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<strong><br /></strong><ul><li><strong>In a bid to help <keyword id="2938280" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="pewdiepie">PewDiePie</keyword> keep his crown on YouTube, printers in at least five countries were hacked with the message, ‘Unsubscribe from T-Series. Subscribe to PewDiePie’.</strong></li><li><strong>This is the second time that vulnerabilities in printer security have been exploited to propagate the message of ‘#savepewdiepie’.<br /></strong></li><li><strong>Only this time, the hackers also asked the victims to ‘Seriously. Fix your printer. It can be abused.’</strong></li></ul>Hackers, who also seem to be fans of the Swedish YouTube vlogger PewDiePie, have launched an attack on printers — again — asking people from around the world to subscribe to his channel. Only this time, the hackers are asking victims to be a little more vigilant with their printer security as well. <br /><br />The attack seems to have affected nearly 100,000 machines in Chile, Australia, Spain, UK, US and Argentina <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-46552339">according</a> to the BBC.<br /><br />The hackers have provided their Twitter handles on the print-out, inviting victims to get in touch with them should they seek in addressing the security vulnerabilities on their network. <br /><br />
	
	
	
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<br /><br />The note varies from country to country in terms of how much context is provided but the underlying message is the same: unsubscribe from T-Series and subscribe to PewDiePie instead. <br /><br />And, to fix your printer — it can be abused.<br /><br />
	
	
	
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<br /><br />In the message, two Twitter handles, @HackerGiraffe and @j3w3r, take credit for the hack. One of the accounts also posted a picture of the hack as it was being executed. <br /><br />
	
	
	
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<br />Last month, another printer hack was administered on over 50,000 printers reading, “Subscribe to PewDiePiew. Stop T-Series.”<br /><br /><strong>Seriously. Fix your printer. <br /></strong><br />The fact that printers can be hacked into shouldn’t come as a surprise. Quite honestly, anything that’s on a network connected to the Internet without sufficient security or a firewall, can be exploited if hackers know what they’re looking for — and they generally do. <br /><br />The appeal for PewDiePie was a very mild reminder of what could go wrong if a printer chip is exploited. The hackers explained to the BBC that the printer chips have the potential to cause actual physical damage that could leave a printer defunct. <br /><br />And more than just forcing a printer to execute a specific message, the vulnerabilities in security could be used to capture the data of other documents being printed by the same machine. And, in some cases, even modify that data as it was being printed.<br /><br />The India music and movie channel, T-Series, has been on the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/t-series-will-dethrone-pewdiepie-2018-10?IR=T">verge of overtaking</a> PewDiePie’s as the most subscribed channel on YouTube for over a month now but the independent Swedish vlogger’s fan base is doing all that they can to keep that from happening. <br /><br />This printer hack was only the latest in a series of stunts being pulled to garner support for the independent vlogger who is also known in real life as Felix Kjellberg.<br />

'Seriously. Fix your printer' — PewDiePie fans hack into printers for a second time in a bid to keep T-Series at bay

<br /><ul><li><strong>Saiman Waghdhar, known as <keyword id="7554086" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="saiman-says">Saiman Says</keyword> on YouTube, travelled to the <keyword id="6361754" type="LOCATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="united-kingdom">United Kingdom</keyword> in order to get around India’s ban on two <keyword id="2938280" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="pewdiepie">PewDiePie</keyword> videos.<br /><br /></strong></li><li><strong>Last week the <keyword id="6355014" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="delhi-high-court">Delhi High Court</keyword> banned ‘B**ch Lasagna’ and ‘Congratulations’ on YouTube in India.<br /><br /></strong></li><li><strong>Felix Kjellberg, the Swedish vlogger known as PewDiePie has also come under scrutiny with respect to the Christchurch shooting.<br /></strong></li></ul>The row between <keyword id="17191" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="T-series">T-Series</keyword> and PewDiePie was not without its consequences. Felix Kjellberg’s ‘B**ch Lasagna’ and ‘Congratulations’ were banned in India last week for being racist and inflammatory.<br /><br />But, in order to get around the ban, one fan Saiman Waghdhar — popularly known as Saiman Says on YouTube — flew all the way to the United Kingdom. In his video, ‘PewDiePie, I’m coming for you !!! (meet me please)’, the Indian vlogger reminisces how, “Life has been for me. I used to watch B**ch Lasagna 399 times in a day and now I cannot even watch it once back in India.”<br /><br /><div type="Youtube" id="P3B0bMIlQ7s" title="PewDiePie, I'M COMING FOR YOU !!! (meet me pls?🙏)" thumbUrl="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/P3B0bMIlQ7s/mqdefault.jpg"></div>

<br />‘B**tch Lasagna’ and ‘Congratulations’ were meant to be ‘diss tracks’ aimed at T-Series, an Indian music company that is now the most subscribed channel on YouTube with 95 million subscribers. Despite the ban many users have posted copies of the songs through other channels, so technically, the song is still available in India.<br /><br />Waghdhar clarifies that he didn’t just travel to the United Kingdom for the sole purpose of meeting PewDiePie but that he was already plans to travel for another project.<br /><br /><div type="twitter" handle="HiSaimandar" handlename="Saiman Says" image="http://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1092721123635183617/2nqc4U-5_normal.jpg" favoritecount="314" retweetcount="32" status="So a post about my video is trending on the subreddit. Some are thinking it's creepy. No, I din't come to the UK ju… https://t.co/YTBANAcAF0" createdat="1555874964000" id="1120046895949340672"></div>

<br />The Saiman Says channel blew up in November last year when Waghdhar responded to MrBeast’s video by creating a parody video where he <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5z_ypXULQA">bought up</a> billboards advertising T-Series in India.<br /><br /><strong>PewDiePie Ban<br /></strong><br />Last week, the Delhi High Court <a href="http://iprmentlaw.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Super-Cassettes-vs-Pew-Die-Pi.pdf">issued</a> an order for YouTube to remove those two songs from the platform categorising them to be ‘defamatory and disparaging’ as well as ‘racist, inflammatory and hateful’.<br /><br />
  <div type="ExtQuote" text="It is pleaded that the lyrics used in the two impugned songs uploaded by defendant no.1 (PewDiePie)... are on the face of it defamatory, disparaging, insulting and offensive. These videos are accessible throughout the world to a global audience of more than a billion who access internet and YouTube everyday." auname="Delhi High Court order banning ‘B**ch Lasagna’ and ‘Congratulations’"></div>

