PewDiePie crosses 100 million subscribers on YouTube, best wishes pouring in

Swedish YouTuber Felix ‘PewDiePie’ Kjellberg seems to be having an excellent week. On 19 August, PewDiePie married his girlfriend of seven years, Marzia Bisognin. And now, he has crossed the 100 million subscriber mark on YouTube. This makes him the first individual creator, and not a company or a large media house, to cross the 100 million subs mark on YouTube. As expected, congratulatory messages are already flowing in fast for the YouTuber who was not too long ago, **competing with Indian music conglomerate T-series** for the most number of subscribers. T-Series was the first YouTube channel to have crossed the 100 million mark. But it was a clear David vs Goliath battle. [caption id=“attachment_6364701” align=“alignnone” width=“1280”] Felix Kjellberg aka PewDiePie. Image: Getty[/caption] YouTube has already tweeted a congratulatory video for PewDiePie’s 100 million subscriber count. PewDiePie joined YouTube in 2010 and is the first YouTube ‘creator’ to have crossed the 100 million subscribers mark. T-series, in comparison, is a media conglomerate.

Married to @marziapie 💍
Revived our love of Minecraft ⛏️
Reached 100 million subscribers on YouTube ✔️
What a month to celebrate and congratulate @PewDiePie 👊 pic.twitter.com/4rGuNDDwyx

— YouTube (@YouTube) August 25, 2019

Apart from YouTube, many creators have also started wishing PewDiePie for this massive achievement. PewDiePie fans on Twitter cannot stop sharing the Social Blade live counter tracker which shows the numbers jump over from 99,999,999 to 100,000,000. T-series hasn’t tweeted any congratulatory message yet.

I remember when the first YouTuber (Fred) hit 1 million subscribers

Then a couple years later @pewdiepie was the first to pass 10 million subscribers

Today he's on pace to be the first individual to pass 100,000,000

Whoa. Early congrats to Felix and the entire #teaminternet

— Marques Brownlee (@MKBHD) August 24, 2019

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A huge congratulations to @pewdiepie for hitting the BIG mark

100 million subscribers!! 🥳🥳

WE WILL FINALLY HAVE OUR BROFIST 👊🏻 AND A 12 HOUR MC STREAM! Wooh! pic.twitter.com/fLYK8GUa4C

— Intl. PewDiePie Community (@PewDiePieDay) August 25, 2019

I’m honestly so proud that @pewdiepie hit 100m subs, he works so hard and is literally one of the kindest youtubers I’ve ever met 🥺 team sister fister for life

— James Charles (@jamescharles) August 25, 2019