PewDiePie vs T-Series was a widespread YouTube event in which two channels PewDiePie and T-Series faced off to become the most subscribed YouTube channel. It began on August 29, 2018, when PewDiePie, the previous most subscribed YouTube channel who held the title for 5 years, 3 months and 5 days,...
Though the PewDiePie vs T-Series trend started to decrease in popularity, anytime T-Series is close to surpassing PewDiePie, YouTubers still do their part and make sure PewDiePie stays the most-subscribed. It had been done multiple times which still makes PewDiePie the most-subscribed YouTube channel.
When T-Series was less than 10 million subscribers behind PewDiePie, PewDiePie himself and multiple YouTubers, such as Pyrocynical, DramaAlert, and MrBeast discussed T-Series. On August 29, 2018, PewDiePie made his first video on T-Series due to the YouTube community and big YouTubers discussing their growth against PewDiePie.
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On February 22, T-Series overtook PewDiePie for the first time, because of YouTube's daily subscriber audit, which is used to delete inactive subscribers / fake subscribers. PewDiePie, but T-Series went up, making an easy surpass against PewDiePie.
In just 12 hours, T-Series was 100,000 subscribers ahead and PewDiePie is now 200,000 subscribers ahead as of April 2, 2019.
On April 10, 2019, the Delhi High Court ordered the removal of PewDiePie videos due to "racist" and "derogatory" comments towards India. Following this, on April 11, 2019, b***h lasagna and Congratulations got blocked in India.
The music video is PewDiePie 's most viewed video, surpassing "A Funny Montage ", a video which held most viewed video for 5 years. Party In Backyard also released an instrumental of the track on November 28, 2018, which soon sparked many covers, remixes, and parodies.
Especially after YouTubers did their part multiple times previously, PewDiePie played and live-streamed popular franchise Fortnite for the first time on February 3, 2019, to stay ahead of T-Series. The stream had over 300,000 live viewers and successfully made him stay the most-subscribed YouTube channel.
On October 5, 2018 , PewDiePie released a diss track on T-Series named, "b***h lasagna", originally named "T-SERIES DISS TRACK". The song was made with the help of Party In Backyard and shot/edited by Brad (fakemarzia).
Though the PewDiePie vs T-Series trend started to decrease in popularity, anytime T-Series is close to surpassing PewDiePie, YouTubers still do their part and make sure PewDiePie stays the most-subscribed. It had been done multiple times which still makes PewDiePie the most-subscribed YouTube channel.
The rivalry between PewDiePie and T-Series received more attention in India due to controversial actions by PewDiePie and his fans. PewDiePie's "Bitch Lasagna" diss track contained some derogatory lyrics about Indian people that some Indians found offensive.
The competition between the two channels began after T-Series began to near PewDiePie in subscribers in late 2018. T-Series temporarily overtook PewDiePie in subscribers on numerous occasions in early 2019, and on 27 March 2019, it became the most subscribed YouTube channel for five consecutive days, before PewDiePie regained the lead.
He also blamed YouTube for a lack of support toward individual YouTubers. Speaking to Metro in November 2018, PewDiePie said that he was "surprised no one has stepped up sooner", referring to T-Series competing for the most-subscribed spot.
More than 21,000 people watched PewDiePie's live stream on DLive showing the plane with its banner fly over the city. During the live stream, PewDiePie said that the event (which happened after his request to end efforts against T-Series) was "a nice little wrap up" to the Subscribe to PewDiePie meme.
In March 2019, the Brooklyn War Memorial was vandalized with graffiti reading "Subscribe to PewDiePie". The New York City Department of Parks and Recreation said that they would remove it. PewDiePie later condemned the action, and stated that he had made a donation to the park. Another vandalism case occurred two days prior when "SUB 2 pewdiepie" was written on a school's property in Oxford, United Kingdom.
The main T-Series channel primarily contains Indian music videos ( Bollywood music and Indi-pop) as well as Bollywood film trailers, and releases several videos every day, having uploaded over 13 thousand videos as of August 2019. The competition between the two channels began after T-Series began to near PewDiePie in subscribers in late 2018.
On 3 February 2019 , PewDiePie live-streamed himself playing Fortnite on YouTube in an attempt to stop T-Series from surpassing him. He later ran two more live streams for the same purpose, playing Roblox on one occasion, and minigames in Minecraft on another. On 27 March 2019, T-Series surpassed PewDiePie.