<br />In ‘Congratulations’, PewDiePie cites the tax evasion case against former T-Series owner, Bushan Kumar, and points out, “India got YouTube figured out… How about next you figure how to fix the caste system… Maybe all those ads will solve your poverty”. <br /><br />And, it’s not just the courts in India that are calling PewDiePie racist. A Change.org petition is also making the rounds looking to ban the Swedish vlogger for his ‘white supremist’ content. It was filed after the Christchurch Shooter announced, “Subscribe to PewDiePie,” during the live stream of the event only a mere moments before going on his shooting rampage.<br /><br />Kjellberg addressed the petition in one of his videos saying that the claims were “blatantly misrepresenting and misinforming people.”<br /><br /><strong>See also:<br /></strong><a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/youtube-has-shut-down-a-popular-channel-after-the-mother-was-charged-with-allegations-of-abusing-her-children/articleshow/68506104.cms">YouTube has shut down a popular channel after the mother was charged with allegations of abusing her children</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/some-of-the-most-popular-youtubers-make-millions-from-their-videos-heres-how-you-can-make-some-money-from-your-youtube-channel-too-/articleshow/68763894.cms">Some of the most popular YouTubers make millions from their videos. Here's how you can make some money from your YouTube channel too.</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/youtube-says-its-purged-over-400-channels-and-millions-of-videos-in-response-to-rising-concerns-about-child-exploitation/articleshow/68101030.cms">YouTube says it's purged over 400 channels and millions of videos in response to rising concerns about child exploitation</a><br />

Indian vlogger travelled halfway around the world to watch PewDiePie banned video

<p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div><ul class="summary-list"><li><strong>The Wall Street Journal website was hacked on Monday morning to include a message in support of YouTuber Felix "<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/pewdiepie" target="_blank" rel="noopener">PewDiePie</a>" Kjellberg.</strong></li><li><strong>PewDiePie is the most popular YouTube star in the world with more than 77 million subscribers, but he's in danger of being overtaken by Bollywood YouTube account T-Series.</strong></li><li><strong>In recent months, PewDiePie has been at the center of a social media campaign to keep his account ahead of T-Series in subscribers, and supporters have gone to extremes to promote his channel.</strong></li><li><strong>Another hacker caused more than 10,000 printers across the globe to print messages in support of PewDiePie, while claiming that the hack was to expose security flaws.</strong></li></ul><p><br>The Wall Street Journal was made an unwilling participant in a YouTube power struggle when hackers took over a page on the newspaper's website to post a message of support for YouTuber Felix "PewDiePie" Kjellberg.</br></p><p>A page on the site was altered to fake an apology to PewDiePie for "misrepresentation," and said the newspaper would be supporting the YouTuber in his effort to beat T-Series, a Bollywood-focused YouTube account, to 80 million subscribers. The hacked page also included a number of memes featuring PewDiePie and T-Series.</p><p>PewDiePie is the world's most popular YouTuber account with more than 77 million subscribers, but many have predicted that <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/pewdiepie-overtaken-t-series-most-popular-youtube-2018-10" target="_blank" rel="noopener">T-Series would surpass him</a> by the end of the year.</p><p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div><p>The page was eventually taken down by The Wall Street Journal. <a href="https://variety.com/2018/digital/news/wall-street-journal-site-hacked-pewdiepie-message-1203091220/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Variety reports</a> that the page in question was not directly associated with the Wall Street Journal newsroom, and is managed by advertising branch WSJ Custom Solutions.</p><p><em><strong>Read more:</strong> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/highest-paid-youtube-stars-2018-12" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The 10 highest-paid YouTubers of 2018</a></em></p><p>PewDiePie tweeted a link to the page before it was deleted, claiming that The Wall Street Journal had joined his campaign against T-Series. The YouTuber has had a contentious relationship with the media - and specifically The Wall Street Journal - after being repeatedly criticized for racist behavior and promoting anti-Semitic YouTube accounts.</p><p>This isn't the first time hackers have taken action in support of PewDiePie. A hacker using the Twitter handle <a href="https://twitter.com/j3ws3r" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@j3ws3r</a> claimed responsibility for accessing more than 100,000 printers across the world and forcing them to print a pro-PewDiePie message. The hacker claims that the goal of the printer hacks are to point out common security flaws within IT networks. A first round of printer hacks took place in November, and over the weekend even more printers began spitting out the message of support.</p><p>While PewDiePie has acknowledged the printer hacks, he has not claimed any involvement in the scheme, nor has he discouraged the hackers. His account remains slightly ahead of T-Series in subscribers at the moment.</p><div></div><div></div>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/cheap-spy-cameras-from-amazon-2018-11">We tested out $30 tiny spy cameras from Amazon by spying on our co-workers</a></h3>        <div>                    </div>    </div></hr></hr>

The Wall Street Journal's website was hacked to display a fake apology in a scheme to help the world's most popular YouTuber, PewDiePie

<ul><li><keyword id="2938280" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="pewdiepie">PewDiePie</keyword>, YouTube's biggest star, just got married.</li><li>He tied the knot to long-term partner Marzia Bisognin on August 19 at what looks like Kew Gardens in London.</li><li>PewDiePie, real name Felix Kjellberg, has nearly reached 100 million subscribers on YouTube.</li><li>Bisognin, who left YouTube for mental health reasons in October last year, posted on Instagram that they celebrated their wedding day exactly eight years since they met.</li><li>Kjellberg isn't just one of the most popular YouTubers, he's also one of the most controversial.</li></ul>YouTube's biggest star, PewDiePie, is married.<br /><br />He and long-time partner Marzia Bisognin revealed on their social media accounts that they tied the knot on August 19.<br /><br />On Twitter, PewDiePie, real name Felix Kjellberg, wrote "We are married!!! I'm the happiest I can be" with a heart emoji. "I'm so lucky to share my life with this amazing woman."<br /><br />
	
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<br /><br />He also posted the photos on Instagram that show the happy couple in a venue that looks just like the <a href="https://www.kew.org/kew-gardens/whats-in-the-gardens/temperate-house">Temperate House at Kew Gardens</a>.<br /><br />
  
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<br /><br />Bisognin, a former YouTuber who <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvVOf7Mx5iM">left the platform in October last year</a>, posted on Instagram that they celebrated their wedding day exactly eight years since they met.<br /><br />"It was the most beautiful day, which I will treasure forever," she wrote. "I am so thankful for all the people that made time to attend the event and helped us celebrate our marriage. I feel like I'm the luckiest person and I'm so full of love. Incredibly ecstatic to be able to call Felix my husband for the rest of our lives."<br /><br />
  
