- A lot of intrigue, a lot of sex.
This is my kind of show.
- When you see how T-Series has taken off,
it's shocking that PewDiePie has so many subscribers.
♪ (dramatic intro) ♪
- ♪ (electronic music) ♪
- I have not seen this.
- So, this is a music video.
- Oh, it's a music video we're watching.
- T-Series? Is that his name?
- I've seen this. - You've seen this?
- When I researched what's the deal with T-Series.
- Are we reacting to T-Series being the fastest growing
channel on YouTube?
- ♪ (Punjabi singing) ♪
- Okay, some Punjabi hip hop, rap.
- T-Series is an Indian thing, I believe.
- This is really well shot.
- I thought that phase kinda ended. - He's still trying to get
his message through on WhatsApp. The picture's not loading.
- Oh, he's trying to slide into them DMs.
I see him. He thought he was slick.
- I'm very embarrassed right now. - (FBE) Why are you embarrassed?
- Because I am Indian and I don't know what this is.
- It's gonna be the top most subscribed YouTuber channel.
I know from a MatPat video. - Really?
- And he was saying why T-Series is taking over YouTube
and then I went to their channel and realized that they're
taking over YouTube.
- (speaking Hindi)
- Wait, this is also T-Series.
- Wait, is it a trailer?
- Is this a Bollywood channel or Indian entertainment channel?
- (woman) Excuse me. Hi.
You breathe so well. - You breathe so well.
- Oh, I love stuff like this.
- Am I watching a music video or a trailer?
What is going on?
- It's Bollywood.
- Ay, it's Bollywood?
- Wait, but it's also-- it's English words.
- This is peak Bollywood. It is just, let's inject
as many storylines as possible into a three hour film
and make it very colorful.
- I know about them because I played
an Indian character recently and a lot of people
were commenting, "T-Series, T-Series."
- There's a lot of stuff going on on there.
It's probably got millions of subscribers.
- I guess they just assume that everyone can read
the English words. I just feel so not multicultural
'cause apparently everyone else can just speak English
or read English, and I'm just like,
that's all I can do.
- ♪ You don't have to be the last one standing ♪
- I didn't under-- I didn't realize how
western their style was.
- This looks like a Diet Coke ad. - Ooh, he's gonna stir it for her.
- Is this a party and she's just mixing the punch?
- This has a Latin vibe to it.
- ♪ Wild like Rihanna get all upon the ♪
♪ Bom, diggy-diggy, bom-bom ♪ - He's talking to her butt.
- He's singing to the girl's booty.
- ♪ Up like the summer, she turn me on with her ♪
♪ Bom, diggy-diggy, bom-bom ♪ - Wow, twerking is
a worldwide phenomenon.
- I'm not sure how I feel about the content.
- Whoa, whoa. - Whoa, wow.
- What is this?
- ♪ (Bengali singing) ♪
- Whoa.
- Bom, diggy-diggy, bom-bom. Does that mean,
"I really appreciate the physique of butts."
- Dude, their productions are crazy.
It's always 100,000 people dancing everywhere.
- I enjoyed that. You got another clip for me?
- (FBE) Oh, we got a bunch of clips.
- Lay it on me, bro.
- ♪ (Hindi singing) ♪
- Oh, he's ripped.
- Where'd that guy steal my body from?
- Everyone in Bollywood movies is so beautiful.
- Oh wow. - Whoa.
- (both) Did he just dab? Did he just dab?
- Reminds me of Michael Jackson's pop videos
back in the day.
- Indian Ricky Martin.
- Wow. - You like him.
- I've never seen a stomach like that.
- Okay, this guy has not had a carb since 2006.
- Those are extremely painted on abs.
I just want people to know not to have super body envy.
- ♪ (Hindi singing) ♪
- This is a good production budget.
I mean, look at those people all the way
back there. - It's like Disney!
- They got at least 100 dancers right there
all synced.
- It's kinda like-- a little like Justin Timberlake.
The Indian-- - You're getting
Justin Timberlake from this? I'm not getting
Justin Timberlake. - What are you getting from this?
- Ricky Martin.
- ♪ (Hindi singing) ♪
- Yeah, production value on point.
That was a sexy one. That man was buff.
- I love Bollywood. I just like bright things
and singing and dancing. Their outfits are cool.
- That was an amazing showcase of dance and singing
and hot people.
- What the hell is this?
- Is this safe for YouTube? We gonna get age restricted?
- "Revenge." Boobies, murder.
- This may be a little X-rated.
- Oh dang. Hey, he slipped
something in her drink!
- I love this.
- (Hindi speaking)
- Whoa.
- Oh, they just got rid of a body.
- When you kill somebody and roll them up
in your carpet, those carpets are expensive.
- What the heck?
- It's a lot of violence, a lot of intrigue,
a lot of sex. This is my kind of show.
- (woman) I am the twist in the plot.
- "I am the twist in the plot."
That's pretty direct.
- Hate Story 4.
- (man) This isn't a love story.
It's a hate story. - That's a really good tagline
for a movie called Hate Story.
- Wow, so that's their Fast and Furious.
- I'm always down for storytelling from
different cultures, especially when it's
my Asian people. Indian people
are Asian too.
- All this stuff is on that channel,
so it's Bollywood music videos and also
just films.
- I like the last one and I like the one
with the abs and I like the musical.
I love it, actually. I wanna subscribe.
