People are lining up to watch PewDiePie lose his spot as the top YouTube channel

Since September 1st, YouTube channel FlareTV has been streaming the slowest coup of all time. A ticker steadily tracks the side-by-side subscriber counts of channels T-Series and Felix “PewDiePie” Kjellberg. Presumably, it will continue until T-Series, a music production company based in India, finally overtakes Kjellberg as the biggest channel on YouTube.

Kjellberg has held the title since 2013. Today, he has more than 66 million subscribers. That’s an impressive feat by any metric, but especially for someone who’s been steeped in as many controversies as Kjellberg has over the years. But the process of T-Series’ inevitable growth is not exactly riveting stuff. It’s like a hellish New Year’s countdown, except it’s a weeks-long affair…

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