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YouTube King PewDiePie Surrenders Crown To Indian Record Label T-Series (bloomberg.com)

Posted by msmash on from the emerging-markets dept.

YouTube is about to crown a new king. T-Series, one of India's largest record labels, will become the most-subscribed channel on the world's most popular video site in the next couple weeks. At the beginning of the year, the company had 30 million fans, fewer than half of the following for No. 1 PewDiePie, the Swedish video-game geek and jokester whose real name is Felix Kjellberg. From a report: The company's ascent has shocked the tight-knit community of online personalities, prompting some to rally behind PewDiePie and delay T-Series' ascent. While claiming the most subscribers on YouTube is largely a symbolic achievement, and the company already has the most monthly views, the end of PewDiePie's five-year reign is a watershed moment that reflects important changes as internet use gets more global.

More than half of the 10 most popular channels on YouTube in terms of monthly views are from outside the U.S., and many of them belong to professional media companies. YouTube's previous champions have been young, male amateurs like the video blogger Ray William Johnson and comedy duo Smosh. But after years as a mostly Western site for pranks and cat clips, the Google-owned company has lured most of the world's largest media giants to the site, blurring the line between professional and amateur. Further reading: Who Rules YouTube? Swift? Bieber? Nope. It's T-Series, a Record Label in India.

92 comments

  1. Dear YouTube... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Dear YouTube...

    Who cares?

    1. Re:Dear YouTube... by cayenne8 · · Score: 1, Interesting
      Ok, out of curiosity I just went to their YT site to listen.

      Seriously?

      Who the fuck can even bear to listen to more than 30 seconds of that crap??

      High pitch clanging....man, just hurt my ears.

      I guess it is some form of music, but wow...that is just weird and bad.

      Maybe someone needs to go to India and turn them onto the blues or something more akin to real music.

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    2. Re:Dear YouTube... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

      These past posts have been the longest, darkest of my life. How does one judge music?
      1,359,521,416 Indians against 1 cayenne8.
      And in the middle, PewDiePie.
      That we have ignored, abandoned or marginalized a great streamer like YouTube King PewDiePie...
      and that American boys have paid for that neglect in blood...
      is equally real and equally tragic.

      We are at war with terror.
      Fighting a war means casualties.
      This is the worst call I've ever had to make.

      Coronation approved.

    3. Re:Dear YouTube... by jellomizer · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Are you talking about the Indian Music channel or PewDiePie?
      If it is the Indian Music channel, you need to realize what we as a resident western hemisphere recognize as music is based on notes which are based on the 8 note scale, with a total of 12 chromatic notes. Eastern Culture music doesn't need to follow the same Evolution of music theory. Oddly enough once you de-program yourself for what you grew up thinking is music, you are able to enjoy and appreciate eastern style of music as just as pleasant as western style is.

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      If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
    4. Re:Dear YouTube... by BlackOverflow · · Score: 1

      That's a pretty sophisticated bot you have there! It's able to parse things really well!

    5. Re:Dear YouTube... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Who the fuck can even bear to listen to more than 30 seconds of that crap??

      High pitch clanging....man, just hurt my ears.

      Nothing good has come out since 1977 when Fleetwood Mac released Rumours.

      That't fact.

    6. Re:Dear YouTube... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      I agree, it's horrible. But then so is PewDiePie. He's a moron. Apparently shit reigns supreme on YouTube.

    7. Re: Dear YouTube... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Bullshit. You're a world music fag. I should know. I dated one for many years. They're almost as detestable vinyl zealots.
        Given equal access to both formats, people and especially children prefer modern (not Western) music by a wide margin. Keep in mind, roughly half the people in India have to go outside to take a shit. You might think that's unrelated, but educated and well-traveled people know better.

    8. Re:Dear YouTube... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Who the fuck can even bear to listen to more than 30 seconds of that crap??

      Tens (hundreds?) of millions of people apparently.

      In other news, who the fuck uses TWO question marks at the end of sentences?! You want emphasis you use ONE question mark and ONE exclamation point. Clearly it is your personal tastes and means of communication that are incorrect and not that of a millennia old culture that developed independently from...

      turn them onto the blues or something

      ...post slavery rural south/migrant north African music. In the timeless words of Fogel, "Muhammad is the most common name on the planent. Read a fucking book!"
       