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<br /><br />Read more: <a href="https://www.insider.com/youtube-burnout-alishamarie-pewdiepie-casey-neistat-describe-pressures-of-the-industry-2019-1">The world's biggest YouTube stars told us they're burning out because of the unrelenting pressure to post new videos</a><br /><br />Kjellberg said in a recent video he couldn't wait to get married, and the event would happen "soon." But fans didn't realise he meant quite as soon as this.<br /><br />It's unclear yet who made the list for the wedding, but Kjellberg's YouTuber friend <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ4FyiI_1mWI2AtLS5ChdPQ">Boyinaband</a>, who has 2.7 million subscribers, can be seen in one of the photos.<br /><br />Eagle-eyed fans spotted that Kjellberg's mother had posted a photo 11 hours ago, with the caption "Tack! Fantastiskt!" Many thought the venue looked wedding-like, and noticed that Kjellberg was in a black three-piece tuxedo.<br /><br />
  
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<br /><br />Among the YouTubers wishing the happy couple congratulations are Jacksepticeye. "Love you buddy!" he commented. "Congratulations and wishing you guys a lifetime of happiness."<br /><br />Mr Beast said: "Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'M SO HAPPY FOR YOU!'"<br /><br />Kjellberg and Bisognin got engaged in April 2018 while on holiday in Japan, and live together in Brighton, UK. They also have two pugs, Edgar and Maya, and a Yorkshire terrier called Ynk.<br /><br />
  
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<br /><br />As the biggest start on YouTube, Kjellberg has nearly reached the 100 million subscriber milestone — he saw a massive boost when he started making Minecraft videos. He recently confirmed an estimate of his net worth was approximately accurate, at <a href="https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/pewdiepie-reveals-much-money-makes-per-hour-500304">$20 million</a>.<br /><br />However, the Indian record label T-Series overtook him in March to become <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/t-series-interview-how-beat-pewdiepie-youtube-2019-8?r=US&amp;IR=T">the most subscribed YouTube channel</a>, despite an enthusiastic "Subscribe to PewDiePie" campaign from Kjellberg's fans to keep him at the top.<br /><br />Read more: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/pewdiepie-and-t-series-settle-youtube-legal-dispute-2019-8?r=US&amp;IR=T">PewDiePie and T-Series quietly settled a court battle over 'racist' diss tracks following their epic YouTube battle</a><br /><br />Kjellberg isn't just one of the most popular YouTubers, he's also <a href="https://www.insider.com/who-is-pewdiepie-youtube-gamer-2019-3">one of the most controversial</a>. He has made a number of videos in the past where he's played pranks, but the end results have been tasteless.<br /><br />For example, in one video, he used Fiverr to pay two men in India $5 to dance around with a sign that said "Death to all Jews." At the time, Kjellberg said it was supposed to be a comment on capitalism, but many responded saying it was just anti-Semitic. He has also been caught using racial slurs and sexist comments while live-streaming.<br /><br />Kjellberg's support of free speech has attracted a fanbase that is also fond of controversy and trolling. On the more violent end of the spectrum, the <a href="https://www.insider.com/category/new-zealand-shooting">alleged New Zealand mosque shooter</a> in March told viewers to "subscribe to PewDiePie" during the livestream.<br /><br />"I feel absolutely sickened having my name uttered by this person," Kjellberg said of the news. "My heart and thoughts go out to the victims, families and everyone affected by this tragedy."<br />

YouTube's biggest star PewDiePie just got married to his fiancée Marzia Bisognin

<ul><li><keyword id="10879" type="CITY" weightage="20" keywordseo="YouTube">YouTube</keyword> star <keyword id="2938280" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="pewdiepie">PewDiePie</keyword>’s latest diss track <em>Coco </em>has been pulled from the video streaming platform for violating its guidelines.</li><li>In the lyrics, PewDiePie takes a shot at kids entertainment channel <keyword id="8985586" type="AGENCY" weightage="20" keywordseo="cocomelon">CoComelon</keyword>, Harry Potter book series author <keyword id="44360" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="JK-Rowling">JK Rowling</keyword> and American rapper 6ix9ine.</li><li>The reason behind the diss track seems to be that it was gaining on PewDiePie with 105 million subscribers.</li></ul>Swedish YouTuber PewDiePie is back at the centre of controversy with his latest diss track titled <em>Coco </em>being pulled from Google’s video streaming platform for violating guidelines. <br /><br />The song took a shot at the YouTube kids entertainment channel CoComelon, Harry Potter book series author JK Rowling and American rapper 6ix9ine.<br /><br />According to fans, the reason that PewDiePie — who's real name is Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellber — went after CoComelon is because it was gaining traction with nearly 105 million subscribers in its kitty against PewDiePie’s 109 million. <br /><br /><strong>Here’s what PewDiePie song said about CoComelon:<br /></strong><em>“Yeah, I saw your shit</em><br /><em>Ew, f**kin’ cringe (Ew)</em><br /><em>It’s not even funny and your head is really big (Why)</em><br /><em>Oh, you’re approaching me?</em><br /><em>What, you think I’m nervous? (Nah)</em><br /><em>Your audience is just a bunch of motherf**kin’ virgins.”</em><br /><br />PewDiePie also lashed out at Rowling with the lyrics, “I’ll spoil Harry Potter, wait, JK already did that,” hinting at <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/thelife/news/j-k-rowling-went-on-a-twitter-rant-about-how-transgender-activism-can-hurt-women-and-lesbians-her-terf-stance-is-unpopular-/articleshow/76241243.cms">some of the comments</a> she made about the transgender community in June, last year. <br /><br /><strong>Not PewDiePie’s first tryst with diss tracks<br /></strong>This is not the first time that the YouTube star produced a diss track targeting another popular platform. In 2018, PewDiePie released <em>Bitch Lasagna </em>— originally titled <em><keyword id="17191" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="T-series">T-Series</keyword> Diss Track — </em>when Bollywood channel T-Series was at the helm of taking away his crown as the most subscribed channel on the streaming platform. <br /><br />The track, while dissing T-Series, was accused for being very racially discriminating against Indians in general.<br /><br />The two sides battled it out for months, before T-Series came <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/pewdiepie-appears-to-admit-defeat-to-t-series-in-youtube-music-video-roasting-the-bollywood-channel/articleshow/68670758.cms">out ahead</a> as the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/bollywood-music-channel-t-series-beat-out-pewdiepie-after-a-months-long-battle-to-become-the-first-youtube-channel-to-reach-100-million-subscribers/articleshow/69586720.cms">most subscribed</a> channel on the platform.<br /><br />Meanwhile, YouTube was criticised for its lax approach to harassment. It was only after this incident that it updated its policies to bolster protections in 2019. <br /><br />“Our policies prohibit content that leads to repeated patterns of harassment on- and off-platform,” YouTube said in a statement. “Following a review, we’ve removed the video in question for violating those policies because they had the effect of encouraging abusive fan behavior.”<br /><br />It would seem that YouTube chose to take down <em>Coco </em>to prevent similar harassment of Cocomelon after the T-Series incident.<br /><br /><strong>SEE ALSO:<br /><a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/science/news/its-round-its-two-sided-and-it-could-be-the-most-accurate-world-map-created-till-date/articleshow/81033263.cms">It’s round, it’s two-sided and it could be the most accurate world map created till date</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/science/space/news/a-japanese-supercomputer-is-on-a-mission-to-find-out-how-our-universe-went-from-nothing-to-everything-in-less-than-a-microsecond/articleshow/81048254.cms">A Japanese supercomputer is on a mission to find out how our universe went from nothing to everything in less than a microsecond</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/science/environment/news/the-impact-of-climate-change-is-not-the-same-everywhere-alaska-canada-russia-have-something-to-gain-but-thats-not-a-good-thing-overall/slidelist/81091373.cms">The impact of climate change is not the same everywhere ⁠— some parts have something to gain but that’s not a good thing overall</a></strong><br />

