[kotaKat]

Mobile live streaming requirements: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9228390

Over 50 subs and under 1000 subs == streaming is limited via mobile.

It doesn't matter how old your account, either -- I have an account with only 28 subscribers (somehow?) for several years and I get the same limitations on mobile streaming, namely that I can't even stream.

Technical workaround would be to set up a stream via desktop and use my phone as an RTMP source... but that's just a kludge.

[londons_explore]

> for several years

Old accounts are still hotbeds of spam... There are plenty of spammers who signed up for 100,000 gmail accounts back in 2010 when there were no good captchas, and have left them mostly idle till now, and can now sell them to others to use for spamming.

[kingcharles]

Reading that I had to go check the subscriber count on my account. 17 year old YouTube account has.... 115 subscribers! I would have thought more bots than that would have randomly subscribed over the years.

Went to jail for eight years. First thing I do when I get out.. how many views did I get on YouTube while I was gone?!

[alternatetwo]

They did, but the accounts got deleted probably. I was going from 1200-1000 on a mostly inactive account for years.