PewDiePie, a Swedish YouTuber known for comedy videos, has held the title of the most subscribed YouTube channel since 2013, but the Indian music label T-Series has been gaining subscribers rapidly since 2016 and is now challenging PewDiePie for the top spot. The competition between the two channels for the most subscribers has led to various hackings and online activism in support of PewDiePie maintaining his lead.

1. PewDiePie vs T-Series

2. PewDiePie vs T-Series is a
competition between the two
YouTube channels PewDiePie and
T-Series for the title of the most-
subscribed channel on the video-
sharing website. PewDiePie has
been the most-subscribed user
since December 2013, while T-
Series has been the most-viewed
and second most-subscribed
channel since early 2018
Introduction

3. PewDiePie
• Felix Kjellberg, known online as
PewDiePie, is a Swedish comedy
YouTuber, previously known for
Let's Play videos. His YouTube
channel has had more subscribers
than any other YouTube channel
since August 2013. He has over
83.61 million subscribers and
20.4 billion views as of
2 February 2019.

4. T-Series
T-Series is an Indian music record
label and film production
company. The main T-Series channel
primarily contains Indian music
videos (Bollywood music and Indi-
pop) as well as Bollywood film trailers
and uploads several videos every day.
T-Series began gaining massive
amounts of subscribers in early 2016
and became the most-viewed
channel on YouTube in February
2017.

5. Activism

10. Hackings
• A hacker under the pseudonym
"HackerGiraffe" gained access to
a total of around 50,000 printers
in November, and another
hacked around 80,000 printers
in December.