PewDiePie's lyrics targeting CoComelon and JK Rowling may have gotten YouTube angry enough to pull the video down

<ul class="summary-list"><li>MrBeast is set to surpass T-Series as the most subscribed YouTube channel globally.</li><li>He warned fans against hateful behavior, emphasizing it's not a country vs. country battle.</li></ul><p>Things have come full circle for MrBeast, who is on his way to being crowned the owner of the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/mrbeast-jimmy-donaldson-youtube-broken-the-curse-influencer-success-subscribers-2024-5">biggest YouTube channel in the world</a>.</p><p>In 2019, he was <a target="_blank" rel="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/mrbeast-pewdiepie-relationship-history-biggest-youtubers-2022-11#in-2018-donaldson-embarked-on-a-large-billboard-campaign-to-help-the-pewdiepie-channel-gain-subscribers-5"><u>buying up billboards</u></a> in support of his friend and fellow YouTuber Felix Kjellberg, better known as PewDiePie. Now, at 262 million subscribers, he's just four million subs <a target="_blank" rel="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/mrbeast-subscriber-battle-with-t-series-youtube-top-spot-donaldson-2024-4"><u>behind the channel of T-Series</u></a>, the Indian music label, and is on track to take over and snatch the top spot in a few weeks.</p><p>But he's warned his fans not to get too aggressive as the competition heats up.</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/mrbeast-10-years-before-takes-break-pushes-misery-jimmy-donaldson-2024-5">In a recent interview</a> with journalist and YouTuber Jon Youshaei, MrBeast, whose real name is Jimmy Donaldson, asked if he had a message for T-Series.</p><p>Donaldson said he wanted to make it "very clear" that his fans shouldn't see this as "this country versus that country."</p><p>He also warned against anyone becoming hateful.</p><p>Back in 2019, the race between T-Series and PewDiePie (real name Felix Kjellberg) to get to 100 million subscribers was eagerly viewed across the platform, but the contest was also marred with controversy.</p><p class="premium">Some of Kjellberg's fans were accused of racism toward T-Series and its supporters, and Kjellberg himself was criticized for some of the lyrics in his diss track "bitch lasagna" containing offensive stereotypes of Indian people.</p><p>Donaldson said he didn't think PewDiePie was responsible for all the controversy, but he said some people in 2019 "got a little racist."</p><p>"So I'm very cognizant of it, which is why I'm not leaning into it too hard," he said.</p><p>He said he has a huge fan base in India, so this shouldn't be seen as "India vs. America."</p><p>"I just want to be the most subscribed-to channel," he said.</p><p>Donaldson referenced how the victory would be big for himself and all the other creators who long for the old days of YouTube and have voiced concerns over the platform's direction for some time.</p><p>"Yes, I have a lot of people helping me, but at the end of the day, I started this channel, I've been doing it for 14 years," he said.</p><p>While it is <a target="_blank" rel="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/youtube-not-netflix-is-big-threat-to-hollywood-analysis-2024-2"><u>thriving from a business standpoint</u></a>, many long-standing creators are <a target="_blank" rel="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/youtube-og-creator-exodus-gaming-jacksepticeye-retire-sean-mcloughlin-n2024-4"><u>questioning their future</u></a> on YouTube, citing burnout, a trend toward consumerism, and <a target="_blank" rel="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/were-entering-a-new-era-of-youtube-2024-3"><u>the platform's constant changes</u></a> as reasons they might soon leave.</p><p>Donaldson taking the top spot would be a win for all independent creators, he said.</p><p>"YouTube runs in my freaking blood," Donaldson said.</p><p>"You know what I mean? And so I do think there's a little bit of symbolism, that it's nice that a creator, a homeborn YouTube creator, is the most subscribed-to channel."</p><p>Still, it is important to "draw the lines in the sand," Donaldson added.</p><p>"I need to make it clear: I love India. I have fans in India. You guys are awesome, and it has nothing to do with that," he said. "A lot of idiots will just start tweeting, 'India sucks. Go crush 'em, Jimmy.' And I'm like, OK, just so you know, it's where a lot of my audience is, but OK."</p>

MrBeast warns fans not to be racist in his battle to win the subscriber war against T-Series

