Re: not for publicity
"Your point about number of subscribers as a reason for it not being a stunt only holds up if you assume someone who makes a living from YouTube wouldn't want to make more."
Not sure about that. Deleting a channel could put a dent in your subscribers if you have trouble recovering it, if recovering it doesn't automatically add followers, and least speculatively because none of us who weren't subscribers can subscribe right now when the name is in our mind because the channel's down. If this were for publicity, it would be best to have it recovered really fast after the news broke so people could come watch videos. I'm guessing it will stay down long enough that I won't end up watching it because I won't remember to go looking for it days from now.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
