Youtube subscriber count predictor

-- This is a script to calculate your youtube channel growth.  My channel is Poin Test, and I'm growing decently fast for a channel that is really really smol.
-- I became a bit curious to see where I'd be in a couple of months, so I wrote this.

-- I put alot of effort into my videos and edit them to the best of my ability, because of this, my channel growth rate is a bit higher than many others. So I asked a few friends of mine for their channel growth rates.

-- One friend of mine currently has 668 subscribers, which is way more then I have and I'm pretty happy for him.  He streams on ps4 and doesn't really commentate much which effects his growth. I calculated his growth,
-- and his value seems to be 1.005

-- For me, my channel is growing very fast, currently about 3 subscribers a month and right now I have 37 subscribers.  Because of my small amount of subscribers and large growth rate, my channel growth value is
-- substantually higher than my freind's, which after a bit of analizing, it turned out to be 1.082 which is %1656 more than my friend's growth rate.

--If you don't know how to calculate your own channel's growth rate, just give a fair estimate.  Or use the values listed below!

--[[ CHANNEL GROWTH CHART :
(high video effort is standard youtuber effort, like pewdiepie or reddit reading channels [like emkay])
(standard video effort is clipping videos together to have all content be introduced in a nice and steady stream  OR with great commentary)
(low video effort is low commentary or little to no video editing what-so-ever)

(EFFORT COUNTS AS CONTENT TOO, HIGH VIDEO EFFORT + TERRIBLE CONTENT = STANDARD)

fun fact: this script showcases why it's so hard to get a start on youtube
another fun fact: This script uses exponential math, and will sometimes be VERY inaccurate.  It uses math, not the youtube algorithm.


(about 10 to 80 subscribers)
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Small amount of subscribers, high video effort: 1.1
Small amount of subscribers, standard video effort: 1.06
Small amount of subscribers, low video effort: 1.02

(about 81 to 2850 subscribers)
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Decent amount of subscribers, high video effort: 1.084
Decent amount of subscribers, standard video effort: 1.052
Decent amount of subscribers, low video effort: 1.008  < look at the drop lmao

(about 2851 to 10000 subscribers)
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Great amount of subscribers, high video effort: 1.032
Great amount of subscribers, standard video effort: 1.012
Great amount of subscribers, low video effort: 1.009

(passed 100000 subscribers all three categories tends to even out due to youtube recomendations; you'll have to find your own growth value)
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________]]

GROWTH_VALUE = 1.1 -- larger than 1 gains subscribers, lower than 1 loses subscribers.
CURRENT_SUBSCRIBERS = 37 -- must be an integer (whole number)
MONTHS = 37 -- amount of months to calculate

-- DONT MODIFY ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE

-- FUNCTIONS
function removedec(number)
    kek = number
    local strnum = tostring(number)
    for i=1,#strnum do
        if string.sub(strnum,i,i) == "." and string.sub(strnum,i+1,i+1) == "0" and string.sub(strnum,i+2,i+2) == ""  then
            kek = tonumber(string.sub(strnum,1,i-1))
        end
    end
    return kek
end

function round(number)
    kek = nil
    local strnum = tostring(number)
    for i=1,#strnum do
        if string.sub(strnum,i,i) == "." then
            kek = tonumber(string.sub(strnum,i+1,i+1))
            kek2 = tonumber(string.sub(strnum,1,i-1))
        end
    end
    if kek ~= nil then
        if kek >= 5 then
            kek2 = kek2 + 1
        else
            kek2 = kek2
        end
    end
    if kek2 ~= nil then
        return kek2
    else
        return number
    end
end

function returnmonth(x)
    local months = {"January","February","March","April","May","June","July","August","September","October","November","December"}
    return months[x]
end

--FUNCTIONALITY

local current_month = tonumber(os.date("%m"))-1 -- THIS WILL NOT WORK ON ROBLOX, CHANGE THIS FOR REPLICATION
local current_year = tonumber(os.date("%Y"))
local current_subs = CURRENT_SUBSCRIBERS


for i=1,MONTHS do
    current_month = current_month + 1
    if current_month == 13 then
        current_year = current_year + 1
        current_month = 1
    end
    CURRENT_SUBSCRIBERS = CURRENT_SUBSCRIBERS*GROWTH_VALUE
    current_subs = round(CURRENT_SUBSCRIBERS)
    print(returnmonth(current_month)..", "..current_year.." | Subscriber count: "..current_subs)
end