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="2938280" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="pewdiepie">PewDiePie</keyword>'s diss track "Coco" has been taken down by <keyword id="10879" type="CITY" weightage="60" keywordseo="YouTube">YouTube</keyword>.</li><li>The song was made in reaction to the kids' channel <keyword id="8985586" type="AGENCY" weightage="60" keywordseo="cocomelon">Cocomelon</keyword> approaching his subscriber count.</li><li>YouTube said PewDiePie's video violated its child-safety and harassment <keyword id="35497" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="policies">policies</keyword>.</li></ul><p>YouTube's biggest single creator, PewDiePie, has had one of his videos taken down by the platform for violating its policies on child safety and harassment.</p><p>PewDiePie, whose real name is Felix Kjellberg, had posted a music video filled with playground insults - known as a diss track - toward a children's nursery rhyme channel called Cocomelon.</p><p>Cocomelon had been creeping up on Kjellberg's 109 million subscribers - it currently sits at 105 million - which opened up the opportunity for a diss track, titled "Coco."</p><p>Several children appeared in the video, which included the destruction of a watermelon, and lines such as "f--- everything you love, and most of all, f--- you," and "your audience is just a bunch of motherf---ing virgins."</p><p>Kjellberg clarified in a video that the children were provided with a clean version to mime to while they were filming, and that their parents were all happy for them to participate.</p><p>In response to a fan who said he was disappointed that the PewDiePie video was taken down, Team YouTube said the video violated two policies: <a href="https://t.co/n10mouwzhz?amp=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">harassment</a> and <a href="https://t.co/yHHlYizdu5?amp=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">child safety</a>, for "looking like it was made for kids but containing inappropriate content," including violence.</p><p>"We allow criticism and also <keyword id="10793133" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="diss-tracks">diss tracks</keyword> in some cases, but with both policies in mind, this video crossed the line," they said.</p><p>Some onlookers of the situation are happy the video has been removed, believing the track to be inappropriate. However, many supporters of Kjellberg see it as contradictory and hypocritical of YouTube which specifically omits diss tracks in its policies, citing them as "scripted satire."</p><p>Several people noted the video was not meant for children in the first place.</p><p>"Deleting pewds vid because it looks like it was targeted to kids, but has profanity?" <a href="https://twitter.com/VinnyHaw/status/1362665792706392080" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said one Twitter user</a>. "You have the YT kids app for this very reason. Children can view content targeted towards them. Pewds hit the 'not for kids' button as he uploaded this."</p><p>Kjellberg's fans often discuss how they believe <a href="https://www.insider.com/company-claims-pewdiepie-video-revenue-celine-dion-recorder-2020-11" target="_blank" rel="noopener">YouTube treats him more harshly than other creators</a>. For example, in October, a glitch that affected Kjellberg's channel resulted in his videos and profile not appearing in YouTube's search. This led to speculation that <a href="https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/pewdiepie-finally-responds-to-youtube-shadowban-glitch-1440064/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kjellberg had been "shadowbanned"</a> - when a user's content is blocked from viewers without their knowledge. <a href="https://twitter.com/YouTubeGaming/status/1319398661990776840" target="_blank" rel="noopener">YouTube said it was an error</a>, and the bug was fixed after a day.</p><h2>This isn't the first time PewDiePie has released diss tracks</h2><p>Cocomelon's rapidly increasing audience reminded Kjellberg's audience of his old feud with T-Series, the channel of an Indian record label, when they were both racing to hit 100 million subscribers in late 2018.</p><p>T-Series was quickly rising the ranks to challenge his title of the most subscribed-to non-YouTube-owned channel in the world (YouTube Music had more subscribers than both of them at the time) - a crown Kjellberg had held since 2013.</p><p>PewDiePie vs. T-Series quickly became a meme, as PewDiePie's friends and fans urged the internet to "Subscribe to PewDiePie." Other large creators such as MrBeast, Markiplier, and Jacksepticeye showed their support and used the slogan, and PewDiePie saw a massive boom in his already massive fanbase.</p><p>Kjellberg released two diss tracks against T-Series: "b---- lasagna" during the contest, and then "Congratulations" <a href="http://businessinsider.com/pewdiepie-t-series-youtube-battle-100-million-subscribers-2019-5" target="_blank" rel="noopener">when T-Series eventually overtook him</a>.</p><div type="image" title="bitch lasagna" height="778" width="1037" msid="81111255" hostid="261"></div><p>Critics at the time said the tracks were offensive, and the discussion appeared in the Delhi High Court, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/pewdiepie-and-t-series-settle-youtube-legal-dispute-2019-8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">where a judge ruled that the song</a> was "abusive," "vulgar," and "racist." Even some of PewDiePie's fans admitted <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/PewdiepieSubmissions/comments/a3g25y/did_anyone_realise_pewds_was_accidentally_racist/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">on his subreddit</a> that some of the lyrics are problematic.</p><p>Kjellberg also had to publicly speak out against the meme and urge his fans not to use it anymore when the words were uttered by the gunman who murdered 51 people at a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 2019.</p><p>Despite the controversy surrounding the tracks, the message spread to the wider YouTube community because it emphasized a theory many creators have long been concerned about - that the platform is becoming a place where corporations are favored over individual creators.</p><p>To highlight how massive this track is, and how widespread the battle became, the 870,000 dislikes were barely a drop in the ocean compared to the 11 million likes.</p><h2>'I saw this as ending the meme'</h2><p>In a video called "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWPWrz7pIz4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">I Love Kids</a>" posted on February 17, Kjellberg explained that he had released "Coco" as a "finale" to the pretend rivalry between his channel and Cocomelon.</p><p>"I saw this as ending the meme," he said. "I am not going to continue with it because 1) it wouldn't be funny and 2) I don't actually care about Cocomelon."</p><p>He added that he didn't want the situation to get "out of control like last time," and the chapter was now closed.</p><p>Kjellberg has not publicly responded to the track being taken down by YouTube. Insider has contacted his reps for comment.</p>

YouTube removed PewDiePie's diss track on a kids' channel, saying he violated harassment and child-safety rules

