PewDiePie pulls away from T-Series to top YouTube subscriber table after Indian channel loses 200,000 ‘spam’ fans
The Swedish YouTuber only lost 40,000 after the video-sharing company announced it would dump fake accounts in a massive clean-up.
YouTube tweeted: “Heads up, Creators: On Dec 13-14 you may see a noticeable decrease in your sub count as we remove spam subscriptions.
“‘If spam is removed, you’ll see a YouTube Studio alert. This should help give you confidence that the subs you do have are real fans!”
PewDiePie, whose real name is Felix Kjellberg, and the Indian music label T-Series have been battling it out to be YouTube’s most subscribed channel.
The Swedish gamer appeared to be nervous when he tweeted in response to YouTube’s announcement: “Doomsday it’s all over bois..”
An American vlogger later tweeted a side-by-side comparison showing how PewDiePie was in the top spot.
He goes by Mr Beast and tweeted: “‘YouTube went thru and deleted bot accounts and the sub gap is 180k bigger.
“1st = poods hourly sub count 2nd = tseries hourly sub count.”
PewDiePie seemed to relieved after only losing 40,000 subscribers and even said about the situation: “Only lost 40k, already made that back. Tseries lost 300k lol..”
He later clarified he meant 200,000.
The 29-year-old currently has more than 76.7million subscribers and T-Series is behind with more than 75.4million.
The gap between the two has come as close as 16,000 subscribers at one point.
PewDiePie fans have taken the race so seriously they’ve reportedly hacked printers and video game Grand Theft Auto V to show messages supporting him.
His place on the YouTuber subscriber table is cemented as he has been embroiled in a fresh “racism” storm after praising a “Nazi” YouTube channel reportedly known for its anti-Semetic content.
The YouTuber used one of his videos to urge viewers to subscribe to the “hateful” channel.
This is not the first time the Swede has made remarks that have been viewed as racist, anti-Semitic, and nationalist.
Last year, he was blasted over jokes about Jewish people on Twitter.
The channel slips anti-Semitic and misogynistic comments into videos about anime and films, reported Business Insider.
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