PewDiePie weighs in on Ninja vs Jacksepticeye YouTube subscriber battle Youtube\/Jacksepticeye\/Twitter\/NinjaThe world\u2019s biggest YouTuber, Felix \u2018PewDiePie\u2019 Kjellberg, has given his thoughts on the subscriber \u2018battle\u2019 between Twitch star Tyler \u2018Ninja\u2019 Blevins and YouTube heavyweight Sean \u2018Jacksepticeye\u2019 McLoughlin. Since the release of Fortnite in July 2017, and the global interest in Epic Games\u2018 free-to-play battle royale mode, Ninja has seen his social following grow exponentially, to the point where he was the most subscribed to Twitch streamer ever, with an incredible 269,000 subscribers. According to statistics provided by social media monitoring site SocialBlade, in August 2016 Ninja acquired 432 new YouTube subscribers, compared to the 3.48 million he acquired over March 2018. The rapid growth of Ninja\u2019s YouTube channel contrasts to that of Jackspeticeye, who has been a staple name on the online video platform for upwards of 10 years, uploading over 4,000 videos since his channel was created in 2007. Ninja had been closing in on Jacksepticeye\u2019s sub-count for a while, and it appears he\u2019s finally overtaken the Irish gamer. As of 3:00pm GMT on March 10, Ninja sits at 21,681,190, while Jacksepticeye sits at 21,676,373, putting the Fortnite superstar at about 5,000 subs ahead. This prompted PewDiePie to tweet a response, asking \u201cHow can this be? That\u2019s impossible\u201d, with a screenshot of the two content creators\u2019 subscriber counts on top of a \u2018meme\u2019 of Spiderman crying. It\u2019s possible that PewDiePie is genuinely surprised by Ninja\u2019s incredible growth, or it could be that the whole thing is something of a parody of PewDiePie\u2019s own, very public subscriber battle with Bollywood label T-Series. Jacksepticeye responded humorously, stating that he\u2019s \u201con my way to the ranch\u201d, in reference to an in-joke between PewDiePie and his subscribers, regarding the popular American talk show \u2018Dr. Phil\u2019 \u2013 where troublesome children are sent to \u2018the ranch\u2019. Despite being overtaken by Ninja, it is unlikely Jacksepticeye is unhappy with his subscriber count, given that he remains the 70th most subscribed to YouTube account in the world. He is undoubtedly an incredibly popular internet personality, with Twitter users responding to Ninja\u2019s overtake with \u201cfeelsbadman\u201d and \u201chow did we allow this to happen\u201d. Are there any more twists to come in the second most interesting subscriber battle on YouTube at the moment?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
PewDiePie weighs in on Ninja vs Jacksepticeye YouTube subscriber battle Youtube\/Jacksepticeye\/Twitter\/NinjaThe world\u2019s biggest YouTuber, Felix \u2018PewDiePie\u2019 Kjellberg, has given his thoughts on the subscriber \u2018battle\u2019 between Twitch star Tyler \u2018Ninja\u2019 Blevins and YouTube heavyweight Sean \u2018Jacksepticeye\u2019 McLoughlin. Since the release of Fortnite in July 2017, and the global interest in Epic Games\u2018 free-to-play battle royale […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}