<p><strong><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div></strong></p><ul class="summary-list"><li><strong>Indian record label T-Series dethroned Swedish gaming vlogger PewDiePie as the most subscribed YouTube channel in March, despite a sustained campaign by Felix Kjellberg's fans to keep him on top.</strong></li><li><strong>T-Series has cemented its lead and now has 108 million subscribers on YouTube. The channel posts high-production Indian music videos that are totally different to PewDiePie's self-referential and occasionally offensive humor. </strong></li><li>Its growing popularity is largely thanks to India's love of homegrown music, and a large chunk of its 1.3 billion population gaining access to the internet for the first time via cheap Android smartphones and generous data plans.</li><li>T-Series president Neeraj Kalyan told Business Insider that YouTube is now the company's third-biggest revenue stream, and that the firm has struck licensing and partnership deals with TikTok, which has a huge Indian audience.</li><li><strong><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/prime?module=article&amp;area=summary">Click here for more BI Prime stories</a>.</strong></li></ul><p>Neeraj Kalyan says the first time he heard of PewDiePie was when his company won a music industry award in Singapore last August.</p><p>His firm, a 36-year-old Indian record label called T-Series, was being fêted for passing the 50 million subscriber mark on its dedicated YouTube channel.</p><p>The one channel ahead of T-Series? PewDiePie, who had 65 million subscribers. PewDiePie, real name Felix Kjellberg, is 28 years old and the highest paid star on YouTube.</p><p>He has risen to fame by filming himself playing video games alongside humorous commentary, but that fame has been marred by controversy over the occasional tasteless prank and <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/pewdiepie-anti-semitism-jokes-controversy-explained-2017-2?r=US&amp;IR=T">remarks referencing Nazis and anti-Semitism</a>.</p><p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div><p>His name came up again a few months later in 2018 when Kalyan took a meeting in Stockholm, handing in his business card at the hotel.</p><p>"The lady at the Sheraton in Stockholm screamed, "You are from T-Series! You're beating PewDiePie! He's from Sweden!'" says Kalyan in an interview with Business Insider.</p><p>Kalyan, the president of T-Series, is now pretty familiar with PewDiePie.</p><p><strong><em>Read more:</em>&#xa0;</strong><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/profile-of-2-billion-checkoutcom-and-founder-guillaume-pousaz-2019-8?r=US&amp;IR=T"><em>Here's how this college dropout spent 7 years building a profitable startup with no funding, then raised $230 million in his first round at a $2 billion valuation</em></a></p><p>His company <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/pewdiepie-t-series-youtube-battle-100-million-subscribers-2019-5?r=US&amp;IR=T">would go on in March to dethrone PewDiePie as most popular YouTube channel</a>, despite a concerted campaign by Kjellberg's fans and fellow YouTubers to keep him at number one.</p><p>Five months on, T-Series has cemented its lead, with 108 million subscribers at the time of writing. PewDiePie is still gaining subscribers too, just more slowly, and sits at 98 million.</p><p>T-Series' victory was huge news in the annals of internet culture wars, but it also marked something much bigger: the world's biggest democracy coming online.</p><h2>T-Series is an Indian entertainment powerhouse, posting popular music videos to YouTube</h2><p>To the Western eye, T-Series' YouTube channel is completely different to the rest of the internet.</p><p>Its page is populated with stylised, colourful, and seemingly cheesy music videos, designed to appeal to a mass audience. There is no reference to memes or any sort of internet culture.</p><p>It completely avoids much of what makes a largely US-influenced internet tick, catering entirely to mainstream Indian interests. Some of the music videos tie into movies produced by T-Series, and cost up to $350,000 to make.</p><p>This video ties into an upcoming T-Series movie, "Saaho." Aesthetically, it's James Bond meets Disney:</p><p>It is this which baffled PewDiePie's fans, who revelled in his deeply self-referential, niche, and very internetty humour. His videos are so laced with cross-references that offensive jokes and languages are difficult to distinguish from obscure callbacks and references to memes.</p><p>Take PewDiePie's "diss tracks" about T-Series, released in the heat of the battle for subscribers and intended to play up the competition. One lyric, from the track "Bitch Lasagna," reads: "<span>Bobs or vegana, whichever will it be?</span>".</p><p>The line looks meaningless on its own, but is an apparent reference to Indian men misspelling "boobs" and "vagina" online, which originally went viral on Reddit.</p><p>In typical PewDiePie fashion, the lyric treads the line between amusing insider reference and plain offensive.</p><p>Kalyan says the two channels have totally different audiences.</p><p>"We were never in that race," he says. "But he's great. We wish him all the best - the kinds of things he does, we're not into that. It's a different audience altogether, there's no competition at all."</p><p>Relations aren't quite so friendly under the surface.</p><p>In April, T-Series won an injunction from the High Court in Delhi against PewDiePie to stop him uploading his diss tracks about T-Series to YouTube. T-Series claimed the videos, including "Bitch Lasagna" and a second video called "Congratulations," were "racist, inflammatory and hateful."</p><p>The judge, Justice Jayanth Nath, agreed and ordered the removal of the videos, describing them as "abusive, vulgar and also racist in nature."</p><p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div><p>Neither "Bitch Lasagna" nor "Congratulations" are viewable via YouTube India, according to tests run by Business Insider using a VPN. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/PewdiepieSubmissions/comments/bbyh1z/bitch_lasagna_and_congratulations_are_now/">Commenters on Reddit have said</a> that both videos have been unavailable since April,&#xa0; the date of the High Court order, and complained that T-Series couldn't take a joke.</p><p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div><p>According to subsequent filings seen by Business Insider, the pair settled the matter in July 2019, although both videos remain unavailable inside India.</p><p>The terms of the settlement have not been disclosed, and T-Series did not respond to a request for clarification. The settlement has not been previously reported.</p><h2>T-Series started out recording devotional music to cassette tapes</h2><p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div><p>T-Series was founded in the 1980s by Gulshan Kumar, the son of a fruit juice vendor. The firm originally sold cassettes featuring devotional music and eventually became a record label giant with more than 3,500 employees.</p><p>According to a BBC profile, Kumar spotted an opportunity for selling religious music as ageing Hindu devotees couldn't read hymns and chants from books thanks to poor eyesight. He hired singers to record the chants, and then sold the tapes at a cheap price.</p><p>"The transition from cassette manufacturing to India''s largest music label and very successful studio, with global presence, has really not been a very easy task," says Kalyan of the firm's evolution. "It has been a long journey for us. And over the past 15 years, the content industry has seen a kind of tectonic shift primarily due to the advent in technology."</p><p>Kumar was <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/feb/11/filmnews.bollywood">assassinated in 1997 by a hit squad,</a> and his son Bhavesh took over the running of the business.</p><p><em><strong>Read more: </strong><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tiktok-stars-magic-singh-pavan-henna-profile-2019-4?r=US&amp;IR=T">These new TikTok influencers have millions of fans and are hustling for a fraction of the price of YouTubers</a></em></p><p>Through the 2000s, T-Series wrestled with the same issues as other major record labels - namely piracy. It found one reliable source of money in licensing its songs for ringtones in 2004. "Indians loved any sort of spiritual tones or devotional tones," says Kalyan. "I've seen people who won't change their phone wallpaper because it's been lucky for them."</p><p>Then came the firm's first encounter with YouTube - in Delhi's High Court.</p><p>"We were in litigation with YouTube, we had sued them for infringement of copyright," Kalyan says. "That was still at the time of cassettes. They claimed they were a neutral platform, so we went to court. We were the first company able to obtain an injunction from the [Indian] high court against YouTube."</p><p>This was 2007, and YouTube faced multiple lawsuits from rights holders around the world who saw their original content, usually licensed at lucrative rates, ripped and uploaded for free to the video site.