    9. Re:Dear YouTube... by xpiotr · · Score: 1

      Maybe someone needs to go to India and turn them onto the blues or something more akin to real music.

      > = " Oh, I went to a page from another culture than my own and I did not like what I saw, why can't they just adapt to MY culture."

      I don't understand Indian music either, but I do at least understand that I don't understand.

    10. Re:Dear YouTube... by Cajun+Hell · · Score: 1

      Who the fuck [has different opinions than I do]

      Someone. Usually it turns out to be many people, while also being a small fraction of humanity too.

      Everything is obscure or weird; this is what the "long tail" is about. If you add up the top 100 youtube channels, there's still a good chance that not a single one of them will be about anything that you have ever heard of or that you would like even if you checked it out. And that's not an attribute of you; the same would likely apply to anyone. Your father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate probably hasn't ever heard of anything in the top 100 either, or even if he has, he might not like any of it.

      Probably.

      Of course, there might be something in the top 100 that you (or your father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate) are familiar with. And if not familiar with it, you still might end up liking it. You never know unless you look.

      And of course, whether any particular individual happens to have heard of this stuff or not, it's a 100% sure thing that someone has. These are still popular things, even if they're also obscure. 30 million is a lot of people, while also being a tiny fraction of the world (so, not many people after all, depending on how you look at it).

      It reminds me of my second-favorite joke from "Cheers", a sitcom where one character is a former pro baseball player (here I am telling people what "Cheers" is; this is the world we now live in, where plenty of people really and truly might not know (but of course my TV generation is silly-familiar with this stuff)). At one point Sam Malone says, "A lot of people don't know this, but I happen to be very famous." Great line.

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    11. Re: Dear YouTube... by jellomizer · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Last Century Western Culture propagated the earth. Bringing a lot of good thing and bad things as well. Given equal access younger people will gravitate towards newer music. Hence when you normally ask a person when was the Golden age of music, you can normally get a good ball park of their age.

      The New stuff today isn't any more crap then the music made 200 years ago. However over time, all the junk music had been removed from our history.

      If you listen to a Pop Station it plays music of the last 5 years.
      If you listen to a contemporary station you get 10-15 years of music.
      If you listen to the oldies stations They cover 30 years of music.
      If you listen to the "classical" stations you often get about 300+ years of music.
      The idea that "Classical" (I quote it because they often span well beyond the classical period of music) is far superior then what is new, is actually false, We just are able to pick a selection of the bests of the best over 300 years. While the Pop station is playing the best of the last half decade.

      Now much traditional Eastern Music which doesn't use the western scale is very musical, once you get in tuned to its pattern then you can recognize it as music and not as noise. You don't have to like it, but you shouldn't be judging it, if you really didn't try to understand it.

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    12. Re: Dear YouTube... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Look everyone, the Emperor isn't wearing any clothes!

    13. Re:Dear YouTube... by BringsApples · · Score: 1

      India has about 4x the amount of people that the US has. Odd thing is, the Indians have a different music preference than the Americans. It's not amazing that whatever trend develops on youtube that attracts the likes of Indians, would then become more popular (on a global scale) than that of trends that attract Americans.

      And before anyone points out that Indians are poor, and fewer have access to internet than those in America...
      That's true, however India is coming up in the world, so the number of Indians with internet access might surprise you. And the amount of times that the video(s) will be watched by each of them may also surprise you.

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    14. Re: Dear YouTube... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      They're also a bunch of smelly, worthless, curry eating goat fuckers barley out of cave man stage. Who gives a fuck what they like. Their whole country needs to he boarded up and hit with a neutron bomb. Wipe the filth out and turn the country in to something useful.

      Well, after the place is power washed.

    15. Re: Dear YouTube... by Paradise+Pete · · Score: 1

      I don't know what's he's wearing, but the point is that the further back you look the more you can cherry-pick. Most of the music of any era is crap. But when you look back you can ignore the crap and focus on the good ones.

