Felix “PewDiePie” Kjellberg Continues Subscriber Count Battle Against T-Series
Felix “PewDiePie” Kjellberg, the biggest YouTuber with the highest number of subscribers, is determined to maintain his top spot on the platform. For months, he has been engaged in a subscriber count war with T-Series. However, with T-Series catching up and the difference in subscriber count now around 100,000, PewDiePie is feeling the pressure.
T-Series is an Indian music label and film production company founded in 1983. The channel regularly uploads Bollywood-style music videos on YouTube and has already set multiple records. It is widely considered as the most-subscribed non-English channel on the site, although it has not surpassed PewDiePie’s subscribers count yet.
Today, PewDiePie started a livestream of Fortnite to boost his subscriber count and gain an edge over T-Series. The stream attracted nearly 300,000 viewers, and PewDiePie displayed the live subscriber counts of both channels in the top right corner. During the livestream, PewDiePie’s subscriber count surpassed T-Series, with a margin of an additional 50,000 subscribers.
Related: PewDiePie becomes the first YouTuber to reach 80 million subscribers.
Supporters worldwide have been making efforts to maintain PewDiePie’s lead over T-Series, and their tactics have been successful so far. These efforts include hacking printers to request subscriptions to PewDiePie and YouTuber Justin Roberts renting a Times Square billboard for $1 million to advertise PewDiePie’s channel. PewDiePie’s livestream appears to be a final attempt to fend off T-Series, at least for now.