The most common and mildly irksome statement you hear in every YouTube Video is probably ‘Like, Comment & Subscribe’. Yet one can’t help but wonder which YouTube Channel has the most subscribers globally! Well, it’s PewDiePie. Perhaps you recognize the Swedish gamer-Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg who has been ruling YouTube for the last 5 years.
Interestingly, our very own T-series came quite close to beating the YouTuber on his subscriber quest. When the music label was set to dethrone the king, fans united from every corner of the Internet to support him. T-series was fast catching up with the gap between the top two subscribed channels on the video-streaming giant having narrowed to 40,000 subscribers at one point!
This was an all-time low and it was also when popular YouTuber Jimmy Donaldson known as MrBeast decided to sit up and take notice. He showed up at the Super Bowl game between New England Patriots and Los Angeles Rams with his friends armed to remedy this. He made quite a splash when they wore ‘Subscribe to PewDiePie’ shirts to support Pewds. See for yourself-
WE MADE IT ON THE SUPER BOWL pic.twitter.com/il1E4ie94Y
— MrBeast (@MrBeastYT) February 3, 2019
MrBeast also informed the fans to keep an eye out on the seats right behind the field goal, to catch a glimpse of the global campaign during the match.
We bought seats right behind the field goal, every kick on the end zone with rams paint will have our sub 2 Pewdiepie shirts.
— MrBeast (@MrBeastYT) February 4, 2019
This li’ll stunt did not go unnoticed!
Breaking @MrBeastYT helps @pewdiepie by attending the Super Bowl with a #subcribetoPewDiePie ad pic.twitter.com/hiUvYOKS8L
— KEEM 🍿 (@KEEMSTAR) February 4, 2019
MrBeast’s outing turned out to be successful as the shirts appeared several times during the thrilling match. In fact, they even managed to make it to an official tweet posted by ESPN!
Stephen Gostkowski misses the 46-yard FG! pic.twitter.com/jEUct0ObCr
— ESPN (@espn) February 3, 2019
Fans of the MrBeast and the Swedish gamer rose to applaud the effort!
Elon? where are you? xD pic.twitter.com/MIhUAr4hT8
— Cyber1000 沙威刃 (@Cyberpt1000) February 4, 2019
I salute you gamer pic.twitter.com/6ZBj54Pmdb
— Jacob Johnson (@J_Man152) February 4, 2019
Elon Musk himself has expressed a desire to host the Meme Review (a popular show run by YouTube king Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg aka PewDiePie) on which the Swedish gamer hunts for the funniest memes on Reddit and goes on to review them!
Host meme review? pic.twitter.com/k2SFtIUh1k
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 27, 2019
However, isn’t the first time MrBeast has come to Pewds’ rescue. He earlier bought a bunch of billboards in North Carolina and turned them into advertisements asking people to subscribe to PewDiePie!
In fact, support has poured in globally from YouTube community ever since the news of T-Series catching up with Pewds hit the Internet. Justin Roberts, fellow YouTuber, bought a billboard apparently worth a million dollars in New York’s Times Square for the same cause. Printers were hacked in some parts of the world that spat out a message that encouraged people to subscribe to the Internet star and unsubscribe from T-Series!
Most recently, musician and YouTuber Davie504 played PewDiePie’s diss track B*tch Lasagna outside T-Series’ headquarters in Noida, India before playing it on his bass guitar for 10 hours straight, reports News 18.
The chase for subscribers saw both T-Series and PewDiePie breached the 83 million mark on YouTube. The subgap between the two was approximately 150K this morning.
Meanwhile, T-Series hasn’t batted an eyelid at the one-sided feud. Guess PewDiePie’ll just have to eat his own b**ch lasagna!