Hi, I'm Josh.
I’m Ollie.
I'm Rev. Chris.
And today we are gonna be taking a JOLLY look
At the number one Christian channel on YouTube,
PewDiePie
WHAT?!
Are there Christian channels on YouTube?
Yeah! PewDiePie is the No.1 Christian Channel!
I know PewDiePie a little bit.
I've heard of him. He's the biggest Youtuber.
And you don’t know that he’s No. 1 Christian channel?!
I'd say you know nothing!
He’s not Christian Channel…
Do you know how many subscribers he has?
45 million?!
Oooh
Just over halfway there
90 million?
Coming up on.
Really?! Well done.
Well done, Mr. Pie.
Keep going!
So he became popular a long time ago as a gamer.
I've actually been a fan of his since I was 9 years old.
Josh: Me too. Chris: What?!
He's... How old was he when he started?
Was he like 12?
He must have been young. Yeah, I mean…
Are you trying to start a war? I mean if he’s got that many subscribers…
The reason we’re not starting a war with Pewdiepie is because
Pewdiepie is already in a war.
Is he?
There is.
Raging its battles on the Internet right now.
Gosh! I didn't know this!
There’s a channel called T-series, the biggest music label in India.
It's like a multi-million dollar company.
So T-series is gaining subscribers at a fast rate, and a couple of months ago,
People started realising, "Holy crap! They're gonna overtake Pewdiepie!"
They're gonna take his crown!
Oh my goodness!
They’re gonna dethrown the King Arthur of YouTube!
And the kids are now, “Fight the men! Support PewDiePie!”
Arise nine-year-olds!
A lot of what people have been upset about the direction that YouTube have gone in over the last couple of years,
Is really like summed up in this.
The war.
The increased commercialisation of YouTube,
It is the little guy versus the big guy,
It feels bigger than just them going for subscribers.
It's representing a bigger struggle on the Internet.
It's almost like a parable.
I'm just putting it in language you'll understand.
Thank you.
Thank you...
It's a David-and-Goliath struggle.
And who’s side are you on?
Ooh, is that what this is about?
Well, we're gonna find out because we wanna know,
Whose side is God on?
Yeah.
Wow, everybody’s side!
Well, no!
I mean He's not on Hitler's side, is He?
Well... No. No, He's not!
Okay, so He's not on EVERYONE's side.
Oh my days, He's for humanity as a whole.
PewDiePie made a diss track against T-series,
I believe is now the most watched video on his channel.
Almost 107 MILLION views.
Oh my goodness!
It’s this music video.
Disclaimer, this uh…
Is it a bit rude?
Might be a little bit rude… We’ll see.
TSeries Diss Track
Nothing personal kid.
But I must go all out.
He’s quite funny, isn’t he?!
Just this once.
Bobs for vegana?
Whichever will it be
Sit the f down, T-Series, I’m here to spill the real tea
You tryna dethrone me from spot on number one
Holy Spirit?
What is that jumper about?
WHAT?!
So come on T-Series looking hungry for some drama
Let me serve you bitch lasagna,
Bitch lasagna
T-Series ain't nothing but a bitch lasagna.
I don't... What's...
What’s bitch lasagna?
What does that mean?
That's a very good question.
Where does he live?
You got a population of 1.32 billion
but most of your videos can’t seem to hit even a million
This is what the kids are watching these days, eh?
Do you feel out of touch?
I feel... well out of touch...
I'm not eating any lasagna!
I mean...
It just looks like kind of low-key budget, I think there's something quite fun about that.
It's kind of like John the Baptist in his camel skin and eating locus, honey.
It's just very simple.
And he's like,
This is who I am, even though I’m a big deal!
We're relating Pewdiepie to John the Baptist! You heard it here first.
Didn’t John the Baptist prepare the way for Jesus?
He’s John the Baptist of the internet!
Let’s not take it too far.
Yeah. He’s taking the piss out of arrogance, right?!
Yeah. Out of all the hip hop music videos of guys on their Lamborghinis,
With their gold chains and the ladies,
Which is extra cool cos he's like much bigger than them.
Yeah. Funnily enough.
Which is probably why lots of people like him
What do you think about controversial humour or offensive comedy?
He's got into controversies for stuff that he’s said, which is like genuinely offensive,
But in all of those circumstances he has claimed to be trying to make a joke
Josh: And pushing it to the limit. Ollie: Pushing it too far.
And denied that he's a racist or whatever.
Is it okay to be offensive?
Do you play Cards of Humanity?
That's really what I'm asking...
No.
Actually after church one day, people were playing that. I was like,
Guys! What is that language?
Firstly, I don't know what the controversies PewDiePie's been in.
And it's not my place to judge.
You know, I’m called as a leader in the church to show the love of God and compassion.
So I can't comment on what he has said.
But not to Tseries cos that's a conglomerate?!
Umm… But…
We need people to hold people accountable and I think freedom of speech and comedians
And writers have always done that in history.
If you try to squash that voice in times of peace, you might lose it in times of war.
So we need to probably be okay with having a little bit controversy
I think a major problem in today's society is we're not able to disagree WELL.
You know like I can disagree with people of different faiths like,
A Muslim or Jewish man or... I can disagree with them.
But still respect them, and still say you know like,
I choose this but I'm here to be taught as well.
I wanna be able to listen well and I think
We don't listen well on the Internet.
We kind of…
We make diss tracks.
Yea I was about to say, I mean…
Listening to the music video, didn't sound like there was much respect.
I don't know, I mean what see from that video is he's not being too serious.
I think he's making fun of the whole situation.
He's not gonna cry himself to sleep because they've got more subscribers than him.
Yeah.
