PewDiePie may be about to lose his crown (Picture: Getty)

PewDiePie may be about to lose his crown as the most subscribed YouTube channel – and he is not happy about it.

According to SocialBlade, ‘a statistics website that allows you to track your statistics and measure growth across multiple social media platforms’, an Indian production company known as T Series is gaining in followers so quickly that it is thought they will overtake PewDiePie by the end of 2018.

T Series are reportedly ‘India’s largest music label & movie studio’ who ‘believe in bringing world close together through its music’; the channel shares music videos and trailers from India and Bollywood.




‘We’re failing!’ says PewDiePie in a new video asking fans to subscribe and ensure he stays at the top of the website.

‘We must fight back, who is this T Series channel? I am number one!’ he adds, before referencing KSI and Logan Paul’s infamous boxing match by challenging T Series to a ‘sabre fight like real men’.

T Series has 60,264,401 subscribers and has over 46,998,540,703 views since launching in March 2016.

In comparison, PewDiePie has 65,794,207 subscribers and only 18,647,247,589 views; he joined YouTube in April 2010.

PewDiePie – real name Felix Kjellberg – has become a controversial YouTuber in recent years after joking about killing Jews and reportedly saying the N-word while playing a game on camera.

He was signed at the time to a multi-channel network – Maker Studios – who were owned by Disney, but they cut ties with him after the controversy.

Kjellberg’s net worth is reported to be $61 million but according to Business Insider his estimated net salary was $15 million in 2017.

The Wall Street Journal reported that PewDiePie earned $4 million in 2013, which he has confirmed; this was only three years into his career.

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