T-Series

Indian music record label and film production company

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June 1 2024 MrBeast passed T-Series in YouTube subscribers and posted a celebratory tweet stating he 'finally avenged Pewdiepie'
August 5 2023 MrBeast posted on Twitter 'I'm doing this for Pewdiepie', reigniting the YouTube subscriber rivalry between channels by highlighting the subscriber counts between his channel and T-Series
2019 MrBeast purchased billboards and radio advertisements in North Carolina to support PewDiePie, and created a video saying 'PewDiePie' 100,000 times over 12 hours.
2019 Justin Roberts bought a billboard in New York's Times Square reading 'Subscribe to PewDiePie'.
May 2019 Bhushan Kumar gave an interview to Quartz India discussing the significance of becoming the number one YouTube channel.
May 29 2019 T-Series reached 100 million subscribers, solidifying its position as a major YouTube content creator.
April 29 2019 A plane flew over New York City with a 'Subscribe to PewDiePie' banner, crowdfunded by his fanbase and live-streamed by PewDiePie, costing over $4,500.
April 14 2019 MrBeast helps PewDiePie in the subscriber count battle, dramatically boosting PewDiePie's subscriber count to over 266 million.
March 2019 A school property in Oxford, United Kingdom was vandalized with 'SUB 2 pewdiepie' graffiti.
March 2019 The Brooklyn War Memorial was vandalized with graffiti reading 'Subscribe to PewDiePie'. PewDiePie condemned the act and later donated to the park to address the vandalism.
March 22 2019 A user on the PewDiePie subreddit developed PewCrypt ransomware for Microsoft Windows, promising to release a decryption key when PewDiePie reaches 100 million subscribers, and threatening to delete the tool if T-Series reaches the milestone first.
March 19 2019 Multiple ultra-short subscriber count overtakes occur, with each switch lasting mere seconds.
March 12 2019 Indie game developer Thomas Brush released a video game called Zero Deaths on itch.io, featuring PewDiePie defending his wife in a post-apocalyptic setting.
March 10 2019 A rally for internet freedom was held in Moscow by the Libertarian Party of Russia, with protesters playing 'Bitch Lasagna' and holding 'Sub to PewDiePie' signs.
March 6 2019 Bhushan Kumar tweeted and posted a video encouraging Indians to subscribe to T-Series to 'make history' and 'make India win'.
February 2019 Bob Buckhorn, the mayor of Tampa, Florida, had his Twitter account hacked with malicious tweets encouraging users to subscribe to PewDiePie.
February 2019 Bhushan Kumar was quoted in The Washington Post acknowledging that the subscriber race had increased global awareness of T-Series.
February 27 2019 Basketball Club Žalgiris in Kaunas, Lithuania, had cheerleaders perform 'Bitch Lasagna' during a time-out, showing support for PewDiePie.
February 27 2019 A parade was held in Tallinn, Estonia, with hundreds of people marching through the city centre in support of PewDiePie.
February 22 2019 PewDiePie was briefly surpassed by T-Series during a YouTube routine audit, losing his top spot for approximately 8 minutes.
February 22 2019 PewDiePie and T-Series engage in rapid subscriber count exchanges, with multiple brief overtakes occurring within seconds.
February 3 2019 MrBeast and friends attended Super Bowl LIII wearing 'Sub 2 PewDiePie' T-shirts, gaining prominence in an ESPN tweet after a missed field goal.
February 3 2019 PewDiePie live-streamed himself playing Fortnite on YouTube in an attempt to prevent T-Series from surpassing his subscriber count, later conducting additional live streams with Roblox and Minecraft.
January 2019 Hackers HackerGiraffe and j3ws3r hacked over 65,000 Google Chromecast devices, displaying messages urging people to subscribe to PewDiePie and improve device security.
January 2019 Hacker 'SydeFX' compromised dozens of Nest cameras using credential stuffing, directly speaking to victims and demanding they subscribe to PewDiePie.
January 1 2019 CarryMinati, an Indian YouTuber, released a diss track 'Bye PewDiePie' which received nearly 5 million views within 24 hours.
2018 India became the second-largest mobile phone market, with cheap mobile data plans and voice technology playing a crucial role in digital content consumption.
2018 YouTube Rewind 2018 became the most-disliked video on the platform, partly due to lack of coverage of the PewDiePie vs T-Series competition.
2018 India's internet access dramatically increased from 20 million to 560 million users, setting the stage for T-Series' growth and YouTube subscriber competition with PewDiePie.
December 2018 PewDiePie made a video calling on viewers to support the Indian non-governmental organization Child Rights and You, countering anti-Indian sentiment among his fans and raising funds for charity.
December 2018 Hacker 'j3ws3r' sent print jobs to around 80,000 vulnerable printers with messages supporting PewDiePie. The same hacker also conducted a denial-of-service attack on T-Series' website.
December 2018 T-Series chairman Bhushan Kumar told the BBC he had only recently heard of PewDiePie and was not concerned about the subscriber competition.
December 2018 The Wall Street Journal website was hacked to display a message apologizing for previous articles about PewDiePie and encouraging viewers to subscribe to his YouTube channel.
December 2018 Asif Bantaye released a Hindi-language diss track 'PENDUBHAI' against PewDiePie.
December 14 2018 YouTube removed a large number of bot and inactive subscribers, affecting both PewDiePie and T-Series channels. PewDiePie lost over 55,000 subscribers, while T-Series lost more than 220,000 subscribers from its main channel.
November 2018 Tatva K released a Hindi-language diss track 'Pew Ki Pie' in response to PewDiePie's 'Bitch Lasagna' diss track.
November 2018 Jus Reign, an Indian-Canadian comedian and YouTuber, uploaded a video called 'In Defense of T-Series', supporting T-Series and discussing his childhood connection to their music.
November 2018 Hacker 'HackerGiraffe' sent print jobs to around 50,000 vulnerable printers, urging users to subscribe to PewDiePie and unsubscribe from T-Series.
November 2018 The subscriber rivalry between PewDiePie and T-Series begins as T-Series' subscriber count starts to approach PewDiePie's.
November 4 2018 A group of young fans in Dhaka, Bangladesh, handed out posters in support of PewDiePie, which he later acknowledged in a YouTube video.
September 2018 T-Series president Neeraj Kalyan publicly commented on the subscriber race, stating it was a matter of pride for Indians and that the channel's global viewership had increased due to the controversy with PewDiePie.
August 2018 PewDiePie posted a video titled 'this channel will overtake PewDiePie', jokingly rallying his fans against T-Series and referencing the KSI vs. Logan Paul YouTube boxing match.

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