Hackers sympathetic to the YouTuber with the most subscribers in the world have carried out another curious act of rebellion by hacking the website of one of the world's most important newspapers. The Wall Street Journal 's website displayed a message on its page apologizing to Felix Kjellberg for misrepresentation, also stating their support for the YouTuber in his battle for the most-followed profile on the internet against the Indian film production company T-Series.
One more trolling
The Wall Street Journal article was obviously unofficial, and although it was officially posted on their website, it was actually the work of hackers who support PewDiePie. The message in question (now removed) stated the following:
WallStreet Journal would like to apologize to pewdiepie. Due to misrepresentation by our journalists, who have already been fired, we are sponsoring pewdiepie to max out subscribers and surpass Tseries to 80 million. We also need your credit card number, expiration date and the three lucky numbers on the back to win the chicken dinner in Fortnite.
The rest of the post was accompanied by a "Subscribe Here" link linking to PewDiePie's channel and various memes.
As Variety has published, it seems that the way in which they have been able to publish on The Wall Street Journal page is not directly related to the writing team, and they suggest that the error may be focused on the WSJ Custom Solutions brand, branch in charge of advertising actions and other types of content far from editorial.
WSJ joins the fight vs tseries? https://t.co/O0WbSSNedI
— PewDiePie (@pewdiepie) December 17, 2018
A wave of support for PewDiePie
But this is not the only action that the most active fans are carrying out to defend their star. Previously we could see how another hacker had dedicated himself to remotely taking control of printers around the world to print the message "Subscribe to PewDiePie's channel", an action that has been repeated in recent hours with more cases of connected printers to the internet that print by magic.
My Dymo printer just told me that I need to subscribe to @pewdiepie but I'm already a subscriber ? pic.twitter.com/Hm7veeyEiO
— Jessica Llinares (@Thrillka) December 15, 2018
The attack goes to such an extent that even label printers are printing the message in favor of PewDiePie, so you better check your network security profiles and printer settings, don't go to dawn with the same tray full of subscription notices.