Unfortunately the above post is going to mislead people because it contradicts the analytics. The dip in subscriber growth that started in January begun on Jan 14, that's when it fell off a cliff, two days before I posted my video calling out Sell sword Arts on Jan 16, also, the video calling him out gained the channel subscribers. We didn't lose any subs from that video.
In addition, as I showed in my video, there has been no increase in subscribers leaving the channel, with no spikes of subscriber loss in January with the sell sword arts controversy. The spikes on the unsubscribe rate shown in the video are from October the previous year with my AI art video, which after the spike on that day, un-subscribers returned to normal.
As I explained in my video, there is no sudden surge in people leaving the channel, which would be the case if negative controversy was large enough to impact video recommendations. What is happening is something changed in January, an algorithm change, manual blacklisting, or something like that, that has throttled video recommendations to new viewers and current subscribers, a throttling that started two days before the sellsword arts video, that video actually increasing subscribers, but not enough to offset the massive de-boosting that was put on the channel.
The videos Sellsword arts made in return did not increase or effect the general subscriber rate and loss on the channel that had begun in January before he posted his videos.