</p><p>After years of litigation, T-Series' parent firm saw "good sense" and <a href="https://www.medianama.com/2011/02/223-youtube-music-label-t-series-reach-out-of-court-settlement/">came to a licensing agreement</a> with YouTube in late 2010. Prior to the suit, the firm had no presence on YouTube.</p><p>The pair agreed to a three-year revenue-share deal, splitting the money that came in through the ads on T-Series' videos. Google paid an advance upfront, which it planned to make back through its share of the revenue.</p><p>"The most interesting part was we recouped that advance in just 9 months," Kalyan says. "That was the kind of growth we experienced. It became a cash cow."</p><h2>T-Series has benefited from a huge chunk of India coming online in the last three years</h2><p>The turning point for T-Series and the wider smartphone industry was 2016, when a new Indian telecoms brand called Jio launched. Owned by a major incumbent, Reliance, Jio offered cheap data and smartphones that brought some of India's 1.3 billion-strong population online for the first time.</p><p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div><p>"99% of India's [mobile] population has Android smartphones," says Neil Shah, an analyst at Counterpoint Research. "So YouTube is a default app. Most users have warmed up to YouTube to consume content - not just video, but music. So they're going to YouTube rather than Spotify."</p><p>According to <a href="https://imrbint.com/images/common/ICUBE%E2%84%A2_2019_Highlights.pdf">Kantar statistics from December 2018</a>, half a billion people in India are now online, driven primarily by rural growth. That is still less than half the country's total population.</p><p>Kalyan notes the impact. "In 2016, there was mobile internet available in tier one or tier two cities, but now it's in tier three to tier five cities and villages, which had never experienced internet," he says. "So now the consumer is excited, and he's experimenting with everything, and it's resulted in an increase in consumption."<span style="font-weight: 400;"></span></p><p>Here's how T-Series has steadily grown its subscribers after 2016, per data supplied to Business Insider by Tubular Labs:</p><p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div><p>Most Western YouTubers <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/the-worlds-biggest-youtube-stars-are-seeing-a-massive-slowdown-2017-12?r=US&amp;IR=T">are struggling to maintain growth</a>, by contrast.</p><p>Now YouTube is T-Series' third-biggest revenue stream, after licenses to video platforms and TV channels. The music label makes money solely through ads, though Kalyan won't disclose how much.</p><p>The label has seven people who look after its various YouTube channels - 28 in total, covering different regional languages and interests - and another two or three who post the videos to Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.</p><h2>The future is TikTok and original content</h2><p>After the success of YouTube and the explosion of mobile in India, T-Series is exploring other emerging platforms, Kalyan says.&#xa0;</p><p>The company has forged deals with short-form viral video app TikTok, licensing its music for people to use in videos. India is one of TikTok's biggest markets, with <a href="https://tech.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/internet/tiktok-wants-more-diverse-creators-on-path-to-monetisation/69715867">a reported 120 million monthly active users</a> in the country. Kalyan says T-Series proactively works with TikTok influencers to help its songs go viral on the platform.</p><p>"We work with their teams, advise them on what's new, and what content we have," he says. "Our artists who are very established work with unknown influencers but have some following, they make a clip of 20 seconds integrating our music into whatever they're doing. Be it action, some dance. After that, it goes viral. And along with that virality, our music which has been synced with that clip also goes viral."</p><p>T-Series has also <a href="https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/small-biz/startups/newsbuzz/tiktok-owner-to-start-music-service-secures-rights-from-t-series-times-music/articleshow/69421732.cms">reportedly signed on for TikTok's rumoured streaming service</a>. But Kalyan ruled out T-Series launching its own dedicated content streaming service, such as Disney+.</p><p>"We would like to remain focused only on the content," he says. "That is our strength. The next step for us is films, which we've been able to master over the last three years. Before we used to moonlight with one or two films, but now we have 20 big-scale Bollywood films every year. We don't want to be in the space of launching our own platform, we don't want to compete with our own licenses."<span style="font-weight: 400;"></span></p><p>It's likely that the T-Series vs. PewDiePie battle is simply the first of many consequences of a 1.3 billion population coming online. A look at the top YouTube channels by subscribers shows at least seven Indian channels in the top 100, including SET India and Zee Music. That might mean further culture clashes as a hugely diverse base of Indian users begin using US platforms more frequently.</p><p>It's perhaps the first time a new online population threatens the Americanized focus of the internet. 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<ul class="summary-list"><li>Youtuber WhistlinDiesel posted three videos showing extreme testing of a Mercedes-Benz G-Wagon.</li><li>The 24-year-old is known as a big-truck enthusiast who wrecks expensive cars for views.</li></ul><p>A YouTuber has posted a series of videos showing a bright red Mercedes-Benz truck being put through a number of extreme stunts to test its durability, including appearing to drop it through the roof of a house.</p><p>WhistlinDiesel, whose real name is Cody Detwile and has over 4 million subscribers, is known for buying expensive cars and appearing to try and destroy them in his videos. He recently turned his attention to the Mercedes-Benz G63 G-Wagon, which he said cost $300,000 and referred to as the nicest he'd ever owned.</p><p>According to <a href="https://www.caranddriver.com/mercedes-amg/g63" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Car and Driver</a>, the G63 starts at around $160,000, but "most vehicles go for considerably higher than that due to its myriad customization options."</p><p>In <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtwKO3jIAdk&amp;t=999s" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the first video</a>, posted August 3, Detwile and his crew tested the car on sand — showing the vehicle appear to bounce over dunes until its system showed a message saying it had detected a collision.</p><p>As the sun goes down, the bright red G-Wagon appears to leap into the air as it clears the dunes and sunset begins. Detwile, who's known as a big-truck enthusiast, said it achieved a 91-foot jump, and added he'd never seen a car handle sand so well. </p><p>In a follow-up video posted on August 13 titled "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdRiFOYOc_I" target="_blank" rel="noopener">G-Wagon vs Bottomless Sinkhole</a>," the Indiana native included a clip of YouTuber PewDiePie critiquing people buying off-road vehicles like G-Wagons just to drive them in downtown LA.</p><p>Shortly after, the video appears to show him driving the G63 directly into a bog. A tractor is enlisted to pull the vehicle out of the mud. </p><p>In his next <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrK6viS5eE8&amp;t=304s" target="_blank" rel="noopener">video</a> posted August 15, Detwile appears to drop the G-Wagon from a crane through a house. </p><p>The video shows the 24-year-old appearing to climb up the crane to the suspended G-Wagon and dropping through a sunroof before the car is released and crashes through the house's roof. </p><p>In the video's description, he wrote that the stunt cost him around $50,000, although he didn't clarify what the money was spent on, and said he'd do it again "because I'm stupid."</p><p>Detwile posts videos much like the G-Wagon stunt series regularly, but some have criticized purchasing expensive cars just to total them as wasteful and dangerous, inspiring articles with headlines like "<a href="https://www.thedrive.com/news/32126/careless-youtubers-buy-100000-ford-f-350-limited-just-to-destroy-it" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Careless YouTubers Buy $100,000 Ford F-350 Limited Just to Destroy It</a>."</p><p>But Detwile doesn't appear to mind the criticism, saying in an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sISK7pFN6wo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">April 7 video,</a> "My new Lamborghini. Paid for by the people that hate me."</p><p>Detwile did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.</p><p><a href="https://www.insider.com/culture"><strong>For more stories like this, check out coverage from Insider's Digital Culture team here.</strong></a></p>

