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A new “most-subscribed” channel was finally crowned on YouTube, albeit briefly.

After a nearly half-year long race, internet personality PewDiePie has finally been dethroned as YouTube’s most subscribed channel by Bollywood music video channel T-Series. The video production company surpassed the YouTuber in subscribers for the very first time on Friday, Feb. 22.

However, the India-based T-Series’ reign as the new “most-subscribed” channel on YouTube didn’t last for very long.

“For roughly 8 minutes, as a result of a YouTube audit, T-Series was ahead of PewDiePie (by a max of about 2000 [subscribers]),” a spokesperson with the social media analytics company SocialBlade confirmed in a statement to Mashable. Read more…

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The battle between PewDiePie and T-Series for the “most subscribed” YouTube channel continues, months after a new champion was supposed to be crowned.

The Bollywood music channel T-Series was originally projected to overtake PewDiePie as the most subscribed channel on YouTube in October. However, the online rivalry between the two continues partially thanks to FlareTV, a year-old account airing a nonstop livestream that tracks the subscriber count of both PewDiePie and T-Series’ channels.

Since Sept. 1, 2018, FlareTV’s livestream has helped fan the flames of the subscriber race between supporters of YouTube’s top two channels. Thousands of people are watching the stream at any given time. Read more…

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