“You Saved My Life” – PewDiePie Once Gave MrBeast a Heartfelt Gesture During the Fiery T-Series War

Published 08/18/2022, 9:30 AM EDT

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MrBeast is an amazing person and everyone is aware of this fact globally. The individual is known for helping out anyone who approaches him and sometimes even willingly comes forward to support others.

Something similar happened a few years ago when MrBeast saved none other than PewDiePie from sinking on YouTube. This story goes back to 2018 when Felix was at the top of his career. He was having the number one subscribed channel nearly four years ago.

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But an Indian musical label company, T-Series, was giving him a hard time as the war for the biggest YouTube channel was going on. During this time, it was Jimmy who eventually emerged as the savior for Felix. He helped him a lot in surviving on the streaming platform.

When MrBeast helped PewDiePie from losing out on YouTube

In case anyone has forgotten, the legendary battle between PewDiePie and Indian music record label and film production company T-Series was one of the trending topics between 2018 and 2019. The fight for being number one on YouTube was so intense that either of them could be termed the champion. It’s because there was just a negligible difference between their respective subscriber counts.

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It was at this time that Felix needed the help of other popular creators in order to promote him so that he could gain more new subscribers as fast as possible. This was quite necessary for him if he wanted to prevent T-Series’ channel from overshadowing his own.

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MrBeast was the one who played a big role in saving PewDiePie. Jimmy literally ran ads for him on the Billboard and also in the Super Bowl matches. It was done to make people interested in subscribing to Felix so that he could remain the most subscribed entity.

His efforts did help PewDiePie, that time, as he managed to stay afloat. As a gesture of huge thanks, he even mentioned MrBeast in his video, which you can watch below. Not to mention that the smile on his was unmatched, as he was full of gratitude for the king of viral videos. “You saved my life, “ he said while praising Jimmy infinitely.

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Meanwhile, fate was something else for Felix. He eventually lost to T-Series and that, too, by a very big margin. Currently, he’s sitting at a subscriber count of 111 million while T-Series is having a mammoth fanbase of over 222 million fans.

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Mintu Tomar

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Mintu Tomar is an eSports author at EssentiallySports. After completing his bachelor's in Philosophy, he has followed his passion for covering news as a budding journalist. He lives and breathes video games and is a die-hard Call of Duty fan.
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