And if you get to that place seek some help.
I don't think anyone could watch bitch lasagna and think he's taking himself seriously.
I mean the title itself…
I like lasagne…
I do!
Like you said here's the John the Baptist of the Internet.
He’s the David against Goliath of T-Series!
And other big Youtubers in the U.S. started taking up the cause
And probably the most high-profile of that is a guy called Mr. Beast
I bought a bunch of billboards?!
This is one of the videos he made.
We don't mess around
There’s our ad!
Right above the urinal.
And much more to try and stop T-series from passing PewDiePie in subscribers
We bought half a row of tickets right behind the field goal
at the Super Bowl.
So every time they try to make a goal on our side,
We'll be able to promote PewDiePie in front of 100 million people.
We did it!
I can't believe we did it!
Wow gosh, Mr. Beast.
What a weird name!
So Mr. Beast launched this campaign and a load of other Youtubers got behind it.
And the race tightened.
Not only have Youtubers taken out the cause
but hackers have.
Josh: This is true. Chris: Hackers?!
80,000 printers were hacked with a message that said,
Subscribe to PewDiePie.
I saw this one the BBC!
Did you actually?
Yeah! I saw this on the News!
This is the war!
We’re getting caught up in something big!
Which is also…
…nonsense!
T-series was due to overtake Pewdiepie. This was at 67 million subs.
They’ve basically been growing neck-and-neck ever since.
And we're coming up on 90M subs.
And Pewdiepie is still ahead by only 120,000 subscribers.
Oh my gosh.
The gap went to like a million and it's gone small again.
That’s why we need to call in the big guns.
Get God involved.
Yeah. That's why we're bringing you in, Chris.
I haven’t subscribed to either of them.
I just need to click on one, is it?
I would say it should be a pretty obvious choice because
Pewdiepie is literally the world's biggest Christian YouTube channel.
Literally the biggest
Why is he called a Christian Youtube?
So...
This rabbit hole gets deeper.
A while ago, there was ad-pocalypse on YouTube
Where basically everyone who had swearing or anything controversial in their content got demonetized.
People started becoming family-friendly channels, and tried not swear and stuff.
Like you guys have always been!
So Pewdiepie joined this bandwagon and make it even more family-friendly.
Christian PewDiePie activated.
What?!
He uploaded this video, which is literally called Christian Channel.
Welcome to a new video.
Last week I asked you write me a poem!
Christian channel, we do poetry every Sunday!
Now I can already tell you guys have failed as ALWAYS!
I asked for poems, what do I get?
**** memes.
The ad pocalypse was widely interpreted as censorship because
People couldn't make money if they're making edgy content.
This is an interesting subject though.
Cos I'm a parent and I'll also teach within my church, like
You have to guard the gateways to your soul which are your ears and your eyes.
Boundaries can be really helpful, they breed creativity.
It's interesting this thing comes out, and PewDiePie is a really creative guy
And what does he do?
He says here's the boundary. I'm gonna do my creativity within it
And he starts a Christian channel.
And that’s kind of creative and funny, and I know he's not like
I don't know if he is a Christian maybe he confesses to the Lord,
If you do, bless you.
And if you're not sure Pewdiepie, DM me @revchris7
Are you saying you're in favour of the ad-pocalypse?
I'm in favour of the internet being wiser with itself.
I wouldn't want a nine-year-old watching something of
someone getting shot
Yeah… Okay!
Okay!
Yeah. That’s fair.
We both started to laugh and then…
I think we’re on the same page.
Let's just have a recap of where we're at.
Pewdipie, number one YouTube channel.
You understand why he's the No.1 Christian Youtube Channel.
I do now.
T-series comes up.
A band of merry men including Mr. Beast and many others come up.
Markiplier, Logan Paul
Logan Paul even came
To defend?!
Yeah. The Emperor himself.
It should be said he did do it with a caveat that PewDiePie has to then wear some of his merch.
Of course he did.
Anyway it's been neck and neck ever since. It's still SUPER close.
We want to know whose side is God on?
Shall I login and subscribe?
Is that... Wow!
You making a statement?
I can do that. I'm not subscribed to either of them
And as a reverend of the Church of England
You're basically saying God is behind
Behind this
God is behind PewDiePie?
That is... NOT what I’m saying.
Well… I've got some news for you.
Jesus is actually on PewDiePie’s side.
No…
He is, but he’s also on the side of humanity.
Well...
That's not what he said in the last video I watched.
What?
Hello disciples. It’s me.
Your favourite Lord and Saviour,
Jesus.
This is going to be a happy video.
It's really important to me that I thank someone who has changed my life
In a tremendously good way.
St. Felix has saved my Holy Ass,
Not once
But twice!
So we don't want to get into the whole controversy but basically, this guy is a Youtuber
Pretending to be Jesus?
Well, his name is literally Jesus H Christ.
I think he changed it by deed poll.
Oh my gosh!
The Internet is a weird place!
He was one of the many people who urged people to subscribe to Pewdiepie.
Just throwing this out there.
Would you be open to making a notice announcement at Church?
Subscribe to Pewdiepie?
Because we need all the help we can get at this point!
You know what?! You can sort out on the internet guys.
Not in my church.
Here we go.
Boom. The buttons there.
PewDiePie.
Bless you my son!
Subscribed!
Well, let's see how he does.
I wish him all the best.
What would you say as a priest if Pewdiepie was here right now?
I'd be really interested in his creativity. He seems like a really creative guy.
It'd be really interesting to hear is his outtake on the internet and
Where he thinks it's going.
Well, that has been PewDiePie vs. T-series.
We'll see you Jolly soon.
See you later!
Bye!!