YouTube subscriber purge helps PewDiePie in battle vs T-Series PewDiePie\u2019s ongoing fight to remain the most subscribed YouTube channel, with Indian record label T-Series on his tail, has been given a boost \u2013 thanks to YouTube itself. Felix \u2018PewDiePie\u2019 Kjellberg has had the most subscribed channel on YouTube for over seven years, but when T-Series began gaining subscribers at a ridiculous rate, PewDiePie, his fans and other YouTubers began to fear the worst. The pushback against T-Series overtaking PewDiePie is largely down to a feeling among creators and users that YouTube is becoming more corporate, moving away from its roots of everyday people with a camera. PewDiePie very much represents that classic YouTube style of an everyday person talking into a camera, while T-Series represents the corporate takeover. So, many YouTubers and fans have been doing their part to assist PewDiePie, Such as MrBeast\u2019s ad campaign, hacking printers with messages reading \u2018subscribe to PewDiePie\u2019, and even a massive billboard in Time Square, New York. But now, it appears even YouTube themselves are doing their part. As part of a recent \u2018purge\u2019, YouTube removed millions of \u201cspam subscriptions\u201d \u2013 dropping T-Series by over 300,000, while PewDiePie lost only 80,000, approximately. so @pewdiepie lost 80k subs from the purge. T-Series lost 300K. 300 THOUSAND. pic.twitter.com\/VSr51TFo3K\u2014 T9 (@Thafnine) December 14, 2018 It looks like YouTube paid attention to all the demands to take a \u201cclose look\u201d at T-Series sub count especially. When they announced that the subscriber \u2018purge\u2019 would take place, lots of commenters on both Twitter and Google Groups demanded that T-Series subscribers were investigated. It means that PewDiePie is now comfortably in the lead over T-Series \u2013 hitting 77 million on December 16, while T-Series lags behind on 75,600,000 \u2013 when at one point the gap was as close as only 40,000. It seemed clear that no matter what efforts PewDiePie made, at one point T-Series would eventually take over, given the population of India and how popular T-Series\u2019 content is in the country. However, thanks to the community, fans, and now YouTube too, PewDiePie has taken a commanding lead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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