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<ul class="summary-list"><li>YouTuber <keyword id="20696" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="60" keywordseo="dream">Dream</keyword> has broken records and pulled in millions of views, but the man behind the avatar is still a mystery.</li><li>With 16.4 million subscribers on <keyword id="10879" type="CITY" weightage="60" keywordseo="YouTube">YouTube</keyword>, Dream is one of the fastest-growing YouTube channels on the platform.</li><li>Though he has faced controversy, the <keyword id="858537" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Minecraft">Minecraft</keyword> expert still has one of the most loyal and devoted fanbases online.</li></ul><p>Minecraft YouTuber Dream has quickly risen up the creator hierarchy, becoming one of the fastest-growing YouTube channel's of 2020 and the number two overall creator of the year, <a href="https://blog.youtube/culture-and-trends/2020-top-trending-youtube-videos-creators/">according to the</a><a href="https://blog.youtube/culture-and-trends/2020-top-trending-youtube-videos-creators/"> platform</a>. The faceless green avatar with a knack for uncovering "Minecraft's" cavern-filled secrets has managed to acquire over 16 million subscribers in under two years. But what exactly makes Dream so unique and popular when there have been thousands of content creators building worlds with Minecraft's characteristic blocks?</p><h2><strong>Who is Dream?</strong></h2><p>Dream's personal life and identity are still unknown, with the sleepy-named YouTuber choosing to keep his face private. His online avatar is a simple figure drawn with a neon-green background. The figure's aesthetics are iconic, and easily recognizable to the average "Minecraft" viewer. </p><p>As YouTuber <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGdUJArb2DY">Mysticat puts it</a>, "Dream's branding is unprofessional but that doesn't mean it's bad. Dream uses a Microsoft Paint drawn character that's super doofy and appealing to children, which is Minecraft's core audience." </p><p>Dream created his YouTube channel in 2014 but it doesn't appear that he uploaded regularly until July 2019. In his first video, he intentionally "triggers" those watching by playing the game as poorly as possible, doing things like placing blocks on top of chests, killing sheep for their wool, and eating rotten flesh.</p><p>After his first upload, Dream started posting content fairly often. Felix Kjellberg, known online as the hugely popular PewDiePie, had been playing "Minecraft" for his massive audience of over 100 million subscribers by that point. Dream managed to find a way to re-engineer Kjellberg's "world seed," meaning, the randomly generated world his "Minecraft" game had created, using tricks he had learned from forums. In the first two days, the video would pull in 200,000 views, leading him to make three more that would get over two million views in total a little under two weeks. At the end of July, Dream had gained 54,000 subscribers and his star was born. </p><p>For the next few months, Dream's channel would continue to gain millions of views and thousands of subs but his second big breakout moment came in November 2019. After uploading multiple videos that capitalized on the trend format "___ but ___ changes every time," Dream struck diamond. His video titled "Minecraft, But Item Drops Are Random And Multiplied…" went viral, pulling in 32 million views and giving him 600,000 new subscribers. </p><p>Over the next year, Dream would upload fairly regularly, steadily gaining hundreds of thousands of subscribers a month and millions of video views. His "Minecraft Speedrunner vs." series, where Dream would choose to complete the game while certain NPCs, or non-player characters, chased after him, or objectives needed to be completed, were massively popular. He would also start collaborating with GeorgeNotFound, a friend and future member of <a href="https://www.insider.com/dream-smp-members-minecraft-server-dsmp-wiki-which-what-video-2021-1">Dream's roleplaying server that he created in May of 2020. </a></p><h2><strong>Dream has been accused of cheating in Minecraft</strong></h2><p>Dream's channel was reaching its subscriber-growth apex, gaining 2.6 million subscribers in August 2020, and becoming the face of the game. He had uploaded a speedrun of the 1.14 version of Minecraft in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFkv6DtKf3w">March of 2020</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-As3w9Hhl88">1.15 in June</a>, so when version 1.16 version launched later that year, he had to take it on. He ended his run in fifth place, happy with where he settled on the leaderboard.  </p><p>On December 11 of 2020, moderator of the official speedrun forums Geosquare uploaded a YouTube video titled "Did Dream Fake His Speedruns - Official Moderator Analysis." Geosquare and his fellow Minecraft moderators had analyzed the livestream runs and believed that Dream had recorded events that were too statistically unlikely to have happened without the help of mods or cheats. <a href="https://mcspeedrun.com/dream.pdf">In a 29-page-long document</a>, the mods came to the conclusion that the odds that Dream managed to find the two items needed to finish the game that quickly was 1 in 1.75 trillion.  </p><p>Dream has denied any wrongdoing or cheating in multiple Twitter threads and videos. In his own video discussing the claims posted on December 23, Dream shared a study he had commissioned with analysis company <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yfLURFdDhMfrvI2cFMdYM8f_M_IRoAlM/view">Photoexcitation</a> that came to the conclusion that the odds of his run happening were actually 1 in 100 million. </p><p>The speedrunning mods then released another five-page <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1f5Ecvk-vltadkjI2yr5bonpPGXJD6zSZ/view">document dismissing</a> Dream's study. Dream responded in a final tweet writing that "this drama has been stressful for most of the Minecraft community, and a lot of that was probably due to my original response to the drama, so I take full responsibility for that."</p><h2><strong>Dream has faced harassment including doxxing </strong></h2><p>On January 1 2021, Dream fans managed to locate his home using a picture of his kitchen that was posted to his second account, and share the information, an invasion of privacy that's called doxxing. </p><p>In a Twitlonger on January 7, Dream discussed the incident and his ex-girlfriend who he believes is spreading false rumors about him. He denied what he said were her accusations, that he "doesn't care about YouTube" and that his friends who appear in his videos do not get a "revenue" cut from his channel. </p><h2><strong>How Dream mastered the YouTube algorithm</strong></h2><p>Dream's massive growth over 2019 and 2020 can be attributed to his understanding of the YouTube algorithm.</p><p>He puts his keywords in the right places, capitalizes on trends, and makes thumbnails that fans want to click on. Similar to the wizardry that Jimmy Donaldson, known as the hugely popular Mr. Beast puts on his videos, Dream has figured out how to succeed on YouTube. </p><p>Controversy happens, but it hasn't slowed the dream down. </p>

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