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YouTube glitch causes alarm for popular vloggers

Popular vloggers around the globe were alarmed when a YouTube glitch saw subscriber count suddenly drop by thousands — if not hundreds of thousands — in a matter of hours on Wednesday.

YouTube had earlier acknowledged all was not well in a tweet, admitting that the glitch was first spotted at the start of the week.

“Yikes! Starting Monday, in some cases, we accidentally started counting two unsubs for the price of one. We’re working on a fix!” YouTube said in its Twitter message.

With the tweet posted Wednesday and the fix still not in place, it’s likely there are a good number of very concerned creators out there wondering what on earth is going on.

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YouTube confirmed in another tweet that only users who unsubscribed from a channel would be unsubscribed, and that all the proper numbers would show up again just as soon as they found a way of squashing the bizarre bug.

“We’re aware! No subs are/were lost,” YouTube said. “It’s just the count that is incorrect.” Their second tweet read.

The issue gained wider attention when YouTube star PewDiePie, a guy who’s been banging on about issues with the video streaming giant for a while now, tweeted on Wednesday that every unsubscribe counted not as one, or even two, but as 100 – a figure clearly disputed by YouTube.

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