    16. Re: Dear YouTube... by Paradise+Pete · · Score: 2

      They're also a bunch of smelly, worthless, curry eating goat fuckers barley out of cave man stage.

      What's wrong with curry?

    17. Re: Dear YouTube... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Nah, being Indian myself (and singing many old Indian and Bangladesh songs) I can safely tell you that it isn't about being in a different scale. The music on TSeries is patently bad.

      This coming from a guy whonattempted to get a lady in the mood by wooing her with Ben Johnston's string quartet #4.

      Curse TSeries and its piss poor payola music.
      Long live pewds and his 9year old army.

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      Also I didn't know we propogated new earths last century!?! Holy shot! Where can Infind them.

    18. Re:Dear YouTube... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      They obviously paid for those followers. Indians are notorious cheaters.

    19. Re:Dear YouTube... by Sivaraj · · Score: 1

      Indian classic music traditions use a similar 8-note, 12-chromatic note format as Western music. There are usage variations, but the mathematical fundamentals are same.

  2. oh noes! by cascadingstylesheet · · Score: 2, Funny

    YouTube's previous champions have been young, male amateurs like the video blogger Ray William Johnson and comedy duo Smosh.

    Male?? Well we can't have that!

    More than half of the 10 most popular channels on YouTube in terms of monthly views are from outside the U.S., and many of them belong to professional media companies.

    Thank you, professional media companies, for saving us from ... shudder ... male amateurs!

    1. Re:oh noes! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      LOL, you sound triggered.

    2. Re: oh noes! by cascadingstylesheet · · Score: 2

      Well obviously. When a published author states in his article, for no reason at all, that most previous "champions" were male, that clearly means that I have some weird issue. Because logic.

  3. Chess! by TechyImmigrant · · Score: 1

    Agadmator will surpass them all in the end.

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    1. Re:Chess! by MyrddinBach · · Score: 1

      I so *wish* I had mod points for you right now.

    2. Re:Chess! by Paradise+Pete · · Score: 1

      Agadmator will surpass them all in the end.

      And he'll do it by reading out the moves.

    3. Re:Chess! by TechyImmigrant · · Score: 1

      Agadmator will surpass them all in the end.

      And he'll do it by reading out the moves.

      And saying "Hello there!"

      --
      I should use this sig to advertise my book ISBN-13 : 978-1501515132.
    4. Re:Chess! by Paradise+Pete · · Score: 1

      yes :-)
      I enjoy his channel - he works hard at it and does a good job, but he's not a great analyst.

  4. Frankly by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Frankly, I think it is worrisome that India is so huge. Indian workers are displacing Americans, and now on the biggest video site on the planet which is based in America they're the biggest channel. We're talking about the same culture that wipes their asses with their hands, where rape and sexual blackmail/coercion isn't an unusual thing, where lying and deceiving and cutting others down is commonplace and expected, and from where stereotypes like Apu in The Simposons comes and those stereotypes are actually mostly correct. They're a society with literal shit in the streets and rivers so full of trash and dead bodies that they'll kill you if you swim in them. And they're at the top of the YouTube video rankings and run Microsoft and Google, and all three of those have gone to shit recently. Traditional American society is the best society on the planet and it is being tainted en masse by people from literal shitholes that won't fix their sociopolitical problems and thus shovel their excess humans (and the cancerous cultural norms they carry) off to other countries to deal with.

    And people wonder why white nationalism is a thing.

    1. Re: Frankly by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      so pewdiepie is american? is it more to do with white vs brown that whites cant openly accept but are concerned about? wondering if pewdiepie was actual american but black who hates whites this t series would ever be any news. pathetic whites trash

    2. Re:Frankly by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You had me up until white nationalism. India has a massive cultural problem though, and they worst of it is that they bring it with them when they get out. Seriously, work in IT for a while and you'll understand it. People have to send emails to the whole office telling people to use the damn toilet properly. They're always trying to get some friend or cousin a job (and probably taking a cut for it). And the arrogance of these guys... seriously, leave your caste shit in India (or the UK if you like). So many news articles about them not paying taxes, not paying their illegal workers, immigrating fraud, etc. And it's not even racial - there are plenty of good people of Indian descent - it's cultural and it seems to be getting worse over the last decade.

