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      This kind of already happens there though. Video view counts are visible and often way below a channel’s sub count.

      Sure, there are exceptions (viral video views often far exceeding the sub count), but by and large they’re a good metric for seeing how a channel is actually doing.

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        Yeah, you can infer it.

        But no one is making a thank you video because they reached a weekly active users metric.

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        That’s news to me. They took away subscriber numbers? YouTubers still talk about them.

        And this is the number behind the plaques they send out to people. I can’t image them stopping that. They won’t send plaques based on weekly average activity numbers.