What is the channel?
- (FBE) Before we get into questions,
do you have any idea why we would be showing
this to you? - Because T-Series is blowing up.
- They're on their way to being one of the biggest
YouTube channels.
- (FBE) So, the channel is called T-Series.
- He's heard of T-Series. - I've heard of them.
- I haven't.
- T, like Mr. T? - What's the T?
- Spill the tea?
- (FBE) And it's on pace to pass PewDiePie
to be the number one most subscribed to channel
on YouTube. - Oh, it makes sense though
because India has a lot of people.
- It's not really a fair comparison,
one guy and editors and whatnot,
versus massive corporation with thousands of employees.
It's different. There should be different
buckets on YouTube. One for the YouTubers
and the other for like, this is a big company.
- It's very different content. T-Series versus PewDiePie.
I mean, PewDiePie is very, very YouTube, right?
It's man speaking at camera. - I mean, honestly,
when you see how T-Series has taken off,
it's shocking that PewDiePie has so many subscribers.
- As someone who is Indian, I find myself in Hollywood
fighting constantly to discuss the relevancy
of that entire subcontinent and why it's important
to have diversity and representation.
- (FBE) T-Series is a film production company
as well as a music label, one of the largest music labels
in India. - Aha.
- That's it. - Aha.
They're a big old record label. It's a big old Vevo.
- (FBE) They mostly post Bollywood music soundtracks
and film trailers. T-Series is also
the world's most viewed YouTube channel
with over 47 billion views. - That high?
Oh my God.
- (FBE) And they're gaining almost 100,000 subscribers a day.
- 100,000 new subscribers every single day?
Oh my God. I gotta get onto this T-Series.
- (FBE) What do you think it is about them
that could make them potentially the number one
channel of all time? - It's the only place to go to
for that type of content.
- Bollywood's always been a very powerful force.
It's just not over here.
- It seemed like it had a lot of variety to it.
It didn't seem like it was one type of entertainment.
It seemed like they had drama and comedy and music.
- If you got a billion people who are native Hindi speakers
and I guess a grand majority of the content on YouTube
that's high production value music is in English,
then you're gonna gravitate towards whatever is
in your native tongue.
- (FBE) So, many have made the argument that
it isn't fair to compare the two channels,
since T-Series is a full fledged network and company
that uploads multiple videos per day created
by many different artists versus PewDiePie,
who is an individual creator who developed his following
entirely through YouTube. - Yeah.
Well, good for PewDiePie, 'cause he did it for this long
more or less by himself. I don't know.
We're all playing the same game, so I don't know.
Even if they have more people working on it,
we still have the same opportunity to do the same thing.
- (FBE) So for you personally, as a content creator yourself,
do you think the title of the number one spot
is really as significant as it used to be
or do you think there is still value in saying,
"Nope, this is the new number one." - I think it's more important.
The voice of an individual can be so much stronger
than the brand of a company.
- I wouldn't try to compare a creator to a studio.
- How could you compete with that?
You have this company of all these people
and billions of dollars and can't--
that'd be like us trying to compete with--
my music videos competing with Nicki Minaj on Vevo.
It's just not a thing.
- You know, it's never been important for me
just because I just wanted to make videos.
As long as I can make videos and not have people hate me,
then I was fine.
- So in any business scenario, the people with the most money,
resources, and mental skill set on how to do something
will rise to the top and unfortunately,
that does mean companies, but also I am a strong believer
in there's room for everybody's success
and you can still be really successful and have
a lot of your dreams come true if you're not number one.
- (FBE) So finally, seeing how global YouTube
continues to be with the new number one channel
being from India, where do you think
the top subscribed lists are heading?
Will it be more global corporations or will
independent creators still have a chance
to come out on top? - Nah, we're screwed.
We just don't have the dinero to [bleep]
do what they do. - Whenever you go on trending,
you always see the Jimmy Kimmel Show
or you just see the next Netflix trailer.
It's getting to that point where it's gonna be
a global market of just different production companies.
- Just like anything, money always wins.
- T-Series will be on. If you want hot bodies
you found them.
- For my eleven years on YouTube,
I've seen time and time again the top five positions
be creators on YouTube.
- Content creators will always have a chance
to come out on top because people want
somebody that they can relate to.
- As more and more companies see the appeal and the value
of investing in YouTube content, it will more and more be
taken over by companies.
- I would be a hypocrite for saying it's unfair
for production companies to have channels
because in many ways, really successful creator
based channels operate like small studios.
- If things are gonna be based off of frequency
and quality of uploads, a giant company's always
gonna have an advantage there. - You can't compete with that
as an independent, but you shouldn't be thinking
of it as a competition anyway. There's plenty of people
and views out there for all of us.
- Where is the line all gets kind of blurry, right?
I also have a crew of-- a film crew and editors
and I also-- my company's incorporated,
you know what I'm saying? For taxes and [bleep] like that.
So now, we're kind of all little mini companies.
So how we gonna get mad at just a bigger company?
- Thanks for watching this episode of YouTubers React.
- Check out all the creators in this episode.
The links are gonna be right down below.
- What should we react to next?
- Let us know in the comments.
- Peace.
- Hey guys, Ethan here from FBE.
A big thanks to all the creators who came in
and shot this episode with us.
Now if any of them are gonna catch T-Series,
you gotta subscribe to them. Click on the links
in the description below. Bye, guys.