Vile PewDiePie fans vandalise WWII memorial to promote his YouTube after he rallied supporters in bid to remain site’s most popular channel

VILE PewDiePie fans have vandalised the WWII memorial in Brooklyn, New York, writing "subscribe to PewDiePie" in bid to promote his YouTube.

The Swedish YouTuber rallied his supporters in hopes of remaining the site's most popular channel, with 88.4million subscribers.

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Fans vandalised the Brooklyn War Memorial in Cadman Plaza Park in bid to avoid falling second to Indian channel T-Series.

Local residents have condemned the fans' behaviour in vandalising the memorial, reported .

One person wrote on : "I don't know what pewdiepie is but based on this it is terrible."

In February, T-Series briefly took the crown for the most-subscribed channel on the platform before an intervention from Elon Musk saw the crown revert to PewDiePie.

I don't know what pewdiepie is but based on this it is terrible.

Reddit user

It was the first time in five years that PewDiePie had been ousted at the top of the subscriber chart.

In response, eccentric billionaire Elon Musk threw his support behind controversial Swede and PewDiePie boss Felix Kjellberg by hosting the 'Meme Review' segment on his channel.

"Elon Musk came down from the sky and hosted Meme Review," Kjellberg said in a video he posted on Sunday. "PewDiePie is rightfully at number one again."

According to analytics firm SocialBlade, T-Series before being dethroned.

The last time T-Series came close to beating Kjellberg's subscriber numbers YouTube stepped in and remove 200,000 'spam' accounts that were following T-Series.

BATTLE FOR THE TOP SPOT

The Swedish YouTuber only lost 40,000 after the video-sharing company announced it would dump fake accounts in a massive clean-up.

YouTube tweeted: “Heads up, Creators: On Dec 13-14 you may see a noticeable decrease in your sub count as we remove spam subscriptions.

“‘If spam is removed, you’ll see a YouTube Studio alert. This should help give you confidence that the subs you do have are real fans!”

PewDiePie and the Indian music label T-Series have been battling it out to be YouTube’s most subscribed channel.

The Swedish gamer appeared to be nervous when he tweeted in response to YouTube’s announcement: “Doomsday it’s all over bois..”

PewDiePie fans have taken the race so seriously they’ve hacked printers, Chromecasts, video games to show messages supporting him.

His place on the YouTuber subscriber table is cemented as he has been embroiled in a fresh “racism” storm after praising a “Nazi” YouTube channel reportedly known for its anti-Semitic content.

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The YouTuber used one of his videos to urge viewers to subscribe to the “hateful” channel.

This is not the first time the Swede has made remarks that have been viewed as racist, anti-Semitic, and nationalist.

Last year, he was blasted over jokes about Jewish people on Twitter.

The channel slips anti-Semitic and misogynistic comments into videos about anime and films, reported

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