- In an unlikely turn of events,
I got more than one comment on vidIQ this week.
(gun shots)
You sure you really want me to do this?
(gun shots)
Don't say I didn't warn ya.
(upbeat music)
It has not been a good week for the nine year old army
and its subscriber race to 100 million subscribers
between PewDiePie and T-Series.
If you remember rightly, last time I left you
with the news that Jake Paul had just launched
his subscribe to PewDiePie campaign video.
I'll give you one guess as to how
that affected PewDiePie subscriber numbers.
Yeah that's right, the daily subscriber numbers
actually went down for PewDiePie.
And that's all gravy for the
runaway leader that is T-Series.
While PewDiePie averages around
60 thousand subscribers a day,
T-Series trundles along at 140 thousand subscribers a day.
And that's the average they pretty much
maintain throughout this whole story.
And that's where we hit our next landmark number,
a one million subscriber gap.
Look, it even broke my subscriber count.
Since I recorded that on Friday,
I'm afraid the numbers haven't got any better for PewDiePie.
He now stands at 1.2 million subscribers behind T-Series.
So here's a genuine question, at this point,
is it even mathematically possible
for PewDiePie to catch back up?
Basic analytics will tell you that
this is a statistical impossibility.
PewDiePie's best ever YouTube day for subscribers
was December the first, last year
when he gained 540 thousand subscribers.
That's still 700 thousand subscribers short
of the current subscriber gap.
Oh, and as a point of comparison,
T-Series best ever subscriber day was the day after,
with 326 thousand subscribers.
Blimey, maybe I need to retitle this one.
Now, even though this does bare pretty grim reading
for one of the channels in the subscriber race,
there was a moment of celebration that I did capture,
even if this is plastic and from the dollar store.
The PewDiePie channel has successfully passed
the 95 million subscriber mark
which is a fantastic achievement.
And to celebrate, we offer Felix his very own
personalized milestone certificate.
(pop and cheers)
Yeah, that was the closest YouTube audio library
sound effect I could find for
nine year old army celebrating.
Oh, and if you want one of these certificates
for your own channel, you can get one
by downloading the vidIQ chrome extension
and clicking on the achievements button.
We track all sorts of stuff
like subscribers, views and watch time.
All you need to do is click on the specific achievement
and we'll generate a custom certificate for your channel
in seconds, and it's completely free.
Now let's return to the subscriber race.
Where do we go next?
Well I think there's only one thing on T-Series' mind,
100 million subscribers.
With 3.75 million subscribers to go,
if T-Series average 150 thousand subscribers a day,
they will hit 100 million subscribers in 25 days.
That puts them on course for Thursday the 23rd of May.
As for PewDiePie.
(beep)
- Hello, I wanted to talk seriously and honestly
for a moment about my thoughts on what's been
going on for the past couple months,
and hopefully you can get a better
understanding of my perspective.
I think it's time to end the
subscribe to PewDiePie movement or meme.
- This video was published by PewDiePie
as I was filming and editing this video.
I'll leave a link in the top right hand corner
of the screen and in the video description.
In this video, PewDiePie highlights many of
the positive things that have happened
from this subscriber race.
And to begin with, it felt like innocent entertaining fun,
but there have been other stories, events
and indeed tragedies that have
made this very real in a negative way.
The Christchurch shootings of course being top of that list.
None of these hateful, political, racially charged acts
should ever be attributed to PewDiePie or Felix,
and whenever one of these things has happened,
rightfully and publicly, Felix has disavowed
any association with them.
However, and unavoidably, tens of millions of people
globally watch Felix' content and he has been part of
the biggest news story on YouTube for the last six months.
I'm sure Felix never asked for this,
but he is a cultural phenomenon, a role model,
an influencer, and unfortunately not every good person
in the world is gonna be influenced
to do good things related to this.
It is a weight of responsibility that I would never ask for
and I admire every single video creator
who has a large following for handling that pressure.
And sometimes with pressure comes a reality check.
So maybe, even from our purely analytical point of view,
it's time to stop all of this.
Let us know in the comments below.
Thanks for watching.