- Okay, I think I can safely say it this time.
T-Series has officially become,
no, no, hang on.
Yeah, and still is
the most subscribed to channel on YouTube.
And this is how they finally did it.
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We'll tackle the question of why T-Series
isn't technically the most subscribed to
channel on YouTube yet.
But let's deal with the big one.
PewDiePie versus T-Series.
This subscriber race that's been going on now
for nearly six months.
General consensus would agree,
although I think this is an unwritten rule,
that in order to be the most subscribed to channel
T-Series would need to lead the race
for at least 24 hours.
A full calendar day.
Over the last month, T-Series has been ahead
tens of thousands of subscribers
for up to twelve-hour periods
but never for that full day.
But all that changed on March the 27th, 2019.
Let's take a look at what happened.
The final chapter in this story
begins a day before, March the 26th,
with T-Series just under 20,000 subscribers ahead.
But as has happened many times before
PewDiePie does overhaul that deficit.
But this time he just scrapes back into the lead
with a slender margin of 6,000 subscribers.
As of time of recording,
this marks the last time PewDiePie had the lead
because just two hours later T-Series is back
clipping at PewDiePie's heels.
As far as I can tell, this is the last date,
time, and subscriber number
that PewDiePie was the biggest channel on YouTube.
So, 24 hours to go, let's see what happens.
For the next two minutes or so
the channels trade blows before T-Series
waves a cheery goodbye and off they fly.
Over the next fourteen hours
PewDiePie offers little resistance
with T-Series storming 10,000, 15,000,
20,000 subscribers ahead.
By the time T-Series' home region of India
settles down for the night
they are 30,000 subscribers ahead.
And as the Western world wakes up
that should queue the usual PewDiePie fight back, right?
Well, yes, it does happen.
However, this time the T-Series channel
has built up such a big lead
that PewDiePie fails to recapture the crown.
In fact, he doesn't even come close.
Falling 10,000 subscribers short.
And the game, as of time of recording,
that is the closest the subscriber race has been
because once again, T-Series starts pulling away.
And at 4:22 a.m. on the morning
of Thursday the 28th of March
that marks 24 hours of T-Series
being the largest channel on YouTube.
Yeah, I need to change this bit.
And while some of you may refuse to accept this,
I'm afraid other sites are also
pitching their flags in the ground in recognizing T-Series
as the most subscribed to channel.
As for that subscriber gap,
it doesn't look like it's shrinking anytime soon.
This is the massive gap many of us
have been expecting T-Series to create for months.
This time there doesn't seem to be any response
from the PewDiePie clan.
This is what you might appropriately call the endgame.
The balance of power has permanently shifted.
Or has it?
While T-Series leading this race
for more than 24 hours is a first,
we should still not discount massive swings.
Remember that in the past, PewDiePie has been able to storm
hundreds of thousands of subscribers back into the lead
thanks to rallying cries from the YouTube community.
Who's to say that's not going to happen again?
That goal of being the first channel
to reach 100 million subscribers is tantalizingly close.
Now I'm not saying this is about to happen,
but if all of our subscribers subscribe to PewDiePie,
imagine what would happen.
Hmm.
You probably already are, to be honest.
Net's jump over to the other side of the fence, T-Series.
The only question they are asking is who's next?
There is one channel that has
more subscribers than T-Series.
They have over 100 million subscribers.
105 million subscribers to be exact.
And that channel is simply called Music.
But this isn't by definition a real YouTube channel.
It's an auto-generated one
and it is just a collection of musical artists
all put onto one channel.
Hang on, that sounds familiar.
(chime rings)
(sucks in) That's gonna leave a mark.