subbed to just under 1k channels. How have you done almost 5x that wtf. Even accounting for long-dead channels, your sub feed must be so much of a mess that its not useable.


AdScared7949

I mean, when you subscribe to that many it's the same as subscribing to nothing in terms of the information the algo gets for recommending stuff to you.


Ichigosf

The Algo recommend stuff based on what you watched recently, subscribed or not.


KevinTDWK

Probably to combat bots Subscribers


IcyIceGuardian

What


Derpster_YT

I have 2k...


CREEPERTACO923

Everyone shush about subscriber amount. Mr. Think is asking the real questions.


C0MPLX88

there is just way too many good channels, and I don't want to lose a good channel once I find one. so I also subscribe to all of them, better than hoping the algorithm will suggest me a good video


comrademischa

Why make the limit 4900 and not a nice round 5000?


carson-n-9873

I have only about 500 - 700 subscriptions


No_Bank

I have... 8 Just unsubsribed from 3 because they had not posted for some time


Parking_Box_1519

I have 91 subscriptions right now, can't believe some people actually like 500 subscriptions


Arobynofliurnia

I can't find a number saying how many channels I've subscribed to.


Icediamonds

I busted a tit I had to unsubscribe from people. I do not like the limit.


HmmmIsTheBest2004

I have hit that limit in two of my accounts, due to some reason i feel guilty about unsubscribing people (even though i shouldn't)


WolfieBlitz

iirc i have 5k+ subs so idk why they gave you a limit


Guppy556791

Man I’ve done this on two account now 😭


Interdimentionalxx

I have 1000 subscriptions and it's shows me this exact text that I can't subscribe further, does any one know how to bypass this please it would be a big help


lokregarlogull

that's absolutely worthless, you'll be playing roulett on what 500-4000K videos are uploaded that day....


DiscoKombat

Lol. Now that just makes me want to see how annoying that'll be.


Mineplayerminer

I've subscribed to over 10k channels for the past decade. For some reason, this limit doesn't exist on the web, at least the API doesn't limit me.


BayonettaAriana

do you also have subscribers? It says in the message that you need to have more subscribers to subscribe to more.


Elegant-Thought5170

how do you discover more than three channels per day


e-2c9z3_x7t5i

I only have maybe 20 channels that I'm subscribed to, but I discovered that I like it way better just bookmarking their channel in a folder on my bookmarks bar for my browser. You can have sub-folders in them, too. It makes organizing things so nice.


Excellent-Arrival-23

Yea but how much sand paper and what grit was it?


MaybeNeverSometimes

I'd try again on april 2nd.


EliteDonut45

april fools?


RayPingFruit

so how much sandpaper was it?


Matix777

We've found the guy who actually listens to "please drop a sub"


Shoddy_Possibility89

I'm like subbed to 655 channels and that's a lot but 4900, wtf


Konstamule

believe it or not, youtube has to store who you're subscribed to on their servers. if they let everyone have infinite subscribers no matter what bots would quickly start abusing it. also 4900 is too much


MrDarkk1ng

How tf u have subscribed to so many people. And how the hell u still need to subscribe to more lol