Yahoo News PewDiePie regains YouTube title over T-Series after briefly losing top spot
PewDiePie has officially regained his title as the world’s most popular YouTube channel.
The gaming YouTube star, real name Felix Kjellberg, briefly lost his title to Indian music label T-Series, which regularly shares music videos from Bollywood movies.
T-Series briefly took over on Monday morning, but has since fallen back into second place after fans of the social media star launched an online campaign to help reclaim the position.
At the time of writing, Kjellberg currently holds the lead at 89,937,790 subscribers, while T-Series is just behind with 89,936,888.
After the Indian music conglomerate initially took over, Kjellberg appeared to encourage viewers to keep pushing back as he retweeted a post which read: “RED ALERT. T-SERIES HAS PASSED PEWDIEPIE.FIGHT BACK!
“FIGHT BACK THIS CANNOT BE THE END!!”
🚨RED ALERT🚨 🚨T-SERIES HAS PASSED PEWDIEPIE🚨
FIGHT BACK!, FIGHT BACK THIS CANNOT BE THE END!!
🚨🚨
LETS GO, THE GAP IS NOW: -57— PewDiePie subgap bot (@subgap)
@MrBeastYT Make as many accounts and subscribe to PewDiePie...We need to save him
— Akshay (@Cipher_236)
WE NEED HELP EVERYONE!!! MAKE MORE THAN 2 ACCOUNTS TO HELP PEWDS!!!#pewdiepie #PewDiePieVsTSeries pic.twitter.com/qeUmB1UO6v
— Ian UTM (@IanUtm)
🚨 TSERIES IS PASSED US!!!! FIGHT BACK 🚨 MAKE NEW ACCOUNTS 🚨 SUBSCRIBE TO PEWDIEPIE 🚨 DO YOUR PART 🚨
— Subscribe to Pewds (@sub_2_pewds)
Time to whip out the fake accounts boys
— idkman (@opinionatedboi)
everyone needs to subscribe with 10 accounts and if a million people do it, boom 100 million subs
— Tomato”s (@sotamot)
Social media users have since thrown their support behind the Youtube star, with many revealing they are creating multiple accounts to help keep the online throne.
One user wrote: “What do we say to T-series? NOT TODAY.”
Overwhelmed by the immense love showered to the T-Series Official YouTube channel. Here's welcoming our new YouTube channel #TSeriesMarathi!👏🎉
Subscribe to us: https://t.co/fVynk8cUyS
Like us: https://t.co/61UkhMR4ix
Follow us: https://t.co/YHCRWB1G3T pic.twitter.com/HVNkBzx0xh— TSeries (@TSeries)
Another added: “We have passed T-Series, I’ve made an extra five more accounts.”
“NO NO THIS CAN'T BE THE END.... we have to save him,” a third added.
Fans have rallied around PewDiePie since the Bollywood channel crept up on him, urging people to support him.
Fellow YouTube star MrBeast, real name Jimmy Donaldson, took the battle to the Super Bowl last month when he and a group of friends got on camera wearing t-shirts brandishing the words: “Subscribe 2 PewDiePie”.
Standard Online has contacted YouTube for comment.
