On November 30th, 2018, Grandayy tweeted a photograph of a printed messaged urging readers to unsubscribe from T-Series, subscribe to PewDiPie and use the hashtag '#SavePewDiePie' on social media. On November 6th, 2018, PewDiePie published a video titled 'We made history!!!!' in which he announced that his channel had reached 69 million subscribers before T-Series (shown below). I think people enjoy this connection so much, I think something else will just show up, if it feels too corporate.' Everyone is going on the rant, 'YouTube is not really becoming YouTube' and, 'it's never going to be the same now'… I don't really care about T-Series, I genuinely don't, but I think if YouTube does shift in a way where it does feel more corporate, something else will take its place. He responded, 'It's already a heated subject now that a company is taking over. On October 21st, PewDiePie posted a Q&A video in which he answered a question about T-Series (shown below). His video about the stunt gained over 9 million views (shown below). One of those efforts was from YouTuber MrBeast, who bought billboards to encourage people to subscribe to PewDiePie. On October 5th, 2018, PewDiePIe responded to the channel's encroachment on his subscriber count with a satirical diss track titled ' bitch lasagna' (shown below).Ī coordinated effort by PewDiePie's fans has kept him number 1 as of October 30th, 2018.
