The ongoing battle for YouTube’s high spot has taken a really unusual flip. As Indian music channel T-Series continues to shut the hole on Pewdiepie’s subscriber rely, the Swedish YouTuber has gained an unlikely ally within the type of a British political celebration.
The UK Independence Party (UKIP) is a right-wing political celebration whose raison d’etre was to marketing campaign for Britain to depart the European Union. With their mission (theoretically) achieved, they’ve turn out to be one thing of a fringe celebration, and at present maintain no seats within the nation’s House of Commons, and only one seat within the House of Lords. Earlier this week, the celebration tweeted a hyperlink to a petition about Article 13 – a European Union directive that may require web sites like YouTube and Tumblr to police copyright infringements on their platforms – whereas additionally saying their help for Pewdiepie.
The tweet encourages supporters to “help protect freedom of speech by sharing and signing this petition against the EU Copyright Directive,” earlier than reminding them to “subscribe to Pewdiepie on YouTube and keep the corporate T-Series from the top.”
Pewdiepie has been tweeting concerning the directive, which could have spurred UKIP’s expression of help, however I personally don’t think about that their audiences cross over all that a lot. I additionally should say that I benefit from the irony of a celebration that’s in opposition to European freedom of motion endorsing a Swedish man residing and dealing within the UK below precisely that coverage.
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Pewdiepie’s ongoing subscriber conflict in opposition to T-Series has already taken some unusual turns. Last 12 months, a GTA V hacker posted an in-game notice reminding people to subscribe to the YouTuber’s channel, however it doesn’t actually appear to have slowed the Indian channel’s progress – at time of writing, simply 200,000 subscribers separate the 2.
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