    3. Re: Frankly by sound+vision · · Score: 1

      So triggered by seeing an Indian video on the top 10... Your life must be miserable.

    4. Re:Frankly by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Oh no, I'm not condoning nor rejecting white nationalism, just explaining that it is fueled by such things. Indian culture is objectively worse than American culture and there's a huge influx of people from objectively shitty cultures that refuse to become part of American culture and prefer to replace it with the culture that made their place of origin so terribly shitty. People who adhere to American ideals and fundamental values tend to live better lives and become more successful. People who adhere to cultural norms that unfortunately could be abbreviated to those of "brown countries" may sometimes be successful but they tend to do so by harming others. East Asians are a prime example of non-white people that have assimilated and thrived in America; Hispanic people are hit-and-miss because many choose to assimilate with great success while many others choose to not learn the English language and isolate themselves in Spanish-only pockets where they don't have to deal with pesky things like being a functional part of American society. The migrant caravans that won't stop coming to the southern border are a good example of people that come from a bunch of shitty countries where corruption and crime define normal daily life, that want to get in the country without following legal immigration and naturalization procedures, and that will inevitably import their cancerous cultural norms into America if allowed to just walk right in.

      The remark about white nationalism is primarily because American culture has been slapped with the label of "white culture" by people that don't want to be a functional member of American society and white nationalists seem like a good mechanism to get the point across. Their rhetoric becomes more acceptable when things like Black Lives Matter's "Black Brunch" restaurant crashing horseshit happen, or as people that are legal citizens are replaced by hundreds of thousands of foreign non-citizens (I won't re-hash the H1B thing here).

      The math I'm seeing is this. American culture is constantly being pushed aside by labeling it white culture and treating it as if it's bad because of social justice and political correctness bullshit has become so widespread. Black culture is heavy with glorification of criminal activity and a strong notion that black people have to "stick together" based solely on being black (that's called racism.) Indian and Middle Eastern and Southern/Central American people generally have tons of dishonesty and corruption accepted as normal behavior in their cultures. America is mass importing "brown people" from "brown countries" who would prefer to force America to become their corrupt regressive cultures of origin instead of assimilating into American culture and learning to build up people rather than tearing them down. Remember that "American culture" and "white" have been rhetorically fused, so this obvious destruction of American culture and everything it is based upon is also the destruction of "white culture." Bam, people observing start to think that white nationalist rhetoric makes sense.

      Look no further than the anonymous comment above yours to see proof that this is correct. That butthurt no-English-speaking jackwagon called me "pathetic whites trash" even though it has no idea who or what I am and knows nothing about me, yet I said something they don't like so the conversation immediately goes from "I disagree with you" to "I disagree, but now I'm going to attack you personally." This is the world we live in now. That idiot is directly supporting white supremacist bullshit by making such blatantly racist anti-white comments. My point: illustrated.

    5. Re: Frankly by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Aww, poor baby's butt is hurt. Keep up your dishonest rhetoric. It lets us know how stupid you are in advance.

  5. Re:Iâ(TM)m am GAYpk and ready to HOST by syril · · Score: 1

    what did he mean by this

  6. "Subscribers" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    A few weeks ago, youtube was down globally for a while, but T-Series kept somehow getting thousands of new subscribers during the outage. Some time before that, there were reports that just watching a T-Series video would automatically subscribe you to their channel. There's really nothing organic about it, and ultimately it doesn't matter, but it is somewhat pathetic that they resorted to script-kiddie antics to boost their subscriber count.

    1. Re:"Subscribers" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It's because you're automagically subscribed to it when you buy an Android device in Pooland or something like that.

  7. Not surprising by aepervius · · Score: 1

    "More than half of the 10 most popular channels on YouTube in terms of monthly views are from outside the U.S" let us put it that way, there was a lag from non US country to take up on youtube. The US had the innovator advance. But 95% of the world is outside the US, and a big part of that is getting more and more connected. I am predicting that in 5 to 10 years the top youtube channel by view will be world wide media conglomerate, or big celebrities in india & china.

