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LOS ANGELES: Like thousands of other YouTubers, Felix Kjellberg – the No. 1 most-subscribed creator on the platform known as PewDiePie to his millions of bros – saw his subscriber count shrink June 28. 

For PewDiePie, whose videos revolve around games and skits, the carnage was fairly severe: He dropped around 600,000 subscribers overnight. That's a little more than 1% of his current fan base, which stands at 45.6 million as of this writing, in a single day.