YouTube is human after all. The platform’s paid vMVPD—YouTube TV—has seen its first drop-off in subscriber numbers since the streaming service was launched in 2017. An estimated 150,000 subscribers cancelled YouTube TV in Q1 2024, according to the latest quarterly Cord Cutting Monitor report from Wall Street research firm MoffettNathanson. This comes just two months since MoffettNathanson itself projected YouTube to gain 1.5 million new subscribers this year, and another 1.5 million in 2025, and then another 1.5 million in 2026 – reaching 12.4 million by the end of the forecast period. This was supposed to mark an explosive rise from YouTube TV’s reported 8 million subscribers at the end of 2023, but now analyst projections the world over—and YouTube…