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  8. India? Who cares? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    The real influencers are now and always will be, American.

  9. The internet is Cable TV by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Time to cut this cord as well.

  10. Slow news day? by fahrbot-bot · · Score: 4, Funny

    Seriously, why? Who cares.

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    It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
    1. Re:Slow news day? by cascadingstylesheet · · Score: 1

      Seriously, why? Who cares.

      Because ... well, because ... non-Americans replacing Americans! On YouTube! Important!

      And ... big media companies replacing male amateurs! Because ... er, not male or something?

    2. Re:Slow news day? by Opportunist · · Score: 1

      So what? Yes, the channels I visit have maybe 100k subscribers. Maybe 200k. Some even less than that. Do they no longer exist now that T-whatever is the biggest channel? Do I have to watch their stuff now?

      Calm down, relax and ignore it.

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      We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
    3. Re:Slow news day? by cascadingstylesheet · · Score: 1

      If you are talking to me, then you missed the sarcasm.

      It's not newsworthy, and I am ignoring it.

      (And making fun of those who think that it is important.)

    4. Re:Slow news day? by MagicM · · Score: 1

      I thought it was interesting enough to read the summary and look to see what people are saying in the comments about it.

      So I guess I care.

    5. Re: Slow news day? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      A Swede is American?

    6. Re:Slow news day? by aaronb1138 · · Score: 1

      The cute thing is this actually degrades some of YT's advertising value. Most marketing money comes out of the infinite supply of US companies to sell to US consumerist tendencies. Southeast Asia may have huge economies, but they aren't such fools with how much their advertisers will pay per eyeball.

      I want to make a joke about China users taking the lead once the state sponsored Mao Now! channel launches, but obsession with the little red books isn't what it once was.

    7. Re:Slow news day? by Opportunist · · Score: 1

      Ok, we're in agreement... discussing with you is no fun.

      I'll go find me a flat earther.

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      We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
    8. Re:Slow news day? by BlackOverflow · · Score: 0

      A Swedish guy is American? Hmmm...

    9. Re:Slow news day? by Gabest · · Score: 1

      You still don't get it. There is a finite amount of money to be distributed among youtubers. Your small but liked channel will get smaller as these T-whatevers get larger.

    10. Re:Slow news day? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I've never seen someone so loudly ignore something

    11. Re:Slow news day? by thegarbz · · Score: 1

      Seriously, why? Who cares.

      PewDiePie

  11. Sub-Bot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Look at how many people watches the T-Series videos: SUB-BOT!!!!
    Youtube has to do something. The 9yr old army will never be defeated!!!!

  12. Some don't realize about T Series by Cito · · Score: 4, Insightful

    In India when you purchase a device, it has its pre-installed apps as most things do. Difference is it is the app pre-installed is also presubscribed to India news aggregator T Series.

    So even if you don't want to, all devices purchased in India are pre subscribed to T series and the app cannot be uninstalled without rooting it.
    that's why it has the numbers. Their population 9s forced to be subscribed to that channel unless they root the device which is illegal there.

    1. Re:Some don't realize about T Series by Opportunist · · Score: 1

      So, in other words, it's like the cable providers that claim so-and-so-many people use their cable TV when the only reason these people have that cable TV subscription is that internet bundled with it is actually cheaper and faster than internet alone?

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      We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
    2. Re:Some don't realize about T Series by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      I was about to ask the question how many of those were actual subscribers, compared to the number of bots, scammed and/or forced subscribers. I'd say that app falls in the latter category. I wonder how long it will take Youtube to smell the coffee and issue bans.

    3. Re:Some don't realize about T Series by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      LOL. That might be true with phone but nowhere is an internet/cable bundle cheaper than just internet.

      Why do you have such a hard on to shit on cable companies? Like did an installer fuck your wife? Did a cable truck run over your dad?

    4. Re:Some don't realize about T Series by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Just like twitter, as long as it can be put off. Inflating metrics is an age old practice. Only children believe any of these unverified, un-examinable numbers.

