Pewdiepie is, right now, the most subscribed content creator on youtube.
And its been that way for 5 years, since 2013.
But since the fall of 2018, an indian record label called T series has been creeping up
on pewdiepie’s subscriber count, and was scheduled to surpass him in subscribers by
December.
With the help of the youtube community spreading the word, pewdiepie has gained more than 20
million subscribers in the last 4 months, reaching 83 million.
But t series, isn’t that far behind.
The gap is closing in.
So what if t series beats pewdiepie?
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As history have taught us, every empire must fall, eventually, and so too will the empire
of pewdiepie, youtube’s golden boy, and the most subscribed youtuber on the platform.
But pewdiepie isn’t about to loes his throne to another youtuber, he’s about to lose
it to an indian music label and production company called T series.
Based in Mumbai, T series has been in business for 33 years, and they decided to start their
channel in March of 2016.
They have reached the same subscriber count as pewdiepie in less than half the time.
The extremely fast growth of t series can be attributed to the rapid growth of the mobile
phone useage within india.
Back in 2002, only 20 million Indians had access to the internet.
In 2018, that number reached 560 million.
According to author of the book india connected, the boom is the result of low cost smartphones
combined with cheap data.
India has a population of 1.3 billion people, and almost a third of them are logging on.
T series is already the number 1 most watched youtube channel, with 60 billion views.
Every single day, t series posts several music videos fro Bollywood movies, Bollywood movies
themselves and indie pop artists.
Essentially, india is getting their movies and music from T series, which is now a 101
million dollar company.
Unfortunately for pewdiepie, and the youtube community, pewdiepie will be knocked out of
the top spot very soon, though its difficult to see how long that will take.
Every time the subscriber gap closes, another attack is launched by pewdiepie fans by paying
for billboards, hacking printers, making videos.
All urging people to subscribe to pewdiepie and unsubscribe from t series.
Ironically, all this talk about t series, which was previously unknown by many in the
west, has actually helped them gain subscribers.
According to the CEO of t series, Bhushan Kumar, everybody knows t series across the
world now.
When t series beats pewdiepie, it will be proof that youtube is becoming more and more
corporate.
The idea of an actual person, rather than a corporation, being the most subscribed youtuber,
is conforting for most of us.
It means that its entirely possible for an average person who worked an average job to
become someone of tremendous influence.
After a corporation becoming the top youtube channel, One can even say that it takes the
you out of youtube and makes average people less important.
Then again, we live in a corporate world, and its likely going to stay that way.
On the other hand, pewdiepie has said that he doesn’t want to be the top youtuber anymore.
Being the most subscribed youtuber comes with a lot of pressure.
That pressure piles up.
Pewdiepie is constantly scrutinized by the media for minor things, things that are taken
out of context that tarnish his reputation.
Once t series surpasses him, maybe some of that pressure will subside.
At the end of the day, pewdiepie’s subscriber count, and the fact that he’s a creator
and not a corporation, is a huge accomplishment.
Being beaten in subscriber count by a corporation doesn’t lessen that accomplishment.
The sad truth is, t series is going to beat pewdiepie, and they are going to beat him
soon.
India has a population of more than a billion people.
Bollywood is their music genre of choice, and t series is a corporation and production
company that has an endless amount of content to post because that’s the kind of content
they make.
T series doesn’t even need the whole youtube community to rally behind them in order to
close in on pewdiepie in subscriber count.
It was a good run guys.
How long do you think it will take for T series to surpass pewdiepie in subscribers?
Let me know down there in the comments.
For now, I’m going to wrap up this video with some comment replies from my last video,
what if moses was real.
Bryze – I thought it said what if a moose was real.
Wow really funny I actually laughed out loud at this one.
Phillis Holman – what if slavery returned, there are still 70 million slaves around the
world, mostly in countries like india, Pakistan, china, bangladesha nd Uzbekistan.
Black Jack Frost – what if I took charlotte dobre on the most amazing date of her life.
I wouldn’t mind that.
Where we going?
Son Goku – who else came here to check on the comments.
MEH Nista = what if birds were real?
Wait…they’re not?