When T-Series was less than 10 million subscribers behind PewDiePie, PewDiePie himself and multiple YouTubers, such as Pyrocynical, DramaAlert, and MrBeast discussed T-Series. Since December 2017, when they were getting 100,000 subscribers daily consistently, they were growing 4 times faster than PewDiePie. T-Series has been the fastest growing YouTube channel since late 2017. THIS CHANNEL WILL OVERTAKE PEWDIEPIE! LWIAY 0046 Many YouTubers consider this to be the greatest YouTube feud of all time, with it being massively widespread across YouTube and the wider internet. However, On April 28, 2019, PewDiePie officially announced that he wanted the Subscribe to PewDiePie meme to end, citing its appropriation by alt-right individuals such as the perpetrator of the Christchurch mosque shooting and other acts done in the name of the meme (such as the defacing of the WW2 memorial), thus ending PewDiePie vs T-Series as a whole. T-Series ended up surpassing PewDiePie in the spring of 2019, though the meme would continue to live on sometime after. Outlets like Vox have also been heavily criticized for running similar articles. The movement gained so much attention that it caused media outrage and somewhat of a social panic on the Internet, as media outlets found themselves targeted by pro-PewDiePie fans in many online instances such as the hacking of the Wall Street Journal, who infamously ran harsh articles on PewDiePie's 2017 Fiverr incident, with the motive of getting them to display a purported apology for running such articles. Other stunts performed across the globe included mass printer hackings, cheerleader dances to PewDiePie's diss track "Bitch Lasagna", a march in Estonia, and controversially, the defacing of a World War II memorial. The campaign was also prominently endorsed by MrBeast (who overtook PewDiePie to become the most-subscribed independent YouTuber in 2022), who bought billboards to advertise PewDiePie as well attending the Super Bowl with his friends wearing shirts that spelled out "SUB 2 PEWDIEPIE", strategically standing in view of cameras broadcasting the game. This would spark a massive campaign throughout the world that would last over half a year. Many believed T-Series would pose a threat to the future of all content creators due to corporations becoming more and more noticed on the platform. It has also been featured in the Black Eyed Peas video Where is the Love?ĭespite the popularity of the game among the videogame community, Postal 2 was given low ratings by critics, such as 1Up.PewDiePie vs T-Series was a widespread YouTube event in which Swedish YouTuber PewDiePie, who held the title of the most-subscribed YouTube channel from Augto March 27, 2019, jokingly declared a race against the quickly-growing channel of Indian music label T-Series as a way to remain the most-subscribed channel.Īlthough it was initially started as a joke in late 2018, it eventually turned into a large online campaign that ended up lasting well into 2019. Receptionĭue to its violence against civilians, the franchise has been criticized for encouraging violence amongst video gamers. The player can achieve all their tasks with or without violence. Gameplay revolves around the game's protagonist The Postal Dude, who goes about his day completing tasks for each day such as: Postal 2 was re-released on Steam after being green-lit by the community in November 2nd, 2012.Ī third installment in the series, Postal III, was released, but was not as well-received as its predecessor. The sequel Postal 2 was released Apwith Postal 2: Share the Pain multiplayer expansion in December 17, 2003, spawned numerous gameplay videos, fan art, mods and fan creations of the game. The gameplay consist of the player slaughtering cops and innocent civilians with a variety of weapons such as flamethrowers and missile launchers. And it was mainly a isometric shooter including some top-down levels with handpainted backgrounds and was more of a survival horror type, where the player controls an insane person (later named The Postal Dude). The series was created with the creation of Postal in September 30, 1997.
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