    5. Re:Some don't realize about T Series by Stan92057 · · Score: 1

      They may be forced to have it installed and they may be forced to become subscribers but i don't think they are forced to actually use the service.Or actually sigh into YouTube. I have plenty of crapwhere on my phone i cant get rid of unless i root my phone and im just not going to go to that trouble because i just don't use the services. The only way out is our congress get some balls and start looking out for the consumers and that's just not going to happens any time soon as corporate America keeps our congress members pockets lined with cash.

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    6. Re:Some don't realize about T Series by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      What device has this app which pre-subscribed to T-Series? I have a few devices as well as know a lot of people with devices but have never seen one with such an app.

    7. Re:Some don't realize about T Series by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      T-series is not a news aggregator.

    8. Re:Some don't realize about T Series by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Bwahahahaha. Joke. Modded "Insightful". And the bastards claim that American "society" is built on truth and virtues.

      Like my favourite story about Gandhi: “What do you think of Western civilization?” “I think it would be a good idea.”

    9. Re:Some don't realize about T Series by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      In India when you purchase a device, it has its pre-installed apps as most things do. Difference is it is the app pre-installed is also presubscribed to India news aggregator T Series.

      So even if you don't want to, all devices purchased in India are pre subscribed to T series and the app cannot be uninstalled without rooting it.
      that's why it has the numbers. Their population 9s forced to be subscribed to that channel unless they root the device which is illegal there.

      This is FUD. Ever had a look into the devices sold in the actual market ?

    10. Re:Some don't realize about T Series by Opportunist · · Score: 1

      Neither. I just have this ad here that says just that. With the higher tier internet only available as a bundle with cable anyway. As if you only need more than 20/2 if you also watch cable TV for some odd reason.

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      We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
  13. Re:India? Who cares? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Just like Felix has been up until now! Oh, wait..

    (Explaining the joke for those who might not know: Felix is a Swede living in England.)

  14. FAKE NEWS! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Pewdiepie is still ahead by 300K subs. Not today, T-series.

  15. Who cares by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2

    Who cares

  16. Observation by Artem+S.+Tashkinov · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I've noticed that the number of subscribers on YouTube is inversely related to the quality of content which speaks volumes about PewPewWhat and other "high"-profile channels.

    1. Re:Observation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I've noticed that the number of subscribers on YouTube is inversely related to the quality of content which speaks volumes about PewPewWhat and other "high"-profile channels.

      Well, let's face it, the popularity of the channel on YouTube is proportional to how stupid the subscribers are.

      Congratulations, you've learned there is a lot of stupid in the world.

      Which, as far as I can tell, is the core audience of most of YouTube -- it's cat videos and other drivel all the way down.

  17. how can people listen to PukeThePie? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I tried watching once because one of the channels I follow to referenced him. His voice was like a cat in heat, and his personality made me think he was doing speedballs and meth.

  18. Pewds by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Made the mistake of watching one of his videos once.Not even APK's Hosts File Engine could save me. I had to block his channel to get his crap out of my recommended lists.

  19. Popular nonsense is irrelevent by MpVpRb · · Score: 2

    The University of YouTube still delivers excellent education on a wide variety of subjects
    I'm currently watching card magic tutorials, but in the past I've watched ..

    Graduate-level physics
    Welding
    Knifemaking
    Glassblowing
    Gunsmithing
    And many more

    I prefer learning over most "entertainment"

    1. Re:Popular nonsense is irrelevent by Nidi62 · · Score: 2

      The University of YouTube still delivers excellent education on a wide variety of subjects I'm currently watching card magic tutorials, but in the past I've watched ..

      Graduate-level physics Welding Knifemaking Glassblowing Gunsmithing And many more

      I prefer learning over most "entertainment"

      And that combination's probably got you on some terror watchlist somewhere, too

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    2. Re:Popular nonsense is irrelevent by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The University of YouTube still delivers excellent education on a wide variety of subjects
      I'm currently watching card magic tutorials, but in the past I've watched ..

      Graduate-level physics
      Welding
      Knifemaking
      Glassblowing
      Gunsmithing
      And many more

      I prefer learning over most "entertainment"

      And that combination's probably got you on some terror watchlist somewhere, too

      No, they'll just get him flagged as worthless nerd.

