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- The meme began as a way to keep it ahead of the chain of Indian T-Series video clips in the battle to become the biggest channel on YouTube.
- The shooter from Christchurch referred to the PewDiePie meme during his live broadcast of the March attack.
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YouTuber PewDiePie, whose real name is Felix Kjellberg, has posted a video calling on his fans to end the message "subscribe to PewDiePie," which he himself created.
The meme "subscribe to PewDiePie" was created as a result of YouTuber's fight to defend its most beloved YouTube channel title against the Bollywood music channel, T-Series.
In an unusually dark video, PewDiePie explained that since then, the slogan "subscribe to PewDiePie" has appeared in two heinous acts.
The first took place in March when a World War II memorial in New York City was spoiled by graffiti stating "subscribe to PewDiePie". Later this month, the shooter from Christchurch referred to the meme during his live broadcast of the attack, in which the suspect had killed 50 people in two mosques.
PewDiePie posted a tweet at the time condemning the act, and in his video, he stated that he had said nothing more out of respect for the victims and their families.
"I just did not want to answer it right away, and I did not want to pay more attention to the terrorist, I did not want to talk about it myself, because I do not think it has anything to do with it. To put it plainly, I did not want hate to vanquish, he said. "But it's clear to me now that the subscription move to PewDiePie should have ended at that time. "
PewDiePie also addressed the criticism of the two "dissenting tracks" that he published, mocking the T series, which, according to a high Indian court, must be stuck in the country as they contain racist jokes. PewDiePie said the tracks were meant for "a fun and ironic joke," but said that he would make sure the videos were blocked.
"It was meant to be fun, but it's clearly more fun – it's clearly gone too far," PewDiePie said.
You can watch PewDiePie's full video here:
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