@swiftyspiffy I think what you would be missing there would be mostly the ones who either don’t know how or don’t care to announce sub - it’s making quite a large leap to assume that the remaining 28 are intentional lurk-subs. Since Burke doesn’t call out new subs when they sub there’s little to no incentive to announce.
I appreciate you offering some stats though! What would be useful would be to see would be how many people, before the recent changes rolled out, were new subbing off stream time - Even those won’t be all intentional lurksubs (some people just want emotes when they see them), but it’d be a much closer number than the one you’ve provided here, that’s shrouded in the confusion of “announce new sub”.
You even see him saying “You have to hit announce for new subs” - everyone knows its awkward and confusing.
For streamers that don’t care to say thanks to their subs or who don’t incentivize announcing your sub in any way, sure, this isn’t a big deal. That’s not all streamers though. Other channels run differently, saying thanks to new subs and resubs when they happen instead of in one big batch sometime. The problem with this change is that they’re forcing more work onto people who want to reward subs who don’t know they have to announce.