Ahh, well there you go. I'm not sure how old you are, but perhaps you just didn't grow up in the social media age. I'm pretty sure my older brothers and parents don't care about friend or subscriber counts either. This is why I often talk to my younger cousins to keep up to date with how the young generation thinks. What can be fishy about hiding your count? Well the most obvious ones are the channels giving Youtube advice on how to grow. That's like entrepreneurs giving financial advice but don't have any proof their advice works. Then there's channels that get millions of views but very low sub counts and I find these sketchy. When someone hides their sub counts, I don't know if they fall under this category which makes me lose trust in them. But it's probably the same reason people naturally create stereotypes, because it saves people time. I see a channel with a low sub count, my initial assumption is that this channel is new or not popular and probably won't provide the value I can get from other channels. Like I said people like following the crowd. This is one of the reasons many channels start having exponential growth once they hit high sub counts, even without improvement in their content quality.
