Did T-Series actually take over PewDiePie after a YouTube technical issue? PewDiePie, YouTube \/ T-SeriesYouTube king Felix \u2018PewDiePie\u2019 Kjellberg is locked in a tense battle with Bollywood label T-Series to secure the most subscribers on the platform \u2013 but stats show that he suffered a brief defeat. During PewDiePie\u2019s close run against T-Series on February 22, T-Series actually surpassed him for eight, grueling minutes. A report by social media metrics site Social Blade confirmed this development, explaining that T-Series\u2019 short-lived victory was brought about by an automated YouTube audit. \u201cFor roughly 8 minutes, as a result of a YouTube audit, T-Series was ahead of PewDiePie (by a max of about 2000 subscribers),\u201d a Social Blade spokesperson said of the issue. In order to ensure that stats like views and subscribers only reflect the activity of real users, YouTube routinely purges any inactive accounts. This happened to occur at the peak of PewDiePie\u2019s run against T-Series, setting him back a reported 20,000 subscribers in the process. While a livestream of PewDiePie and T-Series\u2019 sub counts showed a single subscriber difference between the two, it looks like Pewd\u2019s defeat went largely unnoticed. Shoutout to that one guy who stopped him from getting passed, we are back over 7k now lol pic.twitter.com\/VDRnH8XThr \u2014 MrBeast (@MrBeastYT) February 22, 2019 Felix addressed the purge in a video on February 24, where he noted that their sub gap had only been around 22,000 subscribers just before the purge went live. \u201cIt was necessary,\u201d Pewds said of his defeat. \u201cBecause now they got a taste of what it means to be number one. And that\u2019s all you\u2019re ever gonna get, T-Series.\u201d [Timestamp: 9:38 for mobile users] Since Tesla CEO Elon Musk\u2019s appearance on \u2018Meme Review,\u2019 PewDiePie has been soaring above his Bollywood nemesis, and is now over 69,000 subs above T-Series as of February 27.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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