  20. The great thing with internet celebrities by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 1

    and their followers - as with reality-TV participants and fans - is, when someone mentions them, people with more than 2 brain cells immediately know whom not to interact socially with. They're a great way to out idiots who must be avoided at all costs.

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  21. Symbolic achievement by rhazz · · Score: 1

    the most subscribers on YouTube is largely a symbolic achievement

    This is an understatement, as the views from all videos from media company (with hundreds or thousands of content creators) isn't comparable to the views from content that is largely generated by a single person. It's like comparing one artists views to all views on VEVO channels.

  22. Popular != good by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    Wish YT would create a site just for the labels and multinational broadcast corporations, spin it off, and leave YT proper for the small guys. You know, people who actually make music and interesting stuff, and have jumped through YT's hoops for the past several years to avoid demonetization. The small guys deserve fame (and a decent check.) Bollywood rockers need their own Desi-Starz or whatnot site.

  23. what.. the... fuck... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Gay shit that nerds don't care about? Stuff that sucks my puckered butthole?

  24. Troll ? by aepervius · · Score: 1

    Normally I don't care about moderation, but that one made me laugh to tears. Now plain demographic and comment on evolution of internet connectivity outside first world is trolling. Guys. WHY should a guy in Bangalore getting connected to internet like pewdiepie or a well known US youtuber or media, MORE than the local celebrity ? Now multiply by 1 billion with far eastern region and 1 billion indian sub continent. The most view in video plateform in the future will simply be there. it is demographic !

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  25. It's coming from India.....might want to verify by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Which is more likely:
    A) Youtubers the world over have suddenly taken a liking to shrieking voices and ear drum piercing content; or
    B) An Indian has found a way to game the system?

  26. Cat Clips by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    What will become after cat clips!? Clips from the rapture, with cute demons at the streets taking the belie..soldi..citiz..Pokémons. Pika pika!

  27. I feel like I'm winning the internet... by TomR+teh+Pirate · · Score: 1

    ...because I had never heard of any of this stuff until today. Reading the comments, it sounds like my life is happier for being ignorant.

  28. Inflated views, anyone? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    India is a big country, with a lot of people... including a lot of people who see nothing wrong with setting up bots to "watch" your channels, I bet.

    Not that it's just a poor country thing. Pretty sure VeVO views are inflated too.

  29. WHO CARES by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    WHO CARES

  30. Huh? by jetkust · · Score: 1

    Why is this getting modded up? It doesn't even make sense. You can't presubscribe a phone to a Youtube channel. In fact, "pre subscribe" itself isn't even a thing. This is either a troll, or someone with no concept of what the word "subscribe" means.

    1. Re:Huh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Pewdie made a joke (I think he was joking?) that they were being autosubscribed. I think it's probably that there were few Indian quality channels on Youtube, a company called Jio started selling SIM cards with free unlimited internet (then later extremely cheap 4G internet) and what a lot of people used those connections to do was listen to music and watch things. That sale of those free/cheap internet sim cards coincides with the boom of this channel. It was a combo of a lot of people getting their first access to the internet, and with little Indian content to consume, they flocked to one of the few options which raised their profile quickly.

    2. Re:Huh? by Cito · · Score: 2

      Google tseries and auto subscribe or forced subscriptions

      In India users get autosubbed to tseries news aggregate
      they have a partnership with devices sold in their country

      It's all artificial inflated numbers.. How ebay can claim millions of users use their app when their app is forced onto Android devices. India is more nefarious and there's a lot of debate ongoing about not only being forced to buy a device with pre-installed apps but now in India being auto subscribed to certain news aggregates. Similar to here in US certain Android phones force Bixby service on their users and you aren't allowed to uninstall Bixby. You'd have to root the device to get it off.

      It's shitty

  31. Bronies.. by GrBear · · Score: 1

    PewDiePie.. isn't she one of the mentally challenged ponies?

  32. The smell... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Indians are subhumans and smell like shit

  33. Re: Iâ(TM)m am GAYpk and ready to HOST by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    He means his butt is ready for your dick.

  34. Who? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Nobody cares. I prefer Hydraulic Press Channel myself.